An Improvement in or Applicable to Cooking Apparatus.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Apr., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 20th May, 1890-Accepted, 19th July. 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in or Applicable to Cooking Apparatus.
I, JOHN DAW, of Rye Lane, Peckham, Surrey, Potato Salesman, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the application to gas cooking stoves, oil cooking stoves,
American cooking ovens and analogous closed cooking apparatus of means for
supporting meat or the like while being cooked, in such a manner as to cause the
same to be rotated about a horizontal or nearly horizontal axis so as to cause the
same to be equably presented to the action of the heating or cooking agent and to be
equably cooked and to be automatically basted by its own exuding juices continually
running around it during its rotation, thus keeping the meat moist and preventing it
from being unduly dried by the cooking agent, and avoiding the principal disadvantages
peculiar to such cooking apparatus as at present adapted.
To this end the Invention consists in adapting to such apparatus, in a convenient
position relatively to the heating agent a horizontally disposed removable spit adapted
with removable adjustable hold-fasts on which spit and between which hold-fasts
the meat or the like can be readily secured;-and means of supporting the spit in
such a manner as to permit of its being rotated about its axis ;-and moans of auto-
matically rotating the spit about such axis.
According to an advantageous modification of carrying out the Invention, I construct
the spit of a length somewhat shorter than the distance apart of opposite sides of the
stove, making its one end of an angular formation adapted to fit into a rotating
flanged bearing by which it is supported and rotated about its axis, and its other end
of a circular formation adapted to rest in an open-topped bearing which supports it
and permits of its being rotated and readily removed for being passed through the
meat and replaced, the intermediate part of the spit being made of a flattened or of
an angular or elliptical or of any other suitable section adapted to support the hold-
fasts, to permit of their being adjusted longitudinally thereof and rotated thereby.
The holdfasts may consist of two or more radiating arms made of any con-
venient length and adapted with oppositely projecting pointed fingers adapted to
enter opposite sides of the meat or the like through which the spit has been passed and
so to secure the same.
The said open-topped bearing is conveniently supported by one side plate of the
stove, and the said rotating flanged bearing is adapted to a flanged bush which is
inserted through the opposite sideplate of the stove and is secured on the outer side
thereof by a screwed nut or washer, the bearing passing through the bush and being
keyed or otherwise suitably made fast to a toothed wheel or the like which is in gear
with and is actuated by any suitable arrangement of clockwork mechanism adapted to
be wound up as occasion may require, and to rotate the spit either continuously in
one direction or alternately in opposite directions if so required. The clockwork
mechanism may be enclosed in a suitable casing removably secured to the outer
side of the stove.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in or Applicable to Cooking Apparatus*
I, JOHN DAW, of Rye Lane, Peckham Surrey, Potato Salesman, do hereby declare
the nature of the said 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 the application to gas cooking stoves, oil cooking stoves,
Price & I

page_text: American cooking ovens and analogous closed cooking apparatus, of the hereinafter
described improved means of supporting meat or the like while being cooked in such
apparatus, and of rotating the same while thus supported about a horizontal or
approximately horizontal axis, whereby it is caused to be equably presented to the
action of the cooking agent and to be equably cooked and to be automatically basted
by its own exuding juices continually running around it during its rotation.
The Invention is illustrated on the accompanying drawings in Figs. 1, to, 5, and in
Figs. 6, to, 10, in different modifications, each of which is hereinafter particularly
described. Like reference nunerals indicate like parts in both such modifications.
On the accompanying drawings; Fig. 1. represents a sectional elevation, longi-
tudinally of the spit: Fig. 2. represents a section through the line, a-b. looking in
the direction of the arrow, c: Fig. 3. represents a section through the line, d,-e.
looking in the direction of the arrow, f: Figs. 4, and, 5, represent detached views of
different forms of meatholders: Figs. 6, and, 8, represent sectional elevations of
adjustable means of supporting the spit: Fig. 7, represents an inside face view of the
hearing represented in Fig. 6: Fig. 10, represents a like view of the bearing repre-
sented in Fig. 8: and Fig. 9, represents, in side elevation, the means of ensuring the
register of the bearing represented in Figs. 8, and, 10, with that represented in
Figs. 6, and, 7.
The improved apparatus is constructed with a horizontally disposed spit, 11,
of a length somewhat shorter than the distance apart of the opposite side
walls, 12, of the stove or oven. One end of the spit is made of an angular
formation adapted to fit into a rotating socket, 13, by which it is supported
and rotated about its axis, and its other end is made of a circular and pointed
formation adapted to rest in an open-topped bearing, 14, which supports it and
permits of its being rotated and readily removed for being passed through the meat
and replaced, the intermediate part of the spit being made of a flattened or of an
angular or elliptical or of any other suitable section adapted to support opposite
meat-holders, 15, to permit of their being adjusted at any desired distance apart
longitudinally thereof and of their being rotated thereby.
