IMPROVEMENT. CONNECTED WITH FRYING PANS
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I ALFRED PERKINS of 123 Uxbridge Road, Shepherds Bush, in the County of
Middlesex, Wholesale Ironmonger do hereby declare the nature of my said
invention for AN IMPROVEMENT. CONNECTED WITH FRYING PANS to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is a certain improved addition to frying pans to
enable the contents to be kept clear of the flame from the fire-also to prevent
the entry of blacks or soot and also to assist and expedite the cooking operation
and to obviate the boiling fat flying or splashing out or over the edge of the pan,
thereby preventing the stove, hot plate or cooking apparatus becoming soiled, by
the grease.
For the purpose of my invention I take an ordinary frying pan and slot, notch,
or recess the wall diametrically opposite to the handle and I affix a cover or lid as
a hinge joint so that the cover may be set up at right angles to the pan or be laid
down upon the pan to enclose wholly or partially its contents.
The cover is not permanently attached to the pan but is so connected that it
may be removed-in the case of new frying pans a similar arrangement is
adopted.
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I ALFRED PERKINS of 123 Uxbridge Road, Shepherds Bush, in the county of
Middlesex, Wholesale Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of my said
invention for AN IMPROVEMENT CONNECTED WITH FRYING PANS" and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention is a certain improved addition to frying pans to
enable the contents to be kept clear of the flame from the fire, to prevent the entry
of blacks or soot, to assist and expedite the cooking operation also to obviate the
boiling fat flying or splashing out or over the edge of the pan, thereby preventing
the stove, hotplate, or cooking apparatus becoming soiled by the grease.
For the purpose of my invention I take an ordinary frying pan A as at
Figure 1 of the annexed drawings and slot, notch, or recess the wall B
diametrically opposite to the handle C, and I affix a cover or lid D as at Figure 2
with a lid or tongue piece E to enter said slot and serve as a hinge joint so that
the cover D may be set up at right angles, as at Figure 3, to the pan or be laid
down upon the pan as at Figure 4 to enclose wholly or partially its contents.
The lip or tongue piece E is of metal affixed to the cover D by rivets or
otherwise with a projecting part so arranged that it can be passed through the slot
or recess in the wall of the pan, so that when the cover is opened and thrown back
to examine the contents of the pan, the end of the lip or tongue comes in contact
with the outside of the wall of the pan and forms a stay or support to the said
cover which prevents it falling right back, and it remains open till it is touched
with the fork when the cover falls again over the pan enclosing the contents as before.
In order to allow the steam generated during cooking to escape freely from the
pan, ventilating boles F F are made in the loose cover, which holes can be made if
desired of such a shape as to admit of the prongs of a fork being inserted, and
either rasing the cover to its position when open, or to remove it entirely from the
pan using the fork as a handie during the operation. In which latter case the
pan can be used as an ordinary open frying pan without any cover at all.
The loose cover is also made of such a shape that it can be used as a plate when
not on the frying pan as will be understood by Figure 2.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The covering of the ordinary open frying pan, with the loose cover, hinged as to
be removeable at pleasure, the hinge lip or tongue forming a stay or support to the
cover when open substantially as described.