Improvements in Tailors', Laundry, and Cooking Stoves.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Apr., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Jan., 1896-Accepted, 29th Feb., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Tailors', Laundry, and Cooking Stoves.
I, GEORGE WILLIAM GROVE of Leamington in the County of Warwick Iron-
founder do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved tailor's or laundry stove, for heating irons,
or combined for cooking purposes preferably constructed in a portable form with
self contained flues, requiring no brickwork for setting.
It consists of a furnace, and immediately above an oven for heating the irons,
with bottom constructed not to crack with the heat of the fire, and above this can
be placed in the combined stove the cooking arrangement, consisting of baking
oven, and hot water boiler when required.
In carrying this invention into effect I construct a furnace, or fireplace with
loose fire bars suitable for burning any kind of fuel, and immediately above I fix
an oven for heating the irons, having the floor (or bottom) constructed in such a
manner as to admit of free expansion and contraction without cracking or warping,
through the intense heat acting against its under side.
Hitherto the failure with this class of heating stove has been the cracking and
warping of the floor (or bottom) of the oven which this invention is intended to
obviate; and above the said iron heating oven can be fixed in the combined stove,
a cooking oven or oven and boiler, to be heated by the waste products from the
furnace, thus effecting a considerable economy in fuel.
Dated this 4th day of April 1895.
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I, GEORGE WILLIAM GROVE of Leamington in the County of Warwick, Iron-
founder, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved construction of tailors or laundry stove for
heating irons or combined for cooking purposes, preferably constructed in a portable
form with self contained flues requiring no brickwork for setting.
It consists of a furnace and immediately above an oven for heating the irons
with bottom constructed not to crack by the heat of the fire and above this can be
placed in the combined stove the cooking arrangement consisting of baking oven
and hot water boiler when required.
In order that my invention and the means by which the same may be carried into
practical effect may be thoroughly understood I shall proceed to describe the same
in detail referring in so doing to the accompanying drawing which is to be taken
as part of this Specification and read therewith.
The annexed sheet of drawings represents a front elevation of a combined tailors
stove made according to this invention. As referred to in this drawing, I construct
a fireplace or furnace marked A. with sliding doors for regulating combustion, the

page_text: ashpit B. can be fitted with an ashes pan or with sliding doors to suit the kind of
fuel used. Immediately above the furnace I construct an oven C. for baking the
irons hot, with front door or doors D. the accompanying drawing has one door
removed to shew the special construction of bottom plate E. which can be made
in one piece with free play at ends for expansion, or for large sizes in more than
one piece as marked E. e. always with the free sliding arrangement for expansion
and prevention of cracking or warping through the intense heat. The fire in
furnace A. acts first on the under side of bottom of heating oven then passes as
shewn by the arrowheads up each end of oven and over top thus surrounding the
oven with flame, the waste heat then passes round the cooking ovens F. F. above,
so utilising the surplus products from the fuel before passing to outlet pipe or
flue G.
The combustion is further regulated by a sliding damper operated by rod and
knob H. under top plate of stove.
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. The general arrangement of a portable tailors or laundry stove having a base
furnace and oven for baking irons with floor or bottom so constructed as not to
crack with the heat of the fire as described and shewn.
2. The combination of top cooking apparatus with oven or oven and boiler
heated by the surplus or waste products of the furnace, substantially as described
and set forth in this Specification.
Dated this 4th day of January 1896.
GEO. W M. GROVE.