An Improved Guard or Splash Preventer for Use in connection with Cooking or other similar Pans.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Oct., 1898
1030
Och Aux
1000
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Guard or Splash Preventer for Use in connection with
Cooking or other similar Pans.
GEORGE EDWARD KILLICK and GEORGE WALKER COCHRAN, of 51 and 53, Seel
Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Ironfounders and Engineers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved guard or splash preventer for use in
connection with cooking or other similar pans in which it is usual to draw off
the contents by means of a cock or cocks.
In cooking apparatus it is usual for the boiling pans used in preparing food
to be rinsed out after each operation, and as the cocks of these pans are generally
some distance from the grating into which they discharge a considerable amount
of splashing takes places over the floor of the kitchen.
This we propose to overcome by confining the discharge at the point where it
enters the said grating within a kind of open ended cylinder or guard and in
this manner prevent any splashing on to the floor.
The said open ended guard we preferably form after the manner of a truncated
cone with the slightly smaller open end downwards and almost in contact with
the grating, while the larger and upward end receives the discharge from the
cock.
To the body of the guard is attached a rod or tube which is adapted to slide
in suitable guides provided beneath the pan, and by this means the guard which
is also provided with runners on either side, may be moved under the body of
the pan and out of the way when not in use.
Dated this Eighteenth day of October 1898.
GEO. E. KILLICK.
GEO. W. COCHRAN.
An Improved Guard or Splash Preventer for Use in connection with
Cooking or other similar Pans.
We, GEORGE EDWARD KILLICK and GEORGE WALKER COCHRAN, of 51 and 53,
Seel Street, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Engineers, 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 an improved guard or splash preventer for use in
connection with cooking or other similar pans in which it is usual to draw off the
contents by means of a cock or cocks.

page_text: It is desirable in cooking apparatus for the boiling pans used in preparing
food to be rinsed out after each operation and as the cocks of these pans are
generally some distance from the grating into which they discharge a considerable
amount of splashing takes place over the floor of the kitchen.
Our invention entirely obviates this, and will now be described in detail with
reference to the accompanying drawings, the same reference letters being used to
denote like parts of the apparatus.
Figure 1 represents a sectional elevation of a cooking pan shewing the guard
drawn out and in position to receive the discharge.
Figure 2, is a plan of the same.
Figure 3, shews another form of the guard..
In the drawings the pan F is shewn mounted on the three legs G in the
usual way. The draw off pipe g is provided with a tee-piece extension f adapted
to receive the guide rod D which slides therein as the guard A is drawn in or out
of position. To this rod or tube D is attached by means of a hinged joint C the
guard or splash preventer A formed somewhat in the manner of a truncated
funnel with the smaller and lower end a just clearing the ground line. His the
gutter immediately under the bib-cock E used for drawing of the contents of
the pan.
After cooking or whenever the pan requires rinsing out the guard A is drawn
out into the position shewn in Fig. 1. Any discharge from the cock E is thus
received in the larger upward end of the guard, collected and conducted to the
grating of the gutter H, and any rebounding splashes are caught against the
insides of the guard and so prevented from splashing over the floor.
To facilitate the sliding in and out of the guard it is provided with runners B
on either side and it is attached to the guide rod D by the hinged junction Cin
order to preclude the possibility of the guide rod or tube binding in its bearings
by reason of any unevenness in the floor of the kitchen.
When not in use the guard is moved out of the way under the pan into the
position indicated by dotted lines. Where the pan is mounted on a single
central pedestal as is sometimes the case, bearings for the guide rod D may be
formed in the pedestal body itself.
It must be understood that we do not confine ourselves to the precise details
of the invention as here set forth as it is obvious, that the apparatus may be
modified to suit varying requirements without departing from the spirit of our
invention, as for instance in Fig. 3 where the guard is shewn provided with a
perforated bottom.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:-
1) A guard, for use in connection with pans or the like used for holding liquids,
consisting of a cylindrical or similarly shaped conductor adapted to confine or
enclose the discharge from the pan at the point of entrance into the grating,
gutter or the like.
2) The splash guard A provided with runners B, hinged junction C and guide
rod D, substantially as described and illustrated with reference to the accom-
panying drawings.