A PORTABLE COOKING APPARATUS SUITABLE FOR CAMPAIGNING PURPOSES
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Fischer Alexander Wilson, of Islington, in the County
of Middlesex, for the Invention of "A PORTABLE COOKING APPARATUS
SUITABLE FOR CAMPAIGNING PURPOSES."
Sealed the 5th February 1856, and dated the 6th August 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Fischer Alexander Wilson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
6th August 1855.
1. FISCHER ALEXANDER WILSON, of Islington, Middlesex, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "A PORTABLE COOKING APPARATUS SUITABLE
FOR CAMPAIGNING PURPOSES" to be as follows:--
My Invention consists of a portable cooking apparatus, comprising a stove,
oven, boiler, pans, kettles, and other vessels, utensils, and articles for cooking,
eating, and drinking purposes, and so constructed that the various parts com-
prising the same (or the said apparatus) fit or pack one within the other, the
whole of the said parts (except the handles of the pans,, lids, 'spouts, knives,
forks, spoons, &c.) being made similar to each other in forin, but slightly
varied in dimension for that purpose, and capable of being enclosed within or
contained by the largest of the parts of the said apparatus. The handles of
the pans, spouts of the kettles, &c. are made to screw and unscrew on and off.
My Invention also comprises a revolving stove plate, which is made to turn
within a cylinder (supported upon folding feet and containing the stove or fire-
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page_text: place); by this revolving plate, each pan, &c. thereon can be brought round
to the front at pleasure. The oven is placed over the stove or fire, and is
made so as to be capable of being enlarged by means of an extra cylinder or
cylinders, the top being closed by a moveable lid. The forms of the various
vessels, utensils, &c. may be cylindrical frustrums of cones, or such other
shapes as will admit of the same mode of fitting one within another, as that
herein described, and may be constructed of iron, tin, or other suitable metal
or material.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Fischer Alexander Wilson in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 6th February 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FISCHER
ALEXANDER WILSON, of Islington, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Fischer Alexander Wilson, Her special licence that I, the said Fischer Alex-
ander Wilson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Fischer Alexander Wilson, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A PORTABLE
COOKING APPARATUS SUITABLE FOR CAMPAIGNING PURPOSES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Fischer Alexander Wilson, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Fischer Alexander Wilson, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained by the following
statement, and in and by the Drawings accompanying the same, together with
the explanation applying to the said Drawings hereto annexed or herein-after
contained (that is to say):-

page_text: My Invention relates to portable cooking apparatus, formed and constructed
in the manner herein-after mentioned; comprising, 1st, a camp kettle, or appa-
ratus for roasting, baking, broiling, frying, stewing, and boiling purposes. The
stove, oven, boiler, pans, kettles, and other articles (portions of which are also
designed for eating and drinking purposes,) are so constructed and varied in
dimensions, that the respective parts when not in use can be packed one within
the other (similar to a number of concentric cylinders), the whole being con-
tained and enclosed within the largest of the said parts. This cooking stove,
&c. in its complete form is especially adapted for campaigning or emigration
purposes (as the principle of its construction admits of great economy of space,
time, and fuel); the sectional parts thereof, however, or modifications of the
same, herein-after enumerated, are also adapted for general use, being designed
to meet all the requirements of a cooking range, or to dispense therewith
during summer, or whenever desirable.
2ndly, a cottage apparatus, or stove for cooking purposes only; comprising a
stove, oven, boiler, pans, and kettles, the various parts of which are also formed
so as to fit one within the other, as before described. The tea and coffee
kettles, as well as the boiler and pans, of which this apparatus is composed,
are made with a pipe or opening thro' the same, so that the heat may pass
through the water or other fluid to be boiled. These kettles and pans may be
used over a common fire.
3rdly, a revolving apparatus, which consists of a single cylinder and covering
plate, or double cylinders placed one above the other, the upper one being made
smaller than the lower one so as to fit therein; the lower cylinder, which is
supported by folding feet, is made with a bottom, having perforations in the
centre, round which a fire grate is formed internally; the upper cylinder rests
upon the lower one, is closed at the top, but has apertures for the insertion
of the pans, &c., (which are made to fit one within the other,) and a grate in
the centre (fastened to the top), which fits into the grate in the lower cylinder
when shut down therein. These grates contain the fuel, the heat from which is
confined within the cylinders by the close top and bottom; there is also a stop
plate in each cylinder to regulate the circulation of the heat, which finally
passes away thro' a chimney at the side. Immediately over the grates there
is an elevated centre cylinder, fitted with a valve or regulator at the top to
regulate the heat in the interior of the apparatus. In addition to the double
cylinder there is also a false top and false bottom with folding feet; the use
of these is, when a large number of pans, &c. are required to be in use, to
convert the said apparatus into a double stove, having two separate fires;
the upper cylinder is then removed and placed upon the false bottom; above

page_text: Figs. 9, 10, 11, & 12 show the cottage apparatus, which consists of two
cylinders and i, which are placed one upon another, as shown at Figs. 3
and 5. is a door where the fuel is supplied, and is also provided for toasting
operations. Figs. 11 and 12 show the oven removed, and one of the kettles,
before mentioned, as in operation. The kettle is formed in the shape of an
inverted conc, with a flange at the top, which closes the top of the stove. The
cone form allows the heat to act upon the entire surface 1, 1, outside while the
heat is confined by the closing flange. The conical pipe or opening m causes
the heat to act upon the interior, and thus the water or fluid is heated exter-
nally and internally. n is a small knob which turns a revolving lid o, by
which the kettle is opened and closed, and filled when necessary. This lid is
attached to the kettle: the pans and other vessels are similar in form except at
the top, having lids to take off in the usual way. These kettles and pans may
be used so as to save time and fuel over an ordinary fire. The fuel I propose
to use in these apparatus is charcoal; peat, wood, or other fuel may, however,
be used therein.
Figs. 13 and 14 show the roasting apparatus. p is the shield; q, the skeleton
shield; r, the pan; and s, the cover.
Figs. 15 and 16 show the revolving apparatus. is the upper cylinder,
which revolves; and u, the lower one; v, the elevated cylinder; w, the
chimney, Fig. 15, the stop plate; y, the false top plate; and z, z, &c., the
pans, &c.
The various cylinders, stoves, ovens, boilers, pans, &c. may be made of iron,
copper, tin, or other suitable metal or metals.
Having now described and illustrated the nature of my said Invention, and
manner in which the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that
I do not confine myself to the precise forms or dimensions shown upon the
Drawings; but claim, as included in my said Invention, all such modifications
as the principle of my said Invention admits.
In witness whereof, I, the said Fischer Alexander Wilson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of February, A.D. 1856.