Cooking time adjusting arrangement for use in electronic oven

Claim 1

A cooking time selection and adjusting arrangement for use in an electronic oven of the type including an oven-defining structure having an access opening, means positioned for generating high frequency energy toward the interior of said oven-defining structure, and a hingedly supported door covering said access opening of said oven-defining structure, said time selection and adjusting arrangement comprising: an instrument panel mounted on said oven-defining structure and having a front surface; a plurality of longitudinal interchangeable strip members each having a front surface having thereon data relating to cooking menus and cooking times corresponding thereto; mounting means for positioning a selected one of said strip members with respect to said instrument panel to be viewable at a viewing position on said front surface thereof, to thereby place selected of said menu and corresponding cooking time data at said viewing position; a timer device mounted in said instrument panel and having an operating shaft extending through said instrument panel, said timer device being operatively coupled to said means for generating high frequency energy, whereby an operator may set said timer device to a cooking time of a selected menu at said viewing position, and operation and stopping of said timer device start and stop said means for generating high frequency energy; and a movable pointer needle on said instrument panel and operatively coupled to said operating shaft to be moved thereby along said selected strip member and indicate the operating time of said means for generating high frequency energy corresponding to said cooking time of said selected menu.