Improvements in Cooking Stoves.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 27th Feb., 1890-Accepted, 26th Apr., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cooking Stoves.
I ALEXANDER FREEMAN EMERY 27 Freeman Street Birmingham Gas Engineer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An improved book, rod or hanger for interior of ovens of gas & other Cooking
Stoves, (by the use of which means, the joint, or other article to be cooked can be
drawn out of oven or replaced) also an improved grid.
The said hook is so made as to slide upon a rod, plate, or other support; the rod of
which, passes through a hole or slot in top or front of oven, & when drawn forward,
by means of a knob or handle allows of the meat (or other article to be cooked), being
placed upon it, or taken off with ease, & without danger, & without reaching inside
the oven.
There is also an attachment by which the drip pans can be withdrawn at
same time.
The sliding grid or shelf is made to draw without falling.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cooking Stoves.
ALEXANDER FREEMAN EMERY, 27 Freeman Street, Birmingham, Gas Engineer,
do hereby 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:-
An improved hook, rod, or hanger, for interior of ovens of gas and other Cooking
Stoves by the use of which means the joint or other article to be cooked can be drawn
out of oven or replaced.
Also an improved sliding grid or shelf for same.
The hook is so made as to slide upon a rod, plate or other support the rod of
which passes through a hole or slot in top or front of oven and when drawn outward
by means of a knob or handle allows of the meat &c. being placed upon it or taken off
with ease and without danger and without reaching inside the oven.
There is also an attachment by which the drip pan can be withdrawn at same
time.
The sliding grid or shelf is made to draw without falling.
My improvements relate to Cooking Stoves in which gas is the fuel also applicable
to other kinds of Cooking Stoves.
The stoves to which my improvements wholly or in part relate are Gas Cooking
Stoves of an ordinary well known construction, in which the body of the stove consists
of an oven in which meat, pastry &c. are baked, and on the top of which are circles,
and other arrangements of gas jets for boiling, broiling &c.
One of my improvements relates to the hook on which is suspended the joint of
meat to be baked.
This hook in stoves as hitherto made is a fixture and it is consequently inconvenient
to hang the meat on it as the hands of the cook have to be placed for this purpose in
the oven.
It is still more inconvenient to remove the meat for examination during
cooking, or for taking away when cooked as then the oven is hot and the cook is very
liable to burns from touching the hot metal.
In my improvement I make the hook moveable by attaching it to a rod which
passes through the front of the stove and which is provided with a knob at the outer
end. The rod and attached hook can slide backwards and forwards, so that when it
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page_text: is desired to place a joint of meat on it the hook is drawn (by means of the knob)
forward out of the oven, the meat then is easily hung on and the whole is then pushed
back into the oven, leaving only the knob projecting.
The oven door is then closed, when it is desired to examine or to remove the meat,
the oven door is opened and the hook is drawn forward again. But when the meat is
drawn forward the dripping would fall on the floor, to obviate this, I make the dripping
pan capable of sliding backwards and forwards in the same direction as the hook with
which I connect it rigidly, so that when the hook is drawn forward the dripping pan
is also drawn forward and vice versa, thus the dripping pan is always kept under the
meat. In large stoves when there is more than one hook and dripping pan each
dripping pan would be connected with its own hook, rod, and knob.
A further improvement I effect in the construction of the grid or grids with which
the ovens of gas cooking stoves are provided. As usually made these grids slide
backwards and forwards that is in and out of the oven on suitable guides formed in or
near the sides of the oven, and there nothing to prevent them from being accidently
withdrawn too far, in which case anything placed thereon gets spilt and injured. In
a cooking stove constructed according to my invention I make the back or inner ends
of these grid frames with a hooked projection preferably pointing upwards. This
hooked part strikes against a fixed stop which is close to the front of the oven and
which prevents the grid from being entirely withdrawn out, that is horizontally. The
grid may however be taken out by drawing it horizontally as far as it will come
and then raising the front end and thus causing the hook to pass under the stop.
