An Improved Cooking-stand.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 18th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 20th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cooking-stand.
I WILLIAM WILSON HORN of the firm of Horn and Son of 151 Strand in the
County of Middlesex Patent Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention
(a communication to me from William Earle of 133 Hudson Street Boston in
the State of Massachusetts United States of America Inventor) to be as
follows:-
This my invention relates to an improved cooking rack and the object of my
invention is to devise certain new and useful features of construction and utility
upon the articles at present, employed as hereinafter set forth.
My improved rack consists of two frames pivotally connected together by a
central rod and being formed to interlock one with the other. Each of the said
frames consists of two flat bars of any suitable metal connected together by a series
of rods preferably round in cross section.
The said rack is mounted on pivoted supports having legs of unequal lengths
and means are provided whereby the rack may be retained at any desired height
when in use.
HORN & SON,
Applicant's Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cooking-stand.
I WILLIAM WILSON HORN of the firm of Horn & Son of 151 Strand in the
County of Middlesex Patent Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention
(a communication from William Earle of 133 Hudson Street Boston in the State
of Massachusetts United States of America Inventor) 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 a cooking rack or cooking-stand or grate for use in a pan
in a meat-roasting oven; and the invention consists in a folding adjustable rack
possessing the novel features hereinafter fully described, and specifically pointed
out in the appended claims.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved cooking stand or rack in position
in a drip pan and at its lowest elevation above the bottom of the pan.
angular form.
Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation showing the rack supported in an
Fig. 3 is a like elevation showing the rack inverted relatively to its position in
Fig. 1, and with its top at the highest elevation from the bottom of the pan.
Fig. 4 is a cross section of the rack and illustrates by dotted lines how the
shorter legs of the angular supports are turned about their pivots or reversed so as
to bring the longer legs into position to support the rack when inverted, as shown
in Fig. 3.
->>
Fig. 5 is a plan or top view of the rack and
Fig. 6 is an end elevation of the same.
The rack illustrated in the drawings and embodying my invention is composed of
several parts pivotally jointed together and constructed and arranged to be inter-
locked so that it may be folded and adjusted to hold the meat or fowl to be roasted
at various heights from the bottom of the pan and in different positions as may be
most convenient for the manipulations of the same by the cook and for the most

page_text: favorable and effective circulation of the heat about the same to secure the best
results of cooking.
Referring to Fig. 1., A represents the pan in which the stand or rack is shown.
This stand or rack is composed of four metallic end pieces B B B B³, connected
by a number of horizontal wires or rods as shown. The pieces B and B are
pivotally connected by one end of the central rod C, and the pieces B and B are
connected in like manner by the other and opposite end of rod C. The end
pieces B and B each have an offset D and D' at their immer ends, and also return
bends or projections E and E' which rest in notches F and F in the
pieces Band B².
To the side connecting rods and Gare pivoted the angular supports H H H H³.
These supports have short legs and long legs 12 and these long
legs and are connected by rod K and legs 12 and 1 by rod K. An extension
slide 1, is fitted to leg J³ and arranged to slide on to the end of leg and thus to
interlock the two legs as shown in Fig. 1 for convenience, to keep the legs
compactly folded up under the body of the rack when the same is laid or hung
away and not in use. By unlocking this slide fastening and turning the rack over
the centre may be depressed to the bottom of the pan and the sides raised and
supported on the long legs J when the rack will assume the form and position
shown in Fig. 2, a very convenient form for roasting fowl, which will be properly
supported, breast downward, in the well adapted V shaped space formed by the end
pieces B and their connecting wires when in the relative positions shown in Fig. 2
in which position the long legs of the rack are shown as braced and supported
against the sides of the pan, and thus the position of the rack is maintained, but
not necessarily as the rack is self supporting in said position.
When the rack is in the position shown in Fig. 1, the centre is kept from sagging
under pressure by the interlocking of the offset and notched ends F and D of the
end pieces B. When in the higher and inverted position shown in Fig. 3 the
centre of the rack is upheld by the short legs I bearing against the under side of
the rods while the long legs Jrest obliquely under the rack upon the bottom of the
pan as shown.
The rack thus constructed with reversible supports having legs of unequal
lengths may be held at different elevations above the bottom of the pan and by
means of the jointed end bars may be also changed into the angular form shown in
Fig. 2 as may be desired.
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 18,
1. A cooking stand or cooking rack mounted upon pivoted supports having legs
of unequal lengths, whereby the rack may be held at different heights as
specified.
2. A cooking stand or cooking rack constructed with jointed ends and mounted
upon reversible supports, whereby the rack may be changed from a level to a
V shaped form as and for the purposes specified.
3. A. cooking stand or cooking-rack composed of two pairs of end pieces B and B
and B and B, united by a series of horizontal rods, each pair being formed to
interlock, as described, and both pivotally connected by the central rod C, and all
mounted upon pivotal supports as specified.
4. In combination, the stand or rack composed of the jointed end pieces B and
their connecting rods, the pivotal supports I and the locking slide L, whereby two
of the long legs of the supports upon one end of the stand or rack may be locked
together under the stand or rack, as and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 16th day of January 1892.
HORN & SON,
Applicant's Agents.