US550865A

US550865A - Stove or range

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Publication number: US550865A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1895-12-03
Anticipated expiration: 1912-12-03

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STOVB OR RANGE.

No. 550,865. Patented Deo. 3.1895.

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NiTED STATES 'PATENT OFFICE.

EDl-VIN R. CAHOONE, OF NEVARK, NEW JERSEY.

STOVE OR RANGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 550,865, dated December 3, 1895.

Application led May 24, 1895. Serial No. 550,490. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN R. CAHOONE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Esser and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stoves or Ranges, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to stoves or ranges especially adapted for burning soft or bituminous coal, and particularly to the class of stoves employed for cooking, the object being to produce perfect or substantially perfect combustion of fuels rich in hydrocarbons, and thus to eliminate smoke and soot, eifect an economy in fuel, and adapt the stove for use in broiling and toasting.

The invention will be fully described hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, and its novel features carefully defined in the claims.

ln the said drawings, which illustrate my improvements embodied in a cooking range or stove, Figure i is a longitudinal vertical section of the front portion of the stove, the rear portion of the same being in side elevation. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the stove in the' plane indicated byline 2 2 in Fig. l, and Fig. 2a is an enlarged detail view of the damper-bearing. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the stove in its normal condition. Fig. 4 is a similar view to Fig. 3, showing the stove as it appears when the window-plate is removed from the hinged stove-front; and Fig. 4 shows the inner face of said windowplate, the plate being detached. Fig. 5 is a plan of the stove. Fig. 6 is a perspective view showing the broiler in position on the stove. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the transverse air-duct detached. Fig. S is a view of the front plate or shield of the duct detached, and Fig. 9 is a similar view of the shoe of said duct. Fig. 10 is a section of the bottom of the fire-box, the section being taken transversely of the stove. Fig. 11 is a view of one of the end linings of the fuelmagazine, and Fig. 1l is a similar view of one of the end linings of the back flue C. Fig. l2 illustrates a modified form of the transverse duct or partition between the fuelmagazine and back flue. Fig. 13 is a per-` spective view of the front part of the stove, showing the charging-d oor and hinged front thrown open to disclose the interior. Fig. 14 is a horizontal section of the front part of the stove, showing a somewhat different construction of the movable stove-front and i nner wall, which will be hereinafter described. Fig. I4 is an end view of the stove-front, showing the broiler-casing flXedly connected therewith. Fig. 15 includes two views illustrating the wicket device in the top of the stove for convenience in inserting a poker for stirring the iire.

My invention is in the main an improvement in stoves of the class illustrated in my application, Serial No. 519,927, and some of the features of the stove shown in the drawings of this application are substantially the same as those in the above application. In a stove of this class the combustion-chamber at the front of the stove is partially divided by a transverse air duct or partition, usually pendent from the top plate of the stove, the portion of the chamber in front of said duct forming the fuel-magazine and that back of said duct forming a back flue, up which the hot gases flow to the horizontal gas passage or flue between the top plate of the stove and the crown-plate of the oven. The fuel rests on the normally imperforate bottom of the combustion-chamber, the draft being downward in the fuel-magazine and across the lower part of the latter from front to rear and under the duct. This draft is the normal air-supply, but where the duct is hollow there is a hot-air supply through the same, which discharges the hot air in jets, partly in a downward direction and partly in an oblique direction at its lower part.

I will now describe the construction with more particularity, premising that in respect of parts not described the stove may be constructed in any way desired or according to known models. For convenience I have used capit-al letters to designate major parts and features as a whole and numerals to designate the smaller parts and details.

A represents the fuel-magazine; B, the pendent air-duct; C, the flue at theback of said duct; D, the iiue over the oven; E, the oven F, the bed on which the fuel rests; G, the ash-box 3 H, the ash-pan in said box, and I the stove-top or top plate, in which are the usual pot-holes. J is the flue under the oven. K

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is the collar to receive the stovepipe. L is the charging-door for supplying fuel to the magazine A. M is the hinged stove-front as a whole. N is the swinging removable hearth-plate. O is the concave back wall of the iiue C. P is the water-back, which forms the upper part of said back wall, which has an ogee forni, and Q is a chamber under the stove for kindling, &c. This latter is a common device and may be used or omitted, at will. I will now describe these and other parts in detail in order to develop the novel features of the construction.

