IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE METHOD OF ROASTING MEAT, POULTRY, GAME, BY BASTING THE SAME, AND IN THE METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE NECESSARY APPARATUS FOR SO DOING
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Isaac Ketchum, of 59, Canning Street, Liverpool,
in the County of Lancaster, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE METHOD OF ROASTING MEAT, POULTRY, GAME, BY BASTING THE
SAME, AND IN THE METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE NECESSARY APPARATUS FOR
SO DOING
"
Sealed the 21st April 1859, and dated the 18th December 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Isaac Ketchum at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 18th
December 1858.
I, ISAAC KETCHUM, of 59, Canning Street, Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHOD OF ROASTING MEAT, POULTRY, GAME, BY
BASTING THE SAME, AND IN THE METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE NECESSARY
APPARATUS FOR SO DOING," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the constructing of an apparatus consisting
of a perforated vessel, which is to be suspended below a bottle jack or any
other roasting contrivance by hook or spindle, which hook or spindle shall
project above the said vessel, so that it may hang steady, and the vessel being
supplied with fat, grease, or dripping, it shall pass through the perforations.
& fall upon the roast; the said vessel to be made, stamped, pressed, or
otherwise formed from any metal, such metal may be coated by any other
metal, glass, or any other substance or the said vessel may be made or formed
in earthenware or any other like material.
The Invention also includes an arrangement for forcing or throwing fat,
grease, or dripping, or other such material from a lower level into the
aforesaid vessel by a contrivance which I thus describe, to consist of a metal

page_text: or earthenware cylinder or receiver placed near or below a dripping pan, and
filled with valves on a spring, which cylinder shall receive fat, grease, or
dripping from the pan, & by the action of the valves and spring shall throw
the same through a pipe to the said vessel.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Isaac Ketchum in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th June 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ISAAC
KETCHUM, of 59, Canning Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Isaac Ketchum, Her special licence that I, the said Isaac
Ketchum, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Isaac Ketchum, executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE METHOD OF ROASTING MEAT, POULTRY, GAME, BY BASTING THE SAME, AND IN
THE METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE NECESSARY APPARATUS FOR SO DOING," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Isaac Ketchum, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Isaac Ketchum, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings (that is
to say):-
My Invention of improvements for basting the meat, poultry, and game
while roasting consists of a perforated vessel, which is to be below the bottle-

page_text: eye, or spindle shall project above the said vessel so that it may hang steady,
and the vessel being supplied with fat, grease, or dripping, will pass through
the perforations and fall upon the roast; the said vessel may be stamped,
pressed, or otherwise formed from any metal, such metal may be coated by
any other metal, glass, or any other substance, or the said vessel may be made
of earthenware or any like material.
The Invention also includes an arrangement for raising the fat, grease,
dripping, or other such material from a lower level into the aforesaid
described baster.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 represents the vessel, although it may be made in any other form,
design, or size; the vessel or cup can be formed of tin, iron, or any other
suitable material. The bottom of such vessel or cup is perforated with
holes of suitable size, and is provided with an eye or hook A, by which it is
hung or attached to a bottle-jack or dangle of any kind; it is also provided
with an eye or hook B, attached to the bottom of the vessel or cup on which
the meat, poultry, or game is hung for roasting.
Fig. 2 represents the mode of supplying the vessel or cup with fat, grease,
or dripping; C is a cylinder formed of metal or any other suitable material,
which is attached to any dripping pan or hastener, and so arranged that fat or
dripping shall pass from the dripping pan at D into the cylinder; E is the
piston, which is pressed on the fluid by means of a spring which forces the
fat or dripping into the vessel above, or the same result may be obtained
by having a small forcing pump, either double or single action, where the cook
may pump when necessary.
Having described the nature of my Invention, and the mode of its con-
struction, I would have it understood that I claim the arrangement or mode
of basting the meat, poultry, and game while roasting as described, and the
manufacture of the vessels necessary.
In witness whereof, I, the said Isaac Ketchum, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
ISAAC KETCHUM.
(L.S.)