IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN RANGES, FIRE-GRATES, AND OTHER STOVES." ,
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Wood, of Bradford, in the County of
York, Ironmonger, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN
RANGES, FIRE-GRATES, AND OTHER STOVES."
RANGES, FIRE-GRATES, AND OTHER STOVES."
Scaled the 25th September 1874, and dated the 28th March 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Wood at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
28th March 1874.
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I, JOSEPH WOOD, of Bradford, in the County of York, Ironmonger,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN KITCHEN RANGES, FIRE-GRATES, AND OTHER STOVES," to be as follows:
: My Invention relates to certain improvements in the arrangement of
kitchen ranges, whereby coal is economized, and better results obtained
in cooking, baking, and boiling than in any fire-grate hitherto made;
and consists of an open barred fire-place of limited arcà standing out
from the face of oven and boiler; over which is a plate called the hot

page_text: hearth with the usual covered openings for various sized pans. On the
under side of this plate is cast partitions by which the smoke and gases
given off from the live coal or coke fire is consumed, and the heat from
combustion is thrown forward into the room. Right and left of tho
fire are two sliding end plates in horizontal position, by means of which
licat is conveyed to the wrought-iron oven on one side, and the hot
hearth or boiler on the other.
Over the bars a hinged door is placed for feeding the fire, so that it is
not necessary to remove the pans upon the hot hearth when so doing.
Underneath the fire is a grid, which can be drawn out for cooking
purposes. The oven is of wrought iron having the ordinary cast-iron
door front; the flues pass on all sides, that is to say, up the sides and
underneath and over the top. Hot air only is allowed to come in
_contact with the sheeting of the oven, thus preventing the possibility of
burning away.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Wood in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 28th September 1874. .
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
WOOD, of Bradford, in the County of York, Ironmonger, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Lettors
Patent bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Wood, Her special licence that
I, the said Joseph Wood, my exccutors, administrators, and assigns,.or
such others as I, the said Joseph Wood, 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 thercin
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, excrcise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN
RANGES, FIRE-GRATES, AND OTHER STOVES," upon the condition (amongst

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others) that I, the said Joseph Wood, 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 Joseph Wood; do hereby declaro the
nature of my said 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 certain improvements in the arrangement of
kitchen ranges, whereby coal is economized, and better results obtained
in cooking, baking, and boiling than in any fire-grate hitherto made;
and consists of an open_barred fire-place of limited area standing out
from the face of oven and boiler, over which is a plate called the hot
hearth with the usual covered openings for various sized pans. On the
under side of this plate are cast partitions by which the smoke and
gases given off from the live coal or coke fire is consumed, and the heat
from combustion is thrown forward into the room. Right and left of
the fire are two sliding cnd plates in horizontal position, by means of
which heat is conveyed to the wrought-iron oven on one side, and the
hot hearth or boiler on the other.
Over the bars a hinged door is placed for feeding the fire, so that it iš
not necessary to remove the pans upon the hot hearth when so doing.
Underneath the fire is a grid, which can be drawn out for cooking
purposes. The oven is of wrought iron, having the ordinary cast-iron
door front; the flues pass on all sides, that is to say, up the sides and
underneath, and over the top. Hot air only is allowed to come in
contact with the sheeting of the oven, thus preventing the possibility of
burning away.
I will now proceed to describe the accompanying Drawings, in which
like parts are indicated by like letters and figures:
Fig. 1 is a front eleve-ation of my improved kitchen range; Fig. 2 is a
plan of the same shewing projection of fire-place and covered openings!
in hot hearth over fire and small oven; Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section

page_text: of the same through line A, B, showing direction of flues and boiler;
Fig. 4 is a cross section of the same through line C, D, shewing fire-bars
and boiler; Fig. 5 is an inverted plan of the hot hearth shewn in eleva
tion at h, h, in Fig. 3.
Fig. 1, A, A, A, is the front plate to which is secured in the ordinary
way oven and flue doors, dampers, and fire-bars. B, B, are the fire-bars
standing out from the front plate A, A, A, over which is placed a hot
hearth plate H, P, shewn inverted, and more particularly described in
Fig. 5 with the ordinary openings at O' of various sizes to suit various.
sized pans; P is a "brandry" or pudding stand. capable of being.
pulled out or closed up as required; D1 is a wrought-iron oven; and D2
is the same or hot water boiler to suit circumstances. When D1 is
required to be heated the damper H1 at the left-hand side of the fire-
bars is opened, and damper above H4 is shut, thus sending the heat in
the direction of D1; this is also the case when it is required to heat D2,
whether the same be an oven or boiler, H2 is opened, so also is H5 and
H4 closed; C is a hinged door placed over the fire-bars, and used for
feeding the fire, so that it is not necessary to remove pans when firing up ;
S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, and S6 are flue doors for cleaning out soot and ashes
when requisite; P3 is a plate rack extending from D1 to side plate S, P2.
Fig. 2, H, P1, is the hot hearth plate over the oven top D1; H1, H2,
H3, H4; and H5 are dampers; P1 and P2 are plate racks ;
P is a
drawing-out brandry or pudding stand; B, B, fire-place projecting ;
S, P and S, P2, are side plates.
Fig. 3, F, P, is the fire-place; and G, B, the grate bars projecting towards
oven on each side; A, P, the ashes place; D1 is a wrought-iron
oven; the flues pass on all sides of the same, only hot air being allowed;
to come in contact with the sheeting; W is a projection cast to side plate
to check draft. Over the fire-place is a hot hearth plate H, P2. On the
under side of this plate are cast webs h, h, h, h, by which the gases
given off from the live coal are retarded and burnt. The heat is also
sent forward into the room. H, P1, is a hot hearth plate over oven D1;
H, P3, is the hot hearth plate over oven or boiler D2.
Fig. 4, B is a cast, wrought-iron, or copper boiler placed immediately
behind the fire-place, having flues on each side of the same; P3 is the.
Jono plate rack.

page_text: s long plate rack.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Wood, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
Signed, sealed, and delivered
by the said Joseph Wood
in the presence of
JOHN WAUGH,
Engineer & Patent Agent,
Bradford,
Yorkshire.
JOSEPH WOOD. (L.S.)