Improvements relating to Cooking Utensils.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 24th June, 1889
Complete. Specification Left, 22nd Mar., 1890-Accepted, 26th Apr.,.
1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Cooking Utensils.
I FREDERICK GUIDO BURSTOW of Myrth Villa, Court Road, Sutton in the County.
of Surrey, Architect do hereby declare the nature of this invention to he as
follows
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This invention relates to cooking utensils and the object of the improvements. is.to.
make the said utensils of such a shape that the number most frequently employed.
simultaneously may be arranged on the stove or the like to occupy or extend over
a compact area of space so that such a stove may accommodate a greater number of
such utensils, or utensils of greater capacity than would otherwise be the case.
The said utensils are preferably so made that in plan they are of the shape of a
sector of a circle so that the number of utensils usually employed simultaneously, may
when properly placed together cover a circular space.
The edges of these vessels should be slightly rounded.
I do not confine myself to cover only a circular space but may cover, a square"
space a hexagonal or octagonal space or other space of well proportioned form for
the purpose by dividing it in a sectional manner and making the utensils accordingly.
Or all such vessels as are to be employed may be made of symmetrical forms with
straight sides such as rhomboids, hexagon or others so that any number may be placed
side by side without leaving interveneing unoccupied spaces.
Dated this 24th day of June 1889
HERBERT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Cooking Utensils.
I FREDERICK GUIDO BURSTOW of Myrth Villa, Court Road, Sutton in the County
of Surrey, Architect, 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 cooking utensils and the object of the improvements is to
make the said utensils of such a shape that the number most frequently employed
simultaneously may be arranged in the stove or the like to occupy or extend over a
compact area of space so that such a stove may accommodate a greater number of such
utensils, or utensils of greater capacity than would otherwise be the case.
The said utensils are preferably so made that in plan they are of the shape of a
sector of a circle, so that the number of utensils usually employed simultaneously
may, when properly placed together, cover a circular space.
The edges of these vessels should be slightly rounded.
I do not confine myself to cover only a circular space, but may cover a square
space, a hexagonal or octagonal space or other space of well proportioned form for
the purpose by dividing it into a sectorial manner that is to say, making the vessels,
if there be more than two, so that their sides when adjacent follow lines radiating
from a centre, and making the utensils accordingly.
Or, all such vessels, as are to be employed, may be made of symmetrical forms with
straight sides, such as rhomboids hexagon and others so that any number may be
placed side by side without having intervening unoccupied space and the whole group
occupy a compact space substantially regular in form.
The annexed drawing illustrates the invention. Fig. 1, being an elevation and Fig. 2
a plan view of a set of three vessels each sector shaped and placed together to cover a

page_text: circular space. Fig. 3, illustrates in plan a set of three vessels covering when placed
together an hexagonal space divided in a sectorial manner as before described. Fig. 4
illustrates two sector shaped vessels covering a circular space such vessels being each
semicircular. Fig. 5, represents four such vessels each occupying a space of a
quarter of the circle.
A is a kettle, B a stew-pan or sauce-pan, C a frying-pan, Da grid.
The vessels are made of any of the usual materials employed and differ only in
shape; the sides a a of the vessels are designed to fit closely to the respective sides of
the adjacent vessels and the side b is of any convenient shape being preferably either
symmetrical with the sides a as in Fig. 3 or else as an arc of the circle coinciding with
the boundary of the group of vessels. It is obvious that the vessels of a set may be
made of different sizes by increasing or diminishing the angular distance between
the sides a a without departing from this invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
The method of constructing cooking vessels that they or certain of them placed
together may cover in a sectorial manner a circular or other regular or substantially
regular space, substantially as set forth.
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HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.