CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN RANGES OR FIRE GRATES
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Wharton Rye, of Collyhurst, near Manchester,.
in the County of Lancaster, Iron Founder, for the Invention of.
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN RANGES OR FIRE GRATES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Wharton Rye at.
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on.
the 18th May 1853.
I, WHARTON RYE, of Collyhurst, near Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Iron Founder, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN RANGES OR FIRE
GRATES" to be as follows:-
My Invention relates, first, to the ffront fire bars; and, secondly, to
the hinge or hinges upon which the oven door is hung. In the less-
expensive kinds of kitchen ranges or fire grates the front bars have,
hitherto been formed of cast iron, and have been cast in one piece with.
the front plates, in which case the bars are brittle and exceedingly,
liable to be broken, and in the more expensive kind of grates they have.
been hitherto formed of wrought iron welded into a frame, and the said

page_text: fframe attached by rivets or screws to the side plates of the ffire grates,
which latter method, although much preferable to the preceding, is very
costly.
My improvement consists in forming the bars of wrought iron,
placing the ends thereof in the moulds, and casting such wrought iron
bars into the front plates of the fire grate at once, thereby securing the
advantage of the wrought iron bars, without the expensive mode of
construction and adaptation above alluded to. The hinges upon which
the oven doors are suspended have been usually constructed entirely of
wrought iron, one half of the same being attached by rivets to the side
plates of the oven, and the other half to the oven door. My improve-
ment consists, in forming the said hinge or hinges in the following.
manner-Upon the outer edge of the side plate of the oven is cast a
bead or moulding corresponding with the hinge. This bead is rather
shorter at each end than the oven door, and has an iron pin cast in it
passing through the centre and projecting at each end. Upon each of
these projecting ends the eye of a hinge is placed, and the hinge' is then
rivetted to the oven door, and thus an exceedingly simple and inex-
pensive wrought iron hinge is constructed.
SPECIFICATION in' pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Wharton Rye in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 18th November 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
WHARTON RYE, of Collyhurst, near Manchester, in the County of Lan-
caster, Iron Founder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the six-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Wharton Rye, Her special license
that I, the said Wharton Rye, my executers, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Wharton Rye, my executors,

page_text: administrators; and assigns, should at any time agree with, vand no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term:
tlierein expressed, should and lawfully: might make; use; éxercise;"
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands; and, Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN;
IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN RANGES OR FIRE GRATES, upon the condition!
(amongst others) that I, the said Wharton Rye, by an instrumenttin
writing under my 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.;
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Wharton Rye, 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 (that is to say):
My Invention relates, first, to the front fire bars; and, secondly, to the
hinge or hinges upon which the oven door is hung. In the less ex-
pensive kinds of kitchen ranges or fire grates the front bars have
hitherto been formed of cast iron, and have been cast in pieces with the
front plates, in which case the bars are brittle and exceedingly liable to
be broken, and in the more expensive kind of grates they have been
hitherto formed of wrought iron rivetted into a frame, and the said
frame attached by rivets or screws to the side plates of the fire grate,
which latter method, although much preferable to the preceding, is very
costly.
My improvement consists in forming the bars of wrought iron,
placing the ends thereof in the moulds, and casting such wrought iron
bars into the front plates of the fire grate at once, thereby securing the
advantage of the wrought iron bars, without the expensive mode of
construction and adaptation above alluded to. The hinges upon which
the oven doors are suspended have been usually constructed entirely of
wrought iron, one half of the same being attached by rivets to the side
plate of the oven, and the other half to the oven door. My improvenient
consists in forming the said hinge or hinges in the following manner :-

page_text: Upon the outer edge of the side plate of the oven is cast a béad or.
moulding corresponding with the hinge. This bead is rather shorter at
each end than the oven door, and has a wrought iron pin cast in it
passing through the centre and projecting at each end. Upon each of
these projecting ends the eye of a hinge is placed,' and the hinge is then
rivétted to the oven door, and thus an exceedingly simple and inexpen-
sive wrought iron hinge is constructed.
I would remark, in conclusion, that I claim as my Invention the
above-described improvements in kitchen ranges or fire grates.
In witness whereof, I, the said Wharton Rye, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Seventeenth day of November, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
THITTAY
DYZD
WHARTON RYE