Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Apr., 1887
Complete Left, 31st Dec., 1887
Complete Accepted, 17th Feb., 1888
I, DAVID COWAN, of Mount Gerald, Larbert, in the County of Stirling, North
Britain, Civil Engineer, Manager for Carron Company, incorporated by Royal Charter,
do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows, that is to say :-
My said Invention has for its object to provide a cooking range with improved
arrangements for using a grill or grid iron in a convenient manner when required.
In carrying out my Invention the range is formed with a projecting enclosed
space above the hob and at the back of the fire box, in which space the grill with its
side supports are held and concealed when not in use. The front of the enclosed
space is provided with doors, and when these are opened the grill with its supports
can be turned down. The grill is of a rectangular form and its bars which run from
back to front are recessed on their upper surfaces and their recesses lead into a well
or cup at the front for the collection of gravy. The side supports are peculiarly
shaped bars connected by back and front transverse bars, and are at their back ends
hinged to fixed lugs, on which they are turned up into the enclosed space when not in
use. The grill can be placed in several different positions on its supports to suit tho
fire and the cooking operation. In its lowest position the grill rests on the back and
front transverse bars of the supports; and in its other positions it is held by pins or
projections on its sides resting in notches formed in the side supports, these notches
being by preference arranged so that the grill is placed the further back the higher its
position is.
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PA 1007
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cooking Ranges.
I, DAVID COWAN, of Mount Gerald, Larbert, in the County of Stirling, North
Britain, Civil Engineer, Manager for Carron Company, incorporated by Royal
Charter, 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, that is to say :--
My said Invention has for its object to provide a cooking range with improved
arrangements for using a grill or grid iron in a convenient manner when required.
And in order that my said Invention and the manner of performing the same may
be properly understood I hereunto append two sheets of explanatory drawings to be
hereinafter referred to and showing my improvements.
Figure, 1, on the accompanying sheet of drawings is a front elevation showing part
of the top or hob plate and back casing of a cooking range with the grill turned down
in position for use. Figure, 2, is a transverse vertical section as with the grill in its
turned-up position. Figure, 3, is a similar view but as with the grill turned down
and figure, 4, is a sectional plan also as with the grill turned down. In these draw-
ings the same reference numerals are used to mark the same or like parts wherever
they are repeated.
In carrying out my Invention the range, which may be of any suitable known
construction, is formed with an enclosed space. 5, above the hob, 6, and at the
back of the fire box, this space, 5, being formed by a plate, 7, made with sides and
an upper front part and fixed to and projecting from the back casing plate, 9, tho
flue pipe, 10, being at the back, of the space, 6. In the space, 6, 'the grill, 11, with
its side supports, 12, when not in use, are held and concealed as shown in figure, 2.
The front of the enclosed space, 6, is provided with doors, 13, hinged to the sides of
the plate, 7, and when these doors, 13, are opened the grill, 11, with its side supports, 12,
can be turned down into the position ready for use as shown in figures, 1, 3,
and 4, in which position the supports, 12, rest on the hob, 6. The grill, 11, is of a
rectangular form and its bars, which run from back to front of the range, are
made as usual with channels in their upper surfaces leading into wells or cups, 15,
at the front for the collection of gravy. The supports, 12, of which there are two,
one at each side, are peculiarly shaped bars connected by back and front transverse
bars, 16, 17, 18, and the supports, 12, are at their back ends hinged to lugs, 19,
fixed to the top of the hob, 6, on which they are turned up into the enclosed space, 5,
when not in use, the front transverse bar, 18, being made with a projecting part, 20,
having a hole in it to permit of the insertion of any suitable tool when the supports, 12,
have to be raised or lowered. In the turned-up position the top inner edge of
the supports, 12, bear on the hob, 6, and prevent the supports, 12, from falling further
back than necessary to allow the doors, 13, to be closed. The grill, 11, can be
placed in several different positions on its supports, 12, to suit the fire and the

page_text: cooking operation, being held in its various positions by pins or projections, 21,
on its sides resting in notches formed in the side supports, 12, these notches being
by preference arranged so that the grill, 11, is placed the further back the higher its
position is.
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 providing of a cooking range with a grill or gridiron in combination with
supports on which the grill can be placed in different positions and with arrange-
ments admitting of the grill and supports being turned up into a space in which they
can be enclosed substantially as herein before described.
2. The combined grill or gridiron and its supports constructed substantially as
hereinbefore described.
Dated this Treante winth day of December 1007
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.