PATENTED FEB. 21, 1905.
I ‘No. 783,059.
J. Z. MILLER.
BREAD BAKING PAN.‘
APPLICATION FILED MAR. 5, 1904.
No. 783,059.
Patented February 21, 1905.
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,
JOHN Z. MILLER, OF HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND.
BREAD-BAKING PAN.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 783,059, dated February 21, 1905.
Application ?led March 5, 1904. Serial No. 196,659.
To (LU, whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, JOHN Z. MILLER, a citi
zen of the United States, residing at Hagers~
town, in the county of Washington and State
of Maryland, have invented certain new and
its crust. It ‘is therefore the purpose of this
invention to overcome and obviate the existing
di?iculties and disadvantages found in bread
baking pans and to furnish a pan of simple,
novel, and inexpensive construction for the 55
useful Improvements in Bread-Baking Pans, baking of square loaves‘ of bread.
of which the following is a specification.
In the accompanying drawings, isforming
This invention relates to baking-pans, and part of this application, Figure 1 is a per
pertains especially to bread-baking pans for ‘ spective view showing the cover raised. Fig.
baking square loaves of bread.
2 is an end view showing the cover closed.
The object of the invention is to provide a Fig. 3 is a detail section on the lineme, Fig. 1.
baking-pan of such novel and peculiar con Fig. 4 is a like view on the line 1) 1/, Fig. 1.
struction that it may possess theleast amount Fig. 5 is a detail plan~ view of enough of the
of oven-bearing surface possible, that each pan-bottom material to form one section, the
pan and cover-section may have its walls en dotted lines showing the folds. Fig. 6 is an
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tirely exposed to the oven heat, and that there
may be no interference or interruption of'the
end view of a single pan, showing amodifica
tion. Fig. 7isa section on thelineze, Fig. 6.
circulation of heat back and forth between
The same numeral references denote the
and around the said sections.
same
parts throughout the several views of the
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A further object ofthe invention is to pro drawings.
vide a pan having separate and independent
The pan-cover being of duplicate construc
sections all formed of a single piece of metal tion to the pan, the latter will only be de
and a pan-cover in duplication of the pan, scribed herein in detail.
the metal of each of which is cut, struck up, or
In order to make the pan and its cover air,
25 stamped, folded, and crimped about a sur round steam, and water tight, the metal is cut,
ing rod-frame, so as topform individual re struck up, or stamped so as to form a blank 75
ceptacles having their bottom edges forming for each section 1 in one and the same piece
oven~bearings.
for the pan and in one and the same piece to
A still further object of the invention is to form the cover-sections 2. As shown in Fig.
provide a pan and pan-cover each comprising 5, which is the preferred form of. folding, the
a single piece'of metal which is so folded and blank end is angular, with one edge thereof
crimped about a central surrounding frame provided with a narrow ?ange 3, which after
of wire of rod without seaming, soldering, or said end is folded, as hereinafter described,
riveting, as to form a steam, air, and water is curled or crimped about a rod or stiff wire
4. which constitutes the frame of the pan. A 85
tacles for baking square loaves of bread.
like rod or wire 4" forms the cover-frame.
As far as known to me pans of this class Across the central line A of the blank, which
having a cover in duplication of the pan-bot extends to the point of the blank end, is a .tom are con?ned to baking circular bread. line B, and from the crossing-point ofthe
Other pans have V-shaped bread-receptacles line A and B is drawn a line C to the edge of
35 tight pan having individual sections or recep
and-a ?at top provided with depending pro
jections. None of such pans are air, water,
the said end opposite the said ?anged edge.
The metal being bent inwardly on the line A
or steam tight, and they all have end ?anges and outwardly on the line C will form they
which prevent circulation of heat back and folds 5 and 6, respectively, and by being bent
45 forth between the sections thereof and none
on the central line Auntil the fold 5 strikes
of whichbake square loaves of bread with the line B to the right of line A the fold 6 is 95
one angle of the loaf nearest the bottom of positioned and extends from the oven-bearing
the pan. Owing to the shape and construc edge 7 up to the ?ange 3 and against the rod 4,
tion of such pans, it is difficult to remove a where it is securely held by curling or crimp~
50 bread-loaf therefrom without breaking it or ing the ?ange about the rod. The ends of
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each pan-section, as well as the oover-sec- |_ ‘I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters
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tions, are in this manner formed steam and Patent, is—
water tight without employing seams, rivets,
1. A utensil for baking square loaves of
or solder, and the metal is ‘continued from bread, comprising a set of pan-sections V
one to the other of the sectionsv to make them, shaped in cross'section, a set of cover-sections
there being no cutting or separating the metal V -shaped in cross-section, and the hinged
for each section, and there is no intermediate frames, each set of sections being in a single 45
seams, joints, or frames other than the sur piece of metal and having bearing edges and
rounding rod-frame for the cover and a like provided with ends one half thereof being
folded and the other half having ‘a flange se
The cover is provided with a 'slidable proof cured to the frames.
2. A utensil for baking square loaves of
door 7”‘.1 ‘The pan-sections have upon each end
a projection 8, between which the cover closes bread,comprising a plurality of pans in a single
and is prevented from displacement. A suit piece of metal and ‘ti-shaped in cross-section,
able spring-catch 9 is secured to the cover to a plurality of pan-covers in a single piece of
hook under the frame‘; and has a hand-grasp ‘ metal and ‘ii-shaped in cross-section, and the
10 for raising the cover, the latter being hinged hinged frames, one side of the pans and covers 55
terminating in a double-folded end portion,
to the pan-frame at 11.’
.lt will be seen that the edges of the pan-sec and the other side terminating in an unfolded
256 tions constitute the only bearing of the pan end portion having a ?ange overlapping the
on an oven, that the bread is baked with one folded portion and secured to the frames.
3. A. multiple baking-pan comprising a se
edge of the loaf in the said bearing edges
and theopposite edge in the edge of the cover, ries of individual contiguous pans in a single
that half the loaf is held by the pan-sections piece of metaland V-shaped in cross-section
25 and the other half is located in the cover-sec the bottom edges of the pans forming an ex
tions, and that uniform baking is accomplished clusive rest or bearing for the pan, and the
by such location and arrangement and by the ends of the pan having folds in one portion
spaces between the sections being open at each thereof perpendicular to the said edges and
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one for the pan. >
"the other portion havinga flange overlapping
end, affording free circulation of heat.
Referring to the modi?cation shown in Figs. the said folds, and a suitable frame to which"
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6 and 7, a portion of the end 12 is folded at the said ?ange is secured.
In Witness whereof I hereunto set my hand 70
13 against the side 14 of the pan instead of
against the end, as shown in the preferred in the presence of two witnesses.
form.
JOHN Z. MILLER.
vlit is obvious that the number and size of '
the sections may be increased or diminished
as desired or as the trade may demand.
Having thus described my invention, what
Witnesses:
EZRA NEWooMER,
NERVIN J. BRANDT.