IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN RANGES AND COOKING APPARATUS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Brown, of the Firm of Brown and Green,
Ironfounders and Ironmongers, of Luton, in the County of Bedford, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN RANGES AND COOKING
APPARATUS."
Sealed the 4th July 1862, and dated the 6th January 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Brown, at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
6th January 1862.
I, FREDERICK BROWN, of the firm of Brown and Green, Ironfounders and
Ironmongers, of Luton, in the County of Bedford, do hereby declare the
nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN RANGES AND COOKING
APPARATUS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in kitchen ranges and cooking
apparatus. For this purpose a boiler is applied to the side of the fire-place of
a range, and is so arranged as to allow heat and products of combustion to
pass under or over, or both under and over the boiler at the side of the fire.
Beyond the boiler is an oven or ovens so arranged with a flue or flues that the
heat and products after so passing the boiler (at the side of the fire) may then
be conducted over or under, or both under and over the oven or ovens which
are beyond the boiler. This arrangement of boiler and oven or ovens may be

page_text: applied either on one side only of the fire-place of a kitchen range or cooking
apparatus, or on both sides. The heat and products of combustion after having
heated the boiler, and then the oven or ovens which are on one side of the fire,
pass to the chimney by a suitable flue or flues. Dampers or slides are intro-
duced to regulate and direct the course of the heat and products of combustion
from the fire to the oven or ovens beyond the boiler. A hot plate or plates is
or are arranged over the boiler and oven or ovens.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Frederick Brown in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
5th July 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
BROWN, of the Firm of Brown and Green, Ironfounders and Ironmongers, of
Luton, in the County of Bedford, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Frederick Brown, Her special licence that I, the said Frederick Brown, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Frederick
Brown, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN RANGES
AND COOKING APPARATUS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Frederick Brown, my executors or administrators, 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 Frederick Brown, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-1
This Invention has for its object improvements in kitchen ranges and cooking

page_text: apparatus. For this purpose a boiler is applied to the side of the fire-place of
a range, and is so arranged as to allow heat and products of combustion to
pass under or over, or both under and over the boiler at the side of the fire.
Beyond the boiler is an oven or ovens, so arranged with a flue or flues that the
heat and products after so passing the boiler (at the side of the fire) may then
be conducted over or under, or both under and over the oven or ovens which
are beyond the boiler. This arrangement of boiler and oven or ovens may be
applied either on one side only of the fire-place of a kitchen range or cooking
apparatus, or on both sides. The heat and products of combustion after having
heated the boiler, and then the oven or ovens, which are on one side of the fire,
pass to the chimney by a suitable flue or flues. Dampers or slides are intro-
duced to regulate and direct the course of the heat and products of combustion
from the fire to the oven or ovens beyond the boiler. A hot plate or plates is
or are arranged over the boiler and oven or ovens.
Figure A shews a range with the front removed and hot plate broken off, so
that the position of the boilers and ovens, with direction of the flues, may be
clearly seen. Each oven is provided with a separate damper so that they may
be heated singly or the whole together. Figure B is a section through boilers,
ovens, and fire-place. Figure C shews an end view of boiler. No. 3 also of
boiler No. 1. No. 2 is of similar shape.
In various of the arrangements of kitchen ranges heretofore made, in order
to obtain a large supply of hot water or much steam, it is usual to have a flue
direct from the fire under the boiler to the chimney, this flue communicating
so immediately with the chimney, carries off a much greater amount of heat
than the boilers can absorb, and thus causes a considerable waste of fuel,
which my improvements avoid. I would state that it is not new, simply to
place a boiler by the side of the fire; the peculiarity of my Invention consists
in placing an oven or ovens beyond the boiler, the flues being so arranged that
the draught from the fire, after heating the boilers, is made available for heating
the oven or ovens which are beyond the boiler, and also to heat the hot plate
before the heat can escape into the chimney.
The arrows in Figures A, B, C, indicate the direction and arrangement of
the flues; I do not, however, confine myself precisely to the arrangement thus
indicated, my Invention, as above explained, being the placing of a boiler or
boilers between the fire and the first oven or ovens, so arranging the flues that
after passing the boilers or boiler, the heat is available for heating the oven or
ovens beyond. (1) shews a boiler on the left side of the fire. (2) shews a
boiler on the right side. (3) shews a boiler at the back of the fire of peculiar
shape. (4) is the fire-place. (5) is the ash-pit. (6) is the hot plate

page_text: broken off. (7) are the first ovens.. (8) are the second ovens, to which a
third on either side may be added. (9) is the flue.under boilers.
Figure A represents a kitchen range with three boilers, but I do not limit
myself to this number, as I sometimes use one, two, or more boilers, according
to special requirements, with one, two, or more ovens beyond the boiler or
boilers, which are at the side of the fire-place of the range.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Brown, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
FREDERICK BROWN. (L.S.)