Improvements relating to Oil Cooking Stoves.
Year: 1896

page_text: Improvements relating to Oil Cooking Stoves.
I, FRANK SIDE BOTHAM RIPPINGILLE, trading as The Frank Rippingille
Stove Company, of Plume Street, Aston, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of improvements relating to oil cooking stoves, my object
being to construct a compact and efficient stove with a detachable oven, water
boiler, and top plate or tray, so arranged that they can be fitted the one within the
other and supported either together or separately upon the stove. as may be
required.
In the application of my invention I construct the stove frame or casing from
wrought iron or other suitable plates in the usual manner, fitting it with handles
and other ordinary attachments, and forming holes or perforations in the top plate
for the reception of saucepans or like utensils. At the upper part of the casing I
arrange the oven, and between the underside of the oven and the burners of the oil
tanks at the bottom of the casing I place the water boiler. I provide a flue or
flues or apertures through the boiler from the under to the top side, preferably
arranging them at an inclination with such sides in order to obtain a larger surface
for exposure to the heated air or gas ascending from the burners.
Un emerging from the upper end of the boiler flue or flues the heated
gaseous products from the oil flames impinge upon the bottom of the oven, and
ascend through the vertical flue, or space surrounding the oven and thus on to
the top side of the same to heat the saucepans or other utensils on the top of the
stove.
I fit the tank or boiler with a tap for the withdrawal of the water as required,
and also with a suitable charging connection, handles, and other necessary
attachments. In two adjacent sides of the water tank I provide windows or sight
holes in line with each other, fitted with panes of mica or other suitable
material, in order that the level of water within the tank may be conveniently
observed.
I so arrange and support the boiler and the oven that the boiler can be readily
withdrawn when not required, and the oven lowered until its bottom side is
immediately over the burners. To prevent any burning of the oven when in its
lower position, I provide when necessary a false bottom or a suitable protecting
plate on its underside. The oven is in like manner arrangel for withdrawal when
not required to permit of the lowering of the top plate or tray into a position
immediately above the burners for rapid boiling or cooking operations. The top
plate or tray is so formed that in one position the utensils can be placed in wells
or depressed seatings having perforations through the same, but in the reverse.or
inverted positions the seatings are elevated and rendered suitable for.grilling, and
like operations.
Instead of arranging the oven with external flues as herein before described, I
sometimes construct the stove with flues extending through the oven in the ordinary

page_text: manner, and make other modifications in the application of my invention to the
construction of cooking stoves to suit the varying services and requirements.
Dated this 17th day of March 1896.
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.
referred to;-
Figure 1 on Sheet 1 is a general view representing one form of my com-
bination stove, and Figure 2 a front elevation of the same showing the parts
detached..
On Sheet 2 Figure 3 is a plan and Figure 4 a front elevation of another form of
my combination stove.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
Referring to Sheet 1, Figures 1 and 2 I construct the stove from wrought iron or
other suitable plates in the usual manner, fitting it with handles and other ordinary
attachments, and forming holes or perforations in the top plate A. for the reception
of saucepans or like utensils. At the upper part of the casing I arrange the
oven B and between the underside of the oven and the burners of the oil tanks such
as C at the bottom of the casing 1 place the water boiler D. 1 provide a flue or
flues or apertures through the boiler from the under to the top side, sometimes
arranging them at an inclination with such sides in order to obtain a larger surface
for exposure to the heated air or gas ascending from the burners.
On emerging from the upper end of the boiler flue or flues the heated gaseous
products from the oil flames impinge upon the bottom of the oven B and ascend
through the vertical flue or space surrounding the oven and thus on to the
top side of the same to heat the saucepans or other utensils on the top A of the
Єtove.
I fit the tank or boiler D with a tap as E for the withdrawal of the water
as required, and also with a suitable charging convection, handles, and other
necessary attachments. In two adjacent sides of the water tank I sometimes
provide window or sight holes in line with each other, fitted with panes of mica. or
other suitable material in order that the level of water within the tank may be
conveniently observed.
I so arrange or support the boiler and the oven that the boiler can be readily
withdrawn when not required and the oven lowered until its bottom side is
immediately over the burners. To prevent any burning of the oven when in its
lower position, I provide when necessary a false bottom or a suitable protecting

page_text: plate on its under side. The oven is in like manner arranged for withdrawal when
not required to permit of the lowering of the top plate or tray into a position.
immediately above the burners for rapid boiling or for grilling or other cooking
operations. The top plate or tray A can be so formel that in one position the
utensils can be placed in wells or depressed seatings having perforations through.
the same, but in the reverse or inverted positions the seatings are elevated and
rendered suitable for grilling and like operations.
For the heating of plates and for other purposes I fit or supplement any oven as F
to the lower part of the stove beneath the boiler D.
With the stove illustrated at Figures 3 and 4 Sheet 2 I employ an outer containing
casing for the ovens B B one of such ovens having the plate oven F, and the other
the boiler or water tank D.
Instead of arranging the oven or ovens with external flues as herein before
described and as illustrated in the drawings I sometimes construct my stoves with
flues extending through the oven or ovens in the ordinary manner, and make other
modifications in the application of my invention to the construction of stores to suit
varying services and requirements.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I.
claim is;-
1. Combination cooking stoves constructed and arranged substantially as
described.
2. In cooking stoves the combination of a top plate, oven, and boiler or tank, in
such a manner that they can be mounted together or separately upon the stove
substantially as and for the purposes described.
3. The improved cooking stove comprising a top plate as A, oven B, boiler or
tauk D, and supplementary oven F, arranged substantially as described and as
illustrated.
4. The improved cooking stove comprising the ovens B B with the boiler or
tank D and supplementary oven F, arranged substantially as described and as
illustrated.
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant..