Improvements in Trays for Holding Tea Sets and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 1st Mar., 1895-Accepted. 6th Apr., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Trays for Holding Tea Sets and the like.
We, CHARLES COLVER of 231 Western Bank, Clerk, and JAMES DIXON
FAWCETT of Cornish Place, Manufacturer, both of the City of Sheffield, do
hereby declare the nature of our invention to be as follows:
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This invention relates to the construction of a tray made preferably of metal,
and having for its object to enable a set of tea things or a coffee set, to be carried
about in a perfectly safe manner; it is therefore well adapted for use in railway
stations, hotels and other like places where tea sets are carried to and fro, and
where railway travellers take them from one station to another in the carriage.
We propose to construct a tray of any ordinary outward configuration and to
form within the border in suitably arranged positions, a number of recesses
corresponding with the shape of the lower part of each separate piece of the tea
set for example, thus for railway use there would be a circular recess for a teapot,
a sugar basin, a cream jug, a cup and saucer, and a plate. We prefer to form the
recesses by stamping them in dies, but in some cases we make the recesses
separately and fit them into holes cut through the bottom of the tray and secure
them by soldering..
Into these recesses the various articles of the set fit in such a manner that the
tray may be tilted to a very considerable angle and the said articles will remain
perfectly secure.
We prefer that the underside of the recesses, or of some of them, shall be of
one depth, to enable the tray to stand level upon them when placed upon a flat
surface.
Dated the 20th 2 of Mom 1904
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicants..
Improvements in Trays for Holding Tea Sets and the like.
We, CHARLES COLVER, of 231 Western Bank, Clerk and JAMES DIXON
FAWCETT of Cornish Place. Manufacturer, both of the City of Sheffield do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same has to.
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :---
This invention relates to the construction of a tray made preferably of metal,
and having for its object to enable a set of tea-things or a coffee set to be carried
or handed about in a perfectly safe manner; it will be thus very well adapted
for use in railway stations, hotels and other like places where tea sets are carried
to and fro by attendants, and where travellers take them in the carriage from one
station to another.
The invention is illustrated in the annexed sheet of drawings, in which like
letters of reference indicate like parts in either of the figures.

page_text: Fig. 1, represents a tray made according to my invention.
Fig. 2, edge view, partly in section.
In carrying our invention into effect we construct a tray of any suitable metal,
and of any ordinary outward configuration, such for example as that shown in
Fig. 1, marked, A, and we form within the surrounding border or edge B, in
suitably arranged positions, a number of recesses C, C1, C2, C3, C4, corresponding
with the size and shape of the lower part of each separate piece of the tea set
(for example). Thus for railway use there would be a circular recess C, for
a tea pot; C, for a sugar basin, C³, for a cream jug; C³, a plate, C+, cup and
saucer.
We prefer to produce these recesses by stamping them in dies from the flat
sheet of metal A, but in some cases we make the recesses or some of them
separately, and fit them into openings' cut through the bottom of the tray, and
secure them by soldering or otherwise..
We prefer that the underside of these recesses, or some portion of them shall
be of one equal depth, as shown in Fig. 2, to enable the tray to stand level and
firmly thereupon when placed upon a flat surface.
The various articles before named are fitted into the said recesses or receptacles
to such a depth (say for example three-eighths of an inch,) that even if the tray
be tilted. to a very considerable angle from the horizontal, the said articles will
remain perfectly secure from lateral displacement.
We wish it to be understood that we do not include recesses made upon the
upper surface of a tray by fixing thereupon rings or circular walls or mouldings
into which vessels may be placed, as such a method forms no part of our
invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim'is:
1. A metallic tray having, recesses C, formed out of the continuous metal of the
tray in and below the surface A, for the reception of the various articles of a tea
set, or similar articles, for the purpose specified, and substantially as hereinbefore
described with reference to the drawings.
2. A metallic tray having recesses C, made separately and attached thereto so
as to be under the surface A; for the purpose specified, and as herein before
described:.
Dated the 27th 11
1007
ROBT. F. DRURY,
Bank Buildings; George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicants.