AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGE- MENT OF DOMESTIC COOKING RANGE OR STOVE APPLICABLE TO THE PRESENT CON- STRUCTED KITCHEN OR COTTAGE RANGES
Year: 1873

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Foster and John Henry
Foster at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 16th April 1873.
We, JAMES FOSTER and JOHN HENRY FOSTER, Pattern Makers, of
Eagle Works, Halifax, in the County of York, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION AND ARRANGE-
MENT OF DOMESTIC COOKING RANGE OR STOVE APPLICABLE TO THE PRESENT CON-
STRUCTED KITCHEN OR COTTAGE RANGES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to kitchen or cooking stoves and has for its
object the economizing of fuel and effecting a better radiation of heat
than is at present obtained, and which Invention we shall designate
by the name of "The Favourite." And the improvements consist in
arranging and constructing the grate or portion which contains the fire
so that it extends further into the room, and we construct this grate so
that the "ribs" or bars are on each side as well as the front; and on each
side we have a plate to which the fire-grate is secured, and which plates
extend to the floor, and we arrange them so that there is a space betwixt
them and the side ribs or bars of the fire-grate, and in the portion which
is immediately opposite to the fire we have an ornamental perforation or

page_text: grating whereby the atmospheric air enters and the fire is visible. In
the back of the grate we have a light frame to which the side plates are
secured and against which a fire-brick is placed in such manner that it
does not impede the passage of the smoke and gaseous matter to the box
flue hereafter described. We construct a cast-iron box flue across the
place where the present fire range or grate is fixed, extending to the
brickwork at the back with a space on each side of it, and underneath
this flue we form a partition to separate the oven and boiler grates, and
we arrange two swing dampers one on the oven side, and one on the
boiler side, whereby we can regulate the heat and flame to each as
required; this box flue we cast open at the top, and we have a plate,
which plate forms the top of the stove and which extends from the back
over the projecting range in front, and in this plate is made two holes
for the purpose of heating anything required; immediately behind these
holes and over the flue box is another larger hole for the same purpose.
To each of these holes we have lids or covers when the same are not
required for heating purposes. On each side of the large hole in the top
plate we make a square hole or opening for feeding the oven and boiler
with fuel in case sufficient heat was not obtained from the projecting
grate and flue; these holes we also provide with lids or covers. We
construct a short vertical flue or pipe in the back part of the box flue on
the top plate for the smoke and gaseous matter to escape, and in front of
this pipe is a plate extending between the oven and boiler, and which
we construct about sixteen inches high from the top plate; in this plate
we provide a slot hole for a damper to slide in horizontally over the top
of the vertical pipe, whereby we can regulate the draught at pleasure.
And we may arrange a plate to extend from the said plate against the
"mantle" at the front, and so prevent the heat from passing away up
the chimney, small openings or apertures being provided at each side for
the steam arising from cooking to pass away.