IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO KITCHEN PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Ramsden Cressey, of 60; High Street,
Homerton, in the County of Middlesex, Smith and Practical
Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO KITCHEN
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Ramsden
Cressey at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 26th July 1872.
I, JOSEPH RAMSDEN CRESSEY, of 60, High Street, Homerton, in the
County of Middlesex, Smith and Practical Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for “IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO KITCHEN
RANGES, KITCHENERS, AND FIRE-STOVES," to be as follows:-
.
The object of this Invention is to enable the size of the fire-grate in
kitchen ranges, kitcheners, and fire-stoves, although constructed of a
certain size or capacity for holding and burning fuel, to be from time to

page_text: time reduced to a less size or capacity for holding and burning fuel, and
afterwards to be restored to the full size or capacity at the option of the
user.
This I effect by providing at the side, or other convenient part of
the grate, a rack and pinion arrangement, to the end of which bell-crank
lever or other gear is attached, the upper end of which gear is fastened
to the grate bottom of the fire-grate, the same being made free to move
upwards, so that when a loose key is applied to the spindle of the pinion,
motion can be given to the whole arrangement, so as to raise or lower
the grate bottom as may be required.
The pinion above referred to should have only two teeth, in order to
prevent the same spontaneously working the reverse way, and thus
letting fall the grate bottom when raised.
Instead of the above, double lever arrangements fitted immediately
beneath the grate bottom and actuated by knobs or handles may be
used. To the moveable grate bottom a second back is hinged or loosely
secured, so as to close the aperture that would otherwise be created
when the grate bottom is lifted, in consequence of the moveable grate
bottom, which fits the lower part of the grate, not being equal to the
opening at the top thereof (such opening from the slanted form of
the back being always larger at the top). A draw trivet can be
applied when required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Ramsden Cressey in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 25th January 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH 2
RAMSDEN CRESSEY, of 60, High Street, Homerton, in the County of
Middlesex, Smith and Practical Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty- 3
sixth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Joseph Ramsden Cressey, Her special licence
that I, the said Joseph Ramsden Cressey, my executors, administrators,

page_text: and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Ramsden Cressey, 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 therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
APPLICABLE TO KITCHEN RANGES, KITCHENERS, AND FIRE-STOVES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Ramsden Cressey,
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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Ramsden Cressey, do hereby
declare 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 :-
The object of this Invention is to enable the size of the fire-grate in
kitchen ranges, kitcheners, and fire-stoves, although constructed of a
certain size or capacity for holding and burning fuel, to be from time to
time reduced to a less size or capacity for holding and burning fuel, and
afterwards to be restored to the full size or capacity at the option of the
user. This I effect by providing at the side, or other convenient part of
the grate, a rack and pinion arrangement, to the end of which bell-crank
lever or other gear is attached, the upper end of which gear is fastened
to the grate bottom of the fire-grate, the same being made free to move
upwards, so that when a loose key is applied to the spindle of the pinion,
motion can be given to the whole arrangement, so as to raise or lower
the grate bottom as may be required.
The pinion above referred to should have only two teeth, in order to
prevent the same working the reverse way, and thus letting fall the
grate bottom when not desired.
Instead of the above, double lever arrangements fitted immediately
beneath the grate bottom and actuated by knobs or handles may be
used. To the moveable grate bottom a second back is hinged or loosely

page_text: secured, so as to close the aperture that would otherwise be created when
the grate bottom is lifted, in consequence of the moveable grate bottom,
which fits the lower part of the grate, not being equal to the opening at
the top thereof, which opening from the slanting form of the back
generally adopted in grates being always larger at the top. A drawer
trivet can be applied when required.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same may be performed, I
hereby declare that I claim, the herein described Invention of "Improve-
ments applicable to Kitchen Ranges, Kitcheners, and Fire-stoves,"
wherein the raising and lowering bottom with a loose or hinged back
that will close the bottom of the grate at any point in its ascent, provided
with suitable motive arrangements, is the point of primary importance.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Ramsden Cressey, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of January,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
J. R. CRESSEY. (L.S.)
Witness,
THOMAS MORGAN,
Secretary,
Inventors' Patent Right Association, Limited,.
21, Cockspur Street, S.W.