Fowler insulated food containers

[Mark Ellis]

I wonder if anyone knows any background to these containers, please.

The current owner was told that they were used for taking food down to miners. There's no crowfoot on them.

George Fowler invented the Fowler Field cooker whilst in the RAMC, He and his wife set up the Fowler bottling method to preserve food, and patented a number of different bottle sealing methods.

The Company became George Fowler and Lee after discharge on 30 years service in the army, in 1903. The company incorporated into a Ltd in 1908. George died in 1923, and his wife continued, followed by her daughter and son in law - who had taken the Fowler name when he married.

Dimensions a follows:-

Height 200mm,

External dia. 180mm,

Internal dia. 140mm,

Thickness of walls, lid and base 20mm.

Total weight 2.7kg

 

George and Elizabeth's patents 

1885	14940	Not printed	George Fowler	C	Portable stove Patent with George Harris Haywood
1890	7082	Have	George Fowler	C	Improved Portable Cooking Apparatus, applicable for Carrying Food or Rations.
1895	8682	Have	George Fowler		Improvements in the Construction of the Joints of Steam pipe and Connections of Culinary Utensils and other similar Vessels.
1895	9003	Not printed	George Fowler	C	Cooking apparatus
1896	87	Have	George Fowler	C	Improved portable cooking apparatus
1898	660	Have	George Fowler	C	Improvements in Steam Cooking, Sterilizing, and Condensing Appliances
1895	23819	Not printed	Elizabeth Lee	B	Preserving vegetables, fruits, &c.
1898	“How to Bottle Fruit, Vegetables, Poultry, Milk, Meat, etc” By Elizabeth Lee. E Lee and Co. Maidstone: Young & Cooper, [1899]
1900	13832	Have	George Fowler	C	Improvements in portable cooking apparatus
1908	17032	Have	George Fowler	B	Improvements in the Means for Covering Bottles, Jars, Tins, and other similar Vessels also for Closing Ends of Pipes
1909	25628	Have	George Fowler	B	Improvements in the Means for Covering Bottles, Jars, Tins and other similar Vessels also for Closing Ends of Pipes
1911	22972	Have	George Fowler	B	Improvements in the Means for Covering Bottles, Jars, Tins and other similar Vessels, also for Closing Ends of Pipes
1911	25671	Have	George Fowler	B	Improvements in Sterilizing, Disinfecting and Cooking Apparatus
1913	5846	Have	George Fowler	C	Portable Cooking Stove Fitted with Oven and Boiler
1918	125314	Have	George Fowler	B	Improvements in Means for Securing Caps, Lids, and Covers on Jugs, Bottles, Jars, Cans, and the like.
1923	George died
1926	258159	Have	Elizabeth Fowler	B	Improvements in and relating to soil sterilizers.
1928	299653	Have	Elizabeth Fowler	B	Improvements in sterilising, disinfecting, cooking and similar apparatus