Improvement in Plates, Dishes, and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 19th Sept., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Plates, Dishes, and the like.
I GEORGE JAMES GLOVER of 2 High Street Homerton in the County of
Middlesex Dyer and Cleaner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention is to construct plates dishes and the like so that
any fluid thereon or contained therein may collect in one place leaving the
remainder of the plate or dish dry or nearly so.
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As is well known plates and dishes with the exception of "well dishes
made with the bottoms thereof horizontal or approximately so and gravy or
sauce placed thereon spreads itself over the entire surface and is rapidly absorbed
by vegetables and the like which is in many cases undesirable.
Now according to my invention I obviate this defect by constructing plates of
all kinds dishes for meats and vegetables and the like with the bottoms thereof
wholly or partly inclined to the horizontal so that gravy or sauces when placed on
the plate or dish will run to the lowest part leaving the higher portion of the
bottom of the plate or dish dry.
And in order that my said invention may be the better understood I will proceed
to explain the same with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in
which
Fig. 1 represents a section of a dinner plate constructed according to my
invention.
Fig. 2 view of underside of same.
Fig. 3 section of a vegetable dish also constructed according to my invention.
On referring to Fig. 1 it will be seen that the bottom 6 of the plate a is not
parallel to the edge a' but inclined thereto.
I prefer to construct plates and small dishes with the ring c about three sixteenths
of an inch deep and to make the bottom of the plate or dish flush with the
bottom edge of the said ring on one side as shewn in Fig. 1.
For large dishes the ring c would be rather deeper than three sixteenths of an
inch according to the size of the dish.
Vegetable dishes d 1 may make with the bottoms c thereof flush with the bottom
edge of the ring or stand as shewn in Fig. 3 or I may make the inclination of
the bottoms of such dishes to suit the shape of the dish.
Vegetable dishes so constructed allow the moisture to drain down to the lowest
point y and as the vegetables in such dishes are served out those remaining may be
moved to the higher portion of the dish and allowed to drain.
Plates and dishes constructed according to this invention will be found very
convenient as thin sauce gravy or the like will drain to the lowest point thus
leaving a comparatively dry place for food which it is desired to keep from contact
therewith while eating or carving.
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
Constructing plates dishes and the like with inclined bottoms substantially as
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the Eighteenth day of August 1891.
ERNEST SALAMAN,
61 & 62, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for Applicant.