Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 5th July, 1899-Accepted, 12th Aug., 1899
We, HEINRICH CHRISTIAN JOHANN BRUGMANN, of Ausschlägerweg 40, Hamburg,
Merchant, and RUDOLF WILHELM PROCINOW, of Lammstrasse 40, Altona, Merchant,
both in the German Empire, 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:-
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This invention relates to improvements in cooking apparatus, and consists
essentially of a vessel provided with a rack or carrier which is removable, the
said rack or carrier being so adapted as to take a convenient number of removable
shelves for carrying the articles to be cooked or otherwise treated in said cooking
apparatus.
By our invention, we are enabled to treat several articles of food at one opera->
tion, the removable shelves enabling us at once to place different foods in the
apparatus either at the same or different times, and to keep the same distinct
from one another.
Our invention further provides for said rack or carrier being capable of altera-
tion in size, for the purpose of taking various sized trays, dishes, or receptacles.
This invention will be found especially useful in restaurants, hotels, &c.,
where it is required to cook a large quantity of food quickly.
For the purpose of more clearly understanding our invention, we have attached
hereto a sheet of drawings, on which;
Figure 1 shows in side elevation the rack or carrier;
Figure 2 shows a plan of Figure 1,;.
Figure 3 shows a horizontal section on line - of Figure 1, and
Figure 4 shows a horizontal section on line y-y of Figure 1.
Referring to said drawings, a, b, c represents in triangular form the base
of our rack, each member being in two pieces and capable of adjustment length-
wise by said pieces sliding over one another through sleeves c, holes d' being
provided for inserting therein securing pins, so that shelves and pans of different
sizes may be placed in the rack. Mounted at the corners of said base are
uprights d, e, f, held together at their upper ends by stays 9 h, also capable of
adjustment in the same way as the base a bc, and for the same purpose. Between
the uprights d e f are provided a number of shelves, in this case two, ik, which
may rest upon inwardly projecting lugs on the uprights de f. The shelves
may be perforated as at 1, and are intended to carry the cooking pans or
receptacles m n which may also be perforated as shown at o, Figure 3. A
handle p may be provided for inserting and lifting the rack from the cooking
vessel or pot.
The action of our invention is as follows. The articles to be treated are placed
in the pans or receptacles m n, or in one of them, as may be desired, and which
in position in the rack, both rack and pans are placed in the cooking vessel
Assuming that the articles in the pans are to be cooked by boiling water in
the ordinary way, the water will rise up between the sides of the cooking vessel
and rack, flowing into the pans m n and then through the perforations o and I

page_text: in the pans and shelves, thus giving a good circulation of the cooking medium,
thoroughly cooking the food, and overcoming the disadvantage so often found in
cookers, namely, the crowding together of the food, rendering the same often
imperfectly cooked.
Each of the shelves may be cut away slightly so as to receive the up-
rights de f, thus keeping the said shelves in position. The pieces a b c, g h and
uprights de f may be connected at their ends by any suitable well known
method so that the whole apparatus may be taken to pieces for the purpose of
cleaning or for any other purpose.
This invention will be found very useful for cooking fish &c., which will be
more evenly cooked than is usually the case. For eggs also, our apparatus will
be found especially useful, as they may be placed in the holes or perforations
in the shelves or pans, and will not be so liable to breakage in cooking as is
often the case.
Food may be kept warm by placing the apparatus in a cooking. vessel provided
with hot water.
The form of the rack need not necessarily be triangular, but may be square or
any other convenient shape.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. A cooking apparatus consisting of a rack or carrier, capable of being inserted
into an ordinary cooking vessel, the base of the rack being formed of a frame,
of which the stays a b c may be extensible or not, from which frame rise the
uprights or supports de f which may be held in position and together by exten-
sible or inextensible staya g h, combined with a perforated shelf or shelves ik
placed at intervals one above another, on which may be placed the perforated
pans or receptacles m n, substantially as described and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 3rd day of July 1899
Doted this 3rd day of July 1899.
For the Applicants,
STANLEY, POPPLEWELL & Co.,
61 and 62, Chancery Lane,
(7 and 8, Southampton Buildings), London, W.C.,
Chartored Patent Agents,