To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, Abel Stillman, of Poland, in the
county of Herkimer and State of New York, have
invented a new and useful Improvement in
Coffee-Roasters, and that the following is a full and
exact description of the same.
My improvement consists in casting a rim or plate, a,
as shown in the drawing: it is like the common griddle
or cover used in kitchen stoves, with the exception
of a hole nearly square through the center and
sufficiently large to receive the cylinder b, with the
bearings c, on opposite sides of the hole, on which
rests the axis of the cylinder, and in which it
revolves. The cylinder is of sheet iron, from five to
ten inches in length and the same in diameter, with
cast iron heads, and a shaft through the center
about three eighths of an inch in diameter –
extending out at one end of the cylinder of sufficient
length to rest on the bearing c, and the other end
extending out eighteen inches or more on which is a
handle or crank for the convenience of the operator:
in the end of the cylinder toward the handle is a
small hole in which is a plate of
mica or other transparent substance, the object of which
is to enable the operator to have a more perfect view of
the coffee while in the process of roasting. Near the
other end of the cylinder is a hole about two inches in
diameter closed with a slide of sheet iron, through which
the coffee is inserted and taken out when, roasted. The
coffee roaster may be used with the stove, portable
furnace, or suspender over the fire by the bail c.
I do not claim as my invention the combination of a
cylinder for roasting coffee with a vessel adapted to the
boiler openings of a stove said vessel having a bottom to
it, so as to exclude the fire from the roaster.
What I claim is –
Combining the coffee roaster with a rim or vessel open
below so as to admit the fire to the roaster and adapted
to the stove, portable furnace, or fire-place as herein set
forth, and the insertion of a piece of mica or other
transparent substance in the end of the cylinder.
ABEL STILLMAN
Witnesses:
W. C. DURANT,
ALBERT ARNOLD
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