The transverse air duct orpartition B will be by preference suspended from a section l of the stove-top I. Figs. G, 8, and 9 illustrate its construction, taken in connection with the general views, Figs. l and 2. The duct is hollow, consisting of a front section 2, provided, Fig. 7, with apertures 3 and of an imperforate rear section 4. It is made thus in two sections, joined together at 5, in order to avoid coi-ing. Preferably the top of the duct B will be open, and in the section l, to which it is secured, will be apertures 6 (seen in Fig. 5) to admit air to the duct. The duct will, however, be open at its ends also to admit air, said ends being covered, preferably, by ornamental apertured plates 7. (Seen in Figs. 2 and 6.) This duct B is provided on its front with an outer wall or shield 8. (Seen detached in Fig. 8.) This shield is vertically corrugated, having upright ribs S, the grooves between which are Apreferably deepest at their upper ends, and it has at its lower edge a recessed apertured strip or plate Sb. When placed on the front of the duct B, there is an airspace SX between said shield and the inner front wall of the duct, whereby the air entering this space from the duct is diffused and heated before passing out through the perforations or apertures in the strip Sb to the combustion-chamber, and this air-space or jacket serves also to protect the inner wall of the duct against the injurious influences of the intense heat. On the shield S at one end is a lug 8, which takes under an overhang on the front wall of the duct, and an apertured lug 8d at the other end to receive a screw for securing the shield to the inner front wall of the duct.

On the convex lower edge of the duct- B is secured a shield 9, which, for distinction, I call a shoe. This shoe is preferably hollow, as seen in Figs. 1 and 9, and has on it raised ridges or transverse hollow or solid ribs 9a, and it has also by preference perforations between or through said ribs, from which the hot air entering the said hollow or air space from the duct B escapes in jets into the combustion-chamber. These ribs may extend up in front to the perforated strip 8l. Both the shield S and shoe 9 may be removed and replaced from the front of the stove without the necessity of taking out the main body of the duct, the ends of which rest lin recesses formed in theside plates of the stove-body.

The ends of the fuel-magazine A are lined with end shields 10, one of which is seen detached in Fig. 1l. These two end shields are alike, except that they are rights and lefts, and each has on it by preference ribs 10, like or similar t0 the ribs 8 on the shield S- that is, the grooves between them are deepest at the upper end, ruiming out to nothing at their lower ends. These end shields may be secured by screws to the stove-walls and may also be removed and replaced from the front of the stove. The ends of the flue C are also lined with end plates 10X, one of which is seen detached in Fig. 11". These end plates are also rights and lefts. They need not be ribbed, however. The parts of the end plates 10 and 10X, where they meet below the duct B, are by preference overlapped by rabbeting or gaining them, and the rear edges of the plates lO are overlapped by the back wall O and water-back P. If the plate l0 and the end of the duct B overlap the plate 10X at its front edge and the wall O and water-back P overlap it at the rear edge, these will hold Lsaid plate in position; but it may be secured to the side plate of the stove at its top bya single screw.

In the front of the stove near the top is the charging-door L. This door is of the usual construction, except that it Ahas in it registerapertures and on its inner face a register-slide 1l, provided with apertures and also with trunks 1 l,forming inwardly-proj ecting tubes about said apertures. These trunks serve in a good degree to prevent the escape of smoke at the register-apertures, but allow the air to enter freely. Below the charging-door is situated the movable stove-front M. This front is herein shown as hinged at the side to the stove and when thrown open exposes the entire fuel-magazine down tothe lire-bed. On the inner face of the front M, as shown in Figs. 1 and 13, is a vertically ribbed Aand slotted plate l2. (Seenbest in Figs. l and 4.) The ribs on this plate or inner wall coincide with and form continuations of the ribs on a iXed convex-ribbed lining-'plate 13, situated in the front of the stove below the chargingdoor, as best seen in Figs. l and 2.

Mounted in the front Mis what I calla window-plate 14. This plate is so mounted, as herein shown, that it may be lifted out and removed, or, if preferred, it may be simply let down, lugs on the lower edge of the plate engaging recesses in thestove-front M. Figs. l and 3 show the plate 14 in place. Fig. 4 shows the stove as it appears when'this plate is removed, and Fig. 4"L shows the inner face of the said plate 14. In this plate 14 are mica windows I4, about which air passes inwardly through small perforations, such air entering caps or boxes 14b on the inner face of the plate 14 over the windows. These caps have IOO IOS

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perforated bottoms, as clearly shown in Fig. il, and they serve to protect the mica windows from smoke and yet permit air to enter about the windows and pass into the combustion-chamber.

