An Improved Portable Camp Cooking-range.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 11th Dec., 1890-Accepted, 24th Jan.,
1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Portable Camp Cooking-range.
I, JAMES DAVID CARD, of 79 High Street, Aldershot, in the County of Hants,
Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My improved portable cooking range is designed for the use of soldiers and others
living in camp, and is especially fitted for cooking in the open air, and for being easily
transported from place to place, when the troops shift their quarters.
To this end it is made entirely of wrought iron or steel. except the fire lining and
grating, which can be of cast metal.
It is mounted on an axle with two small wheels, and has two folding bandles so that
it can be wheeled from one spot to another.
It is rectangular in shape with enclosed flues, and a few feet of stove pipe placed on
the smoke outlet, is all that is required to create the required draught. This pipe when
on the march packs into the ovens, as do the loose covers of the hot-plate.
The fire box is in size about ten inches deep ten inches high and eight inches wide.
Below it is a sloping shelf which serves two purposes.
It not only throws out the
ashes as they fall through the bottom grating of the fire, but also directs a current of
air through the fire, and thereby a much better draught is obtained than is possible
with ranges differently constructed and having only a short external chimney or flue
pipe as this has.
My improved range will be made in various sizes, but of similar internal proportions.
Those I am now making are thirty inches high, the same wide, and thirty-six inches
long. In this space I obtain besides the fire chamber and the flues, three ovens, one
large oven 18 x 21 x 22 inches and two small ovens each 12 x 12 x 15 inches. There
is besides the hot plate on top for boiling frying or stewing.
I find by actual trial that these proportions of fire to oven-space and flue-space, and
my arrangements of the interior space of the range and of the fire-box ensure great
efficiency and a great economy of time in cooking, and that as much cooking can be
done with this range in a given time, as is usually performed in ranges twice
the size.
Dated this 29th day of March 1800
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, E.C., Patent Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Portable Camp Cooking-range.
I, JAMES DAVID CARD of 79 High Street, Aldershot, in the County of Hants
Ironmonger do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
My improved portable cooking range is designed for the use of soldiers and others
living in camp, or emigrants, and is especially fitted for cooking in the open air, and
for being easily transported from place to place, when the owners shift their
quarters.
To this end it is made entirely of wrought iron or steel, except the fire lining and
grating, which can be of cast metal.
It is mounted on an axle with two small wheels, and has two folding handles so
that it can be wheeled from one spot to another.
It is rectangular in shape with enclosed flues, and a few feet of stove-pipe placed on
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page_text: the smoke outlet is all that is required to create the required draught. This pipe
when on the march packs into the ovens, as do the loose covers of the hot plate.
The fire-box for a full size range is about ten inches deep, ten inches high and eight
inches wide. Below it is a sloping shelf which serves two purposes. It not only
throws out the ashes as they fall through the bottom grating of the fire, but also
directs a current of air through the fire, and thereby a much better draught is
obtained than is possible with ranges differently constructed, and having only a short
external chimney or flue pipe as this has.
My improved range will be made in various or nearly similar sizes, but of similar
or nearly similar internal proportions. My large size range is thirty inches high, the
same wide and thirty-six inches long. In this space I obtain besides the fire
chamber and the Alues, three ovens, one large oven 18 × 21 × 22 inches, and two
small ovens each 12 x 12 x 15 inches. There is besides the hot plate on top for
boiling, frying, or stewing.
I find by actual trial that these proportions of fire to oven-space and flue-space, and
my arrangements of the interior space of the range and of the fire-box ensure great
efficiency and a great economy of time in cooking, and that as much cooking can
be done with this range in a given time, as is usually performed in ranges twice
the size.
In order to secure lightness in my range I employ steel instead of iron wherever I
deem it desirable in its construction, whereby I attain the maximum of strength with
the minimum of weight.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 shows an elevation in perspective of a
full size portable range made on my system.
a, shews the fire. b, the sloping shelf under the fire. C, the flue pipe. d, d, d, the
ovens. e, the folding handle. f, g, the wheel and axle. h, the hot plate.
The dotted lines shew the arrangement of the interior space.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed. I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a portable cooking range the partial or entire employment of steel as a
substitute for iron as herein described and set forth.
2. In an unbreakable cooking range the special arrangement of ovens and interior
space, the sloping shelf b, the wheels and axle f, y, the folding handles e, as herein
explained and set forth.
Dated this 11th day of December 1800
S. S. BROMHEAD.
97, Newgate Street, London, E.C., Agent for Applicant.