An Improved Portable Oruet.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 12th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 14th Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Portable Oruet.
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I, JUSTIN CAILLET, of 35 and 37, Galerie Vivienne, Paris, in the Republic of
France, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved portable cruet or box for salt and pepper or
other condiments; the same being particularly adapted for use in luncheon baskets
or by travellers and being moreover cheap in construction and effective in operation.
A cruet constructed according to this invention consists of a box, preferably of
metal, divided into two compartments-the one for salt and the other for pepper-and
fitted with a lid containing perforations at each extremity; the whole being enclosed
and arranged to slide within a case open at the ends; the top of the case serving as a
cover for the perforated lid. In use, one end of the box is, by pressure of the thumb
or finger, caused to protrude from the case until one set of perforations is exposed,
whereupon the pulverized salt or pepper contained in the projecting end of the box
may be shaken out in the usual way. When salt is to be used, one end of the box is
caused to protrude; the other end being pushed out when popper is required. Thus
salt and pepper can be consecutively but not simultaneously discharged from the box;
one set of perforations only being exposed at one time and both sets of perforations
being covered when the box is closed.
The apparatus is by preference made in the following way :-The box is formed
from one piece of metal, portions thereof being bent up to form the sides and ends.
The partition for dividing the box into two compartments is shaped from another
piece of metal, the ends whereof are bent round to lie against and parallel with the
internal surfaces of the sides of the box; the parts being held together by projections
stamped in the box engaging with recesses stamped in the bent ends of the piece of
inetal forming the partition. The lid consists of a flat piece of metal simply bent
down at each end to prevent longitudinal displacement; the lid being held in position
laterally by the enclosing case. The latter is produced from two pieces of metal ;
one piece being bent to form the top, the bottom and one side and to engage with the
other piece which forms the other side and is also bent at each extremity to engage
with the turned down portions of the top and bottom. By these means, the employ-
ment of solder for fastening the several parts together is entirely obviated. I do not,
however, confine myself to this particular mode of producing my improved cruct.
Dated the 10th day of November 1888.
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Portable Cruet.
I, JUSTIN CAILLET, of 35 and 37, Galerie Vivienne, Paris, in the Republic of France,
Engineer, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved portable cruet or box for salt and pepper or
other condiments; the same being particularly adapted for use in luncheon baskets or
by travellers, and being, moreover, cheap in construction and effective in operation.
A portable cruet constructed according to this invention is represented in perspective
in Fig. 1; Fig. 2 being a plan of the internal portion of the apparatus with its casing
removed. In Fig. 3 a slightly modified method of construction is illustrated.

page_text: The improved cruet consists of a box a, preferably of metal, divided transversely
into two compartments, as indicated in Fig. 2-the one for salt and the other for
pepper and fitted with a lid a¹ provided with perforations a* towards each extremity.
The box a is enclosed and arranged to slide within a case 6 open at both ends; the
top 6¹ of the case serving as a cover for the perforated lid a¹. In use, one end of the 5
box a is, by pressure of the thumb or finger, caused to protrude from the case b until
one set of perforations a* is exposed. Upon inverting the apparatus, the pulverized
salt or pepper contained in the projecting end of the box may be shaken out in the
usual way. When salt is to be used, one end of the box is caused to protrude; the
other end being pushed out when pepper is required. Thus salt and pepper can be
consecutively but not simultaneously discharged from the box; one set of perforations
only being exposed at one time and both sets of perforations being covered when the
box is closed.
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According to the modification illustrated in Fig. 3, the compartment intended for
popper is subdivided by a partition parallel with the main partition into two smaller
compartments; the one being intended for black pepper and the other for red or
Cayenne pepper, or the two compartments may contain black and white pepper
respectively. In the illustration, the compartment for the red pepper is situated
between the compartments for the black popper and the salt. When either of the
last-named condiments is required, the box is operated as previously described; but,
when red pepper is to be shaken out, the box is caused to protrude until both
sets of perforations over the compartments for pepper are exposed, the perforations
over the black pepper being then covered by the thumb or finger of the user. Or,
the perforations over the black pepper may be in the lid of the box, as shewn ;
the perforations through which the red pepper is designed to fall being arranged
in the bottom of the box, so that either kind of popper inay be discharged according
to whether the top or the bottom of the box is held downwards; there being,
under these circumstances, no necessity for one of the sets of perforations to be
covered by the thumb or finger. Instead of the partitions being arranged parallel
with one another, as illustrated in Fig. 3, one or both of the compartments into
which the box a (Fig. 2) is divided may be subdivided by means of a partition
arranged longitudinally; either three or four compartments being thereby formed.
In the manufacture of the apparatus, the following method is by preference adopted.
The box a is made from one piece of metal, portions thereof being bent up to form
the sides and ends. Each partition for dividing the box into compartments is shaped
from another piece of metal, the ends whereof are bent round to lie against and
parallel with the sides of the box; the parts being held together by projections
stamped in the sides of the box engaging with recesses stamped at the same operation
in the contiguous bent ends of the piece or pieces of metal forming the partition.
The lid consists of a flat piece of metal simply bent down at each end to overlap the
extremities of the box, lateral movement of the lid being prevented by the enclosing
case. The latter is produced from two pieces of metal; one piece being bent to form
the top, the bottom and one of the sides, the other piece forming the other side. The
edges of the former are bent over to engage with the sides of the latter, and the ends
of the side piece are bent over to engage with the bent edges of the top and
bottom of the case. By these means, the employment of solder for fastening the
several parts together is entirely obviated. I do not, however, confine myself to this
particular mode of producing my improved cruet.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I claim
1. The improved construction of portable cruet, substantially as herein described.
2. In a portable cruet, the combination with a box divided into compartments and
furnished with a removeable perforated cover, of a casing wherein the box slides and
whence it may be protruded at either end so as to expose one set of perforations, sub-
stantially as and for the purpose set forth.

page_text: 5. In the manufacture of portable cruets of the kind referred to in the preceding
claiming clause, the improved method of constructing the box and its case substantially
as herein described and whereby the employment of solder is avoided.
Dated this 11th day of December 1888.
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.