AN IMPROVED GRIDIRON WHICH HARSE
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benoit Joseph Gosteau, of 2, Rue Sainte Appoline,
Paris, in the Empire of France, and of 45, Essex Street, Strand,
London, Merchant, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED GRIDIRON WHICH
HARSE
"
Sealed the 28th June 1859, and dated the 1st January 1859.
5 SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Benoit Joseph Gosteau in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 1st July 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENOIT
JOSEPH GOSTEAU, of 2, Rue Sainte Appoline, Paris, in the Empire of France,
and of 45; Essex Street, Strand, London, Merchant, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Benoit Joseph Gosteau, Her special licence that I, the said Benoit
Joseph Gosteau, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Benoit Joseph Gosteau, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVED GRIDIRON WHICH MAY FORM A COMPLETE COOKING. APPARATUS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Benoit Joseph Gosteau,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Benoit Joseph Gosteau, do hereby.
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in a. cooking apparatus, in which the fuel is placed
upon a shelf formed of wire gauze, the meat or other article to be cooked
being placed immediately-underneath.
Instead of a wire gauze shelf I can make use of a sheet iron plate,
perforated with holes, or even of rods or wires, placed sufficiently near to each
other to prevent ashes or cinders from passing through them.
By means of this arrangement all smell of burned
grease is prevented, since
the
gravy falls into the pan containing the meat, and not upon the fire; the
meat is free from the taste of smoke, and the smell resulting from the cooking
is destroyed by passing through the fire above.
It will be understood that this system is susceptible of many changes and
variations, and that it may be of different forms or dimensions; it may be
combined so as to form a whole cooking apparatus, so as to make use of the
heat of the fire, by placing above it a support destined to receive any kind of
kitchen utensil.
In order to render this description more clear, and to illustrate generally

page_text: the form and construction of my Invention, I have appended the accompanying
Drawings to this Specification, representing two different kinds of apparatus.
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section taken through the line 1 & 2 of Fig. 2,
which is a plan, and Fig. 3 is a transverse section, through the line 3 & 4 of
the plan Fig. 2. These three Figures represent the same apparatus.
It is composed of four legs of iron a, standing vertically to receive on three
sides the sheet iron plates b. The upper part ends in a girdle or enclosure c.
The upper portion of the legs is turned to support the wire gauze d, fixed to
the frame e. Two small bars f, Fig. 3, are placed under the wire gauze to
receive the two edges of the pan g, bearing the rods h, upon which the meat
to be roasted is placed; the edges of this pan 9 slides upon the two supports f,
and it is drawn out by means of the handle i.
The apparatus shewn in Fig. 1, 2, & 3 is moveable, but the one represented
in the Fig. 4 & 5 is fixed and completely closed. It is furnished with a
pipe j, for the escape of the smoke or gas resulting from the combustion. This
apparatus is similar in many respects to the one before described; the pan g
may be placed at different heights at will.
Having now described the nature of this Invention, and how it is or may be
carried into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to
any precise details or arrangements; but what I claim is, the construction of
a cooking apparatus composed of one or several shelves of wire gauze or
perforated sheet iron plates, supported by a frame at suitable distances from
each other; the said shelves being destined to receive the fuel for roasting
the meat or other article placed under them, and the apparatus being sus-
ceptible of receiving above the said shelves, fixed or articulated supports for
saucepans or other vessels.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benoit Joseph Gosteau, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
GOSTEAU.
R. BONDY.
(L.S.)