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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 8, 1908.

Application filed June 16, 1908. Serial N 0. 438,850.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES F. BOWSER, a citizen of' the United States, residing at Oak Ridge, in the county of Armstrong and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Stove; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to cooking stoves and ranges and it has for its object to provide improved ventilating means for doing away with the annoyance caused by escaping steam, fumes and odors when cooking is in progress, as well as that caused by escaping smoke when the lids are raised from the stove.

A further object of the invention is to utilize the steam and hot air rising from the stove for the purpose of maintaining and promoting combustion in lieu of the cold air usually admitted to the ash-pit below the grate through suitable draft openings.

Still further objects of the invention are to simplify and improve the construction and operation of this class of devices.

With these and other ends in view, which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the improved construction and novel arrangement and combination of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

lathe accompanying drawings has been illustrated a simple and preferred form of the invention; it being, however, understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the precise structural details herein exhibited, but that changes, alterations and modifications within the scope of the invention may be resorted to when desired.

In the drawings-Figure 1 is a front elevation of a cooking range constructed in accordance with the invention, a part having been broken away for the purpose of showing the construction more clearly. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation, partly in section. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional detail view taken on the plane indicated by the line 33, in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional detail view taken on the plane indicated by the line 4-4, in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view taken on the plane indicated by the line 55, in Fig. 2.

7 Corresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by like characters of reference. The range A which has been selected for illustration is, in the main, of ordinary conventional construction, being equipped with an upwardly-extending back plate 5 and side plates or brackets 6, 6 supporting a hot closet 7 The body of the range is constructed with the usual fire-box 8 ash-pit 9 and oven 10, the latter being surrounded by flues through which the products of combustion pass to the smoke-pipe 11 which latter is extended through the hot closet. The top of the range is equipped with the customary lids or covers 12.

Connected with the top of the hot closet, and extending in front of the latter, is a hood 13 which extends the full width of the range. A flue 14 extends diagonally through the hot closet, below the top of the latter, the-front end of said flue having an aperture 15 communicating with the hood 1?). The rear end of the flue lt communicates with the upper end of a vertical flue 16, disposed adjacent tothe back plate 5, and the lower end of the flue 16 communicates with the upper end of a flue or duct 17 placed adja cent to the rear side of the body of the stove or' range. The parts 16 and 17 may constitute a single integral flue, but for convenience it is preferred to make it in two parts, as shown. The flue-section 17 is provided near its upper end with an opening or aperture 18 having a door or closure 19, and a damper 20 is arranged in said fluesection directly above the opening 18. The lower end of the flue-section 17 communicates with the ash-pit 9 through an opening 21; the lower extremity of said flue-section 17 being obstructed by a permanent closure 22.

In practice, it will be readily seen that steam .and fumes rising from cooking vessels upon the stove, as well as smoke escaping through cracks, or when the stove doors or lids are opened, will be intercepted by the hood 13, where a draft orsuction is created .from the fire-box and ash-pit through the flues 17, 16 and 14; and such steam and smoke, together with the hot air rising from the stove will be conducted through the fines 14:, 16 and 17 to the ash-pit from whence it is discharged into the fire-box where combustion will thus be maintained and promoted much more efiiciently and satisfactorily than by the cold air usually supplied through draftopenings in the front part of the stove. Such draft openings are dispensed with by my invention, and danger of hot coals dropping upon the floor through such openings, which is a frequent cause of disastrous fires will thus be avoided.

The draft may be thoroughly regulated by means of the damper 20; and the door 19 may be used to further regulate the draftby the admission of cold air, when desired.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed is 1. A stove or range, a hot closet supported abovethe same, a hood adjacent to the hot closet, a flue extending through the hot closet and communicating at one end with the hood, and a duct extending from the other end of the fiue to the ash-pit of the stove.

2. A stove or range having a fire-box and ash-pit tightly closed at their front ends, a hot closet supported above the stove, a hood adjacent to the hot closet, and a flue eX- tending from the hood through the hot closet and thence downwardly to the ashpit, said flue being provided with an open ing to the outer air, a-closure for said opening, and a damper adjacent to the latter.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this, specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES F. BOVVSER.

Vitnesses WADE REAnIoK, JACOB WOLROUGH.

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