Specification of John Slater : kitchen ranges.

  • Slater, John.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Specification of John Slater : kitchen ranges. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Slaters Impts. in Kitchen Ranges and Apparatus for Cooking and other Purposes. poses of admitting liot air into the baking oven or roaster, or to exclude it therefrom ; and at the top or upper part of the baking oven or roaster is fixed what I call a hot-air escape pipe and valve, for the purpose of givinga discharge to the hot air which has passed through the fire repeller, hot-air flue, and the baking oven or roaster, or for keeping or retaining in the same. But to explain 5 more fully the baking oven or roaster, the baking oven acts for roasting at the time the valves, pipes, and flues are open, and a free current of hot air is 4 permitted to enter and pass through them, and the reverse when the valves, pipes, and flues are closed and prevented from acting, it then becomes a baking oven ; and the said baking oven or roaster is fixed into stands upon or against 10 the top or back part of the stew hearth, and is acted upon by the stew hearth fire ; and at the other side or at both the end and back parts of the kitchen range fire-place I fix with bolts, screws, or fastenings what I call a steam and water reservoir, which is made of copper tinned, or to be made of any other metal or metals, as most convenient, of a square form, twelve inches deep, 15 eighteen inches broad in front, and twenty inches long, but to be made of any other form or forms, deeper or shallower, broader or narrower, and longer or shorter, as most convenient. The top or upper part is made with what I call a top frame, which is divided into four separate compartments of a square or oval form, but to be made with more or a less number of separate compartments, 20 and of any other form or forms, as is most convenient. The top frame with the separate compartments, are for holding or containing cooking kettles, which are made of tin, tin plates, copper tinned, cast or wrought iron tinned, or without tinning, and of such size or sizes, form or forms as most convenient to fit into the top frame compartments and the steam and water reservoir; all 25 or the whole of the kettles are made with holes, pipes, or apertures at or near to the top or upper parts for the purpose of admitting steam into the inside for cooking, their outsides at the time being surrounded with the steam in the steam and water reservoir; and on or against the front of the steam and water reservoir I fix with screws, rivets, or fastenings an outward lip or fountain, so 30 as to communicate with the inside of the steam and water reservoir, and which hp or fountain is so fixed as to act as a guard against having over much water, and for receiving and keeping a regular supply ; and under or near to the lip or fountain is fixed a cock for drawing off hot water, and in one side of the steam and water reservoir a man-hole or opening is made, of a size correspond- 35 ing to the one in the hot water boiler, at which man-hole or opening both the hot water boiler and the steam and water reservoir are joined together with bolts, screws, and fastenings, and inside the steam and water reservoir a