An Improved Appliance for Culinary Purposes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 1st May, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 29th Jan., 1898-Accepted, 12th Mar., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Culinary Purposes.
I, ELLEN GRADDON, of 5, Nottingham Terrace, County of London, Widow, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved construction of appliance specially
adapted for turning fish during frying, for lifting fish from a boiler, for lifting
boiled cauliflowers without breaking them, for removing potatoes singly from a
cooking vessel, also other articles of food for which the appliance can be found
to be available.
The appliance consists of a pair of spring toothed ends affixed to or in a piece
with handles which are so jointed as to be opened and closed by hand.
The teeth are preferably of wire bent into loop form and are so curved that when
opened out, the lower set can be pushed under the fish and then by closing the
handles, the teeth or prongs also close and hold the fish between them. In using
the appliance for removing cauliflowers or potatoes from a cookpot or steamer it
is handled vertically and the food lifted without being broken or made unsightly.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Ellen Graddon.
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I, ELLEN GRADDON, of 5, Nottingham Terrace, County of London, Widow, 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:-
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This invention relates to an improved construction of appliance specially
adapted for turning fish during frying, for lifting fish from a boiler, for lifting
boiled cauliflowers without breaking them, for removing potatoes singly from a
cooking vessel, also other articles of food for which the appliance can be found
to be available.
The appliance consists of a pair of spring toothed ends affixed to or in a piece
with handles which are so jointed as to be opened and closed by the hand.
The annexed drawings show my invention.
Figure 1, plan; Figure 2 side elevation.
A, B, are top and bottom set of teeth of spoon, flat or other shape or with one
set spoon shaped and the lower flat or nearly so as shown in dotted lines a a.

page_text: C is the joint pin on which when the handles D, D, are opened out and by
which the two sets of teeth A, B, can be separated so that the lower set can be
pushed under the cooked article and then by a closing of the handles D, D, the
article can be lifted out of or from the cooking vessel, the breadth of the teeth A, B,
being such that whether the article be bulky like a cauliflower or flattish like
boiled carrots it can be lifted without fear of breaking.
The dotted lines b, b, show that the teeth or prongs of the appliance can be
made wider if desired.
The teeth are preferably of wire bent into loop form and are so curved that
when opened out the lower set can be pushed under the fish and then by closing
the handles the teeth or prongs also close and hold the fish between them.
In using the appliance for removing cauliflowers or potatoes from a cookpot or
steamer it is handled vertically and the food lifted without being broken or made
unsightly.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:
The construction and employment of the improved appliance for withdrawing
or lifting cooked food from cooking vessels as described, the construction being
substantially as shown on the annexed drawings.
Dated this 29th day of January 1898.
H. GARDNER,
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Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Ellen Graddon.