AN APPARATUS - FOR COOKING, HEATING, AND VENTILATING, APPLICABLE TO DWELLING HOUSES, &c.
Year: 1854

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by the Act.)
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Lawrence Wigginton at
"the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th November 1854.
I, WILLIAM LAWRENCE. WIGGINTON, of Barnet, in the County of Hertford,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN APPARATUS - FOR
COOKING, HEATING, AND VENTILATING, APPLICABLE TO DWELLING HOUSES, &c.," to be
as follows:-
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A stove, consisting of an oven, a smaller ditto, with a small copper between
them, having a bail or bails, to which kettles, &c. might be hung to boil food,
&c. A circular or flat cover to be fitted to the top of boiler, with a pipe to carry
off the steam; the front portion of the cover to be moveable, with a square of
plate glass inserted, to enable persons, to see the operations within. Two sets
of bars or grates for the fire, the one a few inches above the other; on the
upper one coke can be burnt, on the lower coal, thus economizing the fuel, as
the whole of the gas from the coal would be consumed. The door of the
fire-place, would be made to slide, that persons who cannot, in the first instance
overcome the desire of gazing at a bright fire may gradually have the preju-
dice removed. A flue from the fire-place to the boiler; a tube passing from

page_text: the outside of a house communicating with the stove, to convey air to feed the
fire. Another tube above it (see Drawing); also from the exterior of a house,
would run into a larger tube within the stove, and at the other extremity of
the larger tube another tube would be joined, to convey pure warm air to the
rooms of a dwelling house. This tube would be in lengths of about two feet
each, which might be built into a half brick wall, having an iron collar to fit
to the socket of each length, and cramps to tie the wall and secure the tube
(see section). The heating tube and those connected with it would probably
be of fire clay. From the tube conveying warm air a valve would open into
each room, being flush with the wall; or I would have an extra elbow, to move
vertically, which could be opened or shut by the inmates. To regulate the heat
when not required, a stop at the outer aperture of the air pipe could be closed.
As the introducing of fresh air would be useless without carrying off the
attenuated air, to complete the ventilation, say, of a four-room cottage, or a
residence of the industrious classes, for which it is more especially brought
forward, a ventilator. would be placed over the parlour door, as near the
ceiling as possible; another over the staircase door, or passing from the living
room to the staircase; one each over the bed-room doors; an open roseatte
in the ceiling of staircase, communicating with a funnel-mouth zinc pipe, to
be conveyed over the ceiling joist, and through or near the apex of the roof,
with a raised cap at the top, to protect it from the weather. The stove to have
each end cased with half brick, with curved bricks at each angle; the front
of the boiler part and small oven also to be cased with half brick. The
bottom of the latter portion would be of fire brick, with an arch turned under
(as in plan), for a shuttle hole. The parts tinted red show the brickwork; the
blue, the air pipes. The smoke (if any) would be carried off by a six-inch
tube, to be built at the end of stove, as in section, of circular superior
pressed brick, and to be carried up about two feet above the roof; every fifth
course to have a ten-inch brick tailed into the wall on each side of the tube
(vide section), which would also be strapped to the joists and rafters with iron.
One tubular smoke conveyer would suffice for two small houses; in one of
which a door would be placed a little below the junction of the flues, to allow
the sweeps to clean it with a machine.
I beg permission to have any stove and tubes of any dimensions, and the
latter in any number, of course running parallel with the single one, so
as to act on the same principle, and to diverge on leaving the stove in any
direction. I may wish also to have the portion or portions passing through
the stove of any shape, either tubular, square, or otherwise; also to have

page_text: the tubes at the exterior of a house bent (if required); or of any other
shape; also to have the boiler circular or square, and the slide. to move
laterally, if needed; that I may also add an air chamber beyond the small.
oven, or convert the latter into one, if I desire it; also to have the interior
pipe a coil, if preferred, and of any material.