US910142A - Oven-door for stoves, ranges, and the like. - Google Patents

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W. G. MOORE. OVEN DOOR FOR STOVES, RANGES, AND THE LIKE. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 10, 1908.

Patent'ed Jan. 19, 1909.

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WILLIAM GEORGE MOORE, Oli LOS ANGELES, CALIFOI'LNL l, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T9 GEORGEJVOTTEN GADBURY, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

OVEN-D003. FOR STOVES, lhlNGES, AND THE LEE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

letented Jan. 19, woe.

Application filed March 10, 1008. Serial No. 420,278.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FYILLIAM Grouse lhioonn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have in vented a new and useful Oven-Door for Stoves, Ranges, and the Like, of which the following is a specification,

My object is to produce an oven-door for stoves, ranges, and the like, which will carry any heavy load that is to be inserted into-or removed from the oven, and which is cushioned by a spring of suitable strength to prevent:slamming oi? the doors and breaking the castings; and my invention consists in the combination with a stove. range. or the like, of a door hinged to swing on horizontally-alined trunnions or hinges from a horizontal or open position upwardly to a vertical or closed position, and vice Versa a brace hinged to the stove independently of the door and slidingly connected to the door a spring mounted upon the brace between the door and a shoulder, and a stop to prevent the door from going below a horizontal p sition.

The. principles of my invention may be applied to seats, shelves, bra ets, car-doors, and the like, and I do not wish to limit my claims to an oven-door.

The accompanying drawing illustrates the invention as applied to a stove.

The figure is an end elevation of a stove door embodying the principles of my inven tion, the bulk of the stove being broken away.

The door A is provided with truunions A at its lower corners, and is attached to the stove-frame B by the straps C, said straps being located just below the oven-opening so that the door will swing upwardly and close the openiiw, or swing downwardly to a horizontal position and provide a shelf leading into or out of the oven.

The rivets or screws for attaching the hinges to the stove are represented by C, C. A lug projects forwardly from the upper part of the door A to form the hearing 1) through which there an opening D, and near the upper edge of the door in line with the opening 1) is a stop A. 'lhe brace 'E' is pivotally secured to the fame work of the stove by the trunnion (A operating in the bearing G; said bearing being riveted to the stove, and the brace has sulhcient curve so that it will move hearing I) without striking the face of the door as the door moves catc'd in dotted lines. it shoulder E is formed upon the brace E. The expansive coil spring F is mounted upon the brace E between the shoulder 13 and the bearing D, the tension. of said spring being exerted to serve as a cushion to casethe door down from its vertical position to its horizontal position; and the brace being of suitable length to engage the step A lmrimn'ital position, said brace being strong enough to carry any load which it is desired to insert into or remove from the oven. The tension the spring is not suiiicient to raise the door, but it is suflicient to serve as a cushion to check the lall of the door In practical operation the stop A may be uscdas a handle to be manually engaged to open the door or swing it. downwardly from its horizontal position. The door may be held in its elevated position by a latch or any suitable means. When the door is unlatched it may be moved downwardly to the horizontal position indicated by dotted lines It gaiust the tension of the spring F; the

force of the spring being exerted to check -the fall of the door until the stop i llfherc the principles of my invention are applied to devices other the brace E engages freely through the and hold the door in its than stove-doors, the

up and down, as indidoor A becomes a body mounted to swing" om a vertical to a horizontal position, and vice versa, and said body may be a seat, shelf, bracket, or the like.

The hinge-pivots are preferably in a common vertical plane. The brace is bent to extend 'do\\ 'nwardly aslant away from the plane of the hinge-pivots when the body is upright, and is slidable in the bearing and extends tlmretln'ough to engage the stop when the body is lowered, and the spring is carried by a portion of the arm between the bearing and I the brace-hinge, and engages the bearing, to be compressed thereby as the body and brace lower. The spring is of Sullicient length to act against the bearing when the body is in its upright position above the g ero es be brought as indicated in the View, where adapted to be mounted on horizontally- 25 the center of gravity. is approximately in alined hinges, of a bearing projecting forvertical relation to the pivot of the body. wardly from the upper part of the door,-a 1 claim T stop above the bearing, a brace adapted to be 1. The combination with a stove-door, of a hinged to the stove below the stove-door and bearing projecting forwardly from the upsliding through the bearing to be engaged by 30 per part of the door, a stop upon the door the stop, a shoulder upon the brace, and a above the bearing, a brace adapted to be spring between the bearing on the door and hinged to the stove below the stove-door and the shoulder on the brace.

ftOslide through the bearing, a stop upon the 4:- A support, a body and a brace hinged brace, and a spring between the bearing on thereto one above the other, the body being 35 the door and the stop on the brace to serve provided with a bearing and a stop and the asa cushion to check the fall of the door. brace being bent and slidably extended 2. The combination with a stove-door through the bearing to en age the stop, when 15 adapted to be mounted on ,horizontallythe body is lowered an extending aslant alined hinges, of a bearing projecting fordownward away from the plane of the hinge 40 wardly from'the upper part of the door, a pivots when the body is upright, and a stop above the bearing, a brace adapted to be spring carried by the brace and acting upon hin ed to the stove below the stove-door and the bearing to cushion the body in its de- 20 sliding through the bearing to be engaged scent.

' the stop, a stop upon the brace, and a WILLIAM GEORGE MOORE. spring between the bearing on the door and "Witnesses: v the stop on the brace. GEORGE VVOTTON GADBURY,

3. The combination with a stove door JA ES R. TOWNSEND.

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