Improvements in Cooking Stoves and Ranges.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Jan,, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 10th Oct., 1889-Accepted, 7th Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cooking Stoves and Ranges.
1, THOMAS WALTER BARBER of Craiglea, Ulverston, in the County of Lancaster,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
My improvements are designed to effect the following objects. 1st. To facilitate
the cleaning of the flues and removal of soot. 2nd. To arrange the top or hot plate
more conveniently for the manipulation of the cooking pots. 3rd. To provide
means for effectual roasting with an open fire as well as baking. 4th. To avoid the
necessity for fire brick linings to the fire box. 5th. To enable the fire box to be
easily emptied when required to relight, and easily cleaned or stirred with the
poker all round when burning, and 6th. To enable the operator to apply the best
heat of the fire to either the front, the boiler or ovens as required in the processes
of cooking.
I effect the 1st object by providing shallow drawers or trays underneath to
receive the soot from the flues which can be brushed up and down through suitable
soot doors in the top plate. The soot falls into the trays and can be easily emptied
out and the trays replaced. The same object is attained by making the entire
underside of the bottom flues either removable or hinged so as to fall down, when
the soot can be conveniently removed.
The 2nd object I effect by making a portion of the hot plate into a turntable with
holes and covers of various sizes for the cooking pots so arranged that they all can,
in turn, be brought immediately over the fire box or turned round away from the
fire.
The 3rd 4th 5th & 6th objects I effect by making the fire box or basket circular on
plan and capable of revolving horizontally, with a false grate bottom which can be let
down when required to empty the grate. I prefer to make the circular fire basket
in a single casting of iron, a part of its circumference being of open bars and the
remainder plain or perforated with small holes.
Holes are also cast in the circumference to receive the end of a suitable bar or
poker by which it can be revolved.
The side of the oven towards the fire basket is open so that when the open part of
the fire basket is turned towards it, it can be used for roasting with an open fire or
for rapidly heating the oven.
The boiler is at the back of the fire basket and can be rapidly heated by turning the
open part of the fire basket round to face it.
To draw up the fire, instead of employing a front door the fire basket can be
revolved until the plain side is at the when it will draw its air only through the
bottom.
Dated 11th January 1980
THOMAS WALTER BARBER, “

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cooking Stoves and Ranges.
I, THOMAS WALTER BARBER of No. 15 Wykeham Terrace Braybrook Road, Hastings
in the county of Sussex, Engineer, (late of Craiglea, Ulverston in the County of
Lancaster), 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:-
My improvements are designed to effect the following objects:-1. To facilitate the
cleaning of the flues and removal of soot. 2. To arrange the top or hot plate more
conveniently for the manipulation of the cooking pots. 3. To provide means for
effectual roasting with an open fire, as well as baking. 4. To avoid the necessity
for fire-brick linings to the fire box.. 5. To enable the fire box to be easily emptied
when required to relight it, and easily cleaned or stirred with the poker all round
when burning, and 6. To enable the operator to apply the best heat of the fire to either
the front, the boiler, or ovens as required in the processes of cooking.
I effect the 1st object by providing shallow drawers or trays A. A. underneath the
flues B. B. to receive the soot, which-when the flues are brushed up and down
through the soot doors C. C. in the top plate,-falls into the trays and can be easily
emptied out and the trays replaced. The same result is attained by making the entire
underside of the bottom flues removable (see Fig. 4) as a drawer, or hinged to fall
down, when the soot can be conveniently removed.
The 2nd object 1 effect by making a portion of the hot plate into a turntable D.
with holes E. E. and covers of various sizes for the cooking pots, so arranged that
they all can, in turn, be brought immediately over the fire, or turned away from it. The
turntable D is provided with recesses F to receive the end of a suitable hand lever
by which it can be easily revolved, its weight being chiefly-supported on the central
pivot F'.
The 3rd 4th 5th & 6th objects I effect by making the fire-box or basket G circular
on plan of cast iron and capable of revolving horizontally; with a false grate
bottom H which can be let down by the lever I when required to empty the grate,
or raised to any required height to reduce the fire (and so economise fuel) by
means of the lever J and ratchet and pawl K, operated in front of the stove.
The lever I is hinged at N and hung by a hinged hook O which can be detached
to lower the grate and levers I and J together.
The grate H is raised by depressing the front end of lever J to the dotied
position, the pawl P dropping into the notches in the segment ratchet K on the
end of the lever I sustains it at any required elevation.
I prefer to make the fire basket G in a single casting, a part of its circumference
being of open bars (see plan Fig. 2) and the remainder plain or perforated with
small holes. Holes are also cast in the circumference to receive the end of a hand
lever or poker by which it can be revolved; or in the case of a large range it may
be revolved by gearing-worked by a movable handle at the front.
The side of the roasting oven L towards the fire basket is open so that when the
open part of the fire basket is turned to face it the oven can be used for roasting
with an open fire, or for rapidly heating for baking purposes.
The boiler M is at the back in the plan shewn, but may-where one oven only is
required be of shape extending to the front at one side and can in either case
be rapidly heated by turning the open part of the fire-basket round to face it.
To draw up the fire it is simply necessary to turn the plain side to the front
so that no door is required in front. The fire then draws its air only through the
bottom.
It is obvious that the essential features of this invention are applicable to all forms
of ranges whether self-contained, as in the American ranges, or built into a brick
recess and having the outer flues formed in the brickwork as in the ordinary close or
open ranges.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. The use of and application to kitchen ranges of soot drawers or loose bottoms
substantially as figured and described, to facilitate the removal of soot.
2. The use of and application to kitchen ranges of a circular revolving fire box
with or without a loose rising and falling bottom as figured and described and for
the purposes set forth.
3. The application to kitchen ranges of a revolving turntable top as figured and
described and for the purposes set forth.
Dated the 9th day of October 1889.
THOMAS WALTER BARBER.