Improvements in Parts of Gas Cooking Stoves, Grillers, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Parts of Gas Cooking Stoves, Grillers, and the like.
I, HARRY JAMES YATES, of the Firm of Arden. Hill and Company, of Wharf
Road, Aston, near the City of Birmingham, Gas Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to bearers, straps or supports for carrying the burners,
grill or 'deflector plates, and other loose cognate parts crossing or intersecting
the body of the cooking apparatus. Heretofore, such supports have been made
immovable, or fixtures with the frame, whereby the same become difficult to keep
clean.
By my improvements, the said rests, straps or bearers are loose or detachable,
and yet are capable of being fitted up perfectly rigid when in position.
In carrying out my invention in connection with detachable bearers or sup-
ports for loose burners, the top frame of the stove is crossed by one, two or a series
of preferably set-down bars or straps, arranged edgewise, and with their enlarged
or bearer ends elevated or cranked upwards so as to come on the same plane as
the flange at the inner edge of the top frame, which is formed with suitably
shaped sinkings or recesses wherein the enlarged ends of the said bearers take
and may lie flush. These ends may, if necessary, be made wedge-shaped and
the seatings may be formed to correspond, so as to admit of the said bars taking
a rigid seating and preventing rattling.
The top edges of the bars are also recessed to the cross section of the bottoms
or rest parts of the burners, which preferably have their top surfaces level or
flush with the said top edges of the bars. Sets of burners may be arranged to
be supported across the bars, and the fore ends of the burners, which are loose,
may take into holes in the walls of the stove, or in a dead plate, and in front
of the nipples of the gas taps, over which the nipples of the open tubular ends of
the burners take said burners preferably having flat seatings at their points of
rest on the bearers, and also depending position stops or horns, which come
against the flat sides of the bearers.
In the case of a griller, the pivots or joints of the hinged plates rest and work
between the upright branches of forked bearings on the edges of the bearer plates.
Although I have only described the removable bearer plates as supporting
burners and hinged griller plates, yet I wish it to be understood that the said
bearers may be employed for supporting other accessory parts of stoves, cookers
and the like.
Doted this 12th day of November 1897

page_text: Improvements in Parts of Gas Cooking Stoves, Grillers, and the like.
I, HARRY JAMES YATES, of the Firm of Arden Hill and Company, of Wharf
Road, Aston, near the City of Birmingham, Gas Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to bearers, straps or supports for carrying the burners,
griller or deflector plates, and other loose cognate parts, crossing or intersecting
the bodies or tops of gas cooking apparatus. Heretofore, such supports have
been made immovable, or fixtures with the frame, whereby the same are difficult
to keep clean, but according to my improvements, the said rests, straps or bearers
are loose or detachable, and yet when placed in position or fitted up they are per-
fectly rigid and provide efficient supports for the parts carried by them.
In applying my invention in connection with detachable bearers or supports
for loose burners, the top frame of the stove is crossed by one, two or a series of
preferably set-down bars or straps, recessed to receive the burners or parts to be
supported, whilst their ends are detachably connected, as hereinafter described,
with the frame of the stove.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a top-side plan of a gas
cooking stove provided with removable burner-supporting straps in accordance
with my invention.
Figure 2 is a like plan as Figure 1, of the top frame of the stove, the burners
and burner straps being removed to show the seatings made in the said frame to
receive the ends of the straps.
Figure 3 represents, upon an enlarged scale, a cross section of the stove framing
as upon the dotted liner, Figure 1, but with the burners and griller fittings
removed and one of the detachable burner straps in elevation.
Figure 4 is a like section as Figure 3, of the frame only, the detachable rest
or strap being removed.
Figure 5 is a cross section of a part of Figure 4 upon the dotted line r³.
Figures 6 and 7 represents in elevation and edge view one of the detachable
burner straps separately.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the said Figures 1
to 7.
a is the top frame of a gas cooking stove, which is crossed at intervals by a
pair of set-down bars or straps b, b, arranged edgewise, and with their enlarged
or bearer ends 61, elevated or cranked upwards so as to come on the same plane
as the flange a¹, at the inner edge of the top frame, which is formed with suitably
shaped sinkings or recesses a², a³, wherein the said enlarged ends of the bearers
take and lie flush. These ends are made wedge-shaped or of other figure to
correspond with the shape of the seatings so as to admit of the said bars taking
a rigid bearing and preventing rattling and in order to facilitate the placing of
the bars in their proper position, I may arrange for all the seatings to be of
different shapes (see Figure 2) so as to render it impossible for the straps. to be
set in other than their right places. The top edges 62, of the bars are also recessed
at 3, to the cross section of the. bottoms or rest parts of the burners c, which
may have their top surfaces level or flush with the said top edges of the bars,
whilst seatings are formed as at 6, to receive the pivot ends d, of the griller
deflector plates. When sets of loose burners are arranged as shown so as to be
supported across the bars, their fore ends may take into holes in the walls
of the stove, or in a dead plate, and in front of the nipples of the gas taps, over

page_text: which the open tubular ends of the burners take, and said burners preferably
have flat seatings such as 65, at their points of rest on the bearers, and also
depending position stops or horns, (not shewn) which come against the flat sides
of the bearers, thus ensuring rigidity when in position.
Figure 8 represents a plan of another form of cooking or hot plate stove
embodying my improvements.
Figure 9 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same, upon the dotted line a.
Figure 10 is a similar section to Figure 9, but with the burners removed and
the supporting strap shown lifted away from its supports.
In this modification, instead of the shaped supporting ends b', of the burner
supporting plates b, (which run in the longer direction of the stove) seating
themselves within pockets or bearings in the top frame of the stove, the said
pockets a², a³, are formed in the upper edges of the vertical bridges, webs or
walls d, which support the frame a, upon the top plate a², of the stove.
Although I have only described the removable bearer plate as supporting
burners and hinged griller plates, yet I wish it to be understood that the said
bearers may be employed for supporting other accessory parts of stoves, cookers
and the like.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is: -
First In gas cooking stoves, grillers or the like, making the bearers, straps
or supports which carry the burners, griller plates and other similar parts, loose
or detachable, substantially as and for the purpose as herein described and set
forth.
Secondly-In gas cooking stoves, grillers or the like, making the bearers,
straps or supports which carry the burners, griller plates and other similar parts,
loose or detachable, and with the ends of the same lying within correspondingly
shaped seatings or pockets formed either in the frame of the stove such as in
Figures 1 to 7, or in bridges or supports of the stove top, such as in Figures 8
to 10.