US2038226A - Camp stove - Google Patents

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April 21, 1936. R LANG 2,038,226

CAMP STOVE Filed June s, 1933 oooooooooooo oooooooooooooo oooooooooooooo 00000000000000 00000000000000 oooooooooooooo 00000000000000 00000000000000 ooooopoooqpooo ATTORN EYS This invention relates 'to improvements in camp stoves and more particularly the invention is concerned with stoves of the kind which arel adapted to burn fuel of a solid character such as, for example, charcoal, cok'eland the like.

One object of the invention is'a stove in which provision is made whereby certain foods may be warmed or kept warm while other foods are being cooked.

A further object is to provide for facility in cleaning the stove.

A still further object is to provide a stove which may be anchored against tipping over.

A still further object is to provide a stove which is simple in construction and'which is economical to manufacture; i

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a stove embod'ying features of the invention.

Figure 2 is a top view of the strip which provides the grate for the stove. p Q

Figure 3 is a section to' reduced scale taken along line 3-3 of-Figure -l.

The stove, as illustrated; includes a sheet metal .body 5 which is open at both 'ends. The upper and lower ends of the body are preferably reinforced by beads Sand 1" respectively. The grate 8a for the stove constitutes an integral part of an elongated strip 8. The said strip passes through openings 9 formed in opposite sides of the body 5. Preferably it is substantially greater in length than thewidth of .the body and when it isarranged in position in theopenings 9. its opposite ends I and extend beyond the adjacent sides ofthe body. The intermediate portion' of the strip which. provides the grate 8a *1 is formed with suitable perforations l3. The latter are preferably formed throughout the grate area and when the strip is passed through the openings 9 in the stove body it lsiadjusted'so that the grate area is located within the walls of the; dy l I In order to permit 'air to enter the body beneath the grate thesaid body is formed adjacent .its lower end'with openings I 4. In the formation of thesaid .opening's the struck out metaltabs which are thus. provided are bent outwardly anddownwardly to provide projections l5 which extend below the end of the body. 'In the 'use of j the stove the said projections are adapted to be embedded in 'the' earth whereby to hold the stove against tipping ,over. underst0o'd, of course, that in the event that it is desired'to suppQrtthe stove upon some con- Patented Apr. 21, 1936 CAMP STOVE Rose Lang, Buffalo N. Y.

NT ofiFIcE Application June8, 1933, Serial No. 674,893 I 1 Claim. (01. 126-29) tio'n.

use.

In this connection it is venient object-instead of upon the projections I 5 will serve as'legs. v

, The top "5 of the stove includes a central zone H which is formed to provide a grill upon which a cooking utensil may be supported. The opposite 5 ends of the top are bentdownwardly to provide tongues l8.- The top is removably secured upon the body 5 by the said tongues. The latter enter openings ls which are formed by suitably slitting the opposite sides of the body and forcing the 10 metal ad acent the'lower sides of the slits outwardly as at 20. In order to enable the escape of smoke'and other gases in the event that the cooking utensil covers the entire top of the stove the body 5 is preferably formed adjacent it per end with suitable openings 2|.

In accordance with the invention the exten s ons I0 and II of the strip 8 are adapted to provrde-shelves upon which utensils or food may be arranged in close proximity to the sides of the '20 -s tove body. The utensils or food placed upon the extensions HI and II will be warmed to a substantial degree as a result of their proximity to the stove body or, on the other hand, if they e have previously been heated upon the top of -the stove they will be maintained in a warm condi- It. will be apparent, therefore, that the stove has the advantage that such foods which require the greatest length of time for cooking,

-may, after having been cooked for the desiredlength of time, be placed upon the extensions Ill and l I against thesides of the stove and kept i warm during the cooking of theremainder of the food. The-strip 8 is preferably formed with a depending leg 22 which is adapted to rest upon the ground when the projections l5. have been embedded in the manner described and provide a support for the end of the extension l0. Heavy utensils therefore, may be placed upon the said extension without possibility of tipping over the 40 stove. In order to enable the accommodation of relatively large receptacles the strip 8 preferably v increases in width from 'a point adjacent theside of the body in the direction of the leg 22.- The strip 8 is preferably-removable at will in order to facilitate cleaning of .the stove. vantage obtained by this construction is that the strip may be removed and more compactly associated with the body 5 when the' stove is not in round the A further ad- In assembling the latter the end H of the strip is passed through the openings 9 until the tapered. "sides of the end l0 engage the end walls of the adjacent opening 9. The grate zone is preferably ,so located with respect to the ends of the strip 55 that whenthe tapered sides of the end "I engage the end walls of an opening 8 inthe manner deforated zone which is located between the sides of said body and which is adaptedto provide a grate section, one end' of said strip extending beyond one side'of said body to provide a shelf upon which objects may be supported in close proximity to said body, said end being of a width which is greater than that of said openings; whereby upon insertion of said strip through said openings said end engages said body to prevent further movement of said strip when said grate section has been moved to its normal position between the sides of saidbody.

' ROSE LANG.

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