A New or Improved Strainer for Saucepans and Culinary and other Vessels.
Year: 1897

page_text: A New or Improved Strainer for Saucepans and Culinary and
other Vessels.
I, FREDERICK RYLAND, of Houghton Street, West Bromwich, in the County of
Stafford, Ironfounder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
My invention consists of a strainer constructed and used in the manner herein-
after described to be applied principally to saucepans and other culinary vessels for
the purpose of pouring off the water or other liquid in the saucepan or culinary
vessel from the vegetable or other solid contents of the saucepan or vessel. My
invention may also be used for straining or separating liquids from solids contained
in vessels other than saucepans and culinary vessels.
I will describe my invention in connection with a saucepan.
In making a strainer according to my invention I take a disc of thin sheet metal
preferably tin plate and by means of well known processes I raise the marginal
part of the said disc into a plane at right angles to the plane of the disc thereby
producing a very shallow cup of a size suitable to fit in the top of the saucepan.
The extreme edge of the said shallow cup is brought into a plane parallel to the
plane of the disc, there being thereby formed a flange which supports the strainer
on the top or mouth of the saucepan. The body of the strainer, that is, the bottom
of the shallow cup is perforated with a series of holes so that when the strainer is
fixed in the manner hereinafter described on the mouth of the saucepan and the
saucepan is inclined, the liquid contents of the saucepan can be rapidly poured
therefrom, the solid contents of the saucepan being retained by the unperforated
parts of the strainer. In order to effect the rapid fixing and removal of the strainer
I attach an eccentric bolt or latch on the upper side of the strainer near to the side
of the cylindrical part of the strainer, the said latch or bolt being connected to the
strainer by a pin on which it turns. In the cylindrical side of the strainer and
opposite the said latch or bolt a slot is made. By turning the latch or bolt by
means of a thumb plate, made by turning up part of the said latch or bolt; its
eccentric part may be made to protrude through or be withdrawn from the said,
slot. When the strainer is in position and the bolt or latch is turned so as to make
its eccentric part to protrude through the slot described the said eccentric part
presses against the inner edge of the mouth of the saucepan and binds the strainer
in position. In order the more securely to bind the strainer in position I make
in the cylindrical strainer opposite the slot described a hollow rib or projection
extending around the said part through an angle of about ninety degrees, the said
rib being convex on the outer surface of the strainer.
When the strainer is put in position on the mouth of the saucepan the turning
of the latch or bolt so as to project it through the slot described causes the said

page_text: rib to press against the interior of the mouth of the saucepan and the strainer is
thus pressed tightly against the mouth of the saucepan at two opposite points.
On turning the bolt or latch so as to withdraw its acting end from the slot the
strainer is immediately liberated and may be removed.
Dated this Thirtieth day of June 1907
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Strainer for Saucepans and Culinary and
other Vessels.
I, FREDERICK RYLAND, of Houghton Street, West Bromwich, in the County of
Stafford, Ironfounder, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:-
My invention consists of a strainer constructed and used in the manner herein-
after described to be applied principally to saucepans and other culinary vessels for
the purpose of pouring off the water or other liquid in the saucepan or culinary
vessel from the vegetable or other solid contents of the saucepan or vessel. My
invention may also be used for straining or separating liquids from solids contained
in vessels other than saucepans and culinary vessels.
I will describe my invention in connection with a saucepan.
In making a strainer according to my invention I take a disc of thin sheet metal
preferably tin plate and by means of well known processes I raise the marginal
part of the said disc into a plane at right angles to the plane of the disc thereby
producing a very shallow dish of a size suitable to fit in the top of the saucepan.
The extreme edge of the said shallow dish is brought into a plane parallel to the
plane of the disc, there being thereby formed a flange which supports the strainer
on the top or mouth of the saucepan. The body of the strainer, that is, the bottom
of the shallow dish is perforated with a series of holes so that when the strainer is
fixed in the manner hereinafter described on the mouth of the saucepan and the
saucepan is inclined, the liquid contents of the saucepan can be rapidly poured
therefrom, the solid contents of the saucepan being retained by the unperforated
parts of the strainer. In order to effect the rapid fixing and removal of the strainer
I attach an eccentric bolt or latch on the upper side of the strainer near to the side
of the cylindrical part of the strainer the said latch or bolt being connected to the
strainer by a pin on which it turns. In the cylindrical side of the strainer and
opposite the said latch or bolt a slot is made. By turning the latch or bolt by
means of a thumb plate its eccentric part may be made to protrude through or be
withdrawn from the said slot. When the strainer is in position and the bolt or
.latch is turned so as to make its eccentric part to protrude through the slot described
the said eccentric part presses against the inner edge of the mouth of the sauce-
pan and binds the strainer in position. In order the more securely to bind the
strainer in position I make in the cylindrical strainer opposite the slot described a
hollow rib or projection extending around the said part through an angle of about
ninety degrees, the said rib being convex on the outer surface of the strainer.
When the strainer is put in position on the mouth of the saucepan the turning
of the latch or bolt so as to project it through the slot described causes the said
rib to press against the interior of the mouth of the saucepan and the strainer is

