IMPROVEMENTS IN OVENS FOR KITCHEN RANGES
Year: 1846

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
BROWN, of Luton, in the County of Bedford, Ironmonger, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Seventeenth day of
September, One thousand eight hundred and forty-six, in the tenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs, and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Fredederick Brown, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority that I, the said Frederick
Brown, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Frederick Brown, my exors, adñors, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the
term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN OVENS FOR KITCHEN RANGES;" in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said Frederick
Brown, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her said' Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
-NOW KNOW-YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Frederick Brown, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described

page_text: and ascertained in and by the ionowing statement thereof, reference being mat
to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say :-
My Invention consists of improvements in the means heretofore employed
of conducting heat into the oven of a kitchen range.
And in order that my Invention may be most fully understood, and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows a kitchen range, with an oven complete, such as has here-
tofore been constructed; Figure 2 shews a longitudinal section of an oven for
a similar kitchen range; Figure 3 shows a transverse section thereof; and
Figure 4 shows the cheek or side of the oven, which comes next the fire, and
against which the fire comes. a is the ordinary lump or heater of iron, which
is cast upon the side or cheek 6; but when an oven is simply heated by the
means of heat communicated by the lump or heater a to the ordinary cheek
or side plate 6, there is a difficulty in obtaining top and bottom heat in the
oven, for the heat can radiate off freely.
Now the object of my improvements is to obtain heat more effectually. c, d,
are two metal plates; the one (c) for conducting heat into the oven, in order
more effectually to obtain top heat, and the other d for more effectually con-
ducting the heat from the plate 6 horizontally into the oven, so as to obtain
bottom heat; and owing to there being a space between the top and bottom
of the oven and the plates c, d, the heat will not readily get away, and the
whole oven will be more effectually heated by means of the plates c, d.
I would remark that although I have shewn the plates c and d cast with
the plate b, yet this may be varied by making the parts separate, and attaching
them by screws or otherwise. I have not thought it necessary to show the
usual shelves in the oven, they being well understood.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would remark that I do not confine
myself to the shape nor the position of plates c and d, nor the mode of
constructing the oven, as the same may be varied so long as plates or heat
conductors, such as c, d, are employed for obtaining heat more effectually in
ovens of kitchen ranges.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Brown, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.
FREDERICK (L.S.) BROWN.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fifteenth day of March, in the
year of our Lord 1847, the aforesaid Frederick Brown came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-sovon