Cooking-stove.

Application filed March 6, 1909. Serial No. 481,643.

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, John F. Heister, a citizen of the United States, residing at _r Geneva, county of Ontario, and State of 5 Few York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cooking-Stoves, of ^wiuch the following- is a specification.

The invention relates to such improvements and consists of the novel construction ^Lo and combination of parts hereinafter described and subsequently claimed.

. Reference may be hail to the accompanying drawings, and the reference characters marked thereon, which form a part of this ⁵ specification.

. Similar characters refer to similar parts m the several figures therein.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a top plan view of a front corner of a cooking-stove ⁰ or range embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a view, in side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a view in front elevation of the pendulous pawl detached. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the fixed stove-top.

^J The principal object of the invention is to provide a simple and efficient means for automatically supporting, when raised, the liiting-top section of a cooking-stove or range, and permitting the lifting-top to be lowered from its fully raised position without manipulation of such supporting means.

Referring to the drawings wherein the invention is shown in preferred form, 1, represents the body and, 2, the fixed top of a cooking-stove or range, which may be of the ordinary type. The fixed top has a front overhang at, 3, and is provided with an aperture, 4, adapted to be closed and covered by. the. pivoted top-section, 5, adapted to swing- in a vertical plane upon an axis at 6. A forward extension, 7, of said pivoted topsection occupies a groove, 8, and covers an aperture, 9, in the overhang, 3. of the fixed top.

Mounted upon the front of the stove-body is a bracket, 10, adapted to support the overhang, 3, of .the fixed top, said bracket being located adjacent to the inner side of the opening 9. Upon the side of the bracket adjacent to the opening, 9, is a rib, 11 preferably cast integral therewith, and having on its upper end one or more forwardly projecting teeth, 12, as shown in Fig. 2.

A pendulous pawl, 13., is carried by the top-section 5, being pivotally connected

I therewith at 14, which pawl is provided j Vvith an offset or projection, 15, adapted to । engage the rib 11 and the teeth, 12, thereon : as the movable top-section 5 is raised. The rib 11 extends across the path which the 60 pawl projection 15 of the pawl tends to traverse when the top-section is fully raised, and the ends of said rib 11 are preferably equidistant from , the axis of the movable top-section said rib extending obliquely up- 65 wardly and outwardly. Said rib terminates . “S upper end outside the arc of oscillation of the pawl-projection 15 when the top-section is fully raised, thus permitting the pawl to swing- by gravity toward the 70 axis. or the movable top-section, thereby causing- the pawl-projection 15 to travel down, back of the rib 11 when the top-section is thereafter lowered. The rib terminates at its lower end within the arc of 75 oscillation of said pawl-projection 15 when the top-section is fully lowered, thus permitting the pawl to swing by gravity away tiom the axis of the movable top-section thereby causing the pawl-projection 15 to 80 travel upward in front of the rib 11 when the top-section is thereafter raised. The bop-section can thus be raised and supported with the pawl-projection in engagement with either of the teeth, 12, and when it is 85 desned to lower the top-section, it is necessary only to first raise it until the pawl 13 is free to swing clear of the upper end of the nb 11 and to then lower the top-section to the plane of the fixed stove-top, no ma- 90 mpulation of the pawl being necessary to accomplish this result,

The pawl, 13, may be provided with a projection, 16, adapted to engage the underside of the fixed top, 2, at one side of 95 the opening, 9, to limit the upward movement of the movable top-section. Either, or both, of the projections, 15 and 16, can be thus made to engage the underside of the fixed top, and serve as a stop. 100

While I have described the bracket, 10, as adapted to engage and support the overhang of the fixed top, I do not wish to be limited to this function of the bracket, as, tor certain purposes of the invention, said 105 bracket may be any known means for supporting in proper position the rib 11.