The holders, 15, may be made of stout wire or of other suitable material. and
may be made of any suitable sizes and with any convenient number of arms formed
with straight or curved pointed extensions, 16, adapted to enter opposite sides of the
meat or the like through which the spit has been passed and so to secure the same.
The holders are removable from the spit and are. adapted thereto by making them
with central bosses, 17, in which are formed openings, 18, of an appropriate formation.
The formation of such opening in the manner represented in Fig. 4, allows of a holder
thus formed being set parallel with or at right angles to a holder formed as repre-
sented in Fig. 5.
In the modification illustrated in Figs. 1, to, 3, the bearing, 14, supporting the free
end of the spit, and the bushed bearing, 19, supporting the socket, 13, carrying the
angular end of the spit, are caused to occupy opposite and relatively fixed positions,
the bearing, 14, being preferably let into the inner side of its adjacent side-wall, 12,
of the stove or oven, and the bearing, 19, being inserted through its adjacent side
wall, 12, of the oven, and being secured by a nut, 20, on the outer side thereof. The
bearing, 14, may, however, conveniently consist of an S or double hook-like device
adapted to support the spit by its open topped lower bend, and to be hooked by its
upper bend onto one of the bars of the swinging wicket or other side support for
the sliding trays with which such stoves and ovens are usually fitted.
The socket, 13, extends through the bushed bearing, 19, and has pinned or other-
wise suitably secured on its outer end a pinion, 21, which gears with and is driven by
clockwork, as aforesaid, and which latter may be of any suitable character and may be
carried or enclosed by a case, 22, secured to the outer side of the oven.
In the modification represented in Figs. 6, to, 10, provision is made for adjusting
the rotating spit at various distances froin the heating agent in closed stoves or ovens
wherein the heating agent is approximately on the same level as the meat or the like

page_text: being cooked, or in stoves or ovens wherein one side or part thereof is open for
ex xposure to a fire as in dutch-ovens.
In this modification, the bearings, 14, and, 19, can be moved into and secured in
different opposite positions nearer to or further from the heating agent, as may be
desired. The underside of the bearing, 14, is formed with projections, 23, which
engage with corresponding recesses, 24, made in the inwardly inclined bearing face, 25,
of a supporting bar, 26, which is secured to the inner side of the wall of the oven and
along which the bearing, 14, can be shifted as desired. The bearing, 19, is adapted to
slide in an opening, 27, made through the adjacent side wall of the oven and can also
be moved into and secured in different positions respectively opposite those in which
the pointed end of the spit is set, the outer end of such bearing, 19, being secured to
a flanged plate, 28, to which the casing 22, may also be secured, and to which, may
also be secured a recessed gauge-bar, 29, made with equidistant recesses, 30,
with which there engages a projection, 31, on the under side of a weighted lever-
arm, 32, pivoted, as at, 33, to the outer side of the oven.
The extreme movements of the bearings, 14, may be determined by stops, 34, and of
the bearing, 19, by the ends of the opening, 27, in the side wall which opening may
be kept covered on the inner side by a sliding plate secured to the bearing, 19, or on
the outer side by like means secured to the casing, 22, or plate, 28.
The clockwork may be adapted to rotate the spit either continuously in one direction,
or alternately in opposite directions if so required. The casing, 22, enclosing the
clockwork mechanism may be removably secured to the outer side of the stove in any
suitable manner.
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. The application to gas cooking stoves, oil cooking stoves, American cooking
ovens and analogous closed cooking apparatus, of the herein before described improved
means of supporting meat or the like while being cooked in such apparatus and of
rotating the same while thus supported about a horizontal or approximately hori-
zontal axis.
2. The use in combination, in such means, of a horizontally disposed spit made of
an angular or equivalent formation at one end and of a rounded and pointed formation
at the other end and of an angular or equivalent formation at the part intermediate of
its ends, a rotating socket supported by a fixed bearing and into which the angular
end of the spit is adapted to fit and which is adapted to support such end of the spit
and to cause it to be rotated about its axis, an open-topped bearing into and from
which the circular end of the spit can be freely lowered and raised and which is
adapted to support such end of the spit and to permit of the latter being rotated,
meat-holders formed with radiating arms or the like and oppositely projecting pointed
extensions and adapted to the spit so as to be removable from and adjustable thereon
and as to be carried around therewith, and an arrangement of clockwork mechanism
whereby such spit and its attachments may be rotated in such bearings, substan-
tially as herein before described with reference to Figs. 1, to, 5, of the accompanying
drawings.
3. The modification of the means referred to in the next preceding claim wherein
provision is made for adjusting the rotating spit and its attachments at various distances
from the heating agent, substantially as herein before described with reference to
Figs. 6, to, 10, of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 16th day of May 1890
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.