BREAD BAKING PAN AND COVER
Year: 1885

page_text: I THOMAS MAYES, baker, of Madison Avenue, Albany, New York, United States
of America, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for a "BREAD BAKING
PAN AND COVER and in what manner the same is to be performed to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of my invention is to provide a bread baking pan of such construction
as to impress upon or print into the soft dough filling it, a series of equally-spaced,
parallel, transverse surface-grooves or indentations, extending across the bottom and
sides of the same, and which, reproduced in the finished loaf, will serve as guides
for the unskillful in cutting the said loaf into slices of uniform thickness.
My invention consists, furthermore, in a suitable cover for the baking pan
provided with vent openings and with means for continuing the indentations made
by the pan itself across the top of the loaf, thereby making a series of continuous
circumscribing lines.
In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this application and wherein
like letters indicate like parts,
Figure 1 represents, in perspective, a side inner view of my improved pan.
Figure 2 represents a similar view at a different angle of observation.
Figure 3 represents, in perspective, a bottom view of the pan cover.
A indicates a bread pan of any suitable shape and dimensions. The said pan is
provided, at equal distances from each other, with a set or series of transverse
corrugations or raised portions b, consisting preferably of ridge shaped projections
triangular in cross section. These projections may be stamped or struck up from
the surface of the pan during the manufacture of the latter, or they may be soldered
or otherwise affixed to the sides and bottoms of the ordinary smooth pans in
general use.
C represents the pan-cover provided on its inner basal surface with similar
projections b¹. The cover is of such a width and length as to fit accurately over
the upper edges of the pan and in such manner that the projections b¹ shall come
each in line with a corresponding projection of the pan. Vent-openings D,
preferably longitudinal, are provided in said cover for the escape of vaporous
exhalations during the baking operation.
The parts being constructed as described, the mode of procedure is as follows;
the dough, formed to fit the pan, is placed therein by the baker, and by its own
weight, or with slight hand pressure, the raised projections or corrugations b enter
t, forming a series of equally distant indentations.

page_text: If it is desired to continue these indentations upon the top of the loaf, the cover
is put on and pressed down gently until the corrugations 6¹ enter the said top a
sufficient distance.
The pan, either with or without the cover, according as it is desired to mark
the loaf partially or completely around, is then placed in the oven, and the baking
done in the usual manner.
Loaves produced in accordance with my invention are especially desirable where
bread rations of a determinate quantity are required to be served, as in jails,
workhouses, the commissary departments of the army and navy &c.
My invention also affords an easy method of subdividing loaves with precision,
where the customer desires less than a whole one, wholly inexperienced persons
being enabled by means of the sectional guiding grooves to cut the loaf with
accuracy and celerity.
Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by
letters patent is
1.. A pan for baking bread, provided with a series of transverse corrugations or
projections, substantially as described.
2. A pan for baking bread, provided with a series of transverse corrugations or
projections, in combination with a cover having like projections corresponding in
location with those of the pan, and with vent openings, substantially as described.
Dated this 7th dex of March 1885.