Improvements in Stoves.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 25th Feb., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stoves.
I, ROBERT FLETCHER, of Number One hundred and forty-two, Dundas Street,
in the City of Toronto, in the County of York, in the Province of Ontario, in the
Dominion of Canada, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement;-
My invention relates particularly to a cheap, light, portable and convenient
stove for the combustion or use of charcoal especially, and intended for camping,
yachting and kindred uses, and in northern latitudes it is desirable for domestic
use in the summer season.
In the accompanying drawing illustrating my invention, in which similar
numbers of reference refer to similar parts throughout.
Fig. 1, represents a perspective view of my improved stove, having one of the
lids removed and a portion of the top broken away to show the interior construction
and
Fig. 2, represents a vertical section on a diametrical line from front to rear to
more fully illustrate its construction.
My improved stove is constructed of rolled, sheet, or cast-iron or any other suit-
able material, preferably rolled sheet-iron similar to that generally employed in
the manufacture of stove-pipes for ordinary cast-iron stoves and ranges, and the
ways and means of making joints and seams in sheet metals in such articles being
well known need not be described.
The body of the stove, lids and fire-pots are round square, oblong or any other
desirable shape, preferably round or circular in form as shown, and three or more
fire-pots employed, but small stoves where desirable, having one or two firepots
may be used, but in each and every size the stove has an outer casing, 1, having a
top 2 and bottom, 3, secured thereon, and upper and lower decks, 4, and 5, respec-
tively, within said casing 1. In the top, 2, are circular openings to admit the
lids, 6, which are flanged to rest on the top, 2, and they have also a deep rim, 7,
each, to cover the fire-pots, 8, one of which is located directly under each lid, 6,
so that when desired any fire-pot, 8, can be closed off and not used. The upper
deck, 4, is located close to the top, 2, as shown, so that the fire-pots, 8, supported
by it are near pots, pans, or other vessels placed over the lid openings. A bolt, 9,
at the centre secures the top, 2, and upper deck, 4, rigidly together by the assist-
ance of a post, 10, constructed of a piece of tube enclosing said bolt, 9, and resting
at its ends against said top, 2, and deck, 4.
The fire-pot, 8, is preferable circular but may be of any other suitable shape
if desired, and having the sides or periphery closed, a perforated bottom, 12, con-
tained of one or as many holes may be desired, and at its mouth a flange, 13. by
which it is supported. The lower deck, 5, serves as an ash-pan and is about the
same distance from the bottom, 3, that the upper deck, 4, is from the top, 2.
In the casing, 1, and near its lower extremity a series of holes, 14, admit of
circulation of air between the lower deck, 5, and the bottom, 3, thereby keeping the

page_text: bottom, 3, cool and protecting anything supporting the stove from being damaged
by heat.
At the rear portion of the top, 2, a thimble, 15, is secured to which pipes may
be attached when used camping and yachting. Beneath the thimble, 15, and
extending through the upper and lower decks, 4, and 5, respectively, and the
bottom, 3, is a pipe, 16, covered by a removable cap, 17, which is removed and
placed into the top of the thimble, 15, when the stove is used in summer seasons
for domestic use by placing it over an opening in an ordinary cooking stove or
range and using it by the down draught shown by dotted arrows in Fig. 1, of
drawing.
The placing and removing said cap, 17, is accomplished by removing one of the
rear lids, 6. In the casing 1, and at the front thereof as shown, is provided a
sliding door, 18, secured by slides, 19, attached to the casing, 1, and by this door
the supply of air or the draught thereof is regulated. Also if desirable an oven
may be inserted, as the space below the fire-pot can be raised so as to make sufficient
space for an oven.
Although designed particularly for the use of charcoal as fuel, satisfactory results
are obtainable with both hard and soft coals. For cheap stoves for domestic use
omit 5, 14 and 3; taking in air through a pipe or tube from outer casing 1, into
fire-pot 8, which in such cases is not perforated.
my said
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
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1. In a stove, the removable fire-pot having closed sides, a perforated bottom,
and means by which it is supported, substantially as shown and described.
2. In a stove, a sheet metal or other suitable material fire-pot lid having a flange
by which it is supported, and a deep rim to cover the mouth of the fire-pot, sub-
stantially as shown and described.
3. In a stove, a pipe extending within to discharge through the bottom of the
stove by downward draught, substantially as shown and described.
4. In a stove, the combination of the removable fire-pot having closed sides, a
perforated bottom, and means by which it is supported, with a flanged lid having
a deep rim to cover the said fire-pot, substantially as shown and described.
5. In a stove, the combination of the removable fire-pot as specified, the flanged
lid having a deep rim to cover said fire-pot, and an upper deck to support said
fire-pot, substantially as shown and described.
G. In a stove, the combination of the fire-pot as specified, the flanged lid having
a rim as specified, the upper and lower decks, and the top having lid openings and
pipe thimble, substantially as shown and described.
7. In a stove, the combination of the fire-pot as specified, the flanged lid carried
in the top and having a rim to cover the fire-pot, the lower deck and bottom as
provided, and the pipe extending downwards through said decks and bottom, and
the removable cap for said pipe, and a pipe or tube extending from outer casing
into fire-pot, substantially as shown and described.
Signed at Toronto, in the County of York, and Province of Ontario, Canada,
In the presence of:-
ELLA A. FRANCIS.
CHARLES ELLIOTT.
ROBERT FLETCHER.