IMPROVEMENTS IN COOKING STOVES AND UTENSILS
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Amelia Louisa Freund, trading under the name of Amelia
Lewis, of Regent's Square, London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
COOKING STOVES AND UTENSILS."
Sealed the 13th September 1878, and dated the 16th March 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Amelia Louisa Freund at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th March 1878.
AMELIA LOUISA FREUND, trading under the name of Amelia Lewis, of Regent's
Square, London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN COOKING STOVES AND UTENSILS."
This Invention relates chiefly to improvements on an Invention for which Letters
Patent have been granted to me, bearing date 18th August 1874, No. 2489.
Firstly. In order to obtain a better draught the brazier has been enlarged, the
back has been made with open bars, and the sides with one or more vertical slots.
The dust chamber has been perforated all round, and an aperture formed in front
for the admission of air.
The heat chamber on top has been heightened, and the flue enlarged and carried
straight up from the top instead of first out at the back and then upwards.
The draught plates also are not carried up to the top plate, thus leaving a space
above them for the passage of the smoke and gases, whilst at the same time serving
to guide and confine the heat around the utensils.
The bars at bottom of brazier are made so that they may be drawn out, thus
providing a means of instantly extinguishing the fire or emptying out ash and
cinder when relighting the fire.
Secondly. My Invention relates to improvements in the cooking utensils.
The large baker is made to cover the whole area of the stove, and is provided
with perforated plates or plate and a ventilator, thus forming a complete oven.
The meat, fowl, and fish steamer is provided with guides and tubes for the
condensed steam to return to the well below, out of contact with the food, and the
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page_text: tray is divided vertically, so that more than one description of food may be cooked
at the same time without flavoring one another.
The vegetable steamer is made so that it may be inserted in another vessel, such
as the saucepan. It has one or more vertical divisions, so that more than one sort
of vegetable may be cooked at the same time. It may also be provided with guides
for the descent of the condensed steam.
The stewer is a vessel with a perforated lid placed in another in which steam is
produced by the boiling of water therein, the steam acting on the food only through
the said perforated lid.
The front roaster is constructed with open front, so the brazier is hooked in close
to it and is shaped suitably to obtain the best results from radiated heat. It has
bars for the food to rest on and a pan below.
The frizzler is constructed as pan over open bars at top with a rim round it to
rest cover on, and a rester for chops, steaks, &c.
The top roaster is constructed on like principles in an enlarged and oval shape.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent and of
an Order of the Lord Chancellor, filed by the said Amelia Louisa Freund in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 7th October 1878.
AMELIA LOUISA FREUND, trading under the name of Amelia Lewis, of Oldham,
in the County of Lancashire. "IMPROVEMENTS IN COOKING STOVES AND UTENSILS."
This Invention relates chiefly to improvements on an Invention for which Letters
Patent were granted to me, bearing date 18th August 1874, No. 2849.
In the accompanying Drawings Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved stove;
Figure 2, a plan; Figure 3, an end elevation; Figure 4, a transverse sectional
clevation at the line a, b, at Figure 1 (without the legs of the stove); and Figure 5,
a plan view of the brazier.
My improvements relate, firstly, to the stove. In order to obtain a better draught,
more perfect combustion, and more equal expansion of the metal composing the
stove, the back B of the brazier A has been made with bars in like manner as the
front, and the sides have been made with one or more slots or apertures, also to
admit air to the fuel in combustion.
The dust chamber C has been made to draw out, and has been perforated (as at c)
at the sides and back, also for the admission of air, and an aperture c¹ left in front
for the like purpose.
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The brazier has also been cast in halves, which are attached by the lugs c² and
bolts, and the brazier attached to the heat chamber Dabove by bolts or screws with
countersunk heads. This form of construction provents the brazier cracking by the
expansion and contraction consequent on the lighting and letting out of the fire.
In the heat chamber D above, the draught plates E have not been carried right
up to the top plate as in my former Invention, a space of, say, one inch (more or
less) being left between the draught plate and the top plate. This space destroys

page_text: little or none of the efficiency of the draught plates, as far as they act, to retain and
radiate the heat around and on to the bottoms of the cooking vessels inserted into
the holes in the hot plate, whilst at the same time it permits the smoke to pass
over the top as well as around the draft plates, and prevents the accumulation
of soot.
The central draft plate is centred at its back end, so that it may be moved to
the right or left at the front, and so turn an increased portion of the heat and
products of combustion to one side of the beat chamber. This may be desirable
where one utensil is required to boil quickly.
The middle portion of the back draft plate marked E, is made so that by
drawing out a handle at the back it may be thrown down and so allow the products
of combustion to pass directly backwards up the chimney.
A further improvement in the brazier has been made by forming the bottom
grating so that it may be drawn out, thus providing an instantaneous means of
extinguishing the fire or cleaning out the brazier.
My Invention relates, secondly, to improvements in cooking utensils to be used in
connection with my improved stove. For the application of dry heat I have
constructed a baker, roaster, frizzler, or fryer, and broiler or griller.
For the baker or oven I employ a skeleton framework for the support of the
different articles of food, which may be baked at the same time. This framework
rests on (attached or otherwise) a dish of the required area of the oven and having
a vertical flange surrounding it. Over this fits a double casing of the height
required, there being space between the two casings for the prevention of radiation
of heat from the interior; thus this double cover has only to be removed to placo
or attend to the food baking or to be baked. The same article with ventilators or
a ventilator forms the roaster.
The frizzler or fryer is formed on the same principle, but smaller and lower, and
to fit into or over one of the openings in the hot plate. In this case also the inner
framework is dispensed with, the food being cooked on the bottom plate. For
delicate food, however, an inner grating or plate may be used.
The broiler or griller is on the same principle, but the bottom being a grating or
grid instead of a plate. Thus all these operations of cooking are done under cover.
For the application of moist heat or steam I have constructed a new stewing
utensil, which is formed so that it may be inserted in an ordinary saucepan. It has
a perforated lid, and the steam from the water in the saucepan acting through these
perforations stews the food contained within.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to or may be performed, I claim as my
Invention to be secured by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, tho
) improvements in cooking stoves and utensils, substantially as herein-before set forth
and described, and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Amelia Louisa Freund, trading under the name
of Amelia Lewis, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day
of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
Seventy-night
‘AMELIA LOUISA FREUND. (LS.)
Trading as Amelia Lewis.