Improvements in and relating to Stoves and Ranges.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 2nd Dec., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by THE HEAT AND ODOR EXTINGUISHER
COMPANY, of 142, Broad Street, Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey.]
Improvements in and relating to Stoves and Ranges.
I, WILLIAM HENRY BECK, of 115 Cannon Street, in the City of London,
Consulting Engineer and Chartered Patent Agent do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say :-
The object of this invention is to furnish a means of effectually withdrawing the
smoke, odors, vapor and heated air which rise from a cooking or other stove; and
also to protect the cook from the greater part of the heat radiated therefrom and to
reduce the temperature of the kitchen.
The invention relates to a hood which is adapted to enclose the top of the
stove or range and furnished with an extensible connection to a ventilating flue.
The invention will be understood by reference to the annexed drawings, in which
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a brick-set range with the improvement applied
thereto;
Fig. 2 is a front elevation of a detached range with the same improvements;
Fig. 3 is an edge view of the parts shown in Fig. 2;
Figure 4 is a sectional elevation of the hood with a false back and guides for
supporting the same;
Fig. 5 is a plan of the fixtures with the top covering removed and the guides
in section on lines x x in Fig. 6, the frame k¹ of the hood being also added to the
figure;
Fig. 6 is a front elevation of the top of the fixtures with the curtain and curtain
fixtures broken away at the end; and
Fig. 7 is an end view of the curtain roll and curtain.
the same.
Referring to Fig. 1, A is the range top and B are hot closets supported above
C is the chimney breast or brick setting of the range which forms a
back piece extended upward at the rear of the hood, and to the front side of which
the guides are affixed. Outside of the guidest pockets n are provided to receive
weights for balancing the hood D.
The guides are surmounted by a top P, and a casing Z' is shown beneath the
same to form part of the enclosure and encase a spring roller to which the curtain g
would be attached. The curtain is shown provided at the bottom end with a bar f
attached to the top of the hood D by hooks h. A handle is shown upon the
bottom of the hood to raise and lower the same, and a handle h is applied to the
barf to disengage the curtain from the hood and to raise and lower the curtain
independently. Chains ; are secured to the bar f and to the top of the hood to limit
the separation of such members.
An aperture k is shown in the front of the hood adjacent to the bottom bar k¹, to
afford the cook access to the top of the range for broiling or other culinary
operations, and for heating irons for ironing clothes. A sliding door k³ is provided
to close such aperture when desired. (See Figures 2 & 4.)
The hood is shown elevated, in Fig. 1, with the curtain attached thereto by the
hooks / applied to a bent flange u' on the hood. (See also Figure 4.) In Fig. 2,
the hood is shown lowered to cover the range top, and the curtain is shown
detached and held by the chains; to expose the closets B.
The hood is stiffened by the frame wo at the top and by the frame k¹ at the
bottom, both being extended backward between the guides to carry wheels ¹; see
Fig. 4, in which figure the guides and back piece I are shown broken away above
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page_text: the top of the range, it being understood that the wheels r¹ and weights o occur on
both sides of the hood.
In Figs. 4, 5 and 6, the false back is shown with the flue aperture F therein and
all the fixtures attached thereto for guiding and counterbalancing the hood. The
wooden plates m are attached to the false back by means of the bolts and, with
the sheet iron casings n, form pockets to conceal the weights o which are
connected by cords o' to the frame of the hood. The cord pulleys o' are mounted
upon blocks one at each side of the hood. The partition upon the inner side of
each pocket is formed by a sheet metal strip p secured to the plate m by flange p¹
(Fig. 5) and bent at its front side into a channel to embrace the front guide t.
A groove m which constitutes the rear guide is formed in the plate m, and anti-
friction wheels are attached to the bars k¹ and w of the hood by means of
trolleys and bolts on each side thereof. The outer sides of the wheels x¹
(Fig. 5) run in contact with shoulders t¹ which are formed upon the front guide by
a rib formed upon the wooden strip t and in the rear guide by the side of the
groove m'. The guidest and m¹ are made of wood to prevent noise. It will be
seen (Fig. 4) that the upper pair of these wheels run in the front guides and the
lower pair of wheels run in the rear guides.
The curtain may be made of any suitable woven fabric and fire-proofed by
means already well known, so as to endure the heat to which it is exposed without
injury.
