Year: 1896

page_text: tate of Application (in United Kingdom), 23rd July, 1896
Complete Specification Lelt. 23rd July, 1896-Accepted, 12th Sept., 196
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, WILLIAM HAROLD MULLINS, of Salem, in the County of Columbiana, State of
Ohio, United States of America, Manufacturer, 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:-
My invention relates to baking pans constructed upon the general principles
embodied in the Specification of Letters Patent No. 3028, dated March 7th 1885.1
The object of my improvements is the production of a pan numbering among its
characteristic features simplicity of construction, lightness, durability, also effective-
ness in use especially as a baker of bread, and combining therewith the no less
desirable quality of producing a maximum amount of crust upon a loaf of
given size.
As a further object my invention contemplates and includes duplicate pans of semi-
cylindrical form configured by a series of transverse corrngations and adapted to be
used independently or together for the purpose of producing a semi-cylindrical or a
cylindrical loaf, as the case may be, which is conversely corrugated upon its
surface.
The invention will be hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the
claims following.
In the accompanying drawings which form part of this specification, and whereon
similar reference letters indicate like parts wherever employed:
Figure 1, is a perspective view of a single pan-section showing a pivotally attached
support therefor partly in dotted lines.
Figure 2, represents in side elevation the complete or double pan for producing
a cylindrical loaf'; and
Figure 3, is a vertical central section of the invention taken through the longi-
tudinal center of Figure 2.
Reference being had to the drawings and letters thereon A indicates the body of
the pan and B its top or cover, each stamped from single pieces of sheet metal in
trough or semi-cylindrical shape with closed ends CC, and configured by a series of
transverse indentations D, combining to form continuous circular corrugations or
depressions as shown. The ends CC, may also be configured if desired, by an
appropriate emblem or ornamentation to relieve thein of their plainness.
The meeting or horizontal faces E of both pans A and B are plain surfaces except
for oppositely disposed lugs r' and depressions G stamped thereon, while at this point
in each pan the structure is surrounded and reinforced by a downwardly extending
flange H of the metal. In each of the lugs F is journaled a swinging bail I having
angular projecting sides and a flat horizontal shoe J adapted to perform the double

page_text: function of interlocking the pans and supporting them when in use. It will be
noted that a complete pan or set of pans thus constructed contemplates two corre-
sponding sections A and B each provided with a bail I pivoted upon opposite sides
thereof near its end. This bail I is preferably angular in form as illustrated by
Figure 1, its projecting angular sides presenting a convenient means of swinging
same upon its pivots-particularly when hot; and is of spring metal to facilitate
its engagement and co-action with the corrugations D as will later appear.
This being substantially a description of my invention, its use is as follows:
A baking of dough having been placed in the pan A to a level of the edges or
horizontal face E thereof, immediately conforms its contacting surfaces to the interior
or transversely corrugated shape of the pan. Bail I is then swung upon its pivots
until the horizontal portion or shoe J rests beneath the pan in one of the corrugations
or depressions D where it is retained by its inherent resiliency and serves to support
the pan in an upright position during the process of baking.
By this arrangement it is apparent that, at most, the pan can only have direct
contact with the oven throughout its longitudinal center at the extreme lowermost
points of the corrugations D, and as a matter of fact the shoe J of bail 1 when
introduced beneath one end of the pan, elevates such end a distance equal to the
diameter or thickness of the bail. The effect of such support for the pan A results
most advantageously to the baking and serves to insure a superior crusting of the
loaf upon all sides.
Being desired to produce a full cylindrical loaf it is only necessary to supply pan A
more liberally with dough and enclose same by the cover or duplicate pan B. In
this arrangement the lugs F on one pan engage depressions on the other and
insure complete registration of the transverse corrugations D which combine to
encircle the entire surface of the double pan. The pan A and its cover B are then
firmly secured together by means of the swinging bails I, that pivoted upon the
pan A being passed over the end of cover B, and that pivoted upon cover B being in
like manner passed over the end of pan A, the latter serving the additional function
of supporting the utensil in the manner heretofore described. It will now be seen that
the resiliency of bails I permits each to spring into one of the corrugations D and
interlock therewith, the same resiliency also rendering possible a further advancement
of the bails over several such corrugations, as over a ratchet-bar or rack when desired,
for the purpose of drawing and retaining the pan sections in closer contact.
A baking having been thus effected in a single or a double pan the resulting loaf
will be configured by a series of parallel transverse corrugations dividing the loaf
upon its surface into as many equal divisions which may be utilized to indicate
points of cutting or slicing the loaf, or of dividing it into equal portions of greater
size.
This being substantially the invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters
Patent is:
1. A sheet metal baking pan bearing a series of transverse corrugations or projections,
in combination with a supporting bail adapted to interlock with said corrugations or
projections, substantially as described.
2. A sheet metal baking pan bearing a series of transverse corrugations or projec-
tions, in combination with a swinging supporting bail pivoted upon opposite sides
thereof and adapted to interlock with said corrugations or projections, substantially
as described.
3. A semi-cylindrical baking pan bearing a series of transverse corrugations
or projections, in combination with a swinging supporting bail pivoted thereon
having a horizontal foot for interlocking with said corrugations or projections,
substantially as described.
4. A semi-cylindrical baking pan bearing a series of transverse corrugations or
projections, in combination with a swinging supporting bail having projecting angular
sides and a horizontal foot for interlocking with said corrugations or projections,
substantially as described.

page_text: 5. A baking pan formed of two corresponding and interchangeable sections one
provided with a bail adapted to swing over the other and interlock the two, substantially
as described.
6. A baking pan formed of two corresponding and interchangeable sections each
provided with a bail adapted to swing over the other and interlock the two, substantially
as described.
7. A baking pan formed of two corresponding sections each bearing a series of
transverse corrugations or projections, in combination with a bail pivoted upon each
section adapted to engage said corrugations of the other section and interlock the two,
substantially as described.
8. A cylindrical baking pan formed of two corresponding sections surrounded by
a series of transverse corrugations or projections, in combination with lugs and
depressions upon the meeting surfaces of said sections to insure registration, and a
swinging bail upon each section for engaging the corrugations of its adjacent section
and interlocking the two, substantially as described.
9. A cylindrical baking pan formed of two corresponding sections bearing a series
of transverse corrugations or projections, in combination with a reinforcing flange on
each pan section, and interlocking bails pivoted between the flanges for engaging said
corrugations, substantially as described.
Dated this 8th day of July 1896.
WILLIAM HAROLD MULLINS.
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicant.