IMPROVEMENTS IN COOKING STOVES AND SHIPS' RANGES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Nottingham Palmer, of Fenchurch Street, in
the City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COOKING
STOVES AND SHIPS' RANGES."-A communication from abroad by John
Russell, residing at Sydney, New South Wales.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Nottingham Palmer
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th December 1861.
I, JOSEPH NOTTINGHAM PALMER, of Fenchurch Street, in the City of
London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN COOKING STOVES AND SHIPS' RANGES," a communication to me from
abroad by John Russell, resident at Sydney, New South Wales, to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists in the introduction of a flue at the back of the
stove, with a view of increasing the draught, and allowing the heat to pass all
round the ovens and up the chimney or pipe, thereby heating the bottom of the
ovens as well as the top, and in supporting the steam pipe by means of a
separate cast-iron oblong pipe attached to the back of the stove, to allow the
top or hot plate to be removed for the purpose of cleaning out the flues.

page_text: without taking down the pipe; and in the introduction of a cast-iron per-
forated fire-back or shield in the fire pot with a view of allowing the air to
pass up from behind, increasing the draught, protecting the fire pot, and
permitting the fire-back to be replaced when burnt out without removing the
fire pot.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Nottingham Palmer in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 26th June 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
NOTTINGHAM PALMER, of Fenchurch Street, in the City of London, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Joseph Nottingham Palmer, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph
Nottingham Palmer, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such other
as I, the said Joseph Nottingham Palmer, 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 COOKING STOVES AND SHIPS' RANGES," a com-
munication to me from abroad by John Russell, resident at Sydney, New
South Wales, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph
Nottingham Palmer, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par
ticularly 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 Joseph Nottingham Palmer, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-

page_text: This Invention consists in the introduction of a flue at the back of the stove,
with a view of increasing the draught, and allowing the heat to pass all round
the ovens and up the chimney or pipe, thereby heating the bottom of the
ovens as well as the top, and in supporting the stove pipe by means of a
separate cast-iron oblong pipe attached to the back of the stove, to allow the
top or hot plate to be removed for the purpose of cleaning out the flues
without taking. down the pipe; and in the introduction of a cast-iron per-
forated fire-back or shield in the fire pot, with a view of allowing the air
to pass up from behind, increasing the draught, protecting the fire pot, and
permitting the fire back to be replaced when burnt out without removing the
fire pot.
In order to explain the said Invention as completely as possible, I now
proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative Sheet of
Drawings hereto annexed, and to the numeral figures and letters of reference
marked thereon respectively, as follows, similar letters of reference denoting
corresponding parts at each of the Figures.
Figs. 1, 1a, 16, represent a front elevation, a plan view, and a transverse
vertical section of a stove constructed according to this Invention.
a is the stove, and 6 is the flue at the back of the stove, by means of which
the heat is enabled to pass round or encompass the ovens c, c, so as to heat the
bottom as well as the top thereof; d is the stove pipe, supported by the
separate cast-iron oblong pipe e attached to the back of the stove, so that the
top or hot plate may be readily removed in order to clean out the flues
without the necessity of taking down the stove pipe d. In some instances a
cast-iron perforated fire-back or shield e¹ is introduced in the fire pots, so as
to allow the air to pass up from behind, and to increase the draught, and
protect the fire pot; the fire-back can be replaced when burnt out without
removing the fire pot.
Figs. 2, 2a, 2b, 3, 3a, 36, and 4, 4a, represent corresponding views of
cooking stoves and ships' ranges constructed according to this Invention.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of the said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I would remark, in
conclusion, that I do not limit myself to the precise details herein expressed,
as the same may obviously be varied or modified without in any way departing
from the principles on which the Invention is based; but what I claim and
desire to be secured to me by the herein in part recited Letters Patent are,
the general arrangement and combination of parts constituting the "Improve-

page_text: ments in Cooking Stoves and Ships' Ranges," substantially in the manner
herein specified and illustrated by the Drawings hereto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Nottingham Palmer, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of June, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Witness,
H. G. GOUGH,
69, Fenchurch St.
J. N. PALMER. (L.S.)