A NEW OR IMPROVED GAS STOVE
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Price, of Birmingham, Stove Manu-
facturer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED GAS STOVE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Price at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 23rd October 1852.
I, GEORGE PRICE, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "A NEW OR IMPROVED GAS STOVE" to be as follows:-
Figure 1, represents my stove in vertical section; and Fig. 2, in plan.
a, is a cylinder of metal, having holes b, b, at its bottom; d, d, are
argand gas burners, situated at the bottom of the cylinder a, and im-
mediately above the holes b, b; e, e, are metallic chimnies to the burners
d, d, the said chimnies being of less diameter than the holes b, b; f, is
a chamber at the top of the cylinder a, in which vessels to be heated
may be placed; g, is a cylinder of larger diameter than the cylinder f;
h, is an inverted cone supported from the cylinder g, at a small distance
below the bottom of the said cylinder g. The current of heated air
arising from the burners is accompanied by another current of pure
air external to the said burners; these currents, in passing up the

page_text: cylinder a, are partially mixed, and they are more effectually mixed on
passing out at the top of the stove by descending into the cone h, and
passing up the space between the cylinders f, g, the heated air escapes
at the perforations i, i; (see Fig. 2). The current of heated air is
indicated by arrows in Fig. 1.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Price in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 15th April 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
GEORGE PRICE, of Birmingham, Stove Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by
Her Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of October,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in
the sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said George Price, Her special
licence that I, the said George Price, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Price, 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 "A NEW OR IM-
PROVED GAS STOVE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said George Price, by an instrument in 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 immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that .I, the said George Price, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained

page_text: in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon (that is to say):
My Invention consists of the application of argand or circular gas
burners or jets, to the construction of stoves for heating, ventilating
rooms, cooking, and such other purposes as the same may be applicable
to. The Drawing represents one method of carrying my Invention
into effect. Figure 1, represents in front elevation a stove constructed
according to my Invention; and Figure 2, represents a vertical section
of the same; Figure 3, represents a plan of the bottom of the said
stove.
a, is a-hollow cylinder of metal or other substance, which said
hollow cylinder constitutes the body of the stove; it is closed at bottoni
with a plate b, having a series of holes c, c, somewhat larger in diameter
than the chimnies d, d, of the burners e, e; the said burners e, e, are
placed immediately above the bottom b, of the stove, and over the holes
c, 'e; f, is a hollow cylinder at the top of the body of the stove; g, is
an inverted hollow cone supported by straps h, immediately below the
lower edge of the cylinder f, so as to contract the passage through which
the heated air and products of combustion pass, the said heated air and
products of combustion taking the course indicated by the arrows in
Figure 2. By this arrangement the passage of the air through the
stove is checked, and the heat thereof more effectually absorbed by
the sides of the stove than when the opening at the top of the stove
is not contracted.
...Vessels containing water or other matters to be. heated. may be
placed on
the perforated plate h', or suspended in the ring i, in the said
plate or otherwise. When the stove is used for heating and ventilating
a room, an ornamental top k, Figure 1, is placed thereon, and the
heated air passes out of the openings 1, 1, in the said top k. A door
m, of glass or mica, or openings in other parts of the stove, may be
introduced, so as to exhibit the light in the interior. Besides the cur-
rent of heated air which passes up in the interior of each of the burners.
e, and chimnies d, d, a second current passes up on the exterior of each
of the said chimnies, which second current mixes with the air which
has passed up the interior of the chimney, and hence a large body of

page_text: moderately heated air is thrown into the room. I sometimes apply my
Invention to stoves especially adapted for cooking, or for heating for
manufacturing purposes, as in lacquering stoves, and I vary the details
in each case so as more effectually to adapt my Invention to the pur-
pose to which it is applied; thus, in making cooking or lacquering
stoves I use a square or rectangular chamber instead of the cylinder a,
and the height of the said chamber is much less than that of the cylinder
a, represented in the Drawing; and I increase the number of burners,
and arrange them in lines (instead of circularly), or in any other con-
venient manner; but the main features of my Invention are preserved
in all such modifications; that is to say, in all cases I use circular or
argand gas burners, with or without chimnies, and situated immediately
over holes in the bottom of the stove, the said holes being somewhat
larger in diameter than the chimnies (where chimnies are used) of the
said burners.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be under-
stood that I do not limit myself to the precise manner of carrying my
Invention into effect herein described, and illustrated in the accom-
panying Drawing, as the same may be varied without departing from
the nature of my said Invention; but I claim the application of
circular or argand gas burners to the construction of gas stoves for
heating, ventilating, cooking, manufacturing, and such other purposes
as the said stoves are or may be applicable to.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Price, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
GEORGE PRICE. (L.S.)