IMPROVEMENTS IN RANGE OVENS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Goffe Clarke, of Brackley, in the County of
Northampton, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN RANGE OVENS."
Sealed the 24th July 1866, and dated the 10th February 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Goffe Clarke at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th February 1866.
I, John Goffe CLARKE, of Brackley, in the County of Northampton, do
|hereby-duvlaro- the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
RANGE OVENS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in range ovens. In heating
an oven constructed at the side of the fire of a kitchen range where the
products of combustion pass to and around the oven at the side it is found
that soot collects below the oven, and it is usual to have a door below the
oven, in order by a brush or raker to cleanse the flue or space below the oven,
which is very inconvenient. Now, according to the present Invention, there
is a flat draw plate below the oven, on to which the soot is received, and below
such plate is a drawer, by which arrangement on drawing out the flat plate
from below the oven the soot is scraped off therefrom by coming in contact
with the oven front, and it descends into the drawer below, from which it is
readily removed.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Goffe Clarke in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
10th August 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
GoFFE CLARKE, of Brackley, in the County of Northampton, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Goffe Clarke, Her special licence that I, the said John
Goffe Clarke, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as 1, the said John Goffe Clarke, my executors, administrators, and
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 RANGE OVENS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said John Goffe Clarke, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same 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 Goffe Clarke, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what
the own.
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof (that is to say):-
In
This Invention has for its object improvements in range ovens.
beating an oven constructed at the side of the fire of a kitchen range
where the products of combustion pass to and around the oven at the side
it is found that soot collects below the oven, and it is usual to have a door
below the oven, in order by a brush or raker to cleanse the flue or space
below the oven, which is very inconvenient. Now, according to the present
Invention, there is a flat draw plate below the oven, on to which the soot is
received, and below such plate is a drawer, by which arrangement on drawing
out the flat plate from below the oven the soot is scraped off therefrom by
coming in contact with the oven front, and descends into the drawer. below,
from which it is readily removed.

page_text: And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto
annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a front view, and Figure 2 a transverse section of a range
oven arranged according to this Invention.
a, a, is the baking chamber surrounded on all sides, the front excepted,
with flues b, b; c is a plate which forms the bottom of the lower flue, it is
made to slide in and out through the front plate of the oven; d is a drawer
to receive the soot which is removed from the surface of the plate c in the
act of drawing it out, the front plate of the oven acting as a scraper. It is
preferred to use the plate c and drawer d in combination, they are, however,
capable of being applied separately.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Goffe Clarke, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventh day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
JOHN GOFFE CLARKE.
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