Or instead of a fixed stop for the hook to engage with I may use a moveable stop
in the nature of a latch or otherwise, in which case the grid may be wholly withdrawn
horizontally.
And in order that this my said Invention may be more clearly understood, I will
now proceed to describe the same, reference being made to the sheet of drawings to
the figures and letters marked thereon that is to say :-
Fig. 1. is a front view in elevation, with the door removed shewing the interior of
structure of a gas stove with my improvements.
Fig. 2 is a side view elevation of the same.
The same letters of reference upon the figures indicate the same parts.
The parts not marked have no bearing upon this Invention.
My Invention will be described in connection with gas-cooking stoves (although it
is applicable to other kinds of cooking stoves) as illustrated by the Sheet of Drawings.
a,
is the body of the stove, with its detail parts, made from wrought or cast iron,
b, is the oven.
My improvements in suspending or connecting and disconnecting joints of meat
and the like are as follows.
9,
is a rod having the hook, g¹ at the one end, and the knob or handle g³, at the other
end, h, is a plate extending from the front of a, to the back, and is provided with a
longitudinal slot. To g¹ is fitted the cross piece 93 working in the said slot, it will be
clear that the hook gl can be withdrawn a required distance by means of the knob 9²
(or a handle) and the joint placed on or taken off without the inconvenience and
danger as hitherto. Or I may as an alternative construct the plate without a slot,
and to slide upon guides, fitted to each side of the stove, in this case I should secure the
hook g' to the under surface of h, an aperture at the front of the stove would allow of
its being moved backwards, and forwards, for the purpose above described and shewn
in Figs. 1 and 2.
The dripping pan i is connected to g. at the back part (or to the plate h, when g¹ is
used in connection therewith) by means of the rods j, which are supported by k at a
joint or pivot, l. The rods ; may be of a bowed or other figure, and are connected
and disconnected to i, by means of the hooks or catches m, engaging in corresponding
slots in ; it will be perceived that when the hook g' is drawn out or forward by 9*
the pan i, is drawn likewise, so that whatever movement is given to g and g¹; i moves
correspondingly and in the guides n shewn in Figs. 1 and 2.
My improvements in connection with grids, is as follows; the grid or frame o, at

page_text: the back part by preference, I construct as a hook or projection p; at q, I shew the
grid passed to the back of the oven b, which works or slides upon the guides r, so that
when is required to be withdrawn it will come so far until p engages against the
stops s,
when it is secured, and the difficulty hitherto existing remedied, but when the
grid o is required to be taken out, it is drawn horizontally until the hook or projection p,
nearly meets the stop s, when by elevating the front end as q' p, will then pass under 3,
(shewn in Fig. 2).
The above being my said Invention, I wish to say that I do not confine myself to
the precise details or arrangement of parts as shewn on the accompanying sheet of
drawings, but that I hold myself at liberty to alter or modify the same without
departing essentially from the principle of my said Invention, as for instance. In my
mode of suspending meat or joints, I shew the hook, as part of the rod, but it may
depend from the same, or from a plate in place of the rod which would be an
equivalent.
In my mode of connecting the drip pan to the rod and hook I shew it at the back
but it could be arranged at the sides of the stove equally as well. In my mode of
retaining the grid instead of the stops I could arrange drop-piece working upon a pin
and engaging in a catch at either side the stove, or in a slot in one of the guides.
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 as my Invention of "Improvements in Cooking Stoves."
1st. The construction of a rod with hook, sliding so that it can be drawn out and
replaced for the purposes substantially as hereinbefore set forth and described.
2nd. The construction of parts by means of which the drip pan is connected to the
rod, moving with the hook, for the purposes, substantially as hereinbefore set forth
and described.
3rd. The general construction combination and arrangement of parts substantially
as hereinbefore set forth in the accompanying sheet of drawings, and described in the
foregoing Specification.
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