A New or Improved Presser and Drainer for Pressing and Draining certain kinds of Cooked Vegetables and for other like purposes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 30th June, 1897
Gomplete Specification Left, 19th Mar., 1898-Accepted, 20th May, 1898
A New or Improved Presser and Drainer for Pressing and Draining
certain kinds of Cooked Vegetables and for other like purposes.
I, FREDERICK RYLAND, of Houghton Street, West Bromwich,, in the County of
Stafford, Ironfounder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
In certain cooked vegetables such for example as cabbages, greens, spinach,
kale and turnips it is necessary or desirable in order to fit them for the table to
compress them after cooking, so as to remove wholly or in great part the water
which is attached to or contained in them on removal from the cooking vessel.
This is usually affected by the pressure of a plate or saucer but this is a clumsy,
inefficient and uncertain way of draining the cooked vegetables; and my invention
has for its object the rapid, efficient and uniform removal of the water brought by
the cooked vegetables from the cooking vessel.
My new or improved presser and drainer consists of a metallic (preferably tin-
plate) circular dish having a central handle. The said dish is either concave or
convex and has a series of radial ribs convex externally. The handle described
is made preferably of wood and is situated axially on the dish.
In using my
new or improved presser and drainer the cooked vegetables are placed on a cullen-
der, dish, plate or other support and the presser and drainer is pressed vertically
by means of its handle on the said vegetables. Owing to the convexity of the
exterior of the bottom of the presser and drainer, the water is pressed first from
the middle of the vegetable mass, the pressure gradually extending from the
middle to the marginal parts. The spaces between the radial ribs constitute a
series of channels by which the expressed water passes from the centre outwards,
and the vegetables operated upon are rapidly, uniformly and efficiently drained
of the water remaining in them.
Dated this Thirtieth day of June 1897
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
A New or Improved Presser and Drainer for Pressing and Draining
certain kinds of Cooked Vegetables and for other like purposes.
I, FREDERICK RYLAND, of Houghton Street, West Bromwich, in the County of
Stafford, Ironfounder, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what
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page_text: manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
In certain cooked vegetables such for example as cabbages, greens, spinach,
kale and turnips it is necessary or desirable in order to fit them for the table to
compress them after cooking, so as to remove wholly or in great part the water
which is attached to or contained in them on removal from the cooking vessel.
This is usually effected by the pressure of a plate or saucer but this a clumsy,
inefficient and uncertain way of draining the cooked vegetables; and my invention
has for its object the rapid, efficient and uniform removal of the water brought by
the cooked vegetables from the cooking vessel.
My new or improved presser and drainer consists of a metallic (preferably tin-
plate) circular dish having a central handle. The said dish is either concave or
convex and has a series of radial ribs convex externally. The handle described
is made preferably of wood and is situated axially on the dish. In using my
improved presser and drainer the cooked vegetables are placed on
a cullen-
der, dish, plate or other support and the presser and drainer is pressed vertically
by means of its handle on the said vegetables. Owing to the convexity of the
exterior of the bottom of the presser and drainer, the water is pressed first from
the middle of the vegetable mass, the pressure gradually extending from the
middle to the marginal parts. The spaces between the radial ribs constitute_a
series of channels by which the expressed water passes from the centre outwards,
and the vegetables operated upon are rapidly, uniformly and efficiently drained
of the water remaining in them.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in elevation; Figure 2 in
plan and Figure 3 in vertical section a vegetable presser and drainer constructed
according to my invention.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of
the drawing.
a is the tin-plate dish and b is the central handle on the upper or concave side
of the same. The said tinplate dish a has a series of convex radial ribs or corruga-
tions a², a on its convex underside, the spaces c between adjacent ribs or corruga-
tions a³, a² constituting channels by which, when the presser and drainer is in
use, water expressed from the cooked vegetables can escape outwards from the
central part of the presser and drainer. The handle b may be connected to the
tinplate a by rivetting the axial pin 62 of the handle on the underside of the plate
or by soldering, metallic washers d, e being preferably employed to strengthen
the middle portion of the plate.
In addition to using the presser and drainer for pressing and draining cooked
vegetables the said presser and drainer may also be employed for like purposes
such for example as extracting the juice from soft fruit such as currants raspberries
and the like.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention:-
A presser and drainer for pressing and draining certain kinds of cooked vege-
tables and for other like purposes, consisting essentially of a dished plate having
on its convex underside a series of ribs and channels, preferably radial, the said
plate being carried by a handle fixed to the upper concave side of the dished plate
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated.
Deted the Fifteenth day of March 1898