IMPROVEMENTS IN LEMON SQUEEZERS
Year: 1885

page_text: I, WILLIAM BOOKLESS BROWNE, of 22 The Mall, Clifton, Bristol do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN LEMON SQUEEZERS to
be as follows :—
It consists of a wooden base on which are fixed two upright wooden supports, of
suitable height for a tumbler or other receptacle to stand between them to receive
the lemon juice from strainers fitted as described below.
On the uprights is a slab of wood with projecting handle, into the slab is fitted
from the upper side a glazed earthenware strainer which is removable, below this
strainer is fitted a sliding frame of wood also removable bearing another strainer of
cotton or linen netting.
Hinged to one of the uprights is a second slab of wood with projecting handle,
and attached to it is a convex piece of glazed earthenware adapted to press the
half lemon into the strainer.
The pressure is obtained by means of the two handles & perfect straining of
juice is effected by the two strainers above described, no portion of the juice being
liable to come in contact with the metal of the hinge which is imbeded in the
wood.

page_text: CUMPLEIE
Improvements in Lemon Squeezers.
I WILLIAM BOOKLESS BROWNE, of 22 The Mall, Clifton, Bristol, do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LEMON SQUEEZERS,"
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
It consists of a wooden base, on which are fixed two upright wooden supports of
suitable height for a tumbler or other receptacle to stand between them, to receive
the Lemon juice from strainers fitted as described below.
On the uprights is a slab of wood with projecting handle, into this slab is fitted
from the upper side a glazed earthenware strainer, which is removable, below this
strainer is fitted a sliding frame of wood also removable bearing another strainer of
cotton or linen netting.
Hinged to one of the uprights by an iron hinge is a second slab of wood with
projecting handle and attached to it is a convex piece of glazed earthenware
adapted to press the half lemon into the strainer.
The two removable strainers are also to be applied to an apparatus, consisting
of two slabs of wood with projecting handles &c. as above described hinged
together, but without the base and uprights which form the stand.
The pressure is obtained by means of the two handles, and pure and perfect
straining of juice is effected by the two strainers above described which prevents
any of the pulp passing into the receptacle beneath, and no portion of the juice is
liable to come in contact with the metal of the hinge which is imbedded in the
wood, the only portion visible being the knuckle.
"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"
A new method of simultaneously squeezing and straining lemons by means of a
second removable strainer, which consists of a wooden frame bearing a cotton or
linen netting by which a pure and very perfect straining of juice is effected,
combined with security from contact with metal.
Dah with day of Novembar 1985