It is not essential to my invention that the ribbed and slotted'plate 12 shall be mounted on and carried by the front M. It may be made separate therefrom and be hinged to the stove, as shown in Fig. 14, and the front IWI may be removably connected to the stove in any of the ways known in the arts. I would say here that as the fuel-usually soft coal in rather small pieces-deposited at the front part of the magazine orcombustion-chamber is usually iiner than that deposited at the back I prefer to construct the ribbed surface of the inner wall or plate 12 as clearly shown in Fig. la-that is, to construct in each of the grooves on its face a rib which divides the groove longitudinally. The main ribs will usually be hollow at the back, but the intermediate rib may be merely blad or web of solid metal.

The hearth-plate N is pivoted to the hearth of the stove at one of its sides and may be turned to one side by lifting it a little to clear it and then swinging it. This plate is omitted from Fig. 13. In this plate is aregister 15 to admit air under the fire-bed. This register will be closed when fuel rich in hydrocarbons is being burned, as in that case no air should pass up through the tire-bed from the ashbox.

The construction of the fire-bed or fuelsupporting surface F will be best understood by reference to Figs. 1, 2, and 10. Ona permanent or iiXed plate 16, having in it slots extending from front to rear of the stove, forming a sort of grid, is mounted a sliding grid 17, which maybe moved to and fro transversely of the stove, so as to put the slots in the two grids into register or out of register at will. As herein shown, the sliding 'grid has a stem 17, which projects through the side of the stove, and a'forked handle or lever 17h, which is made to engage ahead or shoulder on said stem, the handle or lever being fulcrumed below in a hole or holes or recesses in the stove-plate. In burning soft or bituminous coal the grid 17 is so set as to close the fire-bed against air arising from the ashbox into the combustion-chamber; but when ashes shall have accumulated in the latter the said-grid may be moved to and fro a few times in order to allow the ashes at the bottom of the fire to fall through into the ashbox. In order that this iire-bed may clear itself the better, I prefer to flare the slots between the bars of the grids in a downward direction, as clearly shown in Fig. 10, whereby the combined registering slots are widest at the bottom. This insures the free escape of any bits of coal or coke that can enter the slot in the sliding grid.

In rebuilding a fire the removable front M is thrown open after the hearth-plate. N is swung to one side and the contents of the combustion-chamber drawn out into the ashpan H. In this pan willbe set, by preference, a screen 18, onto which the coke and ashes fall, the latter siftingthrough into the pan and the former being shoveled back into the magazine or scuttle. The draft being downward in the fuel-magazine A, the nature of the vertical corrugations or air-fines in the shields or linings thereof permits the air to pass downward about the fuel,`the air-passages between the ribs being preferably largest at their upper ends. This construction is very important for a stove of this class wherein soft caking coal is to be burned. If otherwise, the coal would choke up the passages and cake against the linings. These shields or linings will be by preference of cast-iron but I do not limit myself in this respect. They may be of other suitable refractory material.

In order to form an obstruction to the coke from the coal working back under the duct B due to the pressure of the fuel above, the shoe 9 is provided with ribs or 'downwardlyprojecting lugs, as shown, and the sliding grid 17 has a shoulder 17 C for the same purpose. This grid is also set at the back a little below the front edge of the concave wall O, where a second step-like shoulder is formed for the same purpose. The effect of this construction is to lower the fuel-supporting surface in the main somewhat below the horizontal portion of the wall O under the duct B.

It will be noted by inspection of Figs. l and 7 that the upper part of the rear section et of the duct B inclines toward the front of the stove. The object of this is` to afford room for the front pot-holes of the stove and to provide a wider space for the reception of a toast-holder, as will be described. In the side wall of the stove is formed an aperture for the insertion ofsuch a toast-holder, and this aperture is closed by a door 19, which maybe hinged at its lower edge and adapted to be turned down in opening. This door is seen in Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6, where it is represented as at the right-hand side of the stove; but there may be such a door at each side or either side of the stove, and in Fig. 1. I have shown one at the left-hand side of the stove. This latter view best indicates the position of the door with respect to the duct B and iiue C. As the gases passing up through this flue C when the fire is well under way will contain, practically, no soot or. free carbon, it will be obvious that the point selected is well adapted for making toast or the like.

