An Improved Vegetable Cooker, applicable also for Washing Clothes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Jan., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 12th Oct., 1899-Accepted, 9th Dec., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Vegetable Cooker, applicable also for Washing Clothes.
I, CHARLES AUGUSTUS BROOK, of 57, Montrose Street, in the County of the
City of Glasgow, N.B., Electro-bronzer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention, to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved vegetable cooker, applicable also for
washing clothes.
It consists of a perforated cylindrical vessel with a handle, within which the
vegetables are placed. Across the top of the vessel is a bar with a screwed hole
through its centre for the reception of a screwed rod with a handle at the top.
At the other end of the screwed rod below the cross bar, a perforated disc is
attached. This disc is placed within the vessel and upon the vegetables, and the
bar is then secured to the top of the vessel by any convenient means such as by
placing its ends in hooks at opposite sides of the vessel. The whole is now placed
within an ordinary saucepan with water. As the vegetable boils and swells, the
disc is forced down upon the top of the vegetable by turning the screwed rod;
this has the effect of forcing the vegetables into a more or less solid mass so
that when the vessel is taken out of the saucepan, the excess of boiling water is
excluded from the vegetables.
By this arrangement, boiling-over is prevented. A much larger quantity of
vegetable can be got into the same space than formely; and by straining off the
excess of water by means of the screw, the boiled vegetable is much more readily
dealt with and there is an absence of objectionable smell.
The hooking or fastening of the bar to the top of the vessel can be effected in
any convenient manner.
I prefer a suitable arrangement to be provided so that when turning the
screw in the one direction for the purpose of pressing the perforated disc upon
the top of the vegetable, the bar is held secured under the hooks which are at the
top of the vessel. But when turning the screwed rod in the opposite direction,
the ends of the crossed bar are by this action, drawn away from under the hooks
so that the whole of the screwed attachment can be withdrawn from the vessel.
As a modification, I may apply the screwed arrangement and perforated disc
to an ordinary shaped saucepan that is to say an unperforated vessel.
Also a similar screwing-down arrangement can be applied to a vessel for boiling
clothes in order to exclude excess of water from the clothes and to avoid boiling
over.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Vegetable Cooker, applicable also for Washing Clothes.
I, CHARLES AUGUSTUS BROOK, of 517. Sauchiehall Street, and 57, Montrose
Street, Glasgow, in the County of the City of Glasgow, N.B., Electro-bronzer,
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page_text: 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 vegetable cooker, also applicable for
washing or boiling clothes.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 shows the cooker in the act of being
withdrawn from the saucepan, both of which are shown in section.
Fig. 2 illustrates the cooker, with its cover removed, ready to enable its con-
tents to be turned out.
As shewn in the said drawings, the cooker consists of a perforated cylindrical
vessel A within which the vegetables are placed. Across the top of the said vessel
is a bar B with a screwed hole or nut at its centre for the reception of a screwed
rod having a handle at the top. At the other end of the screwed rod C,
below the cross bar, a perforated disc D) is attached. This disc is placed within
the vessel and upon the vegetables, and the bar B is then secured to the top of the
vessel by any convenient means such as by placing its ends in hooks at opposite
sides of the vessel. The whole is now placed within an ordinary saucepan E
with water. After the vegetables have boiled, the disc is forced down upon the
top of same, by turning the screwed rod, thus forcing the vegetable into a more
or less solid mass so that when the vessel is taken out of the saucepan, the excess
of boiling water is excluded and the vegetables thoroughly drained.
With this cooker an increased quantity of vegetables can be cooked as the
cover prevents boiling over and by straining off the excess of water by turning
the screw, the boiled vegetable is much more readily dealt with and there is an
absence of objectionable smell.
The hooking or fastening of the bar B to the top of the vessel can be effected
in any convenient manner, but I prefer to employ hooks F formed as shewn in
the drawings, so that when turning in the one direction for the purpose of press-
ing the perforated disc upon the top of the vegetable, the bar is held secure under
the hooks. But when turning the screwed rod in the opposite direction, the ends
of the cross bar are by this action, drawn away from the hooks so that the whole of
the screwed attachment can be withdiawn from the vessel. A stop piece G may
be secured to the outside of the vessel arranged to come against the handle of the
saucepan and prevent the vessel rotating whilst the screw is being actuated.
As a modification, I may apply the screwed arrangement and perforated disc
to an ordinary shaped saucepan that is to say an unperforated vessel.
Also a similar screwing down arrangement can be applied to any usual vessel
or container for boiling clothes in, operating in the manner described, in order
to exclude excess of water from the clothes when removing the container from the
boiler or water vessel; and to avoid boiling over.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be 'performed I declare that what
I claim is:
1. The improved vegetable cooker, also applicable for washing or boiling clothes,
by means of which the vegetables after being cooked may be effectually drained
before removal from the saucepan, substantially as herein before described and
shewn in the accompanying drawings.
JOHNSONS,
Applicant's Agents, 115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow,