IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE COOKING APPARATUSES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN PORTABLE COOKING APPARATUSES."-A communication from abroad by
Noel Etienne Aimé Paret, of Paris, France.
Sealed the 19th November 1861, and dated the 23rd May 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 23rd May 1861.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE COOKING APPARATUSES," (Communicated to me from
abroad by Noel Etienne Aimé Paret, of Paris, France,) to be as follows:-
These apparatuses consist, first, of a hollow upright screwed into or other-
wise fixed on a stand; upon the upright is a sliding collar adjustable by a
thumbscrew, and formed with an eye for the reception of a pintle formed in a
piece with or fixed to an openwork plate or frame for the support of pots,
pans, or of other articles requiring to be exposed over the fire. A rod or bar,
having hinged to the top of it a circular or other shaped disc to serve as a
table or as a screen, is inserted in the hollow upright, and is adjusted to the
height required by means of a pressure screw.
The second apparatus consists of a stand carrying two frames, each of which

page_text: supports a cranked upright terminating at top in an eye, through which a
horizontal bar is passed. On each of these bars is a running collar for sup-
porting a plate or frame for holding articles requiring to be exposed to the fire
similar to the plate first mentioned.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 23rd November 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PORTABLE COOKING APPA-
RATUSES," (communication from abroad by Noel Etienne Aimé Paret, of Paris,
France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to bo filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do
hereby declare the nature of the said 'Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings here-
unto annexed, that is to say :-
:
'These apparatuses consist, first, of a hollow upright screwed into or other-

page_text: wise fixed on a stand; upon the upright is a sliding collar adjustable by a
thumb screw, and formed with an eye for the reception of a pintle formed in a
piece with or fixed to an openwork plate or frame for the support of pots,
pans, or of other articles requiring to be exposed over the fire. Sometimes a rod
or bar having hinged to the top of it a circular or other shaped disc to servo
as a table or as a screen is inserted in the hollow upright, and is adjusted to
the height required by means of a pressure screw.
The second apparatus consists of a stand carrying two frames, each of which
supports a cranked upright terminating at top in an eye, through which a
horizontal bar is passed. On each of these bars is a running collar for sup-
porting a plate or frame for holding articles requiring to be exposed to the fire
similar to the plate first mentioned.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a view of an apparatus con-
structed according to this Invention; and Figure 2 shows it applied to a fire-
place. e, e, are the hollow uprights fixed to the fire-place i, as in Figure 1,
or they may be fitted, as shown in Figure 2; 1,1, are collars, free to slide on the
uprights e, c, to which they are held at any desired height by thumb or pressure
screws m, m; d, d, are openwork plates or frames, having pintles connected
to them, which are inserted in eyes formed in the collars 1, 1, whereby the
plates d, d, are supported, and at the same time are free to turn about the
collars. Figure 3 is an elevation of a portable stand, composed of a rod m,
supported on a foot n, with plates d, d, similar to those before described;
Figure 4 is a view of a stand, somewhat similar to that shown at Figure 3,
but in which there is a platform for carrying spirit lamps p, p, below the plate d,
which in this case is made in one piece, so as to form, if required, a sort of
table being secured to the rod m by a pressure or thumb screw 1, as before.
Figure 5 is a front elevation; and Figure 6, a vertical section of the appa-
ratus, applied in a modified form to a fire-place. a is a rack, fitted to the
back of the fire-place; it is formed of two vertical bars b, b, and cross pieces
c, c, forming a series of steps to which the plate d is hooked at any desired
height. The cooking utensils are placed on this plate. There is another
arrangement shown in the same Figure, by which the plate d is supported at
the sides on projections j, j, connected to the uprights e, e, and on which the
plate d is laid; f. f, are ovens, in which there are bars 9, 9, resting on pro-
jections e¹, e¹, one of which is connected to the upright e; h is the ash-pit. Tho
surface of the oven acts as a hot plate.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the construction
and employment of portable cooking apparatuses, together with the modifica-

page_text: tions thereof, herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of November, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one."
R. A. BROOMAN. (L.S.)