Utensil holder for stove

Claim 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.

Claim 2

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.

Claim 3

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.

Claim 4

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.