Improvements in Detachable Metal Covers for Metallic and Non- Metallic Pudding, Dinner, and other Basins, and Food Bowls and other like Vessels.
Year: 1896

page_text: Improvements in Detachable Metal Covers for Metallic and Non-
Metallic Pudding, Dinner, and other Basins, and Food Bowls and
other like Vessels.
I, ELLEN MARGARET MCCUTCHON of No. 102 Mary Street, Balsall Heath,
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Wife of James McCutchon Tin Plate
Worker do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in detachable
metal covers for metallic and non-metallic pudding, dinner and other basins and food
bowls and other like vessels such for example as mess bowls by which improvements
the said covers are readily attached to and detached from the said basins or bowls.
In constructing a detachable metal cover for say a pudding basin according to my
invention I make the cover proper of the figure of a flat or convex metallic plate with
a beaded rim the said rim having a diameter suitable to take over and fit the top of
the basin with which the said detachable cover is to be used. I hinge the said cover
proper to a metallic flanged ring of a size and shape suitable to fit the exterior of the
basin immediately under the rim of the same the flange of the ring taking a bearing
against the underside of the said basin rim. The said ring has at the side opposite
to that at which the cover proper is hinged to it a spring snap fastening which when
the cover and ring are pressed together engages with the beaded edge of the rim of
the cover proper.
In using the detachable cover described the convex cover proper is unfastened and
turned back upon its hinge and the basin containing the pudding is introduced into
the ring. The ring is raised until its flange bears against the underside of the basin
rim when the cover is shut down, the spring snap fastening on the ring engaging
with the beaded rim of the said cover proper the detachable cover is securely attached
to the basin.
Instead of hinging the cover proper to the metallic ring the said parts may be
separate, two, three or more spring snap fastenings at equi-distant parts of the ring
being employed to securely connect the two parts together when in position on the
basin. The lid may have a handle or may be without a handle and when the cover
is flat and unhinged to the ring it may be used as a plate.
Dated this eighth day of September 1896.

page_text: Improvements in Detachable Metal Covers for Metallic and Non-
Metallic Pudding, Dinner, and other Basins and Food Bowls, and
other like Vessels.
I, ELLEN MARGARET MCCUTCHON of No. 102 Mary Street, Balsall Heath,
Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Wife of James M°Cutchon, Tin Plate
Worker, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the same
is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in detachable
metal covers for metallic and non-metallic pudding, dinner and other basins and food
bowls and other like vessels, such for example as mess bowls; by which improvements
the said covers are readily attached to and detached from the said basins or bowls.
In constructing a detachable metal cover for, say, a pudding basin, according to my
invention, I make the cover proper of the figure of a flat or convex metallic plate with
a beaded rim, the said rim having a diameter suitable to take over and fit the top of
the basin with which the said detachable cover is to be used. I hinge the said cover
proper to a metallic flanged ring of a size and shape suitable to fit the exterior of the
basin immediately under the rim of the same, the flange of the ring taking a bearing
against the underside of the said basin rim. The said ring has at the side opposite
to that at which the cover proper is hinged to it, a spring snap fastening which when
the cover and ring are pressed together engages with the beaded edge of the cover
proper.
In using the detachable cover described, the flat or convex cover proper is
unfastened and turned back upon its hinge and the basin containing the pudding is
introduced into the ring. The ring is raised until its flange bears against the
underside of the basin rim, when the cover is shut down, the spring snap fastening
on the ring engaging with the beaded rim of the said cover proper, the detachable
cover is securely attached to the basin. Instead of hinging the cover proper to the
metallic ring, the said parts may be separate; two, three or more spring snap
fastenings at equi-distant parts of the ring being employed to securely connect the
two parts together when in position on the basin.
The lid may have a handle or may be without a handle and when the cover is flat
and unhinged to the ring it may be used as a plate.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in elevation; Figure 2 in vertical
section and Figure 3 in plan, a detachable metal cover constructed according to my
invention applied to an earthenware or other non-metallic pudding basin, the parts
of the cover being made separate and secured together and to the basin by two (or
more) spring snap fastenings; a is the earthenware or non-metallic pudding basin
and b, c are the two parts of the detachable metal cover of the basin, b being the
cover proper, which may either be flat, as represented, or convex, and c the metal
beaded ring fitting the exterior of the basin a immediately under the rim a² of the
same, the beaded edge of the said ring, when in use, taking a bearing against the
underside of the said basin rim as seen in the section Figure 2. The cover proper b
has a beaded rim b², the said rim having a diameter suitable to take over and fit the
top of the basin. The said ring c has connected to it at opposite points, the spring
snap fastenings d, d the bent upper ends or heads of which have a figure proper to
snap upon or engage with the horizontal part of the rim 62 of the cover proper b
(see Figure 2). The said ring c also carries the eyes e, e in which the handle f turna
but my improved detachable cover may be made without a handle.
In using the detachable cover, the cover proper b is detached from the ring c by

