| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a teapot with a tea strainer, which allows good passage of hot water therethrough, facilitates attachment/detachment of the tea strainer to/from the teapot, is produced at a relatively low cost, and improved in safety at the time of washing the teapot, the tea strainer absorbing dimensional variation of the teapot. <P>SOLUTION: The teapot is formed of a teapot main body (1) and the tea strainer (2). The teapot main body has projections (15) formed on an inner surface (11b) of a trunk portion (11) at locations on both sides of a pouring port (14) and closer to the same. The tea strainer is formed of a flat porous sheet (2b) or a mesh body (2a), and has a lateral width (L<SB>2</SB>) across the projections, which is larger than a projection-to-projection dimension (L<SB>1</SB>). Both side edges (21, 21) of the tea strainer are engaged with the projections (15) and a side wall portion (11a) of the trunk portion, which is arched in a plan view and extends from the projections to the pouring port, to thereby erect the tea strainer. Then the tea strainer in the erected position has its lower edge (221) abutted on a bottom of the teapot main body, and both the side edges (211, 211) abutted on the inner wall of the trunk portion, whereby its upper edge (231) appears on an upper surface opening (O) of the teapot main body. Thus the tea strainer divides a tea containing section (16) of the teapot main body into a main portion (16a) and straining portion (16b) closer to the pouring port. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI |
