CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN COOKING APPARATUS
Year: 1821

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
FREDERICK ECKSTEIN, of High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Iron-
monger, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth did,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of that part of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, bearing date at
Vestminster, the Ninth day of May, in the second year of His reign, give
and grantunto me, the said George Frederick Eckstein, my exors, adññiors,
and assigns,His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that
I, the said George Frederick Eckstein, my exors, admors, and assigns,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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN COOKING APPARATUS;" in
which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that if I, the said
George Frederick Eckstein, shall not particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same
to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that
then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever
thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in
and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Frederick Eckstein, do hereby declare that the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are
particularly described and ascertained in the following descriptionand annexed
Drawing thereof (that is to say):-
My Invention of Certain Improvements in Cooking Apparatus consists of a
portablebox containing a stove, oven, and sundryarticles for culinary purposes,
as will be described hereafter. The object of these improvements are, that all
the said articles employed for roasting, boiling, baking, frying, broiling, stewing,
and steaming, are capable of being packed together within the said box, and
thence rendered easy of transportation, and peculiarly convenient for the use
of the camp, the traveller, or on shipboard, as cooking may be performed by
this apparatus with facility in the open air, or in a room where there is no flue
or chimney (the respective letters of which refer to the same parts in every
Figure). Figure 1 in the Drawing represents the external appearance of the
said box as packed together, containing all the articles above mentioned ready
for removal. Fig. 2 shews the internal appearance of the box, the two ends
and the lid being removed. In this Figure will be seen several staples
a,a,a,a,a, which receive bolts or pins for the purpose of securing the sides and
ends of the box together. The sides of the box, as here seen, are now to be
laid flat, and four, six,or more legs attached by screws, or otherwise, which are
intended to fit into the sockets b, b, b, b; this being done the whole is turned
over and placed upon its legs, which forms the dining table seen at Fig 3.
The lid of the box having four legs screwed or otherwise attached to it forms
a stand upon which the apparatus is to be placed, for the purpose of cooking
(see Figs. 4 and 5). Fig. 4 shews one end and side of the apparatus, which
consists externally of two cases of sheet iron or copper. In this Figure a joint
of meat is seen within in the act of roasting, and also a kettle on the top for
boiling or steaming. Fig. 5 shews the other end and side of the apparatus
with the oven door open, and having a sauspan and a stewing stove inserted
with the stewpan on the top. Fig. 6 shews the fire grate, the roasting screen
being removed. In this Figure will be seen an aperturec overthe fire, through
which the fuel is to be supplied to the grate; over this I intend to place the
boiler (as seen at j, Figs. 4 and 5), and when not so occupied the aperture
may be closed by its plate. Charcoal is proposed to be burnt in this apparatus,
as it emits no smoke, and hence needs no flue; but in the event of coal, coke,
or wood being used it will be necessary to suffer the smoke then produced to
discharge itself through the piped (seen at Figs. 5 and 7), which is provided
for that purpose, and under these circumstances needs only to be uncapped.

page_text: If this apparatus is used in a dwelling house, and such fuel employed as emits
smoke, the pipe must be placed in or near the chimney, and if used in the
open air it must be so situated that the wind does not choak the mouth of the
pipe. The flap or plate e (Fig. 6) in which the dripping pan is seen standing,
is intended to be turned up in front of the grate when the cooking is finished,
by which the fire becomes extinguished. If roasting is not required, fire need
only be put in one or both of the stewing stoves, over which boiling, steaming,
stewing or frying may be performed, without using the grate. Fig. 7 is an
horizontal view of the top of the apparatus in which is a flap that on being
raised lets down the front door (seen at g, Fig. 4,) for the purpose of gaining
access to the meat while roasting. is a slider for the purpose of closing
more or less an aperture similar to one shewn at , where the slider is
removed. c is an opening in the top of the apparatus mentioned in describing
Fig. 6. is a small hole to admit a string or chain when the meat is sus-
pended for roasting, in the manner called dangling; over this hole a vertical
jack may be placed upon a stand. is an aperture into which a sauspan may
be inserted, as seen at Fig. 5, or a stewing stove, as shewn at m. d, d, is the
pipe or flue leading from the grate (as mentioned before), which is not required
to be uncapped when the fire is inade with charcoal. Fig. 8 is a section of the
apparatus cut through the middle horizontally, in which n, n, n, n, is the
screen encompassing the meat while roasting, which may be slidd en backward
or forward, so as to regulate the proper distance of the meat from the fire. o is
the spit which may connected to an horizontal or spring jack, as seen at p,
Fig. 5, or the meat may be suspended within the screen, as before mentioned.
q is the fire grate, and oven behind, seen also at Fig. 5.
Having thus described the several parts of my improved apparatus, and
their different uses, I now desire it to be understood that I claim the exclusive
right to make, use, exercise, and vend the same, not upon the novelty of its
parts separately taken, but in the whole as a new-invented portable cooking
apparatus, consisting of the parts as herein described, all the pieces of which
pack together, and are enclosed (with ten sauspans and kettles more or less
as required) within a box about two. feet square, as shewn at Fig. 1, which
contrivance as a cooking apparatus being, to the best of my belief, new, and
never before published in this Kingdom, I am desirous to maintain and enjoy
in right of my Pateut above recited.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Frederick Eckstein, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-one.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Ninth day of November, in the
year of our Lord 1821, the aforesaid George Frederick Eckstein came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand night hundred and turanty que
Inrolled the Ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty one