Improvements in Apparatus for Domestic Use in Frizzling or Roasting Bacon, Chops, Steaks, or other Foods.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 11th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 27th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Domestic Use in Frizzling or
Roasting Bacon, Chops, Steaks, or other Foods.
I, JACOB BROWN 71 Chapel Street, Ancoats, Manchester County of Lancaster
Gaiter Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This my invention consists of two receptacles made from metal, enamel ware, or
any other suitable or desirable substance.
These receptacles are made similiar to any ordinary dish shaped tins that are now
in use for domestic purposes.
One of these receptacles is placed on the top of the other, the top one being so
arranged as to rest on the front edge of the bottom receptacle, while in this position,
I cause the back edge or portion of top receptacle to be tilted, which is held at any
desirable angle by means of a catch & slot attached jointly to both tins.
The bottom portion of top tin I perforate, by these means the fat or gravey
escapes through the perforation into the bottom tin, thereby preventing the fat or
gravy being spoiled with cinders etc.
By these means the fat or gravy is kept absolutely clean, and the tilting of the
top receptacle also acquires a large surface of heat from the fire to which the foods
are exposed for such frizzling or roasting etc.
I also attach to bottom portion of top tin a suitable number of skewer pointed
pieces of wire for which to impale the bacon or other foods to prevent them slipping
downwards. I also use a metal skewer to lay crossways on the top tin, which
support by a rest on either ledge of top tin. This skewer is made to pass through
the foods intended for cooking, when by reversing such skewer from one side of the
top tin to the other, it also reverses the uncooked part of the foods thereby obviating
the turning over of the foods as in ordinary cases; but in the case of roasting larger
joints, fowls etc., I use a staple shaped skewer, or with more prongs if desired, which
when affixed in the joint or fowl etc. intended for cooking, revolves round when such
skewer is turned.
This skewer is supported by projecting rests attached to edges of top tin, one of
which I make in the form of a disc, containing slots, or holes, to which a portion of
such skewer inserts itself thereby to present any angle of the meat to the surface
of the fire without removing the same from the tin.
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JACOB BROWN.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Domestic Use in Frizzling or
Roasting Bacon, Chops, Steaks, or other Foods.
I, JACOB BROWN, of 71 Chapel Street, Ancoats, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Gaiter Manufacturer 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 my invention is to form an apparatus whereby bacon, chops, or
other food may be more conveniently cooked before an open fire than heretofore,
and the fat or gravy preserved from the dust or ashes of the fire.
I accomplish this by taking two tins similar to those ordinarily used in roasting,
and forming the two front corners of each with a suitable hook and eye, or other

page_text: similar arrangement whereby one tin can be tilted at an adjustable angle upon the
edge of the other by means of a suitable support at the back edge or other suitable
part of the tins.
I perforate the lower portion of the upper tin so that the fat or gravy can drain
away into the lower tin where it is protected from ashes etc. by the upper tin.
I furnish the upper portion of the upper tin with skewer pointed projections of
wire or other suitable material upon which the bacon etc. can be readily affixed for
cooking.
I also furnish the upper tin with two suitable projections upon which a suitably
shaped skewer can be placed, upon which the food can be fixed, and by which it can
be turned while cooking.
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In the larger class of tins used for cooking joints fowls etc. the projections
made of sufficient strength and with a suitable disc furnished with indentations in
which a suitable projection on the skewer can take to prevent it from turning with
the weight of the meat.
To prevent the meat from turning upon the skewer, I form the skewer of staple
form with two or more spikes.
In order that the foregoing may be better understood I send herewith a sheet of
drawings in which :-
Figs. 1 and 2 show a front and side elevation of a small size of my apparatus
and
Figs. 3 and 4 a front and side elevation of a larger size adapted for fowls or
joints.
In all the figs. a indicates a lower tin on the edge of which is tilted an upper tin /
by support being retained in position by hook and eye arrangement d, the meat is
either impaled on skewer projections e (see Fig. 1) or on a larger skewer which
in the larger size is formed with prongs 9 and held in position by disc and pin
arrangement, the fat or gravy draining into the lower tin a by holes k (see Fig. 1)
where it is protected from ashes by the upper tin b.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The combined apparatus, substantially as described and shown hereinbefore and
in the accompanying drawings for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 10th day of April 1893.
JOHN HENRY TOPHAM,
46^, Market Street, Manchester, Agent to Applicant.
JOHN HENRY TOPHAM,
46, Market Street, Manchester, Agent to Applicant.