Improvements in Kitchen Ranges.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 7th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 26th June, 1889-Accepted, 27th July,
1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Kitchen Ranges.
I, CHARLES BUTCHER, of Chapeltown, in the County of York, Kitchen Range
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
This invention relates to Kitchen Ranges and more especially to that form well
known as the Yorkshire Range, having a side oven or ovens, and it has for its
object a novel method of constructing and arranging such oven so that a more direct
draught is caused round it and it is more uniformly and equally heated than bas
ordinarily heretofore been the case, whilst a greater depth is provided for a hot plate
above the oven for heating plates, dishes, or other articles.
I take an ordinary side oven of suitable size shape, and pattern, and I fix it upon
a horizontal foundation plate arranged in a suitable position at the side of the
range. This horizontal plate may rest upon a ledge formed upon the inner side of
the front of the range, and is provided upon its upper surface with supports upon
which the oven is carried at a sufficient distance above it, so as to leave a space
between them forming a flue, the space below the horizontal plate being filled up with
brickwork.
Or the horizontal plate may be omitted, the oven being carried upon pillars or
supports rising from such brick work.
An opening is made from the firegrate into the inner end of the space or flue
described below the oven, which flue communicates at its outer side with a vertical
flue between the outer wall of the oven and the jamb or side of the space in which
the range is fitted.
A space, communicating with the flue just described, is also left between the back
of the oven and the back wall of the brickwork in which the range is fitted, and a
projecting horizontal ledge or plate at the back of the top of the oven extends to the
said back wall and closes in the top of the space between it and the back of the oven.
A small opening is made through the ledge or plate described, in order to provide
for a back draught through the space.
Above the oven I arrange and fix a hollow top or covering cap, open below and
leaving a horizontal space or flue above the top of the oven, and the small opening
Just described opens into the back of this horizontal flue.
Ou the inner side, next to the fireplace, of the hollow top or covering cap described
I provide a vertical socket or opening preferably rectangular which may curve
partly out over the fire above the entering flue below the oven, and into this socket
1 fit and fix a pipe of corresponding size and shape, which after rising to a sufficient
height curves back and communicates at its upper end with the flue or chimney at
the back of the range.
It will be seen that no midfeather of any kind is required in the several flues
formed as described, but that the heated gases from the fire pass under the oven and
up its outer end, then back over its top, and through the vertical pipe to the
chimney. A part of the heat also passes up the back of the oven and through the
small opening into the flue above the oven. Dampers and soot doors of the ordinary
kinds may be provided where necessary, and the part of the socket or pipe from the
inner end of the top horizontal flue, which projects over the inner edge of the oven
may be provided with a sliding or other door through which the vertical pipe as well
as the horizontal flue above the oven can be cleaned.
The improved method of construction and arrangement described may be applied
to ovens at each side of the fireplace, and either to ranges having open fires, or close
ranges having a hot plate or heating chamber in the upper part.

page_text: The hollow top or covering cap above the oven forms a convenient hot plate
extending back to the full depth of the range.
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Where my invention is to be applied to what is well known as a Leamington
Range, in which the heated gases from the fire pass above the ovens, thence down
their outer ends, and back below them, and up inclined flues to the chimney, I make
the openings above the ovens into the last mentioned flues to the chimney,
communicate with the lower ends of vertical pipes of corresponding shape which rise
to a sufficient height above the fireplace and then unite and communicate with a
chimney above them.
The back of the space between the vertical pipes may be closed in, and the front of
the recess so formed may be provided with doors, so as to form a convenient heating
chamber.
Ranges constructed according to my invention are very cheap, simple and effective,
and it can be very readily applied to any kind of range.
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Inventor.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Kitchen Ranges.
I, CHARLES BUTCHER, of Chapeltown, in the County of York, Kitchen Range
Engineer, 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 and accompanying drawings (that is to say) :-
:-
This invention relates to kitchen Ranges, and more especially to that form well-
known as the Yorkshire range, having a side oven or ovens, and it has for its object
a novel method of constructing and arranging such oven so that a more direct
draught is caused round it, and it is more uniformly and equally heated than has
ordinarily heretofore been the case, whilst a greater depth is provided for a hot
plate above the oven for heating plates, dishes, or other articles.
The accompanying drawings are in illustration of my invention. Figure 1 being
a front view, partly in section, of part of a kitchen range constructed according to
my invention
Figure 2 is a transverse vertical section of the same through the
line A, B (figure 1). Figure 3 1s a horizontal section through the oven, and
figure 4 a transverse vertical section through the line C, D, (figure 1). Figure 5 is a
front perspective view of the entire range. The same letters of reference indicate the
same parts in the several figures.
I take an ordinary side oven a of suitable size, shape, and pattern, and I fix it upon
a horizontal foundation plate b arranged in a suitable position at the side of the
range. This horizontal plate may rest upon a ledge formed upon the inner side of the
front of the range, and is provided upon its upper surface with supports upon which
the oven a 18 carried at a sufficient distance above it, so as to leave a space between
them forming a flue c, the space below the horizontal plate b being filled up with
brickwork.
Or the horizontal plate may be omitted, the oven being carried upon pillars or
supports rising from such brickwork.
An opening is made from the firegrated into the inner end of the space or
flue c described below the oven a, which flue communicates at its outer side with
a vertical fluef between the outer wall of the oven a and the jamb g or side of the
space in which the range is fitted
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A space communicating with the flue first described is also left between the
back of the oven a and the back wall of the brickwork in which the range is fitted,
and a projecting horizontal ledge or plate k at the back of the top of the oven
extends to the said back wall and closes in the top of the space between it and the
back of the oven A small opening is made through the ledge or plate k described,
in order to provide for a back draught up through the space h.

