Year: 1887

page_text: I, LORENTZ ALBERT GROTH, of 5 Crosby Hall Chambers, in the City of London,
Civil Engineer, as a communication from abroad by Max Ritter von Pittoni, in the
City of Budapest, in the Kingdom of Hungary, Colonel in the Royal Hungarian
Honvéd Regiment, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this Invention is to construct a Field-Kitchen, by moans of which the'
food for the troops can be prepared in best manner possible.
The Kitchen, resting on a frame on 4 wheels, contains special rooms for roasting,
boiling and mincing as well as pantries and fire place with room for the heating
material.
In the center of the Kitchen is placed the roasting room, provided with double
doors, and two boiling rooms, one on each side of the roasting room, also with
doors, and under the roasting room the fire place and ash pits, closed by folding
door.
The roasting room is provided with vertical pillars of angle-iron, on which are
fastened, by means of hinges, one of the ends of iron plates, one above the other,
whilst their other ends, when folded down, will rest upon corresponding recesses on
two doors, one on each side of the room.
By removing the roasting plates, the room can be utilized for boiling, the kettels in
this case being hung on hooks or placed on angle-iron, fastened to each side of the
walls.
The Boiling rooms, acting as well as out-let channels for the smoke, are hermetically
closed by means of top and side doors. The kettels are hung or rest on angle-irons
and supported by other angle-irons, lower down, serving also to break the hot air
current. A plate over the fire, forms the bottom of the roasting room, and is made
from two iron sheets, one above the other, with about 10 millimeters intermediate
space, the upper one being perforated.
The fire place is provided with channels for the smoke, leading through inlets into
the boiling rooms, and from their through the out-lets, at their bottom. These channels
also serve to strengthen the construction.

page_text: The fire place is divided into two compartments. by means of a, wall, and therefore
provided with two fire grates and two doors."
The heat is regulated and admitted into the various compartments by means of
valves.
The mincing room is provided with cutters, acted upon by means of a chain fastened
to one of the wheel-axles, when the waggon is in motion, and, when in rest, by means
of a hand wheel.
The pantries are situated partly at the back of the waggon also serving as seat
for the cook, and partly in the front of the waggon, serving as well as seat for the
coachman.
These pantries can be removed, when boards-placed behind them--can be folded
down, serving as tables. On the top of the kitchen is placed a basket for the fire
wood; and on the top of this the chimney, when not in use.
Data: L 1
1007

page_text: New or Improved: Construction of Field Kitchen:
I LORENTZ ALBERT GROTH of No. 5 Crosby Hall Chambers, in the City of London,
Civil Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention, a communication
from abroad by Max Ritter von Pittoni of the City of Budapest in the Kingdom of
Hungary, Colonel in the Royal Hungarian Honved Regiment and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :--
The object of this invention is to construct more especially for military purposes
a travelling kitchen or field kitchen which shall comprise in a convenient manner
the various necessary apparatus for preparing, cooking, and boiling flesh and other
material for food.
A further object of the invention is to so arrange and combine the various parts.
that the heat may be economically used and the victuals be prepared in as short a
time as possible. Also to so arrange that the victuals shall not taste of smoke.
Referring to the accompanying drawings
.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the complete Field Kitchen constructed according to-
this invention. Figs. 2 to 9 illustrate sundry details of construction which will be
hereinafter described.
Upon a suitable wheel frame A of any convenient construction is fixed the kitchen
consisting of a stove B divided into spaces in the manner and for the purposes herein-
after set forth, a receptacle. C for meat, a mincing or cutting machine D a chest E
for containing condiments, groceries or other like stores and a receptacle F for
fuel.
The invention consists in the relative arrangement & combination of parts and the
special novelties claimed in the construction of each.
The stove B occupies approximately a central position among the parts, it consists
of a closed oven a having doors bb a fire place c having the door d and arranged under
said oven and two lateral spaces d' d' having doors e e and containing each one or
more boilers or kettles ff. Above the stove B is placed the fuel holder F which may
be of lattice work, on the latter are temporarily fastened during transport the smoke
stacks g which during use are fastened on the flues projecting respectively from
the walls of the spaces d' d'. On the one side of the stove is placed the meat
receptacle C, and above the latter is the meat cutter D, on the other side of the stove
is the chest E, aforesaid.
During transport the chest E will serve as a seat for the driver and the meat chest C
a seat for the cook.
Fig. 2 shows in front elevation, Fig. 3 in plan and Fig. 4 in side elevation the con-
struction of the stove, the four parallel walls and the floor j and roof k are
made double preferably of sheet iron filled between with ashes or other non couductor
of heat. The walls are connected to the floor and roof by angle irons.
Between the walls at a suitable distance from the floor is a cross partition.kl.
dividing off the space between the walls and roof which forms the oven a from
that below which forms the fire place c. This cross partition k¹ may be formed of two

