Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 4th June, 1895-Accepted, 6th July, 1895
I, EMIL HARTUNG, of Untermarkt, Mulhausen i/ Th., Germany, Manufacturer of
Iron and Steel Goods, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
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This invention relates to a cooking utensil designed for cooking with air, that is
to say, without water, the arrangement being such that the substances to be cooked,
such as meat, fish, vegetables, potatoes &c., are placed in the utensil without any
water whereupon the utensil is inverted and the contents cooked.
Fig. 1 of the drawings is a vertical section of a cooking utensil according to my
invention, and
Fig. 2 a plan thereof.
Upon the vessel a is placed a cover b. which is provided with a flanged edge c,
that serves to receive melted fat &c., with a number of feet d which, when
the cover b has been placed upon the vessel and after that vessel has been
inverted, keeps the cover b out of contact with the source of heat, and thereby
prevents the food from burning.
In a closed space (such as a cooking or baking flue or oven,) the utensil a
is employed alone. But in cooking on a direct or open fire or on a hotplate, there
is employed another vessel e which receives the cooking utensil and serves as
a heat-collector and distributor, said vessel e being closed in a suitable manner
by means of a cover f. The border groove g is provided in the cover in order to
hold the cooking utensil a at its upper edge.
The food which is contained in the cooking utensil and which is to be cooked, is
sealed or closed in automatically without steam pressure by means of liquid which
trickles out of the food itself, a very small quantity being sufficient, or is added
thereto in the form of basting or dripping, because the upper edge of the inverted
utensil rests upon the flat cover with an independent or separate bearing for itself,
and every drop of liquid acts under hermetic seal.
The dripping contained in the utensil prevents even vegetables from adhering to
the cover.
If however in consequence of overheating or cooking for too long a time,
adhesion should take place, the adhering food can be very easily and quickly
removed from the flat cover. The main portion of the cooked food always
falls back into the utensil when the latter is inverted for the purpose of being
opened.
Food cooked in this cooking utensil is very much more nutritious and more easily
digested than food that has been cooked with water, because the nutritious salts of
the food are not soaked out but remain in the food.
Dated this 9th day of March 1895.
F. WISE HOWORTH,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.

page_text: 1, EMIL HARTUNG, of Untermarkt, Mulhausen i Thüringen, Germany, Manu-
facturer of Iron and Steel Goods, do hereby declare the. nature of this invention
and in what mauner the same is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to a cooking utensil designed for cooking with the aid of
hot air, that is to say, without water, the arrangement being such that the
substances to be cooked, such as meat, fish, vegetables, potatoes &c., are placed in
the utensil without any water, whereupon the utensil is inverted and the contents
cooked.
Fig. 1 of the drawings filed with my Provisional Specification is a vertical section
of a cooking utensil according to my invention, and
Fig. 2 is a plan thereof.
The cooking, utensil comprises a vessel a upon which is placed a cover b
provided with a flanged edge c, that serves to receive melted fat &c., when
the vessel is inverted. The cover is also provided with a number of feet d which,
when the cover b has been placed upon the vessel and the latter has been inverted,
keeps the cover b out of direct contact with the source of 'heat, and thereby
prevents the food from burning.
In a closed space, such as a cooking or baking flue or oven, the vessel a
with cover bis employed alone, but when cooking on a direct or open fire, or on
a hot-plate, there is employed another vessel e which receives the cooking vessel a
and serves as a heat-collector and distributor the said vessel e being closed in
a suitable manner by means of a cover f which is provided with a grooved part g. in
order to hold the cooking utensil à at its upper edge.
Food contained in the cooking utensil, is, during the cooking thereof, sealed
or closed in automatically without steam pressure by means of liquid which trickles.
out of the food itself, or which is added thereto in the form of basting or dripping,
a very small quantity of liquid in either case being sufficient because the upper edge
of the inverted vessel a rests upon the flat cover & with an independent or separate
bearing for itself, and every drop of liquid acts to effect a hermetic seal.
The dripping or other liquid contained in the vessel a prevents even vegetables
from adhering to the cover. If however in consequence of overheating or cooking,
for too long a time, adhesion should take place, the adhering food can be very
easily and quickly removed from the flat cover. The main portion of the cooked
food always falls back into the vessel a when the latter is inverted for the purpose
of being opened.
Food cooked in a cooking utensil of the kind described, is very much more,
nutritious and more easily digested than food that has been cooked with water,
because the nutritious salts or substances in the food are not soaked out but remain
in the food.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A cooking utensil comprising a vessel a having a cover b provided with a bent
back edge or flange c and supporting feet d, and adapted to be placed in a cooking

page_text: 2. The improved cooking vessel comprising the vessel a, the cover b with flange c
and feet d, the vessel e, and the cover f with grooved border g, substantially as
described and shewn.
Dated this 4th day of June 1895.
F. WISE HOWORTH,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.