IMPROVEMENTS IN TILTING VESSELS OR UTENSILS, AND IN STANDS OR SUPPORTS FOR THE SAME
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Newton, of the Office for
Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TILTING VESSELS
OR UTENSILS, AND IN STANDS OR SUPPORTS FOR THE SAME."-A communi-
cation from abroad by John Gibson, junior, of Albany, in the State
of New York, United States of America.
Sealed the 15th February 1870, and dated the 29th December 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward
Newton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 29th December 1869.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery
5 Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TILTING VESSELS OR
UTENSILS, AND IN STANDS OR SUPPORTS FOR THE SAME," to be as follows :-
The object of this Invention is to construct a tilting vessel or utensil;
and stand for the same, suitable for table use and other purposes.

page_text: The Invention among other advantages dispenses with the use of side
pivots or trunnions made fast to or forming part of the vessel proper.
The stand moreover is provided with means for catching the drip. Also
if desirable it may be made free to turn or be run about in various
directions horizontally. When required a lamp for heating purposes may
also be adapted thereto.
The Invention is applicable among other uses to ice pitchers, tea and
coffee pots, and other table vessels or utensils, and a portion of the
improvements (all or most of which admit of various modifications) may
either be used apart from the others or certain of them or in connection
with the same.
The Invention consists in the use of a swinging basket for holding the
vessel or utensil in combination with a stand to support the basket, which
is made either perforated or close to provide for drip, and is constructed
with either one or two side arms or slings to connect it with the stand.
The pivot or pivots that provide for the tilting of the vessel are inde-
pendent of the vessel or utensil proper. The vessel may be secured in
the basket by set screws acting upon springs or shoes or other equivalent
devices such as sliding dogs in connection with a plate or swinging frame.
that may be used as a substitute for the basket, the dogs being made to
hold on either an inner or outer flange of the vessel. A water-tight base
may be formed with the standards which hold the swinging basket or
frame, and are constructed so as to be either permanently or detachably
connected with the basket or frame. The base is either made water-tight
of itself or by the insertion of a detachable pan, but in each case dispensing
with the necessity of a mat or salver.
The tilting vessel or utensil may be constructed with a recess in its
side or sides and is formed within the body of the vessel or in projections
therefrom, and is variously shaped and arranged to form bearings for the
pivots on which the vessel tilts or swings. This arrangement or con-
struction is designed for pitchers or vessels made of crockery, china, glass,
or other fragile material. The supports or standards carrying the pivots
and connected with the base for such vessel to swing on may be made
plain or beaded. Guards are adapted to the stand to prevent the vessel
from slipping forward when being tilted to discharge.
In combination with such tilting vessel or vessels, a stop or stops that
may either be plain or cushioned and wheels, rollers, or castors may be

page_text: adapted to the stand that carries the vessel, and also different devices or
arrangements for turning the tilting vessel horizontally on its base or
stand.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Edward Newton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 29th June 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said William Edward Newton, Her special licence
that I, the said William Edward Newton, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Edward Newton,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter.
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TILTING VESSELS OR UTENSILS, AND IN STANDS OR SUPPORTS
FOR THE SAME," being a communication to me from abroad by John Gibson,
junior, of Albany, in the State of New York, United States of America,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Edward
Newton, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Newton, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained

page_text: in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked
thereon (that is to say) :-
The object of this Invention is to construct a tilting vessel or utensil,
and stand for the same, suitable for table use and other purposes.
The Invention among other advantages dispenses with the use of side
pivots or trunnions made fast to or forming part of the vessel proper.
The stand moreover is provided with means for catching the drip. It
may also if desired be made free to turn or be run about in various
directions horizontally. When required a lamp for heating purposes
may also be adapted thereto,
The Invention is applicable among other uses to ice pitchers, tea or
coffee pots, and other table vessels or utensils, and a portion of the
improvements (all or most of which admit of various modifications)
may either be used apart from the others or certain of them, or in
connection with the same.
The Invention consists in the use of a swinging basket for holding the
vessel or utensil in combination with a stand to support the basket,
which is made either perforated or close to provide for drip, and is
constructed with either one or two side arms or slings to connect it
with the stand. The pivot or pivots that provide for the tilting of the
vessel are independent of the vessel or utensil proper. The vessel may
be secured in the basket by set screws acting upon springs or shoes or
other equivalent devices, such as sliding dogs, in connection with a plate
or swinging frame that may be used as a substitute for the basket, the
dogs being made to hold on either an inner or outer flange of the vessel.
A water-tight base may be formed with the standards which hold the
swinging basket or frame, and are constructed so as to be either
permanently or detachably connected with the basket or frame. The
base is either made water-tight of itself or by the insertion of a detach-
able pan, but in each case dispensing with the necessity of a mat or
salver.
The tilting vessel or utensil may be constructed with a recess in its
side or sides, and is formed within the body of the vessel or in projections
therefrom, and is variously shaped and arranged to form bearings for the
pivots on which the vessel tilts or swings. This arrangement or con-
struction is designed for pitchers or vessels made of crockery, china,

