US394706A - Stove-lid - Google Patents

Description

{No Model.)

W. A. MARTEL.

STOVE 11).

No. 394,706. Patented Dec. 18, 1888.

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ATTORNEYS.

WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VILLIAM A. MARTEL, OF SOUTH ORANGE, NE\V JERSEY.

STOVE-LID.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,706, dated December 18, 1888.

Application filed August 19, 1887. Serial No. 247,366. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. MARTEL, of South Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Stove-Lid, of which the follow ing is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in stove-lids, and has for its object to provide a device specially adapted for use over an oiltlame, whereby the heat will be allowed to radiate freely through the lid and the soot be prevented from escaping into the room, and wherein also an article may be cooked over the lid as rapidly as if in contact with the flame without absorbing the odor of the oil, and, if a pan is used for cooking purposes, wherein the bottom of the pan will remain perfectly clean.

My improved lid is formed of a reticulated disk and a ring having vertical pins which pass through holes in said disk and project above it, so as to constitute a support for a pan or kettle placed thereon.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this spcci tication, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l is a central vertical section through the lid in position upon a stove, and also through a pan seated upon said lid; and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the lid.

In carrying out the invention the lid is constructed with an annular plate or ring, A, of any suit-able width, preferably about threequarters of an inch, and any desired thickness, provided with a series of apertures, a, and a second parallel plate or ring, A, having a series of pin-like projections, o, upon one face spaced equally with the apertures in the plate or ring A. The two plates are b rought in contact, the pin-like projections upon the one passing through the apertures in t-heother, as shown in Fig. 1. Prior to placing one plate upon the other a reticulated or finely-perforated disk, B, preferably consisting of a wire gauze or mesh, is laid upon the ring A, so that when. the two rings are fastened together in any approved manner the disk is confined be tween them. One means of confining them is to bend down the edge of the ring A over the edge of ring A, as shown best in Fig. l. The rings may also be secured together by means of rivets. The latter may therefore be cast integral with the ring A or made sepa- I rate therefrom, as nclerrod. It; is obvious i the ring A performs no very important function, and might in most cases be dispensed with, more especially when the edge of the ring A is turned down to secure the disk li, as before stated.

In connection with the lower plate or ring, A, cross-bars I: are provided to extend from edge to edge beneath the disk [3, purposcd to support the disk in a horizontal position and prevent sagging, as shown in Fig. l. The said CH s-bars are preferably two in number, crossing each other centrally, and may be cast integral with the plate or ring A or attached thereto.

In operation, when the lid is used to cover the stove-holes of an oil-stove, the air passing over the disk causes a circulation which causes the particles of soot or unconsumcd carbon of the oil rising in contact with the said disk to drop down again in the fire-pot. Over a lid constructed as above set forth a steak may be broiled, as the radiation of heat is unobstructed, or bread may be toasted without becoming blackened or absorbing the odor of the oil. \Yhen a pan is utilized for cooking purposes, it is placed upon the projection (1, whereby it is raised above the stove and the disk, permitting a current of air to pass between the under side of the pan and the upper surl'ace ot the disk, as shown in Fig. I, whereby the pan is kept perfectly clean.

\Vhilc the lid is particularly adapted for use upon oil-stoves, or stoves in which oil is used as a fuel in any .l'orm, it maybe used with advantage upon wood-stoves to prevent the ashes flying into the room when a pan is lifted from the opening.

The rings or plates may be provided with the usual device for receiving a lifter.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the ring A and a series of vertical pins, a, connected therewith and project ingabove it to support a pan, as shown, of the reticulated disk B, secured to the ring and having marginal apertures to receive said pins, as shown and described.

WILLIAM A. MARTEL.

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J. F. AcKER, J12,

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