A PORTABLE BAKING STOVE;
Year: 1796

page_text: WHITTINGTON'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
WHITTINGTON, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Wheelwright, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-eighth day of June, in the thirty-sixth year of His
reign, give and grant unto me, the said William Whittington, His especial
licence that I, the said William Whittington, during the term of years therein
mentioned, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A PORTABLE
BAKING STOVE;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso,
obliging me, the said William Whittington, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in
His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month after the
date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being
thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Whittington, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a portable
baking stove is described in the plan and description thereof hereunto
annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Whittington, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and ninety-six.
WM WHITTINGTON. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Sixth day of July, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Whittington came before
our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statuto in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Seventh day of July, in the year above written.

page_text: minutes
may
may
be
with a
facility and cheapness hitherto unknown, as it does not require one fifth part of the Fuel used in the common way and may
heated with Coals, boke, Wood, Charcoal or any other kind of Fuel, or may be heated pom any other Fire at any propa
distance required M be used in Houses, Gardens Frelds, Camps, on board of Vessels of every description at Seu or
a few
upon Rivers or elsewhere being portable and immediakly moveable to any situation and made ready to operate in
It be manufactured of cast Jun, thought hon Copper Fin or any other kind of mixed or malleable metal
whatsoever or of any kind of clay
It may be made to any size either in length breadth of
depth required or made to
or any other regular
as square oblong circular semicircular oval spherical
or irregular Figure whatower .It be made either with or without an Oven Heating Stove Cooking Shove or any
other kind of Horr The Door for supplying the Fuel and me Tipe or Flue for conveying away the smoke may
in any part of the Stove
B is the Pipe
proper Stone
any
.
stone or composition.
shape
may
be fixed
A is the Door for supplying the Fuel
or any other
The above Drawing is a Representation of the Stove.
or Flue for drawing the heat and conveying away the smoke. C is a tit or Sand Hone
or plate for the prot operation of baking bread or cakes of any Description especially Cat Bread or
Cakes D is a plate for soaking the Bread and finishes the operation. E is the Grate as the bottom of the Stove
the external Air under which F is a Box or Drawer may be placed to receive the Ashe (the same Fire consisting
a very small quantity of Fuel will heat all parts of the Stove G is the Oven Door that is made in the Stove
to the underside of the Stove to fit the bevil part of the Stove - I, is a loose
underside
H, is a loose Box or Oven to be screwed or rivested
top or cover to close in the heat _ In pugality and utility it excuds anything hitherto invented or made use of .
is colored
to admit
of
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