Improvements in Fortab MIT BESCH-
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd July, 1895-Accepted. 16th Nov., 1895
Improvements in Fortab
MIT BESCH-
communication from DEUTSCHE GLÜHSTOFFGESELLSCHAFT
RÄNKTER HAFTUNG, of Dresden, Saxony, in the Empire of Germany.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, 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 relates to a portable fireplace or stove for grilling and roasting
meat, bread, and the like, with smokeless fuel.
It consists of a box or body, in two compartments, and supported on feet, and
whereof the frame-like support encloses a grate, on which the incandescent fuel is
laid. Upon this box-like portion is mounted an outer gutter or channel piece
carrying the grill on which the meat, bread, or the like, to be grilled is laid,
having its bars set transversely to those of the heating or fuel grate and provide
with rack-bars or other adjustable bearings, whereby it can be raised and lowered,
so that the article to be grilled or roasted may be placed, as required, either closer
to or farther from the incandescent fuel. This is intended to be heated by a
special form of charcoal fuel in the form of briquettes, known commercially as
"smokeless fuel."
In the accompanying drawings ;—
Fig. 1 a longitudinal section;
Fig. 2 a transverse section;
Fig. 3 a partial end-view; and
Fig. 4 a plan of apparatus constructed according to this invention.
The box-shaped frame ó, supported on legs a, and having a dished receptacle c in
its bottom to receive the spirits of wine or other combustible material, necessary
for heating the fuel to incandescence, primarily, is composed of two parts, its
frame-shaped or upper part 6 being pivoted by hinges d to one side of the lower
or bottom part b, while a sector-bar e, on the other side, secured to b¹ in such
manner as to be movable engages with a knob, tooth, or equivalent ƒ firmly secured
to the part b and passing through holes in the bar e.
In the upper part 6' of the apparatus, is laid the grate g, whereon the "smokeless
fuel" serving as heating material rests.
Above the upper part b', is mounted the grill k, carried by the gutter-shaped
piece encircling the fireplace.
h
To h may be secured the rack-bars i, extending downwards outside the apparatus
and serving to enable the grill k to be adjusted as regards its height above the
5 heating-grate, g by engaging the teeth of the rack-bars with the pins or
projections m secured to the part 61, as shown in Fig. 3 and in dotted lines
in Fig. 2.
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This arrangement is very convenient and advantageous particularly for slow-
roasting, and keeping the cooked material hot.
In roasting meat also, it is of great value and importance, with a view to prevent
the dropping of the gravy and juice, or dripping, on to the smokeless fuel, and the
unpleasant odours thence arising, to be able to incline the grill so that the juice
may run down into the gutter h. If this were done by inclining the grill alone
over the horizontal heating grate (as is usually done) the grill would be unequally

page_text: distant from the grate, and the meat etc. would be more heated in one place than in
another, and would consequently be unequally cooked. But by this invention,
both the grill and the grate are inclined, one under the other, so that they remain
throughout equidistant in all parts, and in this manner the defect is overcome.
The portable stove or grate above described and as shown in the drawings is
nainly intended to be heated by prepared charcoal-briquettes, known commercially
as "smokeless fuel," which is a combustible burning without evolving smoke, soot,
or gases, and consequently may be employed openly in any room without any
connection with a chimney.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, as communicated to me by my foreign correspondents, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that what I clain is ;-
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1. In a portable stove for roasting-grilling and keeping hot meat bread and the
like a frame in two parts such as 66 one containing a heating or full grate such as g
and both of which parts are hinged together and by means of one or more rods or
sectors e and pirs can be set at an angle to each other substantially as described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. In a portable stove for roasting and grilling or keeping hot meat bread and
the like the combination with a frame formed in two parts such as 66 of a gutter
or channel such as h and a grill k the two parts 661 being connected by means of
rack-bars such as i on the part and whereof the teeth engage with pins or
projectious m on the frame for the purpose of enabling the grill to be adjusted
to a greater or less distance from the heating grate 9 substantially as described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete stove
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of July 1895.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.