IMPROVEMENTS IN COOKING RANGES AND STOVES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Albert Kidd Robinson, of Leeds, in the County of York,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COOKING RANGES AND STOVES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Albert Kidd Robinson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents the 25th March 1870.
ALBERT KIDD ROBINSON, of Leeds, in the County of York.
COOKING RANGES AND STOVES."
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
My Invention has reference to an improved construction of bonnet or fire cover
by which I am enabled to conduct the flame and smoke in one, two, or more
directions at the same time. For this purpose the heat and the smoke can be
conveyed direct to the chimney, or they can be made to pass under the hot plate
over the oven and up the flue in the back portion of the bonnet or fire cover, or
when required the heat can be so directed as to pass entirely in equal portions under
the hot plate and under the oven, and when preferred all these operations can be
carried on separately or simultaneously at will.
My Invention further consists in an improved construction of divisional plates
or feathers for directing the draught in a direction, which, combined with the
bonnet or fire cover referred to, enable me to dispense with all the flues hitherto used
and constructed in the brick work of the "Leamington" and other stoves. I effect
thereby a saving of cost in brick work or "setting," in labour required for sweeping
or cleaning flues, a saving in fuel, and producing a more efficient cooking range or
stove.
I
By the construction of the herein-before mentioned bonnet I am enabled to
remove the hot plate covering the fire, converting it at pleasure into an open fire
range without interfering otherwise with the operation of the stove or range.
so form and construct the back portion of the bonnet and divisional plates or
feathers that both the hot plate oven and boiler can be in use as an open fire
or "Yorkshire" range, or as a closed fire stove as the "Leamington" at the will of
the operator. I make the boiling plate in the form and manner of an American
stove, and combine with it the open or "Yorkshire" fire range, convertible at will
into a closed or "Leamington fire stove, which, combined with the arrangement
of the bonnet and the divisional plates or feathers for directing the heat, givs a
combined, open, and closed fire stove or range without back flues.
"

page_text: boiler may be placed in the opposite side of the fire grate to the oven d and heated
in a similar manner. I provide a hot plate n, which is similar to those used on an
American" stove, which can be removed at pleasure, by removing which, and
at the same time opening the valve or damper b, the stove is converted into an
open fire range without interfering otherwise with the stove or range.
When a boiler is used, the flues and divisional plates being arranged as described,
the hot plate g, the oven and boiler, can be in use at one time, and may be
converted by the removal of the plate n into what is known as an open fire or
Yorkshire range, and by replacing the plate n the range is made into a closed fire
stove similar to the " 'Leamington.'
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and shewn by Drawings
how the same may be carried into practice, I would have it understood that I do
not limit myself to the exact limits, details, or configuration of the various parts
I have explained and shown, as the same may of course be varied or modified
without in any way departing from my Invention, but what I do claim and desire
to be secured to me by Letters Patent is
The arrangement and combination of the various parts forming the cooking
ranges and stove, substantially as and for purposes herein-before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Albert Kidd Robinson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
ALBERT K. ROBINSON. (LS.)