GB772712A - Improvements in electric cooking stoves - Google Patents

Abstract

772,712. Electric cookers. SIMPLEX ELECTRIC CO., Ltd. June 8, 1954 [June 8, 1953], No. 15680/53. Class 39(3) An electric cooker comprising several heating units such as hot-plates, grills and ovens has the control devices 16 for the heaters mounted on a displaceable panel 15 which forms part of a normally fixed back splash plate 14 and normally conceals the controls 16 from view except the operating knobs 17 disposed at the front of the panel, which is hinged removable or outwardly slidable to give access to the control devices 16. The panel 15 extends upwardly centrally at the rear of the hob 11, which carries hot-plates 12 in lateral zones leaving an intermediate zone 13 free from heaters, access to the panel being across the cooler zone 13. The panel 15 is rectangular and forms with side panels 14 the splash plate of the cooker. The panel 15 is hinged along a top side or lower edge to the cooker or the side panels 14. The control devices 16 are connected to the cookers by flexible leads or by plugs or strip contacts engaging sockets or corresponding strips on the inner side of a rear wall 29 of a casing 28 behind the panel. The panel 15 preferably comprises two spaced parallel sheets 20, 21, is hinged at the base 26 and is retained at the top' by a removable screw 30 in a permanent casing 28 carrying at the top lamps 32 and a transparent strip 33. The sheets 20, 21 are apertured to receive the control spindles and screws for tubular spacers. The rear sheet 21 carries indicator lamps 24 behind rotary masks 25, and the front sheet has illuminated translucent rotary components 19 as in Specification 772,713 which is referred to. The housing has at the top an outlet socket 34 e.g. for an electric kettle. The arrangement of the heaters in lateral zones on the hob leaving an intermediate unheated zone over which access is had to a control plate at the rear of the hob.