Chambers stove
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The Chambers stove is a generic name for several different kitchen cooking appliances sold under the Chambers brand name from 1912 to approximately 1988.
Their ranges and stand-alone ovens were known for their patented insulation methods, which enabled them to cook on retained heat with the fuel turned off.
The Chambers Fireless Gas Range was a gas cook stove created by John E. Chambers in 1910, Two years after inventing his fireless cooker, John Chambers organized the Chambers Company in 1912.
Chambers' patented method of manufacture used thick rock wool insulation to insulate the oven on all sides.
This made it possible for the heat inside the oven to build up over a short period of time.
The gas was then turned off, causing a series of internal dampers to close, which effectively isolated the oven compartment from the outside air.
The food would continue to cook on retained heat, thus conserving fuel and reducing food shrinkage.
This method of cooking, Chambers literature often claimed, also increased the food value of the cooked items.
The Chambers Corporation manufactured successive versions of this design in Shelbyville, Indiana, from 1912 through January, 1955.
Chambers Corporation was sold by the Chambers family in 1950 to the Flato brothers, who were the Chambers distributors in Houston, Texas.
The Rangaire company purchased Chambers in 1964, and operated it out of the Oxford, Mississippi, plant built by the Flato brothers in 1963 until 1983, when they sold it to the KitchenAid Division of the Hobart Corporation.
During Rangaire's ownership of the Chambers Corporation, manufacture of the famous insulated range continued into the 1970s.
In 1986, KitchenAid was sold to Whirlpool.
By the early 1990s, Chambers-branded appliances were no longer being manufactured.
In 2007, the Thor Corporation of Los Angeles resurrected the Chambers brand name.
The earliest Chambers...