page_text: glass, or other fragile material. The supports or standards carrying the
pivots and connected with the base for such vessel to swing on may be
made plain or beaded. Guards are adapted to the stand to prevent the
vessel from slipping forward when being tilted to discharge.
In combination with such tilting vessel or vessels a stop or stops that
may either be plain or cushioned, and wheels, rollers, or casters may be
adapted to the stand that carries the vessel, and also different devices or
arrangements for turning the tilting vessel horizontally on its base
or stand.
The Invention also includes the use of a lamp in combination with
the tilting pitcher or vessel.
In the accompanying Drawing Fig. 1 represents a side view, and
Fig. 2 a vertical section (taken at right angles to Fig. 1) of a vessel or
pitcher as arranged in a swinging basket to effect the tilting of the
vessel; Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the same in part, but showing a
plate form of swinging carrier in place of the basket and different means
for securing the vessel thereto.
Fig. 4 represents in dotted lines a vessel or pitcher as arranged within
or on a swinging basket or frame, having only one pivotted side arm
or sling.
Figures 5 and 6 are side view and plan or edge. views of a peculiar
locking construction for the side pivot or pivots that provide for the
swinging or tilting of the vessel with facility for disconnecting the
basket or swinging frame from the standards of the base that carries it.
Fig. 7 represents a plan view of a perforated swinging basket and the
stand in which the same is hung to tilt or swing.
Fig. 8 is a broken plan of the base portion of the swinging basket with
three different set screw arrangements for holding the vessel therein.
Fig. 9 represents a side view, and Fig. 10 a vertical section at right
angles to Fig. 9. of a pitcher or vessel constructed to tilt without the
aid of a swinging basket, and with its bearings for or on the pivots
formed by recesses made in projections on the sides of the vessel.
Fig. 10 also shews a lamp in combination with the tilting vessel.
Figures 11 and 12, side and sectional edge views on a larger scale of
such recessed bearing portions with the pivots thereto formed with
heads.

page_text: Figures 13 and 14 are similar views of like parts or devices, but
showing the recessed bearings as made in the body of the vessel or
pitcher instead of in projections therefrom.
Figures 15, 16, and 17 shew a side view, sectional edge view, and plan
of a modification of the recessed bearings for the pivots with a guard for
keeping the vessel from slipping forward when being tilted to discharge,
but permitting of its removal from the stand when required.
Fig. 18 represents a sectional view in illustration of a provision for
turning the tilting vessel horizontally; also devices for running it and
its stand over the table or surface on which it rests.
Fig. 19 is a like view of a modification of the same, also showing a
removable drip pan of peculiar construction.
Fig. 20 shows a different construction of the removable drip pan.
In Figures 1, 2, 7, and 8, A represents a pitcher or vessel (which may
be of ordinary construction), the base a of which is made to set in a
basket B provided with side arms or slings 6 perforated at their upper
ends to receive internally projecting pivots c, c, attached to or connected
with standards d, d, of a stand C, the base e of which is made water-
tight to collect drip from the pitcher, the basket B being formed with
perforations fin it to facilitate such passage of the drip. The base e is
provided with a stop g in front to arrest the tilting vessel or basket,
carrying the same on its return to its original position after being tilted
to discharge. This stop (which may be cushioned with rubber or other
soft material) may, however, be differently located on or in connection
with the stand to have a like function or effect. The base e may either
be plain on its bottom stand or legs, or be provided with rollers or
castors to facilitate the moving about of the whole device or structure
on the table or surface on which it rests. The pitcher or vessel A may
be held in the basket B, either by a set screw h arranged to pass through
the side of the basket and made to bear direct upon the pitcher, or by
a set screw h and shoe i, or by a set screw h and spring j, all of which
modifications are shown in Fig. 8.
In Fig. 3 another mode of securing the pitcher is shown, also a plate
form of swinging carrier in place of the swinging basket. B' is the
plate carried by side arms or slings b, which are designed to be hung
upon upper pivots as in the previous modification. This plate is slotted
to accommodate or provide for the adjustment of sliding dogs k, which

page_text: may be arranged to hold on to either an inside or outside flange formed
on the base portion of the pitcher.
In Figures 5 and 6 a detachable locking connection is shewn of the
swinging basket or vessel carrier with the uprights of the stand by forming
the side arms or slings 6 with tapering slots for the pivots c of the
standards d to fit through, and constructing the ends of the pivots with
suitably arranged and similarly tapering heads or ears m, which serve in
the ordinary tilting of the pitcher to prevent detachment of the swinging
basket or frame, but admit when required (by bringing the taper of the
slots in line with the tapering ears m) of the removal of the basket
from between the uprights d of the stand.
Fig. 4 represents a single instead of a double side arm suspension of
the basket, the pivot c in such case being extended to give it adequate
bearing.
Throughout these several modifications, as throughout the modifications
herein-after described, the base e of the stand instead of being made
waterproof of itself to catch drip, may be provided, as represented. in
Fig. 20, with a loose or removeable pan D to facilitate the emptying of
the drip, or as represented in Fig. 19 with a pan D' of peculiar socketted
construction arranged to fit a socketted construction of the base e to
admit of the horizontal turning of the vessel and its carrier on a vertical
pivot n arranged to project from a lower or supplementary base E that
if desired may be provided with rollers or casters o to allow of the
running of the structure over its resting surface or table. Or the
horizontal and general adjustment or movement of the tilting vessel (and
stand which carries it) may be provided for, and a separate drip pan be
dispensed with by making the base e, as represented in Fig. 18, open
and supporting it on rollers p arranged to run on or within a water-tight
supplementary base E' carried by wheels q or casters o.
In Figures 9 and 10 the swinging basket or frame herein-before
referred to is dispensed with, and the tilting pitcher or vessel A is hung
direct so as to swing or tilt on the pivots c, c, attached to the uprights
d, d, of the stand C, the base e of which may be supported on wheels q
or rollers o. The bearings of the pitcher A on the pivots c, c, are formed
by recesses open at their lower ends made in obliquely arranged ears or
projections on the sides of the pitcher, as shewn in Figures 11 and 12,

