An Improved Cooking Utensil.
Year: 1890

page_text: .Date of Application, 22nd Apr., 1890-Accepted, 24th May, 1890
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cooking Utensil.
I, HALE CHADWICK, residing on High Street, Penacook, in the City of Concord,
County of Merrimack, and State of New Hampshire, United States of America,
Gentleman, 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 cooking utensils adapted for stewing, frying, broiling,
steaming or toasting various articles of food; the object of the invention being to
accomplish the foregoing with a utensil combining as few parts as possible, and to
provide means whereby all the odour produced by various articles being cooked shall
pass into the stove or range and pass with the products of combustion into the
smoke flue.
The invention consists of a combination of the various parts as hereinafter
described and set forth in the following specification and claims, and clearly
illustrated in the accompanying drawing forming an inseparable part thereof, of
which―
Fig. 1, represents the broiler or toaster, provided with an extraordinary deep
cover which may be inverted and utilized as a frying pan; both being shown in
section.
Fig. 2, is a detached plan view of the broiler or toaster.
Fig. 3, is a detached sectional view of the cover for the broiler, (upon which is
placed a suitable tin cover) ready for use as a frying pan.
and
Fig. 4, is a detached inverted plan view of the said broiler cover,
Fig. 5, is a perspective view of a bottomless cylinder, which when used in connec
tion with broiler and its cover (both inverted), and an ordinary tin cover upon the
top of the said cylinder, comprises an excellent vessel for steaming various articles
of food.
Similar letters indicate like parts throughout the various views.
A, represents a broiler, the bars a, of which each contain a groove a¹, connecting
with an annular groove a³, all in the top of said broiler.
One or more ears A¹, are provided upon said broiler, having each a perforation as
shown best in Fig. 2.
Diametrically opposite to said ears A¹, projects a hollow handle B: its hollow
portion b, terminating near the annular groove a².
In either upper edge of said handle B, slots 6', may be formed for a purpose to be
hereinafter explained.
The cover C, may be substantially of the form shown in Figs. 1, 3 and 4, and
provided with lugs C₁, having studs, c, projecting downward therefrom and adapted
to enter the perforated ears A³, of the broiler A; near which a grated opening c¹, is
formed through the top of said cover, by means of a partition c², through a segment
of the circle of said cover, and connected to the outside wall, by several radial
partitions or grates c³.
Diametrically opposite to the lugs (₁, and said grated opening c¹, projects a
handle D, having a hollow portion d, slotted at either side as at d.
When the broiler A, and cover C, are placed one upon the other and connected
by means of the perforated ears and studs, as seen in Fig. 1, their respective handles
are caused to fit each other; their hollow sides and their slots b¹, d', exactly
coinciding and forming openings connecting with the air chamber formed by the
hollow portion 6-d, of each handle B-D.
By this construction, the air of a room is drawn, (by reason of the draught
caused by the fire in the stove or range), through the grated opening c¹, and the
slots in the hollow handles downward through the broiling iron A, and together with

page_text: the more or less offensive odours, fumes and smoke from the meat or other food in
process of cooking is carried out through the smoke flue with the products of
combustion.
Likewise, when using said cover C, as a cooking utensil for frying or stewing
articles of food, an ordinary tin cover E, placed thereon as in Fig. 3, will perform the
same office for it, that said cover C, does for the broiler A; the air of 'the room being
drawn through the hollow portion d, of the handle D, under said tin cover E, and
mingling with the steam and odours contained therein, passes downward through the
grated opening c¹, and thence out with the products of combustion into the smoke
flue or chimney.
For steaming vegetables and the like the cylinder F, which is formed open both
ends, and preferably provided with a passage or chamber f, which in the drawings I
show interiorly, and formed by means of the partition f, is placed upon the broiler A,
which rests upon the inverted cover C, containing water and an ordinary tin cover E,
is placed upon said cylinder F.
The articles to be steamed being placed within said cylinder F, are kept from
contact with the water in the pan or (inverted) cover C, by the broiler A, upon
which they rest; and the steam and odour contained in the cylinder F, is drawn
through the passage, (care being taken to place the latter over the grated opening
of the cover C) and the grated opening cl, of the (inverted) cover C, and mingling
with the products of the combustion passes out by means of the smoke flue to the
chimney.
Thus with my improved utensil, all cooking which is performed directly over the
fire, or upon the top of a stove or range, may be constructed without the usual
escape of steam, the various odours, or smoke from the articles being cooked, into
the house.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is ;
First. In a cooking utensil, the combination of a shallow vessel having a handle
hollowed on its top and slotted in its edges, and provided with a grated air
passage at one side; a grated cover adapted to rest upon said vessel and having a
handle hollowed out on its bottom and slotted as shown; and a cylinder formed
open both ends and adapted to fit upon said grated cover, provided with an air passage
connecting with the passage in said shallow vessel, and a suitable cover for said
cylinder, all substantially for the purpose set forth.
Second. In a cooking utensil the combination of a broiler provided with bars and
having a handle B, a pan having a handle D, a partition e, cutting off a bottomless
portion of said pan and fitting said broiler, a bottomless cylinder F, fitting said
broiler and having a partition F, and a cover, substantially as set forth.
Third. In a cooking utensil the combination of a broiler having bars, and a pan
having a partition c³, cutting off a bottomless portion of said pan and fitting said
broiler, substantially as set forth.
Fourth. In a cooking utensil the combination of a broiler provided with bars and
having a handle B, and a pan having a handle D, a partition c2, cutting off a
bottomless portion of said pan and fitting said broiler, substantially as set forth.
Dated the 24th day of February 1890.
ALLISON BROS.,
Agents for the Applicant.