A Combined Pie Crust Support and Pie Vent.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 14th Sept., 1889-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Pie Crust Support and Pie Vent.
I GEORGE COOK ROBERTS of 79 and 8.1 Week Street Maidstone in the County
of Kent, Grocer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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This invention relates to a means of supporting the crust of pies which without the
employment of a suitable support will subside in accordance with the shrinkage of
the contents of the pie, due to the cooking.
It consists in providing a support of special form which not only supports the pie
crust more efficiently than do those contrivances hitherto employed for that purpose;
but which will at the same time provide a free passage for any air or steam to issue.
from beneath the pie crust, and will also provide for a free circulation of juices or
gravies within the pie, obviating the usual concentration of juice or gravy which
takes place upon any decrease of temperature in the pie when an ordinary support,
such as a common household cup or jar, is employed to form a support for the pie
crust.
Such a ventilating support I construct in the following manner, by preference of
china ware or porcelain.
I form a hollow cone open throughout from the base through the apex, having a
flange extending laterally at a convenient height, just below the apex of the cone.
Immediately below this flange I make any convenient number of perforations in
the hollow cone so as to establish free communication with the interior of the hollow
cone from within the pie, and consequently free connection with the interior of the
pie and the outside atmosphere by way of these perforations and the opening at the
apex of the hollow cone.
Similar perforations are made near the base of the hollow cone to provide for the
free passage of juices or gravies in the pies which thereby take up the same position
as if no pie crust support were employed.
The flange referred to should preferably be of a configuration approaching the
configuration of the pie dish with which the combined pie crust support and pie vent
is to be employed.
Dated this 18th day of December 1888
H. MOY THOMAS,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Combined Pie Crust Support and Pie Vent.
I GEORGE COOK ROBERTS late of 79 and 81 Week Street Maidstone in the County
of Kent but now of No. 6 Calverley Road Tunbridge Wells in the County of Kent,
Grocer, 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 :-
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This Invention relates to means of supporting the crust of pies which without the
employment of a suitable support will subside in accordance with the shrinkage of the
contents of the pie, due to the cooking.
It consists in providing a support of special form which not only supports the pie
crust more efficiently than do those contrivances hitherto employed for that purpose;
but, which will at the same time provide a free passage for any air or steam to
issue from beneath the pie crust and will also provide for a free circulation of juices
or gravies within the pie obviating the usual concentration of juice or gravy which

page_text: takes place upon any decrease of temperature in the pie when an ordinary support,
such as a common household cup or jar is employed to form a support for the pie
crust.
Such a ventilating support I construct, preferably of china ware or porcelain in the
manner hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation and Figure 2 a plan of Figure 1. In both the
Figures the same reference letters indicate the same part.
I form a hollow cone A open throughout from the base through the apex, having
a flange B extending laterally at a convenient height just below the apex of the cone.
Immediately below this flange B I make any convenient number of perforations (in
the hollow cone so as to establish free communication with the interior of the hollow
cone from within the pie and consequently free connection with the interior of
the pie and the outside atmosphere by way of these perforations (and the opening
at the apex of the hollow cone. Similar perforations may be made near the base of
the hollow cone or the base may be made with a curved outline as shown in Figure 1
to provide for the free passage of juices or gravies in the pies which thereby take
up the same position as if no pie crust support were employed.
The flange B should preferably be of a configuration approaching the configuration
of the pie dish with which the combined pie crust support and pie vent is to be
employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is
1. In a pie crust support the employment of the flange B upon which the pie crust
may be supported from near the centre to near the sides of a pie dish substantially as
described.
2. In a combined pie crust support and pie vent the perforations C close under
the flange B for the purpose of preventing the juices or gravies from rising within
the hollow pie crust support to a point exceeding the level of such juices or gravies
within the pie.
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