Stoves and furnaces – Stoves – Cooking
Patent
1998-05-26
1999-09-21
Yeung, James C.
Stoves and furnaces
Stoves
Cooking
126 42, 251306, F24C 312, F16K 122
Patent
active
059540451
ABSTRACT:
A new gas appliance safety shut-off system for preventing accidents and deaths related to the utilization of gas-fueled appliances by providing a gas-fueled appliance with an integrated valve. The operating handle of the valve is accessible from the front of the appliance housing so that the gas supply to the burning devices on or in the appliance may be turned off quickly and easily. The inventive device includes a hydrocarbon gas-fueled appliance that has a gas supply line located in the external housing of the appliance and at least one burning device. An internal pipe member is fluidly connected to the gas supply line such that all hydrocarbon gas burned by the burning devices of the appliance must pass through the pipe member. A valve is pivotally secured in the lumen of the pipe member to selectively cut off the supply of hydrocarbon gas to all the burning devices of the appliance. An operating handle is secured to the valve to allow manual manipulation of the movement of the valve within the lumen of the pipe member. The operating handle is mounted on the exterior of the housing adjacent to a control panel of the housing on the front of the housing of the appliance such that the hydrocarbon gas supplied to all the burning devices of the appliance may be easily and quickly shut-off by turning the operating handle.
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Raab Sara
Yeung James C.
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