Year: 1886

page_text: I, SIDNEY DE LISLE PHELPS, of Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge, Art
Worker in Wrought Iron, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The object of my invention is the construction of an improved griller to be
heated by gas.
The use of gas, as a cooking agent in the modern kitchen, is well-known, and
my invention consists in adapting it to grilling purposes, by combining the heat
radiating properties of asbestos with the convenient and calorofic properties of gas.
In carrying my invention into effect, I provide two, preferably, vertical gas
asbestos fires facing each other, and separated by a distance suitable for allowing
of a folding grill, holding the steak or other joint or cut, being introduced between
them. I do not confine myself to having the gas fires fixed, as one or both may be
adjustable in respect of the distance separating them.
Suitable troughs, as usual with folding grills, are provided for catching the
juices of the meat, and the usual and well known devices for ventilating the
grilling space may be used.
When my griller is made as a vertical one, which for convenience and com-
pactness is superior to a horizontal arrangement, a small kettle or the like may be
placed over or near the top and boiled, or a plate warmer may be fixed there, and
a water jacket may be attached to either or both fires.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, SYDNEY DE LISLE PHELPS, of Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge, Art
Worker in Wrought Iron, 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 my invention is the construction of an improved griller to be
heated by gas.
The use of gas as a cooking agent in the modern kitchen is well-known, and
my invention consists in adapting it to grilling purposes by combining the heat
radiating properties of asbestos with the convenient and calorific properties of gas;
and making the griller duplex, so that both sides of the meat can be cooked
at once.
In order that my invention, and the means by which the same may be carried
into practical effect, may be thoroughly understood, I will now describe the same
in detail, referring in so doing to the accompanying drawings, which are to be
taken as part of this specification and read therewith, and in which like parts are
marked throughout the figures with the same reference letter.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of my improved griller.
Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same.
Fig. 3 is a plan.
Fig. 4 is a transverse section through one of the layers of asbestos.
Fig. 5 is a perspective view of my improved adjustable folding gridiron.
A is an under frame of any suitable metal, preferably stamped or cast iron.
B, B are the two grilling fires consisting of a vertical trough shape metal case, b,
lined with fire brick, b', and filled with lump asbestos, b², which is prevented from
falling out by bars, b³, in front, or some other equivalent device.
A Bunsen gas burner, c, is carried under the asbestos for the whole length of the
bed of the latter, and is fitted to receive a supply of gas in any way convenient for
the purpose of my invention.
From the back of each case two brackets, d, project, and rest upon the top of the
frame for the purpose of steadying the grillers.
C is a slide fixed to the bottom of the case, b, and which is capable of sliding in
guides formed under the top of the under-frame A. Each slide, C, (preferably
towards its ends) carries two racks, f, on its under face, with which a pair of
pinions, g, g, gears for the purpose of moving the fires to and fro.
D is a double hook, supported by a light gallows, d', springing from the under
frame A, from which the folding gridiron, E, is suspended centrally between the
two fires, which are then approached to the gridiron, or moved backwards,
according to the judgment of the cook.
F is a dripping pan lying in the under frame, A, and centrally under the
gridiron. G is a draw-out upon which the grid can be laid.
The advantages of my invention are that the steak, or chop, can be cooked on
both sides at once, that the cooking power of either fire can be regulated with the
greatest nicety; and that all the escaping dripping is caught in the fry-pan.

page_text: I may, according to my invention, fit the frame, A, of the griller with a suitable
support upon which a kettle or saucepan can stand, or such utensils may be
suspended from the hook D.
.
H is a sheet iron screen surrounding the griller with the exception of the front
of the dripping tin, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1. The screen is
gathered in at the top and connected to a smoke-flue.
The folding grid, E, is of special construction, and is made adjustable to hold
different thicknesses. One side is prolonged on each side-edge at the bottom, and
at right angles to itself, into two bars e, e, which are perforated to correspond with
each other. The other frame is hinged to the bars e, e, by a pin, i. I provide a
snap, j, to hold the grid closed, and as the slots herein are distanced to correspond
with the holes in the bars e, e, the two sides are always parallel. The ends of the
handles of the grid are prolonged to rest upon a ledge fixed upon the back of the
screen. There are two ledges each on a level with one of the fingers of the duplex
hook D.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. The combination of two vertical grilling fires capable of an independent
motion to or from a centrally supported gridiron for the purpose of regulatably
grilling the meat in the gridiron from both sides at once, substantially as described
with reference to the accompanying drawings.
2. In a double vertical griller, the combination within the case of the grilling fire
of asbestos and gas jets, substantially as described.
3. The combination of perforated bars, e; pin, i; snap, j; slotted to correspond
with the perforations in the bars, e; with two sides of a folding grid, and a device
by which it can be held centrally between a pair of grilling fires, substantially for
the purpose described.
Dated this 10th day of September 1886
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.