An Improved Fire Grate Trivet, Hanger, or Appliance for Heating and Cooking Food, for Warming Plates and Utensils, for Heating Flat Irons, and for Use as a Blower.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 5th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 9th Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fire Grate Trivet, Hanger, or Appliance for Heating
and Cooking Food, for Warming Plates and Utensils, for Heating
Flat Irons, and for Use as a Blower.
I WILLIAM JAMES Fox of Ryefield Villas, Marple, in the County of Chester,
Buyer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My said invention relates to an improved fire grate hanger, trivet or appliance,
which can be used for various domestic purposes such as cooking and heating food,
blowing up the fire, warming plates and utensils, heating flat irons, infusing tea,
toasting bread and generally for similar and analogous domestic purposes. The
foundation or frame of my improved appliance is made of strong wire bent to a
staple form and with a curved end cross bar. The free ends of this staple shaped
frame might be bent into the shape of hooks to suspend the appliance from the
grate bar, but I prefer to rivet the ends to a hook of flat metal having tails which
project downward. These tails might if desired be connected by a cross bar at
the foot.
Upon the sides of the frame I mount a sliding plate, the plate being formed
The oval
or perforated with oval holes through which the frame sides pass.
shape of the holes allows the plate to rock and turn on the sides, so that it can
either be laid down flat or made to stand at any angle or erect.
1 also provide a
sliding bar which can be moved to and fro on the frame. I hinge or pivot a
tongue or tail on the plate which by perforations or other means can be made to
engage with a catch on the sliding bar, and by spacing the perforations or other
means the plate can be supported at different angles. When the plate is turned
up so as to stand erect the bar can be slid forward so as to engage with and lock
the plate in its erect position. The plate when erect can be pushed up against the
grate bars so as to act as a blower for the fire or for the oven and by sliding the
bar a short distance back from the foot of the plate a recess is presented which
will receive the foot of flat irons when it is desired to heat the same.
The plate
being between the face of the irons and the grate bars and fuel, I can heat flat
irons without fouling them with ashes or smoke. I also form the lower end of the
pivotted tongue on the plate with prongs or teeth and by throwing it over so as to
project in front of the plate I provide a ready means for suspending meat to be
cooked or bread to be toasted between the fire and the plate. When cooking
bacon or meat on this suspending fork the plate acts as a radiator and the
appliance practically constitutes a species of little oven. A pan or plate can be
placed at the foot of the plate to catch the dripping and cook potatoes. The plate
can be thrown back and fixed at any angle so as to support plates while being
warmed, or it can be laid flat so as to act as a trivet upon which to place a tea or
coffee pot or any other vessel containing liquid or food which it is desired to keep
warm.
The improved appliance can be suspended to any convenient bar at any height
to suit the state of the fire, the plate when laid flat being practically on a level
with the supporting bar. The appliance may be modified in slight details but
mainly I adhere to the construction hereinbefore set forth and described.
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11001
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agents.

page_text: An Improved Fire Grate Trivet, Hanger, or Appliance for Heating
and Cooking Food, for Warming Plates and Utensils, for Heating
Flat Irons, and for Use as a Blower.
I WILLIAM JAMES Fox of Ryefield Villas, Marple, in the County of Chester,
Buyer, 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 and accompanying drawings:-
--
My said invention relates to an improved fire grate hanger, trivet or appliance,
which can be used for various domestic purposes such as cooking and heating
food, blowing up the fire, warming plates and utensils, heating flat irons, infusing
tea, toasting bread and generally for similar and analogous domestic purposes.
The improved hanger will be best understood from a reference to the annexed
sheet of drawings.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation with the plate in an inclined position.
Fig. 2 is a similar view with the plate in a vertical position.
Fig. 3 is a plan.
Fig. 4 shows the angular foot of the plate with the holes through which the
side bars of the frame pass.
The foundation or frame of my improved appliance is made of strong wire a
bent to a staple form and with a curved end cross-bar a¹. The free ends of this
staple shaped frame might be bent into the shape of hooks to suspend the appliance
from the grate bar, but I prefer to rivet the ends to hooks b of flat metal having
tails which project downward. These tails might if desired be connected by a
cross bar at the foot.
Upon the sides of the frame I mount a sliding plate the angular foot of the
plate being formed or perforated with oval holes through which the frame sides a
pass. The oval shape of the holes allows the plate e to rock and turn on the
sides so that it can either be laid down flat, or made to stand at any angle, or erect.
For example in Fig. 1 the plate is shown lying at a slight angle, while in Fig. 2
it stands vertical.
I also provide a sliding bar which can be moved to and fro on the frame.
I hinge or pivot a tongue or tail on the plate, which by perforations (
or other
means can be made to engage with a catch d' on the sliding bar, and by spacing
the perforations e, or other means, the plate c can be supported at different
angles. When the plate is turned up so as to stand erect as in Fig. 1, the bar d
can be lid forward so as to engage with and lock the plate in its erect position.
To effect this locking, the plate carries a tail at the foot which enters a slit
in the bar das in Figs. 2 and 3 whereby the plate is maintained in its erect
position.
The
The plate when erect can be pushed up against the grate bars so as to act as a
blower for the fire or for the oven and at the foot of the plate a recess is presented
which will receive the foot of flat irons when it is desired to heat the same.
plate being between the face of the irons and the grate bars and fuel, I can heat
flat irons without fouling them with ashes and smoke. I also form the outer end
of the pivotted tongue e on the plate, with prongs or teeth, as appears in Fig. 3,
and by throwing it over so as to project in front of the plate (see Figs. 2 and 3),
I provide a ready means for sus ending meat to be cooked or bread to be toasted
between the fire and the plate c. The tongue may be of any desired breadth.
When cooking bacon or meat on this suspending fork, the plate acts as a
radiator and the appliance practically constitutes a little oven. A pan or plate

page_text: can be placed on the bars a at the foot of the plate e to catch the dripping and
cook potatoes.
The
The plate can be thrown back and fixed at any angle as already said with
reference to Fig. 1 so as to support plates while being warmed, or it can be laid
perfectly flat so as to act as a trivet upon which to place a tea or coffee pot or any
other vessel containing liquid or food which it is desired to keep warm.
improved appliance can be suspended to any convenient bar at any height to suit
the state of the fire, the plate when laid flat being practically on a level with the
supporting bar. The appliance may be modified in slight details but mainly I
adhere to the construction set forth and described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is.
1. The arrangement, construction and combination of parts composing the
improved firegrate trivet, hanger or appliance substantially as described and as
illustrated.
2. In a hanger or appliance of the indicated nature supporting the sliding plate c
on the frame sides by forming the same with oval or oblong holes which in addition
to the sliding movement enables the plate to rock and turn upon the sides so that
it can be fixed in a vertical, angular or horizontal position for the purposes and
substantially as described and shown.
3. A firegrate trivet, hanger or appliance of the indicated nature, composed of
a staple shaped frame a, with suspending hooks b and carrying a sliding plate c
capable of being adjusted and set in an erect, horizontal or angular position by
means of the sliding bar d and tongue e in the manner for the purposes and
substantially as described and shown.
4. In a hanger of the indicated construction the forked tongue e for the purposes
and substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 4th day of January 1895.
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agents.