Improved Cooking, Steaming, Boiling, Hot-water, Plate-warming, and Drying Apparatus.
Year: 1893

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Cooking, Steaming, Boiling, Hot-water, Plate-warming, and
Drying Apparatus.
I, William HiLL, of 15 Pavement, in the City of York, Ironmonger, 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:-
My invention consists in improved cooking, steaming, boiling, hot-water, plate-
warming and drying apparatus.
Fig. 3, is a plan of Fig. 1.
Fig. 4, is a front elevation of modification of my said apparatus.
According to my invention I employ a boiler or copper A which is carried upon
legs or supports B having ball or other casters C and is fitted internally with the
necessary articles for holding the food, such as a mesh work cage D for vegetables
and a tin or tray E for the meats.
Beneath the said food holding means is the water, (which is poured in at the top
of the boiler or copper A).
The water is heated by means of heaters which consist of pipes G and H joined
to double unions J which fit or screw to the boiler or copper A at one end and are
joined to a sealed end or pipe K at the other which inserted in the fire through
the bars. The pipes G allowing the cold water to pass from the boiler or copper A
into the sealed end K where it is heated and then passed back into the boiler or
copper A again by means of the pipes H.
The heaters are so arranged that they can be turned on their double unions J
and placed out of the way when the apparatus is not required as shown in Fig. 2
they being held in such position by arms L and small chains fastened thereto at
one end, and adapted at the other end to hook into a link fastened to the boiler or
copper A.
The apparatus is also provided with saucepans N for gravies, sauces, etc.
The lower part O serves as a hot closet to keep plates hot for immediate use.
Two taps P are provided in front of the apparatus either for draining off the
water when the apparatus is not required further, or to procure hot water while the
apparatus is in use.
The interior of the apparatus may be fitted with any convenient number of parts
for cooking different kinds of joints, fowls, fish, or vegetables.
R is a rail for hanging a wet towel on to dry. S is a plate or dish rack, and
T is a funnel for pouring water in at the boiler or copper A.
The top of the apparatus as shown in Figure 3 forms a hot plate to keep joints
hot when dished up, and the front of steamer next the fire as shown in Figure 3
forins a sconce or jack screen to keep the heat to joint of meat when being roasted
in front of the fire by means of a bottle jack suspended from the mantel-piece.
In Fig. 4 a smaller and slightly modified arrangement of my improved apparatus
is shown, it however embodies substantially the same parts as the one already
described, the same letters of reference indicate the same parts; only one heater
and one tap P are however used in this modification or smaller size instead of two
as in the other figures, and the legs B are of plain bar iron.
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page_text: 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 improved cooking, steaming, boiling, hot-water, plate warming and drying
apparatus such as shown and described.
2. In apparatus of the kind herein referred to the combination of heaters com-
posed of pipes G and H and sealed ends or pipes K with double unions J for
joining the said heaters to the boiler or copper A., so that they can be turned on
their joints, in the manner and for the purposes 'shown and described.
Dated this 22nd of
1000
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent to the Applicant.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds,
Patent Agent to the Applicant.