Improvements in or relating to Cooking Stoves or Utensils.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Apr., 1896-Accepted, 9th Mar., 1896
Improvements in or relating to Cooking Stoves or Utensils.
A communication from FRANCIS HENRY BUZZACOTT, of 1325 Seventy-fourth
Street, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Manufacturer."
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, of 111 Hatton Garden, Holborn Circus, in the
County of Middlesex, Chartered Patent Agent, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improvement in the class of portable cooking outfits
for camp-use, in which the various pans, pots and other cooking utensils are
adapted, for convenience in transportation, to be compactly stowed away in a case
composed of pans adapted to be adjusted together to afford the baking or roasting
oven feature of the outfit and to be nested for confinement in the skeleton-stove or
grating by which to carry the outfit.
In the accompanying drawing-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved outfit when packed ready for
transportation;
Figure 2, a perspective view of the improved construction of the skeleton stove
or grating in condition for use;
Figure 3, a section taken at the line 3 on Figure 1 and viewed in the direction
of the arrow, to illustrate how the various utensils may be compactly stowed away
in the casing;
Figure 4, a cross-sectional view of the casing forming the oven;
Figure 5, a perspective view of the lifter by means of which to handle the utensils
when hot;
Figure 6, a broken perspective view of one of the pans showing a loop, at
which to apply the lifter on the inner surface of one of its sides; and
Figure 7, a perspective view of a false-bottom for the oven.
A and A' are pans, the former being the wider and shallower of the two to fit,
in inverted position, over the top of the latter upon which it then rests at it baser,
while the edge of the pan A about its flaring open top is flanged, as shown at q,
for a purpose hereinafter described, and extends about midway between the top
and base of the pan A'.
When the pans A and A' are adjusted in the relative positions in which they are
illustrated in Figure 4, they afford an oven for baking or roasting, which, owing to
the overlapping of one pan by the other insures its being air-tight under all conditions
in which it may be used. These pans are adapted to be nested for compact-packing
by placing the smaller and deeper one A' into the larger and shallower one A; and
they should be provided at one or both ends, as should also the various other pans and
pots, with loops p' on their outer sides into which to hook a lifter C, adapted to
form a handle by which to manipulate the various utensils when hot.
A pan is shown at D in Figure 6 provided with a lifting-loop p on the inner
surface of one of its sides for application of the lifter C. The provision of the
loop on the inner side of a pan-like utensil is advantageous, since it enables the
application of the lifter, for its purpose, from the inner portion of the utensil, at
which, when the utensil is packed away or in the oven or other housing, the loop
is much more conveniently accessible than when provided on the outer side.
E is the skeleton stove or grating comprising a top and sides extending there
from and formed of the transverse U-shaped bars o, the parallel sections n of which
afford the legs and are bent inward at their extremities to form catches m; the

page_text: intermediate transverse bars 1, the longitudinal corner-bars k, k and intermediate
longitudinal bar having the clip at one end and the hinged leg terminating
in an inward-extending catch; and the longitudinal side-bars h connecting the
legs n. E' is a supplemental grating to form an extension of the grating E, and
comprising the transverse angle-bars o' affording legs n' and the intermediate ones
of which are extended and provided at their extremities with hooks n; and the
longitudinal connecting bars k', k¹ and h³. The supplemental grating thus forms
two sides of a rectangle of dimensions adapting it to fit inside the pan A'.
Fis a false-bottom for use in the oven to prevent burning of the material being
cooked therein, and is composed of a sheet of metal bent at its opposite ends to form
the legs g, 9, and across its central portion to form the legs g', the legs serving to
afford an air-space between the false bottom and bottom of the oven.
To employ the improved outfit for cooking in camp the grating forms an elevated
support, (under which the fire is built, on the ground) affording a skeleton stove for
sustaining the utensils, such as a coffee-pot G, the pan D and other utensils used in
cooking food and heating water; and it also forms a broiler. The extension E¹ is
applied to the grating E in the manner illustrated, by hooking it at its hooks n
over either side-bar k to widen the stove, or over either end-bar o to lengthen it.
In either position of its adjustment it materially increases the service-area of the
stove and it may be readily adjusted in position and as readily disconnected.
Either pan A or A¹ of the oven may be used as a boiler for heating water
or cooking, or for a dish-pan; or it may be used as a heating-stove for a tent by
covering with it a bed of live coals, which may be placed in a pit dug in the
ground, and packing earth around the edges of the inverted pan to tightly seal the
fire, which latter, being thus kept in an air-tight inclosure, will heat the pan from
which a gentle heat will radiate through the night without smoke or gas, without
danger or requiring any attention whatever.
