IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN RANGES
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Lambert Hayward, of the Blackfriars
Road, in the County of Surrey, Manufacturing Ironmonger, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN RANGES."
Invention of " IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN RANGES."
Sealed the 10th July 1855, and dated the 13th January 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Lambert Hayward
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
13th January 1855.
I, EDWARD LAMBERT HAYWARD, of the Blackfriars Road, in the County of
Surrey, Manufacturing Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of the
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN RANGES" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of improvements in kitchen ranges with a view to
apply heat more advantageously to the ovens. For this purpose, at that end
of the fire-place where the oven is situated, the whole or a portion of the lower
part of the cheek is recessed towards the oven, and is so arranged that the
principal of the heat and products passing from the fire to heat the oven shall
pass over the back of, the recessed portion of the cheek, or over one or both
sides thereof, down that side of the oven next to the fire, thence under the oven,
thence up the other side thereof, and then away by a flue or passage above the
And there is a valve or stop between the upper part of the cheek and

page_text: the oven, by which the passage in "that direction can be wholly closed or
allowed to be partly open, by which the quantity of heat and products passing
from the fire to heat the oven may be regulated and controlled, as to whether
the whole or only part shall pass under the oven.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Lambert Hayward in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 10th July 1855.
EDWARD
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
LAMBERT HAYWARD, of the Blackfriars Road, in the County of Surrey, Manu-
facturing Ironmonger, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Edward Lambert Hayward, Her special licence, that I, the said
Edward Lambert Hayward, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Edward Lambert Hayward, 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN RANGES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Edward Lambert Hayward, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, 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 H
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Lambert Hayward, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof (that is to say):-
This Invention consists of improvements in kitchen ranges with a view to
apply heat more advantageously to the ovens. For this purpose, at that end of
the fire-place where the oven is situated, the whole or a portion of the lower

page_text: part of the cheek is recessed towards the oven, and is so arranged that the
principal of the heat and products passing from the fire to heat the oven shall
pass over the back of the recessed portion of the cheek, or over one or both
sides thereof, down that side of the oven next to the fire, thence under the.
oven, thence up the other side thereof, and thence away by a flue or passage
above the oven. And there is a valve or stop between the upper part of the
cheek and the oven, by which the passage in that direction can be wholly
closed or allowed to be partly open, by which the quantity of heat and products
passing from the fire to heat the oven may be regulated and controlled, as to
whether the whole or only part shall pass under the oven.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed to
describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows a front elevation, in section, of the oven of a range; the fire-
place of the range is not shown, but the part D'indicates the top of the fire
bars of the range. Figure 2 shows a side view of the side cheek A, next
the fire-place of the range. A is the cheek; on that side of the fire next to the
oven it is partly recessed, as shown at B. This recess may form a part of A,
or be placed against it, and may terminate at the bottom, as drawn; or it may
be carried lower, as shown by the dotted lines; in the latter case a part of the
bottom grating or fire bars D of the fire would enter it. Eis the oven; C is
a protecting plate. a is a shelf, partly closing the space between A and C ;
b is a valve or door, which may be used partly or entirely to occupy so much
of the space between A and C as is not closed by the shelf a, and may move
on a hinge, or be slided, so as to close or leave more or less of the passage open.
The heat and products from the fire pass through the space left in the shelf a
over the top of the oven, and away to the chimney by a flue above the oven,
or the opening in the shelf a being so arranged as not to allow all the heat
and products to pass through it; the remainder passes over the back of the
recessed part B of the cheek A, or over one or both sides of such recessed
part, down the space between C and the lower part of A, thence under the
oven, thence up that side of the oven which is farthest from the fire, and then
away by the flue above the oven. For the better governing, as to whether
the whole or what part of the heat and products shall pass under the oven, the
door or valve b is used; it may work, as before stated, on centres or slide, and
may be regulated through a hole in the front, or from above, or by a projecting
rod, spindle, or handle.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of

page_text: performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself
to the precise shape of recessing B; but what I claim is, the forming the
recessed part B to the cheek, and applying the valve or door b, as herein
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Lambert Hayward, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
GEO. PITT,
4, Old Square.
EDWARD L. HAYWARD. (L.S.)