US48190A - Egg-cooker - Google Patents

Description

W. LOU CKS.

Egg Cooker.

Patentd June 13, 1865.

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WESLEY LOUCKS, OF SUHOHARIE, NEW YORK.

EGG-COOKER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 48,190, dated June 13, 1665.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WESLEY LoUoKs, of Schoharie, in the county of Schoharie andState of New York, have invented a new and useful Kitchen Utensil,which I call an Egg-Cooker and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawlugs, forming a part of this specification, in which-- Figure 1 isatop view of my egg-cooker; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same; and Fig. 3, a vertical central section thereof as it appears when open to receive the eggs, or for the purpose of allowing the eggs to be removed after being cooked. The red lines in Fig. 2 illustrate the movement of the egg-cooker on its axis or bearings, and the red linesin Fig. 3 illustrate the movement of one half of the eggcooker on its hinge-joint, or the opening and closing operation of the respective halves of the eg -cooker.

Similar letters ofreference in the several figures indicate corresponding parts.

Myinvention consists in the egg-cooker hereinafter described, as a new article of manufacture, the same enabling the frying of several eggs at one time and on both sides, without the necessity of turning them with a knife or other like implement, it also keeping the eggs separate from one another, and likewise admitting of the ready removal of the'cooked eggs and the insertion of a new lot without the necessity of readjusting the egg-cooker to its starting position or condition.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention,I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings.

Ais a conic or flaring ring-support, cast with a handle, a, and legs b b, as represented. In the upper edge of this support four notches, c c d d, are cast, those a 0 being very nearly opposite those 01 d. These notches are rectangular in form. At right angles to these notches there are cast in the upper edge of the support two other notches, e 6, one of which is diametrically opposite the other. The notches e e are rounding at their bottom; and as these notches are tosupport the journals of another part of the egg-cooker, the metal about them is made thicker and extended upward a short distance above the edge of the ring-support A, as represented.

B B are two circular plates with several concave circular depressions in their faces, and

with convex circular projections on their outer surfaces, as indicated by thelettersfg. These depressions are separated from one another, as represented, and when the two faces of the plates are brought snugly together, full, oval, or elliptic shaped chambers for the eggs are formed, as represented in Fig. 3 by the black and red lines.

On each plate, at opposite points, semicylim dric journals h h are cast, as shown; and on 7 each plate at right angles to these journals hinging-earst'i are also cast. The earsz'extend back and upward, while the ears '5 extend backand downward, as represented. The upwardextending ears are set closer together than the downward-extendin g ones, and just stand within the same, as represented. Each plate on its outer surface, and at a point near their circumference and opposite the point where the hinging lugs or ears are located, is furnished with a fin ger-piece, j, as. represented. The two plates thus constructed are pivoted together by passing pivots or pintles through the respective pairs of ears i t", as represented. When the plates are pivoted together and laid upon one another the half-journals. h h form full cylindric journals, as representedin Fig. 2. These journals fitin the notchesee, while one set of the ears of one plate restin one set of the notchesc c and old. When the twoplates are swung round on their journals and the upper plate becomes the lower plate, the other pair of cars or lugs of the upper plate fall into the other set of the notches ccand d d. After the eggs are cooked, or in order .to insert the eggs to be cooked, the plate Whichis on top is thrown up on its hingeconnection, as shown in black lines in Fig. 3. When the plate is thus thrown up the extensions of the ears orlu gs serve as stops or stays to prevent it from falling over too far. They also re tain the plate in its adjusted position, rendering it unnecessary to apply the hands to it at ter the adjustment has been effected.

1 From theforegoin g descriptionit will be seen that the eggs can be cooked on one side, then inverted to be cooked on the other, and after being cooked can be taken out separately, it

only being necessary to adjust the plate tothe position shown in Fig. 3, and put a knife or other implement under each egg and liftit out of its cell. The eggs being removed, a new lot may be introduced before the plate which was thrown up is brought down.

The egg-cooker herein described is adapted by means of its legs or feet to fit the holes in a range or stove, and is supported by the metal which incloses said holes, as will be evident.

I am aware that it is not new to make cupshaped depressions or cavitiesin a singleplate or utensil adapted for frying or cooking eggs, therefore I make no claim to such a single plate or utensil. I am also aware thatthe principle of revolving an apparatus in which to fry or broil meats is not now, therefore I make no claim to such principle. I am not aware, however, that an egg-cooker which is constructed as I have shown, and adapted for frying eggs on both sides, as set forth, has ever been manufactured or known; and, therefore,

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The within-described egg-cooker, as a new article of manufacture.

WESLEY LOUOKS. Witnesses:

DURYEE BEEKMAN, CALEB CARPENTER.

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