IMPROVE- MENTS IN COOKING AND LAUNDRY RANGES OR STOVES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Hodges, of Westmoreland Street, in the
City of Dublin, Stove Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN COOKING AND LAUNDRY RANGES OR STOVES."
Sealed the 16th February 1872, and dated the 18th August 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Hodges at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th August 1871.
:
I, JOHN HODGES, of Westmoreland Street, in the City of Dublin,
Stove Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COOKING AND LAUNDRY RANGES OR STOVES," to be as
follows:-
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This Invention relates to a peculiar construction and arrangement of
heating appliances suitable as cooking ranges and as laundry stoves,
whilst such appliances are self-contained so as to be capable of standing
like a table independently in the centre or other convenient part of the
floor of a kitchen or laundry, in lieu of being erected in the wall under-
neath a chimney, by which improved arrangement more convenient
1.

page_text: access is afforded to all parts of the range or stove with increased light
and air.
The external casing of the apparatus may be of any convenient form,
and of about the height of an ordinary table, the top of the apparatus
serving to contain the various cooking utensils required, or the irons to
be heated, as the case may be.
The improved table range is heated by a close fire, the flue of which
conveys the requisite heat to the usual hot plate, ovens, and roaster, and
also applies heat direct to the flues of one or more copper boiling vessels
set in the body of the range or stove, or to the heating of circulating
boilers and steam generators in connection therewith. In a laundry
stove the surplus heat from the close fire over and above that required
for heating the hot plate is applied to heating a circulating boiler,
copper, clothes boiler, and hot closet, by causing the flue to circulate
round those combined appliances before passing to the chimney, hence ]
economising heat. The products of combustion pass away from the
range or stove by a descending flue which is sunk beneath the floor,
and communicates with the usual chimney, any remaining caloric being.
there utilized by circulating round an iron hot closet for plates, dishes,
and the like.
2
Each portion of the cooking range, that is to say, oven, roaster,
circulating boiler, or any one of a number of copper boiling vessels, may
be worked alone, only consuming fuel in proportion to the amount
required for that separate part of the range in use. This is effected by
a series of separate dampers and descending flues, the opening of any. 2
one of these flues by the damper causing the direct action of the part
connected therewith, delivering waste of heat into main descending flue,
all other portions of the range remaining inoperative.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Hodges in the Great Seal Patent Office on 8
the 17th February 1872.
:
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HODGES, of Westmoreland Strect, in the City of Dublin, Stove Manu-
facturer, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Hodges, Her special license that
I, the said John Hodges, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said John Hodges, my executors, administrators,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COOKING AND LAUNDRY
RANGES OR STOVES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said John Hodges, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
samo was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Hodges, 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, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings
and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :—
My said Invention relates to certain peculiar arrangements of the
various parts and dampers of those ranges or stoves which are intended
to stand like a table independently in the centre or other convenient
part of the floor of a kitchen or laundry, in lieu of being erected in
the wall underneath a chimney, whereby in addition to obtaining
convenient access to all parts of the range or stove with increased light
and air, I effect a considerable economy of fuel, as will be herein-after
explained.
The external casing of the range or stove may be of any convenient
form, and of about the height of an ordinary table, the top plate thereof
serving to contain the various cooking utensils required, or the irons to
be heated (if for a laundry).
This improved table range is heated by a close fire, the flue of which
conveys the requisite heat to the usual hot plate, ovens, and roaster, and

