apparatus for illuminating, heating, and cooking purposes
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 26th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 30th Sept., 1887.
ABRAHAM MARTIN of 177 Aston Lane, Birmingham in the County of Warwick,
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to a combined apparatus for illuminating, heating, and
cooking purposes.
The apparatus comprises an oil lamp, of which the burner is surmounted by a
mushroom head or disc so situated as, in combination with a corresponding bulbous
form of the glass chimney, to cause the flame to assume a spherical or bulbous form,
the lamp being capable of being used separately for illuminating purposes only, or in
combination with a beating and cooking apparatus consisting of a water heating vessel
supported upon a framework at a suitable height to permit of the lamp being stood
beneath it, the vessel being traversed by a central vertical tube corresponding to and
acting as a flue in continuation of the chimney and forming a heating surface for the
contents of the vessel. The supporting frame rises from a suitable base adapted to
hold the lamp in position within it, and the framing may be wholly or partially filled
with colored transparent media to screen the light from the eyes. When standing on
the floor, as would be the case when cooking vessels are placed upon the water heater.
The water heater is an open vessel traversed by a central tube or flue as above
mentioned rising from the bottom thereof to a point above the level of the liquid and
it may be provided with a removable inner cover which leaves a free passage for the
central flue. The upper edge of the vessel is carried up to a higher point than
the top of the flue, and is provided above the level of the cover with apertures for the

page_text: final escape of the products of combustion ascending through the central flue, and it
is adapted to form a seat for a cooking vessel such as a saucepan, frying pan, or the
like, which may or may not be correspondingly formed so as to be securely seated
thereon for cooking purposes.
The heater is provided with a draw-off cock and serves to heat water for cooking
and other purposes and also to warm the air of the apartment by radiation.
Dated this 26th day of November 1886.
A. MARTIN.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.

page_text: I, ABRAHAM MARTIN of 177 Aston Lane Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Engineer, 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 a combined apparatus for heating, cooking, and illuminating
purposes, and is eminently adapted for heating greenhouses, studios, schools, sick-
rooms, etc., and for cooking generally on a small scale and the oil lamp forming part
of the apparatus may be removed and used apart from the remainder, for lighting
purposes.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this
specification in which figure 1 shews a half sectional elevation on line 1-1; and
figure 2 a horizontal section on line 2-2, of the combined apparatus.
The apparatus comprises an oil lamp A of which the burner is surmounted by a
mushroom head or disc so situated as, in combination with the enclosing bulbous
portion of the glass chimney, to cause the flame to assume a spherical or bulbous form.
The lamp rests in a seat in the base B of a stand supporting a water heating or
cooking vessel, at a suitable height above the top of the lamp chimney. The stand is
an open cage formed by upright bars rivetted to the base B and to the top ring D
which forms a seat for the water heater or the cooking vessel E. The spaces between
the bars C, may be wholly or partially filled with colored transparent media to screen
the light from the eyes, when standing on the floor. A few of said bars are rivetted
to separate top and bottom bars and open on hinges as a door, to permit the removal
of the lamp. The vessel E may also be used as a water-heater, or there may be
interposed between the ring D and the vessel E, a water heater consisting of an open
vessel traversed by a central tube or flue forming a continuation of the chimney, the
upper edge of the vessel being carried up higher than the top of the flue and adapted
to form a seat for the cooking vessel. Fis a loose cupped ring or deflector which is
dropped into the seat in the ring D in which the same pan or other cooking vessel E
fits, the aperture in said ring F being immediately over the lamp chimney and the ring
serving to confine the heat beneath the bottom of the vessel.

page_text: The heater may be provided with a draw-off cock and serves to heat water for
cooking and other purposes, and also to warm the air of the apartment by radiation.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is ;—
The herein described combined apparatus constructed substantially as specified. for
heating, cooking, and illuminating purposes.
A. MARTIN.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.