IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN OPEN AND CLOSED FIRE COOKING RANGE
Year: 1885

page_text: I GEORGE WILLIAM GROVE 73 Warwick Street of the Borough of Leamington
in the County of Warwick Kitchen Range Manufacturer do hereby declare the
nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN OPEN
AND CLOSED FIRE COOKING RANGE to be as follows:-
My Invention has for its object to provide means for converting ranges into
either open or closed ranges at pleasure which means are such that they are
economical in first cost, not liable to get out of order and easy of operation.
According to my Invention I provide a hood or its equivalent which is above the
level of the fire place of the range. In this hood or its equivalent is an opening
leading to the chimney and at the lower side of this opening is hinged or pivotted
a door or plate which on being pulled forward will turn upon its hinge or pivots
and rest by its own weight against the hood or its equivalent to close the opening
therein when the range will act as a close range and on the said door or plate
being pushed back it will rest by its own weight in its open position, the range
becomes an open range.
The hinge of the door or plate consists preforably of a groove or slot at the
lower side of the opening in the hood or the like in which the lower side of the
door or plate rests.

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I GEORGE WILLIAM GROVE of 73 Warwick Street, Leamington, Warwickshire,
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 :-
My Invention has for its object to provide means for converting ranges into
either open or closed ranges at pleasure which means are such that they are
economical in first cost, not liable to get out of order, and easy of operation.
According to my Invention I provide a hood or its equivalent which is above the
level of the fire place of the range-In this hood or its equivalent is an opening
leading to the chimney and at the lower side of this opening is hinged or pivotted
a door or plate which on being pulled forward will turn upon its hinge or pivots
and rest by its own weight against the hood or its equivalent to close the opening
therein when the range will act as a close range and on the said door or plate being
pushed back it will rest by its own weight in its open position, the range becomes
an open range.
The hinge of the door or plate consists preferably of a groove or slot at the lower
side of the opening in the hood or the like in which the lower side of the door or
plate rests.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood I shall now
proceed more particularly to describe the same and for that purpose shall refer to
the several figures on the annexed sheet of drawings the same letters of reference
indicating corresponding parts in all the figures.
Figure 1 of my drawings is a front elevation of the upper part of a kitchen range
fitted with my Improvements and Figure 2 is a vertical section of the same.
A is the hot plate of the range upon which plate and directly above the rear of
the opening a of the fire place b I arrange a hood B-This hood which may be either
tixed or movable is provided with an opening communicating with the chimney
but is fitted with a flap or door Chinged at its lower edge to or supported upon
lugs or projections d so as to be capable of being placed in the position shewn by
the full lines in figure 2 and thus cut off the connection with the chimney D (the
range acting then as a close range), or of being pushed back into the position shewn
by the dotted lines in Figure 2 so as to open a communication between the fire
place and the chimney and thus constitute an open range.
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
In combination with a range a hood or its equivalent with an opening therein
and a door or plate capable of being closed or opened as described and illustrated.
Dated this 31st day of October 1885.