page_text: in which indicates one of the ears, and s the recess therein to receive
the pivot c that may if desired be constructed with a head u to lie
within an overlapping flange formed on the outer edge of the ear or
projection to restrain the pitcher from accidental detachment, which so
far as the tilting action is concerned the oblique position of the ears or
projections provides against, while they admit of the pitcher being
removed from the pivots when required. To more effectually provide,
however, against the slipping of the pitcher on or off the pivots,
especially while tilting it in discharging its contents, a guard connected
with either or both pivot carrying uprights may be used, as shewn in
Figures 15, 16, and 17 of the Drawing, in which the recess s in either
earr is arranged to occupy a vertical position or thereabouts when
the pitcher stands upright, the open end of the recess being below,
and the standard d in addition to its face cover of the side of the ear
being formed with a guard & arranged to encircle in front the edge of
the ear, which prevents a like slipping of the pitcher in tilting to
discharge and removal of it other than designedly.
In Figures 13 and 14 a somewhat different construction is shewn by
dispensing with the ears or projections on the sides of the pitcher or
vessel, and making the bearing recesses for the pivots within the body of
the vessel, the recesses being of any suitable shape, and the pivots
entering the same being either headed or plain to correspond; but in
these Figures the pivots c are represented with heads on their inner ends
arranged to lie within flanges surrounding the edges of the recesses to
secure the retention of the pitcher, and these recesses 8, which occupy an
oblique position when the pitcher stands upright, are closed, but made
enlarged at their lower ends, as at z, to allow of the entry of the heads
of the pivots within the recesses, and to admit of the removal of the
pitcher or vessel from off its pivots when required.
A. lamp carried by the stand or frame which supports the tilting vessel
may be used in combination with the latter to heat or keep warm the
contents of the vessel, as represented in Fig. 10, wherein F is such a
lamp. This combination is applicable to the various constructions of
tilting vessels or utensils and the stands thereof as herein described.
Having now described the Invention which has been communicated
to me by my foreign correspondent, and having explained the manner

page_text: of carrying the same into effect, I claim as the Invention secured to me
by Letters Patent as aforesaid,--
First. The swinging or tilting basket B, made either close or per-
forated, and with one or two side arms or slings 6 in combination with
a stand C constructed to carry said swinging basket by means of a pivot
or pivots, as herein set forth.
Second. The set screw h with or without a shoe i or spring ; in
combination with the swinging basket B and stand C for carrying the
same, as shewn and described.
Third. The swinging frame or plate formed vessel carrier B³, and
sliding or adjustable dogs k, k, arranged to hold on to an outside or
inside flange formed on the base portion of the pitcher or vessel A,
as described.
Fourth. The combination of a water-tight base with the pivotted
upright or uprights & which support the tilting vessel, or the swinging
basket or frame carrying the vessel, as specified.
Fifth. The swinging basket or frame and stand therefor with their
pivotted connections c constructed to admit of detachment of the basket,
and to hold it in lock when at work on the stand, as described.
Sixth. A tilting vessel or utensil A. constructed with recesses & inside
ears or projections thereon for reception of the pivots made. either
plain or with beads on which to tilt or swing the vessel, as specified.
Seventh. A tilting vessel or utensil A constructed with its pivot
recesses & formed in the sides of the body of the vessel, as described.
Eighth. The combination of the standards d, d, carrying pivots c, c,
made either plain or beaded, and suitable base e with a vessel or
utensil A formed with recessed bearings in or on its sides to provide for
the tilting of the vessel, as herein set forth.
Ninth. The stand C or pivot carrying uprights d formed with a
guard x, as described.
Tenth. The stand for supporting the tilting vessel or utensil arranged
on wheels, rollers, or castors, as described.
Eleventh. The stand C provided with pivots c for supporting the
tilting vessel, such stand being constructed to admit of its being rotated
horizontally, as described.

page_text: Twelfth. The stop g in combination with the stand C carrying a pivot
or pivots c and tilting vessel or swinging basket therefor, as herein
set forth.
Thirteenth. The combination of a lamp with a tilting vessel or
swinging basket or frame therefor, constructed and operating as herein
set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Newton, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-ninth day of June,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy.