US849290A - Device for supporting fowls. - Google Patents

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PATENTBD APR. 2, ,1907

H. M. VANDBRBILT. DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING FOWLS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 17, 1906.

INVENTOH WITNESSES 15 m r m a 0 H m ATTORNEYS UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT M. VANDERBILT, OF SUFFERN, NEW YORK.

Specification of Letters'Patent.

Patented April 2, 1907.

Application filed July 17,1906. Serial No. 326,602.

To all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT M. VANDER- BILT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Suffern, in the county of Rocklandand State of New York,'have invented a new and Improved Device for Supporting Fowls, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention i an improved device for supporting fowls while roasting, one object of the invention being to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive means to support in anelevated position a fowl with its breast down during the cooking period, thereby admitting of the uniform circulation of heat ab out it and its retention in a convenient shape, also to make provision. for the adjustment of the device, enablin it to be used in connection with fowls o varying sizes.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists of two pieces of wire bent and twisted in a novel manner and slidably connected together in a way hereinafter particularly described.

Reference is to be had to the drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate cor responding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one form of the invention complete, showing in dotted outline a fowl supported breast down therein; and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the base of the device,-partly in longitudinal central section.

The invention as embodied in the construction illustrated is composed of two wires 1 and 2. The Wire 1 is bent at its center to form a downwardly-turned eye 3 from which forwardly extends its two ends side by side for some distance, where they are twisted, as at 4, and thereafter bent in opposite directions in substantially a horizontal plane and into downwardly-turned loops 5, forming feet for this end of the device. After forming the feet the ends of the wire are bent back on themselves toward each other until the center is reached, where they are a ain; twisted together into a vertical standard '6 at such a distance above the horizontal portion leading from theeye 3 as to avoid the breasts of ordinary size fowls contacting therewith when supported in position. At the upper end of the standard (r the ends of the wire again separate, forming an enlarged U 7, after Which said ends are bent back on themselves, terminating at their last point of diver ence, thus reinforcing the U by a double portion of wire.

The wire 2 is bent at its center to form an upwardly-extendin eye 8, slidingly embracing the longitu 'nal' doubled portion of the wire 1 and with its ends extending rearwardly side by side from this point through the eye 3. At a point 9 corresponding tov the point 4 of the wire 1 the ends of the wire 2 are twisted together and are thereafter simi larly bent in opposite directions in substantially ahorizontal plane and into down- 'wardly-turned loops 10, forming feetfor the rear end of the device. After forming said feet the ends of the wire 2 are bent-back on After forming said seats the ends of the wire 2 are downwardly and inwardly turned, terminatin at diametrical opposite sides 0 the standar 11.

In the use of the device it is seated on the bottom of a pan or the like in which the fowl is to be roasted, with its two members 1' and 2 separated a distance according to the fowls length. The fowl is then seated, as illus trated in Fig. 1,.with its breast down and embraced near its wings by the enlarged U 7 and the legs resting in the curved seats 14,i1r which position the shape of the fowl is maintained and the best results arrived at.

Although I have described the preferred embodiment of the invention, it is to be un-.

a curved seat 14 for each of the fowls legs.

like, comprising two members, each having supporting-feet joined together, a standardrising from the center of the joining portion of said feet on each member, a large U-sha ed seat centrally supported at the upper; on of one 'of the standards, and a small seat ar.-,

ranged at each side of and supported by the other standard.

2. A device for supporting fowls and the like, comprising two members adjustably connected together, each member having and a smal seat arranged at each side and supported by the other standard.

4. A device for supporting foWls or the like, comprising two members each having an element slidably embracing each other, a standard vertically rising from each element, a seat centrally supported atthe upper end of one of the standards, and a seat arranged at each side of and supported by the other standard. v

5. A device for supporting fowls' and the like, comprising two wire members slidably connected together, each of said members including feet joined together, a standard rising from the center of the joining portion of said feet on each member, a large seat centrally supported at the upper end of one of the standards, and a small seat arranged at each side of and supported by the other standard.

6. A device for supporting fowls and the like, comprising two members slidably con- 'nected together, each member having feet joined together, a large seat centrally supported on the joining portion of the feet of one-member, and a small seat su ported on the joining portion of the feet of tl ie opposite member at each sidethereof.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. HERBERT M. VANDERBILT. Witnesses;

EVERARD B. MARSHALL,

F. W. HANAFORD.

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