PROVEMENTS IN CULINARY STOVES
Year: 1879

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Sigismund Wekey at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th May 1879.
SIGISMUND WEKEY, of No. 325, Strand, in the County of Middlesex.
PROVEMENTS IN CULINARY STOVES."
"IM-
My Invention consist in the construction of a culinary stove made of sheet tin or
of other suitable material, and constructed in a manner to be capable of gradually
accumulating and storing up small quantities of heat purified, or so to say filtered,
whether such heat be obtained from the flame of a lamp, gaz jet, or like sources,
and to render such stored up heat available for the preparation of different articles
of food for human consumption by cooking, steaming, roasting, or baking. To
realize the Invention I propose to make a shallow circular vessel of tin or other
suitable material, about four inches deep, and about fifteen inches in diameter, open
on the top and partitioned off near the periphery of the vessel, so as to be capable
of containing water in the space partitioned off, the central part of this vessel
to have a sufficiently large free opening or open space left to admit of receiving
and allowing to be conveyed into the apparatus heat from a lamp, gaz jet, or gaz
stove, or from any other convenient source. I place a stand, also made of tin or
other suitable material, into the partitioned off compartment containing water, the
stand resting on the bottom of the shallow circular vessel of tin above alluded to.
This stand may be constructed with ledges or with hooks, on which dishes of tin
or other suitable material could be placed or suspended, the one dish above the
other. Some of these dishes may be covered, others uncovered, and partially per-
forated, and also provided with a lip for the readier mode of pouring off the
residual liquid, or gravy of meat, or other material operated upon for culinary
purposes. The stand and the dishes placed upon the stand, the one dish above the
other, I propose to cover with a bell shaped cover containing near the top of the
cover a small adjustable aperture to regulate the confinement or liberation of steam
or dry heat, according to requirements. The top of this bell shaped cover may
contain a receptacle for water, covered with a lid. The lower or open end of this
bell shaped cover is immersed in the water contained in the partitioned off circular
compartment of the shallow vessel alluded to above, on the bottom of which vessel
this bell shaped cover rests. In the central part of my apparatus and over the
flame of the gaz jet, gaz stove, or lamp which may be used in connection with
the apparatus as a source of heat, I propose to place a metallic open tray or sieve,
covered with porous fire clay, asbestos, or amianthus, for the purpose of purifying
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page_text: or filtering the flame, and ensuring the perfect combustion of all carbonaceous
matters, which are thus made to pass through a red hot incombustible medium.
The beat passing into the apparatus is gradually accumulated and stored up under
the bell shaped cover, the open end of which cover being immersed in water does
not allow of the free escape and loss of heat which, in being thus stored up can be
raised, if desired, to the temperature of superheated steam, and this without the
possibility of any accident arising from the use of steam stored up in the apparatus.
This culinary stove is constructed in a manner to utilize the available heat for
warming the water in the bottom part of the apparatus, as well as in the upper part
of the bell shaped cover, from which and likewise from the lower part of the
apparatus the hot water, when required, can be drawn off by means of taps. The
shape of the apparatus may be circular, polygonal, or square, so long as the prin-
ciple of the Invention is not departed from. The use of the apparatus is suggested
by its construction. Any articles intended to be prepared by cooking for human
consumption are placed in the dishes, the dishes are placed upon the shelves, the
one dish above the other, and the whole are covered by the bell shaped cover to
accumulate heat or steam under it, as may be required, to act upon the articles
undergoing the cooking process. The apparatus is easily adapted to a variety of
purposes in the preparation of food for human consumption.