IMPROVEMENTS IN SALT-CELLABS, PEPPER- CASTERS, AND SIMILAR UTENSILS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Marc Antoine François Mennons, of the British and
Foreign Patent Offices, 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of
France, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SALT-CELLABS, PEPPER-
CASTERS, AND SIMILAR UTENSILS."-A communication from Mr. J. B. L.
Laine, of Paris.
Sealed the 19th February 1861, and dated-the 27th August 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Marc Antoine François
Mennons at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 27th August 1860.
I, MARC ANTOINE FRANÇOIS MENNONS, of the British and Foreign Patent
Offices, 39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of France, do hereby.
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SALT-CELLARS,
PEPPER-CASTERS, AND SIMILAR UTENSILS," to be as follows:-
These improvements consist in the application to salt-cellars, pepper-casters,
and other like utensils of a moveable lid, formed of metallic gauze, secured in
a collar or frame, and the addition to such utensils of a socket, to which is
adapted a handle in wood, ivory, metal, or other suitable matter.
The form of salt-cellar or pepper-caster to which these modifications are in
preference applied is that of a spherical or pear-shaped recipient of crystal,
porcelain, silver, or other matter, in which is pierced a circular orifice of any
required diameter, say, for instance, from one-half to three-quarters of an inch.

page_text: In this orifice is fitted, by a bayonet or other fastening, the frame containing
the metallic gauze, and the whole is completed by the socket and handle
adapted to any desired point of the recipient. A separate circlet of metal or
porcelain serves as rest for the latter when not in use.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Marc Antoine François Mennons in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 23rd February 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARC
ANTOINE FRANÇOIS MENNONS, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices,
39, Rue de l'Echiquier, Paris, in the Empire of France, send greeting.
"
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Mare Antoine François Mennons, Iler special licence that I, the
said Marc Antoine François Mennons, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Marc Antoine François Mennons, 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 SALT-CELLARS,
PEPPER-CASTERS, AND SIMILAR UTENSILS," a communication from Mr. J. B. L.
Laine, a person resident at Paris, upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Marc Antoine François Mennons, 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 manuer the same was to be performed, and
caus
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 Marc Antoine François Mennons,
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 in
and by the following statement, reference being had to the Figures of the
accompanying Drawing, and to the letters marked thereon, that is to say:

page_text: These improvements consist in the application, as hereafter described, to
salt-cellars, pepper-casters, and other like utensils, of metallic gauze, secured.
in a collar or frame, and the addition to such utensils of a socket, to which is
adapted a handle in wood, ivory, metal, or other suitable matter.
The form of salt-cellar or pepper-caster to which these modifications are in
preference applied is that of a spherical or pear-shaped recipient in crystal,
porcelain, silver, or other suitable matter, in which is pierced a circular orifice
of any required diameter, say, for instance, from one-half to three-quarters of
an inch. In this orifice is fitted, by a bayonet or other fastening, the frame
containing the metallic gauze, and the whole is completed by the socket and
handle, adapted to any desired point of the recipient. A separate circlet of
metal or porcelain serves as rest for the latter when not in use.
Figures 1 and 3 of the accompanying Drawing represent a spherical salt-
cellar comprising the above modifications. A is a recipient in crystal,
porcelain, metal, or other suitable matter, provided with an orifice, in which
is fitted the frame B containing the metallic gauze C. This frame, with its
mode of fastening, is shewn apart in Figs. 4, 5. D is the handle in wood,
ivory, metal, or other matter, ornamented as may be desired. E, Fig. 3,
represents a metallic or porcelain circlet, serving as rest, and which may either
be separate or attached to the salt-cellar. Figures 2, 6, 7, represent the same
combination under different forms, the two latter (6, 7,) being provided with
fixed supports, ornamented at will.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner
of carrying it into effect, I declare that what I claim is, the application of
metallic gauze, as above described and shewn in the annexed Drawing, to
salt-cellars, pepper-casters, and similar utensils, in substitution of the per-.
forated surfaces at present in use, and the addition to such utensils of a
fixed or moveable handle in wood; ivory, metal, or other suitable matter.
In witness whereof, I, the said Marc Antoine François Mennons, have
hereto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of February, in
the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.