US216591A

US216591A - Improvement in cooking-stoves

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Publication number: US216591A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1879-06-17
Anticipated expiration: 1896-06-17

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J. F. ALLEN. Cooking Stoves.

No. 216,591. Patented June 17, .1879

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NPETERS, PNOTO-LITHOGRAPHER WASHINGTON. D, C

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN F. ALLEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN COOKlNG-STOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 216,591, dated June 17, 1879; application filed November 27, 1878.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN F. ALLEN, of New York, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in (looking-Stoves, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is longitudinal section of a stove with my improvement attached, and Fig. 2 is a top view of the same.

The object of my invention is to furnish a simple plan of producing the necessary heat in a cooking-stove by the application of an oil, spirit, or petroleum lamp or gas burner, whenever it is not desired to make a coal fire in the stove--as, for example, when only little heat is required to cook withand when it is desirable to extinguish the fire quickly, as in warm weather.

In the drawings, A represents a cooking stove, which may be of any known construction and internal arrangement as regards the lines. B is the fire-door, H the fire-place, and G the ash-pi t and draft-door.

At or near the upper end of the fire-place H, where the flues begin, I arrange a dia phragm, D, which may be made of sheet-iron loosely fittifi g into this part of the fire-place, so as to shut the same ofi' from the other parts of the stove. This diaphragm D is provided with holes J, one under each hole in the top plate of the stove, and which may be closed by a suitable cover, if only one should be required. Into these holes J caps E are fitted,

having suitable projections n to rest upon the diaphragm D to support the same. The lower part of this cap is arranged to receive a suitable lamp, F, and is provided with a number of openings, S, to allow the air to pass into the same above the lamp F to feed the flame. At the top of the cap the usual longitudinal opening for the flame is made.

This arrangement of a petroleum lamp or burner can readily be fitted to any stove or range, whenever only little fire is required for a short time, as in the summer, and is quite as easily removed whenever a larger or coal fire is required. I

When the lamp is lighted the draft of air through the stove, which is admitted and can easily be regulated by the doors B and G, must pass nearly all through the openings S to the flame, increasing the density of the same, and at the same time carrying all smell and smoke usually produced by the burning of petroleum into the smoke-pipe.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with a cooking stove or range, the diaphragm D and lamp or burner, F, fitted to a cap, E, provided with projections n and openings B, said diaphragm D fitting into or upon the fire-place of the stove or range, substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.

JOHN F. ALLEN. Witnesses:

HENRY E. ROEDER, WILLIAM EHRET.