US1174367A - Ship's electric range. - Google Patents

Description

F. M. VOGEL.

SHIPS ELECTRIC RANGE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 12 1913.

' 1,174,367. Patented Mar. 7,1916.

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UNITED STATES PATENT orrron.

FREDERICK M. VOG-EL, OF PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 12, 1913. Serial No. 773,168.

To all whom it may. concern:

a citizen of the United States, residing at Pittsfield, inthe county of Berkshire, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ships Electric Ranges, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to electric heating devices and more particularly to electric ranges which are designed for usewhere the space in which the'same are placed is very limited, as for instance. on shipboard. In such ranges it is of primary importance that the parts he so arranged as to give easy and convenient access for cleaning and that all the parts which are liable to be injured by heat or contaminated by grease or other sub- Wstances be well protected. 20

The objects of the present invention are to design a stove which will fulfil the above re uirements in a novel manner.

will first describe my invention and then point out the novel features thereof in the claims. T

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective In the drawings like reference characters refer to like parts in the different views.

The base 1, the upper portion only of which is illustrated in the drawing, is shown as being provided at the back with suitable electric terminals 2. The front 3 and sides 4.0f this base .are provided with inturned flanges 3 and 4 respectively. Fastened in suitable bearings at the back of the stove is a rod 5 upon which pivot the hot plates or heater plates 6, four such plates being shown in the drawing. Each plate 6 is shown as being made up of a rectangular frame 7 provided with a curved lip 8 at the front for resting on inturned flanges 3, and two heating units 9. These frames are removably fastened to pivot on the rod 5 by means present invention and further explanation s deemed unnecessar v The lower plate 10 is strengthened by diagonal ribs 12 on the lower surface thereof. Suitably supported by and insulated from angle irons 13 carried by the frames 7, are bus rods 14 to which the wires 15 leading from the res1stance elements are attached. These bus rods are connected to terminals 2 by flexible connectors 16 By the use of the bus rods a more rigid structure is formed and at the same time no ordinary insulated wire is exposed to the heat or to dirt and grease which might accumulate. It will be clear that these metal bus rods can be readily cleaned along with the remainder of the range.

Suitably supported in the base l'directly beneath the hot plates 6 are the drip pans l7. In the present instance two of these pans are illustrated each extending half way across the base 1 and connected together at 18. It is evident. however. that a single drip pan may be used or more than two may be used, the exact number not being material. By the arrangement described the drip pans are readily accessible for cleansing or for other purposes, all that is necessary being merely to raise the plates 6 by lifting on the front ends thereof. This arrangement has decided advantages over the types of ranges where it is necessary to slide the drip pan forward in order to obtain access to it, since it enables the range to be placed in a much more limited space and at the same time makes access thereto much more convenient.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. In an electric heater, a base, a heating unit pivoted thereon, terminals located adjacent said unit, bus rods carried by and extending beneath said unit, electrical connections between the bus rods and the heating unit, and flexible electrical connections be tween said bus rods and said terminals.

2. In an electric heater, a pivoted frame, a plurality of heating units carried thereby, bus rods carried by and extending beneath said frame, electric terminals located adjacent said frame, electric connections between the bus rods and each of the heating units, and connections between the bus rods and said terminals.

3. In an electric heater,a base, a heating unit pivoted thereon, forming a flat surface above for the reception of articles to be Patented Mar. 7,1916;

heated, bus rods carried underneathand ex tending along said heating'unit, electric ter-v minals, and electric connections leading from'the bus rods to said heating unit and to said terminals, respectively.

4. In an electric heater, a base, a frame pivoted to said base, a plurality of. heating units carried by said frame and forming a flat surface above for the reception of arti;.- cles to be heated, bus rods carried by said with a' chamber, a heating unit pivotally mounted above saidchamber, and formed with a flat top surface for the reception of articles to be heated,- bus rods extending 7 along and beneath said heating unit, terminals located adjacent said heating unit, elece tric connections between said bus rods and v the heating unit, and flexible electric connections between said bus rods and said termmals. 4

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 10th day of June 1913.

FREDERICK M. VOGEL.

Witnesses:

A. K. NUGENT, H; B. NUGENT.

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