USRX26I2 - Improvement in the making or manufacturing of the premium railway cooking-stove - Google Patents

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is closed, and from UNITED STATES PATENT Erica -QX 2e PER-EGRINE WILLIAMSON, OF NIHV YORK, N i Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE MAKING 0R MANUFACTURING OF THE PREMlUM RAILWAY COOKING-STOVE.

pawns-vb 3A Specification forming part of Letters Patent dated February 16, I829; Reissue No. 26, dated September 30, 1840.

To all who/it it may cancer-rt:

Be it known that I, PEREGRINE \VILLLQL sort, of the city of New York, in the State of New York, have invented an Improved Oook ing-Stovc, which ldenominate the Premium Railway Cooking-Stove; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

Figure 1 in the accompanying drawings is a perspective view of my railway cookingstove.-

In this figure A B G D is the box or body thereof, which is made of cast-iron. E E is the bottom plate and hearth, the hearth part being of such length and breadth as may be preferred. On the upper part of the back plate there is a collar of the kind usually employed to receive the st-ove-pipe, as seen at S, Fig. 3. This collar I make about ten or twelve inches long and about three inches deep. It is so made that it may receive a wide flat sheet-iron pipe, Q, Q, the upper side of which I perforate with boiler-holes, in which may be inserted small cooking-utensils, as shown at P 1. The outer end of this pipe it proceeds at common stove-pipe, It.

\Vithin the upper part of the body of the stove there is a grate, (shown at K, Fig. 3;) but in Fig. 1 this is hidden by the front plate, U, which plate is hinged at its lower part, a, to the side plates or to the hearth, so as to admit of its being turned up, as in Fig. 1, or turned down, as in Fig. 3. In the former case it acts as a blower, and converts the upper part of the stove into a close stove, and in the lat-tor case it lies upon and widens out the hearth. \Vhen up it is held in place by a latch, I, which passes through a mortise .lnadcin it for that purpose. Thol'ront or upper grate, the bars otwhich are seen at K, Fig;

3, may run either longitudinally or vertically. This grate rests upon ledges cast on each of the side plates, upon which it maybe slid in and out. \Vhen the front or blower plate is up,a space of about an inch is left between it and the railway or sliding box for draft.

V V is the top or removable plate, which fits into the top of the stove, and has holes in it for boilers or othercookingntensils. W161i removed, there is an open fire for cooking purposes at top as well as in front; or a large boiler may occupy its place; ora coffee-roaster may be placed above the fire for which purpose notehes are cast in the end plates, as at d d. The fireplace may be narrowed by' means of cast-iron movable janibs. (Shown at 'r 1'.)

On the heartlrplate I cast ledges or ways, as shown at E W E W, upon which my railway-box or lower grate is to run, or by which it may be guided. This railway-box or lower grate is marked F G M L, andis shown separately in Fig. 2. It has a grate marked 0 standing horizontally within it, being placed upon lodges, and is elevated three or four inches above the bottom plate. It runs in and out upon the ways E W E W, for which purpose I place rollers H L S underit, adapted to run upon or alongside of the ways; or instead of such rollers Iemploy bearing-pieces on the under side of the box, which slide on said ways or ledges. It is in general intended to use this stove within a common fireplace; but with the view of readily removing it I place rollers or casters Y Y under its legs.

It is designed to light a fire in either or in both of the grates, as maybe desired. When a fire is kindled on the lower grate, within the railway-box, this box may be drawn out and cooking utensils of any suitable kind placed upon it. Cooking may also be performed above as well as in front of the upper grate, and also in the sheet-iron widened pipe behind the body of the stove.

Having thus fully described the manner in which I make and use my railway cookingstovc, what I claim therein as constitutingmy invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The manner in which I have constructed my railway-box or lower grate so as to slide or run in and out upon or by means of ways or ledges formed upon the lower plate of the stove, the whole operating substantially as setforth.

2. The manner of constructing the front or blower plate to rise and fall by means of joints or hinges at itslower part, in the manner and for the purpose described.

3. In combination with the movable front In testimony whereof I hereunto set my name this 6th day of July, 1840.

P. WILLIAMSON.

\Vitnesses:

- Enos. 1. J ONES, B. CHAMBERS.

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