An Improved Strainer for Tea or Coffee Pots.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 12th Mar., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Strainer for Tea or Coffee Pots.
We, CHARLES BEAN, and GEORGE WATSON, both of Pawtucket, Rhode
Island, U.S.A. Inventors, 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 :-
Figure 1 is an elevation showing our improved strainer in position for use;
Fig. 2, a sectional elevation of the strainer detached;
Fig. 3 is a plan view showing the attaching spring.
Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of
the drawings.
The invention relates especially to tea and coffee strainers which are adapted to
be detachably secured to the nose of the pot; and it consists in certain novel
features hereinafter fully set forth and claimed, the object being to provide a
simpler, cheaper, and more effective device of this character than is now in
ordinary use.
The nature and operation of the improvement will be readily understood by all
conversant with such matters from the following explanation.
In the drawings, 1 represents the tea or coffee pot; 2, the spout or nose
thereon.
3 represents the strainer considered as a whole, which comprises a pail or bucket
shaped body 4, from one side or near the bottom of which a spout 5 projects.
The strainer proper 6 consists of a sheet of wire cloth or similar reticulated
fabric 7, hemispherical in elevation and provided with a metallic band or rim 8 at
its edge. The strainer proper is of such size that it may be inserted into the
mouth of the strainer-body 4 and be supported thereby, as shown in Fig. 2, its
rim 9 resting upon the edge of the body 4. Projecting rearwardly from the body 4
opposite the spout 5 there is a slotted lug 10 in the outer end of which a screw-
clamp 11 is fitted.
The attaching-spring 12 consists of a piece of wire folded upon itself and then
bent or curved to form a circular loop 13, the ends of said wire being secured in
the clamp 11, as best seen in Fig. 3. The loop 13 is of a size suitable to enclose
or encircle the nose 2 of the coffee or tea pot, and said loop, being constructed of
spring-wire, readily supports the strainer 3 thereon.
In the use of our improvement the strainer proper 6 is inserted in the mouth of
the pail-shaped body 4 and the device adjusted on the nose 2 by means of the
attaching-spring 12. By adjusting said spring in the clamp 11 the strainer may be
arranged at any angle desired to receive the flow from the pot-nose. The pot being
inclined in the ordinary manner the tea or coffee passes from the nose into the
strainer proper 6 which retains all sediment, thence into the body 4 and out through
the spout into the cup. As soon as the pot is returned the strainer resumes the
position shown in Fig. 1, in which it is inclined toward the body, and the drip from
the spout 5 flows backward into the strainer-body 4, in which it is retained and
prevented from flowing outside the strainer. The drainings from the sediment in
the strainer proper 6 are also caught and retained by the body 4. This obviates
the necessity of removing the strainer from the nose of the pot as soon as used, as
is customary with strainers of ordinary construction.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :
1. A strainer for tea or coffee pots, comprising a pail-shaped body having a

page_text: spout near its bottom, a detachable strainer proper adapted to be inserted in the
mouth of said body, and mechanism for securing said body to the pot-nose, substan-
tially as described.
2. A strainer for tea or coffee pots, comprising a pail-shaped body provided with
a spout near its bottom, a detachable strainer proper adapted to be inserted in the
mouth of said body, and mechanism for securing said body to the pot-nose, substan-
tially as described.
3. A strainer for tea or coffee pots, comprising a pail-shaped body having a spout
near its bottom and a lug at its opposite side, a detachable strainer proper adapted,
to be inserted in said body, and an attaching-spring adjustably secured in said lug,
substantially as described.
4. The body provided with the spout in combination with the strainer proper,
and the wire loop adjustably clamped to said body, substantially as described.
5. The body provided with the spout and clamp, in combination with the strainer
proper and the wire spring-loop, substantially as described.
6. The combination of the body provided with the spout with the strainer proper,
and an attaching-spring adjustably secured to said body, said spring comprising the
wire bent or folded upon itself to form a loop for the pot-nose, substantially as
described.
7. The strainer 3, comprising the body 4, provided with the spout 5 and
clamp 11, the strainer proper 6, and attaching-spring 12, arranged substantially as
described.
8. The body 4 provided with the spout 5, clamp 11, in combination with the
strainer 6 and attaching-spring 12, arranged to operate substantially as described.
Dated this 4th day of February 1892.
W. H. MUNNS,
Applicants' Agent.