IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES OR APPARATUS FOR COOKING
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Waygood, of Newington, in the
County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES OR
APPARATUS FOR COOKING."
Sealed the 6th November 1868, and dated the 9th May 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Waygood
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 9th May 1868.
I, RICHARD WAYGOOD, of Newington, in the County of Surrey,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
STOVES OR APPARATUS FOR COOKING," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to construct stoves or apparatus in
which food can be cooked with a very small quantity of coal. The
peculiarities of my Invention are as follows:-The fire-box which is
placed below the hot plate forms the bottom of the oven and can be
used either as an oven or for boiling, broiling, or baking. The flues
radiate right and left up each side of the oven, thus warming the upper
part thereof, and lead into a hollow chamber, the top of which forms

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Waygood in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 7th November 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
WAYGOOD, of Newington, in the County of. Surrey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Richard Waygood, Her special licence
that I, the said Richard Waygood, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Richard Waygood, 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 STOVES OR APPARATUS FOR COOKING," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Richard Waywood, 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 Waygood, do hereby
declare the nature of my 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, reference being had to the
Drawings hereunto annexed, that is to say :-
The object of my Invention is to construct stoves or apparatus by
which food can be cooked. with a very small quantity of coal. The
peculiarities of my Invention are as follows:-The fire-box is placed

page_text: below the hot plate which forms the bottom of the oven and can be used
either as an oven or for boiling, broiling, or baking. The flues radiate
right and left up each side of the oven, thus warming the upper part
thereof, and lead into a hollow chamber, the top of which forms another
hot plate for heating water or other purposes. The stove is constructed
so as to be portable.
.
The accompanying Drawing is a perspective view of one of my
improved stoves. a, is the grate or fire-place; 6 the fire-box lined
with fire-bricks or other suitable material; c, the hot plate formed
with an opening covered by a lid d; e, f, represent the oven composed
of two compartments divided by a shelf or partition g; h represents
the flue at the left side of the apparatus. A similar and corresponding
flue (not seen in the Figure) is situated at the right side of the apparatus ;
these two flues respectively lead up the two sides of the oven e, f,
and terminate in a hollow chamber above the oven; the top k of this
chamber forms another hot plate; is a pipe or flue leading from the
chamber i.
In order to heat water in a kettle or to boil water in a boiler for
washing or other purposes, the lid d of the lower hot plate c is
removed and the kettle or boiler is placed in the opening, the water
is thus rapidly heated. To roast meat in front of the fire an ordinary
dutch oven may be temporarily attached to the front of the apparatus;
or large joints may be roasted in the oven e, f, by removing the shelf
g and suspending the joint from a hook at the top of the oven; m,
represents a round boiler which may be placed on the upper hot plate k
for boiling meat; n is a steamer placed on the boiler m for cooking
potatocs or vegetables; o, o, are two side wings on which plates may
be warmed or dinners kept hot. Sometimes I employ two small
moveable side ovens which are placed on these wings o, o, for roasting
game, poultry, or small joints; one of these side ovens is seen at p;
plates may be warmed on the top of these side ovens.
The Figure
shows several utensils to be used with the stove.
The complete apparatus will cook a dinner for from 12 to 15 persons
without consuming more than four pounds weight of coal. It requires
no fixing and can be used either indoors or out.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my
improvements in stoves or apparatus for cooking,-

page_text: First. Constructing cooking stoves or apparatus with the fire-box
below the hot plate and with the hot plate forming the bottom of
the oven, substantially as herein-before described and represented in the
accompanying Drawing.
Second. Constructing cooking stoves or apparatus with flues radiating
right and left and terminating in a chamber at the upper part of the
oven, substantially as herein-before described and represented in the
accompanying Drawing.
Third. The general combination or arrangement of parts of cooking
stoves or apparatus herein-before described and represented in the
accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Waygood, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.