IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN RANGES OR FIRE-PLACES, OVENS, AND BOILERS
Year: 1873

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Edward Barraclough at.
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 30th August 1873.
I, JOHN EDWARD BARRACLOUGH, of Stanningley, near Leeds, in the
County of York, Ironfounder and Kitchen Range Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
KITCHEN RANGES OR FIRE-PLACES, OVENS, AND BOILERS," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to economize fuel by promoting a
better diffusion and utilization of the heat of the fire, and also to render
such fire-places, ovens, and boilers more convenient for use, and these
improvements consist in dispensing with masons' or bricklayers' work'
by constructing and arranging the range or fire-place, oven, or ovens
and boiler of metal in such manner as to form one compact piece, so
that it may be placed in any convenient part of the kitchen or room with
a pipe therefrom to the chimney or flue, and by preference I have two
ovens with the range placed betwixt them, in somewhat similar manner
as usual, except that the ovens are set at an angle to each other, thus
forming a triangular shape of fire-place, the back parts of the ovens
leaving only a small space betwixt, provided with a grate or perforated

page_text: plate for the passage of smoke and heat when required to pass in that
direction, but when not is to be closed by a damper or valve. Behind
these ovens is an enclosed space forming a hot air chamber communicating
with the fire-place by flues around or under and over the ovens, the said
flues being provided with dampers or valves to close or open the passage
as and when required. This hot air chamber is provided with a similar
smoke flue or pipe at the top continued into the chimney, and around
the said flue is formed a water-tight space or boiler provided with a tap
in front above the fire-place, which may be covered with a plate to hold
pans, so that that the hot water may be drawn therefrom into pans when ]
on the plate, or into other vessels, as and when required; or, instead
of one of these ovens an ordinary boiler may be used.
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The bottom and back plates of the ovens have apertures therein, closed
by thin movable plates, whereby the heat required in the oven is more
readily obtained, and the expansion and contraction of the said plates is 1
provided for, and whereby breakage of such plates is avoided. By this
construction and arrangement great economy is obtained in fuel as well
as in fixing and using.
In some cases I construct the fire-grate semicircular and protruding
beyond the line of the oven and boiler, thus securing a much larger 2
surface of fire for roasting, as the sides or ends of the fire-grate are not
composed as heretofore of plates but of open bars containing the fuel.
Near to the entrance of the flues leading under the oven and the
boiler I place a separate fire-grate or fire-box, and provide the necessary
dampers therefor. These additional fire-boxes or grates are small, and i
consume very little fuel; they are, however, I find most efficient and
secure, the advantage that the oven or boiler may be heated at any time
independent of or without requiring any fire in the front grate, an
especial advantage during hot weather, or when the heating of the oven
is required but for temporary use.