Improvements in a Combined Wire Vegetable Boiler, Cover, Presser, and Ornamentor.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 17th Nov., 1890-Accepted, 20th Dec., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in a Combined Wire Vegetable Boiler, Cover, Presser,
and Ornamentor.
I HENRY THOMAS DOBSON of Surrey Wire Works, 84 Borough High Street,
Southwark London, Wire-worker and Blind Maker do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in a cover for a wire vegetable boiler and
which in addition to acting as a moveable lid, also acts as a presser and ornamentor
of vegetables.
In carrying out this invention I employ a flat piece of wire-work, or suitable
perforated metal, salvaged up on a stout wire frame, which device I call the
cover.
It is worked in either circular or oval forms to suit the shapes and sizes of wire
vegetable boilers.
On the top surface, flush with the selvage are two or more, double wire bolts,
which work through two tubes formed of metal: the said metal being fixed and
soldered to the wire-work or perforated metal.
The inner ends of each double wire bolt are connected by an eye which eye forms
a handle for working the said bolt.
The extreme ends of the double wire bolts which extend outside the cover are
turned round to form hooks, which can be drawn back to clip the top frame of a
wire vegetable boiler.
When the cover is disconnected from the said boiler, the hooks can be drawn
back to clip tightly round the selvage of the cover.
In the center of the cover is fixed a metal handle.
The outside diameter of the cover is made smaller than the inside diameter of
the wire vegetable boiler, so that the cover can pass into the boiler and in com-
bination with the metal handle act as a presser and ornamentor of vegetables.
Dated this Third day of March 1890.
HENRY THOMAS DOBSON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in a Combined Wire Vegetable Boiler, Cover, Presser,
and Ornamentor.
I HENRY THOMAS DOBSON of Surrey Wire Works 84 Borough Southwark
London, Wire-worker and Blind Maker 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 improvements in a cover for a wire vegetable boiler, and
which in addition to acting as a moveable lid, also acts as a presser and ornamentor
of vegetables.
In carrying out this invention I employ a flat piece of wire-work or suitable
perforated metal, selvaged up on a stout wire frame, which device I call the cover.
.
It is worked in either circular or oval forms to suit the shapes and sizes of wire
vegetable boilers. On the top surface, flush with the selvage are two or more
double wire bolts, which work through two tubes formed of metal, the said metal
tubes being fixed and soldered to the wirework or perforated metal.
The inner ends of each double wire bolt are connected by a loop which loop forms
a handle for working the said bolt.

page_text: The extreme ends of the double wire bolts which extend outside the cover are
turned round to form hooks which can be drawn back to clip the top frame of a
wire vegetable boiler. When the cover is disconnected from the said boiler, the
hooks can be drawn back to clip tightly round the selvage of the cover.
center of the cover is fixed a metal handle.
In the
The outside diameter of the cover is made smaller than the inside diameter of
the wire vegetable boiler. In order that my invention may be fully understood I
will now describe the same by referring to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a plan.
Figures 2 & 3 are vertical sections.
Similar letters in all the figures represent similar parts.
A is the cover.
B the wire bolts. C the metal handle. D the metal tubes
through which the wire bolts pass. E the wire frame upon which is selvaged the
wire-work or perforated metal.
To make use of my invention, I obtain a wire vegetable boiler, into which I put
whatever food I wish to cook, the cover is then placed on the top of the wire boiler,
the bolts are drawn towards each other, so that the hooks of the same grip the top
ring of the wire boiler, the whole is then plunged into a saucepan containing water
and as the cover locks and retains the food inside the wire boiler, the food is kept
under water during the whole of the cooking operation.
When the food is sufficiently cooked, the wire boiler is lifted out of the saucepan,
the cover is detached and the hooks drawn tightly towards each other, the cover
will then pass into the wire boiler and by pressing on the center metal handle, the
cover becomes a presser for extracting the water from vegetables or other food. In
performing this latter operation, vegetables are reduced to an uniform thickness and
ornamented with an impression of the patterns of the presser and wire boiler.
In practice I have found that by the use of a combined wire vegetable boiler
cover, presser and ornamentor as previously described, many vegetables are cooked
quicker, more thoroughly and sent to table in better form than if only the ordinary
means were adopted that are usually employed.
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 :-
Firstly -The cover marked A in accompanying drawing.
Secondly-The hooks on the cover marked B.
Thirdly-The handle marked C, operating substantially and in combination for
the purposes of securing, pressing and ornamenting vegetables and other food in a
wire vegetable boiler hereinbefore described.
Dated this Seventeenth day of November 1890.
HENRY THOMAS DOBSON.