An Improved Device for Carrying, Indicating, and Affording Instant Access and Reference to, Recipes for Cookery, and for other Domestic or Household Purposes.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Nov., 1898-Accepted, 14th Jan., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Carrying, Indicating, and Affording Instant
Access and Reference to, Recipes for Cookery, and for other
Domestic or Household Purposes.
I, EDWARD HOWE, of 83, Newman Street, London, W., in the County of Middle-
sex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described in and by the following statement,
and accompanying drawing, that is to say ;-
This invention has for its object a cheap and more or less ornamental device,
which can be readily hung up or affixed to the wall of a kitchen or other room,
in a convenient position for reference, and which is provided with an index
permanently displayed, and relating to recipes for various kinds of cookery, or
other household or domestic recipes or information which can be instantly and
easily referred to.
The accompanying drawing is in illustration of the invention, and shows in
perspective view the novel device attached to a wall. a is a light, hollow frame or
support of pasteboard, wood, or other suitable material, which may be made as
ornamental as desired. The front of the support is made sloping so that it serves
as a convenient desk upon which the matter to be referred to can conveniently
be read. Near the top and bottom edges of the front of this support are fixed
transverse ribs or flanges b, of tin-plate or other light, sufficiently strong, material,
which project at right angles from the front of the support and are perforated with
a row of holes which receive pivots at the upper and lower ends of light vertical
frames c which carry the edges of sheets d of cardboard or other suitable material,
upon both sides of which the various recipes, relating to cookery or other house-
hold matters, are printed or written.
It will be seen that the several sheets can either be turned to the right, lying one
above the other, their right hand edges showing in succession, as illustrated, or
they can be turned upon their pivots to the left, in which case the edges of the
other sides of the sheets will be shown. The slope of the support keeps the
sheets in position when turned over. The edges are marked or printed with
indices to the different kinds of recipes upon the respective sheets.
A cook or other person, therefore, desiring to refer to a recipe for a particular
soup, selects such soup upon the index at the edge, and turns back the sheets
above it so as to leave the particular recipe exposed for reference. If the desired
recipe is not to be found referred to upon the edge of the sheets, the whole of the
latter may be turned over upon their pivots, and the index edges upon the reverse
side exposed, among which the particular recipe (if included at all) will be found.
It will be seen that the whole device is extremely simple, inexpensive, and
easily referred to and used.
The parts of the support, and of the sheets themselves, which are not covered
may be used to receive advertisements of any desired kind. The sides of the
support may be hinged to the front, as shown in dotted lines at e.
An easily removeable cover may be used to preserve the sheets when they are
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page_text: not in use.
For instance, such a cover may be arranged outside each end sheet,
their edges being tied, buttoned, or otherwise fastened together, when the device
is not in use. The centre sheet in such case will be in a position at right
angles to the support whilst the adjoining ones on each side meet at their outer
edges and are held together by the covers when the edges of the latter are fastened
together. The visible parts of the support, and those parts of the printed sheets
not carrying the recipes and other information, may be ornamented in any desired
way, or used for advertizing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
The combination of the inclined support a, perforated flanges b, vertical pivotted
frames c, and sheets d upon both sides of which are printed or otherwise shown
recipes for various forms of cookery, or other household or domestic information,
the outer edges of the sheets having indices on both sides showing the different
kinds of recipes upon the corresponding sides of the sheet, substantially as described
and illustrated.
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EDWARDS & Co.,
65 and 66, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the Applicant.