IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHENERS
Year: 1884

page_text: EDWARD LLOYD 42 Blockhouse Street Canterbury Road Old Kent Road S.E.
Surrey Builder do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN KITCHENERS to be as follows:-
There are two flues leading out of the hot plate, thus avoiding the fire always
playing over the oven when not in use. They can be put in the openings that are
built, or being built, without the necessity of cutting away brickwork at the back,
or adding on brickwork in front, to make room for flues.
There are no flues formed in brickwork.
There are no soot doors required.
The whole working of the kitchener is comprised within the dimensions of the
hot plate.
I, EDWARD LLOYD of 42 Blockhouse Street Canterbury Road Old Kent Road
Surrey Builder, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN KITCHENERS 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 an improved construction of kitchener, whereby the
formation of flues in the brick work at the back is dispensed with the communication
with the chimney being established by means of two metal flues, one leading from
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page_text: a hole in the hot plate directly above the fire and the other from a second hole in
the hot plate above a flue formed in the kitchener itself at the back of the oven,
within the depth of the hot plate, the oven being stopped short some distance from
the back of the hot plate for this purpose.
The construction of the improved kitchener will be readily understood from the
accompanying Drawings, in which Fig. 1 shews a perspective view of the kitchener,
Fig. 2 a longitudinal section and Fig. 3 a cross section. The oven a is stopped short
a sufficient distance from the back of the hot plate, to form a flue b, between it and
the brickwork at the back, and an opening c is formed in the hot plate over the top
of this flue, on to which is fitted a loose metal flue d d reaching up into the plate e
that encloses the chimney. A similar flue ff' is fitted over an opening g formed in
the hot plate directly over the back of the fire. Both flues are provided with
dampers or throttle valves h h so that by closing the valve h¹, the entire draught
can be made to pass directly from the fire through the flue ff' up the chimney
without playing round the oven, when this does not require to be used, or the
entire draught can be made to pass round the oven by closing the valve h
and opening h¹. In this case, the direction of the draught is as indicated by the
arrows Figs. 2 and 3, the flames being made to pass from the fire first through the
space over the top of the oven, which is separated by a partition j from the back
flue b, then down through the space k, at the side of the oven, which is also
separated by a partition from the flue b thence through opening k into the space l
below the oven and lastly through the opening into the flue b.
It will be seen from the above arrangement that the formation of flues with
dampers in the brickwork, is entirely avoided, thus greatly simplifying and
cheapening the setting of the kitchener, which is thereby rendered capable of
being fitted into the openings built for ordinary kitchen ranges. The parts d'
and of the flues are made separable from the parts d and f resting loosely on a
bead on the latter, so that by pushing up the parts d¹ and f¹, the parts d and ƒ can
be removed and access can then be gained to the flue b for clearing it of soot.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of iny Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed; I declare that what I claim is :-
Constructing kitcheners with two metal flues & d' and ff' having dampers or
throttle valves h h¹, the one flue leading from an aperture in the hot plate over the
fire, and the other from an aperture in the hot plate over a flue b formed in the
depth of the hot plate at the back of the oven, substantially as and for the purpose
described.
Dated this 16th day of June 1884.