IMPROVEMENTS IN OVENS FOR BAKING
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Weston, of Camden Town, in the County
of Middlesex, Baker, and Benjamin Price, of Mile End, in the same
County, Furnace Builder, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN OVENS
FOR BAKING."
Sealed the 11th December 1860, and dated the 13th June 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Weston and
Benjamin Price at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 13th June 1860.
We, WILLIAM WESTON, of Camden Town, in the County of Middlesex,
Baker, and BENJAMIN PRICE, of Mile End, in the same County, Furnace
Builder, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN OVENS FOR BAKING," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists in constructing ovens with a furnace at the side or
other convenient part, and with flues running under at the sides and over the
crown of the oven before communicating with the chimney. For the purpose
of readily getting at the flues, we construct a passage underneath the bottom
set to enable a man to gain access to and cleanse them. We use no fire inside
the oven.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Weston and Benjamin Price in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 18th December 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
WESTON, of Camden Town, in the County of Middlesex, Baker, and BENJAMIN
PRICE, of Mile End, in the same County, Furnace Builder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said William Weston and Benjamin Price, Her special licence that we,
the said William Weston and Benjamin Price, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said William Weston and Benjamin
Price, 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 Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
OVENS FOR BAKING," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
William Weston and Benjamin Price, or one of us, our executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of our or
their hands and seals, should particularly 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 William Weston and Benjamin Price,
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 thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, that is to say:—
Our Invention consists in constructing ovens with a furnace at the side or
other convenient part, and with flues running under, at the sides, and over the
crown of the oven before communicating with the chimney. For the purpose
of readily getting at the flues we construct a passage underneath the bottom
set to enable a man to gain access to and cleanse them. We use no fire inside
the oven.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a front elevation of an oven and
furnace constructed in the manner before described; Figure 2 is a section

page_text: through the line a, b, of Figure 1; Figure 3 is a section through the line c, d,
of Figure 1; and Figure 4 is a vertical section through the line e, f, of
Figure 3. The same letters of reference indicate like parts in all the Figures.
a is the furnace door placed for convenience at the side of the oven; b, b, are
the fire bars; and c the ash-pit; d is an opening at the lower part of the
furnace, by which air is admitted, and access gained to the part marked e in
Figures 2 and 4, in order that a man may enter to clean the flues; f is a block
in the middle of this space for filling up and partially supporting the furnace;
el, el, are partitions to divide the air and guide it to the flues above; g,g, are
flues above the fire in communication with the crown of the furnace by flues h, h,
and with the space e, by flues i, i; k is the oven, and 7 is the door of the same;
m is a water cistern above the furnace; n shows the position of the chimney,
but it may be placed at any other part, according to circumstances; p, p, are
dampers for cooling the oven when required; any number of these dampers
can be used, and they may be placed at any desired part of the flues of the
furnace. By reference to Figure 4, it will be seen that the products of com-
bustion are free to circulate under, around, and above the oven, and off to
the chimney in such manner as to quickly heat the oven and maintain it in
that state so long as the fire is kept up.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim,-
First, the construction of ovens with a furnace at the side or other con-
venient part, and with flues running under at the sides and over the crown of
the oven before communicating with the chimney, substantially as herein-before
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Second, the construction of a passage under the bottom set of flues, whereby
the furnace can be kept clean, as herein-before described and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Weston and Benjamin Price,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Thirteenth day of December,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
WILLIAM WESTON. (L.S.)
BENJAMIN PRICE. (L.S.)