page_text: thus pressed tightly against the mouth of the saucepan at two opposite points.
on turning the bolt or latch so as to withdraw its acting end from the slot the
strainer is immediately liberated and may be removed.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents in elevation (partly in vertical
section) and Figure 2 in plan (partly in horizontal section) a saucepan with the new
or improved strainer constituting my invention attached and fastened thereto;
Figures 3 and 4 are similar views with the strainer unfastened and ready for
removal from the saucepan.
Figures 5, 6, 7 and 8 represent a modification of my invention hereinafter
described.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of
the drawings.
I will first describe the arrangement Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4.
a is the perforated bottom of the shallow dish like strainer and a² is the hori-
zontal flanged edge of the same which seats itself on the rim of the saucepan. In
the cylindrical side of the dish like strainer, a slot b is made and at the opposite
side of the cylindrical part of the strainer a projecting rib a¹ is formed the said
rib a extending through about a quadrant. At the slotted side of the strainer
a metallic disc like bolt or latch c is eccentrically rivetted or secured to the strainer a
by a pin or rivet d so that on the turning of the eccentric bolt or latch in one
direction by a thumb piece c², preferably formed in one piece therewith, the said
eccentric bolt or latch is made to project through the slot 6 and bearing against the
inside of the saucepan to force the rib a¹ into such close contact with the opposite
side of the saucepan that the strainer is firmly secured to the saucepan as repre-
sented in Figures 1 and 2. By turning the eccentric bolt or latch in the opposite
direction to that referred to, the disc is withdrawn from the slot b, taking the posi-
tion represented in Figures 3 and 4, and the strainer may be readily removed from
the saucepan.
In the arrangement Figures 5, 6, 7 and 8 the shallow perforated dish a has its
flanged edge a² for seating itself on the rim of the saucepan in the same plane as
the perforated bottom a of the shallow dish or strainer the said dish when placed
on the saucepan, in this case, being inverted. The arrangement of the eccentric
bolt or latch c is slightly modified to suit the changed position of the bottom of the
strainer with respect to the saucepan; that is to say, the handle part c³ projects
through and works in a curved slot e, in the perforated bottom a of the strainer.
Figures 5 and 6 represent the modified strainer in vertical section and plan (the
latter partly in horizontal section) respectively firmly secured to the saucepan by
the fastening of the eccentric bolt or latch as herein before described, and Figures 7
and 8 are corresponding views with the strainer unfastened and capable of easy
removal from the saucepan.
Although I have shown my new or improved strainer only in connection with a
saucepan I wish it to be understood that it is equally applicable to culinary and
other vessels where their contents require to be strained.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as
my invention:
First A strainer for saucepans and culinary and other vessels consisting
essentially of a shallow dish like plate the bottom of which is perforated the said
dish like plate having a marginal flange for seating itself on the rim of the sauce-
pan or the like, and the combination with the said perforated plate of an eccentric
bolt or latch which when turned in one or other direction secures the strainer to
or releases it from the saucepan substantially as herein before described and illus-
trated in the accompanying drawings.
Secondly: Providing shallow perforated dish like strainers, of the kinds here-
inbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings for saucepans
and culinary and other vessels, at the side opposite to that at which the eccentric

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fastening bolt or latch is arranged, with a projecting rib, extending preferably
through about a quadrant, for taking a firm bearing on the inside of the saucepan
or the like on the operation or fastening of the eccentric bolt or latch substantially
as described and illustrated.
Dated the Fifteenth day of March 1898