Stoves and furnaces – Combustion engine-heated cooking stoves – oven or heating...
Patent
1984-06-28
1989-05-23
Dority, Jr., Carroll B.
Stoves and furnaces
Combustion engine-heated cooking stoves, oven or heating...
126273R, 126 39N, 219480, 219446, A21B 100
Patent
active
048319996
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a cooking and baking device to be built in comprising an oven and a cooktop, said oven comprising a frame, a cabinet-shaped oven unit connected with said frame and provided with a pivotable door and an oven control-member connected with said frame and carrying an oven actuating member partly protruding beyond a control panel connected with the frame, whilst the cooktop comprises a cooktop unit to be built in in a horizontal plate and cooktop control-members which are connected with cooktop actuating members partly protruding beyond the control panel.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Such a device is generally known and was developed on the basis of the separate kitchen range when it was desired to provide closed, continuous kitchen furniture featuring built-in appliances. The supporting function of the kitchen range housing is taken over by the kitchen furniture in the built-in devices. It is common practice in a device of the kind set forth, in which the cooktop is operating with electric heating elements, to rigidly secure the control-members for the cooktop together with the control-members for the oven to the oven. When building in, the electric conductors of the cooktop are connected to the oven.
With the increasing diversity of types of cooking/baking devices the costs involved in having all these types in stock rise explosively.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the invention is to provide a cooking/baking device of the kind set forth in the preamble, by which with a limited stock a great diversity of types of such devices can nevertheless be supplied.
In a cooking/baking device according to the invention this is achieved in that the cooktop control-members are permanently and functionally connected with the cooktop unit and the cooktop comprises an actuating unit releasably connected with the frame, which unit accommodates at least the cooktop actuating members. Thus the cooktop and the oven constitute independent parts which are combined in accordance with the desired type of cooking/baking device.
In one embodiment of the device in accordance with the invention the cooktop is an electric cooktop and the cooktop control-members are housed in the actuating unit and permanently connected by electric conductors to the cooktop unit. Owing to the flexible nature of the electric conductors the actuating unit can be simply mounted on the frame.
In a further device according to the invention the cooktop is a gas cooktop and the cooktop control unit is rigidly secured to the cooktop unit and through rod transmissions connected with the cooktop actuating members in the actuating unit.
An additional advantage of the invention is that both the cooktop and the oven can be separately tested, since the actuating members of each unit are connected with said unit. This is contrary to the prior art in which the cooking/baking device as a whole need be tested.
According to a particularly advantageous aspect of the invention at least the visible part of the control-panel is formed by a releasable front panel with recesses for the actuating members. Owing to this front panel the parts become a unit also visually. By using this separate front panel it is also possible to adapt the device according to the invention in a simple manner to the colour of the kitchen furniture. Only the front panel need be of the colour concerned.
The invention relates to and provides furthermore a cooktop for use in a device according to the invention. This cooktop comprises a cooktop unit, a cooktop control unit and cooktop actuating members connected with said control unit. According to the invention the cooktop control unit are functionally, permanently connected with the cooktop unit, whilst at least the cooktop actuating members are housed in an actuating unit provided with fastening means for a releasable connection with the frame.
The invention furthermore relates to and provides an oven comprising a frame, a cabinet-shaped oven unit connected with
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Dority Jr. Carroll B.
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