Specification of George Stratton : fire-places and apparatus for cooking.

  • Stratton, George.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Specification of George Stratton : fire-places and apparatus for cooking. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Strattons Improvements in Machines for Cooking and Fire-places. spindle and pulleys D, which turn on two rollers or small friction wheels E, E, inclosed in a friction box in the oil supplyer. F is the oil supplyer, being a cast iron or metal box, with a square portion of it in front left vacant to fill up with a plate of glass C, to shew the height or quantity and quality of the oil 5 within it. G is a strong tube of iron or other metal, each end being made firm to each box, consequently, as the oil supplyer is more or less supplied with oil it will furnish the main wheel box with an equal height of oil as is seen in the oil supplyer thro’ the glass. II is a small spring fixed upon the top of the standard I, the other end resting on the top carriage b, which is supplied 10 with oil by the main wheel when turned, leaving a portion on the spring which immediately runs down the spring to the worm in the top carriage. K is a latch for the convenience of shifting the pulleys and spindle when not in use for roasting. The whole of the main wheel box is then completely closed, leaving a small collar for the spindle to work in, by which method every possible 15 filth or soot is entirely excluded from the interior work of the jack; and con¬ sequently a constant supply of pure oil is kept at once in every part. Figure 6 shews the construction of a double jack upon the same principle: A, the spindle as coming directly thro’ the centre of the chimney into the friction box, on which is fixed a toothed or pinion wheel B, which works in a horizontal tooth 20 wheel C, as seen in Figure 8, which horizontal wheel turns two perpendicular tooth or pinion wheels, the one opposite the other, which are fixed upon and turn the spindle and pullies, which turn on rollers in a friction box fixed in the oil supplyer, as before described. D, D, the tubes connected from the centre box to the two side boxes. Figure 7 is to shew a method of connection of the 25 cross tubes one within each other for the regular supply of oil in each box at the same time, or any other method of the like nature which I adopt as most convenient. Figure 8 is merely to shew the method of roasting by the horizontal wheel at the same time the spindle wheels are going round or * not, as occasion may require. The third part of my Invention applies to the 30 heating of upper and other rooms in houses from the kitchen range or other fire-place or chimnies by means of pure air conveying itself thro’ a tube or aperture, and receiving heat while passing the back or sides of the chimney. Figure 9 is the section of a chimney with part of a house to shew its operation ; A, A, A, the tube or aperture commencing on the outside of the house and 35 continuing its course underneath the floor or other convenient part till it arrives to the back or side of the chimnies or fire-places, or the air may be conveyed above the fire from the back wall, &c. as at . B is a section of a kitchen grate or range, the tube A running directly in close connexion to the back of the range or grate, and rising perpendicular up the back wall of the