Fig. `2 shows the arrangement of the damper 2O for controlling the flow of gases about the oven. This damper is arranged in the usual way, so far as its effect in opening1 and closing the iiue is concerned; but I provide means for indicating to the user its position at all times. These I will now describe with reference to Figs. 1, 2, and 2% The arbor or stem 21 of the damper, Fig. 2, is pivoted at its inner end, has a bearing 22 on the crown ICO IIO

of the oven, and has an outer bearing 23 in the side wall of the stove. On the outer end ofthe stem 2l, Fig. l, is a handle 24, which is adapted to indicate the position which the damper 2O occupies. For example, when this handle points toward the letter C on the side of the stove, as in Fig. l, it indicates that the damper is closed, If it points toward the letter 0, it indicates that the damper is full open or turned back, so as to lie flat on the oven, and if it points toward the letter D (between the letters C and O) it indicates that the damper is only partly open. Herctofore such dampers have been adapted to open and close fully, but not to stand partly open. In order to cause the damper to stand partly open, I employ the means indicated in Fig. 2L-that is 4to say, I form on the stem 2l a slight rib or enlargement 25, which is adapted to engage a corresponding recess or enlargement in the bearing 23 in the side plate of the stove when the damper is partijT open. The spring of the stem 2l will suffice to permit the latter to disengage itself and turn in the bearing 23 and to cause the enlargements of the stein and bearing to engage with sufficient force to hold the damper in place.

The indicating-letters 0,7 and D may be formed on or in the metal by casting in a well-known way, so as to be permanent.

It is very desirable that the lid-lifter constantly in use with the stove shall be kept in a convenient place where it will be cool. To effect this I provide in the outer overhanging margin of the top plate of the stove an oblong aperture 26, Fig. 5, to receive the end of the lifter 27. The part of the top plate where this aperture is formed is usually quite cool, and the lifter when supported in it will not get so hot that it cannot be handled.

For burning hard coal, should the stove at any time be used for this purpose, the sliding grid will be shifted so as to forni an open grate below and the register below the movable stove-front M will bc opened wholly or partially.

The object in providing the removable window-plate 14 in the stove-front is to permit of mounting a broiler in the opening in the front, as seen in Fig. 6. This broiler comprises a somewhat hopper-shaped casing 28, provided with a cover 29, hinged to the lower outer edge of the same. The smaller end of the casing is adapted to iit snugly in the aperture in the hinged front M. The holder 30 for the steak to be broiled may be of wire in two parts, hinged together so as to embrace the steak. It has a journal 30 at one end to iit in a hole in the end of the casing 28, and another journal 30, which engages an open slot-bearing 31 in the other end of the casing. This j ournal is prolonged to form the handle of the holder, by which the latter may be rotated in its bearings. The cover 29 is closed when the broiler is in use. The lower horizontal side orbottom'of the casing 28 is slightly depressed or concave, and it has a hole 32 at its lowest part, through which the juices and fat from the meat flow out and fall into a platter or receptacle 33, set on the hearth of the stove under the casing. v

It is not essential to my invention. that th broiler-casing 28 shall be detachable from the stove front. Indeed, the said front being hinged or removable, said casing 28 may be cast in one piece with it and have a detachable cover of tin-plate, sheet-iron., or the like, and the window-plate 1i may be made to fit and close the front of the broiler-casing when the broiler is not in use. This construction is illustrated in Figs. 14 and la, wherein the casing 28 is shown as formed 'integrally with the front M, and the window-plate 14 is represented in place thereon. I have not shown the tin-plate or cover used to close the casing 28 when broiling, as this may be of any kind. The casing 28 has the slot 3l and a wicketplate 3ln to close the same.

I have shown the stove provided with a water-reservoir R at its back, and this will be desirable where the water-back P cannot be used; but neither of these devices are essential to my present invention. The waterback might be replaced vby a tile.

Fig. 12 illustrates a construction of the hollow partition or duct B,in which the outer plate or shield 8 is made integral with the front section thereof, the air chamber or jacket between them being formed by a perforated or apertured diaphragm 8O in the duct, said diaphragm thus forming the inner front wall of the duct. The objection to this construction lies in the necessity of discarding the entire duct, or at least the front section thereof, when the front shall have become too much injured by the heat to serve its proper purpose.

It may be explained that the object in recessing or setting back the apertured strip 81 of the duct or shield is to prevent the perforations therein from becoming clogged by the fuel, cinders, or ashes.

