Improvements in Cooking Apparatus.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Aug., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 1st May, 1891-Accepted, 6th June, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cooking Apparatus.
EDGAR ALFRED MATTHEWS Miller Llisnerry Newport Mon., do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Perforated cooking cylinder and separator. This invention is to do away with
fork or spoon in lifting articles cooked out of saucepan or boiler as the cylinder can
be lifted out when wanted clear of the water.
Dated this 7th day of August 1890.
EDGAR ALFRED MATTHEWS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cooking Apparatus.
1, EDGAR ALFRED MATTHEWS of Llisnerry, Newport, in the County of
Monmouth, Miller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention is to afford facilities for the cooking by steam or
water of various articles of food in one vessel.
To effect this construct of perforated metal a cooking pot which will go inside
an ordinary boiler, saucepan, or steamer, and which has around its exterior surface
short studs to prevent contact between the pot and the wall of the boiler, saucepan,
or steamer in which it is placed. By this means a free circulation of steam or water
around and through the cylinder is ensured.
Inside this perforated pot I place vertical grooves to receive vertical perforated
partitions to act as separators which may be straight, so as to bisect the interior of
the pot into two equal parts, or may be bowed or bent so as to divide it unequally.
These partitions may have attached to their upper edges one or two covers of semi-
circular or segmental shape, which being hinged to the partition, fall into a
horizontal position on the compartments on either side of the partition. These
covers have wire handles for opening, and the perforated pot has similar handles.
I also construct semicircular or segmental perforated pot or separator which is
designed to occupy one half of the outer perforated pot before described. This
internal pot has also lifting handles and a perforated bottom, and may have a cover
or not as preferred.
The bent or bowed partition can also be used with the semicircular or segmental
pot if preferred, and in that case it forms two compartments in addition to the pot,.
or three in all. Others can be added if required.
It will be readily understood that the interior of the perforated pot can be divided
by means of the separators above described, so as to permit the simultaneous.
cooking of several different articles of food in a cooking utensil of any ordinary size
or shape. Such cooking utensils are usually cylindrical or nearly so, and my
perforated pot is therefore usually made cylindrical, but can of course be oblong,
oval, or square, if required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. A perforated cylindrical or otherwise shaped pot, with exterior studs, and
internal grooves for placing in an ordinary cooking utensil as herein described

page_text: 2. A semicircular or otherwise shaped perforated pot with or without a cover,
forming a separate compartment for placing inside any ordinary cooking utensil as
herein described.
3. Straight or bent perforated partitions with or without hinged covers, to form
separators inside a perforated cooking pot, as herein described.
Dated this 1st day of May 1891.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, London, E.C., Patent Agent.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, London, E.C., Patent Agent.