Improvement in Sauce-pans, Stew-pots, and Analogous Liquid Receptacles.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Feb., 1887.
Complete Left, 17th May, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 17th June, 1887.
Improvement in Sauce-pans, Stew-pots, and Analogous Liquid
Receptacles.
I, ARTHUR LINE, Manufacturer, of Chiselhurst West, in the County of Kent, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
My invention has for its object to arrange the spouts or lips of sauce-pans and
analogous liquid receptacles in such a manner, that the liquid can be poured out with
equal facility, whether the pan, or handle thereof, is held in the right or left hand.
For this purpose I provide the pan either with a moveable lip, or with two lips
placed diametrically opposite each other, and formed in the pan.
In the first case the pan may have a moveable flange or top ring provided with a
lip and adapted to be turned round so as to place the lip either at the right or at the
left side of the handle. In the second case, either the one or the other of two lips
may be used for pouring out the liquid, according as the pan is held in the right or in
the left hand.
When pouring out liquid from a pan with moveable flange, the flange is first turned
so as to have the lip at the most convenient point. The flange may either be held in
its place by friction, or by set screws or by any other convenient means, and it may
be made of a different material from the pan. Or instead of providing the pan itself
with a moveable flange or top ring, the flange provided with the lip may be attached
to the cover of the sauce-pan, the latter having at the top a pair of diametrically
opposite notches and the lip on the flange being made to coincide with either of the
said notches while the other notch is covered by the flange. Or a sliding or pivoted
lip may be secured to the flange of a stationary cover>
T: 00-110077
FAIRFAX & WETTER,
433, Strand, London,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, ARTHUB LINE, Manufacturer, of Chislehurst West, in the county of Kent, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My invention has for its object to arrange the lips or spouts of sauce-pans and
analogous liquid receptacles in such a manner, that the liquid can be poured out with
equal facility, whether the pan, or the handle thereof, is held in the right or in the left
hand.
For this purpose I provide the pan either with a movable lip, or with two lips placed
opposite each other, and formed in one piece with the pan or permanently attached to
the same.
In the following description reference will be made to the accompanying drawing,
of which Fig. 1, is a perspective view of a sauce-pan provided with two lips, and
Fig. 2, a vertical section of a pan provided with a movable lip. The remaining
Figures represent modifications. In Fig. 1, A is the sauce-pan, a, a are the lips,
and b is the handle.
The lips may be placed diametrically opposite each other, each forming an angle
of 90 degrees with the handle, but I prefer to make this angle somewhat larger, as
indicated in plan by Fig. 5, or to place the lip at an angle to the radius of the pan
(namely the radius passing through the centre of the lip). This position of the lip is
chiefly intended for pans having their handles inclined upwards, as shown by Fig. 1,
and has the advantage of requiring a shorter or easier motion of the hand or wrist in
pouring out the liquid.
Fig. 6, is a plan of the lid, which may be used for a pan as represented by Fig. 5.
In sauce pans with movable lips, the pan may have a movable top ring C³, Fig. 2,
provided with a lip c', guided by a flange a'.
In Fig. 3, the flange a' is inside of the top ring C³, instead of surrounding the
same, as in Fig. 2. The ring may be held in its place by friction, or by one or more
set screws, or by any other convenient means, and the material of the ring may be
different from that of the pan.
As shown in Fig. 4, the movable lip may be formed in the cover, instead of using
a movable top ring.
In the case of pans with two lips, either the one or the other may be employed for
pouring out liquid, according as the pan is held in the right or in the left hand.
Before pouring out liquid from the pan with movable lip, the top ring or the cover is
first turned so as to have the lip at the most convenient point.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :
1. A sauce pan, or analogous liquid receptacle, having a pair of lips or spouts,
substantially as described and for the purpose specified.
2. A sauce pan, or analogous liquid receptacle, having a pair of lips or spouts,
placed right and left of the handle, and at an angle of more than 90 degrees to the
same, or at an angle to the radius passing through the lip, substantially as described.
3. A sauce pan, or analogous liquid receptacle, having a lip or spout adapted to be
placed at various angles to the handle, substantially as described.
4. In a sauce pan or analogous liquid receptacle, a lip or spout formed on or
attached to a movable ring, substantially as described.
FAIRFAX & WETTER,
433, Strand, London,
Agents for the Applicant.