An Improved Kettle, and Stand or Trivet therefor.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 8th Feb.. 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Kettle, and Stand or Trivet therefor.
I, WALTER STANLEY SMITH, Potter Grange, Goole, Engineer, 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 produce an improved kettle and stand to support
it. In carrying out my invention I make the bottom of the kettle concave or
hemispherical, instead of flat as usual. I also provide one tube or several tubes
passing through the water space and opening at one end into the concave or
hemispherical bottom, and at the other end into the air surrounding the kettle.
The kettle may have a lid under the handle, in the usual manner, but I prefer to
put the lid aside of instead of under the handle, and in whichever position I put it,
I sometimes provide it with a pipe for the escape of the steam, and to prevent the
water boiling over. The kettle is primarily intended to be used with fire-lighters,
oil or spirit lamps, stoves, or the like where no ordinary fire is available, but the
kettle is equally usable in the ordinary way when so desired.
The stand or support for the kettle when it is not used on the ordinary fire,
consists of a lower part and an upper one. The lower part or bracket consists of
a disc of metal with upstanding projections at intervals around its upper surface.
This disc may be solid or perforated with holes or openings. Two hanging lips and
a sliding inverted T shaped piece together form a means for attaching this lower
part of the stand to the bars of the grate or stove. The upper part of the stand
consists of a deep ring like piece of material open at each end and having the upper
end of less diameter than the lower end. Three or more ledges, ribs, webs, brackets
or the like are provided around the inside of this upper part of the stand. The
tops of these webs or the like are a little below the top of the ring. These webs
project towards the centre of the ring so as to form a resting place for the bottom
of the kettle, and they gradually diminish in width until they disappear altogether
in the thickness of the lower edge of the ring like top. The ring may rest flat on
the disc of the lower part or bracket of the stand, or may have openings at
intervals around it to admit air and so increase the draught. When the ring is
placed on the stand and the kettle placed on it, it causes the heat and smoke to pass
up into the concave bottom of the kettle and through the tabes into the chimney
of the fire place.
The kettle and stand may be made of any suitable metal or material.
In order that my invention may be more clearly understood, I annex a sheet of
drawings in which,
Fig. 1 is a side view and Fig. 2 a back view of a kettle made in accordance with.
my invention.
Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section. Fig. 4 is a section through A B of Fig. 3.
Fig. 5 is a front view, and Fig. 6 a plan of the lower and upper pieces together
forming the kettle stand or support.
Fig. 7 is a section through line A B of Fig. 6.
Fig. 8 shows a side view of the kettle and stand.
Similar letters refer to the same parts iu each figure.
a is the kettle, b the concave or hemispherical bottom, c the tubes passing through
the water space and forming a connection between the outside of the kettle and
the inside of the hemispherical bottom, d is the lid shown at the side of the handle,
but which may be placed under the handle if preferred, e the steam pipe to prevent

page_text: water boiling over, f is the bottom or bracket of the stand, the upstanding
projection provided at intervals around it, g the hanging lips, forming with the
sliding inverted T piece h a means of attaching the stand to the bars of the stove
or grate, j is the deep ring like top, having the ribs or webs k, and furnished or not
with openings around the lower end which rests on f.
I do not confine myself to the precise conformation relative proportions or
disposition of parts, as shown in the drawing, as any or all of them may be varied
without departing from the spirit of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. In kettles making them with a concave or hemispherical bottom, and with a
tube or tubes passing through the water space and forming a communication
between the air around the outside of the kettle, and the space within the concave
or hemispherical bottom, and having a lid placed either under or towards the side
of the bandle and provided or not with a steam pipe for allowing the escape of
steam and preventing the water boiling over, the whole substantially as described
in the above Specification and exemplified in the accompanying drawing.
2. In kettles providing the lid with a steam pipe for allowing the escape of steam
and preventing the water boiling over, substantially as described in the above
Specification, and exemplified in the drawing.
3. In a kettle stand for use with my improved kettle the construction of a lower
part or bracket having arrangements for attaching it to the bars of the stove or
grate with an upper part resting thereon and consisting of a deep ring like portion
with or without air holes around its lower edge and provided with webs, ribs,
ledges, brackets or the like to form a resting place for the bottom of the kettle
when placed thereon, the whole substantially as described in the above Specification
and exemplified in the accompanying drawing.
4. A kettle and support or stand arranged for use with each other, substantially
as described in the above Specification, and exemplified in the accompanying
drawing.
Dated this 13th day of November 1895.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23 Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.