US27398A - Cooking-stove - Google Patents

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N. S. VEDDER.

Cooking Stove.

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NICHOLAS S. VEDDER, OF TROY, YORK.

COOKING-STOVE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 27,398, dated March 6, 1860.

T o all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, NICHOLAS S. VEDDER, of the city of Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented a new and useful improvement on such common or well-known cooking-stoves as have the oven arranged underneath the fire-box and so extended both laterally and upward as to form a capaciou's baking-space or roasting-chamber along the side of the firebox and of the oven-space under it; and I do hereby declare that the following contains a full and exact description of my invention, reference being had to the annexed drawings, which make a part of this specification, and represent a'cooking-stove of the kind above mentioned with one form or modification of my improvement applied thereto, and in which drawings- Figure 1 is a plan with the top or pothole-plate removed; Figs. 2 and 3, vertical sections at, and elevations of the parts back of, the lines s z and y y respectively, as viewed in the direction pointed by the arrows m- Fig. 4, a horizontal section at, and plan of the parts below, the line w w; and Figs. 5, 6, and 7 vertical sections at, and elevations of the parts back of the lines 'v 1), u u, and t respectively, as seen in the direction by the arrows s.

The same letters refer to like parts in all the figures; and the red arrows therein indicate the courses of the gases of combustion through the smoke-flues of the stove.

The distinguished characteristic of my improvement on cooking stoves of the kind lirst above mentioned, consists in the arrangement of smoke-flues from the fire-box, B, along the top-plate, c, end-plate or endplates, d, cl, and bottom-plate, e, of the oven A, (so as to heat the oven suitably for baking and roasting purposes,) and at the same time having the door or doors, f, f', of the oven, placed in the side or sides g, 9, directly opposite to the upright side or ,sides L, h', of the fire-box; in order that perfectly free and direct access may thereby be had to the highest and most roomy and useful part, z', of the oven, and also, by the same door or doors, to the broad and highly heated upright side or sides of the fire-box, so that pans of bread or pastry, or a turkey, pig, or large mass of meat, can be more easily placed in and removed from the most eiiicient part of the oven, and far more conveniently inspected, and turned around, and

basted, and otherwise manipulated while baking or roasting therein, than can be done in cooking stoves of the kind first above specified and heretofore made with the smoke-fiues arranged along the top, bottom, and that side of the oven which is directly opposite to the upright side of the fire-box, and with the oven doors placed in the ends d, d', of the oven, or adjoining the ends of the fire-box.

Also, by my above-specified improved arrangement of the smoke-fines and oven doors in a cooking stove of the kind first above mentioned, I am enabled to have the ashbox, j, and the draft-register or slide, 7c, arranged at the end of the fire-box, as shown in the drawings, (so that the stove shall burn wood better, and be more easily made air tight than if the draft and ash-box were at one side, L, of the lire-box) without having the ash-box project over and obstruct the door-way of the oven, nor mounted on the oven door, as is necessary in cooking stoves of the kind first above specified when made as heretofore with the ash-box and oven doors at the ends of the lire box and oven, and the smoke-fines along that side of the oven which is opposite to a side, It, of the fire-box. But it is not always necessary in my improved cooking stove that the draft-slide and ash-box should be arranged at the end of the lire-box, although I generally prefer that arrangement; for either or both of those parts may be placed at a side, 71,, of the fire-box when the Oven is not extended up on that side, and the stove still have the same advantageous quality of free and direct access to both the side, it, of the fire-box, and the largest and most eiiicient part of the oven, by means of one and the same oven door, In case the oven, A, is extended up along both sides, h, 7L', 0f the tire-box, the same as shown on the one side, L, in the annexed drawings, it will then of course be necessary to have the ash-box at the end of the fire-box, if placed at all on the outside of the stove.

It is evident that the vform and position of the smoke-fines which are arranged from the fire-box, B, along the top, c, end, or ends, d, el', and bottom, e, of the oven, A, to the exit-pipe Z, as well as the position of the latter, may be greatly varied, without affecting the principle, or materially lessening the advantageous result, of my improvement. But I would generally recommend the arrangement shown in the annexed drawings, whereby one portion of the gases of combustion, is, while hottest, first made to pass from the lire-box, B, through fiues M, N, and O, over the top, 0, down along the back-end, 0l, and under the bottom, e, to the front end of the largest and highest part of the oven, and then, with heat diminished, through iues, P and Q, along the bottom and up the back end, of the low part of the oven under the lire-box, to the exitspipe, Z, at the back end of the top of the stove; and whereby another portion of the gases of combustion is also made to pass from the tire-box, or the flue-space M, first down through a Hue, R, along the front end CZ, of the most roomy part of the oven, and then through the lues P and Q under and back of the oven to the draft-pipe, Z.

S is a damper which closes a direct-draft passage from the {ire-box, or the flue M, into the eXit pipe. A damper or register,

T, may be arranged so as to close, or to regulate the quantity of the gases passing through, the flue R.

What I claim as my improvement on such cooking-stoves as have the oven arranged and extended underneath and up alongside of the fire-box, B, substantially as herein represented, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

The arrangement of the door or doors, f, f, of the oven, A, directly opposite to the side or sides, h, h, of the fire-box, and of the most capacious and effective portion of the oven, as and for the purpose herein set forth, the smoke-fines being extended from the lire-box along the top, c, end, or ends, d, CZ, and bottom, e, of the oven, substantially as herein described.

N. S. VEDDER.

Witnesses:

THos. J. CORNELIUS, AUSTIN F. PARK.

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