An Improvement in Cooking Vessels.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 10th July, 1894-Accepted, 11th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Cooking Vessels.
FANNY EXLEY, Housewife Priestgate Peterborough. I do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Saucepans, stewpans, kettles and similar cooking vessels of various angular &
partly angular shapes having some or all of their sides flat and rectilinear and being,
in plane or horizontal section, of various regular geometrical shapes such as will
allow of a number of vessels, when being used together at the same time, to stand in
close contact with each other, the sides of each vessel fitting closely to those of other
vessels of similar shapes being used at the same time.
It is intended to make the vessels of any one or all of the following shapes or
horizontal sections as being suitable to the purpose.
(1) Square oblong or other rectangular shape (2) Triangular quadrangular
hexagon or other symmetrical polygon shape equilateral or otherwise (3) Semi-
circular (4) Quadrant or any other sector of a circle, the two flat sides forming an
angle measuring some equal part of a circle so that an equal number of them, when
placed together, will form a complete circle (5) Or any combination of two or
more of these shapes with each other (6) Or any other shape rectilinear or partly
rectilinear, as may be found convenient to the purposes of the invention.
The corners or angles of all these vessels may or may not be rounded off to some
extent as may be found more convenient in manufacture or use & not to such an
extent as will interfere with the special advantage of their rectilinear shapes.
The purpose of the invention being to prevent the waste of space over fires, on
cooking ranges stoves etc. which exists in consequence of the curved surfaces of the
ordinary round & oval vessels not fitting closely together and to prevent waste of
fuel by intercepting the heat which escapes through the spaces necessarily existing
between the said round etc. vessels. Also to enable a greater heat receiving surface
to be presented (to the flames or heating surface) within a smaller space than is
possible with the round & oval vessels commonly used.
Dated this 16th day of October 1893.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Cooking Vessels.
I, FANNY EXLEY, of Priestgate, Peterborough, in the County of Northampton,
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 invention relates to an improvement in saucepans, stewpans, kettles, and
like cooking or boiling vessels.
The object of my invention is to construct such cooking or boiling vessels that
they shall present a large heating surface, and by enabling them to stand or fit
closely together, to prevent waste or loss of heat, and permit of their more con-
venient placing or arrangement over a fire or cooking range or stove.
In order that my invention and the method of carrying the same into effect may
be the more readily understood I append hereunto one sheet of explanatory drawings
to be bereinafter referred to.

page_text: Figure 1 is an elevation, Figure 2 a plan, and Figure 3 a section view of one form
of saucepan made in accordance with my invention, while Figures 4 and 5 represent
a kettle in side and front elevations respectively.
In carrying my invention into effect I construct my saucepan or like cooking or
boiling vessel, of a hexagonal or like angular shape or configuration, as illustrated
in Figures 1, 2 and 3, to allow of a number of the vessels to stand together with a
considerable surface contact owing to the sides of the respective vessels fitting
closely against each other. In the same manner I construct a kettle or like vessel
as illustrated in Figures 4 and 5, and thus obtain a larger heating surface for a
vessel of any given capacity than is possible with an ordinary circular, square or
oval saucepan, kettle or other cooking or boiling vessel. I also avoid the waste of
space over a fire or cooking range or stove, which occurs with the employment of
the ordinarily shaped saucepans, kettles, and like vessels, in consequence of the
surfaces being in contact at one point only in their peripheries, and am enabled to
effect economy of fuel by avoiding much of the escape of heat through the
intervening spaces existing between two circular or like saucepans or kettles when
in contact over a fire, or cooking range or stove.
The angles of my improved saucepan or like vessel form natural lips for enabling
the contents of the vessel to be readily poured, without the provision of special lips
or other like arrangements for pouring.
I do not limit the application of my invention to the construction of a saucepan
or other vessel having a hexagonal or like configuration, but I sometimes construct
my improved cooking or boiling vessels of a semicircular or like form, providing one
or more flat sides to enable two or more vessels to be placed in close contact with
each other as hereinbefore described. I sometimes round the corners or angles of
the saucepan, or other vessel, for convenience in manufacture.
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. An improved saucepan, kettle, or like cooking or boiling vessel, having a
hexagonal, or semicircular or like configuration enabling two or more of the vessels
to stand in close contact with each other over a fire or a cooking range or stove,
substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and as illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
2. The construction of a saucepan, kettle or like cooking or boiling vessel having
a hexagonal or semicircular shape or configuration, affording a large heating
surface, substantially as and for the purposes herein before described and as
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
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this 9th day of July 1894.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.