US2183935A - Supplemental panel stove top - Google Patents

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Dec. 19, 1939. F R H W 2,183,935

' SUiPLEMENT AL PANEL STOVE TOP I Filed May 5, 1938 Q l a oooooooo- H i I .E

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' 1 Claim. (01. 126-39) This invention relates to cooking type of stove about which may pass flexible connection I! from tops with panel boundary therefor. counter-weights it. These flexible connections This invention has utility when incorporated in I! extend to depending ears l9 fixed with the a boundary panel or fence adapted to clear cookpanel I i. There is, accordingly, normal action ing vessel placing and removalfor thereabove or of these weights Hi to cause the panel II to be 5 f r thereabgut elevated into lateral bounding position for the Referring to the drawing: cooking vessels or the stove top cooking portion. Fig. 1 is a fragmentary view, in front elevation, In the control hereof this stove top 3 is shown of a portion of a cooking stove having the suppleh v ng pening 20 near rear portion I 2| of this mental panel of this invention incorporated stove I and thereby not normally in the way for 0 therewith and in approximately flush position; casual attention by the cook nor to be readily Fig. 2 is a View similar to- Fig. l, but with the accessible to youth. From this opening 4 prosupplemental panel in boundary-providing or trudes control handle 22 having fulcrum 23 fixed lifted position as to the cooking portion of the With the stove top 3 under side. This handle 22 Stove isa lever having its lower portion connected'to 15 Fig. 3 is a plan vew of this supplemental panel slide latch 2 3 normally held by tension spring 25 as a boundary for a stove; to have its terminus 26 thrust toward the stove Fig. 4 is a view in section of thedepending v wall 6 and thus, atelevated position for the panel portion of the stove top and this supplemental 18 under u h panel II as a latch. Simulta- 20 panel in the region just below the stove top deck neously with this holding action, there is supple- 20 on the line IV IV, Fig 2; mental holding action for other portions 'of this Fig. 5 is a fragmentary view of control means panel due to the fact that thisplunger 24 has for positioning the supplemental panel on the pivot p 27 Connected to oppositely extending line v v Fig and levers 28 having fulcra 29 with the under side of Fig. 6 is a detail view of the latch or holder the stove p s u t o t e pl n er 24 25 feature of the panel on th line VI, Fig 4, into latch holding position at the panel H front Cooking stove I. h t bl top portion 2, and side swings the free ends of these levers 28 into adjoining Such top portion 2 cooking top latch holding position under the panel sides as tion 3 having active cooking places 4 as heaters n'g away from this front of the stov 30 or burners. This stove has burner control means A c rdingly, should the cook place a weight or 30 as switches 5 from front wall 6 with rearward press down On h trim this panel is posiwall 1 therefrom. Adjacent these walls and in honed against Such p g down and is also likethis cooking stove top 3, is more or less conwise effective against a childs efforts along such tinuous recess, slot or way 8 past corners 9, Ill, iiheS- The Child is accordingly shielded from forming a way in which is located panel leg ll dangerous hazard. 35 extending about the corners and as continuous. There y he removal of this panel to d s p- This panel I! has finish top or trim portion 12 hearing Position y pulling of this latch or and may have openings l3 therein for ventilation handle 23 f0iWa1'd,.thuS Withdrawing e levers or light means, as the occasion may be appro- 23 and plunger 24 from latch holding DO tiOn.

o. priate. In the construction hereunder, this panel Depression of this trim 92 0f the panel H v may be of plated metal or as a contributing factor Overcome the SeVeral eights l8 will such may be of some plastic which will stand effect disappearing of this panel II in the stove cooking temperature, but sightly in appearance p and as. this disappearing a tion is comand a poor conductor of heat, so that in this pro- Dleiied down to fiushposl'tioh abutting position jected upward position it may Serve as light for this trim l2 as to the top 3, the free ends of 45 weight fender, against the cook or chef becoming e e e 28 enter Openings 39 in the p tions burned or undesirably having contact with the 0f h panel H as e e ding away om the. cooking vessel or sputtering therefrom. Furtherfront, While the plunger 24 enters p g 3| in more, in this controlposition, younger persons the o Po o of t e panel. There is accordabout the kitchen or cooking department may not n y a holding o l cking of this panel in the casually have access to the vessels or the burner disapp d p ssed condition for lateral regions as active and thus avoid occasion of inclearway about the coolnng vessels as Well as jury therefrom. the stove top.

In the controls hereunder for this panel in ele- For bringing into re-use position, it is only vated position, brackets l4, l5, locate pulleys l6, necessary to pull the handle 23 when the counter- 55 weights l8 at once elevate the panel ll into effective bounding position above clearway about the vessels or burners; At once this is elevated, the spring 25 has acted to throw the holding means so that the free ends 28 ride under the sides of the panel II and the plunger 24 has its terminus 2B projected under the forward portion of the panel ll, automatically locking such in the elevated position. In depressed or disappearing position, the panel is peripherally housed or concealed by the stove.

For the panel as hereunder, the term is used to apply to a barrier adaptable to be placed on the stove. The placing is by locating in a shielding or protecting position at a region or regions more or less surrounding and laterally of the cooking area or working space, especially of the hot surface of the stove. The extent of the shielding may be according to the height preferred and whether or not open work be of helpful purpose as may be suflicient for the particular occasion or adaptation for use.

What is claimed and it is desired to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a range, a cooking top provided with a cooking area, said top provided with an upwardly open slot surrounding said cooking area, a panel mounted for vertical movement in said slot, said panel in its elevated position forming a fence around said cooking area and in its lowered position concealed below said cooking top, and means for latching said panel in either position.

FRANCIS R. HOWE.

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