Year: 1886

page_text: I, WILLIAM DICK, Junior, Partner of the Hecla Foundry Company, of 272 Dobbies
Loan, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be
as follows:
My Invention has reference to certain improvements in and connected with the
fittings for changing close kitchen or cooking ranges into open fires, and vice versa
as required, and the removing of the front fire cover over the flue leading to the
chimney.
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· Heretofore it has been the practice to lift the hot heavy plate over the fire and place
it over the outwardly projecting movable side cheeks of the back flue to cover this and
form a direct flue from the back of the fire to the chimney.
And the nature and novelty of my improvements consist all as follows:-I make
the width of the back flue through the cove plates behind the fire the same as that
of the plate, and on the inside of the hinged or other drawing out or portable sides
or cheeks of this flue, I form a curved or angled projection from the lower front bottom
edge gliding up to the upper edge, and backwards horizontally. And I round the
back edge of the fire cover, so that this requires only to be pushed back between the
two side cheeks and it then glides up the curved projections back into the recesses
under the cove plate on a level with the top edges of the sides of the flue, until its
front edge comes in a line with the front ends of these and of the back of the fire.
The plate thus placed though having no rest at the front sides, is so held on the
flat part of the projections and recess at the sides and in the back of the flue that it
can hold pots or other articles on it the same as other cover plates. And it is easily
drawn forward and placed on the top of the grate fire in front so as to form the close
fire or range.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Kitchen Ranges.
I, WILLIAM DICK, Junior, Partner of the Hecla Foundry Company, of 272 Dobbies
Loan, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement in writing, reference being had to the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings, and to the reference letters and numerals marked
thereon that is to say:-
My said Invention has reference to certain improvements in and connected with
the fittings for changing close kitchen or cooking ranges into open fires, and vice
versa as required, and the removing of the front fire cover, with the lids and recesses
in it for pots or vessels, over the flue leading to the chimney.
Heretofore it has been the practice to lift the closing-in hot heavy plate and its pot
recess lids over the fire, and place it over the outwardly projecting movable side cheeks
of the back flue to cover this and form a direct flue from the back of the fire to the
chimney.
And in order that my said invention, and the manner of performing or carrying the
same into effect or practice may be properly understood, I have hereunto appended an
explanatory Sheet of Drawings, in which the same reference letters are used to indicate
corresponding parts in all the figures where shown.
Figures 1 and 2 are a front elevation in perspective, and a sectional side elevation
respectively of an ordinary close and open kitchen or cooking range having the
improvements of my invention fitted thereto. Figure 3 shows a front elevation and
plan of my new or improved door fittings for changing the close range into an open
range, or vice versa, detached from the kitchen range shown in Figures 1 and 2.
Referring to these Drawings: The nature and novelty of my improvements consist
all as follows: I make the width of the back vertical fue F leading to the chimney
through the cove plates F' behind the fire G the same as that of the closing-in top
plate A, with its pot recess lids a, and on the inside of the hinged doors B, or it
might be other drawing out or portable sides or cheeks, of this flue F, I form curved
or angled projections & from the lower front bottom edge B gliding up to the upper
back edge, and backwards horizontally. And I round the under back edge or corners
of the fire cover A, so that this requires only to be pushed back between the two sides,
doors, or cheeks B, and it then glides up the curved projections b, b, back into the
recess or recesses at over the top of the carrying edges b, b, under the cove
plate F on a level with the top edges of the sides of the flue H, and doors B, until
its back edge comes against the stops f¹ at the sides of the recess f, and its front
edge A comes in a line with or over the front ends of the doors B and of the
back of the fire G, so as to form the horizontal flue to carry the gases from the
open fire G in front, to the back vertical flue F, as indicated by the dotted arrows
in Figure 2.

page_text: The plate A thus placed, though having no rest at the front edge A¹, is so held on
the top flat part 6 of the projections b and recess fat the sides and in the back of
the flue F that it can hold pots or other articles on it the same as other cover plates.
And it is easily drawn forward and placed on the top of the grate fire G in front so
as to form the close fire or range, and have the doors B closed again, as indicated in
Figure 3. The back top plate behind the front removable plate A has a flue C
opening up into the flue F fitted with a sliding door C, which is opened before
closing the doors B, and forming the fire into a close range, so that the gases from
the close fire pass up the flue F to the chimney, as indicated by the arrow at Cin
Figure 2, or it might be to the oven H or the water boiler I by the other ordinary
flues and dampers for that purpose. The usual door Cis hinged in front of the upper
part of the fire grate G, so as to close this in or open it, according as the fire is worked
as a close or open range.
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,-
First. The construction, or arrangement and combination of the parts or devices
for changing close into open kitchen or cooking ranges, or vice versa, substantially as
herein described in reference to and shown in the accompanying Drawings.
Second. In close and open kitchen or cooking ranges, the forming of the front
doors or sides B, B, of the back flue in the cove plates F', with angled or curved
inclined plane feathers or ribs b, , for gliding up and supporting the fire cover A
to form the horizontal flue back from the fire into the vertical flue to the chimney,
all substantially as herein described in reference to and shown in the accompanying
Drawings.