Diagram of sections through two plates specially designed by Arthur Everest Shipley (1861-1927), in response to the needs of those injured during the First World War. The flatter, wider design is for a dinner plate the other for a soup plate, England, c.1915-1920.

This drawing shows the cross section views of two plates designed by Arthur Everett Shipley, a zoologist and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. They were intended for the use of men who had lost an arm during the conflict. The wider, flatter design is for a dinner plate whose short but vertical sides allowed the user to help get food onto a fork or spoon without the need of a knife. The other design is for a soup plate, where the central depression meant that the last drops of soup could be gathered without the need to tilt it.

Such illustrations appear to have been made in order to help explain the designs in publications. For example, it appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1918.