Improvements in Baking Pans.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Sept., 1897-Accepted, 23rd Apr., 1898
Improvements in Baking Pans.
We, CHARLES GILBERT SARGENT, Shoe Cutter, of Lincoln Street, Exeter, in the
County of Rockingham, State of New Hampshire, and FRANK LORD GOODWIN,
Shoe Cutter, Elliot, in the County of York, and State of Maine, America, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained by the following statement:-
Our invention relates to cooking utensils. Its object is to provide a new form
of bake-pan which shall be readily adapted for various operations incident to
baking.
Our invention consists of certain novel features of construction hereinafter fully
described and claimed.
In the accompanying drawings:
Figure 1 is a perspective view of our pan open.
Figure 2 is a similar view, showing our pan closed.
The numeral 1 indicates the body of our pan, which may be of any ordinary
shape, but is preferably made square and with flaring sides. Handles are held
upon this body in the usual position. A reinforcing wire 3 extends around the
upper part thereof, and openings 4 are made through the body upon the sides
thereof, in order to receive certain portions of the cover hereinafter described.
rack 5 is held in the bottom of this body portion for the usual purpose.
A
The top of our device is composed of two portions 6 and 7, one of which has a
flange S thereon adapted to fit inside of the opposing member and form a tight
joint. Handles 9 are formed upon these top portions. Lugs 10, rebent upon
themselves, pass through the openings and around the reinforcing wire of the
body portion, thus forming hinges. Said lugs are so bent as to permit of their
being lifted free from the openings when the tops are turned back for convenience
in cleansing, etc. The edges of the two top portions are also reinforced by means
of suitable wire, as shown.
A ventilator 11 is formed in one end of our device, and is of the usual construc-
tion. A bolt 12 having a flattened head 13 and a handle 14 moves in clips 15
upon the body portion. A lug 16 is formed on the flange of the body portion 7
and co-acts with the head upon the bolt. It is obvious that when this bolt is pushed
up it will raise the tops simultaneously, and also afford means of ventilation.
It will be noted that in the construction we preferably employ, we manufacture
our device from sheet metal cut in a single piece and bent to form the bottom or
body portion, and two similar pieces bent to form the two top portions. The
flanges we afterwards apply by means of rivets or the like. It is, of course, plain
that flanges may be provided upon the lower edge of the top portion if deemed
necessary, in order to make the joints between said top portions and the bottom
portion tighter than when constructed without said flanges.
It is obvious that this device offers many advantages over those in use at present,
as by dividing the top into two portions, the same may be opened in the oven
without withdrawing the device therefrom, while those in present use, having the
top hinged to one side or the end and formed of a solid piece, require so much

page_text: room that it is impossible to open them in the oven, and they must be withdrawn
whenever it becomes necessary to baste a roast, or perform any of the operations
incident to cooking.
It is obvious that changes may be made in the form of our device without de-
parting from the material principles thereof, and we do not, therefore, desire to
confine ourselves to the exact form herein shown and described, but wish to include
all such forms that properly come within the scope of our invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :—
1. In a bake-pan, the combination with a body portion, of a pair of top portions
hinged to said body portion and forming a completely enclosed pan when shut
upon said body portion, substantially as described.
2. In a baking-pan, the combination with a body portion having a reinforcing
wire around the upper edge thereof, of top portions provided with clips extending
around said reinforcing wire and open on one side thereof to permit the removal
of said top portion, and handles formed upon the various portions, substantially
as described.
3. In a baking-pan, the combination with a body portion, of top portions provided
with flanges adapted to fit said body portion and one of which is provided with a
suitable flange adapted to fit the opposing top portion, handles formed upon said
portions, a ventilator formed in one of said portions, a bolt held upon the body
portion, a lug formed upon one of the said top portions adapted to co-act with said
bolt, and a rack held within said body portion, substantially as described.
Dated this 29th day of September 1897.
FELL & JAMES,
Agents for the Applicants.