US1211984A

US1211984A - Stove-oven shelf.

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Publication number: US1211984A
Application number: US11226916A
Authority: US
Inventors: John Towart Jr
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1916-07-31
Filing date: 1916-07-31
Publication date: 1917-01-09
Anticipated expiration: 1934-01-09

Description

j. TOWART, JR.

STOVE OVEN SHELF.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 31,1916.

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OFFICE.

JOHN TOWART, JR, or PEEKSKILL, NEW YORK.

STOVE-OVEN SHELF.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN TOWART, Jr., a citizen of the United States, and resident of Peekskill, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stove- Oven Shelves, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates particularly, but is not limited to shelves in stove ovens; and its object is to provide a roll-shelf that is pocketed within or adjacent to an oven; which is ready for use the instant it is wanted, and can be pushed out of the way, without other care, when it is not needed.

The objects. are attained by the means set forth in this specification and the accompanying drawings, in bothof which like letters and numerals refer to similar parts.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a stove oven with the roll-shelf applied thereto.v

Fig. 2 is an elevation of a part of a stove oven showing shelf raceways. Fig. 3 is a plan of a portion of the roll-shelf. Fig. 1 is a perspective view of one of the bars composing the roll shelf. Fig. 5 shows perspectively a modification of the bar shown' in Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a front elevation of a section of the oven shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 7 is a section of a shelf that is flexible in only one direction. Fig. 8 is a bottom view of the parts shown in Fig. 7. Fig. 9 indicates how multiple shelves are provided for.

As the invention relates to the ovens of stoves, only the oven and flue spaces are shown. Fig. 1 represents an oven a with a top 0, a back wall e and a bottom d. Between the top 0 and the top 0 of the stove, is a flue space 8, and between the back wall 6 and the outer wall 6 of the stove is the flue s. The ribs 2' i i i constitute a raceway for the shelf extending across the oven,

upward at the back of the oven, and for-.

ward again at the top of the oven, forming a continuous passage 1 2 3 for the shelf a roll-shelf. The corners where the horizontal ribs and the vertical meet are rounded as at r r to adapt them to the flexibility of the roll-shelf.

The stove oven is supposed to have the side toward the observer removed. A flexible shelf m is shown in place and as pushed partly out of the oven, the shelf as it is pushed moving from the raceway 1 to the vertical way 2 and the horizontal way 3. The shelf can be pushed entirely back until Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 9, 1917.

Application filed July 31, 1916. Serial No. 112,269.

the front bar 0 reaches the curve 1', when the shelf is entirely out of the way, but ready for use at any moment. In the position of the shelf as shown, there is a shelf 1 in the back half of the oven, and by drawing the bar 0 to the front the shelf will completely divide the oven. The shelf is composed of a number of bars a n with curved sides, as in Figs. 1 and 4 which show their construction. The bars cannot be put together sidewise, but are united by sliding them together endwise, so that when they are in place in the oven they form a combination as in Figs. 1 and 3, and as partially shown in Fig. 6, that cannot come apart. Fig. 1 clearly shows the manner of their putting together.

A modified form of the bars a is shown in Fig. 5. A bar m has curved portions n at each end, lessening the amount of weight in the shelf. The bar between the curved ends is corrugated to give it stiffness, as at Z, Figs. 1 and 5. This means of linking the shelf bars is shown as one practical construction, simple and inexpensive to make; but the invention is not limited to a particular manner of obtaining a suitable flexibility of shelf. The forward part of the shelf m in Fig. 1 is a form of construction that admits of flexibility in but one direction; for the purposes of a shelf that may be partly drawn out of the oven. The sections it can be curved in an upward direction, but will stand out rigidly when unsupported, in Fig. 7. The line a represents the face of the oven, and the sections a afford an extension shelf. The construction of the sections a is made plain in Fig. 8. The lugs 11 are integral with the bars to, and teacl; lug is pivoted, as at y, to the bar next In Fig. 1 the shelfis shown as occupying space wholly inside the oven. As shown in Fig. 2 the raceway 1 2 3 may have the portions 2 and 3 extended into the flue spaces 8 ands outside of the oven walls f and e. The direction in which the shelf raceway is extended will be controlled by the form of the stove, and they can be made to carry the shelf downward instead of upward as shown. In a duplication or multiplication of shelves in a compartment, the raceways can be made to overlap, as indicated in Fig.

9, t 6 representing overlapping raceways.

The thickness of the shelf as shown in Fig. 1, is an exageration for the purpose of making the construction clear, In practice this form ofjoint or hinge canbe usedwwhenl made quite flat, so that this roll-shelf will not'occupy the space in an'oven'as is here "the roll-shelf V compartment'that is to be. div ded by removmade to appear; which is a matterof special importance in the. use of1 multiple. shelves,

- withioverlapping raceways.

While this invention has been described in its application to stoveovens, it is plain that is equally applicable to" any constituting a slielfjthat will be self sup porting when drawn partly out of the. oven.

2. The combination with a'stove oven of raceways on the sldesof the oven, saldrace- .wvays extending'from-the oven into the flue space back of the oven thence upward in, saidflue space and forward over the top of the oven, anda flexible shelf-to traversesaid raceways, the: rear: portion-ofthe shelf composed of members hooked together, the forward members of. the shelf comprising members flexible in only an upward direc- 7 tion,

ward end of the shelf made flexible in only 7 an upward direction.

4. Thecombmatlon wlth a stove oven of raceways on-the sides and"back of the oven,

the raceways ,lapping one over the other,

and a flexible shelf, the inner endof the shelf composed of members hooked together,

the forward members of the shelf flexible in only an upward direction. x

5(A flexible shelf for a stove oven comprising members consisting of flat, slitted tubes, joined together by uniting a, curve of one tube with a, curve of a tube nextto it, the shapes of'the tubes rendering them unseparable' sidewise, the tubes keptin place by the raceways in which they travel.

Signed'at Peekskill in the county of West- Chester and State of New York, this 27 day of July, 1916.

- J OHN' TOWART, JR. Witnesses:

FRE H. POLHELL, T. DUGAN, Jr

copies of this patent may be obtainedfor fivecents each, by addressing the Gommissionerof Patents.

' l i Washington, D. 0.