AN IMPROVED PORTABLE STOVE AND CAMP COOKING APPARATUS
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of No. 11, Wellington Street,
Strand, London, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVED PORTABLE STOVE AND CAMP COOKING APPARATUS." A
communication from abroad by Pierre Domercq, of Montpellier (Hérault),
France, Manufacturer.
Sealed the 25th April 1879, and dated the 2nd November 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Gedge at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd November 1878.
WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, London, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent. "AN IMPROVED PORTABLE STOVE AND CAMP
COOKING APPARATUS." A communication from abroad by Pierre Domercq, of
Montpellier (Hérault), France, Manufacturer:
The accompanying Sheet of Drawing shows a portable stove and cooking apparatus
of this Invention,-
Figure 1 being an elevation and vertical section taken C¹, D¹, Figure 3 of the
apparatus, set up with a chimney, with cooking pots, boilers, or ovens hanging
thereupon.
Figure 2, an elevation and vertical section at C, D, Figure 4 of the appa-
ratus, set up without chimney, and also with cooking pots hanging thereupon.
Figure 3, a plan view taken at A, B, Figure 1, shewing the cooking pots, ovens,
or boilers set around the lower ring of the fire-cage, casing, or box; and
Figure 4, a top plan view of the apparatus, Figure 2, shewing the cooking pots,
ovens, or boilers set around the upper ring of the fire-cage, casing, or box.
E, F, indicates a pot or cooking apparatus detached.
G, H, the fire-cage, casing, or box with chimney and the cap or cover set up.
G, H, apparatus without chimney, and with lid or cover and handle.
I, D, hook for hauging pots, ovens, or boilers.
K. L. ioints.

page_text: The Figures 1, 2, 3, 4 are drawn to a scale of 0.10c to the metre, and the detached
parts to a scale 0.20° to the metre.
This apparatus may be constructed and arranged as follows:-
The fire-place may be made of sheet, wrought, or cast iron, earthenware, porcelain,
bricks, or other suitable material, and be of a cylindrical, square, oval, hexagonal,
or of any shape to which an apparatus of regular or irregular form may be applied.
It may also for facility of carriage be divided into two, three, four, five, or six parts,
joined-together when-set-up by hooks. or by tongue and groove or other slide. It
may even be made with hinges. The chimney for draught may be dispensed with,
and-be replaced by a conical lid or cover opening and closing at pleasure. The fire-
cage or box may also be composed of four pieces of sheet iron, with or without feet
to enter the ground and form a square by their juxtaposition; four pieces of per-
forated wrought or sheet iron form the grate, and accordingly as this is placed at
the bottom or over the fire-cage the pots are placed around or over the fire-cage.
The pots or boilers may be of tin, wrought iron, copper, or other suitable material,
and, like the fire-place, be of any shape. Set upon a carriage the apparatus may
serve as a portable camp kitchen for feeding great numbers.
The main feature of the Invention is the fire-cage, casing, or box applicable to
domestic, military, and other uses.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Edward Gedge in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th April 1879.
WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, London, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent. AN IMPROVED PORTABLE STOVE AND CAMP
COOKING APPARATUS." A communication from abroad by Pierre Domercq, of
Montpellier (Hérault), France, Manufacturer.
The accompanying Sheet of Drawing shows a portable stove and cooking appa-
ratus of this Invention,-
Figure 1 being an elevation. and vertical section taken at C', D', Figure 3, of
the apparatus, set up with a chimney, with cooking pots, boilers, or ovens hanging
thereupon.
Figure 2, an elevation and vertical section at C", D", Figure 4, of the apparatus,
set up without chimney, and also with cooking pots hanging thereupon.
Figure 3, a plan view taken at A, B, Figure 1, shewing the cooking pots, ovens,
or boilers set around the lower ring of the fire-cage, casing, or box; and
Figure 4, a top plan view of the apparatus, Figure 2, showing the cooking pots,
ovens, or boilers set around the upper ring of the fire-cage, casing, or box.
E, F, indicates a pot or cooking apparatus detached.
G, H, the fire-cage, casing, or box, with chimney and the cap or cover set up.
G, H, apparatus without chimney, and with lid or cover and handle.
I, D, hook for hanging pots, ovens, or boilers.
K, L, joints.
The Figures 1, 2, 3, 4 are drawn to a scale of 0.10° to the metre, and the detached
parts to a scale 0.20c to the metre.
This apparatus may be constructed and arranged as follows:-The fire-place may
be made of sheet, wrought, or cast-iron, carthenware, porcelain, bricks, or other
suitable material, and be of a cylindrical, square, oval, hexagonal, or of any shape
to which an apparatus of regular or irregular form may be applied. It may also
for facility of carriage be divided into two, three, four, five, or six parts joined
together when set up by hooks, or by tongue and groove or other slide. It may
even be made with hinges. The chimney for draught may be dispensed with, and
be replaced by a conical lid or cover, opening and closing at pleasure. The fire-
cage or box may also be composed of four pieces of sheet iron, with or without feet,
to enter the ground and form a square by their juxtaposition; four pieces of per-
forated wrought or sheet iron form the grate, and accordingly as this is placed at
the bottom or over the fire-cage the pots are placed around or over the fire-cage.
The pots or boilers may be of tin, wrought iron, copper, or other suitable material,
and, like the fire-place, be of any shape. Set upon a carriage the apparatus may
serve as a portable camp kitchen for feeding great numbers.
The main feature of the Invention is the fire-cage, casing, or box, applicable to
domestic, military, and other uses.
This apparatus offers numerous advantages:-
The parts of the fire-place forming grate with bars or holes necessitate in the
space between the cooking pots a certain current of air which, quickening combus-
tion, permits the boiling of water in less than eight minutes.
In the apparatuses with chimney and those with lid or cover the heat is concen-
trated, and the fuel may be economised in the first by lowering the top or cap, and
in the second by closing the lid or cover. Two men may carry the apparatus while
cooking is going on by simply passing a stick through the openings in the chimney
of the stove, shown Figure 1, and through the handle of that shown Figure 2. This
process is very useful in campaigning when the troops are obliged to suddenly
abandon their position.
Finally, the fire being completely concentrated in the cage, casing, or box, it
becomes entirely invisible, and as application of the fire-cage or box preference is

page_text: given as being more practicable to the stove with chimney or that with lid over
the other, that is to say, that with parts not joined.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of the Invention communicated
to me as aforesaid,—
I claim as secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent,—
The use of stoves and portable camp cooking apparatus constructed and combined
substantially as and for the purposes herein-before set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.
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