Improvements in Cooking Utensils.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 1st May, 1899-Accepted, 2nd June, 1899
COALDRIN DIUILICATION.
Improvements in Cooking Utensils.
I, SOPHIA SCHWARTZ, of the Town of Champion, in the County of Margnette,
in the State of Michigan, in the United States of America. Lady, 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 relates to improvements in cooking vessels, and the objects of my
invention are, first, to provide a cooking vessel with an easily securable cover;
second, to provide a cooking vessel from which the water may be poured out quickly
and without danger of scalding the hands by the steam when the water is hot;
third, to provide a cooking vessel or like utensil with a rotary cover, the turning
of which will admit more or less steam to escape and the water to be strained out
from the vessel, according as the cover may be turned.
These and other minor objects I attain by the novel construction and arrangement
of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which-
Figure 1 is a top view of cooking vessel with my improvements applied to it.
Fig. 2 is a vertical, sectional view on the line a-a in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side view
of the cover of the vessel. Fig. 4 is a side view of the cover in a modified form.
Fig. 5 is a front elevation of said cooking vessel with the spout in section on the
line in Figs. 1 and 2. Figs. 6 and 7 are enlarged detail views of the side
handles of the vessel. Fig. 8 is a top-view of the vessel only, with a modified shape
of its spout. Fig. 9 is a vertical sectional view on the line in Fig. S.
Fig. 10 and 11 are side views of the upper portion of cooking vessels of old con-
structions and with modified means for holding the cover on the vessel. Fig. 12,
13 and 14 are front end views of the spout made in various modified shapes.
Referring to the various parts in the drawings by reference numerals, 15 is a
cooking vessel proper, and 16 the cover for same. The cover may be applied to any
cooking vessel having a spout either as 17 in Figs. 10 or 11, or
any other suitable shape; but in the new cooking vessels which I
make in connection with my improved cover. the spout is made
very wide, as in Figs. 1. 2, 5 and 8 shown, and also in Fig. 12 where the spout is
open at the top and covered by the projection 18 of the cover 10. In Figs. 3
and 13 the said projection 1S is formed with the steam guards 19, while in Figs. 8, 9
and 14 the spout is formed with its own cover or roof 20. When the spout is
thus made, the cover may be made perfectly round, and need not have the
projection IS. This style will do for large vessels, but the opening at the top is
better because it facilitates the cleaning of the inside of the spout. The sides
of the spout may, however, be curved inward at the top, as shown in Fig. 5, to help
prevent escape of the steam sidewise.
The cover 16 is provided at its underside with a dependent rim 21, projecting
down into the vessel as far as to the base of the spout. A portion of this rim
sufficiently large to cover the opening of the spout adjacent to the rim. is perforated
as at 22, and when the spout, cover 18 is used, the same is formed on the cover 10

page_text: above the perforations 22, so that when the latter admit the water to be poured
out through the spout, the spout-cover 18 prevents the steam from escaping up and
back over the cover 16.
Upon opposite sides of the vessel I secure the wide handholds or handles 23.
which near the edge of the vessel are provided with the cross bars 24, under which
take hold the outer ends of the two locking bolts or slides 25, which slide in the
keepers 26 secured upon the cover. The adjacent ends of these slides are provided
with upwardly-projecting finger-holds 27, between which is inserted in the
cavities 28 (see Fig. 2) the ends of the coil-spring 2, which hold the slides normally
spread or pushed out over the edges of the cover.
80 is a stop in the center of the cover to terminate the retraction of the slides.
The finger-holds 27 are preferably made of wood and are of semi-cylindrical form,
so that when they are brought together they form a round knob or button, by
which the cover may readily be lifted and handled.
When the cover is applied to old or ordinary cooking vessels, handles like
Fig. Gor may be riveted onto them, or if the vessel has a bail, it is only necessary
to remove the bail and let the catches on the cover take hold in the apertures
formerly occupied by the bail, and to secure handles like 28 upon the sides of
the vessel. Or if the bail ears are not of the shape 32 in Fig. 10, so that this
can be done, then special ears like 31 may be secured upon the vessel as in Fig. 11,
and any suitable make of handles may be used. Such and other similar modifica
tions may be made according to the manufacturer's option and taste and the
materials used, without diverging from the spirit and scope of my invention.
83 is a handhold fixed upon the rear side or opposite the spout of the vessel.
In the modification Fig. 4, the steam guard 19 is extended all around the edge
or top of the vessel. In said view is also shown how the rim under the cover may
be partly cut away, leaving only the perforated portion 22 and the opposite solid
portion 21 The latter act would simply lighten the rim a trifle and save that
much material, but is not claimed as an improvement on my main invention, or a
special modification thereof.
In using the vessel, the cover must, if made as in Fig. 4, be turned with the
solid guard 21 toward the spout but if made as in Fig. 3. or round as in Fig. 9,
or with the flat spout cover in Fig. 12 it may be turned in any position which will
bring the perforations away from the spout, or leave only a few of them in com-
munication with the spout, as a vent for the steam not wanted for the cooking.
When the food is cooked, and it is desired to pour the water off from it, the cover
is grasped by the catches or knobs 27. so that they close together and allow the
slides to slip with their outer ends out of locking contact with the crossbars 24
of the handles, or ears as the case may be.
The vessel is then tilted forward by taking hold of its two side handles 23, or
by one of them and the handle 38 at the rear edge of the vessel, until all the water
is poured out. The cover is then removed and the food is taken out, preferably by
tilling the vessel forward. In the last named process the wide, flat-bottomed spout
serves as an excellent guide. gathering and delivering the food in good shape upon
the platters.
It is obvious that this cover may be used not only on vessels of the shape shown
in my drawing, but also on coffee pots, tea pots and many other utensils, or
regulating and controlling the escape of steam and flavor during cooking.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
1 claim is―
1. The combination with a cooking vessel having a spout, of a cover having a
dependent rim covering the inner opening of the spout, a portion of said rim
being perforated and another portion being imperforate; suid spout being open at
the top and said cover having a projection covering the open top of the spout when
the perforated portion meets the spout, substantially as described.

page_text: 2. The combination with a cooking vessel having a spout, of a cover having a
rim depending from it and covering the inner opening of the spout; a portion of
said rim being perforated and another portion imperforated, said spout being open
at its upper side, and said cover having a projection covering the open top of the
spout when the perforations in the rim register with the spout, and the steam
guard 19 coming down at the sides of the spout and extending back therefrom
outside the vessel, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
3. The combination with a cooking vessel, having a spout open at its upper side.
of a cover for the vessel, the same having a dependent rim covering the inner
opening of the spout, and a projection covering the open top side of the spout; said
rim having a perforated portion directly below the said projection on the cover, and
means for securing the cover to the vessel when the said projection of the cover is
over the spout and the perforations in the rim register with the spout, substantially
as set forth.
4. The combination with a cooking vessel, of a pair of handles secured at the
sides thereof and having the cross-bars 24, the cover 16, having the opposite sliding
catches 25, adapted to engage under the said cross bars, the buttons 27 at the
adjacent ends of the slides, the spring 29, interposed between said buttons, and
means for limiting the retraction of the slides, substantially as shown and
described.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6. Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.