Improvements in Saucepans.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 27.h Aug., 1895-4ccepted, 28th Sept.. 1895
in the County of Los Angeles and State of California, United States of
America, Blacksmith.]
Improvements in Saucepans.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 that class of saucepans in which double bails are employed
to cause the pan or vessel to tilt and discharge its contents.
The object of the invention is to improve the action of the bails by means of a
positive connection which will exert a lever action when the bails are pressed to tilt
the vessel, cause the bails to fold in unison into proper position to permit nesting
the vessels and also serve to hold the bails in a raised position when the vessel is
on the stove.
A further object of the invention is to improve the construction of the twin
ears.
With these objects in view, the invention consists in the construction and
arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter described.
In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the saucepan with its bails crossed to hold them
in upright position.
Figure 2 is a similar view with the bails folded so as to permit nesting of the
saucepans for storage or transportation.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of the saucepan showing the parts as they appear
during the act of pouring out the liquid contents of the vessel, and
Figure 4 shows a plan and end view of one of the twin bail-ears.
A is the vessel of any suitable size and material and provided with a pouring
mouth or lip a. B, B, are the twin ears at opposite sides of the upper edge of the
vessel and to which are pivotally connected the lower ends of the bails, C, D.
The bail C is somewhat longer than the bail D, to which it is positively connected
at its middle portion by a rod or bar E, the said rod or bar having eyes e e at its
ends through which the said bails freely pass. The middle of the bail C is offset
or cranked as at c and the eye e at that end of the rod or bar E works on said
crank. Thus, all displacement and lateral motion of the bar or rod is prevented
so that by thus positively connecting the bails the rod or bar E will exert a lever
action on them and cause a positive action of the bails upon each other when
they are pressed together to tilt the vessel, as shown in Figure 3. Moreover,
this bar or rod causes the bails to swing together in unison in the act of folding
them and also holds the bails in the upright position shown in Figure 1, where
they will not become over-heated when the vessel is on the stove. The bails are
of such a length that when folded the bail C will engage the upper edge of the
vessel while bail D will lie there below exterior to the vessel with the bar or rod E
close to the side thereof. Or, if made somewhat shorter, the bails and bar or rod
will occupy similar positions within the vessel. In either case, the vessels will nest
compactly, as the bar E will lie close to the vessel out of the way.
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page_text: The ears B, B, each have a pair of apertured bail-engaging lugs, b, b' spaced a
suitable distance apart with the lugs b, b in front of the centre of the vessel and the
lugs in rear thereof and owing to this construction and the manner of con-
necting the bails C, D, the vessel will occupy a horizontal position when lifted by
the bail C.
The forward lugs 6 lie in the plane of the vessel's sides and have an outward
bulge or bend at their lower ends so as to form cover-receiving grooves 63, while the
rear lugs project upwardly in planes exterior to the plane of the vessel, and
lack these grooves so that they will afford no obstruction to the entrance and
removal of the cover B', and this construction of the rear lugs 61 61 also permits the
bail C to fold as shown in Figure 2, without striking the pivoted ends of the
bails D.
The cover is of greater diameter than the distance between the forward ends of
the grooves 2, and hence cannot slip forwardly when the vessel is tilted, but may
be readily removed rearwardly.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The combination with the vessel and its pair of operating bails, of a bar
or rod pivoted positively to each bail and spacing them apart, substantially as
described.
2. The combination with the vessel and its pair of operating bails, of different
lengths, and both adapted to fold down close to one side of the vessel, of a bar or
rod pivoted positively to both bails, holding them apart at their middle portions and
lying close to the side of the vessel when the bails are folded together, substantially
as described.
3. The combination with the vessel and its two operating bails of different
lengths; one of said bails being cranked or offset at its middle, of the bar or
rod having eyes at its ends, respectively receiving and pivoting on the said crank
or offset and the middle portion of the other bail, substantially as described.
4. The combination with the vessel, having opposite twin ears, each having a pair
of apertured lugs lying at opposite sides of the centre of the vessel; the forward
lugs being bulged outwardly at their lower ends to form cover receiving grooves,
and the rear lugs projecting upwardly, exterior to the plane of the vessel out of the
way of the cover and bails pivotally connected at their ends with said lugs and
operatively connected at their middle portions, substantially as described.
5. The ear having apertured twin lugs projecting upward in parallel planes; the
inner lug only having an outward bulge at its lower end forming a cover receiving
groove in its inner face, substantially as described.
Dated this 27th day of August 1893.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.