US Patent: 2,572,826
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| Food Preserving and Cooking Device
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Patentee:
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| Ralph M. Shaw, Jr. (exact or similar names) - Edgewater Park, Burlington County, NJ |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Jan. 31, 1948 |
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Oct. 30, 1951 |
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Joel Havens
"Vintage Machinery" entry for Pedrick Tool & Machine Co.
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Description: |
| Abstract:
This invention relates to food preserving and cooking devices, that is to say, to devices into which different foods essential to a complete balanced meal for one or more persons can be packed for preservation in a refrigerator until their use is desired and in which the foods are later cooked before removal. In connection with a device of the kind referred to I aim to provide for automatic cooking of the raw contents after removal of the device from the refrigerator. This desideratum is attained in practice, as hereinafter more fully disclosed, by embodiment in the device, of a heating unit and thermostatic control which is normally dormant at the temperature maintained in the refrigerator, but which, upon removal of the device from the refrigerator and exposure for a definite time to room temperature, automatically starts operation of the heating means for cooking the raw foods, those of the foods which it is desired to keep cold being protected from the influence of the heat during the cooking period by thermal insulation incorporated in the container structure.
Claim:
n a food preserving and cooking device, a receptacle for frozen foods having a hollow there-beneath; heating means within said hollow having-the form of a wick burner with a fuel reservoir of a capacity to insure complete cooking of the food in the receptacle; an electrical igniting means at the wick of the burner; and a normally-open thermostatic switch in circuit with the igniting means adapted, upon rise of the temperature within the receptacle to a predetermined degree after removal from storage in a refrigerator, to close the circuit for starting the burner. |
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