IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-ACTING BASTING JACKS FOR. TURNING AND BASTING MEAT AND OTHER VIANDS WHILE ROASTING OR BAKING
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Onions, of No. 8, Suffolk Place, New
Road, Rotherhithe, in the County of Surrey (Engineer), for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-ACTING BASTING JACKS FOR.
TURNING AND BASTING MEAT AND OTHER VIANDS WHILE ROASTING OR
BAKING."
Sealed the 22nd September 1871, and dated the 31st March 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Onions at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
31st March 1871.
I, JOHN ONIONS, of No. 8, Suffolk Place, New Road, Rotherhithe, in
the County of Surrey (Engineer), do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SELF-ACTING BASTING JACKS FOR
TURNING AND BASTING MEAT AND OTHER VIANDS WHILE ROASTING OR BAKING,"
to be as follows :-
My Invention consists in improvements in self-acting basting jacks
for turning and basting meat and other viands while roasting or baking
either before the fire or in any and overy kind of oven.

page_text: The mode or way by which this is performed is simply by means of a
pump (or a screw working or rotating within a tube or barrel), either
of which by being attached to an eccentric cam or crank fixed to the
jack or otherwise is so arranged as by its motion will work the said
pump or screw, and thereby take up the gravy or dripping from a well {
in or near the dripping pan, and deliver the same into another pan or
receptacle properly adapted and fixed over the joints and other viands
so as to convey the dripping or gravy in a suitable manner over the said
joints and other viands the whole of the time required while roasting or
baking.
The utility of the self-acting basting jack is obvious, as by its use the
cook is spared a great deal of trouble and time, and the joints or other
viands will be thoroughly basted the whole of the time required,
while roasting or baking, with its or their. own gravy, or with such as
may be preferred, a luxury seldom met with, that duty being often 1
neglected.
"
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Onions in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 30th September 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, Ì, JOHN
ONIONS, of 8, Suffolk Place, New Road, Rotherhithe, in the County of
Surrey (Engineer), send grecting.
:
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing dato the Thirty-first day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said John Onions, Her special licence, that I,
the said John Onions, my exccutors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as the I, said John Onions, 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 SELF-ACTING Basting

page_text: JACKS FOR TURNING AND BASTING MEAT AND OTHER VIANDS WHILE ROASTING
OB BAKING," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John
Onions, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
5 describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Onions, do hereby declaro
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :—
I propose the use of a small pump (or a screw working or rotating
within a tube or barrel), either of which by being attached to an
; eccentric cam or crank or wheel fixed to the ordinary roasting jack (or
otherwise), so arranged as by its motion will work the said pump or
screw, and thereby take up the gravy from a well in or near the dripping
pan, and deliver it into another pan or receptacle properly adapted and
fixed over the meat or other viands the whole of the time required while
roasting or baking.
I also propose the use of a fan or winged wheel or a cylinder so fixed
to or near the oven as to be worked by the use of steam from the oven
or from the steam apparatus or any other suitable place, or by any other
means whereby it or they or either of them may be properly applied for
the purpose of turning and basting meat or other viands while roasting
or baking.
The utility of the self-acting basting jack is obvious, as by its use the
cook is spared a great deal of trouble and time, and the meat or other
viands will be thoroughly basted the whole of the time required while
roasting or baking with its or their own gravy, or with such as may be
preferred, a luxury seldom met with, that duty being often neglected by
the cook, and the dinner partially spoiled, especially when roasted or
baked in an oven.
Having now described my improvements, and the way in which I
3. propose to carry them into effect, I now state that what I wish to claim

page_text: as my Invention is the application of the pump or screw as hercin-
before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Onions, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this the Thirticth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
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