A CERTAIN PORTABLE STOVE OR KITCHEN FOR THE PURPOSE OF DRESSING VICTUALS
Year: 1802

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
BODLEY, of Exeter, in the County of Devon, Iron Founder, send greeting.
. WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of His United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland; bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-seventh day of February,
in the forty-second year of His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said George Bodley, His special licence that I, the
said George Bodley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I; the said George Bodley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no other, from time to time and at all times during the
terin of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called
England, His said Majesty's Dominion of Wales, and the Town of Berwick
upon Tweed, my Invention of "A CERTAIN PORTABLE STOVE OR KITCHEN FOR THE
PURPOSE OF DRESSING VICTUALS;" in which said Letters Patent there is con-
tained a proviso obliging me, the said George Bodley, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature
of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to
cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within one calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the saine, reference being thereunto had; will more
fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said George
Bodley, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention consists in the mode
of constructing the portable stove or kitchen, and the manner of communicating
the heat to the oven and fountain, or hot closet, and that my said Invention, together
with the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in and by the several Plans or Drawings hereunto annexed,
marked respectively Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, Figure 4, and the several
explanations or descriptions thereof herein-after mentioned and referring
thereto, that is to say:-
Figure 1 represents the view and external parts of a portable stove or
kitchen, which may be placed, as shewn, in a chimney. M, M, M, represent
the mantle and jambs of the chimney; A, A, A, the front of the stove; B, B,
the top of the stove, forming a hot plate; C, the door of the oven; D, blank
door before a fountain or space for a hot closet; E, top of the fountain
or hot closet; F, the cock of the fountain; G, the fire-place; H, the door for
introducing the fuel; J, the ash hole; K,, the cover of the fire-place; L, L, L,
holes with plates fitted to clean the flue. Figure 2 represents the internal parts
of a portable stove or kitchen. A, the oven; B, the hot closet or space for the
fountain, to which steamiers may with great advantage be applied at discretion;
C. the fire-place; D, the ash hole; E, E, the sides of the fire-place and ash
hole; F, F, F, F, the course or direction of the smoak and heat in the fluc,
which ascending from the fire passes over the oven, descends by its outer side,
returns under the oven, the ash hole and fountain or hot closet, and ascends on
the outer side of the latter through the upper part of the flue F into the chimney.
Figure 3 represents the front and external parts of the stove without a fountain
or hot closet. A, A, the front; B, B, the top, forming a hot plate; C, the door
of the oven; D, the fire-place; E, the door for introducing the fuel; F, the
ash hole; G, the cover of the fire-place; H, H, H, places for cleaning the flue.
Figure 4 represents the internal parts of Figure 3. A, the oven; B, the fire-
place; C, the ash hole; D, D, the sides of the fire-place and ash hole;
E, E, E, E, the course and direction of the smoak and heat through the fluc,
by means of which the whole heat is conveyed, with the greatest advantage, in
a single stream round the oven and fountain, or hot closet, as represented in
Figure 2, or round the oven and under the ash hole, ascending through the upper
part of the flue E into the chimney, as represented in Figure 4. The course of
this flue may be reversed, as will appear by comparing Figure 2 with Figure 4,
the construction of some chimnies requiring such change of position. This
portable stove or kitchen is made of cast iron plates, fixed together with wrought
iron screws, or any other convenient fastenings, or it may be made wholly of