Improvements in or relating to Cooking Stoves.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Feb., 1895
'Complete Specification Left, 13th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 14th Dec.,
1895
Improvements in or relating to Cooking Stoves.
I, HOWARD MATRAVERS ASHLEY, of The Foundry, Ferrybridge, in the
County of York, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My invention relates to cooking stoves such as are employed in kitchens, and has
for its object to facilitate the conversion of the fire into an open or close fire, and
the baking, frying or other cooking of food. For this purpose the part of the top
plate which is over the fire is made moveable and has its back edge bevilled so as
to fit under a correspondingly bevilled front edge of the plate behind; also from
the underside of the movable plate there project two pairs of studs which rest on
inclined ledges formed at each side of the fire opening.
The front pair of studs, when the plate is in position covering the fire, are
engaged in front of shoulders of the ledges, thus holding the plate in position.
When it is desired to have the fire open, the front of the moveable plate is lifted a
little so as to disengage these studs, and then the plate is slid along the ledges under
the back plate. For various cooking purposes I employ in connection with cooking
stoves an appliance of the following kind. Two side frames, at a distance apart
about equal to the width of the fire front, are hooked or otherwise held in a
removeable manner to the front of the stove. The upper part of each frame has
through it an inclined slot in which can slide the fulcrum pin of a lever moving
outside the frame. The lower arms of these levers extend nearly vertically
downwards and are connected together by a cross rod a little above the floor, their
upper arms standing nearly vertically upwards. To the fulcrum pin of each lever
is jointed an arm inside the frame, and from the ends of these arms, which are
connected by a cross rod, is suspended an open tray, on which can be placed a grid,
a small oven, a pan or other cooking utensil. In one position of the parts, this tray
hangs in front of the fire; in another position by raising the arms from which it
hangs and moving them back along guides it is made to hang over the open fire, the
pins at the ends of the arms then resting on stops and bearing against the upper
arms of the outside levers which have been moved over to take nearly a horizontal
position. By moving these levers, the tray can be raised or lowered or moved
more or less off the fire to suit the cooking required.
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of Dah 1895
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE DIECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Cooking Stoves.
I, HOWARD MATRAVERS ASHLEY, of The Foundry, Ferrybridge, in the
County of York, Engineer, 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 relates to cooking stoves such as are employed in kitchens, and has
for its object to facilitate the conversion of the fire into an open or close fire.

page_text: For this purpose, I construct the top plate as shewn in the accompanying
drawing, which is a section taken from front to back. The front part B of the top
plate which is over the fire is made moveable and has its back edge bevilled so as
to fit under a correspondingly bevilled front edge of the fixed back plate A behind.
From the underside of the movable plate B there project two pairs of studs C and D,
one pair on each side, which rest on inclined ledges E formed at each side of the fire
opening.
The front pair of studs C, when the plate is in position covering the fire, are
engaged in front of shoulders F projecting from the ledges, thus holding the plate
in position. When it is desired to have the fire open, the front of the moveable
plate B is lifted a little so as to disengage the studs C and then the plate is slid
along the ledges under the back plate A so as to assume the position B' shewn in
dotted lines.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The construction of top plate of a cooking stove and ledges to support it,
substantially as described and shewn.
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