IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN RANGES
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Apr., 1887
Complete Left, 23rd Dec., 1887
Complete Accepted, 27th Jan., 1888
I, JOHN THOMPSON of Kendal in the County of Westmorland Architect, do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN RANGES to be
as follows:
The construction or combination of a Kitchen Range, complete with Oven, L, hob,
or high pressure boiler and with or without hot plate & plate Rack, and a Sitting Room
Fire Grate in a partition wall between two rooms (such as a Sitting Room & a back
kitchen) so that a coal fire burning in the grate of the Sitting Room will heat the
Range in the back or other Kitchen, so as to admit of the household cooking being
carried on in such Kitchen and also admit of a supply of hot water being obtained
without an additional Fire. The combination is applicable to either Ranges & Fire
Grates as at present supplied (and which can be easily adapted to this invention)
or for specially constructed Ranges & Fire Grates &c.

page_text: A Combined Open Fire-place and Kitchen Range.
I, JOHN THOMPSON of 8 Lowther Street, Kendal, in the County of Westmorland,
Architect, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
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The object of my invention is to fit stoves, or open fire places in the division
walls between parlors or living rooms and adjacent kitchens or other places adapted
to the purpose of cooking, in such a manner that the radiant heat arising from the
combustion of the fuel may be utilized in warming the living room, while the heat
arising from conduction is, at the same time utilised in the adjoining apartment for
cooking and other culinary purposes.
The fire place in the living room may be of any ordinary construction, so far as
relates to its external appearance, but the back of the fire place (and sometimes also
the sides) consists of some portion of the kitchen range or boiler (which may be
hidden from view with fire tiles or brick work); and the heated gases are carried
into, around, below, and above the several parts of the kitchen range, by means of
suitably arranged flues, fitted with dampers, and other adjuncts as may be required,
in order to utilise the heat in an economical manner. The flues may be arranged to
carry the spent gases back to the chimney of the living room, or to any other
convenient flue or chimney.
The range is constructed so that all the doors, boiler taps, and damper handles are
accessible from the kitchen, and all operations in relation thereto may be carried on
therein; care being taken in the construction of the range and fixing the same, to
prevent the access of effluvia to the sitting room.
And in order that my said invention may be particularly described and ascertained
reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of
reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a horizontal section and Fig. 2 a vertical section, shewing one method of
applying my invention.
a is the firegrate in the sitting room g. bis the flue leading from the grate a to
the hot plate c in the kitchen f. d is an oven. i is a flue leading from the hot plate
and the boiler to the main flue, which is available when the oven d is not in use, and
which may be closed with a damper at other times; e is the division wall, between
the sitting room and the kitchen, and is the main flue, into which all the other flues
lead. is an ordinary register door; which is chiefly useful to prevent down-
draught when no fire is being used.
The flue may be made at the back, as shewn, or at the side, and the oven may be
either above the hot plate or below, or on the level of the floor, or two ovens may be
arranged as in a kitchener with a hot plate above them.
I do not confine myself to any particular kind of stoves and ranges, as it is
obvious that the same may be very much varied in form and details of construction.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The method and means of utilizing the spare heat from the fire in a sitting or
other room adjoining the kitchen, substantially as herein before described and
illustrated on the drawings.
2. The general construction, arrangement and combination of parts, together
constituting my invention of a combined open fire place and kitchen range, substan-
tially as herein before described and shewn on the drawings.
GEO. DOWNING,
Agent for Applicant.