Im- PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE USED IN COOKING BY MEANS OF GAS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry John Bale, of No. 1, Russell Terrace,
Oakley Square, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE USED IN COOKING BY MEANS OF GAS."
Sealed the 15th April 1868, and dated the 18th October 1867..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry John Bale at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th October 1867.
I, HENRY JOHN BALE, of No. 1, Russell Terrace, Oakley Square, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE USED IN COOKING BY MEANS OF GAS," to
be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus to be used in
cooking by means of gas. In order that an ordinary gas burner carried by
a bracket projecting from the wall of a room or chamber may from time to
time be used in cooking, I employ apparatus consisting of a bracket so
constructed as to be readily applied and secured to the wall of the room or
chamber when required for use and afterwards removed from it. This bracket
carries a ring or platform to support a pot or kettle, and is jointed so that
the said platform may be brought over the burner or swung to one side of it

page_text: by moving about the joint in the bracket. I fix to the wall of the room or
chamber where the bracket is to be applied, and in the vicinity of the gas
burner two nails or studs having heads, the base plate of the bracket has
holes through it of a size to allow these heads to pass, and the holes are
slotted on the upper side, so that when the plate of the bracket has been
applied over the nails or studs it drops down so as to bring the stems of the
studs or nails into the slots. and thus the plate becomes secured to the wall.
The same apparatus may be used in cooking when gas is not available, the
base plate of the bracket being arranged to receive an additional arm to
support an oil or other lamp.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry John Bale in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th April 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
JOHN BALE, of No. 1, Russell Terrace, Oakley Square, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs, and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Henry John Bale, Her special licence that I, the said Henry John Bale,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry
John Bale, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
USED IN COOKING BY MEANS OF GAS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Henry John Bale, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent..
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry John Bale, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-

page_text: formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus to be used in
cooking by means of gas. In order that an ordinary gas burner carried by a
bracket projecting from the wall of a room or chamber may from time to time
be used in cooking, I employ apparatus consisting of a bracket so constructed
as to be readily applied and secured to the wall of the room or chamber
when required for use and afterwards removed from it. This bracket carries
a ring or platform to support a pot or kettle and is jointed so that the said
platform may be brought over the burner or swung to one side of it by moving
about the joint in the bracket. I fix to the wall of the room or chamber
where the bracket is to be applied and in the vicinity of the gas burner two
nails or studs having beads, the base plate of the bracket has holes through it
of a size to allow these heads to pass, and the holes are slotted on the upper
side so that when the plate of the bracket has been applied over the nails or
studs it drops down or slides along so as to bring the stems of the studs or
nails into the slots and thus the plate becomes secured to the wall.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect I will proceed to described the Drawings hereunto

page_text: freely under the bottom of the vessel between these projections; is a handle
on the ring or platform.
The same apparatus may be used in cooking when gas is not available, the
base plate of the bracket being in this case arranged to receive an additional
arm to support a spirit or other lamp.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry John Bale, have hercunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
HENRY JOHN BALE. (L.S.)