Improvements in Close-and-open-fire Cooking Ranges.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Nov.,
1894
Complete Specification Left, 17th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 21st Sept., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Close-and-open-fire Cooking Ranges.
We, JOHN EDWARD GIBSON, Ironfounder, and ALEXANDER BALLOCH,
Foreman Pattern Maker, both of Salton Iron Works, Falkirk, in the County of
Stirling, North Britain, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows, that is to say :-
Our said invention has for its object to improve and simplify the construction
and arrangement of the parts of cooking ranges which are provided for adjustment
to make the fire a close or open one at pleasure, our improvements being, by
preference, adopted in "portable" or unbuilt-in ranges, but also applicable to
built-in ranges.
In carrying out our invention we fit a hanging door to an opening in the front of
the ascending flue just above the level of the top of the fire, this door being hinged
by means of horizontal pivots at its upper corner. For a close fire the door is
closed, and a flange on its bottom edge covers a small space above the fire, a
horizontal cover plate then covering the remainder of the fire. This cover plate is
smaller from front to back than would otherwise be required if the flue door were
made without the bottom flange hereinbefore mentioned; and when the fire is to
be open
the cover plate can be slid completely back to cover the flue opening from
the oven or ovens, without its front edge projecting over the fire.
For an open fire the flue door is turned up, and at the same time side plates or
wings are moved outwards. In one modification the wings are quadrant-shaped
and are turned over outwards on pivots at the bottom corners of the flue opening,
the turning of these wings outwards lifting up and opening the door and the
opposite movement closing it. In another modification the wings slide out and in
horizontally and are jointed to lugs formed on the inside of the door; and the
opening of the door causes the wings to be drawn outwards, whilst they are moved
inwards on closing the door.
Dated this Twentieth day of November 1894.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicants' Agent.
Improvements in Close-and-open-fire Cooking Ranges.
We, JOHN EDWARD GIBSON Ironfounder, and ALEXANDER BALLOCH,
Foreman Pattern Maker, both of Salton Iron Works, Falkirk, in the County of
Stirling, North Britain, 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 to say:
Our said invention has for its object to improve and simplify the construction
and arrangement of the parts of cooking ranges which are provided for adjustment
to make the fire a close or open one at pleasure, our improvements being by
preference, adopted in portable or unbuilt-in ranges but also applicable to built-in
ranges.

page_text: In carrying out our invention we fit a hanging door to an opening in the front of
the ascending Hue just above the level of the top of the fire, this door being hinge!
by means of horizontal pivots at its upper corners, and being turned down for a
close fire. When the fire is to be open the cover plate can be slid completely back
to cover the flue opening from the oven or ovens without its front edge projecting
over the fire, and the door is turned up and rests on side plates or wings moved
outwards with it.
And in order that our said invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood we hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings
to be hereinafter referred to and showing two modifications, in vertical section, of
our improved ranges. In these drawings the same reference letters are used to
mark the same or like parts wherever they are repeated.
In both modifications we fit a hanging door, A, to an opening in the front of the
ascending flue casing, B, just above the level of the top of the fire, this door being
hinged by means of horizontal pivots, C, at the upper corners, turning in sockets, D,
on the flue casing, B. In both modifications the doors, A, and side plates, G, are
shown in full lines as in the open position, and in dotted lines as in the closed
position. For a close fire the door, A, is closed and a flange, H, on its bottom
edge covers a small space above the fire, a horizontal cover plate, J, then covering
the remainder of the fire as shown in Figure, 1. This cover plate, J, is smaller
from front to back than would otherwise be required if the flue door, A, were made
without the bottom flange, H, herein before mentioned; and when the fire is to be
open the cover plate, J, can be slid completely back to cover the flue opening from
the oven or ovens (as shown in Figure, 2) without its front edge projecting over
the fire.
In some cases the dimensions of the parts may be such as to allow of the
flange, H, being very small or absent.
For an open fire the flue door, A, is turned up, and at the same time the side
plates or wings, G, are moved outwards. In the first modification the side
plates, G, which are connected to each other by a cross bar indicated at, P, in
Figure, 1, are quadrant-shaped and are turned over outwards on pivots, K, at the
bottom corners of the flue opening, the turning of these wings outwards (which is
effected by means of a handle, L, at either side) lifting up and opening the door,
and the opposite movement closing it. In the second modification the wings, G,
slide out and in horizontally in guides, M, and are jointed to lugs, N, formed on
the inside of the door, A; and the opening of the door causes the wings to be
drawn outwards, whilst they are moved inwards on closing the door.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:-
:-
In a close-and-open-fire cooking range, and in combination, a sliding fire-cover
plate, a door closing an opening in the front of the flue casing and hinged at its
upper corners, and side wings connected to the door in a manner to move in or out
as the door closes or opens, the parts being constructed arranged and operating
substantially as hereinbefore described and as shown in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this Sixteenth dar of August 1895
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicants' Agent.