AN IMPROVED METHOD OF COOKING AND APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED THEREIN
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Stephen Ballard, of Colwell, in the County of
Hereford, Engineer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF
COOKING AND APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED THEREIN."
Sealed the 14th July 1865, and dated the 18th January 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Stephen Ballard at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th January 1865.
I, STEPHEN BALLARD, of Colwell, in the County of Hereford, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD
OF COOKING AND APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED THEREIN," to be as follows:-
In cooking, and especially in boiling meat and other solid articles of food,
there is great difficulty in properly cooking the interior.
Now my Invention consists in cooking by the insertion of hollow skewers or
tubes in and through the meat or other material to be cooked.
My apparatus consists of a hollow tube fitted with a movable point and
handle to facilitate the insertion in the meat or other article, which point and
handle may be removed prior to the article being boiled, baked, or roasted.
After the cooking the handle may be applied to remove the tube, if
necessary.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Stephen Ballard in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
18th July 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, STEPHEN
BALLARD, of Colwell, in the County of Hereford, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Stephen Ballard, Her special licence that I, the said Stephen
Ballard, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Stephen Ballard, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF COOKING AND APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED
THEREIN," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Stephen
Ballard, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Stephen Ballard, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
In cooking, and especially in boiling meat and other solid articles of food,
there is great difficulty in properly cooking the interior.
Now
my Invention consists in cooking by the insertion of hollow skewers or
tubes in and through the ment or other material to be cooked.
My apparatus consists of a hollow tube fitted with a movable point and
handle to facilitate the insertion in the meat or other article, which point
and handle may be removed prior to the article being boiled, baked, or
roasted. After the cooking the handle may be applied to remove the tube, if

page_text: necessary. The handle and point may be fitted to the tube by screwing or
otherwise. Sometimes I dispense with the movable point.
In witness whereof, I, the said Stephen Ballard, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day July, One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-five.
STEPN. BALLARD. (L.s.)