Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Sept., 1886.
Complete Left, 30th June, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 16th Aug., 1887.
RESERV
I THOMAS JAMES, of Prospect House, Dillwyn Street, Morriston, in the Borough of
Swansea, in the County of Glamorganshire, South Wales, Foundry Manager, do
hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:
The object of my invention is to manufacture improved appliances or apparatus for
broiling, frying, toasting, boiling, stewing, and analogous operations.
In carrying out my invention, I construct a moveable bracket, which may be
readily attached to the upper bar or bars of an ordinary range or other stove. This
bracket is fitted with an adjustable jaw, having a set screw, for adjusting the same to
the thickness of the bar or bars, and securing the same in position. The bracket
carries a rack, formed with a serrated slot, in which slot any of the utensils, or their
supports, may be fitted as required, at various distances from the fire.
In some cases the rack is placed in a vertical position, and in others in a horizontal
position.
Common gridirons with single sets of bars, may be made to fit the rack, and may
be used therewith; but I prefer to use my improved form of gridiron, consisting of a
double set of bars, between which the steak, or other article to be cooked, is securely
held. By simply reversing the gridiron, without removing it from the fire, the
article is turned, without the trouble attending the use of the ordinary gridiron.
At or near the junction of the handle with the gridiron, frying pan, or other article
to be supported by, or attached to the rack, the metal is sufficiently broad to fit into
one pair of recesses or grooves formed in the rack for that purpose; so that, when so
placed, it is securely held in the required position.
For the purpose of broiling, the rack is placed in a vertical position, and the
gridiron in a horizontal position, as usual; and the gridiron can be raised or lowered
to the full extent of the rack. A frying pan may be fixed and used in a like manner;
or a sauce pan, stew-pan, or other utensil may be placed upon the gridiron, at a
suitable height above the fire; or a suitable form of support may be made to fit the
rack and sustain such articles.

page_text: For toasting and analogous operations in front of the fire, the rack is placed in a
horizontal position, and the appliances to be used therewith in a vertical position;
such appliances being formed with double sets of bars to retain the articles and enable
the same to be turned and adjusted in a similar manner to that of the gridiron herein
before mentioned.
Other appliances may be used in connection with the adjustable rack and bracket
or clip herein before described.

page_text: I, THOMAS JAMES, of Prospect House, Dillwyn Street, Morriston, in the Borough
of Swansea, in the County of Glamorganshire, South Wales, Foundry Manager, do
hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
The object of my invention is to manufacture improved appliances or apparatus for
broiling, frying, toasting, boiling, stewing, and analogous operations.
In carrying out my invention, I construct a moveable bracket, which may be
readily attached to the upper bar or bars of an ordinary range or other stove. This
bracket is fitted with an adjustable jaw, having a set screw, for adjusting the same to
the thickness of the bar or bars, and securing the same in position. The bracket
carries a rack, formed with serrated slots, in which slots any of the utensils, or their
supports may be fitted as required, at various distances from the fire.
In some cases the rack is placed in a vertical position, and in others in a horizontal
position.
Common gridirons with single sets of bars may be made to fit the rack, and may
be used therewith; but I prefer to use my improved form of gridiron, consisting of
a double set of U or channel bars, between which the steak, or other article to be
cooked, is securely held. By simply reversing the gridiron, without removing it
from the fire, the article is turned, without the trouble attending the use of the
ordinary gridiron.
At or near the junction of the handle with the gridiron, frying pan, or other article
to be supported by, or attached to the rack, the metal is sufficiently broad to fit into
one pair of recesses or grooves formed in the rack for that purpose; so that, when so
placed, it is securely held in the required position.
For the purpose of broiling, the rack is placed in a vertical position, and the
gridiron in a horizontal position, as usual; and the gridiron can be raised or lowered
to the full extent of the rack. A frying pan may be fixed and used in a like manner;
or a sauce-pan, stew-pan, or other utensil may be placed upon the gridiron, at a
suitable height above the fire, or a suitable form of support may be made to fit the
rack and sustain such articles.
For toasting and analogous operations in front of the fire, the rack may be placed
in a horizontal position, and the appliances to be used therewith in a vertical position;
such appliances being formed with double sets of bars or bent bars, or analogous
appliances, to retain the articles and enable the same to be turned and adjusted in a
similar manner to that of the gridiron herein before mentioned.
Other appliances may be used in connection with the adjustable rack and bracket or
clip herein before described.

page_text: And in order that my said invention may be particularly described and ascertained,
reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of
reference indicate corresponding parts.
a a are the
Fig. 1 is a front elevation and Fig. 2 a side elevation of the bracket.
uprights, formed with serrations a¹ a¹, shoulders bb, bar e, and fixed jaw d. The
uprights a, shoulders b, fixed jaw d and bar c, are all forged, cast, or otherwise united.
The adjustable jaw e is made to fit the bar c, and to be fixed in any position thereon
by the set screw e¹. The bracket is fixed to the bars ff of the grate, with the aid of
the set screw el, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2; the shoulders bb resting upon the top
bar, and serving to support it in a perpendicular position.
All articles intended to be supported by the bracket or appliances to support such
articles, are made to fit into the serrations a¹ a¹, as shown by the parts marked
the drawings.
9.9 in
It is obvious that the serrations a' a' may be very much varied in form and number.
Figs. 3, 4, 5 and 6 shew my improved form of gridiron. Fig. 3 is a plan, Fig. 4
a transverse section, on the line wox of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a view of the reservoir h,
for receiving and collecting the gravy; and Fig. 6 is a view (partly in section) on
the line y z of Figs. 3 and 4.
The form of the reservoir is shewn in the drawings. m m are bosses formed in
the casting h, in which the wrought iron U or channel formed bars k are embedded
and united to the reservoir h. The steak or other article to be cooked is placed
between the channel bars kk, and the set of channel bars which happens to be
underneath, catch the gravy and carry it to the reservoir h, from which it may be
poured out through the spout i provided for that purpose. n is the handle for holding
the gridiron.
Figs. 7, 8 and 9 shew an improved attachment, for use with the bracket, for toasting
articles in front of the fire. n is the handle, to which the forked wire o is fixed, the
ends gg being formed to engage in the serrations a¹, or other rack of the bracket.
p is a ring and q is a disc for sustaining the rod and the bars s s. tt are vertical
wires bent as shewn in Fig. 9, and soldered to the gravy dish U.
Fig. 10 shews the form of handle attached to a frying pan, for use with the improved
bracket.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The manufacture and use of the movable brackets a b c d, fitted with the
adjustable jaw e, and having serrations or equivalent racks a' a', for sustaining
articles, utensils and appliances for cooking, substantially as and for the purposes
herein before described and shewn on the drawings.
2. The manufacture and use of the improved reversible gridirons, having double
sets of or channel bars, reservoirs or receivers h h and spout i, substantially
as and for the purposes herein before described and shewn on the drawings.
3. In combination with the improved bracket, the several appliances for toasting,
frying and cooking herein before described and shewn in Figs. 7, 8, 9 and 10
of the drawings.
4. The general construction, arrangement and combination of the several and
respective parts, together forming my improvements in appliances for cooking,
substantially as herein before described and shewn on the drawings.
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