IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO COOKING KITCHEN AND HEATING RANGES, STOVES OR GRATES
Year: 1884

page_text: I WILLIAM RUSSELL of the firm of W. & A. C. Russell & Co of Scotia Foundry
Pendleton, near Manchester in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the
nature of said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO COOKING
KITCHEN AND HEATING RANGES, STOVES OR GRATES to be as follows:-
My invention refers to cooking kitchen and heating ranges stoves or grates
heated by coal or other solid fuel or partly by solid and partly by gas fuel and
consists in combining with such ranges an oven for grilling by gas-such oven being
by preference arranged above and over the ordinary fire place so that its bottom
will be about on a level with the ordinary hob or plate shelf..
The gas burner is of ordinary construction and is arranged to grill, toast or heat
by downward action that is, the meat or food to be cooked is placed on a grid or
shelf under the gas flame which acts downward.
With the oven thus arranged the progress of the cooking can be conveniently
observed.
I also combine with the above described gas grilling oven, a boiler for heating
water for bath or other domestic uses-The heat from the grilling burner will
ascend and acts under the bottom of a boiler and then passes or may pass through
flue tubes or spaces in the boiler to the chimney flue-Inlet and outlet pipes for
the water are connected with this boiler and with the ordinary boiler heated by
the solid fuel.
The pipes from the gas heated boiler may pass into the ordinary boiler, or be
connected with the pipes leading to and from it.
A separate gas burner independent of the grilling burner is or may also be used
if desired to heat the supplementary boiler.
In some cases the supplementary boiler is or may be placed under one of the
lower ovens of the kitchen or cooking range or in any other convenient position
and heated by gas and connected with the ordinary boiler heated by solid fuel.
In ranges thus combined according to my invention the boiler can be heated
independently of the solid fuel, or additional heat can be conveniently imparted
when required; and in frosty weather the pipes can be prevented from being
frozen when the solid fuel fire goes out by keeping the gas for the supplementary
boiler burning and this will prevent accidents caused by the-bursting of pipes
which have become frozen.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I WILLIAM RUSSELL of the firm of W & A. C. Russell & Co of Scotia Foundry,
Pendleton, near Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the
nature of said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO COOKING
KITCHEN AND HEATING RANGES STOVES OR GRATES, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :—
My invention refers to cooking kitchen and heating ranges stoves or grates
heated by coal or other solid fuel or partly by solid and partly by gas fuel and
consists in combining with such ranges an oven for grilling by gas, such oven being
by preference arranged above and over the ordinary fire place so that its bottom
will be about on a level with the ordinary hob or plate shelf.
The gas burner is of ordinary construction that is made to burn gas alone or gas
and air combined and is arranged to grill, toast or heat by downward action, that
is, the meat or food to be cooked is placed on a grid or shelf under the gas flame
which acts downward.
With the oven thus arranged the progress of the cooking can be conveniently
observed.
I also combine with the above described gas grilling oven, a boiler for heating
water for bath or other domestic uses-The heat from the grilling burner will
ascend and acts under the bottom of a boiler and then passes or may pass through
flue tubes or spaces in or around the boiler to the chimney flue-Inlet and outlet
pipes for the water are connected with this boiler and with the ordinary boiler
heated by the solid fuel.
The pipes from the gas heated boiler may pass into the ordinary boiler, or
be connected with the pipes leading to and from it.
A separate gas burner acting independent of the grilling burner is or may also
be used if desired to heat the supplementary or auxiliary boiler.
In some cases the supplementary boiler is or may be placed under one of the
lower ovens of the kitchen or cooking range or in any other convenient position
and heated by gas and connected with the ordinary boiler heated by solid fuel-Or
by another modification one boiler is or may be arranged to be heated by gas or by
Bolid fuel or both combined.
In ranges thus combined according to my invention the boiler can be heated
independently of the solid fuel, or additional heat can be conveniently imparted
when required; and in frosty weather the pipes can be prevented from being
frozen when the solid fuel firo goes out by keeping the gas for the boiler burning
and this will prevent accidents caused by the bursting of pipes which have become
frozen.
Fig 1 is a front elevation in section showing some of the positions and forms of
my improvements and the manner of applying and combining the same with
Ranges or Stoves heated by coal fire or other solid fuel.
Fig 2 is a sectional elevation taken on the line A-B fig 1.
Fig 3 is a sectional elevation taken on the line C-D fig 1.
The figures above referred to illustrate modes of carrying my invention into

