Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, "11th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 11th July, 1895-Accepted, 31st Aug., 1895
I, ALFRED ERNEST DINSMORE, of 22 Marsden Street, Liverpool, in the
County of Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
:-
This invention has reference to a hand appliance used for toasting bread and
other edibles which are or may be cooked or treated by toasting before a fire or
hot body.
According to this invention-assuming it is to be applied to the toasting of
bread-the bread is held between grippers, and such grippers are adapted to be
moved and to grip and hold, and release, the bread, from the handle of the
appliance, so rendering it unnecessary to touch the parts at the head of the
appliance, which, by the use of the appliance before a fire, will be hot.
The gripping or holding portious of the appliance at the head is reversible, so
that the article or thing being toasted can be reversed and both sides toasted by
merely turning the appliance round by the handle, or swinging over the said head
gripping parts.
In one form of appliance according to my invention, possessing the characteristics
or features above specified, the grippers may consist of simple prongs or fingers
in or on levers (or a lever), or a toggle arrangement after the manner of a link
of a lazy-tongs; and these are operated by the handle by making it of, or providing
it with, arms, bars, or the like, such as spring arms or bars, connected with the
ends (or one end) of the lever device or toggle arrangement, such arms, bars, or
the like being moved to and fro as and when required, by pressure exerted by the
hand applied to them, or to parts connected with them, whereby the grippers would
be moved off and onto the article which is to be toasted.
Dated this 10th day of October 1894.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON, Fels. Chart. Inst. P.A.,
15 Water Street, Liverpool, Applicant's Patent Agents.
ALFRED ERNEST DINSMORE 22 Marsden Street, Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster Engineer 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 has reference to a hand appliance used for toasting bread and
other edibles which are or may be cooked or treated by toasting before a fire or
hot body.
According to this invention-assuming it is to be applied to the toasting of
bread-the bread is held between grippers, and such grippers are adapted to be
moved and to grip and hold, and release the bread, from the handle of the appliance,
so rendering it unnecessary to touch the parts at the head of the appliance, which,
by the use of the appliance before a fire, will be hot.

page_text: The gripping or holding portions of the appliance at the head is reversible, so
that the article or thing being toasted can be reversed and both sides toasted by
merely turning the appliance round by the handle, or swinging over the said head
gripping parts.
In one form of appliance according to my invention, possessing the characteristics
or features above specified, the grippers may consist of simple prongs or fingers in
or on levers (or a lever), or a toggle arrangement after the manner of a link of a
lazy-tongs; and these are operated by the handle by making it of, or providing it
with arms, bars, or the like, such as spring arms or bars, connected with the ends
(or one end) of the lever device or toggle arrangement, such arins, bars, or the
like being moved to and fro as and when required, by pressure exerted by the
hand applied to them, or to parts connected with them, whereby the grippers would
be moved off and on to the article which is to be toasted.
'Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawing shows the form of my toaster
which I propose to employ. S S is a handle made of spring metal in the form of
a U upon the end of each limb of which is a shoe A and B pivoted at p p so as to
be free to turn (Figure 2) each shoe is provided with 2 holes CD through which
pass links or arms E E, F F which are joined together at G so that they can open
and close scissor fashion. Extensions or fingers H, H, of these arms are bent at
right angles all in the same direction. The action of this device is as follows when
a piece of bread is required to be toasted the limbs of the U spring are compressed
together which by means of the shoes A and B operate on the arms E and F so as
to open them when the bread is inserted between the extensions or fingers H, H,
the spring handle being then released whereby pressure is brought onto the shoes
which consequently slide along the arms E and F and cause them to grip the bread.
When the bread has to be turned the spring handle is turned over in such a way as
to make the weight of the bread turn the apparatus on the pivots p p and present
the other side of the bread to the heat.
Having now described the nature of this invention and in what manner the same
acts declare that what I claim is :
1st. A lever contrivance operated by levers or shoes by means of a spring or
lever handle and having a swivel arrangement so that the lever contrivance can
turn on the handle substantially as described.
2nd. The form and construction of scissor form of lever action with fingers and
sliding shoes with swivels attached to a spring handle as described and shown in
Figures 1 and 2.
D
1805
J. D. F. ANDREWS,
Agent for the Applicant.