In the top plate of the stove near the front is provided a simple and convenient wicket device. (Illustrated in Fig. l5, one view in this figure showing the wicket-slide 34: partly drawn out, so as to uncover an opening 35 for the insertion of a poker into the combustion-chamber, and theI other view showing the slide 35 detached.) The opening 35 extends out to the edge of the top plate of the stove and has rabbeted margins, in which the slide 34 lits and rests, so as to close the opening and be flush with the stove-top. To retain the slide in place it is provided with a T-piece 36 on a downwardly-curved neck. This T-piece is passed down through the opening and then turned crosswise, so that its ends take under the margins of the opening, as shown,whereby it serves to keep the slide down in'place.

I wish to be understood that I do not limit myself to the speciiic construction of the stove and its parts as herein described, as this may be varied to some extent without materially IOO IIO

departing from my invention. Nor do I limit my invention to cooking stoves and ranges, as some of the features thereof may be employed in heating-stoves, fireplace-heaters, and the like with only such slight modifications as wouldsuggest themselves to any one skilled in the art to which the invention pertains.

In producing the upright draft grooves or iiues at the side or sides of the fire-box, which grooves are closed at their fronts to form flues bythe fuel itself, I prefer, as I have stated, to make them deepest at their upper ends, and when constructed in this manner I prefer to give them the proper extra depth by projecting the dividing-ribs between the iiues more at the top than at the bottom, so that the top of said ribs overhang. This serves to prevent the fine coal, ashes, ntc., from choking up the ilues. These ilues, however formed, serve a useful purpose in providing an always-open outlet for the gases rising from the hot caking fuel, which prevents their escape upward and out into the room and compels them to pass down along the wall' of burning fuel, where they are consumed. I do not limit myself to forming these upright lues in exactly the manner herein shown. They may be formed in any satisfactory way.

Having thus described my invention, I claiml. A stove or range having a f ucl-magazine., a back flue C, and a hollow partition separating said fuel-magazine from said flue, said partition having upright ribs on its front face, the grooves between said ribs being deepest at their upper ends, and becoming gradually shallower toward their lower ends, substantially as set forth.

2. A stove or range having a f uel-magazine, a back flue C, and a hollow partition separating said fuel-magazine from said flue, the partition having upright ribs on its front face and a recessed, apertured or perforated strip next below said ribs, substantially as set forth.

3. A stove or range having a fuel-magazine, a back flue C, and a partition separating the fuel-magazine from the flue, said partition having upright ribs on its front face, the grooves between said ribs deepest at their upper ends, and a recessed, apertured or perforated strip immediately below said ribs, substantially as set forth.

4. A stove or range having a fuel-magazine, a flue C, and a hollow partition separating said fuel-magazine from said iue, said partition consisting of two sections, joined along a longitudinally extending line of division and the front section having in it apertures for the passage of air therefrom to the magazine, substantially as set forth.

5. A stove or range having a fuel-magazine, a iiue C, and a hollow partition separating said fuel-magazine from said ilue, said partition having double, apertured, front walls with an air-space between said walls, substantially as set forth.

6. A stove or range having a fuel-magazine, a flue C, and a hollow partition separating said fuel-magazine from said iiue, said partition having a hollow shoe on its convex lower edge, whereby an air-chamber is formed between said shoe and the wall of the partition, and apertures in said wall to admit air to said air-chamber, substantially as set forth.

7. A stove or range having a fuel-magazine, a flue C, and a hollow partition separating said fuel-magazine from said iiue, said partition having a shoe on its convex lower edge, an air-chamber being formed between said shoe and the wall of the partition, apertures in said wall to admit air to said chamber, and ribs or projections on the convex face of said shoe, substantially as set forth.

8. A stove or range having a fuel-magazine, a flue C, and a hollow partition separating said fuel-magazine from said flue, said partition having a hollow shoe on its convex lower edge, whereby an air-chamber is formed between said shoe and the wall of the partition, apertures in said wall to admit air to said chamber, transversely arranged ribs on the convex face of the shoe, and apertures or perforations in the shoe for the escape of air to the fire therethrough, substantially as set forth.

9. A stove or range having a fu el-magazine, a flue C, and a hollow partition separating said magazine from said flue, this partition having an apertured, inner front wall., and a removable front wall or shield provided with upright ribs on its front face and with an apertured or perforated strip at its lower part, as set forth.

l0. A stove or range having a fuel-magazine, a flue C, and a hollow partition separating the magazine from said flue, this partition having an apertured, inner front wall, an outer front wall, also apertured at itsl lower part, and an air-space between said walls, substantially as set forth.

