IMPROVEMENTS IN COOKING STOVES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT. to Alfred Savill Tomkins, of No. 29, Ladbroke
Square, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN COOKING STOVES."
"
Scaled the 22nd April 1875, and dated the 12th January 1875.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Savill Tomkins
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 12th January 1875.
"
I, ALFRED SAVILL TOMKINS, of No. 29, Ladbroke Square, in the
County of Middlesex, Esquire, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COOKING STOVES," to be as follows :-
My apparatus consists of several ovens and boilers so constructed that
when they are placed with their backs inwards a space is left in tho
centre for the furnace. One of the boilers is used for a hot water supply,
circulating with a reservoir, and under the furnaces is another boiler,
also circulating with a reservoir. Covering tho ovens and boilers is a
hot plate, and the draught is admitted under such one or more of the
ovens as may be necessary.
The smoke is carried away by a flue if the stove is used for domestic
purposes or in any inclosed space, but if used in the open no chimney is

page_text: The advantages of this stove are that the consumption of fuel is com-
paratively infinitessimal, and that the underneath and lateral as well as
the surface heat are utilized; there is, in fact, every facility for cooking
either for a small or a large number of people with the smallest possible
amount of fuel.
the suriaco neat are utilized; there is, in fact, every facility for cooking
either for a small or a large number of people with the smallest possible
amount of fuel.
The apparatus is simple in construction; it is light and portable, and
can be easily adapted to any house or other enclosed space, or it can
be used as a portable camp cooking stove. It can also be casily
repaired.
The apparatus is simple in construction; it is light and portable, and
can be easily adapted to any house or other enclosed space, or it can
bo used as a portable camp cooking stove. It can also be easily
repaired.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred Savill Tomkins in the Great Scal Patent
Office on the 23rd April 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
SAVILL TOMKINS, of No. 29, Ladbroke Square, Notting Hill, in tho
County of Middlesex, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, givo
and grant unto me, the said Alfred Savill Tomkins, Her special licence
that I, tho said Alfred Savill Tomkins, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred Savill Tomkins, 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
IN COOKING STOVES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Alfred Savill Tomkins, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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 Scal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alfred Savill Tomkins, 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 :-
My apparatus consists of several ovens and boilers so constructed that
when they are placed with their backs inwards a space is left in the
centre for the furnace. One of the boilers is used for a hot water
supply, circulating with a reservoir, and under the furnace is another
boiler, also circulating with a reservoir. Covering the ovens and boilers
is a hot plate, and the draught is admitted under such one or more of
the ovens as may be necessary.
The smoke is carried away by a flue if the stove is used for domestic
purposes or in any enclosed space, but if used in the open no chimney is
necessary.
The advantages of this stove are that the consumption of fuel is com-
paratively infinitesimal, and that the underneath and lateral as well as
the surfaco heat are utilized. There is in fact every facility for cooking
either for a small or large number of people with the smallest possible
amount of fuel.
.
The apparatus is simple in construction; it is light and portable, and
can be easily adapted to any house or other enclosed space, or it can
be used as a portable camp cooking stove. It can also be easily
repaired.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Savill Tomkins, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, the
day of April,
Signed, sealed, and delivered,
by the above-named Alfred
Savill
Tomkins,
in the
JOHN E. TURNER,
presence of
61, Mark Lane,
ALFº. SAVILL TOMKINS. (L.S.)
Gentleman.