IMPROVEMENTS IN COOKING RANGES
Year: 1886

page_text: We, WILLIAM TELFER of 28 Maxwell Road, Pollokshields, Glasgow, in the
County of Renfrew, North Britain, Ironfounder and JOHN MINTYRE SHAW
of No. 14 Union Street, Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain,
Ironmonger do hereby declare the nature of this invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN COOKING RANGES and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:―
This Invention, which relates to improvements in cooking ranges, is especially
applicable to that class of cooking ranges which are convertible into open or close
ranges and consists in the means for removing and replacing that portion of the hot
plate which, at the time the range is used as a close range, is above the fire-space.
In order that the said Invention may be properly understood and readily carried
into effect, we will now proceed to describe the drawings hereunto annexed.
Figure 1, is a transverse section through the fire-space of a range constructed
according to our present invention and when such range is being used as a closed
range.
Figure 2, is a similar view of the same when being used as an open range.
Figures 3 and 4 are respectively views of the upper and lower sides of that part
of the hot plate which covers the fire space.
In carrying our present invention into practice we provide a slide a, at each side
of the fire-space b, and preferably of the form represented upon the annexed
drawings. These slides a, may be cast in one with, and upon the underside of the
hot plate c, or they may be secured thereto in any other convenient manner, while
the said slides project or extend inwards from the sides of the fire-space sufficiently
to support the plate d. This plate d, is preferably supported upon the projections
or feet e, which slide over and along the upper or bearing surface of the slides a,
these slides being so formed that when the said plate d, is in its rearmost position,
as indicated at Figure 2 of the annexed drawings, it is supported beneath the hot
plate at the back of the fire-space.
The plate d, when in its foremost position, as indicated at Figure 1, is supported
upon the slides a, with its upper surface level with that of the hot plate c, and
when, for converting the range into an open range the plate d, is pushed back-
wards by the aid of a hook engaging with the recess f, or otherwise, the said

page_text: plate d, moves down the inclined surface of the slides a, into its rearmost position
and is there supported as herein before described and shewn at Figure 2 of the
annexed drawings.
It is to be understood that in place of employing one solid plate d, in the
manner indicated upon the annexed drawings, there may be used a plate formed
with one or more "nests" of rings and plates, that is to say, such removable rings
and plates as are ordinarily provided in the hot plates of cooking ranges for the
better heating, by their temporary removal, of pots or pans placed on such hot-
plates.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
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The improvements in that class of cooking ranges which are convertible into
open or close ranges consisting of the plate d, with or without one or more "nests
of rings and plates, and supported by the slides a, along which the said plate d, is
capable of being moved substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein-
before set forth with reference to the annexed drawings.