1l. A stove or range having a fuel-magazine, a flue C, and a hollow partition separating said magazine from said flue, this partition havinga removable wall or shield, 8, on its inner front wall, provided with vertically arranged grooves which are deepest at their upper ends, and a recessed perforated bottom strip, 8b, an `air-chamber being formed between the inner front wall of said partition and the said shield, substantially as set forth.

l2.-`A stove or range having a fuel magazine, a flue extending upward from the bottom of said magazine, said stove having in its side at the upper end of said iiue an opening, provided with a door, to admit a holder for toasting, and a partition separating the upper portions of said fuel magazine and flue and extending downward to form a contracted throat at the lower portions thereof whereby the coke or fuel in the magazine is restrained IOO IIO

from entering said flue, and withheld at a distance from said opening, substantially as described.

13. A stove or range having a fuel-magazine, a flue C, a partition separating said flue from the magazine, a movable front to the magazine, said front having apertures and upright ribs, and a movable stove-front exterior to said ribbed front, an air-space being formed between said fronts, substantially as set forth.

111. A stove or range having a fuel-magazine, a flue C, a partition separating said flue from the magazine, a movable stove-front M, a movable grating or inner front, and a window-plate mounted removably in the front M,

. substantially as set forth.

15. A stove or range having a fuel magazine, a flue C, a partition separating said line from said magazine, a stove-front, a window-` plate set therein, said plate having a mica window with apertures or perforations about it for the admission of air to the stove, and a box or cap, at the inside of and on said plate and covering said window, said box having an apertured or perforated bottom opposite the window, substantially as described.

16. In a stove or range for burning soft coal, the combination with the convex, ribbed lining, 13, below the charging door, of the stove-front M, and the inner ribbed front or lining the ribs on the latter registering with those of the former at their upper end and forming continuations thereof when the parts are in place, as set forth.

17. In a stove or range for burning soft coal, the combination of the partition extending downwardly between the fuel magazine and the .flue and forming at the bottom a contracted throat between the two to oppose the passage of coke into said flue, and the firebed for said coke comprising a fixed grid having slots, and a sliding grid having also slots, said upper and lower slots being adapted to register, substantiallyT as described.

18. In a stove for burning soft coal, the combination with the partition or duct having ribs or projections at its lower edge, of the fuel supporting bed having a raised shoulder at its rear edge, whereby obstacles are formed to oppose the forcing back of the coke or fuel under said partition, substantiallyas set forth.

19. A stove or range having an opening 35 in its top-plate, provided with rabbeted margins to receive a slide for closing said opening, and having a slide 34, provided with a T-piece 3G, adapted to take under the edges of the opening when the slide is in place, and retain it, substantially as set forth.

20. A stove or range having a fuel-magazine, a flue C, a partition separating said flue from said magazine, and end-plates or linings 10 and 10X, in said magazine and iiue, respectively, said plate 10 taking behind the back wall of said iiue at their rear edges, substantially as set forth.

21. A stove or range having a fuel-magazine, a back iiue C, and a hollow partition separating said iiue from the magazine, said partition having a protecting shoe at its lower edge with an air-space or chamber between the wall of the shoe and the wall of the partition, substantially as set forth.

22. A stove or range having a transverse partition in the combustion chamber thereof and said partition having a protecting shoe on its lower edge provided with projecting ribs extending transversely of the partition.

23. The fire-box of a stove having at one or more of its sides upright fines open at their front sides, which are adapted to be closed by the fuel in the fire-box, and said i'lues being deepest at their upper ends, such extra depth being produced by the outward projection of the ribs separating said iiues, substantially as set fort-h.

24. In a stove or range, the combination with the stove-front, of the window-plate set therein, said plate having a mica windo w, with apertures or perforations about it for the admission of air in jets to the stove, and a box or cap at the inside of and on said plate and covering said window, said box having an apertured or perforated bottom opposite the window, substantially as described.

25. A stove having in it a mica window, a trunk on the inner face of the wall in which the window is placed, said trunk embracing said window and projecting into the interior of the stove, and an apertured or perforated plate covering the inner end of said trunk, substantially as described.

26. Ina stove or range, having a fuel-magazine and an upwardly extending iiue, the combination with the partition extending downwardly between said magazine and flue, whereby the heated products of combustion are carried to the lower part of the fire-box and the fuel therein rendered incandescent, of the grate in front of said incandescent fuel, the movable stove-front, and the removable broiler-easing located in front of said grate, substantially as described.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWIN R. CAHOONE.

Witnesses HENRY CoNNEr'r, JAS. KING DUFFY.

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