An Improved Device for use in Baking Meat, Cakes, and other Food.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Dec., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 24th July, 1900-Accepted, 6th Oct., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for use in Baking Meat, Cakes, and other Food.
I, JOHN CHARLES PARKER, of No. 1, Fieldslea Terrace, Poole Road, Parkstone,
in the County of Dorset, Hardware, Leather and Grindery Dealer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved device for use in baking meat, cakes and
other food and consists in providing simple, inexpensive and convenient means
whereby a joint of meat, for instance, can be readily turned round in the oven
without having to remove such joint, whereby the risk of burning the hands and
chilling the meat is entirely obviated, whilst at the same time the heat of the
oven is enabled to be evenly distributed over every part of the joint and the
proper cooking of the latter thereby ensured.
By the peculiar construction of the device, which will be hereinafter pointed
out, the meat is also raised above the baking pan in such a manner that while
the heat of the oven is allowed to effectively operate on the under side of the
meat, the gravy and fat are enabled to drip from the meat into such pan and
thereby facilitate the proper cooking of potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, or the
like which may be placed in the said baking pan to be cooked simultaneously
with the meat.
My invention though intended primarily for the baking of meat, is equally
applicable to the baking of cakes, bread and other foods.
According to my invention I provide a square, rectangular or other frame
having four legs or supports, such frame being of open or skeleton construction
and designed to stand within an ordinary baking pan.
Upon the upper side of the frame aforesaid I pivotally mount a circular skele-
ton grid, preferably consisting of a circular rim within which are a number of
arms radiating from a central hub, such radiating arms being curved upward
near their outer ends so as to cause the rim aforesaid to be on a higher level
than the hub portion.
The said grid, which is designed to receive the joint or the like to be cooked,
can be readily revolved upon its pivot.
I preferably fashion the culinary device by stamping same out of strong block
tin and then bending the various parts into the desired form, though if desirable
such device may be cast or otherwise formed.
Dated this 20th day of December 1899

page_text: I, JOHN CHARLES PARKER, of No. 1, Fieldslea Terrace, Poole Road, Parkstone,
in the County of Dorset, Hardware, Leather and Grindery Dealer, 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:-
This invention relates to improvements in cooking devices and has for object
to provide simple, inexpensive and convenient means whereby a joint of meat,
for instance, can be readily turned round in the oven, without having to remove
such joint, thereby preventing the risk of the attendant's hands being burnt and
the food chilled, whilst at the same time the heat of the oven is ensured being
evenly distributed over every part of the food and the proper cooking of the
latter rendered certain.
By the peculiar construction of the device, which will be hereinafter described
in the specification, exemplified in the drawings and finally pointed out in the
claims, the meat is also raised above the baking-pan in such a manner that while
the heat of the oven is caused to effectively operate on the under side of the meat,
the gravy and fat are enabled to drip into such pan and thereby facilitate the
proper cooking of potatoes, puddings or the like, which may be placed in the
said baking-pan to be cooked simultaneously with the meat.
My invention, though intended primarily for the baking of meat, is equally
applicable to the baking of cakes, bread and other goods.
In the drawings, Fig. 1 represents a perspective view of the device, and Fig. 2
a sectional view thereof.
Referring to the drawings, a represents the ordinary baking-pan within which
my device stands, such device being removable from said pan.
The said device consists in an approximately square frame b having depending
legs band cross-pieces 62, such frame and its component parts being stamped out
of block tin or other sheet metal and bent into semi-circular form in section to
give it the requisite strength.
The centre of the cross-pieces b is strengthened by a super-posed plate c, in
which and the said cross-pieces an opening is formed to receive a pivot pin d,
the lower extremity of which is screw-threaded as at d¹.
A washer e is provided on the said pivot pin d, between the under side of the
cross-pieces 6 and a tightening nut f working in the screw-threaded end of
the pivot-pin d.
The head of the said pivot-pin d is fixed to a revolvuble trivet composed of a
circular rim and a number of arms or spokes g¹ which radiate from a central
hub g to said rim
9.
The said rim, arms or spokes and hub are formed integral by stamping them
out of one piece of metal and then bending them to the desired shape.
The component parts of the said trivet are given a hollow or semi-circular form
in cross-section as in the component parts of the frame, before described.
The rim g of the trivet is supported, by the arms or spokes, above the level of
the hub g2, the said arms or spokes g¹ being bent upward to obtain this result.
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:
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1. In improvements in cooking devices, the combination of a skeleton frame

page_text: having depending legs; with a trivet of skeleton form pivoted to said frame,
substantially as described and illustrated.
2. In improvements in cooking devices, the combination of a square frame
having cross-pieces and depending legs, said frame and its component parts
being semi-circular or hollow in cross-section; with a revolvuble trivet composed
of a circular rim and armis or spokes radiating from a hub, said arms or spokes
being bent upward near their outer ends to support the said rim above the level
of the hub, substantially as hereinbefore described and as illustrated by the
drawings.
Dated this 94th day of July 1900