An Improved Egg-cup and Cooker.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 23rd June, 1894-Accepted, 28th July, 1894
THUYIDIONAL OF MULTICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by WILLIAM RYAN HILL, of 201, Hawley Street,
Syracuse, in the County of Onondaga, in the State of New York, United
States of America, Civil Engineer.]
An Improved Egg-cup and Cooker.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the class of egg-cookers in which the cooker proper
consists of a cup which is approximately egg-shaped internally and in which the
egg divested of its shell is deposited and enclosed during the process of cooking
the same therein.
The object of this present invention is to provide a cup approximately egg-shaped
internally in which to cook the egg as aforesaid, and which cup, shall be incapable
of tainting the egg or in anywise affecting the color or flavor thereof and shall
also be self supporting in an upright position and thus suitable to be served on the
table.
And to that end the invention consists of a cup formed approximately egg-
shaped internally as aforesaid, composed of vitrified material and formed with a
supporting base or foot sustaining the cup in its upright position, a metallic band
permanently attached to the exterior of the top portion of the cup, and a cover
detachably applied to said band as hereinafter more fully described.
In the manufacture of my improved egg-cup and cooker, I find that the cups
proper vary in circumference owing to the different degrees of shrinkages in the
process of drying and vitrifying the same, and this variation of sizes has rendered
it very difficult to properly fit thereto the metallic covers which are of a uniform
size. To overcome this difficulty, I employ a metallic ring or band which is fitted
closely to the interior of a flange formed on the cover and is permanently secured
to the exterior of the top portion of the cup, preferably by forming the latter with
a circumferential rabbet which is sufficiently smaller in circumference than the
band to allow said band to be easily slipped onto the rabbeted portion of the cup
and to be fastened thereto by means of plaster of Paris or other suitable cement
interposed between them.
The shoulder at the bottom of the rabbet serves to retain the plaster between
the aforesaid parts in the operation of applying the band to the cup.
In order to cause the plaster or cement to obtain a firm hold on the cup, I roughen
the rabbeted portion thereof or form it with circumferential grooves into which the
plaster or cement is pressed in applying the band. The top edge of the band; I
bend inward and onto the top edge of the cup to obtain a uniform metallic top
bearing for the cover.
For connecting the cover to the band detachably and at the same time water-
tight, I prefer to form the band and the embracing flange of the cover with screw-
threads to allow the cover to be screwed onto the band.
After
To cook the egg, it is removed from the shell and if found perfectly sound, it is
deposited in the cup, then the cover is screwed tightly onto the band and the cup
is placed into a kettle or other suitable vessel containing the boiling water.
the egg is cooked as desired, the cup is removed from the aforesaid vessel and
served on the table, where the cover is removed and the egg eaten from the cup.
For conveniently removing the cup from the kettle, I provide suitable tongs

page_text: preferably of wire, which tongs are formed with loops affording a convenient and
safe hold on the cup to allow a person to lift it out of the kettle.
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Dated this 22nd day of February 1894.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Egg-cup and Cooker.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex, 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:―
This invention relates to the class of egg-cookers in which the cooker proper
consists of a cup which is approximately egg-shaped internally and in which the
egg divested of its shell is deposited and enclosed during the process of cooking the
same therein.
The object of this present invention is to provide a cup approximately egg-
shaped internally in which to cook the egg as aforesaid, and which cup shall be
incapable of tainting the egg or in anywise affecting the color or flavor thereof
and shall also be self supporting in an upright position and thus suitable to be
served on the table.
And to that end the invention consists of a cup formed approximately egg-
shaped internally as aforesaid composed of vitrified material and formed with a
supporting base or foot sustaining the cup in its upright position, a metallic band
permanently attached to the exterior of the top portion of the cup, and a cover
detachably applied to said band as hereinafter more fully described and specifically
set forth in the claims.
In the annexed drawings
Fig. 1 is a vertical transverse section of an egg cup and cooker embodying my
invention,
Fig. 2 is a horizontal transverse section on line X-X in Fig. 1 and
Fig. 3 illustrates one of the means by which to introduce and remove the cup
into and from the kettle or vessel containing the boiling water.
a represents the cup which is approximately egg-shaped internally and which I
form of suitable vitrified material, preferably of china or porcelain and with a
suitable supporting base or foot c to render it self sustaining in an upright position,
and thus permit it to be served on the table.
The cup formed of the aforesaid material, is incapable of affecting either the
taste or color of the egg cooked therein.
d denotes the cover by which to close the cup during the process of cooking the
egg. This cover is preferably formed with a circumferential flange d' by which it
embraces the top portion of the cup.
:
In the manufacture of my improved egg-cup and cooker, I find that the cups
proper vary in circumference owing to the different degrees of shrinkages in the
process of drying and vitrifying the same, and this variation of sizes has rendered
it very difficult to properly fit thereto the metallic covers d which are of a uniform
size.
To overcome this difficulty, I employ the metallic ring or band b which is fitted
closely to the interior of the flange d and is permanently secured to the exterior
of the top portion of the cup, preferably by forming the latter with a circum-
ferential rabbet e which is sufficiently smaller in circumference than the band 6 to
allow said band to be easily slipped onto the rabbeted portion of the cup and to be

page_text: fastened thereto by means of plaster of Paris or other suitable cement interposed.
between them as indicated at in Fig. 1 of the drawings..
The shoulder at the bottom of the rabbet e serves to retain the plaster between
the aforesaid parts in the operation of applying the band to the cup.
In order to cause the plaster or cement to obtain a firm hold on the cup, I roughen
the rabbeted portion thereof or form it with circumferential grooves o into which
the plaster or cement is pressed in applying the band. The top edge b¹ of the
band b I bend inward and onto the top edge of the cup to obtain a uniform metallic
top bearing for the cover d.
For connecting the cover to the band detachably and at the same time water-
tight, I prefer to form the band and the embracing flange of the cover with screw-
threads to allow the cover to be screwed onto the band.
To cook the egg, it is removed from the shell and if found perfectly sound, it is
deposited in the cup a, then the cover d is screwed tightly onto the band band.
the cup is placed into a kettle or other suitable vessel containing the boiling
water.
After the egg is cooked as desired, the cup is removed from the aforesaid vessel
and served on the table, where the cover is removed and the egg eaten from
the cup.
For conveniently removing the cup from the kettle, I provide suitable tongs t
preferably of wire, which tongs are formed with loops t' affording a convenient and
safe hold on the cup to allow a person to lift it out of the kettle as illustrated in
Fig. 3 of the drawings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The improved egg-cup and cooker consisting of the cup a composed of
vitrified material and formed with the supporting base or foot c for sustaining the
cup
in an upright position, and the cover d detachably secured to said cup.
substantially as set forth.
2. The within described egg-cup and cooker consisting of the cup a composed of
vitrified material approximately egg-shaped internally for receiving the egg divested
of its shell, and formed with the supporting base c and with the circumferential.
rabbet e around the exterior of its top portion, the metallic band b cemented in said
rabbet and having its top edge bent inward onto the top edge of the cup, and the
metallic cover d formed with the circunferential flange d' embracing the band
substantially as described and shown.
'3. In combination with a vessel for containing boiling water, a cup of
approximately egg shape internally for receiving the egg divested of its shell and
formed with a supporting base, a cover removably secured to the cup, and tongs for
carrying the cup into and out of the aforesaid vessel as set forth.
Dated this 23rd day of June 1894.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.