Improvements in Gridirons for Cooking Purposes.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Sept., 1898
Complete Specification Lett. 25th Oct., 1898 -Accepted, 3rd Dec., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gridirons for Cooking Purposes.
I, TERESA EMILIE SHEPHERD, of No. 40, Hyde Park Mansious, London, W.,
Gentlewoman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in gridirons for cooking purposes and
consists in making a gridiron with a movable rack which can be inserted in two or
more slides so as to enable the person cooking chops, steaks or other food to move
the rack to a higher position further from the fire flames if necessary, or bring the
food to be cooked closer to the flames if the fire is low.
In carrying my invention into practice I make a frame of metal or wire, the inside
so grooved, or the wire so shaped, that the two sides form a series of grooves,
preferably three grooves on each side, in which grooves or slots the rack or bottom
forming the gridiron proper can be inserted.
If the fire is slow the gridiron rack can be placed in the lower grooves, or in the
case of a fierce fire, the gridiron or rack can be placed soine inches higher in the upper
grooves.
The frame is provided with a handle and the sliding gridiron or rack has a small
handle also.
Improvements in Gridirons for Cooking Purposes.
I, TERESA EMILIE SHEPHERD, of No. 40, Hyde Park Mansions, London, W.,
Gentlewoman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described, and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in gridirons and the like, and has for its
object to provide a simple, efficient and convenient device for grilling meat and other
food, in which device the chop, steak, or other food to be cooked can be moved to
a position nearer to, or farther from, the fire, according as the latter is dull or fierce,
or it is desired to cook the food quickly or the reverse.
In order to accomplish the objects above mentioned, the invention consists in
certain novel features and details of construction and arrangement of parts, whereby
simplicity and efficiency are obtained, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in
the drawings, and finally embodied in the claims.
In order that this my said invention may be readily understood and carried
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page_text: into practical effect, reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet of
illustrative drawings, wherein is shewn a perspective view of the device.
Referring to the drawings, a are the two parallel sides of the frame, which are
connected at their ends to the vertical portions 6' and c¹ of wires or the like b and c,
forming the ends.
The wire or the like b is formed at 62 into a loop to constitute a handle, such
handle being further strengthened by means of a central bar b³.
The sides a of the frame are preferably formed of rectangular strips of sheet tin
or similar material, upon the inner or opposing faces of which are projecting racks a¹
for a purpose hereinafter referred to.
If desirable, the sides a may be grooved or slotted in lieu of having the projecting
racks a¹.
The upper extremities of the vertical portions 6' and c¹ are turned over toward one
another, to form loops 64 and c², in which position they are fixed by means of solder
or its equivalent.
This
A sliding or movable grid is provided, such grid having a handle d' preferably
formed in the same manner as the handle 62 6s hereinbefore described.
grid handle d¹ is preferably shorter than the first handle for convenience in grasping
same.
From the foregoing description it will be readily understood that, if the fire is
slow, the grid proper can be placed upon the lower racks, or in the lower grooves
where same is substituted, while, in the case of a fierce fire, the grid proper can be
placed some inches higher on the upper racks (or in the corresponding grooves, as
the case may be.)
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In gridirons for cooking purposes, the frame comprising parallel sides having
racks or grooves or slots, said sides being connected at their ends with horizontal
and vertical end pieces one of which is provided with a handle; in combination
with a grid proper having a handle, and capable of being moved from a lower rack
or its equivalent, to a higher, or vice-versa, substantially as described, and as illus-
trated by the drawings.
Dated this 25th day of October 1898.