Improvements in the Construction of Cooking Stoves or Ranges.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th Apr., 1894-Accepted, 19th May, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Cooking Stoves or Ranges.
We WILLIAM HENRY BENTLEY, Metal Worker, of 405 Rochdale Road
and THOMAS COLLIER, Manufacturer, of Victoria Park, both of Manchester in
the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to make a stove or range, for cooking chip-
potatoes, fish, and similar articles of food, which shall be simple in construction and
action, and economical and safe in its use, and prevent the escape of steam or
effluvia from cooking into the room in which it is placed.
Our improved stove is made with two furnaces or fire places of convenient size
and form separated by a suitable space, and provided with long front and back
plates common to both fires, the outer side plate of each being provided with a
convenient handle for moving the said stove if required.
The inner side plates communicate with the central space between the two fires
by means of a suitable opening near the top provided with a sliding damper and
an external knob or handle for moving the same when required as hereafter
described.
A cooking pan is fixed in the top plate of each furnace, and each pan is provided
at the back with a fixed plate covering in say about one quarter or one third of the
pan, the remainder being covered in when desired by a lid or door, hinged to the
partial fixed cover and provided with a suitable knob for lifting the same.
The space or flue between the two fires is covered by a hot plate, and, at the
back part thereof, communicates with a central vertical main flue; and two branch
flues are brought from the top plates of the furnaces, one from behind each cooking
pan, and join this central or main flue at a suitable height. Each of the branch
flues is provided with a throttle damper, and each of the fixed partial covers of the
cooking pans is provided with a short vertical flue or pipe connected at the top by
a tube or otherwise, with one of the branch flues above named.
By this means all steam or smell proceeding from the potato chips and the oil or
other articles in the pans can be prevented from rising into the room by closing the
lid or door of the cooking pan; the draught of the escaping smoke and products of
combustion from the furnace will withdraw the said steam and effluvia from the
covered pan through the short vertical flue into the branch flue whence it will
be carried into the main flue and escape with the smoke from the chimney.
Either fire may be used alone if desired in which case the sliding damper and the
throttle damper communicating with the other furnace must be closed.
The hot plate may be covered in by a suitable box or cover provided with
a convenient handle for removal, and with a suitable sloping or curved door hinged
at the top and having a knob or handle for opening the same.
Dated this 28th day of September 1893.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in the Construction of Cooking Stoves or Ranges.
We WILLIAM HENRY BENTLEY Metal Worker of 405 Rochdale Road and
THOMAS COLLIER Manufacturer, of Victoria Park both of Manchester in the
County of Lancaster, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to make a stove or range for cooking chip
potatoes, fish, and similar articles of food which shall be simple in construction and
action, and economical and safe in use, and prevent the escape of steam or effluvia
from cooking into the room in which it is placed.
The nature of our invention and the manner in which the same is to be performed
or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference to the two
sheets of drawings hereunto annexed and the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 (Sheet 1) is a front elevation of a double cooking stove made according
to our invention. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same, and Fig. 3 a partial transverse
section taken through the line A-B in Fig. 1.
On Sheet 2 of the drawings Fig. 4 is an end view of a single stove made on the
same principle as arranged for cooking chip potatoes and Fig. 5 a similar view and
Fig. 6 a front view of the same as arranged for cooking fish.
Referring to Sheet 1 our improved stove is made with two furnaces or fire
places a of convenient size and form separated by a suitable space b and provided
with long front and back plates common to both fires the outer side plate c
of each being provided with a convenient handle d for moving the said stove if
required.
The inner side plates c' communicate with the central space b between the two
fires by means of a suitable opening near the top provided with a sliding damper e
(see also Fig. 3) and an external knob or handle e¹ for moving the same when
required as hereinafter described.
A cooking pan f is fixed in the top plate of each furnace, and each pan is
provided at the back with a fixed plate g (see Figs. 2 and 3) covering-in say about
one quarter or one third of the pan, the remainder being covered in when desired
by a lid or door hinged to the partial fixed cover g, and provided with a suitable
fixed knob for lifting the same on its hinges as shown by the curved dotted line on
Fig. 2.
The space or flue 6 between the two fires a is covered by a hot plate i and at the
back thereof communicates with a central vertical main flue k; and two branch
flues are brought from the top plates of the furnaces a one from behind each
cooking pan and join this central or main flue k at a suitable height. Each of
these branch flues is provided with a throttle damper m and each of the partial
fixed covers 9 of the cooking pans f is provided with a short vertical flue or pipe n
connected at the top by a tube o, or otherwise, with one of the branch flues above
named.
By this means all steam or smell proceeding from the cooking of the potatoe
chips and the oil or other articles in the pans f can be prevented from rising into
the room by closing the hinged lid or door of the cooking pans, the draught of the
escaping smoke and products of combustion from the furnaces a will withdraw the
said steam and effluvia from the covered part through the short vertical flues n into
the branch flues whence it will be carried into the main flue k and escape with the
smoke from the chimney.
Either fire may be used alone if desired, in which case the sliding damper e and
the throttle damper m communicating with the other furnace must be closed.
The hot plate may be covered in by a suitable box or cover p provided at the top
i

page_text: with a convenient handle g for removal and with a suitable sloping or curved
door hinged at the top and having a knob or handle for opening the same.
Fig. 4 (Sheet 2) shows a single cooking stove made upon this principle, in which
case of course the branch flues are not required and the throttle dampers m are in
the main flue k. For cooking fish upon this stove we prefer to arrange it as
shown at Figs. 5 and 6, by removing the hinged door hand short upright flue n for
which latter we substitute a loose cover or hood n' open at the front and fitted with
a longer tube o', and we put a covers over the opening in the fixed plate g at the
back of the pan. By this slight alteration we leave the whole front part of the
pan open for inspection at the same time that all effluvia from the fish being
cooked will pass away by the loose cover or hood n' and pipe o¹ to the main.
flue k.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said.
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what.
we claim is :-
The general construction and arrangement of cooking stoves for fish, chip.
potatoes, and similar articles of food substantially as hereinhefore described and
illustrated by the drawings annexed and we claim particularly the combination
with the pan or pans of such cooking stoves of a fixed partial cover at the back
thereof communicating by means of a vertical pipe and elbow with the main flue
and a hinged door or cover over the front portion thereof substantially as and for
the purposes described.
Dated the 26th day of Anril 1894
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants..