US451054A

US451054A - Cooking vessel

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Publication number: US451054A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1891-04-28
Anticipated expiration: 1908-04-28

Description

(No Model.)

I. W. JUDD. COOKING VESSEL.

No. 451,054. Patented Apr, 28, 1891.

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WITNESSES- v INVENTDR.

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FRED. IV. JUDD, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE AVERY STAMPING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

COOKING VESSEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 151,05 1, dated April 28, 1891.

Application filed September 10, 1890. Serial No. 364,509. (No model.)

To aZZ whom/it may concern: ends of which are bent substantially at right Be it known that I, FRED. W. J UDD, a citiangles,outwardly orinwardly,as the case may zen of the United States, residing at Clevebe, which bent portions a, passing through land, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of the perforations b in the bail-ears, form the Ohio, have invented certain new and useful trunnions upon which the bail turns. The

Improvements in Cooking-Vessels, of which ends of the bail are then bent in the opposite the following is a full, clear, and exact dedirection until its extreme ends 0 c are subscription, reference being had to the accomstantially parallel to the parts 0 and lie over panying drawings, in whichthe top edge of the Vessel, whereby the turn- Io Figure 1 is a perspective view of my iming of said bail in one direction past a subproved cooking-vessel. Fig. 2 is a perspecstantially vertical position is prevented. tive View of that portion of the upper edge of D represents a combined tilting lever and said vessel which is midway between the bailhook, which is made of a single piece of wire ears; and Fig. 3 is a detached View of the doubled at the middle until the two legs are [5 combined tilting lever and hook. brought together. If desired, a loop at may My invention relates particularly to kettles be formed at said bent middle point. The and other analogous cooking-vessels which doubled wire is then bent into hook form and are stamped or spun from sheet metal. then abruptly bent back against itself to the The objects of myinvention are to improve point where it is desired to locate its pivot,

'20 the construction and to reduce the cost of and the extreme ends 01 d are then bent sidesuch vessels; and it consists in the construcwise in opposite directions, substantially as tion and combination of the parts herein shown in Fig. 3, whereby these ends serve as shown and described, and pointed out defithe trunnions by which said hook is pivoted nitely in the claims. to the vessel. The part of this lever below 2 5 Referring to the parts by letter, A reprethe trunnions d d serves as a finger-piece by sents the body of the kettle or other vessel, which the leverDis grasped and manipulated. which is stamped or spun into the desired E E represent ears formed integrally with shape from a single piece of sheet metal, said vessel (midway between the bail-ears) preferably sheet-steel. In the best form the and extending from the upper edge thereof.

0 upper edge of the kettle is bent outwardly, These ears are bent around, as shown, to form substantially as shown in the drawings, the the eyes 6, which serve as bearings, in which outwardly-bent part being in the shape of an the ends d of the tilting lev er D are pivoted. ogee curve, which, viewed from inside the In its entirety the device shown in the drawvessel, is convex in its lower part and conings is a sheet-metal kettle having the usual 5 cave at its upper part. This formation of the bail and a combined tilting lever and hook, upper edge of the kettle gives it a graceful which three separate pieces are constructed appearance and provides means for supportand connected without the use of rivets or ing a cover F at some distance below the upany other separate device. per edge, whereby when any liquid in the Having thus described myinvention, what r ,0 kettle boils overthat is,boils above the level I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letgo of the cover-it will not flow over the top of ters Patent, is the vessel, while the downward slope of that 1. A combined tilting lever and hook fora partof the upper edge of the kettles which kettle, made of a single piece of suitably-bent lies normally above the cover causes the wire, the ends of which extend in opposite 5 liquid to flow back into the'kettle. directions in a plane substantially at right 5 Y Integral with the upper edge of the kettle, angles to the plane of the lever, wherebysaid at diametrically opposite points, are the bailends are adapted to serve as trunnions, subears B, having the usual perforations for the stantially as and for the purpose specified. reception of the bail. 2. A combined tilting lever and hook made 50 C represents a bail made of round wire, the of a single piece of wire, which is bent subroo stantially as described to form the double finger-piece cl, the four-stranded hook, and the trunnions d d, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

5 3. A sheetmetal kettle having integral With its upper edge and midway between the bail-ears the ears E E, the outer ends of which are bent to form the eyes a a, combined with a tilting lever lying between said ears E E [0 and pivoted thereto by means of trnnnions or a pivot which extends into said eyes, su l)- stantially as and for the purpose specified.

l J l l. A kettle having the perforated ears B B extending above its upper edge, combined with a wire bail having U-shaped ends which lie in a plane substantially at right angles to the plane of the bail, the inner leg of each U-shaped end passing through the perforation in associated bail-ear, the outer leg lying over the top edge of the kettle.

FRED. WV JUDD.

Witnesses:

L. THURsToN, lLBiJRT Barns.