US522399A - Steam-cooker - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

STEAM COOKER.

W ITNEEE E5 i ATTEI' RN EY UNITED STATES,

PATENT OFFICE.

WINFIELD E. BEVERIDGE, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

STEAM-COOKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 522,399, dated July 3, 1894.

' Application filed April 26, 1894.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WINFIELD E. B VER- IDGE,a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Steam-Cookers, of which the followlng IS a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in domestic steam cookers of that class which employa number of vessels superimposed one on the other.

The invention has for its object to improve the construction of these cookers in order to adapt them for a wider range of usefulness.

The Invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation showing the exterior appearance of the cooker. Fig. 2 is a vertical section showing the features of my lnvention anda certain arrangement of the vessels. Fig. 3 shows the invention diflerently arranged in the combination of vessels. Fig. 4 shows a still difierent arrangement of r the vessels. Fig. 5 shows a perforated remov- 2 5 able bottom which may be employed in some of the combinations of the vessels. Fig. 6

shows a perspective view, broken at one part, of the improved section of the cooker.

All the sections or vessels are cylindrical. The letter, A, designates the bottom section or boiler having the usual side funnel, or in I clined filling chute, b. Each section or vessel has handles, 0, for the convenience of liftmg, and a cover, 01, is employed for the top- 3 5 most section or vessel; Heretofore it has been common for each upper vessel, A, to have a bottom like the one in Fig. 2, designated, 2, and a stand pipe, f, fixed to said bottom and opening through it to the vessel below, so as to aflord access for the steam rising from the boiler, A. In this way it has been common to connect by stand pipes the several superlmposed vessels. v

I provide an improved section, A having an exteriorcircumferential flange, g, on the wall, to rest on the top rim of any one ofihe vessels, A, or on the boiler, A, and an interior or inturned flange, h, attached to apendent part, 'L, of the wall below the said exterior 5o flange. This improved section, A is bottom- 1ess,-that is, it has no permanent bottom but Serial No. 509,055. (No model.)

where the bottom would ordinarily be there is only the interior circumferential flange, h, referred to; the part, '5, and the flange, h,.set into the lower vessel. This flange is made narrow in order that when this section, A is mounted on the vessel, A, as in Fig. 2, the two sections together, that is, A, and, A will make a double size section and'serve as one tallscction, and thus have the capacity for receiving a large piece of meat, or a ham, which neither of the smaller vessels alone could receive. This bottomless section, A, may be used in various combinations with the several vessels, A, or boiler, A; Figs. 2, 3 and 4, illustrate some of the different combinations to which I refer. In Fig. 3 a pan, J has at its top-rim an outward flange, k, which rests on the interior flange, h, of the section, A thus the pan hangs pendentdown into the vessel or boiler below. This pan may be covered or uncovered; a steam pipe, Z, is rectangular in cross-section-being broad one way and narrow the otherand' is fixed in andv opens down through the interior flange, h; by means of this pipe, Z, steam heat may be applied on top of the pendent pan, J, while at the same time steam in the boiler below acts directly on the bottom of the pan. This construction of a section with no bottom, but with an interior flange, h, and a steam pipe, Z, mounted onsaid flange, will also allow of the formation of the double size vessel, composedof A, and, A and at the same time permits the use of another or fourth vessel, A, on top of said section, A as shown'in Fig.

1, in this case the steam pipe, Z, mounted on the flange, h, serving to communicate and pass steam intothe top vessel, A.

In Fig. 4, a removable perforated bottom, M, is shown which rests on the interior flange, h, and thus may support anything that it is desired to steam. A pan, J, is here shown supported on the said bottom, M, by way of illustration. Such a pan may contain, forinstance, a'pudding or a pot-pie to be cooked, and is a superior arrangement for these vessels. In this case of using the removable perforated bottom, M, the steam pipe, Z, on the flange, h, would also serve, as before stated, to communicate with a top vessel,-if one were used on the section, A

5 vessels superimposed one upon the other, the

combination of a lower vessel; a bottomless section, A resting upon said vessel and having at its base a part, i, which is pendent so as to take down into said vessel and said I0 pendent part provided with an interior circumferential flange, h, and a vertical pipe, 1, fixed in an opening in said flange; and an upper vessel, A, resting upon the said bottomless section and receiving a supply of steam [5 from said pipe.

2. Ina steam cooker having a number of vessels superimposed one upon the other, the

combination of a lower vessel; a bottomless section, A resting upon said vessel and having at its base a part, i, which is pendent so as to take down into said vessel and said pendent part provided with an interior circumferential flange, h, and a vertical pipe, Z, fixed in an'opening in said flange; and a pan, J, having at its top-rim an outward flange, 70, which rests on the said interior circumferential flange and thereby hangs into the said lower vessel.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WINFIELD E. BEVERIDGE. \Vitncsses:

Tiles. (3. BAILEY, CHARLES B. MANN, Jr.

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