A NEW FRYING AND GRILLING PAN
Year: 1839

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
JONES, of Westfield Place, Sheffield, in the County of York, Commercial
Traveller, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-fifth day of April, in
the second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said John Jones, my exors, adñors, and assigns, Her
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said John
Jones, my exors, adñors, and assigns, and such others as I, the said John
Jones, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of
years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "A NEW FRYING AND GRILLING PAN;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said John Jones, shall, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly describe the
nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be
performed, and cause the same to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next immediately after the
date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as, reference being thereunto
bad, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in pursuance of the said proviso and in compliance
therewith, I, the said John Jones, do hereby declare that the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is performed, are fully

page_text: shewn and set forth in the following description thereof, reference being had
to the explanatory Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures
thereon (that is to say):-
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My new frying and grilling pan is so constructed that steaks, chops, cutlets,
and other articles of food may be cooked by it more conveniently, quickly,
and economically than by either the common frying pan or common gridiron,
and as well also as by either the one or the other.
In its general external appearance my frying and grilling pan resembles a
common frying pan, but across the bottom of it, on the inside, there are a
number of narrow ribs which rise to about half the depth of the pan, but
are kept clear of the sides, an open space or channel of about an inch in
width being left between the ribs and the sides, all round. The steak, chop,
or other article of food is placed on these narrow ribs, and obtains through
them all the benefit of such fire as may be beneath the pan, without being
liable to any injury from the fire being too strong or too low, so that there is
'no occasion to wait for a bright fire till the process of cooking is commenced,
'as in the case of the common gridiron. The fat or grease which falls from
the meat collects in the spaces between the ribs, and passes thence into the
circular channel between the ribs and the sides of the pan, from which it is
'poured out after the process of cooking is over. The ribs may be made of
various forms, and they may also be variously disposed and arranged, as for
example, instead of single ribs stretching from side to side of, the pan, each
rib may be divided into two or more parts, and instead of being plain edged
they may be indented or toothed, and instead of being attached to the bottom
of the pan they may be attached to the sides, having a common channel or
receptacle for the grease or dripping in the centre, and instead of ribs either
plain or indented being used the bottom of the pan may be covered with a
number of detached studs or rests for the purpose of supporting the steaks,
chops, or other articles of food. A moveable framework of ribs or studs
might also be made separate from the pan, to fit into it or be taken out as
occasion may require; but the form of the pan which I have first herein-
before described is-that which I-prefer-as being upon-the-whole the best-and-
cheapest.
Figures 1 and 2 in the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed are perspective
views of two modifications of my said Invention; and Figures 3 and 4 are
sections of the same through the line a, b. In all the Figures, c, c, c, &c. are
the ribs upon which the steak, chop, or other article of food to be cooked is
placed. In the Figures 1 and 3, the ribs consist alternately of whole and
half lengths. In Figures 2 and 4, they are of the indented or toothed form.

page_text: And having now fully described my said Invention, I declare that what I
claim as new is, the construction of a frying and grilling pan with a bottom
provided on the inside with ribs, or bars, or studs for supporting the steaks,
chops, or other articles of food intended to be cooked, whatever may be the
form of the said ribs, or bars, or studs, and however they may be disposed
and arranged, and whether they are fixed parts of the said pan or made
separately therefrom, to be fitted in and taken out as occasion may require.
And such my Invention being to the best of my knowledge and belief
new, and never before used within that part of Her said Majesty's United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, Her Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare this to be my
Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe that this my said
Specification doth comply in all respects, fully and without reserve or disguise,
with the proviso in the said recited Letters Patent contained; wherefore
I hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Jones, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.