US131409A - Improvement in cooking-stoves - Google Patents

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A. '1. REDWAY.

- Cooking-Stove. No.- I3l,409. Patented Sap-17,1872.-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. h

ALBERT J. REDWAY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO REDWAY 8t BURTON, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEM ENT IN COOKlNG-STOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 131,409, dated September 17, 1872.

To all whom it may concern: tally as to allow a space all round, as shown,

Be it known that I, ALBERT J. REDWAY, for free expansion. This depression a is of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, State of Ohio, strengthened or stiffened by cross grate-bars have invented a certain new and useful Im- 71 b b b, which also serve, partially, to supprovement in Wood-Burning Cooking-Stoves, .port the wood above the ashes, and has also a of which the following is a specification: raised (iilenellated ridge across its midlength,

especia y to support the wood in such a posi- Natm'e and Objects f tion as to allow a free draft to circulate under My invention consists of a supplementary The space all around this depression or false fire-bottom for insertion and use in between it and the n -Brim f the d pr ss the fire-box of a cooking-stove for burning 9 the/ordinary fire-bottom, as Well as the wood, the same being so constructed as to oblhtelval between the P p y 0f the false tain a latitude for expansion under the influbottom and the W lls f the Stove, by allowence of heat and sufficient strength and stifffree p yt the hettehlAhl its expehsieh ness for supporting the fuel, this false fireand contraction, serves to prevent the burnbottom being provided for the purpose of rent g so common among the dering the ordinary bottom of the fire-box of Stoves destlwte of such an improvement, a cookingstove free from liability to burn out, Whose fire-bottoms, "ielehtly heated and (hosecrack, warp, or become too much heated over 3 confined, e Prone to p and crack (1111" the oven, the false fire-bottom also, by reason a short Perled of and render 811011 of its detachability and adaptability for exstoves uselesspansion and contraction, being safe from frac- The Presence of the false fire-bottom A ture while in use, and easily replaced when the i y fire'bottema a y reason of its b d t, reducing and regulating the temperature of g V the ordinary fire-bottom O, prevents the oven Descmptwn of the Accompa'ng mg Drawing. from becoming unduly heated under the fire- Figure 1 is a sectional perspective drawing i my Improvement the stove proper of a wood bm.ning cooking stove having my remalns lntact, and even after long wear or invention attached, showing its position when careless use have damaged lhs wohklhg new in use. Fig. 2 is a perspective drawing of my false h' h a g 15 the eh Tequlslte, to false fire-bottom detached. Fig. 3 is a longirestore 1h to Its onglhal cohdhhoh, h helhg tudinal section, and Fig. 4 a transverse secph calculated to Suffer, and by lts lntel" tion of the same, in place upon the ordinary Posltloh Save the Stove Proper fire-box bottom. Claim General Desemptwn- "A supplementary or false fire-bottom, A, for

A is my false fire-bottom attached (see Fig. wood'bhhhlhg hookihg h constructed of 1) to an ordinary wood-burning cooking-stove, smaller Slze h the ohhhalry bottom the of which B is the firebox; the Smoke fire-box, to permlt'of expansion, substantially flues; G, the ordinary fire-box bottom; D, the as and the h aslbpit; and E, the Oven The false In testimony of which lnvention I hereunto tom Ais constructed of dimensions somewhat set my hand smaller than the stove-walls (see Figs. 3 and ALBERT J. REDWAY. 4) to allow for expansion by the heat. It has a depressed chamber, a, corresponding to the Witnesses: depression 0 of the ordinary fire-box bottom, FRANK MILLWARD but of so much smaller dimensions horizon- BENJ. BUTTERWORTH.

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