US35000A - Improvement in cooking-stoves - Google Patents

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J. MAGEE.

Cooking Stove.

Patented April I5, 1862.

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JOHN MAGEE, OF CHELSEA, ASSIGNOR TO TIIE NORTON FURNAOE COMPANY, OF NORTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COOKING-STOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,000, dated .April 15, 1862.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JOHN MAGEE, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chelsea, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cooking-Stoves; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a front elevation showing the ash-chamber doors as open; Fig. 2 a longitudinal section, and Fig. 3 a transverse section,of a stovehaving my invention,the plane of section of the last-named figure being through the ash-receiver, to be hereinafter described.

The nature of my invention consists in a peculiar arrangement of the ash-chamber and the oven-chute with reference to the hearth, the grate, and the oven, the ash-chamber being constructed with an opening provided with one or more doors, and so arranged as to enable the box or drawer to be removed from the ash-chamber as circumstances may require.

In the drawings, A denotes the oven as made with an inclined plate or chute b, arranged wholly underneath the grate I3 of the fire-place C, and made to lead into an ashchamber E or a drawer or box D, placed within the said ash-chamber E and extending nearly from end to end of it. The ashchamber E extends partly underneath the grate and partly underneath the hearth II, and-is open at its front, or is there provided with an opening large enough to receive the ash box or drawer l) or allow it to be either introduced into or withdrawn from the chamber E, the said opening being furnished with two doors G G, by which it may be closed after the ash-box D may have been put in place within the chamber E. The chute b serves not only to absorb heat from the fuel in the grate and direct such heat into the oven, but to facilitate the escape of ashes which may fall from the grate and would be likely to be deposited on the oven were the top plate of its portion extending under the grate made horizontal. Furthermore, the chute directs the ashes into the ash-chamber or its drawer. underneath the grate, when the latteris horizontal, or about so, said chute constitutes no part of the boundary or surfaces of the fuelchamber, and consequently the fuel while in combustion cannot rest directly against the chute, so as to heat it to redness and thereby serve to greatly injure it. Furthermore, the arrangement of the chute with respect tothe oven, the grate, and the ash-pit, and the arrangement of the latter so as to project both underneath the ash-pit and the hearth, as shown in the drawings, is specially advantageous, for it enables the oven not only to be enlarged by being extended underneath the grate while the latter is horizontal -and protects the oven against ashes collecting against its front, but it disposes of the ashchamber to properly receive the ashes without any danger of their falling on the hearth.

I do not claim the arrangement of an oven, inclinedchute, grate, ash-chamber, and hearth, as exhibited in the United States Patent No. 18,859, my invention being an improvement thereon, by which I avoid sundry difficulties incident to such arrangement.

What I claim is c.

My peculiar arrangement of the ash-chainber and the oven-chute with reference to the hearth, the horizontal grate, and the oven, the said ash-chamber being construct-ed with an opening and such opening being provided with one or more doors, all substantially as specified and represented.

JOHN MAGEE.

IVitn esses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr.

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