IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Quin Beck, of the Firm of James Meharg & Co.,
of Belfast, in the County of Antrim, Manufacturers, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES."-A communication from abroad by James
Cherry, of Vermont, U.S.
Sealed the 13th October 1859, and dated the 20th April 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Quin Beck at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 20th April
1859.
I, QUIN BECK, of the Firm of James Meharg & Co., of Belfast, in the
County of Antrim, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOVES," (communicated to me from abroad
by James Cherry, of Vermont, U.S.,) to be as follows :--
This Invention consists in constructing stoves with tops or covers capable
of being revolved, in order to expose pots, pans, or other vessels placed in
apertures in the covers immediately to and over the fire, or to remove them
to a part of the stove where they will be exposed to less heat.
The Invention also consists in constructing the covers of two thicknesses
of metal, with a space between the thicknesses, in order to prevent their too
rapid wear. On and round the edge of the under side of the cover is a rack,
into which a pinion gears. This pinion is fixed at a convenient part of the
stove, and is fitted with a crank handle, in order to communicate motion
through it to the cover.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Quin Beck in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th
October 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, QUIN BECK,
of the Firm of James Meharg & Co., of Belfast, in the County of Antrim,
Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Quin Beck, Her special licence that I, the said Quin Beck, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Quin
Beck, 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
STOVES," (communicated to me from abroad by James Cherry, of Vermont,
U.S.,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Quin Beck, 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 Quin Beck, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
'statement thereof, referénce being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed,
that is to say-
This Invention consists in constructing stoves with tops or covers capable of
being revolved, in order to expose pots, pans, or other vessels placed in
apertures in the covers immediately to and over the fire, or to remove them
to a part of the stove where they will be exposed to less heat.
The Invention also consists in constructing the covers of two thicknesses of
metal, with a space between the thicknesses, in order to prevent their too
rapid wear. On and round the edge of the under side of the cover is a rack
into which a pinion gears. This pinion is fixed at a convenient part of the

page_text: stove, and is fitted with a crank handle in order to communicate motion
through it to the cover.
In the accompanying Drawing I have represented a stove constructed
according to this Invention. The top or cover is made of two thicknesses of
metal, A and B, with a space between them to prevent their too rapid wear;
C, C, are apertures in the top or cover for the reception of pots, pans, and
other vessels, the contents of which are required to be heated; D, D, is a
rack passing round the edge of the under side of the top or cover, and E is
a pinion in gear with the rack, and fitted with a crank handle F, the turning
of which will communicate motion through the rack and pinion to the top or
cover. In this manner vessels on the top or cover can be moved about as
desired.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
First, constructing stoves with tops or covers capable of being revolved, in
order to expose pots, pans, and other vessels placed in apertures therein
immediately over the fire, or to remove them to a part of the stove where they
will be exposed to less heat.
Second, constructing the tops or covers of stoves of two thicknesses of
metal, with a space between the thicknesses as herein-before described.
Third, the employment of a rack and pinion fitted with a crank handle for
communicating rotary motion to the cover, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Quin Beck, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of October, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-nine.
QUIN BECK. (L.S.)