Utensil holder for stove

{
  "publication_number": "US3960134A",
  "country": "US",
  "kind": "A",
  "title": "Utensil holder for stove",
  "abstract": "A device not limited to but particularly adapted for retaining a cooking utensil on gas stoves currently provided in motor homes, pickup campers, trailers, boats and the like, the stove having a bar-type grate secured thereto on which the utensil is supported, comprises a hollow, expandable-circumference cylinder, preferably formed by rolling a sheet metal blank, having means formed integrally therewith for removably securing the same to the grate, the cooking utensil being encircled by and restrained from sliding off the grate by the device.",
  "claims": [
    "1. A device providing means for restraining an object such as a cylindrical cooking utensil from inadvertently or accidentally falling from a stove having a horizontally-disposed heating element and/or grate, said device comprising first means for restraining the utensil, said first means comprising a tubular, sheet metal or other body having upper and lower open ends, said body being split between said upper and lower ends to provide free ends at said split and adapted to receive untensils through said upper open end, said free ends of said body at said split being formed to overlap, whereby said body is resiliently expandable from its free-state overlapping configuration to substantially circumscribe utensils of varying diameters, and second means for removably securing said device to the stove, said second means comprising means extending from said lower open end and formed to have a side opening therein for receiving a portion of the stove heating element or grate upon horizontal movement of said second means.",
    "2. A device particularly adapted for restraining a cooking utensil on a gas-type stove for mobile homes, boats and other vehicles subject to accelerations, braking, bumping and the like, the stove having a burner grate secured thereto, the burner grate including a plurality of horizontal, radially-extending grate bars for supporting the utensil, said bars having a particular cross-sectional height and width, said device comprising first hollow non-combustible cylinder means, said cylinder being open at both ends thereof and split lengthwise and having the free ends thereof at said split overlapping in the free state of said cylinder so that it is expansible and contractable in diameter to receive utensils of different cross-sectional dimension, one of said open ends being defined by the annular top end edge of the wall of said cylinder and the other of said open ends being defined by the annular bottom, grate-engaging end edge of said cylinder wall, and at least one second means extending from said cylinder adjacent said bottom edge thereof for securing said device to the grate, said second securing means comprising side-opening, clip-type means adapted to receive one of the radially-extending grate bars.",
    "3. A device such as that recited in claim 2, wherein there are at least two of said second securing means, each for receiving one of at least two grate bars.",
    "4. A device such as that recited in claim 3, wherein each of said second securing means comprises a generally L-shaped tab extending from said bottom grate-engaging edge and having the bottom leg thereof spaced from and extending parallel to said bottom edge, said bottom leg being bent inwardly toward and in a plane normal to the axis of said cylinder, the free end of each of said inwardly bent bottom legs extending in the same direction relative to said cylinder and being formed to provide a side-opening spring clip having a convergent attached portion and a divergent free end portion with respect to said adjacent bottom edge of cylinder, said free end being adapted to be displaced resiliently downwardly during insertion of a grate bar between said bottom edge and said leg.",
    "5. A device such as that recited in claim 2, wherein said top edge of said cylinder wall is formed with a notch adapted to receive the handle of a utensil.",
    "6. A device such as that recited in claim 4, wherein said bottom edge of said cylinder opposite said inwardly bent leg is formed with a notch cooperating with said leg to resiliently engage a grate bar therebetween.",
    "7. A device such as that recited in claim 2 wherein the dimensions and configuration of said clip-type means are such as to provide means adapting said clip to receive and retain grate bars of varying cross-sectional height and width and to effectively grip any such grate bars when inserted into clip to varying degrees."
  ],
  "cpc": [
    "F24C 15/36",
    "F24C 15/28"
  ],
  "assignees": [
    "SCOTT ELMIRA J"
  ],
  "filing_date": "1974-11-04",
  "publication_date": "1976-06-01",
  "grant_date": "1976-06-01",
  "priority_date": "1974-11-04",
  "application_number": "US-52047374-A",
  "family_id": "24072748",
  "citations": [
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  ]
}