Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Jan., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 11th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 16th Nov., 1888
We, THOMAS STOKES and GEORGE STOKES, both of 14, St. James Street, Ashted,
Birmingham, Warwickshire, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention consists of the improved portable cooking-oven herein described
which is designed more particularly for use on the hobs of those fire-places which are
not provided with ovens but the said invention can also be used in other fire-places
and with oil, gas and other heating stoves.
One form of the said oven consists of a rectangular box preferably made of thin cast
iron and having a removable lid or cover at the top. At the bottom of the oven and
free to slide between the sides thereof is a drawer which can be removed from the
front and immediately above this drawer is a removable shelf which at each side fits
on a ledge formed on the sides of the oven and which can also be withdrawn from the
front. When the shelf and drawer are in position in the oven the top of the front of
the drawer overlaps the front edge of the shelf and keeps the latter in place. The
shelf and the bottom of the drawer are preferably perforated. The said lid or cover
is preferably provided with a circular opening having a ledge all round which can be
closed by a suitable lid.
The said shelf thus divides the oven into two compartments either of which, when
the oven is placed on the hob of a fire-place or on a heating stove or other place where
sufficient heat can be obtained, will serve for baking purposes and the top of the oven
can be used as a stand for a kettle or other vessel the contents of which is required to
be heated or boiled; access being had to the upper compartment by removing the
said lid or through the said hole therein. For instance a chop or steak can very
readily be cooked in the drawer while potatoes are baking in the upper compartment
and a kettle is being boiled on the top.
The said drawer is preferably provided with a moveable tin or other metal dish for
cooking in.

page_text: We sometimes provide two or more drawers as above described in the oven one
above the other so as to enable a greater variety of articles to be cooked at once.
Instead of making the said oven rectangular in plan as above described it may be
circular, semi-circular, oval or other shape which will best suit the particular place in
which the oven is intended to be used, and instead of making the top as a removable
lid or cover the top may be fixed and access had to the upper chamber through the
said hole in the top only; or when the top is made as a lid the said hole therein may
be dispensed with; and we sometimes omit the drawer or drawers altogether and
close the opening or openings by a suitable door or doors of similar shape to the
front of the drawer or drawers above described.

page_text: We, THOMAS STOKES and GEORGE STOKES, both of 14, St. James Street, Ashted,
Birmingham, Warwickshire, Engineers, 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 :-
This invention consists of the improved portable cooking-oven herein described
which is designed more particularly for use on the hobs of those fire-places which are
not provided with ovens but the said invention can also be used in other fire-places
and with oil, gas and other heating stoves.
One form of the said oven consists of a rectangular box preferably made of thin
cast iron and having a removable lid or cover at the top. At the bottom of the oven
and free to slide between the sides thereof is a drawer which can be removed from
the front; and immediately above this drawer is a removable shelf which at each side
fits on a ledge formed on the sides of the oven and which can also be withdrawn from
the front. When the shelf and drawer are in position in the oven the top of the front
of the drawer overlaps the front edge of the shelf and keeps the latter in place. The
shelf and the bottom of the drawer are preferably perforated. The said lid or cover
is preferably provided with a circular opening having a ledge all round which can be
closed by a suitable lid.
The said shelf thus divides the oven into two compartments either of which, when
the oven is placed on the hob of a fire-place or on a heating stove or other place
where sufficient heat can be obtained, will serve for baking purposes and the top of
the oven can be used as a stand for a kettle or other vessel the contents of which is
required to be heated or boiled; access being had to the upper compartment by
removing the said lid or through the said hole therein. For instance a chop or steak
can very readily be cooked in the drawer while potatoes are baking in the upper
compartment and a kettle is being boiled on the top.
The said drawer is preferably provided with a moveable tin or other metal dish for
cooking in.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawing represents a portable cooking oven constructed
according to our invention with the drawer and shelf partly withdrawn; Fig. 2 is a
longitudinal section of the same with the drawer and shelf closed; Fig. 3 is a longi-
tudinal section of a modification of the same and Fig. 4 shews two of the said ovens
in position on the hob of a fire-place.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.
a is the rectangular box or outer casing of the oven; b is the removable lid or
cover of the same and c is the drawer provided with a removable metal dish d, and
e is the shelf which can be withdrawn from the front of the oven.
The drawer is free to slide between the sides of the oven and its front c' is by
preference made deep enough to overlap the front edge of the shelf e when the shelf
and drawer are closed so as to keep the former in place. The shelf e fits on ledges ff
formed on the sides of the oven. g is an opening in the lid or cover b having a ledge
all round on which the lid / fits.

page_text: When the oven is placed on the hob of a fire place as shewn for instance by Fig. 4
or on a heating stove or other place where sufficient heat can be obtained it will serve
for baking purposes as above described and a kettle or other vessel can be heated or
boiled on the top.
We sometimes provide two or more drawers c one above the other so as to enable a
greater variety of articles to be cooked at once.
Instead of making the said oven rectangular in plan as above described and
illustrated it may be circular, semi-circular, oval or other shape which will best suit
the particular place in which the oven is intended to be used and instead of making
the top as a removable lid or cover the top may be fixed and access had to the upper
chamber through the hole g in the top only; or when the top is made as a lid the
hole therein may be dispensed with; and, as illustrated by Fig. 3, we sometimes
omit the drawer or drawers c altogether and close the opening or openings by a suit-
able door or doors of similar shape to the front of the drawer or drawers above
described or the door or doors may be omitted and the front of the oven made solid
so as to be only accessible by removing the cover b.
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:
1st. A portable cooking oven consisting of an outer box or casing adapted to fit
upon the hob of a fire place and provided with a suitable lid or cover and divided
horizontally by a removable shelf and having a drawer or drawers, substantially as,
and for the purpose described.
2nd. The combination in a portable cooking oven, of the outer box or casing a, the
removable lid or cover fitting on the box a, the removable shelf e and the drawer e
with or without the inner vessel d, the whole forming an improved portable cooking
oven substantially as described and illustrated by Figs. 1 and of the accompanying
drawing.
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3rd. The combination in a portable cooking oven, of the outer box or casing a, the
removable lid or cover fitting on the box a, the removable shelf e and the door i,
the whole forming an improved portable cooking oven substantially as described and
illustrated by Fig. 3 of the accompanying drawing.
4th. The combination in a portable cooking oven, of the open topped outer box or
casing a, the removable lid or cover fitting on the box a and the removable shelf e,
the whole forming an improved portable cooking oven substantially as hereinbefore
described.
Dated this 9th day of October LSSS
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.