Improvement in Kitchen Ranges.
Year: 1899

page_text: DUNCAN SINCLAIR, Woodbury, Coalbrookdale R.S.O., Shropshire, Manager of
Ironworks. I, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
I. An improved method of moving firecover from top of fire by pushing it
under the backpart of hob without the necessity of having that part of hob under
which it goes raised above the level of the remainder of the hob. II. The close
fire range is converted into an open fire range by pulling forward the hood
(marked D on accompanying drawings) when fire cover is pushed back.
when closed forms part of the ordinary coving and does not in anyway project
beyond the line of coving.
This hood
Fig. I. Is elevation of the part of the range in which the invention applies.
Fig. II. Is a plan showing hood marked D and firecover (E) closed.
Fig. 3. Is a plan showing hood (1) and fire cover (E) open.
Fig. 4. Is a sectional elevation on line A. B. on Figs. 1 & 2 showing hood (D)
and fire cover (E) closed.
Fig. 5. Is a sectional elevation on line A. B. Fig. 1 & Fig. 3 showing hood (I))
and fire cover (E) open.
Improvement in Kitchen Ranges.
I, DUNCAN SINCLAIR, of Woodbury, Coalbrookdale R.S.O., Shropshire, Manager
of Iron Works, 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:-
This invention has for its object an improved arrangement whereby the fire
cover in kitchen ranges can be pushed back under the back plate of the hob with-
out the necessity of having that part of the hob under which it goes raised above
the level of the remainder of the hob.
The invention is best described by aid of the drawings already filed with the
Provisional Specification, in which,
Fig. 1 is an elevation of the part of the range to which the invention applies,
Fig. 2 is a plan of the same,
Fig. 3 a plan showing the hood and fire cover in the open position,
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Fig. 4 a sectional elevation on line A B showing hood and fire cover closed, and
Fig. 5 is a similar sectional elevation, but showing the hood and fire cover open.
In these D is the hood having two side wings as shown, E is the fire cover.
will be seen that the two side flanges on which this cover is placed are made-of
an irregular shape and extend very far back, so that this cover can ride upon
them, and yet pass under the back part of the hob. In practice a small bridge
piece, similar to that on a pot hole cover, as set forth in Fig. 2 or a hole in the
front part of the fire cover can be used, in which to place the end of a handle or
bar for more easily moving the fire cover forward and backward while hot. The
close fire range is converted into an open fire range therefore by pulling forward
the hood and pushing back the cover, and by reversing these actions it is con-
verted from an open to a closed range. The hood D) when closed forms part of
the ordinary coving, and does not in any way project beyond the line of cove.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. The arrangement of kitchen range substantially as described with a hood
arranged in the coving and having side wings as shown, whereby it can be brought
forward over an open portion of the hob, or brought level with the coving, sub-
stantially as described.
2. The arrangement of fire cover E and its appurtenances whereby the fire cover
can be easily slid back under the back part of the hob, thus converting the range
into an open one, and be again easily slid forward into place while in neither
position shall any portion of the hob be higher than the normal.
3. The combination in a kitchen range of the hood D and the sliding fire
cover E, substantially as described, whereby a kitchen range can be changed in
a moment from a close range to an open one and vice versa.
itated the 2nd day of November 1899
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicants.