AN IMPROVED SALT CELLAR OR VESSEL TO CONTAIN SALT OR OTHER CONDIMENTS, ALSO AN IMPLEMENT TO BE USED THEREWITH OR SEPARATELY THEREFROM FOR SERVING CONDIMENTS
Year: 1875

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Maurice Emanuel at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 9th April
1875.
I, Maurice Evanuel, of Portsmouth, in the County of Hants, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED SALT
CELLAR OR VESSEL TO CONTAIN SALT OR OTHER CONDIMENTS, ALSO AN IMPLEMENT TO
BE USED THEREWITH OR SEPARATELY THEREFROM FOR SERVING CONDIMENTS," to be
as follows:-
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This Invention consists,―
Firstly. In an improved method of constructing vessels or receptacles
intended to contain salt or other condiments in a finely powdered state,
such as are used at meal times.
And, Secondly. In adapting to such said vessel or receptacle an
implement in lieu of a spoon for removing from or taking out of the said
vessel or receptacle a small quantity of the contents thereof, which I
propose to accomplish in the following manner, and by the following
means:-First, as regards the construction of the aforesaid vessel or
receptacle, it consists in making it in two parts, the lower part which

page_text: may be of metal or other material I make by preference somewhat like
an egg cup in shape, with a foot or base to stand upon. To the top edge
of this cup-shaped vessel, I connect by a screw or otherwise a dome-
shaped cover, at the top or apex of which a hole is made to receive an
implement of the following construction, designed to serve the purpose
of a spoon, that is to say, I take a tube of metal or other suitable
material of such length as to reach nearly to the bottom of the said
vessel. In this tube I fit a piston capable of sliding therein for a short
distance, the said piston being kept up by a spring suitably placed. A
small rod is fixed by its lower end into the before-mentioned piston, and
to the upper end of the said rod which protrudes through the top of the
aforesaid cover a button-shaped piece is affixed.
The implement thus constructed is to be operated as follows:-Пaving
charged the aforesaid vessel with salt or other condiment, and adjustod
the cover thereon, the aforesaid implement is inserted therein and is
then ready for use. For example, suppose the aforesaid vessel to contain
salt, a small quantity of the same may be removed by withdrawing the
aforesaid tube from the vessel, and then pushing down the piston by
pressing on the button at the top, by which the salt will be discharged
from that part of the tube that is below the piston and be deposited on:
any part of a plate or its contents to which the tube is directed. The
implement is then replaced in the vessel ready for use from time to time
in the manner above stated, or the aforesaid implement may be used
separately from the aforesaid vessel if desired for removing salt or other
condiments from salt cellars or other ordinary vessels containing the
same.
In order to adapt the above implement for serving checsc and
condiments of a similar consistence, I propose to fix small projecting
pieces or blades to the lower end of the aforesaid tube, so that upon
turning round the said tube, when it is introduced into the cheese, it will ;
detach that portion of the cheese which is contained in the said tube,
and which is easily forced out by depressing the aforesaid piston.