A buffer spring (Fig. 4) is affixed to the block e¹ to contact with the upper
lug w when the hood is raised and to thus bring it to rest without shock, as shown
in Fig. 4.
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The spring roller is mounted in brackets Z which are affixed to the front of the
guides and to the board P which closes the tops of the pockets n and the space
between the guides. The brackets are tied together at their lower ends by a
tie-rod Z', and are curved externally and provided with a flange u to retain a sheet
metal casing which is extended over the top of the board P into contact with the
back piece. If the back piece be of brick-work, as in a brick-set range, the edge
of the sheet metal Z may be scribed so as to fit the irregularities of the same and
thus form a close joint. Where the surface is rough, a packing n' (Fig. 4) of soft
material, like felt, may be fire-proofed and then fastened to the edge of the sheet
inetal or between the same and the wall.
The plates m may be made of fire-proofed wood, as indicated in Figs. 4 and 5,
or of sheet metal suitably stiffened. The false back and guides may be supported
upon the stove or range by brackets a', as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and the tops
of the guides may be steadied by braces extended to the ceiling or adjacent wall.
The curtain forms an extensible connection between the hood and the flue which
is maintained both when the hood is elevated and when it is drawn downward over
the top of the range. The curtain is shown in the drawing lapped at its edges over
the face of the front guides, and forms a joint therewith by the indraft of the flue
when the damper FS in such flue (indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 4) is open.
The smoke pipe F¹ may, if desired, be conducted through the ventilating flue F,
and such arrangement is shown in the detached range in Figs. 2 and 3.
It is obvious that when the stove or range is not in use for cooking, the heated
air from the hood may be used for warming an upper apartment. For such
purpose the ventilating flue may be connected with an upper apartment by a
pipe P¹ extended from the top P (Fig. 3) with a damper Pinserted in such pipe
to close the same when the range is used in cooking and the odors therefrom
would be offensive.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The combination, with a range or stove, of a back piece extended upward at
the rear of the same, an outlet flue in such back piece, guides upon the front of the

page_text: back piece, and a hood counterbalanced and fitted movably to such guides and
provided with an extensible connection to the flue as set forth.
2. The combination, with a range or stove, of a back piece extended upward at
the rear of the same, an outlet flue in such back piece, guides upon the front of
the back piece, a hood counterbalanced and fitted to the guides with an extensible
connection to the flue, and wheels fitted to the inner and outer sides of the guides at
the top and bottom of the hood, as herein set forth.
3. The combination, with a range or stove, of a back piece extended upward at
the rear of the same, an outlet flue in such back piece, guides upon the front of the
back piece, a hood fitted movably to the guides, a curtain roll at the top of the
guides, a curtain fitted movably upon the guides and attached to the top of
the hood, and a door in the hood for access to the top of the range or stove, as
set forth.
4. The combination, with a range or stove, of a back piece extended upward at
the rear of the same, an outlet flue in such back piece, guides upon the front of the
back piece, a hood fitted movably to such guides with cords and weights to balance
the same, a spring curtain roll mounted at the top of the guides, and a curtain
fitted movably upon the guides and detachably connected at the bottom to the
hood, as set forth.
5. The combination, with a range or stove, of a back piece extended upward at
the rear of the same, an outlet flue in such back piece, vertical pockets attached to
the back piece with wooden guides at their inner and outer edges, a hood fitted
to the outer guides with wheels at its top and bottom fitted respectively to the
outer and inner guides, as herein set forth.
6. The combination, with a range or stove, of a back piece extended upward at
the rear of the same, an outlet flue in such back piece, a register or damper in such
outlet flue, vertical guides projected from the front of such back piece, a hood
movable to and from the top of the range or stove upon such guides, a top piece
and curtain for enclosing the chamber between the guides, and a warm air pipe P₁
extended from the top of such chamber to connect the same with an upper
apartment.
7. The hood fixtures for a range or stove consisting in the wooden plates m
adapted for attachment to a chimney breast, and provided with suitable guides and
vertical pockets n, the top piece P, the curtain roller r, the curtain g, the hood
movable upon the guides, the cords and weights for balancing the hood, the said
plates, guides, curtain, and all combustible parts being chemically treated to render
them incombustible, as set forth.
Dated this 15th day of Aucount 1002
W. H. BECK,
115, Cannon Street, London, E.C., Applicant.