An Improved Utensil for Boiling and Straining Milk, Cream, and similar Frothy Liquids.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Sept., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 24th Apr., 1891-Accepted, 30th May, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Utensil for Boiling and Straining Milk, Cream, and
similar Frothy Liquids.
I, MARY CLOSE, of Conington Rectory, St. Ives, in the County of Huntington,
Gentlewoman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved utensil for boiling or cooking milk, cream,
and similar frothy liquids, from which the contents can be strained off when
sufficiently cooked.
The improved utensil is made of block tin or of iron enamelled on the inside, or of
earthenware, or other suitable material, and is provided with three or more feet and
with a suitable handle or handles. On or adjacent to the top bead or rim I affix or
form a perforated ledge or strainer. The utensil is stood upon its feet in an outer
vessel containing water and is thus heated. When the contents are sufficiently
cooked they are poured off through the perforations in the ledge and are thereby
strained.
Dated this 13th day of Sontombor 1000
CASTLE SMITH,
Per F. W. Golby,
Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant."
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Utensil for Boiling and Straining Milk, Cream, and
similar Frothy Liquids.
I, MARY CLOSE, of Connington Rectory, St. Ives, in the County of Huntington,
Gentlewoman, 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 an improved utensil for boiling or cooking milk, cream,
and similar frothy liquids from which the contents can be strained off when
sufficiently cooked.
The improved utensil is made of block tin, or of iron enamelled on the inside, or
of other suitable material, and is provided with three or more feet, and with
a suitable handle or handles. On, or adjacent to, the top bead or rim, I affix or
form a perforated ledge or strainer.
The utensil is stood upon its feet into an outer vessel containing water and is
thus heated. When the contents are sufficiently cooked, they are poured off
through the perforations in the ledge, and are thereby strained.
In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 shews a perspective view, and Figure 2
a vertical section of my invention.
The body A of the utensil is made of any suitable size and shape and is
preferably formed or provided with a small spout or lip C above which the
perforated ledge or strainer B is fixed or secured to or formed upon the top of the
utensil, of which it forms a partial cover. The shape or configuration of the per-
forated strainer B and the size of the perforations therein may be made to suit the
liquid which it is intended to boil and strain in the utensil. The strainer is
preferably arched or dome-shaped as shewn in Figure 2, as this shape will offer a

page_text: larger straining area than if it were flat on the top, and it will also admit of a
comparatively small sized lip or spout C being used; this is of some importance in
an utensil which is intended to be stood in an outer vessel. The utensil stands in the
outer vessel on three or more feet. D so that the water in the outer vessel can
freely circulate under the bottom of the utensil and thus ensure that the milk,
cream, or other similar liquid contents are not unduly heated at the bottom by
contact between the bottom of the utensil and the bottom of the vessel in which it
is placed. A handle or handles E is or are provided by which the utensil may be
lifted from the outer vessel when the contents are sufficiently cooked, the button F
being furnished for the purpose of tilting the utensil when straining off the liquid
contents. I wish it to be understood however that I do not confine myself to this
or any other form of handle, or of means for tilting the utensil during the process
of straining, as these, and the position they occupy, may obviously be varied
without departing from the nature of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
My improved utensil for boiling and straining milk, cream, and similar frothy
liquids, constructed substantially in the manner described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 24th der of Aumil 1001
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention " Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.