A MACHINE FOR COOKING, WHEREWITH A PERSON MIGHT BAKE, BOIL, BROIL, STEW, &C., AT ONE AND THE SAME TIME WITH ONE SINGLE FIRE
Year: 1783

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
WINGFIELD, of Brook's Market, in the Parish of Saint Andrew, Holborn,
London, Mason, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Samuel Wingfield, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that
after many years' study, labour, and great expence, I had found out and
invented "A MACHINE FOR COOKING, WHEREWITH A PERSON MIGHT BAKE, BOIL,
BROIL, STEW, &C., AT ONE AND THE SAME TIME WITH ONE SINGLE FIRE;" that the
said machine was entirely new, and would prove a general benefit to the public,
and was the sole invention of me, the said Samuel Wingfield, I therefore most
humbly prayed His said Majesty that He would be graciously pleased to
grant unto me, the said Samuel Wingfield, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the sole use and benefit of my said
Invention, within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
for the term of fourteen years, according to the Statute in that case made
and provided; His said Majesty, being willing to give encouragement to all
arts (and inventions which might be for the public good, was graciously
pleased to condescend to my request, and therefore by His Royal Letters

page_text: Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Second day of October, in the
twenty-third year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and
meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give and grant unto
me, the said Samuel Wingfield, my executors, adiñiors, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said
Samuel Wingfield, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of
them, by myself and themselves, or by mine or their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Samuel Wingfield, my
executors, administrators, or assigns, should agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my said
Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
in such manner as to me, the said Samuel Wingfield, my executors, adñiors,
and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions seem. meet; and that I,
the said Samuel Wingfield, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and
advantage, from time to time coming, growing, accruing, or arising by reason
of the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein mentioned,
to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and
advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the
said Samuel Wingfield, my extors, administrators, and assigns, for and during
and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said
Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and
ended, according to the Statute in that case made and provided; in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said Samuel Wingfield,
should not particularly describe & ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said
Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted,
should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-before
contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by
the said in part recited Letters Patent. (relation being thereunto had) may
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE that I, the said Samuel Wingfield, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby describe & ascertain the nature of my said

page_text: Invention, and declare that the Plan thereof, drawn in the margin of these
Presents, is composed of the several particulars herein-after specified, and to
be performed in manner following (that is to say):
The machine for cooking is made of wrought or cast iron of any dimensions,
and consists of a front of iron, sides and top of iron, and sometimes stone or
brick, and an iron, stone, or brick back to fit the place where it is intended to
be put up, with a space for the fire, with a boiler, as at A, made of iron or
copper, with a division in it, and one or more cocks, with one or more ovens, as
at (B) and (C), an iron plate or plates for stewing or broiling as at (D), a hot
closet for keeping victuals hot, as at (E), and steam closets, as at (F), with
doors to each in the front of the machine, fitted with hinges. The fireplace
is fixed near the bottom of the machine, as at (G), with a door, or with bars
in front with or without a door, together with an ash hole under it, as at (I).
The ovens, boiler, and hot closet are on each or both sides of the fire, and
sometimes over it, as is most convenient to the situation in which the machine
is to be placed, and heated by means of internal flews or channels, described by
red dotted lines, as at Letters (I), which lead the fire round the machine, with
funnels inade of plate, iron, or copper, to convey the smoke away, as at (K),
ant also to convey the stean away, as at (L), with small doors to clean side
and top of oven, as at (M). This machine is so contrived as to admit of being
divided into two parts, as at Letters (N), and by that means becomes useful
for small families, who may want an oven, boiler, and hot closet without
the upper part; and as the fireplace may have bars in front if required,
instead of a door, it may be used for roasting.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Wingfield, have hercunto set my
hand and seal, the Nineteenth day of December, in the twenty-fourth
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the
grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender
of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and eighty-three.
Signed and sealed (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of
SAMUEL WINGFIELD. (L.s.)
ROB KIRKE,
No 81. Castle Yard. Holburn.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Nineteenth day of December,
in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the
Third, the said Samuel Wingfield came before the said Lord the King in
His Chancery, and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and
every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also
the Instrument aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the several
Statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen
William and Mary of England, and in the seventeenth and twenty-third years
of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Twentieth day of December, in the year above written.