CONSISTING OF SUGAR NIPPERS COMBINED WITH SUGAR TONGS, TO BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF CUTTING OR BREAKING LUMPS OF LOAF AND CRYSTALIZED SUGAR, AND DISTRIBUTING THE SAME AT THE TEA AND BREAKFAST TABLE, TO BE CALLED BLACKWELL'S COMBINED SUGAR NIPPERS ANDTONGS
Year: 1854

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by John Heather at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and Declaration, on the
31st August 1854, pursuant to the 9th Section of the Patent Law
Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HEATHER, of No. 8, Bedford Court, Covent Garden, in the Parish of Saint
Paul, Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster, Surgeons' Instrument
Maker and Cutler, carrying on business under the name of William Blackwell,
send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention "CONSISTING OF SUGAR
NIPPERS COMBINED WITH SUGAR TONGS, TO BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF CUTTING OR
BREAKING LUMPS OF LOAF AND CRYSTALIZED SUGAR, AND DISTRIBUTING THE SAME
AT THE TEA AND BREAKFAST TABLE, TO BE CALLED BLACKWELL'S COMBINED SUGAR
NIPPERS AND TONGS," and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the
same, and have made solemn declaration that I verily believe myself the
true and first Inventor thereof:

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Heather, do hereby declare that
the following Complete Specification, under my hand and seal, with tho
Drawing hereto annexed, fully describes and ascertains the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, viz*:-
The nature of my said Invention consists of a combination of sugar nippers
with sugar tongs, (to be used for the purpose of cutting or breaking lumps
of loaf and crystallized sugar, and distributing the same at the tea and breakfast
table.)
The Invention consists of sugar tongs or forceps (resembling the sugar tongs
in ordinary use) of a plain (Figs. 1, 2, 3) or ornamental design (Fig. 4), having
blades or wedges, formed of steel or other hard mineral or metallic substance,
fixed on the inner sides near the tops thereof, as shewn in the accompanying
Drawing, and distinguished by the letters a, a. The sides of the tongs are
made to expand by means of a joint at the top (as shewn at 6 in the Drawing),
so as to receive lumps of loaf or crystallized sugar between the said blades or
wedges a, a, which lumps of loaf or crystallized sugar may then be easily
broken by pressing the sides (marked d, d, in the said Drawing) towards each
other with the hand; and the points or ends of the tongs or forceps are kept
sufficiently distended for picking up the lumps of sugar, as with the ordinary
sugar-tongs, by means of a spring, placed at or in the aforesaid joint b, near
the part marked c, and which yields to the pressure of the hand, so as to take
hold of and distribute the sugar in the usual manner.
The blades or wedges may be of the same material as the sides of the
tongs or forceps, or of steel or other hard mineral or metallic substance, to be
either made with or attached to such sides, and may be affixed either across
the inner sides of the tongs or forceps (d), as shewn in the Drawing, Fig. 2,
or along and parallel therewith, as shewn in the said Drawing, Fig. 3.
Witness my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of August, One thousand
JOHN HEATHER. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of