Improvements in Spirit Cooking-stoves.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 29th May, 1897
Improvements in Spirit Cooking-stoves.
I, CURT VOGT, of Ashersleben, in the German Empire, Manufacturer, 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:-
My invention relates to improvements in small heating or cooking stoves for
domestic purposes, in which the heat is derived from the combustion of methylated
or other spirit, and adapted for quick and immediate use for heating infants food,
milk, and the like at home, or for the use of tourists, picnic parties, and other
purposes, the object of my said invention being to provide a means whereby the
heating power of such a stove may be regulated at will, in order that food when
once heated thereby may be kept warm without further cooking or burning, as
obtains with such stoves as hitherto made and used, in which the heat is constant
and cannot be reduced except by extinguishing the light.
In order that my said improvements may be fully understood I have appended a
sheet of drawings, of which Fig. 1 is a vertical central section of Fig. 2 (taken
upon the line A B) which is a plan view of the same.
My invention consists of a spirit reservoir A, circular in plan, and constructed
of any suitable metal, and to which is attached or formed integrally therewith a
cover B, adapted to form a dip or circular recess C, and a cylindrical opening D
extending for a suitable distance in a downward direction into the reservoir A, and
between D and the outer dipping edge of CI provide any number (preferably
four) of equidistant elongated apertures E, arranged in a circle. In the recess C
is seated a circular metallic plate F adapted to be rotated therein by the means of
a handle G, connected to a cylinder H pressed up, spun or otherwise formed of
and integral with F, the circular opening formed by H coinciding with the opening
formed by D, and in the said plate F I form a like number of similar apertures J,
adapted to coincide or alternate with the apertures E, by the rotation of the
plate F, and by such rotation of F the apertures E may be wholly or partly
covered at will for regulating the inlet of atmospheric air to the reservoir A
necessary to support combustion.
The reservoir A is seated in a ring K, supported by three legs L, the upper ends
of which M are bent to form a seating for a kettle or other vessel containing the
food to be cooked or warmed.
The spirit used would be placed in the reservoir A and when ignited the flame
would pass up through the cylinders D and H and impinge upon the bottom of the
kettle or other vessel seated upon the surfaces M, and the extent of such flame,
and consequently the heat given off therefrom, may be regulated by the extent to
which the openings E are uncovered by the movement of the plate F operated by
the handle G, hence the attainment of the object of my invention.
The reservoir A_may be packed with wadding, felt or other absorbant material
if desired, while the top or bottom or both openings of the cylinder D or the
cylinder H or both may be enclosed by a surface of woven wire or other perforated
material.
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.
In a spirit stove the combination Ր

page_text: tripod such as K L M, and having a fixed cover such as BC, provided with
cylindrical opening D, and apertures E, with circular plate such as F, having a
cylindrical opening H, and apertures J, the said plate F being adapted to rotate
upon BC by the means of a bandle G for covering and uncovering the apertures E,
substantially as and for the purposes herein described and shewn by the 5
accompanying drawings.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1 Broad Street Buildings, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.