IMPROVE- MENTS IN KITCHEN RANGES
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Henry Hughes, in the City and County of
Worcester, trading as Badger and Company, for an Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN KITCHEN RANGES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Henry Hughes.at
the Office of tho Commissioners of Patents on the 19th February 1880..
WILLIAM HENRY HUGHES, in the City and County of Worcester, trading as
Badger and Company. IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN RANGES."
"
My Invention relates to kitchen ranges, and has for its object to render them
convertible into open or close ranges at will, so as to enable either an open or a close
fire to be used in the same range without necessitating any extra depth of brick-
work from back to front beyond what is required for an ordinary close range.
The Invention consists in a hood capable of being drawn out over the fire (when
an open fire is used) sufficiently to convey the smoko and other products of com-
bustion to the flue, with which it communicates, or when not in use of being folded
back flush with the back of hood frame and covings. In fixing this hood no pre-
paration is needed for its reception or working, and it occupies no room on the hot
plate of the range while cooking is going on..
This hood is constructed preferably of five parts, viz., a front plate and two sides
or wings, each of which is made in two parts or leaves of triangular shape hinged
together along one long side, the leaves or parts being likewise arranged to work
on hinges or pivots at their other long sides, respectively connected to the front
plate of the hood and to the hood frame. The front plate fits in an opening in the
said hood frame, of which it is in fact one of the panels, this opening communicating
with a flue. The front plate may be hinged at its top edge to the hood frame, or
be merely carried by the side pieces or wings. It has a portion cut away at the
lower edge to form an arched opening to admit of a kettlo being placed on the open
fire when the hood is drawn forward. When the hood is folded back out of use
this opening is filled by corresponding panels carried on the two adjacent parts
of the sides or wings. A drop knob or handle is fixed on a spindle passing
through the front plate, and terminating at back in a T crossbead, to which chains
are attached, their other ends being connected to the sides or wings at or near the
bingo joint, which unites the two parts or leaves, of which the sides or wings are
constructed so that on giving said T cross head a half turn by means of the knob
handle, the sides or wings are drawn inwards by their hinge joints, and the two
parts or leaves of which each is composed are thus caused to double or fold the one
on the other, and lay flat behind the front plate, which at same time follows the
wings back into the aperture in the hood frame.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Henry Hughes in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
19th August 1880.
WILLIAM HENRY HUGHES, in the City and County of Worcester, trading as
Badger and Company. IMPROVEMENTS IN KITCHEN RANGES."
"
My Invention relates to kitchen ranges of the kind known as kitcheners, and has
for its object to enable either an open or a close fire to be used in the same range
without necessitating any extra depth of brickwork from back to front beyond that
required for an ordinary close range.
The Invention consists in a hood capable of being drawn out over the fire to
convey the smoke through a flue to the chimney, and when a close fire is used of
being folded back out of the way.
This hood is preferably constructed of a front plate and two folding sides or
wings made of two parts or leaves hinged together, and likewise to the front plate
of the hood and to the hood frame. The front plate fits in an opening in the hood
frame, which communicates with or encloses a flue leading to the chimney, and the
front plate has an arched opening at the lower part to admit of a kettle being placed
on the fire when the hood is drawn forward, the said opening when the hood is
folded back being filled by panels carried on the sides or wings. A spindle passing
through the front plate has a crosshead at back connected by chains to the sides at
or near their folding joint, so that by turning the spindle. they will be drawn
inwards and doubled or folded behind the front plate, which falls back flush with
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a kitchoner with the hood in the open or forward 2
position; Figure 2 is a central vertical section of the same; Figure 3 is a front
elevation on a larger scale of the hood frame and bood in the closed position,
parts being broken away to show those which lay behind; Figure 4 is a horizontal
section on line 1-1, Figure 3; Figure 5 shows the two leaves of the sides or wings
separately.
A is the front plate of the hood; B, C, are the two leaves of the sides or wings;
B' are the panels cast on the leaves B corresponding in form with the arched
opening A' at the lower part of the front A; D is the frame in which the hood is
fitted, the said frame being fixed as a panel in the covings, from which it projects
slightly forward so as to enclose a flue I, Figure 2, into which the hood when drawn
out leads. The front plate A is hinged at either side at a, a, to the leaves B, B, and
the two parts B, C, of each wing are of the triangular form shown in Figure 5, and
are hinged together at b, b. The leaves C are pivotted at top and bottom to the
frame D by vertical pivots c, d, received, the top pivots c in forks e cast or rivetted
on the back of the frame D, and those d in holes in the bottom of said frame. G is
a handle on a spindle 9 passing through the front plate A; and H is a crossbar on
the inner end of the spindle g, connected by its two ends by chains h with the
parts C of the two wings respectively near the line of their hinge joint b. On
drawing the hood forward over the open top of the fire the sides or wings assume
the position shown in Figure 2, and on giving the handle G a quarter turn the
sides B, C, are drawn inward at their hinge joint b, and fold on themselves behind
plate A, as shown in Figure 3, the panels B₁ filling up the arched oponing A¹,
the front plate A falling back into frame D and closing the entrance to the
flue I.
and
Having described the nature of my Invention and the manner of performing the

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I declare that what I claim as my Invention to be protected by the herein-
before in part recited Letters Patent is,—
1st. The combination with a kitchener of a hood communicating with a flue, and
adapted to be drawn forward over the top of the fire, and of being folded back flush
with the covings of the range, substantially as shown and described.
2nd. The combination of the front plate and the folding sides composing the hood,
arranged to expand and collapse and fitted in a frame, substantially as shown and
described.
3rd. In a hood applied to a kitchener, as herein described, the combination with
a front plate having an arched opening at the lower part of folding sides having
plates or panels adapted to close said opening when the hood is folded back, sub-
stantially as shown and described.
4th. The combination with the front plate and folding side plates, binged
together to form the hood as described, of the spindle and crosshead connected with
such folding side plates, as and for the purpose set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Henry Hughes, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty.
WILLIAM HENRY HUGHES. (L.S.)