US243937A

US243937A - Stove-rest for culinary and other articles

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Publication number: US243937A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1881-07-05
Anticipated expiration: 1898-07-05

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' W. L. 1VI0DOWELL.

STOVE BEST FOR CULINARY AND OTHER ARTICLES. No. 243,937. Patented July 5, 1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM L. MCDOW'ELL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

STOVE-REST FOR CULINARY AND OTHER ARTICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,937, dated July 5, 1881.

Application filed September 22, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM L. MoDowELL, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Stove-Rest for Culinary and Other Articles, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of a stove or range having my invention applied to it. Fig. 2 is a top view thereof. Fig. 3 is a. side view thereof, partly sectional.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to removable rests for stoves; and itconsists in the combination of the same therewith, said parts being constructed and adapted to each other, as hereinafter set forth.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a portion of a stove, range, &c., which, excepting as far as is necessary for purposes of my invention, is of usual form and construction.

B represents a rest, which consists of a horizontally-arranged plate removably connected to the stove or range adjacent to the oven and parallel therewith.

The faceplate ot' the stove, &c., is formed with ears a a, which project horizontally therefrom, and the rest B has on its rear side hookshaped lugs b and depending feet or legs 0, which latter are supported on the bottom molding or ledges, d, the lugs 11 having their ends pointing upward and engaging with the cars a.

It is desirable to allow some vertical play of the rest, so that the feet or legs may drop into notches on the molding or ledges d after the lugs b are hung on the cars a, and thus securely hold the rest in position without liability of dropping, it being noticed that the opening of each hook-shaped lug b is deeper than the height of the cars a. hen the rest is thus applied and sustained it provides a convenient device for holding bakingpans, dishes, &c., for keeping food warm, or a support accessible to the oven, it being noticed that when the rest is not occupied it does not interfere with the opening and closing of the oven-door, and when (No model.)

the oven is in use or closed the rest may be readily removed from the stove, in which case it is raised until the bottom of the legs 0 clear the molding or ledges d, and turned until the lugs I) emerge from the cars a, thus disengaging the rest from the stove. The rest may then be placed under the stove or otherwise located, this provision of removability being also serviceable for purposes of transportation, boxin g, and handling.

-The projecting cars a afford strong supports for the rest without weakening the stove, the abutment of the legs 0 against the plate of the stove increases the firmness of the rest, and the accidental displacement of the rest by blows at its outer or front end is prevented.

I am aware that it is not new to attach a shelf to the front of a stove, and to provide the same with abutments which bear against said front, but which are not supported by the front molding and do not enter recesses of the same.

I am also aware that it is not broadly new to provide such a shelf with hooks that turn upward.

I am also aware that it is not new to support a foot-rest partly on the molding at the bottom of the front of the stove.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The foot-rest B, having upwardly-turned hook-shaped lugs b, and feet 0 cast therewith, in combination with the stove having recessed molding d at bottom and ears (I on its face-plate, the openings of said hook-shaped lugs being deeper than the height of the cars a, whereby the rest is applied and removed to and from the stove by both rotary and vertical motions, and when the rest is in position it is locked at top by the cars a and at bottom by the bottom ends of the feet which project downwardly into the recesses of the molding of the stove, the back of the feet abutting against the stove, all as described.

WILLIAM L. MCDOWELL.

Witnesses "W. E. ROTIIERMEL,

W. D. BENNAGE.