US33705A - Improvement in camp-stoves - Google Patents

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PATENT GEORGE A. HIGGINS, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

IMP ROVEMENT IN CAM P-STOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 33,705, dated November 12, 1861.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. HIGGINS, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Portable Stove, designed more especially for military or camp purposes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure l is a longitudinal vertical section of my invention, taken in the line 50 at, Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a transverse vertical section of the same, taken in the line 1 y, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a

. detached plan or top view of a supplemental oven pertaining to the same; Fig. 4, a vertical section of the supplemental oven, taken in the line 5 .2, Fig. 2; Fig. 5, a transverse vertical section of the stove when arranged in a compact folded state for use.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The object of this invention is to obtain a stove of simple construction, which, with its necessary fixtures or cooking utensils, may, when not required for use, be packed within a small compass, and the several parts when in use be capable of being so arranged that a large amount of cooking may be done, the parts being contrived in the most economical way to effect that result.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents the body or main portion of the stove, which may be of rectangular form and provided at its lower part with a door B, through which the stove is supplied with fuel. The upper end of the body of the stove is open to receive vessels 0 D, which may be of sheet metal, the vessel D being smaller than 0, in order that the former may fit within the latter when necessary, and when in use its contents heated and cooked through the medium of water in vessel 0. This arrangement prevents the contents of D being burned.

The body A of the stove is provided with a horizontal adjustable flue E, which, when the stove is in use, is adjusted to its upper part at one end by means of hooks or hook projections a, attached to the stove and to the fiue,'as shown clearly in the figure. The upper surface of said flue has a rectangular opening in it to receive a vessel G, which may be used as a boiler. Beneath the flueE there is a drawer H, which is allowed to slide freely in and out. This drawer is designed to be used as a broiling-oven, the latter being heated by the radiation of heat from the bottom of the flue.

At the outer end of the flue E there is attached by hooks b a vertical fine I, which is sustained by a hinge or adjustable support J, as shown clearly in Fig. 1. The arrangement of the several parts described, when in use, is shown clearly in Fig. 1, and when not in use they are packed or stowed away, as shown in Fig. 5, the vessels 0 D-G being fitted in the top of the stove A, one within the other, the upright flue I and drawer or broiling-oven H being fitted within the horizontal flue E and all of the latter fitted in the lower part of the stove A. Thus it will be seen that the parts when not in use may be compactly stowed away.

K is a supplemental oven which, is formed of two longitudinal parts L M. These parts L M are each formed of a plate 0, provided at its sides with flaps (Z (Z, which form the sides of the oven, the plates 0 c forming the top and bottom. The flaps d d of the lower part M of the oven are each provided with a cleat e, and these cleats serve as supports for a pan N, in which the article or substance to be cooked is placed. The pan Nis about at the center of the oven K, and the top and bottom plates 0 c of the oven are inclined, so as to reflect the heat down upon the top of the pan N and its contents, and also upward underneath it, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2. The oven is heated by the radiation of heat from the side of the stove A, the oven being attached to the stove by'means of hooks f, which fit in eyes g at the front of the oven. The lower part M of the oven is supported by a hinged upright Q, as shown in Fig. 2.

When the oven K is not in use, the two parts L M are detached, the flaps (Z cl folded beneath the plates cc, the pan N fitting in the stove A, as shown in Fig. 5, while the two folded parts of the oven may be placed in close contact and arranged by the side of the stove within its box or covering.

3. The employment or use, in combination I with the stove A, of one or more supplemental ovens K, when constructed, substantially as shown, to admit of being" readily detached and folded up when not required for use and readily applied to the stove when required for use, substantially as set forth.

GEORGE A. HIGGINS.

Witnesses:

M. M. LIVINGSTON, J. F. BUCKLEY.

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