Saucepans or other Cooking Utensils.
Year: 1886

page_text: Saucepans or other Cooking Utensils.
We GEORGE GORDON BRODIE of Catherine Street Aston Birmingham Ironfounder
and JAMES DAMREL PRIOR of 143 Isledon Road Finsbury Park London Manager do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The provision of a simple and efficient means of preventing saucepans or other
cooking utensils boiling too rapidly. The lower edge of the side of the saucepan
carries two ears between which a cam is pivotted loosely in such a position that when
the saucepan is boiling too rapidly, and it is desired to make it boil less rapidly, by
raising the saucepan slightly the cam falls down and forms a support which keeps the
saucepan off the hot plate. By pushing back the saucepan the cam is dislodged from
its supporting position and the bottom of the saucepan again comes in contact with the
hot plate. The cam is so balanced that when it is not required and is lifted up against
the side of the saucepan it will remain in that position of its own gravity.
Dated this 8th day of November 1886

page_text: Saucepans or other Cooking Utensils.
We GEORGE GORDON BRODIE of Catherine Street Aston Birmingham Ironfounder
and JAMES DAMREL PRIOR of 143 Isledon Road Finsbury Park, London, Manager, do
hereby declare the nature of our invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
Our invention has for its object to prevent in a simple and efficient manner the
saucepan or other cooking utensil from boiling too rapidly. This object we effect
by the means hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
The lower edge of the side of the saucepan carries two ears between which a cam
or leg is pivotted loosely in such a position that when the saucepan is boiling too
rapidly and it is desired to make it boil less rapidly by raising the saucepan slightly
the cam or leg falls down and forms a support which keeps the greater part of the
bottom of the saucepan off the hot plate. By pushing back the saucepan the cam or
leg is dislodged from its supporting position and the whole, of the bottom of the
saucepan again comes in contact with the hot plate. The cam or leg is so balanced
that when it is not required and is lifted up against the side of the saucepan it will
remain in that position of its own gravity.
Figures 1 and 2 represent side elevations of a saucepan to which our invention is
applied and Figure 3 represents an elevation of Figure 2; Figure 4 represents the cam
or leg or jointed support detached. In Figure 1 the cam or leg or jointed support is
represented out of action, and the whole of the bottom of the saucepan resting upon
the hot plate or hob and in Figures 2 and 3 the cam, leg or jointed support is repre-
sented in action and the greater part of the bottom of the saucepan raised and sup
ported out of contact with the hot plate or.hob.
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a is the saucepan, on one side, of which and near the lower edge thereof two ears b, b
are cast between which ears the cam'leg or jointed support c is pivotted, the said cam,
leg or support turning freely on' the pin or centre d. The upper end of the cam, leg
or support c is formed with an eye e (see Figure 4) through which the joint pin or
centre d passes.
When the cam or leg or jointed support c is in the position represented in Figure 1
the whole of the bottom of the saucepan a rests on the hot plate (or hob) f. When the
saucepan is boiling too radidly and it is wished to make it boil less rapidly, the side of
the saucepan at which the cam c is situated is slightly lifted from the hot plate by the
handle g. The cam or leg c thereby falls by its own weight into the position repre-
sented in Figures 2 and 3 and now acting as a support maintains the greater part of
the bottom of the saucepan c off the hot plate f, the saucepan being supported on the
hot plate only at that part of its bottom edge situated opposite the cam or leg cas
seen in Figures 2 and 3.

page_text: In order to again bring the whole of the bottom of the saucepan on to the hot plate f
it is only necessary to slightly push or slide the saucepan on the hot plate in the
direction indicated by the arrow in Figure 2. The cam or leg c is thereby dislodged
from its supporting position and made to take the position represented in Figure 1 in
which position the whole of the bottom of the saucepan comes into contact with the
hot plate. In this way the checking or regulating of the boiling of the saucepan can
be effected with great ease and certainty.
When it is wished to throw out of use the cam or leg or jointed support c it is lifted
up against the side of the saucepan into the position indicated in dotted lines in
Figure 1 in which position it has no tendency to return to its acting position but
before the cam or leg can be used for checking or regulating the boiling of the saucepan,
it is necessary to turn it down into the position represented in continuous lines in
Figure 1 so that the lifting of that side of the saucepan carrying the cam or leg causes
it to take its supporting position as before described.
Instead of pivotting the cam or leg or support between two ears the said cam or leg
or support may be pivotted directly to the side of the saucepan and have a side
motion.
This modification is represented in side elevation, out of action, in Figure 5 and in
end elevation in action in Figure 6. In the said figures 5 and 6, h is the cam or leg
or support loosely pivotted at i to the side of the saucepan a so that when the saucepan
is lifted the said cam or leg takes the supporting position Figure 6, the said loosely
pivotted cam or leg being prevented from moving beyond its vertical or supporting
position Figure 6 by the stop k on the side of the saucepan against which the said cam
or leg bears. The action of this modification is the same as that of the principal
arrangement herein first described. The cam or leg or support h may. be thrown out
of action by turning it upon its pin or pivot i until it overhangs and rests upon the
stop k.
In addition to saucepans our invention may be applied to all vessels or cooking
utensils which are usually supported on hot plates or hobs such for example as pots and
kettles and stew pans.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention and
the manner in which it is to be performed we declare that we claim as our invention
of "An improved means of checking or regulating the boiling of saucepans or other
cooking utensils."
The combination with the saucepan pot kettle or other cooking utensil of a loosely
pivotted cam or leg or support so constructed and arranged with respect to the bottom
of the saucepan or vessel that the lifting of the saucepan or vessel at the cam side
causes the said cam to fall and support the greater part of the said bottom off the hot
plate or hob, the pushing back or sliding of the saucepan or vessel on the hot plate or
hob in the way described causing the cam or support to assume a nearly horizontal
position and the bottom of the saucepan or vessel to fall on to the hot plate or hob
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.