Improvements in Saucepans.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Dec., 1895-Accepted, 8th Feb., 1896
Improvements in Saucepans.
I, LUDOVIC JOHNSON PAINTER, a citizen of the United States of America,
residing at Number 1355 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois,
U.S.A., Gentleman, 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
My invention relates to certain improvements in saucepans of the class in which
two bails are used to provide means for handling the saucepan with one hand.
object of the improvement is to simplify and stiffen the construction as well as to
cheapen the cost of manufacture. To such end the invention consists in certain
features of construction which will be clearly described and definitely claimed
below.
The invention is illustrated in the drawings presented herewith by means of
6 figures, of which
Figure 1 is a lateral perspective of a saucepan provided with my improvements
showing the handles in a vertical position;
Figure 2 is also a lateral perspective, but shows the saucepan held in one hand
and tilted or tipped halfway up to pour out the water therefrom;
Figure 3 is a similar perspective showing the saucepan tilted by a different
manipulation;
Figure 4 is a plan view of the saucepan with the handle laid down upon the
edge thereof;
Figure 5 is a side elevation of the saucepan with the handle in the same
position, and
Figure 6 is a view of the handle and bails in the plane of the same.
In these drawings, the saucepan is lettered A, and the two bails, B, C,
respectively, the same being pivoted to the saucepan at a slight distance apart to
give the necessary purchase. The bail, B, follows the ordinary curve until it
reaches the central portion where it is bent directly away from the saucepan a
short distance to form two substantially straight portions, b, b, and then again
bent at about right angles to form another substantially straight portion, . The
second bail is a trifle shorter than the first and also has two substantially straight
portions, c, extending directly away from the saucepan at the end of which are two
eyes, c', to receive the portions, b, of the other bail and from these eyes the wire is
bent directly back toward the saucepan to form two portions, c², and then at right
angles across to form a central portion, c³, which is ordinarily covered by a
handle, D. This handle and the portion, 61, of the bail, B, furnish excellent
means of grasping the bails in the hand. The curved side portions of the bail, B,
engage with the eyes, c', as seen in Figures 1 and 2, to prevent the bails from
swinging farther to the left than seen in said figures. The portions, c, c², and the
eyes, c', of the bail, C, form loops which slide upon and are guided by the
portions, b, of the bail, B. These portions, b, extend from the central part, b', of
the bail, B, toward the bail, C, and are met substantially halfway by the loops, c¹,
extending outward from the handle, D. I prefer to make two loops and two
guides so that a pair of each may be arranged upon each side of the handle.
I believe, however, that the same is not necessary to the invention broadly con-
sidered, inasmuch as a single loop upon one bail extending toward the other and a
single guide upon the second bail and extending toward the first would answer one

page_text: requirement of my invention, namely, the bringing of the bails together with their
handles into the smallest possible compass when in the position for packing which
is shown in Figure 4. It will be noticed from this figure that the loops upon the
inner bail and the guiding portions therefor upon the outer bail lap one over
another so as to save room. Figure 1 shows the handle portions of the two bails
at the greatest distance apart and illustrates the advantage of having each one of
the bails extended toward the other at the point of engagement. It is exceedingly
important for the purpose of giving a good purchase to the hand in operating the
saucepan as shown in Figure 2 that the two handles should be some little distance
apart during such operation.
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 :-
1. The combination with a saucepan or similar article, of two bails pivoted to
the saucepan at points slightly apart, one of said bails being provided with one or
more loops extending therefrom toward the other bail, and the second bail being
provided with one or more guiding portions adapted to work in said loop and
extending from said second bail toward the first to meet said loop at a point
intermediate between the handle portions of the two bails; substantially as
described.
2. The combination with a saucepan, A, of the two bails, B, C, pivoted to the
saucepan at points slightly apart, one of said bails having the central portion, e³,
and the loops at opposite ends thereof extending toward the second bail and the
second bail having the central portion, 6', and the guiding portions, b, at opposite
ends thereof extending toward the said loops; substantially as described.
Dated this 30th day of December 1895.
LUDOVIC JOHNSON PAINTER.
H. D. Fitzpatrick,
70 Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent..