An Improved Dutch Oven.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 21st Dec., 1893-Accepted, 17th Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Dutch Oven.
ROBERT HILDICK 24 Willow Road Balsall Heath Birmingham Commercial
Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The improvement I claim in Dutch ovens and the like is that instead of using
hooks, to place the meat or article upon intended for cooking, I use a spring or
clipp and by placing the meat or article to be cooked between the said spring
or clipp the meat is so held in position, and I construct the said spring or clipp
in such a manner that by pressing a part of the spring or clipp it causes the part
of the spring that holds the meat to open and so release the meat, the spring
or clipp to be placed in any suitable position, the advantages I claim in the
improvement in Dutch-ovens and the like is that it does away with the necessity of
placing hooks through the article intended for cooking, I also claim the sole right
of using hooks along with the springs or clipps if I so desire, I make the
said spring or clipp of any suitable shape or pattern either out of wire or out of
metal either stamped, pressed or brought into shape by any known means.
Dated this 21st day of March 1893.
ROBERT HILDICK.
An Improved Dutch Oven.
ROBERT HILDICK of 24 Willow Road, Balsall Heath Birmingham, in the
County of Worcester Commercial Traveller do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manuer the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
I make my Dutch ovens from sheet tin, or other suitable metals, preferably tin,
by the ordinary methods employed in the making of such articles, the improvement
I claim to make in the said Dutch ovens and the like consists of substituting for
the hooks usually used for holding the article required to be cooked, springs or
clips, made of steel or iron, wire or other suitable material made by forging, stamping,
casting, twisting, or brought into shape by any known methods. And I claim to
suspend or fasten the said springs or clips in such manner or position as may appear
to me to be suitable.
The form of spring or clip I use in my improved Dutch-oven, is made from wire
or other suitable material, bent or worked into such shape as the lower or bottom
parts of the said spring or clip shall grip the article placed within, whilst the top
parts shall by pressing, open or release the grip of the lower parts, and the middle
portion of the said spring or clip is shaped in a spiral or tubular form to admit of
its resting upon a wire rod. I then pass the said rod through the spiral, or tubular
parts of the required number of the springs or clips and fix the rod with the
springs or clips upon it in the top of the Dutch-oven lengthways, thereby having
the said springs or clips in the saine position as the hooks usually used.
Fig. 1 shews the preferred form of clip.
Fig. 2 shews the Dutch-oven with clips complete.

page_text: 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
The using of springs or clips instead of hooks and I place within the grip
of the said springs or clips the article required to be cooked.
Dated this 20th day of December 1893.
ROBERT HILDICK.