GB826086A - Improvements relating to steam cookers - Google Patents

Abstract

826,086. Steam cooking utensils. BAYNHAM, D. May 30, 1958 [Oct. 28, 1957], No. 33488/57. Class 66. A steam cooker 1 for seating over a saucepan 13 has a lid 3 and body 2 which has one or more compartments 6, 7 for vegetables and a compartment 8 for meat, the compartments being arranged so that, with the lid 3 in place, steam from boiling water in the saucepan 13 may pass through apertures 12 in the vegetable compartment(s), thence into the meat compartment, and finally escape through an outlet vent 19. The body 2 and lid 3 are of sheet metal, the body having partition walls 9, 10, 11 and a peripheral flange 14, and the lid having an annular rib 17 and slots 18 in the lower portion 16a of its wall 16, the slots 18 fitting over the partition walls 9, 10, 11. When the lid and body are arranged with their handles 20, 21 respectively vertically aligned, the member 19 projects into the meat compartment 8 ; the membes 19 having serrations 22 and apertures 23 to enable steam to escape should meat obstruct its lower end. The portion of the lid 16 above the rib 17 may be of frustoconical shape. In a modification, the bottom of the body 2 may be omitted below the meat compartment which may take the form of a detachable container hooked over the adjacent partition walls, Figs. 7 and 8 (not shown).