Patent ID: 6054203
Filing Date: 2000-04-25
Classification: F24C,H05B,Y10T

Abstract:
An arrangement for transporting a stack of cooking stove glass plates and for installing each of the plates in a frame of a cooking stove, wherein each glass plate has cooking zones on a first surface and a peripheral mounting area outside of the cooking zones on a second surface facing opposite the first surface, the arrangement comprising;a stack of cooking stove glass plates;a plurality of frames seperate from the stack, each frame having an upwardly facing shelf, each upwardly facing shelf having an area corresponding in shape and size to the peripheral mounting areas of the second surfaces of the glass plates wherein one of the glass plates is mountable on each of the shelves; andthe stack of the glass plates having each glass plate in the stack extending vertically and each plate in the stack having resilient spacer elements fixed only to and extending only from the peripheral mounting area of the second surface so as to be outside of the cooking zones, the resilient spacer elements having exposed surfaces which are non-adhesive and engage only first surfaces of adjacent plates to keep the glass plates in spaced relation with respect to one another while the plates are in the stack, the spacers of each glass plate being adapted to be positioned for non-adhesive engagement with a shelf of a frame when that glass plate is removed from the stack and mounted horizontally on the shelf of that frame.