Improvements relating to Dutch Ovens, Cooking Tins, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left. 21st July, 1893 -Accepted, 26th Aug., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Dutch Ovens, Cooking Tins, and the like.
We, TITUS COMBE the Younger of Highgate Brush Works, Emily Street,
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Brush Manufacturer, and WILLIAM
FREDRICK BRADBURY, of 35 Cox Street West, Balsall Heath, in the County
of Worcester, Tin Plate Worker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
Our invention relates as hereinafter described to improvements relating to dutch
ovens, cooking tins, and the like and consists essentially in combining with a dutch
oven, a cooking tin, or other like cooking utensils, an arrangement whereby the
aforesaid article may be tilted or placed in an oblique or other desired position upon
a trivet or other appliance for cooking purposes.
It furthermore consists in providing means for turning the hooks in a dutch oven
to any desired position.
By our invention we are enabled to make a dutch oven without opening at the
back or sides, thus preventing the escape of heat.
In carrying our invention into effect we provide a wire loop or frame a little
longer than the length of the dutch oven, to which it is to be applied, and in width
equal to the degree in which it is intended to tilt the dutch oven. The two ends
of the wire loop we bend at right angles to fit in holes formed at each end near the
corner of the dutch oven, thus forming a frame upon which the dutch oven may
rest in a tilted or oblique position.
In order to retain it in the aforesaid position or to vary the inclination thereof
we provide on one side of the dutch oven, one, two, or more hooks (or cther suitable
stops) into which the side of the wire frame engages.
The frame having a lateral movement caused by its being made longer than the
dutch oven as previously mentioned, enables the said frame to be drawn forward
over the extremities of the aforesaid hooks or pegs and of being moved backwards
to engage in the hook stops.
When the dutch oven is not required to be tilted, the said frame may be turned
over from the bottom to the back part of the dutch oven thus placing it entirely
out of the way and allowing the dutch oven to stand flat upon its bottom.
We don't confine ourselves to the use of a wire frame, we may make a frame for
the same purpose, of a strip of tin or other suitable metal and connect it to the sides
of the dutch oven by rivets or pegs forming a hinge joint.
We may apply our said invention to cooking tins or utensils in a similar manner
as hereinbefore described in connection with a dutch oven and to any of the existing
shapes or patterns.
We effect the turning round of the hooks by providing inside the dutch oven and
on the top thereof two or more depending tubes in which the tang or stem of the
hook is free to rotate.
We furnish the upper ends of the said tangs or stems, that is the ends which
project outside or above the top with a terminal knob by which the said hooks may
be turned in any desired direction.
Dated this 21st day of October 1892.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Dutch Ovens, Cooking Tins, and the like.
We, TITUS COMBE, the Younger, of Highgate Brush Works, Emily Street,
Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Brush Manufacturer, and WILLIAM
FREDRICK BRADBURY, of 35 Cox Street West, Balsall Heath, in the County of
Worcester, Tin Plate Worker, 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 :-
Our invention relates as hereinafter described to improvements relating to dutch
ovens, cooking tins and the like, and consists essentially in combining with a dutch
oven, cooking tin, or other like cooking utensils, an arrangement whereby the
aforesaid article may be tilted or placed in an oblique or other desired position, upon
a trivet or other appliance for cooking purposes.
It furthermore consists in providing means for turning round the hooks in a
dutch oven to any desired position.
By our invention we are enabled to make a dutch oven without opening at the
back or sides, thus preventing the escape of heat.
In carrying our invention into effect we provide a wire loop or frame, a little
longer than the length of the dutch oven to which it is to be applied, and in width
equal to the degree in which it is intended to tilt the dutch oven. The two ends
of the wire loop we bend at right angles to fit in holes formed at each end near
the corner of the dutch oven, thus forming a frame upon which the dutch oven may
rest in a tilted or oblique position.
In order to retain it in the aforesaid position, or to vary the inclination thereof
we provide on one side of the dutch oven, one two or more hooks (or other suitable
stops) in which the wire frame engages.
The frame having a lateral movement caused by its being made longer than the
dutch oven as previously mentioned enables the said frame to be drawn forward
over the extremities of the aforesaid hooks or pegs, and to be moved backwards
to engage with the hook stops.
When the dutch oven is not required to be tilted, the said frame may be turned
over from the bottom to the back part of the dutch oven, thus placing it entirely
out of the way and allowing the dutch oven to stand flat upon its bottom.
We do not confine ourselves to the use of a wire frame, we may make a frame
for the same purpose of a strip of tin or other suitable metal and connect it to the
sides of the dutch oven by rivets or pegs forming a hinge joint.
We may apply our said invention to cooking tins or utensils in a similar manner
as herein before described in connection with a dutch oven and to any of the
existing shapes or patterns.
We effect the turning round of the hooks by providing inside, the dutch oven and
on the top thereof, two or more depending tubes in which the tang or stem of the
hook is free to rotate. We furnish the upper ends of the said tangs or stems, that
is the ends which project outside or above the top with a terminal knob or ring
by which the said hooks may be turned in any desired direction.
We will describe our invention with reference to the accompanying drawings, the
same letters of reference indicating similar parts throughout.
Figures 1, 2 and 3, are end elevations, Figure 4, a plan and Figure 5, a front
elevation of a dutch oven constructed in accordance with our invention.
A is the dutch oven, B is a wire. loop or frame (which may be made from a
strip of tin or other metal) C. C are the bent ends of the frame forming pivots
and pivoted to each side of the dutch oven. D and E are hooks or stops into
which the side of the frame engages.
F, F, are hooks working freely in the depending tubes G, G, attached or forming
part of the top of the dutch oven.

page_text: In Figures 1 and 5, the frame B is shown, turned over the handle of the dutch
oven A, allowing it to stand flat on a trivet or other appliance. Figures 2 and 4,
show the frame B engaged in the loop D, thus slightly tilting the dutch oven.
Figure 3, shows the frame B engaged in the loop E, tilting the dutch oven at a
greater angle.
In applying our invention to cookery tins, we connect the bent ends C, C, of the
frame B, and the hooks D and F to the sides of the tin, or we may form ears and
attach them to the sides of the tin, to which can be connected the ends C, C, of
the frame B. The tilting being effected in the same manner as that of the dutch
oven.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:-
1. The improved dutch oven which is capable of being tilted by the frame B,
pivoted at C, C, and retained in any desired position by the hooks or stops D
and E or their equivalent, attached to one side of the dutch oven constructed and
operated substantially as herein described and shown in the several figures of the
accompanying drawings.
2. The arrangements for and turning the hooks F, F, of the dutch oven in any
desired direction within the depending tubes G, G, constructed and operated
substantially as herein described and shown in the several figures of the accom-
panying drawings.
Dated this 21st day of July 1893.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.