Stoves and furnaces – Stoves – Cooking
Patent
1977-08-08
1979-01-16
Favors, Edward G.
Stoves and furnaces
Stoves
Cooking
F24C 312
Patent
active
041343867
ABSTRACT:
A cover for preventing accidental movement of a plurality of controls extending in a row out of a control panel of a stove. The cover comprising a lock adapted to be mounted on the control panel and having a rotatable latch extending behind the control panel, with an elongated housing having a length in excess of the distance between the endmost controls of the row and including top and bottom walls, a front wall, and end walls. The rear of the housing being open to receive the controls therein with the rear edges of the bottom walls and the end walls lying in substantially a common plane. Mounting means is operatively associated with the top wall of the housing for hingeably removably securing the housing to the control panel of the stove for pivotal movement between a closed position in which the cover fully encloses the controls to an open position in which access to the controls is obtainable. A locking element is mounted on the bottom wall and extending forwardly of the rear edge, with the locking element including a slot extending transversely within the locking element, and the locking element adapted to be received within an aperture on the control panel adjacent the lock in the closed position of the cover. The latch extending within the slot in the locked position of the lock, such that the housing is retained in the closed position until the lock is opened and the housing may be pivoted upwardly or removed from the stove.
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patent: 1329490 (1920-02-01), Worthington
patent: 2413237 (1946-12-01), Jones
patent: 2472793 (1949-06-01), Conterno
patent: 2834335 (1958-05-01), Rondello
patent: 3043289 (1962-07-01), Fox
patent: 3527200 (1970-09-01), Baltz et al.
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