page_text: Above the oven a I arrange and fix a hollow top or covering cap m open below
and leaving a horizontal space or flue n above the top of the oven, and the small
opening just described opens into the back of this horizontal flue.
On the inner side next to the fireplace, of the hollow top or covering cap m
described, I provide a vertical socket or opening o preferably rectangular which may
curve partly out over the fire above the entering flue below the oven (as shown in
figures 1 and 2), and into this socket o I fit and fix a pipe p of corresponding size
and shape, which after rising to a sufficient height curves back and communicates at
its upper end with the flue or chimney at the back of the range..
It will be seen that no midfeather of any kind is required in the several flues
formed as described, but that the heated gases from the fire at d pass through the
opening e and under the oven a and up round its outer end through the flue then
back over its top through the flue n and through the vertical pipe p to the chimney.
A part of the heat also passes up the back of the oven in the space h and through
the small opening l into the flue n above the oven. Dampers and soot doors r of the
ordinary kinds may be provided where necessary, and the part of the socket or
pipe o which projects over the inner edge of the oven a may be provided with a
sliding or other door-s through which the vertical pipe p as well as the horizontal
flue n above the oven, can be cleaned.
The improved method of construction and arrangement described may be applied
to ovens at each side of the fireplace, and either to ranges having open fires, or close
ranges having a hot plate, or heating chamber in the upper part.
The hollow top or covering cap above the oven forms a convenient hot plate
extending back to the full depth of the range.
Figure 6 shows a perspective view of the upper part of the range shewn in figure 5,
somewhat modified in form and arrangement, but the flues and pipe p, remaining
the same.
My invention may be applied to what is well known as a "Leamington" Range,
in which the heated gases from the fire pass above the ovens, thence down their
outer ends, and back below them, and up inclined flues to the chimney.
Figures 7, 8, and 9, are in illustration of such an application, figure 7 being a
front view of a "Leamington" range having an oven at each side, figure 8 a
horizontal section of the same through the line A, B, (figure 7) and figure 9 a vertical
transverse section through the line C, D, (figure 8). The heated gases from the
fire d pass above the ovens a, a, thence round their outer ends (as shown by the
arrows), and back below them, and up their inner sides to openings at t, t These
openings t, t, communicate with the lower ends of vertical pipes u, u, of corresponding
shape which rise to a sufficient height above the fireplace and then unite into a single
flue and communicate with a chimney above them. The back of the spaces between
the vertical pipes u, u, may be closed in, and the front of the recess to so formed
may be provided with doors, which are opened when the range is to be used with
an open fire (the smoke passing between them and the vertical pipes to the chimney)
but are closed when a close fire is used in the manner described above.
Ranges constructed according to my invention are very cheap, simple and effective,
and it can be very readily applied to any kind of range. The oven or ovens can be
very easily and conveniently fixed.
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 :-
1. The method of supporting the oven by a plate below, forming a flue between it
and the bottom of the oven having rests or supports upon which the oven is carried
substantially as described and shewn
2. In combination with the oven supported as described, the flue below it communi-
cating with the fire the outer vertical flue, and the upper flue above the oven
communicating with a pipe to the chimney, upon the side next to the fire, substan-
tially as and for the purpose described and shewn in the drawings.

page_text: 3. The hollow covering plate or cap forming a flue above the oven, and communi-
cating with the pipe to the chimney, substantially as described and shewn in the
drawings.
4. In combination with the hollow covering plate or cap forming a flue above the
oven, the socket and pipe communicating with the chimney, substantially 'asi and for
the purpose described and shewn in the drawings
5. The combination with the two ovens and hollow covering plates or caps forming
flues above the ovens arranged as described, of two vertical pipes or flues above the
inner sides of the ovens, uniting into a single pipe communicating with a chimney
above, substantially as and for the purpose described and shewn in figures 7, 8, and 9.
6. The folding doors, in combination with the two vertical flues or pipes, for the
purpose of using the range with an open fire, substantially as described and shewn in
figure 7.
Dated the 25th at 1000
EDWARDS & ('o.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.