Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Jan., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 23rd Nov., 1888
GEORGE BEAL 20 Langdale Street Bootle Liverpool Ironmonger I do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Perforations in rim of lid of saucepan, and by raising lid and turning slightly round
it becomes locked enabling the saucepan to be tilted by the handle and draining off
the contents through the perforations in the rim of the lid without having to touch
the lid.
By keeping the lid raised as described, it allows the steam to escape from the
saucepan this being a great advantage in cooking.

page_text: Improvements in Saucepan Lids.
1 GEORGE BEAL of 20 Langdale Street, Bootle, in the County of Lancaster,
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 :-
According to this Invention I provide apertures in the rim of the lid of a saucepan
and so arranging it that by raising the lid slightly and turning it partly round, it
becomes locked in the raised position and so exposes the apertures in the rim. Then
by tilting the saucepan by means of the handle, the water or other liquid contents
can be poured off through the apertures and without the necessity of again touching
the lid or holding it after it has been set as above specified.
By keeping the lid raised wholly or partially as described all steam or other
vapours given off from the contents of a saucepan are allowed to escape.
In the drawings which serve to illustrate my Invention Figure I is an elevation
of a saucepan, showing the lid in a raised position; Figure 2 is a plan in section,
through the line X X Figure 1, and Figure 3 is an elevation in detail of a part of
the rim of the lid.
With reference to the drawings A designates the saucepan ; B the lid, and C the
handle. d is the rim of the lid B, e are the apertures in the said rim, f are channels
or grooves formed in the rim d, and h are studs or projections formed on or connected
with the interior of the saucepan and adapted to slide in the said channels f.
Each Channel which is by preference stamped or embossed in the rim as shown
it will be seen, is constituted into three portions, one of the vertical part by which
the lid may be put on or taken off the saucepan, another, the inclined part by which
through turning the lid one way or the other, the lid may be raised or lowered
wholly or partially, and the third the horizontal part by which when a stud / lies
within it, the lid is supported in its fully raised position and the apertures e fully
exposed.
To place the lid in the saucepan mouth, the vertical part of the channels fare
first brought over the studs h, and then the lid is lowered; then to set the lid in its
raised position so as to allow the escape of steam or other vapour through the
apertures e the lid is turned round in which action the studs sliding in the channels f
press the lid upwards until they arrive in the horizontal portions at the end of the
channels, where the action is completed and the lid will remain in this position.
By the reverse movements of the lid it of course can either be lowered and the
saucepan shut or it can be taken off.
The channels are so placed relatively to the handles that when it is required to pour
off liquid from the saucepan there shall be a free and full number and area of apertures
at the point at which the liquid would flow out.

page_text: The converse arrangement of the above described construction of lid would consist
in forming the channel fin the saucepan and providing the studs on the lower edge
of the rim d, the channels would in this case be inverted the bend being at the
lowest point and the horizontal portion at the highest, as shown in dotted lines and
marked in Figure 1.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would state in
conclusion that I do not intend to limit the scope of my Patent to the precise
construction and arrangement of parts as these may be varied or modified to suit
various or other conditions of the application of my Invention without departing from
the substance of the Invention, but what I claim is :-
1. A saucepan lid provided with apertures arranged to be covered or uncovered by
the saucepan of said lid for the purposes specified and a channel or channels or their
equivalent formed in or on the said lid and adapted to slide over or upon studs,
projections or their equivalent on the saucepan to which the said lid is applied
operating in or substantially in the manner and for the purposes set forth.
2. A saucepan lid wherein there is provided a number of apertures, arranged to be
covered and uncovered for the purposes specified, and means arranged to operate in
connection with the saucepan by which said lid may be raised and supported in a
raised position to uncover the said apertures, or lowered to close same.
3. The saucepan lid herein set forth with reference to the drawings having
apertures e in the rim d thereof and the channels f adapted to fit over and slide upon
studs in the saucepan to which said lid is applied, said channels consisting of vertical,
inclined and horizontal portions.
Ill. ot 1
1000