IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR STEAMING,, COOKING, AND GENERATING GAS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Oglesby, John Dickinson, William Mark
Dickinson, and John Dickinson, the younger, all of York, in the County
of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR STEAMING,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Oglesby, John
Dickinson, William Mark Dickinson, and John Dickinson, the younger,
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 28th January 1863.
We, JOHN OGLESBY, JOHN DICKINSON, WILLIAM MARK DICKINSON, and
JOHN DICKINSON, the younger, all of York, in the County of York, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR STEAMING, COOKING, AND GENERATING GAS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in certain improvements in apparatus for cooking,
whereby a more effective result is obtained than by the ordinary apparatus or
ranges at present in use, and whereby gas is manufactured suitable for lighting
purposes, thus economising fuel, and effecting a saving of expense.
The apparatus is to be made of iron of a square exterior form and set in
brickwork; the central portion is to contain the fire-bars, and on each side
thereof a boiler for hot water is constructed; the front of the fire-place is to
be furnished with slides, for the purpose of enclosing the same, and also for

page_text: enlarging or diminishing the width of the fire. In the fire a retort is placed,
communicating with a vertical pipe ascending to a reservoir of water. The
retort is filled with coal or other carbonaceous matter, capable of affording gas
and the smoke and vapour from the fire is likewise taken up. to the reservoir,
and passed through the water, whence it descends to a condenser below, which
is a tank for receiving the tar, the gas passes from the condenser to a purifier,
and thence to a small gasometer, where it is retained for use below the range;
on each side of the ash-pit a steaming chamber is fixed, supplied with steam
from the boilers, and above the fire and the hot plate two ovens are con-
structed for baking.
By these arrangements the various operations of cooking may be carried
on simultaneously, and the products of combustion utilised instead of being
wasted.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Oglesby, John Dickinson, William Mark Dickinson,
and John Dickinson, the younger, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th July 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
OGLESBY, JOHN DICKINSON, WILLIAM MARK DICKINSON, and JOHN DICKINSON,
the younger, all of York, in the County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said John Oglesby, John Dickinson, William Mark Dickinson, and
John Dickinson, Her special licence that we, the said John Oglesby,
John Dickinson, William Mark Dickinson, and John Dickinson, the younger,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
John Oglesby, John Dickinson, William Mark Dickinson, and John Dick-
inson, the younger, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR STEAMING, COOKING, AND GENE-
BATING GAS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said John

page_text: Oglesby, John Dickinson, William Mark Dickinson, and John Dickinson,
the younger, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particu-
larly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said John Oglesby, John Dickinson,
William Mark Dickinson, and John Dickinson, the younger, do hereby
declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
Our Invention consists in certain improved arrangements of apparatus for
cooking, whereby a more effective result is obtained than by the ordinary
apparatus or ranges at present in use, and whereby gas is manufactured
suitable for lighting purposes, thus economising fuel, and effecting a saving of
expense.
.
In order that our said Invention may be completely understood, we now
proceed to describe the best means we are acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, as follows, reference being had to the accompanying
Sheet of illustrative Drawings, and to the figures and letters of reference
marked thereon, as follows:-
Fig. 1 represents a front elevation of our cooking range, constructed of iron
and set in brick work; it presents nearly a square appearance or form in front,
the central portion containing the furnace grate and fire-bars, and the gas
generator a, the mouth of which is shewn; b, b, represent the ovens on each
side of the fire, below which are the boilers c, c. Fig. 2 represents a transverse
vertical section of part of the above, a being the gas generator; d, the funnel
and conducting pipe to the hydraulic vessel e, Fig. 3, whence the gas passes
by the pipe finto the condenser g, and traverses the saine by the serpentine
pipe h. From the condenser the pipe i conveys the gas to the purifier k, and
it then passes into the gasometer 1, Fig. 4, and is afterwards conveyed to the
burners, by piping under pressure. The condenser is provided with another
tube m below the position of the exit pipe i, for the purpose of conducting the
tar which has accumulated to the tank n, whence it may be drawn off by the
tap o; p represents the cold water cistern supplied with water from the pipe q.
This cistern is in communication with the hot water cistern r, as shewn in the
Drawings. Underneath the ovens steaming apparatus is to be situated. The
fire may be enclosed by means of slides on each side thereof, or by other

page_text: suitable arrangement. The retort or gas generator a is to be filled with coal
or other carbonaceous matter capable of affording gas by the operation of the
heat of the fire, and the entire products of the combustion in the retort are
taken by the funnel and pipe d to the reservoir of water e, and condensed and
purified as described. The gas generator may be placed in any suitable
position, and several of them may be arranged in one furnace according to the
number of lights required.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, we would remark in conclusion that we do
not limit ourselves to the precise details and configuration of parts we have
described and shewn, as the same may obviously be varied, both as regards
form, position, construction, and general arrangement, without in any way
departing from the principle on which our Invention is based, but what we
claim and desire to be secured to us by the herein in part recited Letters Patent
are, the combination of parts and construction of apparatus as herein specified
and illustrated by the annexed Drawings, or other arrangements substantially
the same, for the purpose of cooking, steaming, and generating gas, as set forth
in the title hereof.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Oglesby, John Dickinson, William
Mark Dickinson, and John Dickinson, the younger, have hereunto set
our hands and seals, this Fourteenth day of July One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three
Witness,
JOSEPH HANSOM,
68, Micklegate, York.
JOHN OGLESBY.
JOHN DICKINSON.
W. M. DICKINSON.
(L.S.)
(L.S.)
(L.S.)
JOHN DICKINSON, JUNIOR. (L.S.)