AN IMPROVED POTATO STEAMER
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Christopher Fabian Bower of 43 College Street Liverpool
Road in the County of Middlesex Gentleman for an Invention of "AN
IMPROVED POTATO STEAMER,"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Christopher Fabian Bower
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th February 1883.
CHRISTOPHER FABIAN BOWER of 43 College Street Liverpool Road in the county
of Middlesex Gentleman "AN IMPROVED POTATO STEAMER,'
This invention relates to an improved potato steamer.
I employ the use of an ordinary saucepan with the addition of a detached second
bottom which may be either made of perforated tin or wirework for the reception
of the potatoes or the article required to be cooked. This second bottom is
provided with a gallery to keep the articles to be cooked intact. After boiling a
suitable time it is raised out of the water to the top of the saucepan and secured
by a stud attached to the saucepan for the purpose of steaming.
This invention dispenses with the use of an ordinary steamer attached to
saucepans

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Christopher Fabian Bower in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th August 1883.
CHRISTOPHER FAbian Bower of 43 College Street Liverpool Road in the County
of Middlesex, Gentleman, "AN IMPROVED POTATO STEAMER
This invention consists of an improved potato Steamer or cooker
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In carrying out my invention I make use of an ordinary Saucepan, to which is
added an internal detached receptacle made of perforated tin or wire-work for the
reception of the potatoes or other articles required to be cooked. This receptacle-
fits easily the inside of the Saucepan, but is much shallower than the Saucepan, 1
and is for the purpose of keeping the articles to be cooked intact. The inner
vessel is also provided with a handle, and suitable catches to take on to studs near
the top of the saucepan
After boiling a suitable time, the inner receptacle is raised out of the water and
secured to the studs or other anitable contrivance attached to the Saucepan for the 1
purpose of steaming
This invention renders unnecessary the ordinary steamer attached to Saucepans.
And in order that my said invention may be clearly tinderstood, reference is
hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference
indicate corresponding parts.
Fig: 1. is a sectional elevation shewing potatoes in the water for boiling with
the inner receptacle down next to the bottom of the saucepan
Fig: 2 is a sectional elevation shewing the inner-receptacle with the potatoes
contained therein, raised above the water and enveloped in steam The inner
receptacle is retained in this position by the loop or staple ά and stud b, any 2
number of which may be fitted one or two being generally sufficient for the
purpose, one in the case of a round saucepan, and two in the case of an oval shaped
saucepan Any other suitable means of retaining the steamer in this position may
be substituted for the purpose-c is the Saucepan which is of the ordinary
construction. d is the inner vessel, the bottom and sides, or the bottom only, of 3
which is perforated with a number of holes; or the same may be constructed of
open wire work-It is obvious that my improved potato steamer or cooker can be
made either round or oval
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I clain :—
The use and manufacture of Saucepans in combination with the improved
potato steamer, or cooker, for the purposes and in manner substantially as herein-
before described and shewn on the drawings Figs: 1 and 2.
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In witness whereof I the said Christopher Fabian Bower have hereunto set
my hand and seal this fourth day of August in the year of our Lord one 4
thousand eight hundred and eighty three
CHRISTOPHER FABIAN BOWER (LS)