Improved Toaster.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 3rd July, 1894-Accepted, 4th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Toaster.
I, ROBERT SWAIN, Surveyor of 4 Spring Terrace Bransford Road Worcester
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A cage of wire work or metal open at one end for the insertion of the bread or
other substance to be toasted and having a handle at the other end so that the cage
may be held in front of the fire whilst the person using it can stand at the side of
the fire place and thus experience no inconvenience from the heat. The form of
the cage is illustrated in the drawing forming part of this Specification.
Dated this 19th day of October 1893.
ROBERT SWAIN.
I, ROBERT SWAIN, Surveyor, of 4 Spring Terrace Bransford Road Worcester
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 :-
The invention consists of an improvement upon the ordinary toasting fork, by
the substitution of an open cage, to receive the bread, or other substance, in lieu of
the ordinary prongs.
The cage has an opening at the end opposite the handle, for the insertion of the
bread, and must be so arranged, that the plaue of the cage, and the substance to be
toasted, is in a direction parallel with the line of the handle, so that the person
using the toaster can stand, or sit, at the side of the fire-place, instead of in front
of the fire (as is the case with the ordinary toasting fork) and thus is not
inconvenienced by the heat of the fire, however fierce.
By simply revolving the handle between the fingers, either side, or edge, of the
bread, can be brought under the action of the fire. The substance to be toasted
cau also be held over the top of a clear fire, without fear of its falling off into the
fire, as often happens when an ordinary toasting fork is thus used.
The drawings, left with the Provisional Specification, were intended to give
a general idea of the form of the cage, and its position with regard to the handle.
The drawings, left with this Complete Specification, shew the form the cage would
take, as manufactured of twisted wire work, but it is not necessary that the toaster
should always be constructed exactly in this manner, provided the principles of the
invention are kept.
It may be cast in brass, or other metal, and the patern of the bars forming the
cage, as well as that of the handle, may be varied, in any manner (to taste) so as to
form an ornamental toaster, which could be kept in a dining room, or other
reception room.
The drawings are not drawn to any particular scale, as the size of the cage, and
the length of the handle, as well as the number of the bars, may be varied, to suit
its being used to toast different substances, such as fish, meat &c.

page_text: 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
The substitution of the open cage in lieu of the prongs of the ordinary toasting
fork, in the manner as herein aforesaid described.
Dated this 30th day of June 1894.
ROBERT SWAIN.