AN IMPROVEMENT IN KITCHEN RANGES, WHICH IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO STOVES IN GENERAL."
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Hewens, of Leamington, in the County of
Warwick, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN KITCHEN RANGES,
WHICH IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO STOVES IN GENERAL."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Hewens at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 23rd
July 1860.
I, RICHARD HEWENS, of Leamington, in the County of Warwick, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN KITCHEN
RABGES, WHICH IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO STOVES IN GENERAL," to be as follows:-
My improvement in kitchen ranges consists in applying to such ranges a
grate bottom capable of being elevated above the level of the ordinary bottom.
This I accomplish by providing an additional or moveable bottom, fitted on its
under side with a vertical rack, which can be elevated by means of a handle
working a pinion in the ordinary manner. By these means the fire in the
range may be regulated in depth as required, and so as to economize the
consumption of fuel.
My said improvement can also be adapted and applied to stoves in
general.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Hewens in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd
January 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
HEWENS, of Leamington, in the County of Warwick, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Richard Hewens, Her special licence that I, the said Richard Hewens, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Richard
Hewens, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN KITCHEN
BANGES WHICH IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO STOVES IN GENERAL," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Richard Hewens, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, 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 Richard Hewens, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, and to the
letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
My said Invention consists in applying to kitchen ranges and to stoves in
general a grate bottom capable of being elevated above the level of the
ordinary bottom, which is accomplished by providing an additional moveable
ifting bottom, fitted on its under side with a vertical rack, which can be
elevated by means of a handle working a pinion in the ordinary manner, so
that the fuel in the grate can be regulated in depth as required. These
arrangements will greatly facilitate cooking operations and effect a considerable
saving in fuel.
In order that the said Invention may be properly understood, I shall now

page_text: proceed to describe the same in connection with the Sheet of Drawings here-
unto annexed, on which the same letters of reference indicate corresponding
parts throughout all the Figures.
Figure 1 of the Drawings is a front view of a grate fitted with a lifting
bottom according to my Invention; and Figure 2 is a transverse section of
the same. Letter (a) is the grate; (b) are the bars; (c) is the ordinary
fixed bottom; (d) is the moveable lifting bottom; (e) is the rack; and (ƒ)
is a pinion for lifting the same.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be carried into effect,
and would observe, in conclusion, that I do not confine or restrict myself to
the precise details or arrangements which I have had occasion to describe or
refer to, as variations may be made therefrom without deviating from the
principles or main features of the said Invention; but what I consider to be
novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by
the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, is, the application of a lifting
bottom to kitchen ranges and stoves in general, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Hewens, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this 21st day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
Witness,
W. G. HEWENS,
120, Warwick St.,
Leamington.
RICHARD HEWENS. (Ls.)