Improvements in the Construction of Toasting or Roasting Apparatuses for Edibles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Nov., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Toasting or Roasting
Apparatuses for Edibles.
We, MESHACH HOPKINS of 24 Azenby Square Lyndhurst Road Peckham in
the County of Surrey, Engineer, and EDWARD PELLOWE of 36 Kennington Oval
Lambeth in the County of Surrey, Journalist, 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 :-
The object of which is to facilitate and simplify the present mode of cooking in
front of a kitchen range or stove fire and to obviate the necessity of handling the
article that is being cooked when once it has been fixed for that purpose.
And for this purpose we use a frame such as will be commonly seen suspended by
hooks to the bar of a fire grate for the purpose of heating flat irons and other
articles and which has generally a cross horizontal sliding bar which slides
longitudinally along the side bars of the beforementioned frame in guides made for
that purpose and which are fixed or formed in the ends of the aforesaid cross
borizontal sliding bar and which will hereafter he referred to and known as the
slides-And in the centre between the slides of the aforesaid cross horizontal bar
we fix firmly a bar or rod parallel to the slides of the beforementioned suspen led
frame the purport of which is to move to or fro the cross horizontal slide bar
together with its mountings to the range of heat required and which will
henceforward be referred to and known as the slide handle.
In the centre of the aforesaid cross horizontal slide bar and between the two
slides we fix firmly a down socket at right angles to the slide bar and which is to
receive an upright spit of any desired height and size the one end of which is
inserted into the said socket to its depth and free to rotate therein, the upper end
of the said upright spit being made conical and upon which is fixed the boss of a
crank lever and which rests upon the end of the said down socket which is flash
with the upper side of the aforesaid cross horizontal slide bar, and near to the end
of the spit crank lever a perforation is made:And for actuating the rotary
movement of the aforesaid upright spit we use a rod with one end cranked to a
right angle or nearly so and which is inserted into the perforation before mentioned
in the upright spit crank lever end and free for the rotary movement therein, and
the other end of the said rod is also cranked to a right angle but laterally to the
crank at the other end and a loop formed therewith by turning such cranked end
downwards and again crossward and upward and back to meet the opposite side of
the rod, thus forming a right angled loop "in the same direction as the other
cranked end" and which is to encircle the slide handle at any suitable part and free
to slide thereon and also to vibrate through the other end being connected with the
upright spit crank lever and forming a semicircle in its rotation therewith, thus
when the upright spit crank lever is placed at right angles to the slide handle
the said actuating rod will stand in an oblique line to either of the slides, and by
moving the actuating-rod by its loop towards the end of the slide handle to the
extremity of its stroke the upright spit will have made a quarter of a revolution
and the crank and rod will be on their centre, and in line with the slide handle,
press the said rod over the centre line and at the same time moving the rod by its
loop along the slide handle in the opposite direction untill the actuating rod will
have attained its greatest diagonal line with the slides, when it will be found that
the upright spit will have made the one halt of a revolution and consequently upon

page_text: Figures 1. and 2. are plans or elevations.
Figures 3. and 4. are sectional views.
In all the figures like parts are indicated by similar letters of reference:-
a. a. are parts of a frame, which are suspended at right angles to, the bars of a
stove or fire grate by hooks being formed at the ends for that purpose:-b. b. is
a cross horizontal bar or plate which is carried and slides upon the frame bars a. a.
by means of indents, eyelets, or by looprings as shown by Figs. 1. and 3.-c. is a
hand bar or slide handle firmly fixed to the cross horizontal bar or plate b. b. for
the purpose of sliding the same to or from the range of heat-d. is a connecting
rod that slides upon the hand bar or slide handle c. by a loopring as shown by c.
and d. Fig. 4. the other end of said rod being connected to a crank lever e. which
is firmly fixed to the thick end of the spit the extended end of the spit f. below
the crank lever e. is then pivoted into a down socket y. and which is firmly fixed to
the horizontal bar or plate b. b. the pivoted end of the spit f. being free to rotate
therein as shown in Fig. 3. the upper part of the spit f. being conical and which
carries the cross bar h. and which in its turn carries a series of smaller spits i.
shown by Figs. 2. and 3. :-It will be seen that by moving the connecting rod d.
Fig. 1. towards c. that the crank lever e. with the rod pivot will move in the direction
of the dotted circle and arrow carrying all mountings together.
All the mountings above the horizontal bar or plate b. b. may be made separately
detachable for the purpose of cleaning if desirable and the crank lever e. may
be placed below the down socket g. if desirable, in which case a collar should be

page_text: formed on the pivot f. to hold the spit and mountings in position; by this arrange-
ment a complete circle can be given to the crank lever e. with the pivoted spit f.
and its mountings: Any kind of bangers, prongs or racks may be placed in the
cross bar . in lieu of spits.
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 :-
1st. A down socket fixed in a cross horizontal bar that is capable of sliding
longitudinally, substantially as herein shown and described.
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2ndly. A down socket fixed in a cross horizontal bar that is capable of sliding
longitudinally and carrying an upright spit "free to rotate in the said down
socket, substantially as herein shown and described.
3rdly. A down socket fixed in a cross horizontal bar that is capable of sliding
longitudinally and carrying an upright spit "free to rotate" in the said down socket
and to the said upright spit is fixed a crank lever, substantially as herein shown
and described.
4thly. A down socket fixed in a cross horizontal bar that is capable of sliding
longitudinally and carrying an upright spit "free to rotate" in the said down socket
and to the said upright spit is fixed a crank lever to the end of which is connected
a rod for actuating the rotary movement of the said upright spit substantially as
herein shown and described.
5thly. A. down socket fixed in a cross horizontal bar that is capable of sliding
longitudinally and carrying an upright spit "free to rotate" in the said down socket
and to the said upright spit is fixed a crank lever to the end of which is connected
a rod for actuating the rotary movement of the said upright spit-the other end of
the said actuating rod is connected to a bar or rod which forms the handle of the
said cross horizontal bar" by means of a slide contrivance, substantially as herein
shown and described.
Dated this 9th day of September 1895.
MESHACH HOPKINS.
EDWARD PELLOWE.