A Portable Cooking Stove.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 6th June, 1896
A Portable Cooking Stove.
1, ALFRED SAVILL TOMKINS, of Holmwood, Caterham, in the County of
Surrey, Captain in the Victoria Rifles, 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 :-
My invention relates to a cooking stove made in parts which can be readily
packed together in compact form for transport, and can be readily and rapidly put
together for use, as I shall describe referring to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is an outside view, and Fig. 2 is a section shewing all the parts of the
stove packed together for transport.
Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the parts put
together for use.
There are two rectangular ovens A and B, the larger A of such size that the
smaller B can be packed within it.
The oven A. has at its one end a door C which is hinged at its upper edge, and
the oven B has a smaller door D which is shewn open in Fig. 4. At the opposite
end each oven has attached to it at its lower corner an angle iron E on which a
fire grate F is hung by hooks fentering holes in the angle irons. The oven B
also has pivotted on its front side and also on its rear side at ba plate G having at
one of its upper angles a hook g which can engage in a staple on the upper angle
at the front and rear sides of the oven A. There are two rectangular boilers I
and J of such size that J can be packed within I, and then I containing J can be
placed within the oven B. There are also four pans K L M N with sides slightly
inclined so that each can be inserted into one of the others, all when packed
together being accommodated in the oven B along with the boiler I and the fire
grate F as shewn in Fig. 2, the oven B having, when it is packed, its plates G
turned upon their pivots so as to cover the front and rear sides of B.
Besides the oven B there are packed into A two plates 00' one for each of the
ovens to carry the pans.
In putting the parts together for use, the ovens A and B are placed upon bricks
or other accessible supports P raising them a little from the ground, back to back
at such a distance apart as to admit of the fire grate F between them. The
plates G are then turned upon their pivots b so as to close the two ends of the fire
space between the ovens, the hooks g of the plates G engaging in the staples at the
upper angles of the oven B so that the two ovens are held together by the hooks g
above, and the hooks f of the fire grate below.
The boilers I and J can then be placed on the tops of the ovens at a distance
apart to leave between them a space for ascent of the products of combustion. The
plates OO are placed on angle irons R R¹ projecting internally at the sides of
the ovens; the pans K and L are placed on the floors of the ovens and M and N
on the plates 00. The ends of the ovens A B are not quite vertical but inclined
in such a manner that when the doors C and D are closed they bear with a little
weight against the ends, and they are held closed by fastenings c and d.
The oven A may have at its angles on opposite sides staples S so that
two sets of ovens can be strapped together and loaded astraddle on a beast of
burden.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
A portable cooking stove consisting of two ovens, a fire grate between them,
pivotted plates connecting them, two boilers, four pans and a pair of plates all of
such relative forms and dimensions that they can be packed within the large oven,
substantially as described.
Dated this 26th day of October 1895.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.