IMPROVEMENTS OF AN AFFA- BATUS FOR COOKING EITHER BY STEAM OR WATER
Year: 1806

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RALPH
SUTTON, of Macclesfield, in the County of Chester, Brazier and Tin Plate
Worker, send greeting..
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Seventh day of October, in the forty-sixth year of His reign, did
give and grant unto me, the said Ralph Sutton, my exors, admors, and
assigns, His especial licence that I, the said Ralph Sutton, my exors, ndñiors,
and assigns, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my new-invented "IMPROVEMENTS OF AN AFFA-
BATUS FOR COOKING EITHER BY STEAM OR WATER;" in which Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Ralph Sutton, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to causo a particular description
of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed and made, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within one calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being, thereunto had,
will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Ralph Sutton, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention of an
Improved Apparatus for Cooking by Steam or Water, or by either of them, or
by both of them at one and the same time, and the manner in which the same
is to be performed and made, is particularly described and ascertained in
manner following, that is to say:—
I make an outward pan or case (which I call a boiler), either of a square,
round, or any other form or forms, and of any size or sizes most convenient,
of iron or iron tinned, copper or copper tinned, or any other metal or metals, in
which I solder, rivet, screw, or otherwise affix, near to the top thereof, a plate,
rim, or frame, which is divided into as many parts and divisions as is thought
necessary for the saucepans or kettles hereafter mentioned to fit into the inside
of the said plate, rim, or frame, and in which said plate, rim, or frame I make
several small holes or appertures opposite or near to each saucepan or kettle, for
the purpose of holding and putting in the syphons or pipes, herein-after also
mentioned, the bottoms of which said inner saucepans or kettles come or drop
unto or nigh unto the bottom of my said outward pan or case, called my
boiler, which inside saucepans or kettles I make of a square, round, or any
other form or forms most convenient, so as they tally or fit in the said plate,
rim, or frame, the better to keep in the steam arising from the water contained
in my said outward case, pan, or boiler, as hereafter mentioned (and if not
thought sufficiently tight to keep in the steam, may be made so by a small
washer of linnen cloth round the wire, but for which washer there is no absolute
necessity), which inner saucepans or kettles may be made of silver grain tin,
block tin, tinned plates, copper, or any other metal or metals, or of delf china,
or any other earthenware or wares, having small iron wire or other handles
fixed thereunto for the purpose of taking and putting the same in and out;
and which said inner saucepans or kettles are to have covers to fit them, of
any kind or kinds most convenient, which said inner saucepans or kettles are
to be kept tight or in their places by means of small springs or latches, hooks, or
catches, whichever may be found most convenient, my said outward case, pan,
or boiler being set up or affixed in the manner now in use for setting up or
fixing common boilers, washpans, or brewpans; or, if a portable one, being
put on or hung over the fire as a common kettle or saucepan. My method of
using the same is as follows:-I fill my said outward pan, case, or boiler, with
water up to the mark placed in the inside of my said outward pan, case, or
boiler (as described in the Drawing accompanying this my Deed), after
which I place my said inner saucepans or kettles in their respective places, and

page_text: the meat, vegetables, fish; fowls, &c. intended to be cooked therein. I then
place a syphon or syphons, or pipe or pipes, made of copper, block tin, or any
other metal or metals, into the said inner saucepans or.kettles,. one end of
which said syphon or pipe is to reach or be near unto the bottom of such inside
saucepan or kettle, and the other end thereof is to be placed upon, in, or over
the aforesaid small hole or apperture, so made as aforesaid in the plate, rim,
or frame of the said outward pan, case or boiler, and which said syphon or
pipe, being the conductor of the steam arising from the water in my said
outward pan, case, or boiler, causes the meat, vegetables, fish, fowls, &c.
contained in the said inner saucepan or kettle to be boiled or cooked in the
least possible time, and in the highest degree of perfection. But if boiling by
water be preferred to steam, I put a proper or sufficient quantity of water into
such of the said inner saucepans or kettles I want to boil by water, and the
'said syphons or pipes conducting the steam out of the said outside pan, case,
or boiler, into the said inner saucepan or kettle, causes the water contained in
such inner saucepan or kettle to boil, so that the meat, vegetables, fish, fowls, &c.
contained in the said inside saucepans or kettles may be cooked by steam or boiled
in water at one and the same time. And be it further understood, that if only
one or more of the said inside saucepans or kettles be wanted at the time of
cooking, I then prevent the steam from communicating into such of the
saucepans or kettles so not used by means of a bolt, catch, or stop, made for
that purpose over the said small hole or apperture so made in the aforesaid
plate, rim, or frame in the said outward pan, case, or boiler, or by a small
cock in the syphon. I then, if required, cover the whole of my said apparatus
with a cover, made of brass, copper, or any other metal or metals, upon which
outward cover may be fixed, if thought necessary, a small valve or valves for
the purpose of emitting or letting off the extra steam arising from the appa-
ratus when in use. And be it further understood, that if the said water
contained in the said outward pan, case, or boiler should not be sufficient
to cook the meat, vegetables, fish, fowls, &c., I fix a reservoir of water, as
described in the Drawing, which, by means of a small cock, supplies any
quantity of water the person using the apparatus thinks proper to let in, either
in a small continual stream or in. certain given quantities, as he or she shall
think proper. And lastly, for the means of emptying or drawing off the water
contained in my said outward pan, case, or boiler, I fix a water cock at the
bottom thereof, or in any other convenient part; and my said outward pan,
case, or boiler, when not used or employed in cooking as aforesaid, may be
used as a washpan, or for any other purpose that the common beiler is now

page_text: used for. And for the better elucidation of my said apparatus, I have caused
Drawings to be made at the foot or bottom of these Presents.
In witness whereof, I, the said Ralph Sutton, have hercunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and six.