IMPROVEMENTS IN SAUCEPANS, KETTLES, AND OTHER VESSELS FOR CULINARY PURPOSES
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Barnard Sampson, of Thrupp Lodge, near
Stroud, in the County of Gloucester, Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SAUCEPANS, KETTLES, AND OTHER VESSELS FOR CULINARY
PURPOSES."
Sealed the 25th June 1867, and dated the 29th December 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Barnard Sampson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the
29th December 1866.
J, EDWARD BARNARD SAMPSON, of Thrupp Lodge, near Stroud, in the
County of Gloucester, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SAUCEPANS, KETTLES, AND OTHER VESSELS FOR
CULINARY PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
My Invention has reference to saucepans, kettles, and such other vessels as
are used for culinary purposes, and has for its object to protect the said vessels
from direct contact with the fire, and thereby to prevent the injury to the
food being cooked or heated in the said vessels which frequently arises from
the vessels becoming too highly heated, especially at the bottom.

page_text: My said Invention consists in applying a disc or false bottom to the outside
of the true bottom of the saucepan, kettle, or other culinary vessel, the said
false bottom being fixed or placed parallel to the true bottom and at a short
distance therefrom. The said dise or false bottom may be perforated with
holes, so as to permit the heat of the fire to have ready access to the true
bottom of the vessel; or the said disc or false bottom may be made of wire
gauze or plaited wire. The false bottom may be attached to the true bottom
in various ways.
According to one method I attach the false bottom to the true bottom by
rivetting, the distance between the two bottoms being determined by projections
on the false bottom.
According to another method I attach the false bottom to the vessel by
means of a spring hoop, the distance between the two bottoms being
determined by projections, as last described; but I do not limit myself to any
particular method of attaching the false bottom to the true bottom of the vessel.
Although for ordinary purposes the use of a false bottom is sufficient, yet
in the case of vessels to be used for purposes where the flavour of food is
particularly liable to be injured by exposure to too high a temperature the
vessel may be protected from the fire at its sides as well as at its bottom. In
such cases I attach to the false bottom a casing extending to the required
height up the sides of the vessel.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Barnard Sampson in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 25th June 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
BARNARD SAMPSON, of Thrupp Lodge, near Stroud, in the County of Gloucester,
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Iler Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight bundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Edward Barnard Sampson, Her special licence that I, the said Edward
Barnard Sampson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Edward Barnard Sampson, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully

page_text: might make, use, exercise and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SAUCEPANS, KETTLES, AND OTHER VESSELS FOR CULINARY
PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward
Barnard Sampson, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describo
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Barnard Sampson, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention has reference to saucepans, kettles, and such other vessels
as are used for culinary purposes, and has for its object to protect the
said vessels from direct contact with the fire, and thereby to prevent
the injury to the food being cooked or heated in the said vessels which
frequently arises from the vessels becoming too highly heated especially at the
bottom.
My said Invention consists in applying a disc or false bottom to the outside
of the true bottom of the saucepan, kettle, or other culinary vessel, the said
false bottom being fixed or placed parallel to the true bottom and at a short
distance therefrom. The said disc or false bottom may be perforated with
holes, so as to permit the heat of the fire to have ready access to the true bottom
of the vessel; or the said disc or false bottom may be made of wire gauze or
plaited wire. The false bottom may be attached to the true bottom in various
ways.
According to one method I attach the false bottom to the true bottom
by rivetting, the distance between the two bottoms being determined by
projections on the false bottom.
According to another method I attach the false bottom to the vessel
by means of a spring hoop, the distance between the two bottoms being
determined by projections, as last described; but I do not limit myself to any
particular method of attaching the false bottom to the true bottom of the vessel.
Although for ordinary purposes the use of a false bottom is sufficient, yet
in the case of vessels to be used for purposes where the flavour of food is
particularly liable to be injured by exposure to too high a temperature the
vessel may be protected from the fire at its sides as well as at its bottom. In

page_text: such cases I attach to the false bottom a casing extending to the required
height up the sides of the vessel.
Having explained the nature of my Invention I will proceed to describe,
with reference to the accompanying Drawing, the manner in which the same
is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents a plan of a saucepan to which my Invention is applied;
Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same; Figure 3 is a vertical section
of the same; and Figure 4 is a plan of the pan or protector.separately.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in each Figure of the
Drawing.
a is the saucepan of the ordinary form; b, c, is the pan or protector,
consisting of a disc or false bottom 6 having a casing or band c extending a
short distance up the sides of the saucepan. The diameter of the false bottom
and casing or band b, c, is somewhat greater than that of the saucepan with
which it is to be used, so that when the false bottom and casing is fitted to
the saucepan there is left an annular space between the inner sides of the
said casing and sides of the saucepan, as best seen in the section Figure 3.
The false bottom or disc b is perforated with a series of small holes, and if
thought desirable the casing or band c may also be perforated, but both the
false bottom and casing or band may be plain or unperforated; I prefer,
however, to perforate the false bottom. The false bottom and casing b, c, is
attached to the saucepan by the clip d on one side of the casing fitting against
the under side of the socket end of the handle e of the saucepan, and being
fixed thereto by rivets. By an examination of Figure 3 it will be seen that
the bottom of the saucepan is not in contact with the false bottom b, but is
situated a little above the said false bottom, the bottom of the saucepan
resting on the stop f on the said false bottom. The false bottom 6, casing or
band c, and clip d are made by preference in one piece by casting, but the
said parts may be made by stamping or wrought by hand. By the use of the
false bottom and casing b, c, both the bottom and sides of the saucepan are
protected from direct contact with the fuel of the fire, yet still permitting the
heat to have ready access to the bottom and sides of the vessel for the purpose
of heating the same.
When the sides of the saucepan or vessel are not required to be protected
I dispense with the casing or band c, and use only a disc or false bottom
either perforated or unperforated. The disc or false bottom may be attached
to the true bottom of the vessel in either of the ways herein-before described,
or in any other convenient way. The false bottom or false bottom and casing
or band may be made of iron, copper, or other hard metal or alloy.

page_text: In applying my Invention to kettles and other vessels for culinary purposes
I employ a protecting false bottom or false bottom and casing or band, as
described and represented with respect to a saucepan, the size and shape of
the protecting false bottom or false bottom and casing or band being varied to
suit the vessel with which it is to be used and the particular use to which the
vessel is to be put.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do not
limit myself to the precise details herein described and illustrated, as the same
may be varied without departing from the nature of my Invention ; but I
claim as my Invention the improvements in saucepans, kettles, and other
vessels for culinary purposes herein-before described and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawing, that is to say, applying a disc or false bottom
to the outside of the true bottom of the vessel, or a disc or false bottom and
casing or band extending some distance up the side of the vessel for the
purpose of protecting either the bottom or both bottom and sides of the vessel
from direct contact with the fuel of the fire, and thereby to prevent injury to
the food being cooked or heated in the said vessel, substantially as described
and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Barnard Sampson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
Witness,
EDWARD BARNARD SAMPSON. (L.S.)
JOHN THO. SNUDLEY MARSDEN,
Stroud.