Improvements relating to Cooking Utensils.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 23th Apr.,
4004
Complete Specification Left, 28th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 9th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 28th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 9th Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Cooking Utensils.
I, ELIZABETH BELLING, of 20 Fore Street, Bodmin, in the County of
Cornwall, wife of G. F. Belling of 20 Fore Street, Bodmin, in the County of
Cornwall, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
My invention is devised with a view to provide improved efficient and simplified
means for effecting the cooking and dishing ready for the table of various articles
of food, including soups and so forth.
In accordance with my said invention I employ a perforated vessel or container
into which the articles of food to be cooked are introduced. Said perforated
vessel is then placed in the saucepan, boiler or other ordinary cooking utensil
having therein the requisite quantity of water, which latter has free access for the
purpose of cooking the articles within the perforated container aforesaid. The
shape of the latter will conform to that of the saucepan or other boiling or cooking
utensil with which my improved device is intended to be used, and at the same time
with an easy fit between the two vessels so as to allow of the removal, with facility,
by means of suitable handle or the like, provided for the purpose, of the perforated
vessel with the cooked contents therein; the water draining through the per-
forations into the boiling vessel-proper; said perforated vessel thus serving both
as a cooker and a strainer.
When my improved device is employed for the preparation of clear and other
soups, the perforations would be finer than when employed for cooking solid articles
of food, so as to ensure the retention within the cullender-like container, of any
small particles of bone etc. which if allowed to commingle with the soup would
detract from the character and presentability for the table of same; especially in
the case of clear soups. As will be readily understood, under this application of
my improvements, the soup, when cooking is effected, will be contained in the
outer of the two vessels, ready for tureening at once, without necessitating any
intermediate straining.
Dashi 00th day of Amil 1901
V. LAZARUS,
1, Furnival Street, Holborn, Agent for Applicant.
Improvements relating to Cooking Utensils.
I, ELIZABETH BELLING, wife of George Fisher Belling, of 20, Fore Street,
Bodmin, Cornwall, 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 :-
My invention is devised with a view to provide improved efficient and simplified
means for effecting the cooking and dishing ready for the table of various articles
of food, including soups and so forth.
In accordance with my said invention I employ a perforated vessel or container
into which the articles of food, to be cooked are introduced. Said perforated

page_text: vessel is then placed in the saucepan, boiler or other ordinary cooking utensil
having therein the requisite quantity of water, which latter has free access to, and
for the purpose of cooking the articles within, the perforated container aforesaid.
The shape of the latter will couform to that of the saucepan or other boiling or
cooking utensil with which my improved device is intended to be used, and at the
saine time with an easy fit between the two vessels so as to allow of the removal,
with facility, by means of suitable handle or the like, provided for the purpose, of
the perforated vessel with the cooked contents therein; the water draining through
the perforations into the boiling vessel-proper; said perforated vessel thus serving
both as a cooker and a strainer.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings I have illustrated my improved device
as adapted to cooking such articles as potatoes, vegetables generally, and other
articles of food. The container being lettered "A"; the perforations therein "a";
"B" the circumferential rim of "A," taking its bearing on top of an ordinary
saucepan such as "C"; "&" is the handle of container A." When, however,
the device according to my invention is employed for the preparation of clear and
other soups, the perforations "a" would be finer and more numerous than when
employed for cooking solid articles of food, so as to ensure the retention within
the cullender-like container "A" of any small particles of bone etc. which if
allowed to commingle with the soup would detract from the character and pre-
sentability for the table of same; especially in the case of clear soups. As will
readily be understood, under this application of my improvements, the soup,
when cooking is effected, will be contained in the outer of the two vessels, ready
for tureening at once, without necessitating any intermediate straining.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved cooker and strainer as herein set forth.
V. LAZARUS,
1, Furnival Street, Holborn, E.C., Agent for Applicant.