page_text: In fig 1, I have shown the most convenient position for the special warming
oven, or compartment a, over the ordinary fire, or in the upper part of the Range
opening.
b and is a convenient form of burner for warming the oven a-The burner
has metal plates placed so as to cause the flame and heat from the burner to flow
or spread along the under surface beating the plates, and throwing the heat down.
wards for cooking and warming below the flame, the heat afterwards rising so as
to heat the bottom of the boiler and after traversing under its surface is then led
into flues formed either through the boiler (by tubes passing through it) or around
it. Brick or other material may be used for deflecting the heat instead of metal
plates.
c the auxiliary or gas heated boiler which may be of any other convenient form.
c' the flue tubes through which the heat may be led if required.
d is the overflow and d¹ the return or inflow circulating pipes, which join the
circulating pipes & and d' which are connected with the ordinary coal fire boiler c.
b and b is a double gas burner supplied by gas from two separate branch
pipes ban b³ each having a separate tap.
The upper burner b', can be used alone burning upwards to act for heating the
boiler when in use for quick beating or giving additional heat as desired.
These burners may be of any other suitable form and may be placed separately
and in different positions if desired, the essential point being to heat the boiler
efficiently by gas.
e is the ordinary boiler of the range heated by coal or other solid fuel.
The boiler shown is of, and know as, the L shaped boiler, but may be made in
various forms to suit different requirements, and may be for acting under low or
high pressure.
The L boiler is however most convenient where the other fittings and arrange-
ments admit of its use, and is shown as a combined gas and coal heated boiler e
and el.
By this arrangement a separate and independent auxiliary boiler may be
dispensed with and the one boiler be heated either with the coal fire alone or with
gas alone, or with both combined, each thus heating the boiler at different points
yet acting separately or independently of each other.
The ordinary coal fire acts on the front of the boiler (e) beating its sides, the heat
passing around and under the bottom and then escapes to the flue.
The part e' is formed at or about a right angle to the front of the boiler e, and
extends to nearly the front of the range.
Under the side part e¹ of the boiler I place a burner ƒ of any convenient shape,
the gas heat after warming the bottom of this portion e¹ of the boiler is made to
pass up round the sides by flues and then escapes into the chimney.
g is the auxiliary boiler when placed under one of the lower ovens of the range
and beneath it, which chamber heated by deflected heat or by heat from suitable
burners of straight, circular, or other suitable construction. The gas heat first
acts upon the bottom then upon the sides and passes over the top to the flue-or it
may pass directly along the bottom into the flues, or through tubes or passages
formed in or through the boiler itself.
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 combination with cooking kitchen or heating ranges, stoves or grates
which are heated by coal or other solid fuel, of an auxiliary boiler heated by gas
placed in the upper or other convenient part of the Range or stove openings
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawings.
2. The combination with cooking kitchen or heating ranges, stoves, or grates,
heated by coal or other solid fuel, of an auxiliary boiler heated by gas, the
circulating pipes from which are combined or connected with those of the ordinary

page_text: boiler of the Range heated by solid fuel substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the drawings.
3. In cooking kitchen or heating ranges, stoves, or grates, heated by coal or
other solid fuel, the combination therewith of a gas heated cooking warming or
grilling oven, and an auxiliary boiler substantially as herein before described and
illustrated by the drawings.
4. In cooking kitchen or heating Ranges, stoves, or grates heated by coal or other
solid fuel, the combination therewith of a boiler arranged to be simultaneously
heated by gas or solid fuel or either of them separately substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated by the drawings.