US495684A

US495684A - Cover for household utensils

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Publication number: US495684A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1893-04-18
Anticipated expiration: 1910-04-18

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(No Model.)

A. SGHOTT. COVER FOR HOUSEHOLD UTENSILS.

No. 495,684. V Patented Apr. 18, 1893.

UNITED" STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANTON SOHOTT, OF TURNER JUNCTION, ILLINOIS.

COVER FOR HOUSEHOLD tJTENSlLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 495,684, dated April 18, 1893.

Application filed December 15, 1891. Serial No. 415,113. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANTON SCHOTT, residing at Turner Junction, Du Page county, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Covers for Household Utensils, of which the following is a description.

My invention is designed to be particularly applicable to the cover of vessels or receptacles placed in a bed room or a sick room.

The object of my invention is to obtain a cover which can be removed from and replaced on the vessel or receptacle, for which it is adapted, without noise; and further, a cover which, when placed in position on the utensil or receptacle adapted therefor, shall close the same tightly, and, to a large extent prevent the escape from such vessel of any gases or offensive odors.

I have illustrated my invention by the drawings accompanying and forming a part hereof, in which:

Figure 1, is a crosssection of a cover embodying my device; Fig. 2, a front elevation of a receptacle adapted to have the cover placed thereon with the upper portion of such receptacle in cross-section and with a cover thereon also shown in cross-section, having my device embodied therein; Fig. 3, an elevation of a vessel adapted to have a cover embodying my invention thereon with such cover and the upper part of the receptacle shown in cross-section; that portion of the cover embodying my invention being a modification of the device illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.

Like letters of reference are used to indicate a given part where more than one view thereof is shown. I

A, is an ordinary crockery receptacle or vessel; B, the cover thereof.

D, is a ring of flexible material, preferably rubber.

E, is astrip of flexible material, preferably canvas or other cloth attached to that portion of the elastic ring D which in use is exposed to the action of any gases or vapors arising from the contents of the receptacle A. The ring D consists of the flat portion (1 adapted to rest upon the upper edge of the receptacle or vessel A, and the spherical portion (1 adapted to press against the inner surface of the vessel A. In the drawings, Fig. 3, the ring D composed of the parts d, d is illustrated as having no protecting flexible material E thereon, and when the cover embodying the device is used in receptacles or vessels whereof the contents are not liable to generate gases tending to destroy the rubber or other flexible material composing the ring D, such protecting material E is not required and may be omitted as is illustrated in Fig. 3. Where the protecting material is used, the'flat portion d of the ring D may be omitted, suchv protecting material being adapted to rest upon the upper edge of the receptacle A, and spherical portion d of the ring D covered by the strip E of flexible material being adapted to press against the inner sur face of the vessel A.

F, is that portion of the cover 13 on the under side thereof against which the ring D is drawn, principally by the elasticity of such ring when placed in position on the cover B or by the forcing of the cover in position when the same is placed on such receptacle A, and the dotted line G indicates the position the ring D would assume if the sides thereof were not compressed by the wall E.

It is evident that when the cover B is placed upon the receptacle A the part 01 of the ring D coming in contact with the upper edge of the walls of the receptacle and such ring D being composed entirely of india rubber, or india rubber or other flexible material having a facing thereon of cloth, canvas or other textile material, the noise occasioned by a crockery cover coming in contact with the crockery receptacle or vessel will be obviated and in addition thereto by the close fitting easily obtainable between the portion d of the ring D and the walls of the receptacle or vessel A no appreciable amount of gases or odors will escape from the same.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a cover for household utensils, the combination of a circular abutment on the under side of the cover, and an elastic ring fitting over the abutment, and a cover of textile material over the part of the elastic ring which comes in contact. with the vessel on which the cover is placed and the part thereof exposed to the contents of the vessel, such elastic cover extending beyond the ring and resting against the substantially horizontal under side of the cover outside of the circular abutment and adapted to come in contact With the upper edge of the vessel on which the cover is placed; substantially as described.

2. In a cover for household utensils, the combination of a circular abutment on the under side of the cover and an elastic ring fitting over the abutment, such ring having a portion thereof circular in cross-section and adapted to be compressed by the walls of the vessel or receptacle on which the cover is placed, a portion thereof rectangular in crosssection and resting against the substantially horizontal under side of the cover outside of I 5 the circular abutment and adapted to come in contact with the upper edge of the vessel on which the cover is placed, and a covering of textile material over the part of the elastic ring which comes in contact with the vessel on which the cover is placed and. the part thereof exposed to the contents of the vessel; substantially as described.

ANTON SCHOTT.

Witnesses:

F. L. BROWN, CHARLES T. BROWN.