Improvements in Cooking Ranges.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Jan., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 20th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 24th Nov., 1894
Improvements in Cooking Ranges.
I, WILLIAM MILLER, of 261 Argyle Street, in the County of the City of
Glasgow, North Britain, Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows, that is to say :-
My said invention has for its object to improve and simplify the construction of
certain parts of cooking ranges, by means of which the ranges can be converted
from close-fire to open-fire ranges and vice versa at pleasure.
In carrying out my invention I employ a movable hood piece with a flat top and
vertical sides, and fitted to slide backwards and forwards on the top of the hob and
through an opening in the back coving of the range. When the hood piece is in
its innermost position its front is closed by a door which has pins formed at its
upper corners these pins engaging in grooves formed in the inner sides of the
vertical sides and extending from the front a certain distance back. At the inner
end the top plate has a part cut out of it to allow of the fire gases from the oven
flue of the range passing up when the hood piece is closed in; and the door herein-
before mentioned is contrived to close this cut out part when the hood piece is
drawn out and there would otherwise be an opening in the top plate in front of the
coving plate. A lever or strut arranged at the middle of the opening in the coving
plate, or a pair of levers or struts arranged at the sides of that opening, is connected
to the door or disposed so as to control the movement of the door, in such manner
that when the hood piece is drawn out the door remains stationary to the extent of
the grooves in which its upper corner pins work, and then on the further outward
movement of the hood piece the door, having to ride over the lever or strut or pair
of them, is turned up into a horizontal position and closes the opening or cut out
part of the top plate of the hood piece.
Dated this Twentieth day of January 1894.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
Improvements in Cooking Ranges.
I, WILLIAM MILLER, of 261, Argyle Street, in the County of the City of
Glasgow, North Britain, Íronmonger, 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 that is to say :--
My said invention has for its object to improve and simplify the construction of
certain parts of cooking ranges, by means of which the ranges can be converted
from close-fire to open-fire ranges and vice versa at pleasure.
In carrying out my invention I employ a movable hood piece which when in its
innermost position has its front closed by a door which has pins formed at its upper
corners these pins engaging in grooves or slots formed in the sides of the hood and
extending from the front a certain distance back. When the hood piece is drawn
out the door is acted on by a fixed strut or a pair of struts so as to be turned up
into a horizontal position and close a cut out part at the inner end of the top plate
of the hood.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing the same

page_text: may be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings to
be hereinafter referred to and showing my improvements.
Figure, 1, of the drawings is a plan of part of a cooking range sufficient to show
the application of my invention but with the door of the hood removed.
Figures, 2, and, 3, are vertical sections as at right angles to the front of the
range, the one showing the hood shut and the other showing the hood open.
Figure, 4, is a front elevation showing the opening in which the movable hood
works and
Figure, 5, is an inverted plan of the door for the hood, as in its open position.
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
As shown in the drawings I employ a movable hood piece, A, with a flat top
and vertical sides, and fitted to slide backwards and forwards on the top of the
hob, B, and through an opening, C, in the back coving, D, of the range. When
the hood piece, A, is in its innermost position its front is closed by a door, E, which
has pins, F, formed at its upper corners these pins engaging in slots, G, formed in
the vertical sides of the hood and extending from the front a certain distance back.
At the inner end the top plate of the hood has a part cut out of it to form an
opening, H, to allow of the fire gases from the oven flue, J, of the range passing
up when the hood piece, A, is closed in; and the door, E, is contrived to close this
cut out part, H, when the hood piece, A, is drawn out as there would otherwise be
an opening in the top plate in front of the coving plate, D. A pair of struts, K,
are fixed at the sides of the opening, C, in the coving plate, D, in such positions as
to control the movement of the door, E. When the hood piece, A, is drawn out
the door, E, remains stationary to the extent of the slots, G, in which its upper
corner pins, F, work, and then on the further outward movement of the hood
piece, A, the door, E, having to ride over the struts, K, is turned up into a horizontal
position and closes the opening, H, or cut out part of the top plate of the hood
piece, A.
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 :-
In a cooking range combining a door with a movable hood the door having at its
upper corners pins engaging in grooves or slots in the vertical sides of the hood
and a fixed strut or pair of struts being provided for turning the door into a
horizontal position and vice versa substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described.
Dated this Nineteenth day of October 1894.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.