A New or Improved Utensil for Frying or Poaching Eggs and other Articles.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Utensil for Frying or Poaching Eggs and other
Articles.
I, THOMAS HERBERT GASKIN of 22, Pigott Street, Limehouse, London, E.
Shipwright, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object to provide means for facilitating the operation
of poaching or frying eggs and other articles and to avoid the liability which at
present exists of the appearance of the cooked egg being marred in transferring
the egg from the utensil in which it is cooked to the dish or other article on which
it is served at table.
To this end my invention consists of a shallow pan or ladle-like utensil of a size
sufficient to contain a single egg when broken into it, the pan which is preferably
of oval form being provided with a rim made in two portions of which the back
portion is fixed to the bottom of the frame and the handle and the front portion is
pivoted so as to be adapted to be thrown back when the cooking is terminated and
permit the egg to be easily slid out into a dish or other article in which it is to be
served.
The pivoted rim portion is provided with a yoke or cross bar to limit its
movement and serve as a handle for adjusting it.
Dated this 11th day of March 1896.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
A New or Improved Utensil for Frying or Poaching Eggs and other
Articles.
I, THOMAS HERBERT GASKIN of 22, Pigott Street, Limehouse, London, E.
Shipwright, 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 an improved utensil for use in poaching or frying eggs
and other articles, and has for its object to enable the cooked egg to be more
easily transferred from the utensil in which it is cooked to the dish or other
article on which it is served at table, without liability of marring its appearance.
The improved utensil, which is illustrated in perspective view in the accom-
panying drawing forming part of this specification, consists of a flat pan or ladle A
which may be adapted for poaching one or more eggs at a time, that shewn being
intended for two eggs, and being for that purpose provided with two receptacles.
Each receptacle is preferably of circular or oval form and is formed by the pan A as
a bottom and by a rinn B B made in two portions of which the back portion B is

page_text: fixed to the pan A whilst the front portion B' is hinged at 6 to the fixed back
portion B so as to be adapted to be raised, as represented in dotted lines, in order
to permit the cooked egg to be easily slid off the pan A on to the dish in which it
is to be served.
The utensil is provided with a handle C and the hinged portions of the rims B¹
are provided with a yoke or cross bar D to serve as a handle for tilting them on
their hinges so as to raise them off the pan to a greater or less extent, as roughly
indicated by the arcs e.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
A utensil for the purpose specified, consisting of a flat pan provided with one or
more receptacles, each enclosed by a rim whereof one part is hinged so as to be
raisable from the pan, as specified.
Dated this 10th day of November 1806
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.