Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. There are no patent drawings available. This patent is in the database for reference only.

For a Cooking Stove; Covinton Wilson, city of New York, October 10.

This stove is of cast-iron, and may be said to consist of two oblong rectangular boxes, placed one above the other; the lower box, or division, of which contains the grate, and the oven. This lower part may be about twice the length and depth of the grate, the latter being formed with front and bottom bars, in the usual manner of grates for anthracite; this grate is contained entirely within the lower division, and when the front bars are enclosed within doors fixed for that purpose, the front of the box has no projection on it. That portion of this lower compartment not occupied by the grate constitutes the oven, which is heated both by the end and back plates of the grate, the oven being consequently in the form of a double L. There are doors at each end, and also at the back, of this compartment, opening into the oven, and the lower part of the grate is but little elevated above the plate which forms the bottom of the oven. There is an ash pit under the fire; but both this, and the front of the grate, may be closed by a fender, and by doors, constructed for the purpose, so as to govern the draft.

The upper, or cooking, compartment may be of the same dimensions with the lower, one plate forming the bottom of the former, and the top of the latter. It has an opening in front, which may be closed by sliding doors. Within this part, pots or kettles of any kind are to be placed; it has a flue at its back, extending up to the top plate, where a pipe may be attached. That part of the bottom plate of this compartment which is immediately over the fire, may be taken out, so as to expose such articles as require it, to its direct action. The stove has legs, to elevate it to a sufficient height above the floor.

The claim is to “the placing the fire chamber in the middle of the oven, so that the latter may receive the heat of the three sides thereof at once;-the plan of closing the ash pit with a fender, so as to answer the purpose of an oven, to bake or broil by the heat of the bottom of the fire of the grate;—the arrangement of the cooking chamber with its movable section and chimney, by the joint management of which the doors of said chamber may be used as dampers to regulate the draft.”

Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 15, May 1835 pg. 318.

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