IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF OIL STOVES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Clarke, of Number 22, Russell Road, Kensington,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF OIL STOVES." A communication from abroad by Edward
Benson Cox, of the City of Brooklyn, State of New York, in the United States
of America.
Sealed the 11th June 1878, and dated the 20th February 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Clark at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th February 1878.
HENRY CLARKE, of Number 22, Russell Road, Kensington, in the County of
Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF OIL STOVES." [A commu-
nication from abroad by Edward Benson Cox, of the City of Brooklyn, State of
New York, in the United States of America.]
This Invention relates to that class of stoves in which oil is used as a fuel, and it
consists in constructing the base of such stoves with a reservoir for containing the
oil, so as to be used on one side, and said reservoir connected by a tube formed in
the said base with the customary oil reservoir below the wick tubes.
One serious objection to oil stoves heretofore made has been the danger of
explosion caused by the oil itself becoming heated, and another that the oil
penetrates or oozes through all parts of the base, making the stove offensive to
handle, and causing the locality of the stove itself to be disagreeable and dirty.
The first-named objection is obviated in this Invention by the oil reservoir being
placed apart from the base and burner, where the heat is not communicated to the
oil, thus preventing the formation of dangerous gases and rendering explosion from
such causes impossible.
The last-named objection is obviated by galvanizing the entire base, by which
ineans the pores of the iron become filled, so that the oil cannot penetrate the same
or ooze through.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent and of
an Order of the Lord Chancellor filed by the said Henry Clarke in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 20th September 1878.
HENRY CLARKE, of Number 22, Russell Road, Kensington, in the County of
Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF OIL STOVES." A commu-
nication from abroad by Edward Benson Cox, of the City of Brooklyn, State of
New York, in the United States of America.
This Invention relates to that class of stoves in which oil is used as a fuel, and it
consists in constructing the base of such stoves with a reservoir for containing the
oil, so as to be used on one side, and said reservoir connected by a tube formed in
the said base with the usual oil reservoir below the wick tubes.
In the annexed Drawing Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section, and Figure 2
is a plan view of my improved base for oil stoves.
A represents the ordinary circular base for oil stoves provided with the wick
tubes B, B, and oil reservoir C beneath the same. At one side of the base A is
formed an additional reservoir D, which is elevated above the plane of the base and
provided with the lid E. This reservoir D is from near its bottom by a tube 6
connected with the reservoir C, said tube being formed in the base, as shewn.
By means of the elevated reservoir D the oil is made to pass up into the wick
tubes to the same height as the oil in said reservoir, thus increasing the heat from
the flames.
Hitherto one of the most serious objections to oil stoves has been that the oil
penetrates through the base completely, thus causing much unpleasantness in the
use of the stoves themselves, beside the additional discomfort caused by leakage
wherever the same may be placed. To obviate this difficulty I galvanize the entire
base, whereby the pores of the iron become filled, so as all leakage of oil and
the attendant disadvantages are avoided, leakage on these conditions being im-
possible.
Having thus fully described my Invention, what I claim as new is, in an oil-
burning stove the supplemental reservoir D, elevated as described, in combination
with the depressed reservoir C, connecting tube B, where the oil is kept separate
from the stove, all constructed as and for the purpose herein specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Clarke, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
HENRY CLARKE (LS)
HENRY CLARKE
(LS)