Improvements in a Culinary Article for Holding, Straining, and Pressing.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 9th July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 12th Oct., 1889-Accepted, 16th Nov., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in a Culinary Article for Holding, Straining, and
Pressing.
JOSEPH WILLIAM SIMPSON Oak Cottage St. Andrew's Road Deal Kent do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A cylindrical shaped holder perforated.
To be made of metal.
At one end is a flange or rim projecting inwards, on which a flat perforated disc
rests, which forms a loose bottom.
At the opposite end or top of holder are handles for lifting.
A seperate disc with a handle of convenient shaps, which fits loose into the said
holder & forms a presser.
The holders are made of certain sizes to fit ordinary Cooking Utensils..
The Holder thus forms a lining for the said Cooking utensils and the perforation
allows of a free circulation of water.
JOSEPH WILLIAM SIMPSON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in a Culinary Article for Holding, Straining, and
Pressing.
I, JOSEPH WILLIAM SIMPSON of St. Andrews Road Deal, 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 is devised with a view to produce a useful adjunct to ordinary
saucepans or utensils employed in cooking vegetables or like foods, and whereby the
latter may be prepared for the table with greater expedition and in a more perfect
and presentable manner than obtains according to the usually followed modes of
procedure by the means ordinarily employed.
In accordance with my improvements I provide a perforated cylindrically shaped
holder A Figure 1; the lower end of which is formed with an internally projecting
flange annulus a serving as a rim to receive the perforated loose disc B shewn
detached in Figure 2. Said loose disc when in position being then a bottom to the
holder or container which has at the top the usual wire-beaded strengthening rim d,
and is also there fitted, as shewn, with lifting handles. The pressing portion of my
device is represented at Figure 3. and consists simply, as shewn, of a separate disc Č
with a handle c of convenient shape. The whole as above described, forms a
supplementary vessel for the reception of the articles or substances to be cooked
and is placed in an ordinary saucepan containing the water, a suitable space-due to
the difference between the diameter of A and that of the saucepan-being left between
the outer circumference of A and the inner circumference of the saucepan.
Free circulation will, it is evident be allowed for the water through the perforations
in A and amongst the vegetables or other articles of diet to be cooked.
The cooking operation having been completed, the whole device by means of the
bandles aforesaid is then conveniently removed and the contents dished, after any
water in a. has percolated through the perforations therein.

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
The Holder A in combination with the loose perforated 'bottom Band presser (
for holding straining and pressing in culinary operations or processes.
Dated this 11th day of October 1889. ·
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agent for Applicant.