An improved Grid or broer.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Sept., 1899-Accepted, 28th Oct., 1899
An improved Grid or broer.
I, JEIRO JOIN PEARSE, of Hay Street, Perth, in the Colony of Western
Australia, Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
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My invention is a simple appliance by which meat may be grilled on Primus
stoves or any stove using gas or oil, as well as upon an ordinary fire of wood
coal or other fuel. Its object is to prevent the fat and gravy from the meat
falling upon the wick or burner of the stove and either clogging it or extinguish-
ing the flame, whilst on ordinary fires the meat is kept from actual contact with
the flame and all the advantage of grilling meat is secured without having the
flavor of it tainted by the fumes of the fire which may be used.
These objects are attained by a pan or tray made of sheet or other metal with
the edges pressed up all round about three quarters of an inch or more which
forms a reservoir for the fat and juices of the meat. In one corner of the pan
or tray is a lip by which the fat may be poured off from time to time as it accumu-
lates. Above this tray at about three quarters of an inch or more is placed a
wire grid or broiler. This grid or broiler is made so that two pins projecting
from the sides of it are made to slip into two bevelled slots, which are either
cut or pressed into the sides of the pan or tray whilst on the front of the grid
or broiler is a hook which hooks on to one of the wires of the handle of the grid
or broiler and keeps it firmly attached to the pan or tray. The pan or tray is
also supplied with a handle so that if necessary the hook can be dispensed with
and the cook can hold the handles of the pan and grid together. The contrivance
of the hook when used is for expeditiously removing the grid or broiler from the
pan or tray for cleaning or other purposes.
In the accompanying drawings-
Fig. 1 is a plan of the grid or broiler.
Fig. 2 is a section of same at the line marked A B on Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a section at CD of the back end of same showing the bevel into which
the projecting pins of the grid or broiler slip.
Fig. 4 is a section at E F of the front portion of the same showing the hook
to keep the grid or broiler in its place.
N is the tray or pan; K is the grid or broiler; L is the handle of the grid or
broiler: I is the handle of the tray or pan: M are the projecting pins on the
grid or broiler: G shows one of the bevelled slots on either side of the pan or
tray: H is the hook which fastens the grid or broiler to the tray or pan; and J
is the lip of the pan or tray by which the fat and drippings are run off.
When meat is required to be grilled the grid or broiler is fixed to the tray or
pan as above described and placed over the fire or flame and heat is communicated
to the pan or tray which heat in turn by radiation from the pan or tray reaches
the meat and cooks it as desired, the fat and juices of the meat falling into the
tray or pan to be removed as required and being prevented from dropping on to

page_text: the flame or fire, whilst the pan or tray effectually prevents the meat from being
tainted with the fumes of the gas oil or other fuel which may be used.
Should it be necessary to remove the grid or broiler the hook is thrown back
and the grid or broiler is released and lifted out of the slots.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I claim :-
1. The pan or tray N with lip J substantially as shown and described.
2. The grid or broiler K substantially as shown and described.
3. The projecting pins M M with bevelled slots G and hook H by which the
grid or broiler is attached to the pan or tray N or may be released therefrom
substantially as shown and described.
4. The combination of the pan or tray N and the grid or broiler K with attach-
ments thereto the pins M M the bevelled slots G and the hook H substantially
as shown and described for the purpose of making an improved grid or broiler for
effectually grilling meat or any description of fuel and without damage or incon-
venience to the stove used and without tainting the meat by the fumes of the
fuel used.
Dated this 25th day of September 1899.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co..
322, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Patent Agents for the Applicant.