An Improvement applicable to Kettles, Saucepans, and similar Utensils.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd June, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 18th Nov.. 1896-Accepted, 5th Dec., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement applicable to Kettles, Saucepans, and similar
Utensils.
I HENRY BARCROFT of Cambridge Villas, St. Anne's Road East, St. Anne's-
on-the-Sea, in the County of Lancaster Shoe Manufacturer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is applicable to kettles, sauce pans and other similar utensils or
vessels employed for boiling water or other liquids over an open fire, and the
objects of the invention are to prevent the water or other liquid contents of the
kettle, saucepan, or other vessel from boiling over, and also to prevent the smoke
from the fire from entering into the kettle and thus giving an unpleasant taste, or
smell, or both, to the water or other liquid contents.
For the purposes of my invention I make the lid of the kettle or other vessel in
the usual manner with a rim inside and a slight projecting lip all round, and round
the mouth or opening of the kettle or vessel 1 solder or otherwise affix a rim
projecting upwards just outside the lip of the lid. This projecting rim is coned or
bell-mouthed outwards and it stands up for such a distance all round the lid that
in the event of the water or other liquid attempting to boil over it will be retained
within this coned or bell-mouthed rim and thus be prevented from boiling over into
the fire.
At the same time any smoke or flames from the open fire which may curl over
the top of the kettle or other vessel will be thrown outwards by the coned or bell
shaped form of the projecting rim and thus be prevented from getting under the
lid of the vessel and so contaminating the contents.
Dated this 20th day of June 1896.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement applicable to Kettles, Saucepans, and similar
Utensils.
I HENRY BARCROFT, of Cambridge Villas, St. Anne's Road East, St. Anne's-
on-the-Sea, in the County of Lancaster, Shoe Manufacturer, 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 is applicable to kettles, sauce-pans, and other similar utensils or
vessels employed for boiling water or other liquids over an open fire, and the
objects of the invention are to prevent the water or other liquid contents of the
kettle, saucepan, or other vessel from boiling over, and also to prevent the smoke
from the fire from entering into the kettle, sauce pans and other utensils or vessels

page_text: and thus giving an unpleasant taste, or smell, or both, to the water or other liquid
contents.
The nature of my said invention will be readily understood on reference to the
annexed sheet of drawings and the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 on the annexed drawing is a vertical section of a kettle with my invention
shown as applied thereto, and Fig. 2 is a similar view of a sauce pan.
For the purposes of my invention I make the lid a of the kettle or other vessel b
in the usual manner either with a rim c inside as shown at Fig. 1, and with a slight
projecting lip all round or without the internal rim c as shown at Fig. 2, and round
or inside the mouth or opening of the kettle or vessel I solder or otherwise fix or
place loosely a rim d projecting upwards. This projecting rim d is coned or bell-
mouthed outwards and it stands up for such a distance all round the mouth or
opening that in the event of the water or other liquid attempting to boil over it
will be retained within this coned or bell-mouthed rim and thus be prevented from
boiling over into the fire, and as the boiling subsides it will be returned into the
vessel.
At the same time any smoke or flames from the open fire which may curl over
the top of the kettle or other vessel will be thrown outwards by the coned or bell
shaped form of the projecting rim and thus be prevented from getting under the
lid of the vessel and so contaminating the contents.
The top of the lid may also, if preferred, be provided with a shallow coned or
flaring flange e as shown at Fig. 1 or the lid may be made plain without any flange
either at top or bottom as shown at Fig. 2.
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 improvements applicable to kettles sauce pans and other similar utensils
consisting of a coned or bell-mouthed rim or flange soldered or otherwise fixed to
or placed loosely on the top of the same and projecting above, the lid of the vessel
substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein before particularly set
forth and as illustrated by the drawings annexed.
Dated this 17th day of November 1896.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.