page_text: withdrawing the spring snap fastenings d, d and the basin a introduced into the
separated ring c, and the cover b placed on the top of the basin. By raising the
ring c on the exterior of the basin so that its beaded edge bears against the basin
rim a², and pressing the ring c and cover b together, the heads of the spring snap
fastenings d, d are forced back and made to snap over the rim of the cover b. The
mouth of the basin is thereby closed and the cover and ring secured together and to
the basin as illustrated in the drawing.
In order to detach the cover it is only necessary to pull down or withdraw one of
the spring snap fastenings d so as to remove its head from over the rim 62 of the
cover b as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 2, when the said cover may be raised as
indicated in dotted lines in the said Figure 2, and its rim withdrawn from the other
spring snap fastening and the cover thereby detached from the ring.
When the cover b is flat it may, when detached from the ring c, be used as a plate.
Although I have only represented a ring provided with two spring snap fastenings
at opposite points, yet three or more spring snap fastenings at equi-distant parts of
the said ring may be employed to connect the two parts b, c together and to the
basin; and instead of using two or more spring snap fastenings for connecting the
ring and cover proper together, the said ring and cover may be connected together
by a hinge at one side and by a spring catch fastening at the opposite side. In this
case the cover b is turned back upon its hinge to introduce the basin into the ring
and after the ring has been placed on the basin, the cover is shut down and the spring
catch fastening engaged with the rim of the cover to secure the two parts to the basin.
The cover proper and its ring may be applied to metallic basins as well as to
non-metallic basins; but I prefer in applying my invention to metallic basins to
dispense with the ring and fix the spring snap fastenings to the upper part of the
exterior of the metallic basin as illustrated in section in Figure 4, where the metallic
basin is marked g, the cover b, b2 and the spring snap fastenings on the basin are
marked d, d; f is the handle turning in eyes at opposite sides of the metallic basin g.
I apply my improvements to dinner and other basins, mess and food bowls and
other like vessels substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated with respect
to pudding basins.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my Invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as
my invention of "Improvements in detachable metal covers for metallic and
non-metallic pudding, dinner and other basins and food bowls and other like vessels" :-
First; Detachable metal covers for pudding and other basins, food bowls and other
like vessels, consisting of a cover proper to fit over the top of the basin or vessel and
a ring to fit the exterior of the basin or vessel under the rim of the same, the said
ring carrying spring snap fastenings for engaging with the rim of the cover proper
for securing the two parts together and to the basin or vessel substantially as
hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
Secondly; Hinging the cover proper to one side of the ring and providing the said
ring at the unhinged side with one or more spring snap fastenings for securing the two
hinged parts to the basin or other vessel as hereinbefore described.
Thirdly; The modification hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawing in which the separate or hinged ring is dispensed with and
the spring snap fastenings are applied directly to the upper part of the metallic
dinner basin or other metallic basin or vessel.
Waren Etna Twenty-NIGA (AV DI MIRV 1897.
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ELLEN MARGARET MOCUTCHON.