An Improved Lid or Cover for Saucepans and other Utensils for Bolling or Cooking Purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Oct., 11894
Complete Specification Left, 17th July, 1895-Accepted, 17th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Lid or Cover for Saucepans and other Utensils for
Bolling or Cooking Purposes.
"ARTHUR LOWE of 8 Abbottsford Road Bristol in the County of Gloucestershire
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
By the
Ap improved lid or cover for saucepans, stewpans, kettles, the lid is so
perforated and has an arrangement so constructed that the perforations can be
opened to large or small sizes so as to permit to a nicety the necessary heat for
the different articles used in the utensil of which the lid covers.
arrangement being wholly in the lid it can be used in any direction governing a
left handed as well as a right handed person. By being enabled to turn in any
direction, the gauge can be turned to the front so that it can be seen by user when
on the fire, or be turned out of the way of the smoke etc. The invention
being wholly in the lid, the lids can be supplied to fit any article at a trifling
cost, by having the guage the largest to the smallest article can be perfectly
strained. The rim of lid is so constructed that one part fits in saucepan resting
on a ledge formed on the rim of the lid, the rim of lid being wider again and
standing up from the aforesaid ledge in this part of rim is cut elongated or other
shaped holes and then a plate with holes cut in to correspond with the holes cut in
the rim of the lid is keyed on to rim so that it works to and fro shutting off or
opening the required distances something similar to the ventilating shutter of a
railway carriage by this means any gauge can be used for cooking or steaming
purposes.
1004
ARTHUR LOWE.
An Improved Lid or Cover for Saucepans and other Utensils for
Boiling or Cooking Purposes.
| Arthur LowE Engineer of 8 Abbottsford Road Bristol in the County of
Gloucestershire 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 :-
The above invention is made and worked in the following manner in the upper
rim of lid or cover marked A in Fig. 1 and A in Fig. 2 there are holes cut out in
same there is also slide marked B and shewn on Fig. 3 with holes cut in to
correspond with the rim. The slide B is worked to and fro by means of the knob
marked C which is fitted on a stud which slides to and fro by working the knob C.
In Fig. 1 the holes are shown open. In Fig. 2 the holes are shown partially
closed. In Fig. 3 a sectional view is shewn shewing the slide and rim edgeways..
The utility of this invention is that any article can be thoroughly strained in any
direction and that the necessary heat can be gauged to a nicety in cooking,
preventing boiling over, allowing to simmer etc. without raising the lid as in the old

page_text: fashioned way Fig. 4 represents end view of sliding plate B with screw marked D
which is fed in slot marked E and fixed in position by button C which will by
screwing up tighten the sliding plate B to any degree of opening.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manuer the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is.
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1stly. The openings in cover marked A. in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2.
2ndly. The sliding plate marked B in Fig. 3 and 4, screw D button C and
slot. E in conjunction with the openings the whole being new and original in the
use of cooking utensil covers.
Dated this Sixteenth day of July 1895.