Counter-top range exhaust apparatus

Claim 1

A UNITARY RANGE STRUCTURE INCLUDING A GENERALLY FLAT RECTANGULAR COOKING SURFACE PLATE WITH A COVER ASSEMBLY THEREFOR AND A DEPENDING HOUSING ADAPTED TO BE MOUNTED IN A COUNTER TOP, SAID PLATE HAVING A SINGLE SERIES OF SUBSTANTIALLY ALIGNED HEATING UNIT ACCOMMODATING WELLS, SAID PLATE PROVIDED WITH AN ELONGATED APERTURE INTERMEDIATE SAID WELLS AND THE REAR MARGIN OF THE PLATE AND COMMUNICATING WITH SAID HOUSING, THE APERTURE IN SAID PLATE EXTENDING BEYOND THE OUTER MARGINS OF THE FIRST AND LAST WELLS IN SAID SERIES AND SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE SIDE MARGINS OF SAID PLATE, SAID COVER ASSEMBLY PIVOTALLY MOUNTED ON SAID PLATE TO COVER SAID HEATING UNIT WELLS WHEN IN ITS LOWERED POSITION AND TO EXTEND UPWARDLY FROM SAID PLATE AT AN ACUTE ANGLE IN ITS RAISED POSITION WITH A PORTION THEREOF EXTENDING INTO SAID APERTURE WHEREBY THE DISTANCE IS DECREASED BETWEEN THE VERTICALLY UPWARDLY PROJECTED CENTER LINES OF SAID HEATING UNIT WELLS AND THE FREE MARGIN OF SAID COVER ASSEMBLY, SAID COVER ASSEMBLY HAVING A GENERALLY HOLLOW RECTANGULAR CONFIGURATION TO PERMIT UNIFORM MOVEMENT OF AIR THROUGH SUBSTANTIALLY THE ENTIRE WIDTH THEREOF, A HIGH-VELOCITY INTAKE SLOT FORMED IN THE FACE OF SAID COVER ASSEMBLY NEAREST SAID HEATING UNIT WELLS, SAID SLOT EXTENDING PARALLEL TO AND ADJACENT THE FREE MARGIN OF SAID COVER ASSEMBLY AND PARALLEL TO SAID SERIES OF WELLS, SAID COVER ASSEMBLY HAVING AN ELONGATED APERTURE THEREIN REGISTERING WITH SAID ELONGATED APERTURE IN SAID PLATE WHEN SAID COVER ASSEMBLY IS IN ITS RAISED POSITION AND AIR MOVING MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH SAID HOUSING FOR DRAWING COOKING FUMES UNIFORMLY THROUGH SAID HIGH VELOCITY SLOT AND SAID HOUSING.