IMPROVE- MENTS IN SPOONS OR SERVERS FOR RICE, VEGETABLES AND FOR OTHER LIKE. PURPOSES to be as follows
Year: 1884

page_text: FOR OTHEurposes.
I, JOHN RYLAND of Brighton Road, Balsall Heath, in the County of Worcester,
Manager of Works, do hereby declare the nature of said invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN SPOONS OR SERVERS FOR RICE, VEGETABLES AND FOR OTHER LIKE.
PURPOSES to be as follows:-
"
Table spoons of the ordinary construction for serving up vegetables and the like,
have their bowls made uniform, on both of their sides; that is, the bowls are
uniformly concaved, with the edges thereof lying in the same plane; so that in'
taking or serving up vegetable and the like, the bowl has to be tilted in using, and
that in consequence of the bowl being only slightly dished, a very small quantity
of food can only be served up at a time.
Table spoons or servers constructed according to my invention consist essentially
of a bowl and tang, the bowl of which is slightly dished or concaved with one side
formed into a cutting edge, while the other side is considerably raised or extended
upwards, to form a lip or back to the said bowl, so that this back part stands
considerably above the edge of the other or front side-I call the cutting edge of
the bowl the front side, from the fact that in using the spoon or server, it is always
presented to the objects to be gathered or taken up-I prefer to make the bowl
somewhat broader and flatter than those of the ordinary construction, but I wish it
to be observed that bowls constructed according to my invention may be elliptical,
round or of other form, while the rotundity of the bowl may be made according to
the form required.
In using my invention vegetables and other edibles can be cut off, divided and
served up with the same instrument without tilting, while the raised off side or
back furnishes a means whereby a larger quantity of vegetables or such like edibles
can be collected and taken up, than by an ordinary spoon-The raised back also
prevents the vegetables or other matters from being pushed off the bowl on the
serving up.
My invention is especially applicable to spoons or servers for taking up rice and
vegetables but may be used for taking up other objects for various purposes.

page_text: Improvements in Spoons or Servers for Rice, Vegetables, and
for other like Purposes.
I, JOHN RYLAND of Brighton Road, Balsall Heath, in the County of Worcester,
Manager of Works, do hereby declare the nature of said invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN SPOONS OR SERVERS FOR RICE, VEGETABLES AND FOR OTHER LIKE
PURPOSES," and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:
Table spoons of the ordinary construction, for serving up vegetables and the like,
have their bowls made uniform, on both of their sides; that is, the bowls are
uniformly concaved, with the edges thereof lying in the same plane; so that in
taking or serving up vegetable and the like, the bowl has to be tilted in using,
and that in consequence of the bowl being slightly dished, a very small quantity
of food can only be served up at a time.
Table spoons or servers constructed according to my invention consist essentially
of a bowl and tang, the bowl of which is slightly dished or concaved, with one side
formed into a cutting edge, while the other side is considerably raised or extended
upwards, to form a lip or back to the said bowl, so that this back part stands
considerably above the edge of the other or front side. I call the cutting edge of
the bowl the front side, from the fact that in using the spoon or server, it is always
presented to the objects to be gathered or taken up. I prefer to make the bowl
somewhat broader and flatter than those of the ordinary construction, but I wish it
to be observed that bowls constructed according to my invention may be elliptical
round or of other form, while the rotundity of the bowl may be made according to
the form required.
In using my invention vegetables and other edibles can be cut off divided and
served up with the same instrument without tilting, while the raised off side or
back furnishes a means whereby a larger quantity of vegetables or such like edibles
can be collected and taken up, than by an ordinary spoon. The raised back also
prevents the vegetables or other matters from being pushed off the bowl on the
serving up.
My invention is especially applicable to spoons or servers for taking up rice and
vegetables but may be used for taking up other objects for various purposes.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the
manner in which the same is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in plan a spoon or server constructed according to my
invention. Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same taken from the near side.
Figure 3 is a cross section upon the dotted lines ▲ B figure 1. Figure 4 is a front
view of the bowl of the spoon.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the Drawing
a is the bowl slightly dished or concaved with the near side a² made nearly flat,
or formed into a dividing edge, which is in fact a cutting edge on the extreme near
edge of the bowl. In using the spoon or server, this open side is always presented

page_text: to the object to be gathered or taken up, while a³ is the closed side of the bowl;
that is, the offside is considerably raised or extended upwards above the edge of
the near side so as to form a back; and this raised back combined with the open
front constitutes as it were a scoop in cross section as best seen in figure 3. a' is
the commencement of the closed back and a³ is the tang,
In using my invention, vegetables can be cut off, divided and served with the
same instrument with little or no tilting, while the raised side or back a furnishes
a means whereby a larger quantity of vegetables or such like edibles can be
collected and taken up than by a spoon or server of the ordinary kind.
I prefer to make the bowl of the server somewhat broader and less concave than
those of the ordinary kind, but I wish it to be understood that bowls made
according to my invention with open fronts, and closed backs may be elliptical,
round or of other form while the bowl may be made of any rotundity required.
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
The improvement in spoons or servers for rice, vegetables and for other like
purposes, in which the bowl is open on the one side, and closed on the other; the
open side forming a cutting or dividing edge, while the closed side forms a raised
|back substantially as described and illustrated.