IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN RANGES OR COOKING STOVES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Barton, of Boston, in the County of
Lincoln, Ironmonger, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN
RANGES OR COOKING STOVES."
Sealed the 10th November 1868, and dated the 10th June 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Barton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th June 1868.
I, WILLIAM BARTON, of Boston, in the County of Lincoln, Iron-
monger, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Iм-
PROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN RANGES OR COOKING STOVES," to be as follows:-
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The object of one part of this Invention is to increase the heating
power of the boilers adapted to kitchen ranges or cooking stoves,
and is particularly applicable where in addition to an oven two boilers
are used, one a close boiler for heating water for a bath or elevated
cistern and the other an ordinary boiler for heating water for kitchen
purposes. To this end the bath boiler forms one side of the fire-place,
which is made of a wedge form with a straight or circular front. As

page_text: the side of the bath boiler forms one side of the fire-grate it is heated
by the incandescent fuel being in contact therewith. On the other
side of this boiler is placed the kitchen boiler leaving a flue space
between them, and in order to increase the heating power of this boiler
a series of tubes communicating at one end with the upper part and
at the other ends with the lower part of the boilers is adapted thereto
in the flue space between the two boilers. All the heated gases which
pass down this flue will be brought into contact with these pipes, and
will therefore powerfully aid in heating the water in the boiler, and
keeping up a circulation therein. There is also a descending flue
made through the centre of the boiler. It will of course be evident
that if desired heating tubes can also be adapted to the bath boiler.
In order to prevent smells arising from the cooking operations from
escaping into the room the smoke pipe from the flue of the stove is
surrounded with a jacket so as to form an annular vacant space or flue
around the smoke pipe, the heat from which will warm the air in
the annular space or flue and cause a draught upwards into the chimney.
Openings communicating with the annular space are made in the back
plate of the range, and the upper part of the fire-place being closed
in the draught from the room will carry all the vapours arising from
the cooking through the openings into the annular flue, and from
thence into the chimney. An inverted cover will prevent any soot
from falling into and stopping up the annular flue or space round the
smoke pipe.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 2
filed by the said William Barton in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 10th December 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BARTON, of Boston, in the County of Lincoln, Ironmonger, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Barton, Her special licence a

page_text: that I, the said William Barton, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said William Barton, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
KITCHEN, RANGES OR COOKING STOVES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said William Barton, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent:.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Barton, do liereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto
annexed; and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to
say):
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The object of one part of my Invention is to increase the heating
power of the boilers. adapted, to kitchen ranges or cooking stoves, and
is particularly applicable where in addition, to an oven two, boilers
are used, one a close boiler for heating water for a bath or elevated
cistern and the other an ordinary boiler for heating water for kitchen
purposes..
In the accompanying: Drawing Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation, and
Fig. 2 a sectional plan view of a cooking range constructed according
to my improvements with an oven and two boilers.
The bath boiler a which is shewn detached at Fig. 3 forms one side
of the fire-place b,, which is made of a wedge form with a straight or
circular front, as seen best at Fig. 2. As the side of the bath boiler a
forms one side of the fire-place 6 it is heated by the incandescent
fuel being in contact therewith. On the other side of or behind this,
bath boiler a is placed the kitchen boiler c, shewn detached in elevation.
at Fig. 4, and between these two boilers there is a flue space d for the
passage of the flame and heated gases from the firc.. In order to.

page_text: increase the heating power of this boiler c there are a series of tubes
c', c, communicating at the upper ends with the upper part and at
the other ends with the lower part of the boiler c. The tubes c¹, c';
it will be scen, are adapted to the boiler c in the flue space d between
the two boilers a and c. All the heated gases which pass down this
flue space will be brought into contact with these pipes c', c', and
will therefore powerfully aid in heating the water in the boiler c, and
in keeping up a circulation therein. There is also a descending flue e
made through the centre of the boiler c, and communicating with a
flue or space beneath the boiler. It will of course be evident that if
desired heating tubes can also be adapted to the bath boiler a as well
as to the boiler c. The bath boiler a, which is made strong to bear
considerable internal pressure, communicates in the usual manner with
hot and cold water cisterns placed in any convenient situation above
so as to insure a proper circulation in the boiler. On the other side
of the fire-place b is an oven f, protected on one side by a fire-brick
cheek 9- The heated gases from the fire pass over the top of the oven
and down an iron flue tube f* (placed inside the oven, see Fig. 1ª, so
that the beat evolved from all sides of it is retained in the oven).
Access of the heated gases to the fluc tube f* is controlled by a

page_text: draught from the room will carry all the vapours arising from the
cooking through the openings j into the annular flue i, and from
thence into the chimney. An inverted cover h³, Fig. 1, will prevent
any soot from falling into and stopping up the annular flue or space i
round the smoke pipe h.
Having now described my Invention of "Improvements in Kitchen
Ranges or Cooking Stoves," and having explained the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I claim as the Invention secured to me
by Letters Patent as aforesaid,-
First. The several arrangements of parts herein set forth and described
comprising an open fire-place with one or more boilers and ovens so
arranged as to economize and use the heat given off from the fuel.
Second. Constructing the boilers with outside vertical tubes com-
municating with the top and bottom of the boilers, and which tubes
being contained in the flue space by the side of the boilers will receive
heat from the gases and flame arising from the fire, and will materially
assist in heating the water in the boilers.
Third. I claim constructing the ovens with internal flue tubes for
the passage of the heated gases, as hercin set forth.
Fourth. Forming openings from the space above the range com-
municating by suitable flues with an annular space surrounding the
smoke pipe for the purpose of carrying off any effluvia or vapours
arising from the cooking, and conducting them into the chimney,
as herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Barton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Ninth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
WILLIAM BARTON. (L.S.)