Stoves and furnaces – Stoves – Cooking
Reexamination Certificate
1999-04-30
2001-01-09
Lazarus, Ira S. (Department: 3743)
Stoves and furnaces
Stoves
Cooking
C126S0390BA, C126S0390BA, C126S0390BA, C126S21400R, C248S056000, C411S156000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06170479
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a cooking area with a cooking surface that is made of glass or glass ceramic and at least one atmospheric gas burner as well as an arrangement for attaching the atmospheric gas burner or burners to the openings to guide the burner or burners through the cooking surface that is made of glass or glass ceramic. The invention especially relates to an attachment arrangement for protection of the opening edges from mechanical damages and for preventing dirt build-up and damages of the components that are arranged under the cooking surface as a result of liquid or food that is being cooked penetrating through the openings.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In the gas or mixed ranges with cooking surfaces that are made of glass or glass ceramic that are known in the prior art, the attachment of the atmospheric gas burners is done via adapter sheets, whereby the sheets rest with at least one strap on the burner body and are molded so that they can engage over the inside periphery of a respective cooking surface opening both on the top and on the bottom side of the cooking surface, whereby a seal and/or a heat-insulating material is inserted between adapter and cooking surface sides. In another embodiment, the inside circumferences of the sealing cuffs that encompass the openings (DE-PS 44 42 572 C1 ) are used. The actual attachment of the burner is then carried out via spring elements, which press the burner to the bottom side of the sealing cuff. The sealing cuffs are mounted in the opening of the cooking surface by being forced in, by soldering, bonding or by a bayonet container.
In DE 196 33 141 C1, the attachment is carried out with use of a metal hasp that engages over the edge of the respective openings on the glass or glass ceramic plate, whereby an elastic, self-clamping attachment ring that is formed as an annular disk from a meander-shaped annular belt is attached to this hasp as a support part, and the attachment ring presses against the metal hasp with its outside periphery and its inside periphery rests on the burner body.
These forms of attachment have the drawback, however, that they are relatively costly and time-consuming, since several individual parts are produced and must then be assembled in succession. Another drawback consists in the fact that between adapter sheet and burner, a gap still results, which, on the one hand, must be inherently sealed, and, on the other, in the event of dirt build-up occurring in the burner, additionally hampers its cleaning, optionally with the disassembly of the burner.
Known from DE 197 42 792 C1, which represents a prior art according to §3, Paragraph 2 of the Patent Law, is an atmospheric gas burner, which is attached to the cooking basin of a cooking surface that is made of glass ceramic using a multiple-part design, whereby a portion of the design extends as a cuff in an annular-disk shape over the molded element by means of sealing elements, and the other portion of the design engages below the molded element with use of an elastic metal element, which has an attachment as a support and the bottom side of the molded element as an abutment.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the invention is therefore to make available a cooking area with an arrangement for attaching atmospheric gas burners to the openings of the cooking surfaces that are made of glass or glass ceramic, in which the number of components that are necessary for this purpose is greatly reduced, so that shortened assembly times are possible, and which makes it possible to clean the burners relatively simply and quickly in the case of dirt build-up, optionally by its disassembly and reassembly.
According to the invention, burner bodies are used, in which even at a height above the cooking surface top, a collar that goes around the body and is for seating on the cooking surface top and suitable holding devices for frictional and/or tension accommodation of spring elements can be molded-on directly below the cooking surface bottom side. The holding devices can be depressions that are attached to the burner body, e.g., in the form of laterally attached slots or a groove that goes around the burner body, or molded-on companion flanges, on which the spring elements rest and can engage optionally for the production of a frictional connection.
The spring elements are clamped between these holding devices on the burner body and the cooking surface bottom side in such a way that they press the burner body downward, so that the circumferential collar that is molded on above the cooking surface top is pressed against the cooking surface top in the surface area near the periphery of the cooking surface openings.
For quick assembly of a burner, only three steps are then required.
1. Insertion of the burner from above into the cooking surface opening that is provided for it;
2. Clamping of the spring element(s) between (a) holding device(s) and the cooking surface bottom side;
3. Production of the connection between burner and gas supply line.
If disassembly is advised optionally for the cleaning of a burner or for maintenance, the burner can be disassembled in a quick and uncomplicated manner with a reversed sequence of the above-mentioned steps.
According to the invention, different types of spring elements can be used. In a preferred embodiment, at least two opposing leaf springs in terms of the burner body are used. As a holding device for the leaf springs, on the one hand, depressions that are recessed in the burner body can then be used, but also on the other on companion flanges that are molded onto the burner body. Advantageously, both the depressions and the companion flanges are provided with suitable equipment, e.g., hollows, which allow the engagement of the leaf springs for frictional attachment. Instead of two leaf springs, a U-shaped leaf spring can also be used.
In an especially preferred embodiment, the spring element represents a closed tension spring that extends over the periphery of the burner body. This is present preferably in the form of an annular belt whose length can vary elastically over its entire width and is designed meander-shaped. In this case, starting at approximately the height of the cooking surface bottom side, the burner in its lower part must have as cylindrical a shape as possible. When leaf springs or U-shaped springs are used, the burner can have any other shape in its lower portion.
The meander-shaped tension spring is pushed from below over the cylindrically designed lower portion of the burner, so that the tension spring expands with its inside diameter and is therefore made too oblique in radial direction to the outside diameter. In a preferred embodiment, the mounting of the spring element on the wall of the burner that is cylinder-shaped to a very large extent is carried out only by frictional connection. The meander spring is able to clamp its hardened and sharp-edged lower edge by frictional connection in the burner wall. The bottom side of the tension spring must then be some distance apart from the cooking surface bottom side, so that the meander-shaped annular belt of the tension spring that runs obliquely upward can press against the cooking surface bottom side with its outside diameter and thus presses the collar that goes around the burner body and that rests on the cooking surface top side against the cooking surface top side.
In contrast, however, the tension spring can also engage on its inside diameter for the formation of a frictional connection with the burner body in a groove that goes around the cylindrical bottom portion of the burner or in additional partially or completely circumferential locking grooves (saw-teeth) that are molded onto the burner body or recessed, by which the hold of the burner on the cooking surface is supported and thus ensures more security against a possible slip, but such additional frictional holding elements for a meander-shaped tension spring are normally not absolutely required.
If the cooking surface in the surface area that directly adj
Lazarus Ira S.
Lee David
Millen, White, Zelano, & Braniagn, P.C.
Schott Glas
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