Improvements in Colanders.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 25th June, 1894-Accepted, 28th July,
1894
I, GEORGE CROOKS of 10 Hindley Street, Pall Mall, Chorley Moor, Chorley,
in the County of Lancaster, Blacksmith, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to an improved construction of colander or vessels
specially suitable for straining liquid from vegetables. According thereto the
colander is constructed in the form of a cylindrical perforated vessel provided with
a perforated movable or false bottom adapted to rest upon a ledge or stops formed
upon the inside of the vessel, and with a plate or cover adapted to loosely fit the
vessel and having a handle whereby it can be forced downward within the vessel
for the purpose of compressing the contents thereof and expelling through the
perforations in the vessel and false bottom any liquid there may be in the same.
The vessel is provided with a suitable handle, and may be provided with an annular
outwardly extending rim or extension at one or at each end. With the construction
described, when the liquid has been thus expelled, the plate or cover is removed
and the vessel turned upside down, whereupon the contents of the vessel can be
forced downwards by means of the, false bottom and thus conveniently removed
from the vessel, it may be in the form of a cylindrical mass.
Dated this 95th dow of Cantantion 1002
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per W. Cross,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in Colanders.
1, GEORGE CROOKS, of 1 Hindley Street, Pall Mall, Chorley Moor, Chorley,
in the County of Lancaster, Blacksmith, 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:-
This invention has reference to an improved construction of colander or vessel
specially suitable for straining liquid from vegetables.
According thereto the colander is constructed in the form of a cylindrical
perforated vessel provided with a perforated movable or false bottom adapted to
rest upon a ledge or stops formed upon the inside of the vessel, and with a plate or
cover adapted to loosely fit the vessel, and having a bandle whereby it can be
forced downward within the vessel for the purpose of compressing the contents
thereof and expelling through the perforations in the vessel and false bottom any
excess liquid there may be in such contents.
The vessel is provided with a suitable handle, and may be provided with an
annular outwardly extending rim or extension at one or at each end.
In the accompanying illustrative drawings,
Fig. 1 shows in central vertical section a colander constructed according to my
invention; and
Fig. 2 shows a plan of the same.
1 is a perforated cylindrical vessel provided with a handle 1ª and with upper and
lower conical rims or extensions 1° and 1°, of which the former serves as a funnel

page_text: to facilitate the insertion into the vessel 1 of the material from which liquid is to.
be strained, and the latter as a stand or support to keep the strained material out
of contact with the liquid that has been expelled therefrom.
2 is a perforated movable or false bottom, which normally rests on a ledge 3 that
may conveniently be formed by bending inwardly a portion of the material
forming the cylindrical vessel 1 as shewn. 4 is the plate or cover, which loosely
fits the vessel 1 and is provided with a handle 5 to permit of its easy manipulation.
In using such a colander, the false bottom 2 is placed on the ledge 3 (or upon
stops which may be substituted therefor), the vegetables from which liquid is to be
strained are then put into the vessel 1, and the plate or cover 4 placed thereon and
pressed down by means of the handle 5 until the vegetables indicated at 6 are
sufficiently compressed or freed from liquid. The plate 4 is then removed and the
vessel 1 turned upside down, whereupon the contents can be pressed downwards and
removed from the vessel, it may be in the form of a cylindrical mass, by applying
pressure to the false bottom 2, which may, for this purpose, conveniently be
provided with a handle 2" as shewn in dotted lines.
The colander may be made of any suitable material. For cheapness, it may
conveniently be made of tinned sheet iron.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The herein described improved construction of colander having a perforated
vessel of uniform area in cross-section, a perforated movable or false bottom, and a
presser plate or cover substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 25th day of June 1894.
Dated this 25th day of June 1894.
For the Applicant,
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.