A HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL MOVING ROASTER
Year: 1812

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOUN
ASHLEY, of Homerton, in the Parish of Saint Jolin, Hackney, in the County
of Middlesex, Plumber, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fifteenth day of April,
in the fifty-second year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said John
Ashley, my exors, adññors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said John Ashley, my exors, adñiors,
and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of years therein
mentioned, make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL
MOVING ROASTER;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
that if I, the said John Ashley, shall not particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause
the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
two calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages
whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void,
as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at
large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Ashley, do hereby declare that my said Invention is composed and made
in the manner following, that is to say :-
The merits of my said Invention in nowise depend on any peculiar metal of
which my said horizontal and vertical moving roaster may be made, but
their essential properties and utility depend on the construction of a frame,
made of iron or other hard metal, in form either angular or circular, having
two spindles, which are turned in a vertical direction, by the power of a smoke
pully or spring jack, communicated by a chain or spring to the spindle wheel,
the said frame having a hand or index, with four fingers or points fixed on a
pin or shank, movable in a hole or eye in the frame. One end of the spindle or
axis turns and bears on the bottom part of a stay, the said stay being placed on
a rack. The hand in its course with the frame meets the upper end of thestay,
and turns in a horizontal direction every time the frame makes its rotative
circle, and the fingers passing the stay are stayed one at a time by a spring
catch moving on a pin attached to the frame, whereby a spit, or cradle or
spit in an inner frame, placed to the said hand or index, is prevented from
moving irregular or retrograde. The opposite part of the spit, cradle, or inner
frame turns on a point or pivot in the outer frame opposite the hand. The
spit in the inner frame is placed lengthways, by the blade point entering one
side of the frame, and the handle or hilt end of the spit is fastened to the
other side of the said frame by a screw pin, so as to be put on or off when
wanted; or a spit may be put to the moveable hand, to turn in the outer
frame, without the inner frame, the blade end entering the pin or shank of
the moveable hand, and the opposite or handle end of the spit turning in the
opposite part of the outer frame on a point or pivot turning in a screw socket,
so as the spit may be put on or off when wanted, by screwing or unscrewing
the screw socket, by which means flesh or fowl, placed either in a cradle, or
on a spit in the inner frame, or on a spit in the outer frame, the external
parts thereof alternately facing the fire in its horizontal and vertical move-
ment, is better and more regular roasted. The size of the said horizontal and
vertical moving roaster may be varied so as to hold a small or large joint
of meat, &c., as may be required, without in the least departing from that
principle on which their superior utility depends.
The Drawings annexed to these Presents, together with the demonstrations
or description herewith given, will plainly shew the true nature and disposition
of the several parts of this my said Invention.
Drawing No. 1 represents the external frame and spindles, and and chain
wheel, with the inner frame, spit, stay, and spring catch, aud racks, the same

page_text: as those in common use. A, A, A, A, the frame; B, the right-hand spindle,
which bears against the rack pin; C, the chain wheel; D, the left-hand spindle
which bears on and turns in the bottom part or base of the stay E, and
is kept in its place by a pin at F, which stay is kept stationary in the rack
sufficiently by the weight of the frame, meat, &c. G, G, G, G, the inner
frame, having a pin or shank at H, which extends and moves in the hole or
eye of the external frame, and to which the hand or index I, having four
fingers, is fastened on by a pin or screw, the said inner frame having also a
point or pivot in the opposite part to turn in a socket of the external frame
at K. L, the spit, the point or blade end entering a hole in the spit frame
at M, and is fastened at the opposite part of the frame by a screw pin
at N, and may be put on and off when wanted. The same frame and spit is
turned horizontally one quarter of its revolution every time the external
frame turns in its rotative or circulating direction round its centre, by the
fingers or points of the hand coming in contact with the stay. O, the spring
catch, which hangs on a pin in the external frame at P, having a small spring
at the butt end, sufficient to keep up the catch end to stay the finger or point
off the hand. The said catch being pressed down in passing under the stay,
the finger or point is set free from the catch, and moves on in its horizontal
direction till the next finger or point comes in the catch, and so on each
finger or point of the hand in succession; by which means the meat, &c. that
is put either on the spit or in a cradle is prevented from making an irregular
or retrograde movement.
Drawing No. 2 shews the frame and spindles, chain wheel, stay hand and
spring catch, the same as in the Drawing No. 1; but instead of the inner
frame the spit is put cross ways in the external frame, the point or blade end
entering the pin or shank of the hand or index in the frame at a, and the
opposite or hilt end of the spit turns on a point or pivot in a screw socket
in the opposite part of the frame at b, which spit is put on and taken off
when wanted by screwing or unscrewing the screw socket, and which said
frame is turned in the same way and by the same means as the frames, spit,
and inner frame in the Drawing No. 1.
Drawing No. 3 shews the frame and spindles, chain wheel, stay hand and
spring catch, the same as in Drawing No. 1; but instead of the spit in the
inner frame or the spit in the external frame, as in the Drawings No. 1 aud
No. 2, an inner frame is made and placed in the same manner as that in the
Drawing No. 1, and to turn in the external frame in the same way; but
instead of the spit are two bars put lengthways, one on each side the frame,
and made to extend or to close to hold the meat, &c., by the bars having a-

page_text: hole at each end, to go on a screw pin, which screw pin screws in at each end
or side of the inner frame, and the bars are fastened on the screw pins by a
screw nut, as is done in the common cradle for holding meat, &c., by which
means the inner frame is made a cradle for holding meat, &c. Also, by taking
off the bars and screw pins, a spit may be placed in the same manner in
the said frame as described in the Drawing No. 1, whereby the inner frame
serves as a cradle or to hold a spit, and which said cradle or spit is turned the
same way and by the same means as the frame and spit in the Drawing
No. 1.
Drawing 4 shews the catch and spring.
1 Drawing No. 5 shews the hand or index. But tho' there are three
Drawing, to shew the different ways the horizontal and vertical moving roaster
may be made, I consider the Figure or Drawing No. 1, which is also made
as a cradle as in the Drawing No. 2, to be the horizontal and vertical moving
roaster that will be most generally useful.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Ashley, have hereunto set my.
hand and seal, the Twelfth day of Juue, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twelve.