To cook in the oven formed with the pans A and A', it may be placed on the
skeleton-stove over the fire under it, or directly on live coals on the ground; and
coals or hot ashes may also be placed on the top of the oven, or a small fire may be
built thereon.
To pack the parts of the improved outfit, the pan A' is nested in the pan A, and
all the smaller utensils, including pans D, the coffee-pot G and lifter E are laid
inside the pan A', into which also the supplemental grating E' is introduced to
extend with one side across the top of the pan, over which is placed a cover H,
which may be used as a cover for a pan in cooking therein. Then the rectangular
grating E is slipped lengthwise over the whole, whereby the catches m come under
the flange g of the pan A; and the grating E is thus fastened to the outer pan and
forms part of the kit of utensils, by which the outfit may be conveniently carried
at a handle I hinged for the purpose to a middle leg n. The stop confines
the rested utensils at one end of the grating against longitudinal displacement
thereat; and by turning down the hinged leg at the opposite end to introduce
its catch underneath the flange g, the nested utensils are securely fastened in
place lengthwise of the kit. The proportions are such that the catches m and i¹
wedge with sufficient tightness under the flange g to hold all the parts tightly
together; and if it be desired to lock the grating in place, the hinged leg may
be constructed as a hasp, as indicated, to fit over a staple fin proper position on
the flange g, and in which to hang a padlock (not shown). Moreover the grating E,
the bars forming which are preferably of steel, forms, when thus secured about the
pans and sheet-metal utensils within, a strong protecting cage against accidental
damage, as by indentation, to the ware.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, & in what manner the
same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The combination with a pan, of a metal grating having a top and sides
extending therefrom to embrace said pan, and forming a skeleton stove and also a

page_text: protective cage for the pan and such other utensils as may be contained therein,
means on the stove and pan for securing them in this relation, and a supplemental
grating provided with means for connecting it with said grating to extend the
service-area of the stove, substantially as described.
2. The combination with a pan, of a metal grating having a top and sides
extending therefrom to embrace said pan and forming a skeleton stove and also a
protective cage for the pan and such other utensils as may be contained therein,
means on the stove and pan for securing them in this relation, and a supplemental
grating affording an extension of said stove and forming two sides of a rectangle
composed of transverse angle-bars o', having hook-extensions n at which to engage
a bar of said stove, and longitudinal bars and A', said supplemental grating being
adapted to nest in said pan, substantially as described.
3. A stove comprising a metal grating having a top and sides extending there-
from and formed with legs provided with inwardly projecting catches, a stop-lug at
one end of the grating and a hinged catch at the opposite end thereof, in combination
with a pan having an outwardly projecting marginal flange adapted to be received
between the legs of the stove and to be engaged by said catches and stop-lug,
substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
4. In combination, a stove comprising a metal grating having a top and sides
extending therefrom and formed with legs provided with inwardly projecting
catches, the two pans A and A' of relative dimensions to nest one within the other
and for one, in inverted position, to overlap the edge-portion of the other and form
a close oven, and a marginal flange about the larger of said pans to be engaged by
said catches, substantially as described.
5. In combination, a stove comprising a metal grating having a top and sides
extending therefrom and formed with legs provided with inwardly projecting
catches, a stop-lug at one end of the grating, and a hinged hasp-catch at the
opposite end thereof, the two pans A and A' of relative dimensions to nest one
within the other and for one, in inverted position, to overlap the edge-portion of
the other and form a close oven, a marginal flange about the larger of said pans to
be engaged by said catches, and locking means on said larger pan for engagement
with said hasp-catch, substantially as described.
6. In combination with a pan, a loop p on the inner surface of a side thereof
and adapted to be engaged by a lifter C, substantially as and for the purpose set
forth.
7. A camp cooking-outfit comprising, in combination, a pan A having a flange q
a pan A nesting in said pan A and adapted to be overlapped at its upper edge by the
latter when inverted, utensils, substantially as described, including the supplemental
grating E', stowed in said pan A', a cover H over said pan A¹, and a metal grating E
formed with legs n having the inwardly projecting catches m, a stop-lug at one end
of the grating and a hinged catch at the opposite end thereof, said grating E extending
over the covered pan A¹ and engaging at its said catches and lug the flange g about
the pan A, the whole being constructed and arranged to be operated substantially
as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 1st day of April 1896.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.