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sheets of sheet iron placed about 10 / apart the upper one being perforated. The
partition is removable and may be carried upon angle irons. The oven is closed on
each side by folding doors b¹ which are likewise double and filled with a non conductor
of heat. The interior of the oven is provided with a number of horizontal movable
grids or trays as shown in elevation in Fig. 9 and plan in Fig. 8.
These are supported upon cross bars m fixed to the sides of the oven in as many
parallel planes as desired, for instance six planes, four in each plane.
These cross bars may catch with their ends in eyelets fixed in vertical angle irons m¹.
To insert kettles or the like in the oven it is only necessary to remove the grids or
trays and the cross bars for supporting the same. The oven is also closed at the
ends by inner single doors having slits o exactly corresponding to the end plates
of the grids or trays so that the latter may be inserted or withdrawn without
allowing smoke etc. to enter the oven. The lateral spaces d' d' are formed between
the walls i and on each side, they are closed at each end by double doors e e and
above by doors p p. In these spaces are supported the kettles shaped more or less
thereto to expose as large a surface as possible to the heated gases from the furnace
which are led around them. The said kettles, carry fixed to them angle irons or
rails by which they may be slid upon and supported by the horizontal angle iron
supports on the walls of the spaces, below the latter are further angle irons q¹ g¹
which act as baffle plates and also hold the kettles against swaying.
Under the
oven a is the fire place c which is again divided into the fire place proper cand
the ash pan c below the same. The arrangement of the fire place or places is shown
in Fig. 3. It is divided across the centre by a partition extending partly across
and returned right and left to form between the returns and the side covered flues s
respectively for the two hearths into which the partition divides the fire place. The
walls of these flues form on the one side a boundary to the hearth and there is a
similar plate t t placed on the other side of the hearth. In the centre of each hearth
is the grating u.
At the extreme end of each flues is a hole by which the gases escape into the
spaces respectively circling around the kettles and issuing at into the
chimneys fixed thereon. ww are stopped holes for cleaning purposes or to be
opened if desired to heat the chambers dd more effectually.
The kettles are
shown in Figs. 5 to 7 they are provided with hinged covers and catch. There may
be valves or holes therein for letting out steam.
Handles are provided for drawing them out and carrying them about. The meat
chest is a simple chest, lined with zinc and the cutter D is adapted to chop up the
meat and deliver it into the chest.
The cutter D may have any suitable construction and be driven by a chain gear D³
from one of the driving wheels.
The chain gear may however he freed in the usual way to allow the cutter to be
operated by hand through fly wheel D¹ when the vehicle is not travelling.
The chest E is also a simple chest.
Between the chest and the stove may be a hinged-table H adapted to be folded down
when the chest E is removed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is..
In a field kitchen :
1. The combination of wheel frame, a stove having fireplace e oven a and spaces d³ d¹
thereon, a chest C, a cutter D over said chest and a chest E arranged relatively to each
other substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
2. A stove B comprising a fire place cash place c' thereunder, an oven a over said
fireplace, lateral chambers d' d', kettles supported therein, the fire gases being
passed into said chambers d' d¹ substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
3. A stove B comprising a double fireplace c having a partition r and flues sas
described and oven thereover having removable grids therein and inner doors n with

page_text: slits o as set forth and lateral chambers d' d' having kettles ff supported therein:
substantially as set forth.
4. The combination with a fire place of an oven thereover, having a double floor
composed of two sheets of sheet iron one being perforated.
5. A fire place having two hearths divided by a cross partition return flues's and
plates & substantially as set forth.
.
6. The combination in an oven of a number of superposed grids or trays and doors n
having slits o corresponding thereto.
7. The combination with the chambers d' d' angle irons 7 q' therein and kettles ƒƒ
substantially as set forth.
8. A cutting engine driven by gear from the wheels of the vehicle.
9. The parts above set forth constructed and relatively arranged substantially as
illustrated and described.
די
1000
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
Agents to Applicant.