US104010A - Improved tea and coffee-service - Google Patents

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IRAYEAMANS, or BROOKLYN, New Yorin Letters PatentNo. 104,010, lated June 7, 1870.`

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IMPROVED TEA. AND CIFEE-SERYICE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that LIRA YEAMANS, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Tea and Codec-Services, of which the follcwingis a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the ac:- companying drawing forming part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 represents a sectional elevation of a tea and coffee-service constructed in accordance with my invention, and A Figure 2, a plan of the same.

vSimilar letters of referenceindicate corresponding i parts.

This invention relates to tea and codec-services, arranged on stands, and consists in a novel arrangement ofthc several vessels making up a service on a horizontal turn-table, around a central vertical axis in contradistinctionto over it, in combination with a trunnion support of said vessels, or certain of them.

Prior to describing my improvement, it may here he premised that cotlee-pots and other similar vessels have previously been arranged on horizontal turn-tables and suspended by trunnions, so as to be capable of being tilted or swung vertically, as described in Letters Patent No. 91,696, issued to me June 22, 1869; but,'in such previous arrangement, said vessel has y been placed directly over the axis of the turn-ta,

blc, and the structure-has only been adapted to a single vessel.

The structure represented in the accompanying drawing is very diierent, and comprises an entire tea and coffee-service, including a coffee-pot, A, tea-pot B, hot-water pitcher C, milk-pitcher l), sugar-bowl E, and slop-bowl F, all arranged upon a horizontal turntable, G, around the vertical axis thereof, the sugarbowl, slop-bowl, and milk-pitcher being removable from sockets or pockets on 0r in thc face of the turnhung by trunnions b b, to swing in standards H H, fast on the face ot'sad table, vwith the spouts or mouths of said vessels facing outward to facilitate their use, by tilting, to pour from them into a. tea or coiiee-cup, as required, the turn-table having been previously rotated to bring the required vessel opposite the person using the service.

The horizontal turn-table G is supported and guided or restrained from shake by a low'er vertical stem, I, resting on a center below and working in a socket, J, fast to a base portion, K; this insures an `easy or frictionless run ofthe table.

Mounted onthe turn-table G at its center, and secured to it in any suitable manner, is an upper stem, L, carrying at itstop a disk, M, having locking recesses c made in and around its border, for spoons N, which may be entered edgewise through the recesses and then turned vto leave them pendent on the disk, as represented in iig. 1. This spoon-holder will be found an additional convenience of no small importance.

What is here claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is

1. A revolving t'ea and coee-servioe, having its several vessels arranged on a horizontal turn-table, G, in eccentric relation to the axis of the latter, and said vessels or certain of them being suspended by trunnions to swing vertically, substantially as speciiied.

2. The combination ot' the swinging pots or vessels A, B, and C, with the stationary vessels D, E, and F, the turn-table G, the base K, center supporting-stem I, and socket J, essentially as shown and described.V

IRA YEAMANS.

Witnesses:

FRED. HAYNEs, R. E. RAnnAv.

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