page_text: also applies heat direct to the flues of one or more copper boiling vessels
set in the body of the range or stove, or to the heating of circulating
boilers and steam generators in connection therewith. In a laundry
stove the surplus heat from the close fire over and above that required
for heating the hot plate is applied to heating a circulating boiler,
copper, clothes boiler, and hot closet by causing the flue to circulate
round those combined appliances before passing to the chimney, hence
economising heat. The products of combustion pass away from the
range or stove by a descending flue which is sunk beneath the floor,
and which communicates with the usual chimney, any remaining caloric
-being there utilized by circulating round an iron hot closet for plates,
dishes, and the like.
Each portion of the cooking range, that is to say, oven, roaster,
circulating boiler, or any one of a number of copper boiling vessels,.
may be worked alone, only consuming fuel in proportion to the amount
required for that separate part of the range in use. This is effected by
a series of separate dampers and descending flues, the opening of any
one of these flues by the damper causing the direct action of the part
connected therewith, delivering waste of heat into main descending fluo,
all other portions of the range remaining inoperative.
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 represents a perspective view of a cooking
table range constructed according to my Invention; Figure 2 is a hori-
zontal section of the same; Figure 3 is a vertical section taken along
the line 1, 2, 3, in Figure 2; Figure 4 is a similar section taken along
the bent line 3, 2, 4 (Figuro 2); and Figure 5 is a transverse vertical
section taken along the line 5, 6, Figure 2.
A is the surface or hot plate of the stove or range, and B the close
fire, from which ramify the several flues C, C¹, D, E, E', all of which com-
municate by descending flues or passages with the one common sunk
flue F (shewn in dotted lines in Figure 2), which conducts the other-
wise waste heat round a hot closet G before it finally passes into the
ordinary chimney. The flues C, C³, of which there may be two or more,
serve to heat the ovens or oven and roaster H, H', and are each provided

page_text: with a damper c, c², by closing which the draught may be shut off from
either one or both the ovens, as shewn clearly in Figure 5, and directed
along one or other of the remaining flues. The flue D conducts the
heat direct to the wrought-iron boiler I, and is provided with a damper d
(see Figure 3), which is capable of shutting off the draught from the said
boiler flue. The two lateral diverging flues E, E', conduct the heat to
the circular boiling vessels K, K³, of copper or other suitable material,
which pass through holes in the top plate of the range, the said flues
being provided with dampers e, e', by closing which the draught may bo
shut off from either or both the boiling vessels, and directed along one
or more of the other flues. It will thus be seen that by the system of
flues and dampers above described the whole of the draught may bo
directed to any one of the various apparatus if required, and that the
amount of fuel consumed need never be more than is required for the
particular apparatus to be heated. By closing some of the dampers only
two or more apparatus may be heated, and by having them all open
the entire series will be in operation, the amount of fuel consumed being
in all cases proportionate to the work to be done.
Figure 6 represents a longitudinal vertical section of a laundry stove
constructed according to my Invention, and Figure 7 is a horizontal
section of the same. In this stove there are combined an ironing stove
or heater A for smoothing irons, a hot water circulating boiler I, and a
copper clothes boiler K, all heated from one fire B, the otherwise wasto
heat from which may pass down the external descending flue L, or down
the internal descending flue Q to a flue R, which conducts it, as herein-
before described, to a series of flues for heating a closet fitted with
clothes horses for drying before entering the chimney. The fluc M
which passes immediately under the copper K is closed by the damper m
when not required for use, in which case the whole of the draught
passes along the lower flue N to the chimney. O is an ascending pipe
or flue for conveying a portion of the heat into an upper drying story
when required, a damper o being fitted into the flue O for the purposo
of cutting off the hot air therefrom when not required for use; Z is a
throttle valve or regulator in the descending flue L; S is a damper in
the descending flue Q for the purpose of regulating the general draught
of the stove; P, P', are the hot water circulating pipes in connection with
the circulating boiler I; and p is a cock fitted to the ascending pipe P¹
for supplying the copper K with hot water; 9 and r, Figure 7, are cocks
for drawing off water from the boiler I and copper K respectively.

page_text: Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or
carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider
to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to
mo by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,―
First. The combination in a range with descending flue adapted for
use in the centre of an apartment of a hot plate, oven, roaster, copper
boiling vessels, and steam generator, all heated by a ramification of
flues from one fire, each flue being provided with a separate damper in
order that the draught may be directed under or around any one or more ]
of the said apparatus (while the heat may be excluded from the others),
and finally round a hot closet before entering the chimney, substantially
as herein-before described.
Second. The combination in a laundry stove with descending flue of
a hot plate, a circulating boiler, and a clothes boiler, all heated from ]
one fire, the otherwise waste heat of which is conveyed into a drying
storey or into a hot closet before entering the chimney, substantially as
hercin-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Hodges, have to this my.
Specification set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of 2
February One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.