Improvements in Cooking Apparatus.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd May, 1898-Accepted, 23rd July, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cooking Apparatus.
I, ADOLPH FRIEDOLSHEIM, of No. 1411, Seelosgasse, Strassburg, Alsace, in the
Empire of Germany, Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
The present application has reference to a cooking apparatus composed of a
number of assembled, but separate vessels, for the purpose of cooking several
dishes, or the like, over a single flame or opening of a stove simultaneously, and
also provides for a better utilization of the available heat and space.
The accompanying drawing shews, by way of example, a form of construction of
the apparatus which is the subject of the application.-
Fig. 1 represents two cooking utensils consisting of several vessels placed
together over a single gas or other burner;
Fig. 2 a form of lid for the cooking vessels;
Fig. 3 a section of the lid, taken on the line A-A of Fig. 2.
The ordinary round pans, in which only one dish can be cooked at a time, .
occupy more than the whole space heated by the flames, and notwithstanding the
proportion of surface of the dish in the pan exposed to the fire, according to the
sizes of the pans used, only the contents next the surface of the pan directly ex-
posed to the fire is brought to boiling, while the reminder is heated from the first.
It is clear that by this method of cooking the greater the diameter of the utensil, the
longer the fire must be kept burning, notwithstanding that it is only possible to
prepare one sort of dish at a time. By the hereinafter described utensils these
disadvantages are obviated, one large vessel being divided into 2, 3, 4 or more
removable separate vessels. Each of these vessels, a, b, c, which look like one
large one, when assembled, is furnished with a handle and a lid d. The lids d
are suitably domed and strengthened towards their middle. By means of a flange,
The particular form of lid
they lie securely upon the edge of the vessels.
employed has this advantage, that when, say, three pans stand together over one
flame, the lids fit closely against one another, and present a uniform circular
exterior, so that the utensils, when viewed from above, appear as one large vessel.
The combined series of vessels, a, b, c, may be of uniforin, or unequal sizes, and
of equal or unequal height. They may be made in cast iron, tin, or other metals,
also in clay or other fire-resisting earth. Each set of pans for each stove opening
must, however, when put together, be similar in form of outline to the ordinary
round, oval, or other shaped pans.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
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Cooking apparatus consisting, in effect, of two or more separate and distinct
vessels, either of the same or dissimilar form, which vessels, when put together,

page_text: appear as a single vessel of large size, and which may be placed over a common
opening in a stove, or over an ordinary burner, in the manner set forth.
Dated this 23rd day of May 1898.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.