US198781A - Improvement in meal-bins - Google Patents

Description

JOHN THIOHETT, or CHICAGO, 1L:[.rNOIsfy- IMPROVEMENT IN MEAL-BINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 198,781, dated January 1, 1878 application filed May 15, 1877.

l To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN THrcKET'r, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Kitchen-Cabinets, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description, which will enable others skilled 'in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, and in which- Figure l is a perspective view of a kitchencabinet provided with my improvements; Fig.

y 2, a vertical section in the plane of the line be hereinafter particularly described.

In the drawing, A represents the case of the cabinet. The lower part is provided with doors a a, and with one or more shelves, b, and also with drawers c c. B is the top of the base of the case. C is a kneadingboard. This board should be arranged at such a height as to render the operation of kneading upon it capable of being performed with ease. D is the upper part of the cabinet. The bottom of the part vl) consists of a board extending across the rear half or part of the kneadingboard, thus forming a recess for the latter, from which recess the kneadingboard G may be partly drawn, and -by means of the said rear board it will be held horizontally when so drawn. The kneading-board C is wholly removable. E is a sieve. The'sieve is applied as drawers are, and, in fact, may be de scribed as a drawer having a sieve-bottom ar-v ranged therein. I make the sieve-bottom of wire-cloth, c, preferably tinned, supported on the downwardly-curved wires c c', extending parallelly across the drawer. The edges of the wire-cloth may be secured, in any suitable manner, to the sides and Yends of the drawer. Isink the sieve-cloth between the wires e' e',

thus forming curved and parallel ridges and grooves, alternately extending across the sieve-bottom, as shown atcl c. Fis a shaker, made preferably of tinned malleable iron, extending from front to rear of the sieve, and having bearings therein, in which it may be rotated. The beaters f j of this shaker are formed to closely nt or press the sieve-bottom during the rotation of the shaker.l In other words, the beater-arms are crimped or bent, as shown at f f', to correspond to the form of the sievebottom. Below the sieve E is a recess orv compartment to receive a dish or ves-V sel, G, into which falls the material sifted. This dish is removable, and does not in any way interfere with the kneadingboard C, being supported by a board arranged above the said kneading-board. At the sides of the sieve are receptacles for the rolling-pins or other utensils employed in kneadingA dough. H is a hopper to receive the flour or other material to be sifted, and toconduct it to the sieve. The remaining part ofthe upperportion of the cabinet may be provided with drawers or shelves, or otherwise rendered convenient for use as a kitchen-cabinet. I is a lid in the top of the hopper, and J is a crank or handle for shaking or partly rotating the shaker. A

mirror, K, maybe applied to the cabinet, either v for ornamentation or use, or for both.

This cabinetmakes a very neat and desirable piece of kitchen furniture.

, The sieve, by being constructed in the man ner described, exposes a large sievesurface in a comparatively small space, and the iour or other material to be sifted will be very rapidly sifted, and, if lumpy, thoroughly broken up.

The sieve may be easilyremoved and replaced, and is simple in construction and operation.

All the utensils and materials required for mixing, kneading, and rolling dough, and making it up for baking, can be arranged in the cabinet, and thus be conveniently accessi-- ble for use.

The our in the cabinet, being supported by the sieve, and thus being exposed to air above and below, will not be liable to become musty.

Having. thus deseribed my invention, what I v Wires, in oonneotionwith the correspondinglyclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters formed rotary shaker, substantially as and for Patent, isthe purposes speeied.

The combination, in a kitchen-cabinet, of the hopper H and the removable sieve E, the

l JOHN THICKETT. latter having therein a bottom consisting of Witnesses:

vthe Wire-cloth e, supported on the curved F. F. WARNER,

Wires e e', and depressed between the said JOSEPH' BAKER.

Images