Improvements in and Apparatus for Cooking Meats, Game, and the like, also Toasting Bread and the like.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Mar., 1887
Complete Left, 26th Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 27th Dec., 1887
Improvements in and Apparatus for Cooking Meats, Game, and the
like, also Toasting Bread and the like.
·
HENRY HAZLETON 140 St. Paul's Road Westsmethwick near Birmingham Mechanical
Draughtsman and ALFRED READ, 24 South Road Smethwick near Birmingham
Warehouseman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
Firstly. A Box A made of Sheet Tin or similar material of a square or partially
circular design the back B acting as a door the Front C being partially open. Upon
the Top D of this box shall be placed suitable mechanism E the object of which is to
cause a spindle F to revolve. This mechanism E shall be composed of springs G
& Trains of wheels (similar to the works of a Clock) which will be wound up
by a key. Upon this spindle shall be fixed or hung a wheel H. Into this wheel
shall be placed one or more Vanes J composed of four Blades which shall as they
are carried round upon the wheel H catch against a peg K (fixed to the Top and
pointing to the Base) which shall cause each Vane to move a Quarter of a circle so
that for every four revolutions of the wheel H each Vane shall perform one revolution.
Lastly Upon these Vanes shall be placed the hooks L containing the Meats M &
the like aforementioned.
Dated this Second day of March 1887
HENRY HAZLETON.
ALFRED READ.

page_text: Improvements in and Apparatus for Cooking Meats, Game, and the
like, also Toasting Bread and the like.
HENRY HAZLETON 140 St Paul's Road Westsmethwick near Birmingham
Mechanical Draughtsinan, and ALFRED READ 24 South Road Smethwick near
Birmingham, Warehouseman 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 :-
Our invention consists of improvements in, and Apparatus for Cooking Meats, Game
and the like, also Toasting Bread and the like.
In carrying into effect our invention we construct a casing, (or heat collector) of
suitable Metal, the front of which is open, and the back is to act as a door (if
required).
Fixed into the Top of this Case and pointing downwards we placet wo pegs so
that they will catch the Crosses, afterwards mentioned.
Inside the above mentioned Case, and at the Top, we place a metal Frame, having
slots and holes in it, the slots to contain hooks, very loosely fitted, that they may
slide freely along them, the holes to contain the Crosses, afterwards mentioned.
Upon the top of the above mentioned Case, we fix an ordinary Movement, con-
structed of a train of wheels and a spring (similar to the works of a Clock) the
Object of which is to Revolve the Metal frame carrying the crosses. This movement
we enclose with a tin Cover (or other suitable material).
Into the holes of the metal frame above-mentioned we place the spindles carrying on
their tops the crosses. Each cross to have four arms, and the underside of each cross
we construct into the shape of a ring, so that we can fix in them the hooks containing
the meats and the like to be Cooked or Toasted.
Upon the sides of the above mentioned metal Frame, we place springs of a very
light section, one for every cross, the object of which is to allow the Crosses to
rotate in one direction only, and also to keep the arms of the crosses from forming an
angle that would permit of their ends catching against the pegs above mentioned.
The object of the above mentioned pegs and the crosses is, that as the metal
frame is rotating with the crosses upon it, the arms shall catch against these fixed
pegs, and as the frame continues revolving, it causes the crosses to partially rotate
until they become tangential to the pegs, when they are carried past them, thus
when the metal frame has completed four revolutions, each cross has only made but
one revolution.
Our invention will be understood by reference to the accompanying drawings in
which Fig. 1 is an Elevation and Plan of the Metal Frame, with the crosses and
sliding hooks, shown in their proper position.
Fig. 2 is an Elevation and Plan of the Metal Frame.

page_text: Fig. 3 is an Elevation of the apparatus complete.
Fig. 4 is a Plan of the apparatus complete.
Fig. 5 is an elevation and Plan showing the spring and the peg in their correct
positions.
The various reference letters will be found to be uniform in all the drawings.
A A are holes in the metal frame for the crosses.
BB are the slots for the sliding hooks.
C is the hole for attaching the metal frame to the movement.
D. D are the crosses.
EE are the springs.
F. F. are the rings for the hooks.
G is the metal frame.
H is the peg for moving the crosses.
I is the covering over the movement.
J is the door.
K. K. are the sliding hooks.
In some instances we employ one peg only for moving the large and small
crosses.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is.
1st. The general arrangement of parts mechanically fitted together as described in
drawings and specifications.
2nd. By using crosses, and causing their centres to travel round in a circle, while
one of their sides, (consecutively), are kept in contact with the peg, for a short time,
we impart to every piece being cooked or toasted, a gradual rotative movement.
3rd. By our arrangement of the centres of the crosses, it allows us to place within
the case a great quantity of pieces to be cooked or toasted, without their interfering
with each other while they are revolving.
4th. By using a metal Frame, revolving about its centre, we bring every piece that
is hung upon it, in front of the heat.
Dated this 25th day of November 1887.
HENRY HAZLETON
ALFRED READ.