US34315A - Improvement in cooking-stoves - Google Patents

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lhvirnn STATES artisti @rtree HUGII WV. MOSHER, OF COEYMANS, NEI/V YORK.

llVlPROVEM ENT IN COOKlNG-STOVS.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 34,3115, dated February 4, 1862.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownv that I, HUGH W. MOSHER, of Coeymans, in the county of Albany and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Cook-Stove; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is av vertical section of my invention, taken on the line :c Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a vertical section ot' the same, taken on the line y y, Fig. l; Fig. 3, a portion of a frontview of saine; Fig. 4, a detached View of a gate pertaining to saine.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspending` parts in the several iigures.

The object of this invention is to obtain a cook-stove which will be self-feeding-that is to say, replenish itself or its lire-chamber with coals for a considerable period of time and also be capable by a simple adjustment of being converted from a self-feeding coal to an ordinary wood-burning stove.

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

A represents the body of the stove, which may be of quadrilateral or other suitable form. B is the oven, and C the fire-chamber. The oven B has fines ct d b c extending around it, the lines a d being at the back and extending about half-way underneath the bottom of the oven, the flue b being between the iiues c a, and the iiue c at the front and top of the oven. and tire-chamber. This is a very oommon arrangement of iiues, and therefore they require no further explanation.

The tire-chamber C extends upward as high as the oven B, and is entirely surrounded by lues, the flue c being at its back between it and the oven and extending over the top ot the iire-chamber and down in front of it to a point d, as shown clearly in Fig. l. At each side of the nre-chamber Cthere is a iiue e, the upper ends of which communicate with the flue c. (See Fig. 2.) The fire-chamber coinmunicates with the side flues e e by openings f f, which are some distance above the grate g or the bottom of the fire-chamber. The

iire-c'hamber communicates at its back part with the iiue c by two openings h h, which are at the same height as the openings ff, and communicates at its front part with iiue c by passages z', which are in a plate D, that is iitted in the front of the stove and properly secured in position by a buttonj.

From this description it will be seen that the lire-chamber has draft-openings at all sides of it; and it will alsol beseen that owing to the height of the tire-chamber and the position of the draft-openings ffh hr2 a considerable space is obtained for coal above said openings. The tire-chamber C does not strictly extend above the draft-openings, for the coal above them does not ignite, but gradually settles down and supplies or feeds the tire beneath. Therefore when the iire chamber C is iilled the fire will be fed or supplied with fuel in the lower part ot the chamber for a considerable length of time.

In the iiue c, directly back of the lire-chamber C, there is a damper k. The object of this damper is merely to allow scales, soot, 85o., which may collect in that part of cto be dropped down into the lower part thereof beneath the oven, from which it can be readily removed through a door Z. (See Fig. l.)

At the front part of the top of the stove there is a door E. This door forms a portion of the top plate m, and it is connected to the front part of the stove by joints n. (See Figs. l and 3.)

The Lipper part of the [ire-chamber C is provided with a iiap or door F, through which the ire-chamber may be supplied with coal when necessary, the door F. being turned down and the iiap F being turned up, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. l. The flap F When turned up closes the flue c at the front of the lire-chamber, and thereby prevents the coals passing down in said flue.

If at any time it should be desired to burn Wood instead of coal, the plate D is removed and another one Ginserted inits place. This plate G has a grate H attached tz it, which, when plate G is inserted in the front of the stove, extends across the tire-charfiber above the dratt-openings f f 77. h, (see lbtted lines, Figs. l and 2,) and the top plates o being removed the operation will be precisely the same as an ordinary wood cook-stove.

I do not claim, broadly or irrespective of construction and arrangement, a lire-chamber provided With 10W draft-openings for the purand the draft-openings f f h 72, as and for pose of obtaining a self-feeding stove; but the purpose specified.

I do claim as new, and desire to Secure by Letters Patent/ HUGH W. MOSHER.

The plate G, having a grate H attached, Witnesses: when used in combination with the front plate WVM. E. WITBECK,

of the stove, the fire-chamber C, ues a a c, JOHN P. STANTON.

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