Improvements in Closets used in or connected with Culinary Matters.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 8th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 17th Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Closets used in or connected with Culinary
Matters.
We,
HENRY WILSON AND COMPANY LIMITED, and EDWARD WILLIAM
WEST, both of Cornhill, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Engineers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to closets used in or in connection with culinary
matters, such for instance as steam heated closets for keeping or making plates and
other crockery warm, or eatables warm, or for cooking, or the like; or that kind of
closet combined with a hot-plate and carving table; and like or analogous closets.
And this invention has moreover special reference to such class of closets or
chambers which are heated by steam, gas, or liquid fuel.
According to this invention the closet consists of suitable inclosing walls, floor
and roof, the former and in some cases also the latter being double, and the heating
coils, pipes or other means being arranged within the space between the double
layers of coverings, whilst at the front (or at other parts) we provide sliding doors
consisting of corrugated metal adapted to bend and work round a corner or corners
and provided with a handle or handles; the edges of such corrugated metal doors
or plates being adapted to work in grooves or channels at their edges.
By preference the doors are adapted to slide up and down, in which case when
they are lifted they travel from the vertical into the horizontal plane, so that when
open they lie substantially horizontally in the upper part of the closet. One or
more of course of such doors may be used as may be desired.
Of course it is to be understood that the direction of movement of the doors,
and the position which they take up when moved, as well as the uses of the closet,
are not confined to those particularly mentioned.
Dated this 6th day of February 1892.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON, Fels. Chart. Inst. P.A.,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Applicants Patent Agents.
Improvements in Closets used in or connected with Culinary
Matters.
We, HENRY WILSON AND COMPANY LIMITED, and EDWARD WILLIAM
WEST, both of Cornhill, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Engineers, 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:-
This invention has reference to closets used in or in connection with culinary
matters such for instance as steam heated closets for keeping or making plates and
other crockery warm, or eatables; or for cooking, or the like; or that kind of
closet combined with a hot plate and carving table; and like or analogous closets.
And this invention has moreover special reference to such class of closets or
chambers which are heated by steam, gas, or liquid fuel.
. According to this invention, the closet consists of suitable enclosing walls, floor

page_text: and roof, the former and in some cases also the latter being double, and the heating
coils, pipes or other means being arranged within the space between the double
layers of coverings, whilst at the front (or at other parts) we provide sliding doors
consisting of corrugated metal adapted to bend and work round a corner or corners
and provided with a handle or handles; the edges of such corrugated metal doors
or plates being adapted to work in grooves or channels at their edges.
By preference the doors are adapted to slide up and down, in which case when
they are lifted they travel from the vertical into the horizontal plane, so that when
open they lie substantially horizontally in the upper part of the closet. One or
more of course of such doors may be used as may be desired.
with
Having thus generally described the object and nature of this invention we will
low proceed to des
rence to the accompanying sheet of drawings.
The example illustrated shews a steam hot-plate-closet and carving-table, with the
improvements according to this invention applied thereto. In the various figures
of the drawings the same parts are designated by the same letters and they
correspond with those used in the following explanation of the example.
The example illustrated shews a steam hot-plate-closet and carving-table, with the
improvements according to this invention applied thereto. In the various figures
of the drawings the same parts are designated by the same letters and they
correspond with those used in the following explanation of the example.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a front elevation, and Figure 2 is a plan of a steam hot-plate-closet
and carving-table with our improvements applied thereto.
Figure 3 is a sectional elevation of the closet taken at X X Figure 1.
Figure 4 is a sectional end elevation of the closet, shewing a modified con-
struction of the sliding doors.
With reference to the drawings, a designates the closet, and 6 the hot plate.
c are the steam pipes for heating the interior of the closet, and d are the steam
pipes for heating the hot plate b. The closet a is divided into chambers provided
with plate holders e and shelves as required. The front of the closet a is
provided with sliding doors h, one to each chamber. According to this invention
the closet or oven is provided with grooves or guides m, and doors h are constructed
and adapted to slide up and down and bend and work round the top front inside
corner of the closet, and when open to lie under the hot plate b. To this end, the
doors h may be formed of corrugated sheet metal, as shewn at Figure 3, adapted
to bend and work round the roller k so that when raised from the vertical to the
horizontal plane the door will bend round the roller k and will lie substantially
horizontally in the upper part of the closet. The side edges of the doors h slide
in the metal channels m and the doors are provided with handles n by which they
are worked.
In the example of sliding door according to this invention, shewn in Figure 4,
the door is formed of strips or laths of metal connected together by flexible
bands and adapted to turn in the channels or grooves m, so that when lifted the
door will travel from the vertical into the horizontal plane.
We would have it understood that although in the example we have shewn the
direction of movement of the door is from the vertical to the horizontal plane, the
door when open coming under the hot plate, it is within our invention for the door
to open by lowering, in which case the door when open comes under the bottom of
the closet; also it is within our invention for the door to have a side movement
only in which case the door when open lies by the end of the closet.
We would
also have it understood that our invention can be applied to culinary closets
other than that shewn for example to closets other than steam heated closets, and
to ovens.
.
:
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
A culinary closet or oven provided with grooves or guides running at right or

page_text: other angles to one another, and rounded at the part running from one direction to.
the other and a door or doors composed of corrugated metal or of laths, as
specified, and the edges of which fit and run in side grooves; substantially as set
forth, and with reference to, and as shewn in the drawings.
Dated this 7th day of November 1892.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON, Fels. Chart. Inst. P.A.,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Applicants' Patent Agents.