Pan Cleaner.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 15th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 20th Jan., 1894
Pan Cleaner.
THOMAS HENRY BENSON 7 Havelock Terrace Workington Photographer
HENRY BENSON 7 Havelock Terrace Workington Railway Goods Agent do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This cleaner can be made of steel, iron, or other metals or hard material, and is
cut stamped cast or forged out of sheets or plates, in various shapes and sizes to
fit all kinds of pans and other utensils used in cookery and other household
purposes.
It consists of a smooth flat sheet or plate of steel iron or other metal or hard
material about one sixteenth of an inch thick having its edges cut or made square
and being adapted in shape and size so that it may be advantageously and con-
veniently used by hand for scraping and cleaning the interior of pans saucepans
and other utensils employed in cookery and other household operations.
Dated this 25th day of September 1893.
T. H. BENSON.
HENRY BENSON.
Pan Cleaner.
We, THOMAS HENRY BENSON, of 7 Havelock Terrace, Workington, Photo-
grapher, and HENRY BENSON, of 7 Havelock Terrace, Workington, both in the
County of Cumberland, Railway Goods 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 cleaner can be made of steel, iron or other metals or hard material and is
cut, stamped, cast or forged out of sheets or plates in various shapes and sizes to
fit all kinds of pans and other utensils used in cookery and other household
purposes.
It consists of a smooth flat sheet or plate of steel, iron or other metal or hard
material about one sixteenth of an inch thick having its edges cut or made square
and being so adapted in the shape and size that it may be advantageously and
conveniently used by hand for scraping and cleaning the interior of pans, saucepans
and other utensils employed in cooking and other household operations.
And in order that this invention may be more fully understood and carried into
practice we will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accom-
panying drawings of which
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a pot cleaner constructed according to my inven-
tion and
Fig. 2 a perspective view of a slightly modified form thereof.
From these drawings it will be seen that our improved pot cleaner consists
essentially of a plate a of metal or other hard material preferably about one
sixteenth of an inch thick and oblong or square in shape or approximately so.
One or more of the sides of these plates is or are however slightly curved to
enable them to better fit the contour of the surface to be cleaned whilst two sides
form an acute angle c with one another to facilitate the cleaning of corners.

page_text: A hole d may be made in the plates a at any convenient point to allow of it
being hung up when not in use.
Although I have only described the application of our improved device to pot
cleaning it will be perfectly obvious that it may also be used for cleaning many
other articles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
A plate of metal or other hard material having one or more of its sides curved
and two of its sides forming an acute angle with one another, substantially as and
for the purpose described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.