An Improved Apparatus for Supporting the Crust of and Retaining the Juice in Pies.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 20th July, 1894-Accepted, 25th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATIWAL
An Improved Apparatus for Supporting the Crust of and Retaining
the Juice in Pies.
I AUGUSTUS ROBERT ROE of Mount Pleasant Mills Framlingham in the
County of Suffolk Miller and Manufacturer English Wheat Meal do hereby
declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
It is usual for cooks when making a pie to place an inverted cap in the dish for
the double purpose of supporting the crust and of receiving and preserving the
fluids which the pie should contain. The former of these functions is fairly well
performed by the ordinary inverted cap, but not the latter-for when the process
of cooking is proceeding and the pie is at its greatest beat the inverted cap becomes
filled with steam to the exclusion of the juices of the pie thereby often causing
these to boil over and be wasted although as the temperature falls the steam in the
cup condenses and when the pie is opened the cup is found full of fluid.
Now my invention relates to an apparatus which will support the crust effectually
and which will afford a receptacle from which the juices will not be expelled during
cooking but in which they will be preserved so as to secure the retention of the
greatest practicable quantity in the pie.
According to my invention I construct a vessel preferably either cup-shaped or
cylindrical open at one end and closed at the other except that from the centre of
the closed end a tubular nozzle or chimney rises of sufficient length to pass quite
through the pie crust and to extend a short distance above. Near the closed end
but so as to be below the pie crust that is to say so as to be within the pie, I
pierce preferably several holes through which the steam generated within the pie
may pass into the apparatus, from whence it can escape through the before
mentioned nozzle.
In making a pie the apparatus is placed in the centre of the pie dish with its
open end downwards and its nozzle or chimney upwards and when the crust is laid
over, to cover in the pie, the nozzle is passed through a hole in the crust so that
the crust rests on the closed end of the cylinder or cup and the nozzle or chimney
projects above.
Pies made with this apparatus are much more wholesome and easy of digestion
and better flavoured than those made in the ordinary way because the steam is
allowed to escape freely and the evils of cooking in an absolutely closed chamber
are avoided.
Dated the Twentieth day of October One thousand eight hundred and
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Supporting the Crust of and Retaining
the Juice in Pies.
I, AUGUSTUS ROBERT ROE, of Mount Pleasant Mills, Framlingham, in the
County of Suffolk, Miller and Manufacturer of English Wheat Meal, do hereby
declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to be
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page_text: performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
It is usual for cooks when making a pie to place an inverted cup in the dish for
the double purpose of supporting the crust and of receiving and preserving the
fluids which the pie should contain. The former of these functions is fairly well
performed by the ordinary inverted cup, but not the latter, for when the process
of cooking is proceeding and the pie is at its greatest heat the inverted cup
becomes filled with steam to the exclusion of the juices of the pie, thereby often
causing these to boil over and be wasted, although as the temperature falls the
steam in the cup condenses and when the pie is opened the cup is found full
of fluid.
Now my invention relates to an apparatus which will support the crust effectually
and which will afford a receptacle from which the juices will not be expelled during
cooking but in which they will be preserved so as to secure the retention of the
greatest practicable quantity in the pie.
According to my invention I construct a vessel, perferably either cup-shaped or
cylindrical, open at one end and closed at the other except that from the centre of
the closed end a tubular nozzle or chimney rises of sufficient length to pass quite
through the pie crust and to extend a short distance above.
Near the closed end but so as to be below the pie crust, that is to say so as to be
within the pie, I pierce preferably several holes through which the steam generated
within the pie may pass into the apparatus from whence it can escape through the
before mentioned nozzle.
Figs. 1, and 2, are representations of two forms of my apparatus. Fig. 3, is a
section of Fig. 2 in the interior of a pie.
A, is a cylindrical vessel (or it may be the shape of an inverted cup) open at
bottom and closed at its upper end.
B, is a tubular nozzle or chimney of sufficient length to pass quite through the
crust C. (Fig. 3.)
d, d, are a series of holes allowing free passage of air and steam from the interior
of the pie to the interior of the apparatus.
In Figs. 2, and 3, the top of the vessel is extended to form a flange e,
extending beyond the sides of the vessel so as to overhang and protect the holes d
from being obstructed by the crust in case it should at all sink over and round the
vessel.
In Fig. 4, c, represents the upper crust of a pie, and f, the fruit, meat, or the like
therein.
In making a pie the apparatus is placed in the centre of the pie dish with its
open end downwards and its nozzle or chimney B, upwards and when the crust C,
is laid over to cover in the pie the nozzle is placed through a hole in the crust so
that the crust rests on the closed end of the cylinder or cup and the nozzle or
chimney projects above.
Pies made with this apparatus are much more wholesome and easy of digestion
and better flavoured than those made in the ordinary way because the steam is
allowed to escape freely and the evils of cooking in an absolutely closed chamber
are avoided.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
1. The apparatus for supporting the crusts of and retaining the juice in pies
substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. The apparatus for use in pies for the purpose of supporting the crust and
retaining the juice, consisting of a cylindrical or cup-shaped vessel A having a top
which may, or may not, project beyond the cylindrical vessel or cup, as at e in
Fig. 2, and which serves to support the crust, with a shaft, or chimney B therefrom,

page_text: and a hole, or series of holes d, at or near the upper end of the vessel through
which the gases in the pie may have free access to the interior of the vessel and
the shaft, all substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and set
forth.
Dated the 20th day of July 1894
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicant.