IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE COOKING APPARATUS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Baker Jones, of Limerick, Gentleman, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE COOKING APPARATUS."
Sealed the 26th April 1864, and dated the 28th October 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Baker Jones
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
28th October 1863.
I, ROBERT BAKER JONES, of Limerick, Gentleman, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE COOKING APPA-
BATUS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in improvements upon apparatus for which Letters
Patent for Great Britain were granted me the 23rd February 1856, No. 467.
Instead of dropping the boiling vessels, oven, and fire basket into a hollow pan
or bed, as described in the Specification of the said Letters Patent, I continue
these parts down to the bottom of the apparatus, and I form a false bottom to
the boiling vessels, which false bottom is on a level with the bottom plate of
the oven, the space between the actual and the false bottoms and the bottom
of the oven and bottom plate of the apparatus forms a hot chamber to which
access is obtained through doors provided in the sides or back. In the

page_text: folding screen I attach the back and cover together with the sides to the
basting dish by hinges and form the whole to fold and occupy but small
space.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Baker Jones in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 28th April 1864.
.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
BAKER JONES, of Limerick, Gentlenian, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Robert Baker Jones, Her special licence that I, the said
Robert Baker Jones, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Robert Baker Jones, my 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 PORTABLE COOKING APPARATUS," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Robert Baker Jones, 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 Robert Baker Jones, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say:-
My Invention consists in improvements upon apparatus for which Letters
Patent for Great Britain were granted me the Twenty-third February One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, No. 467. Instead of dropping the boiling
vessels, oven, and fire basket into a hollow pan or bed, as described in the

page_text: Specification of the said Letters Patent, I continue these parts down to the
bottom of the apparatus, and I form a false bottom to the boiling vessels, which
false bottom is on a level with the bottom plate of the oven, the space between
the actual and the false bottoms and the bottom of the oven and bottom plate
of the apparatus forms a hot chamber to which access is obtained through
doors provided in the sides or back. In the folding screen I attach the
back and cover together with the sides to the basting dish by hinges and
form the whole to fold and occupy but small space.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a front view, Figure 2 a plan,
and Figure 3 a back view of an apparatus constructed according to my
Invention; Figure 4 is a section through the line a, b, of Figure 1.
A is the fire-basket; B, B, are the boiling vessels provided with taps c, c;
C is a vessel fitted into one of the boiling vessels B for carrying on stewing or
steaming, both the boiling vessels may be fitted with a stewing vessel c if
desired; E is the oven fitted with moveable shelves and baking tins. There is
a door d at the back of the oven in which a ventilator may be placed. The
boiling vessels B, B, the oven E, and the fire basket A are continued down to.
the bottom of the apparatus, and I form a false bottom F to the boiling
vessels on a level with the bottom plate G of the oven. The space H between
the false bottoms F, the bottom plate G of the oven, and the bottom plate I of
the apparatus forms a hot chamber to which access is obtained through a door
in the side or at back; J is a flue for carrying off the products of combustion
into a chimney K; L is a hot plate over the flue and fire-place. The folding
screen is seen in section in Figure 4 and in plan with the parts opened out in.
Figure 5. The back L and the sides M, M, are attached by hinges to the
basting dish N, as shewn, and the cover O is also hinged to the back L, the
whole may thus be folded so as to occupy but small space. The screen is
supported by projecting irons or bars f, f, with parts bent at right angles to
fit into sockets g, g, on the front of the stove, other sockets h, h, on the bottom
of the basting dish N fit over the irons f, f. The apparatus may be made
without the oven E, and be divided into any desired number of boilers by
means of partitions.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
First, constructing portable cooking apparatus with the boiling vessels, oven,
and fire-basket extending down to the bottom of the apparatus and forming a
false bottom to the boiling vessels, substantially as herein-before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Second, hinging the back cover and sides of the folding screen of portable

page_text: cooking apparatus to the basting dish substantially as herein-before described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Baker Jones, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of April, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four.
ROBERT BAKER JONES. (L.B.)