AN IMPROVED GAS HEATING AND COOKING APPARATUS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Remington, of Camberwell, in the County
of Surrey, Gentleman, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED GAS HEATING
AND COOKING APPARATUS."
Sealed the 23rd January 1857, and dated the 26th July 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Remington at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th July 1856.
I, HENRY REMINGTON, of Camberwell, in the County of Surry, Gentleman,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Ax IMPROVED GAS
HEATING AND COOKING APPARATUS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the construction of a gas-burning apparatus,
suitable for the mulling of wines, beer, and other similar liquors, and for the
boiling or heating of other fluids, liquids, or liquors combining therewith the
means of boiling or otherwise dry cooking in the same apparatus.
I construct a metal case, cask, or other similarly shaped vessel, with a false
bottom, forming a chambre for containing the heat produced by the com-
bustion of the gas beneath it. I form two or more chambers within the
case or cask with covers, and from the bottom of each I carry a funnel or
tube down to the end of the case or cask, and fit thereto a tap. I also
have one or more taps or cocks for drawing off the hot water contained
within the case or cask, and surrounding the chambers referred to.
I place

page_text: the case, cask, or other vessels first described, with the opening on its
under side communicating with the hot-air chamber formed by the false
bottom, upon a suitable frame or stand, in which is arranged a row or rows of
gas pipes, with jets or burners for heating the contents of the vessel above;
and I so arrange a moveable plate-iron heat reflector that it may be slid in
above the jets or burners, and between them and the bottom of the vessel or
case, so that upon the gas from the jets or burners being lighted, a chop,
steak, or other similar article may be quickly broiled or cooked.
I propose that this apparatus shall be constructed of brass or copper tinned
internally, and bronzed, lacquered, or otherwise ornamented externally, and of
a.shape or configuration suitable for the counter of a licensed victualler, coffee
or chop house, and such like purpose, but the same apparatus may be used for
other nuruoses
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Remington in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
24th January 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
REMINGTON, of Camberwell, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteeth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Henry Remington, Her special licence that I, the said Henry Remington, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry
Remington, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED GAS HEATING AND
COOKING APPARATUS," upon the condition (amongst others) that he, the said
Henry Remington, by an instrument in writing under his, or their, or one.
of their hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature.
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Remington, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following.
statement and accompanying Drawing:-
This Invention relates to the construction of a gas-burning apparatus,
suitable for the mulling of wines, beer, and other similar liquors, and for the
boiling or heating of other fluids, liquids, or liquors, combining therewith the
means of broiling or otherwise dry cooking in the same apparatus.
I construct a metal case, cask, or other similarly shaped vessel, with a false
bottom, forming a chamber for containing the heat produced by the com-
bustion of the gas beneath it. I form two or more chambers within the
case or cask, with closely fitting covers, and from the bottom of each I carry."
a funnel or tube down to the end of the case or cask, and fit thereto a
tap. I also have one or more taps or cocks for drawing off the hot water"
contained within the case or cask, and surrounding the chambers referred to.
I place the case, cask, or other vessel just described (with the opening on
its under side communicating with the hot-air chamber formed by the false
bottom) upon a suitable frame or stand, in which is arranged a row or rows of
gas pipes, with jets or burners for heating the contents of the vessel above;
and I so arrange a moveable plate-iron heat reflector or hot plate that it may
be slid in above the jets or burners, between them and the bottom of the
vessel or case, so that upon the gas from the jets or burners being lighted, a
chop, steak, or other similar article may be quickly broiled or cooked.
I prefer that this apparatus shall be constructed of brass or copper tinned
internally, and bronzed, lacquered, or otherwise ornamented externally, and of
a shape or configuration suitable for the counter of a licensed victualler, coffee
or chop house, and such like purposes; but the same apparatus may be used
for other purposes, such as for the chemical treatment of fluids or compounds
in a hot-water bath or digester.
In the accompanying Drawing, Fig. 1 is an elevation or external view of
an apparatus constructed according to my Invention, wherein the vessel is of
a cask-like shape, and is mounted upon the gas stove or heating apparatus;
Fig. 2 is a plan of the cask-like vessel; Fig. 3 is an end view of Fig. 1;
Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a transverse section
of Fig. 8. The other Figs. represent details of the parts to which literal
reference is hereafter made.

page_text: A is the cask; B, the stand; a, a, the chambers or heating tubes, into
which the fluid to be heated is poured; b, b, b, are the taps or cocks for
drawing off the fluids, the centre one being for drawing off the water; c, the
water; d, d, the covers for closing the heating chambers or tubes; e, the false
bottom of the cask-like vessel A; f, the hot-air chamber, having perforations
at each end thereof for permitting the escape of the products of combustion;
9, a top plate or cover, with the aperture into which is fitted the cask or other
vessel (a detached view of this is shewn); h, is a reflector plate of iron, which is
inserted when the apparatus B is used for broiling or dry cooking, this plate
being inserted above the gas burners; i is a pan or dish, which may be slid in
the apparatus B, for the purpose of catching the dripping, or holding the
article to be cooked. Detached views of g, h, and i, are shewn in the Drawing;
k, k, are the gas pipes, in which small holes are drilled, and from which the gas
jets-issue-when-required, for the purpose of heating or cooking; 1, the service
pipe.
The form of vessel need not be cask-like, but may be varied to suit the
purpose for which it is intended.
I am aware that upright and other forms of vessels have been fitted to
publicans' counters for heating water and other fluids by gas; but what I
claim is,
Firstly, the arrangement of a vessel for heating or mulling fluids, liquids,
or liquors by means of gas, constructed substantially as described, whether
such vessel be used alone, or in combination with the stand in which the
gas burners are fitted.
Secondly, I claim the novel arrangement of the stand described, in which
the combustion of the gas for heating purposes is effected, and upon which the
cask, case, or other vessel, with its hot-air chamber, is fitted and rests,
whether it be used alone, or in combination with the muller or boiler
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Remington, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
J. E. HALL,
10, Salisbury St, Adelphi.
HENRY REMINGTON. (L.S.)