IMPROVE- MENTS IN OR APPERTAINING TO APPARATUS FOR COOKING, PARTS OF WHICH INVENTION ARE APPLICABLE TO TABLE DISHES
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alfred Julius Boult at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th March 1882. A communication
from abroad by James Dudley of Liège in the Kingdom of Belgium.
ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of the firm of W. P. Thompson & Boult, Agents for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, of 323 High Holborn, London, in the' County of
Middlesex and 6 Lord Street Liverpool in the County of Lancaster "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN OR APPERTAINING TO APPARATUS FOR COOKING, PARTS OF WHICH
INVENTION ARE APPLICABLE TO TABLE DISHES." A communication from abroad by
James Dudley of Liège in the Kingdom of Belgium.
This invention is designed to enable a person to cook vegetables and other foods
and serve them up with greater despatch than at present attainable also to enable
one to cook several dishes in one saucepan and to do it better and with more
economy of heat and space than at present.
It consists essentially in forming moveable galleries or dishes with or without
perforated bottoms in the saucepan or other boiler above the bottom. Upon these
galleries or dishes the food is placed. These galleries can be lifted out and made
to fit the vegetable or other dishes used at table; Sometimes, so as to steam
vegetables by this mechanism I place one two or three hollow handles or pillars
to a gallery or the frame into which the galleries fit, through which pillars I can
pour water for steaming purposes to the bottom of the pan. Some galleries
especially those for peas require in addition rims or sides to prevent the food
falling off when lifted out of the pan.
In some instances 1 use several galleries one above the other separated by
bobbins or distance washers threaded onto the frame or placed on projections in the
galleries, or even formed in one' with the gallery, or the galleries may work in slots
or grooves in the frame or rest on ledges forming part of the frame after the manner
of shelves in a bookcase. Sometimes the gallery too is formed with projections
below to act as legs to stand on the bottom of the pot or dish. These galleries if
perforated adimit the steam up into the vegetables more readily and also act as
strainers for the vegetable dishes when they are placed in them. Additional
galleries may be used in an ordinary old fashioned steamer and in some instances
I may make them like a series of cylindrical sided cups one over the other.

page_text: Potatoes that are utterly spoiled if boiled in the usual way such as the "flour-
ball" potato are brought to a delightful condition if steamed in my apparatus.. and
the galleries if made without perforations and covered with a lid are excellent for
stewing fruits.
These galleries can be made of any kind of pottery, or of metal wood or other
material suitable for the purpose
In carrying out this invention I propose to make the vegetable dishes for use at
table with a narrow rim round their edges to receive and hold the rim on the
gallery or dish in which the vegetables are cooked and thus render the changing
of the article from one vessel to another unnecessary and at the same time have
no unsightly article on the table.