and Apparatus of a like Nature.
Year: 1886

page_text: and Apparatus of a like Nature.
I, WILLIAM BROMFIELD BROUGH of South Hill Avenue, Harrow on the Hill in
the County of Middlesex Gentleman 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 :—
My invention is designed for the purpose of providing a greater heating surface
in kettles, cooking utensils and like apparatus, also for furnishing an improved
construction of handle which protects the hand from the danger of scalding from
escaping steam, when such handle is used in combination with a vessel or utensil
having the opening for admitting the fluid in the rear of such vessel or utensil and
to all kettles, cooking-utensils and vessels of a like nature brought into immediate
contact with fire or with the action of a gaseous flame I shape or construct the
bottom of such kettles, utensils or vessels coming into such contact in a concavo
form with a fluted, grooved or corrugated surface or with circular indentations or
rings to present a greater area of heating surface as shown in fig. 1. In other
cases I shape or construct the bottom of such kettles utensils or vessels as come
into immediate contact with the fire or gaseous flame with a flat surface having
circular indentations forming rings this having also the object of increasing the
heating surface.
In kettles or utensils of a like nature where the object is to heat fluids and pour
or run the same off I design an improved handle rivetted or otherwise attached on
the side or the top of the vessel at each side and at a convenient angle or angles
(for which I prefer a right angle) with the spout or outlet and to which is
connected a second angle leading from the root of the spout or outlet and attached
to the centre of the first handle before mentioned at a convenient angle say a right
angle, with the same.
Behind the first mentioned handle I place the opening for the introduction of
Buid and which can be closed by a hinged cover or by any other convenient
method or I rivet or otherwise attach my improved handle at either the side or at
the top of the kettle, utensil or vessel near the front or adjacent to the root of the
spout or outlet in the manner now commonly used in the construction of kettles
but instead of continuing the handle from front to back in one piece as at present
ased I divide the handle about midway into two parts longitudinally and separating
these two parts at any convenient angle I rivet or otherwise attach their extremities
o each side or at top adjacent to each side of the kettle utensil or vessel as shewn
n fig. 4, and thereby I am able to place the lid or aperture for filling and cleaning
he kettle utensil or vessel in such a convenient position in rear of the handle as

page_text: to greatly facilitate access to it for the purpose of filling, cleaning or otherwise
and to keep the hands when using the kettle from exposure to or injury from the
heated vapour or scalding steam escaping from the lid which is so great an
annoyance more especially when refilling heated kettles with handles and apertures
constructed as they are now commonly used.
In order that my invention may be the more readily understood and explained
in detail I have hereunto annexed a sheet of drawings upon which letters of
reference are marked on corresponding parts on all the Figs. alike.