Improved Cooking Appliance for Attachment to Lamps.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 9th May, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Cooking Appliance for Attachment to Lamps.
I, SOPHIE VON RAMIN, formerly Pagel, of No. 3 Matthiasplatz, Breslau, in the
Empire of Germany, 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 :-
The invention refers to an appliance for attachment to lamps for cooking or
boiling foods superior to all such apparatus hitherto in use on account of its.
rational method of applying and taking up the heat and its firm construction so
that as an example the heat of an ordinary table lamp suffices to bring a quantity
of food material say about 4 litres to boiling point, and to keep it at that with the
wick turned quite low down even when vessels not only of tin but also of pot or
earthenware are employed.
The new lamp boiling or cooking appliance is represented upon the annexed
drawing.
Its arrangement is essentially as follows:-A cover or frame a of tin the
dimensions of which are proportioned to the circumstances, is provided internally
at a suitable place with a horizontal ring b. Upon this ring the rests e for the
cooking vessels d are fixed in such a way that a free space is left between the
bottom of the cooking vessel d and the ring through which the heated gases
pass.
By means of the ring the metal frame or cover a is divided into two parts a
and a2 each of which has to fulfil a separate function. The lower part a² serves to
prevent as far as possible the escape of the heat from the lamp to the outside and
conducts the entire heat which is developed to the bottom of the cooking vessel
and the heat is caused by the upper part a to pass around the sides of the cooking
vessel d. Naturally the part a' will fulfil its purpose best when its diameter as
well as its height approaches most nearly to the dimensions of the cooking
vessel d.
The cover a and ring 6 are connected by struts or brackets g to a supporting
ring which fits over the top edge of the lamp shade.
The direction indicated by the arrows in the accompanying drawing shows
approximately the way in which the heat rising from the lamp cylinder will travel
along the bottom and the sides of the cooking vessel.
An important question which had to be solved in such an apparatus with
particular regard to the point that the apparatus had to be made usable in all
kinds of households consisted in this :-That a proper stability had to be given to
the apparatus as well as to its hearer i.e. the lamp. The means to be applied are
of many kinds for instance stays e can be fitted in place of the usual wire supports
between the burner and globe rim or gallery, between the body of the lamp m and
the gallery n on this lamp boiler, or the supports f of the shade gallery may be
constructed extra strong by being doubled giving the lamp with the boiling vessel
especially in its upper parts a great degree of firmness.
As a general standard it is best to choose as bearer for the cooking appliance a
shade which has a sufficiently large diameter of upper rim g.
Such a cooking apparatus fulfils a real requirement being always ready for use
requiring at night no special fuel in the day time only very little.
The apparatus can be used not only for boiling and cooking but also for warming
or keeping food warm.

page_text: It can be inanufactured in the most ornamental as well as the very plainest style
and fixed upon any existing lamp or be constructed with a special lamp. This
lamp attachment for boiling or cooking may be advantageously used in a dwelling
room a sick room or kitchen without any inconvenience arising from the disagreenblo
smell of petroleum or it may be used in the open air.
For using it in a kitchen the ordinary kitchen lamp will be sufficient only the
frame or cover a should be so proportioned that it is carried as far downwards as
possible to prevent too great an access of the outer air to the heat from the
lamp.
In case of using this lamp attachment in the open air it will of course be advisablo
to provide a protector against the wind.
The degree of heat required for cooking can in such an apparatus be regulated
by means of the size of lame by turning it up or down; a plate for preventing
the burning of the food as well as n too rapid cooking may be placed upon the rests c
before placing thereon the cooking vessel d.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed declare that what I
claim is :-
A cooking appliance for attachment to lamps constructed with a metallic cover
or frame a which is divided by means of an internal horizontal ring & in two
parts a' aml a' in such a manner that the lower part a serves to collect the hent
from the lamp and to conduct it to the bottom of the cooking vessel whilst the
upper part a' serves to conduct the heat around the site of the cooking vessel for
the purpose of utilising as far as possible all the beat.
Dated this 27th day of Bobouser 1800
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.