Improvements in Tea and Coffee Pots.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 1st Oct., 1889-Accepted, 16th Nov., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tea and Coffee Pots.
I JAMES DIXON FAWCETT of the firm of James Dixon & Sons Cornish Place
Sheffield in the county of York, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The invention consists in an improved method whereby the grate and the inside of
the spout of a Tea, or a Coffee-Pot may be laid open for the purpose of cleansing and
removing therefrom all deleterious deposits. To accomplish this, I construct in the-
hole or thick part of the spout of the aforenamed Tea or Coffee-Pot, a trap, which trap
may be closed by means of a screw-cap or plug, by a hinged lid having a spring catch,
or by an ordinary bayonet fastening or by any other suitable method.
When necessary, I remove the said cap, plug, or lid, and by means of any suitable
brush or picker 1 cleanse the grate and the spout of the said Tea or Coffee-Pot; thus
obviating the annoyance caused by the clogging of the grate and the impurities which
are constantly being thrown down in the spout.
Dated this Eighth day of January 1889.
JAMES DIXON FAWCETT,
Cornish Place, Sheffield.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tea and Coffee Pots.
I, JAMES DIXON FAWCETT of Cornish Place Sheffield in the county of York,
Electro-plate Manufacturer 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 :—
The Invention consists in an improved method whereby the grate and the inside of
the spout of a tea or coffee pot may be laid. open for the purpose of cleansing and re-
moving therefrom all deleterious deposits. To accomplish this, I construct in the bole
or thick part of the spout (Figs. 1 2 3 & 4 at A) of the aforenamed tea or coffee-pot,
a trap, which trap may be closed by means of a screw cap (Fig. 1 at A), or plug (Fig. 2
at A), by a hinged lid having a spring catch (Fig. 3 at A), or by an ordinary
Bayonet catch (Fig. 4 at A), by dividing the spout and inserting the screw in the
interior thereof as shewn in Fig. 5, at A. to the end that the fore part of the said spout
may be removed, or by any other suitable method. My invention renders it a matter
of the utmost simplicity to expose the grate and the interior of the spout for inspection,
and facilitates the removal of any deleterious deposits which may be found to have
accumulated therein.
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 :-
1st. The use of Tea and of Coffee-pots wherein the grate and the interior of the
spout may be laid open for inspection or cleansing substantially as hereinbefore
described.
2nd. The use of Tea and of Coffee-pots wherein the spout, or any portion thereof,
may be detached for the purposes as herein before described.

page_text: 3rd. The construction and combination of parts whereby the grate and the interior
of the spout of a Tea or of a Coffee-pot may be laid open for inspection or cleansing,
substantially as hercinbefore described and shewn in the drawings.
Dated this 30th day of September 1889.
JAMES DIXON FAWCETT.