A NEW CONSTRUCTED KITCHEN RANGE, WHICH WINDS UP ON ONE SIDE ONLY, AND HAS A PERPETUAL BAKING OVEN FIXT ON THE OTHER SIDE, WHICH IS HEATED WITHOUT ANY ADDITIONAL FIRE, WITHOUT THE ISTANCE OF ANY FLEW OR CHIMNEY, AND MAY BE MADE TO ANY DIMENSIONS WHATSOEVER
Year: 1780

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
ROBINSON, of Whitehall, in the Parish of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, in the
County of Middlesex, Ironmonger, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-first day of October, in the twentieth year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Robinson, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Thomas Robinson, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their
deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Thomas
Robinson, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within that part of His Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"A NEW CONSTRUCTED KITCHEN RANGE, WHICH WINDS UP ON ONE SIDE ONLY, AND HAS
A PERPETUAL BAKING OVEN FIXT ON THE OTHER SIDE, WHICH IS HEATED WITHOUT ANY
ADDITIONAL FIRE, WITHOUT THE ASSISTANCE OF ANY FLEW OR CHIMNEY, AND MAY BE
MADE TO ANY DIMENSIONS WHATSOEVER," in such manner as to me, the said Thomas
Robinson, my executors, administrators, or assigns, or any of them, should, in
their discretions, seem meet, and that I, the said Thomas Robinson, should
and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and

page_text: advantage from time to time coming, growing, and arising by reason of the
said Invention, for and during the term of years therein mentioned, to have,
hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges, and advantages
therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Thomas
Robinson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto
the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the. said Letters
Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended,
according to the statute in such case made and provided; in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Thomas
Robinson, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation. being thereunto had)
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Robinson, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a new con-
structed kitchen range is described in manner following, that is to say:-
The
range is made to wind up with one cheeck only, when annexed to
an oven (the side of the oven forming the other cheeck); the end of the range
to which the bars and pinion is fixed is a cast-iron cheeck, with hob and front
the same; but a standard may be made of wrought iron. The top bar in
front is made to fall down occasionally to a level with the second bar; the
lowst bar but one from the bottom is halved with a pin and loop at one end,
and made with a round pevet at the other end, to be taken out for the purpose
of raking out the fire; the other bars may be made to take out also; in
the same manner, the middle bar of the three bottom bars is also halved,
as above described, at one end, and a long pevet made at the other end to go
through the back leg, which is fixed in the standard below the oven for the
purpose of hanging on an outside regulator or cheeck with a hole in it for that
purpose, and which has a handle fixed to it to put it up between the oven and
the fire, or let it down under the range, or may be taken away at pleasure.
The standard in which the bars are fixed has a return from the bottom under
the oven, forming an opening or grove for the regulator to fall into; but the
standard may be made without this regulator, and with a shoulder for the oven
to rest upon. The moving cheeck is made of either wrought or cast iron, with
& socket on it to receive the spindle of the swinging trivet. The top part of
the cheeck is made to fall down as low as the second bar, and is hung upon
pevets with two loops, and is kept up by the spindle of the swinging trivet.

page_text: Sliding spit racks are fixed at each end of the range. The back of the range
is made of cast iron, cast with a hole in the middle, and beveld at the end to
unite to the oven. The oven is made of cast iron, nearly square in the front,
with a wrought-iron door hung with hinges on one side, and fastened with a
handle and tumbuckle on the other, and shuts upon an iron rabbit inside.
The oven fillets are also made on the sides of the oven for the shelves to rest
upon. The larger ovens being wider behind than in front, the shelf is made
in two parts or pieces, and jointed, that it may be taken out occasionally;
and also the shelf has a notch or mortice on the side next to the fire for to
receive a regulator, which is also notched, to fixed upon the shelf. The ovens
may be made entirely of wrought iron. The range must be set or fixed in the
chimney in the usual way; but the oven must be enclosed in brick and
mortar, or any other materials, which will form a solid building, cemented as
close as possible in every part except the door and the side annexed to the
fire. Ranges without ovens annexed to them are made to wind up on both
sides with either cast-iron or wrought-iron racks and pinions, and with the
tops of the cheecks to fall down, and lowest bar but one to take out, and
every other convenience as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Robinson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of February, in the Twenty-first year
of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of
God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the
Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven