CPC Definition - Subclass F24C
This place covers:
Domestic stoves or ranges in which the fuel is not restricted to solid fuel, e.g. gaseous fuels, liquid fuels or electricity is used.
Details for such stoves or ranges.
Cooktops.
Devices for removing cooking fumes, e.g. extractor hoods.
Baking ovens with convection heat.
This place does not cover:
Domestic stoves or ranges exclusively for solid fuels |
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Protecting plants by heating in gardens, orchards or forests |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Bakers' ovens; machines or equipment for baking | |
Kitchen cabinets | |
Cooking devices other than ranges | |
Washing or rinsing machines for crockery or tableware | |
Laundering, drying, ironing, pressing or folding textile articles | |
Combustion apparatus in general | |
Domestic or space heating systems, e.g. central heating systems; Domestic hot-water supply systems | |
Fluid heaters, e.g. water or air heaters, having heat generating means | |
Refrigerators | |
Cooking devices using induction heating | |
Heating using microwaves |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Stove | appliance used for generating heat |
Range, kitchen stove, cooking stove, cookstove or cooker | kitchen appliance designed to cook food. Such a device has both burners on the top (also known in American English as the cooktop and, in British English, the hob) and, often, an oven |
Cooktop | has burners on the top and is usually installed into a countertop |
Drop-in range | has both burners on the top and an oven and hangs from a cutout in the countertop (that is, it cannot be installed free-standing on its own) |
This place covers:
Stoves or ranges which are adapted for the use of two or more kinds of fuel or energy supply.
Stoves or ranges solely adapted for radiation heating.
This place covers:
Stoves or ranges comprising a gas burner.
Details of such stoves or ranges, e.g. the arrangement or mounting of the burners, the arrangement or mounting of ignition devices and control or safety devices used on these devices.
This place does not cover:
Stoves or ranges specially adapted for the use of two or more kinds of fuel or energy supply |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Control valves | |
Premix gas burners with radial outlets at the burning head | |
Regulating or controlling combustion | |
Ignition |
This place covers:
Stoves and ranges using liquid fuel.
Details of such stoves or ranges, e.g. the arrangement or mounting of the burners, the arrangement or mounting of ignition devices and control or safety devices used on these devices.
Liquid-fuel supply arrangements.
This place does not cover:
Stoves or ranges specially adapted for the use of two or more kinds of fuel or energy supply |
This place covers:
Stoves and ranges using electrical energy.
Details of such stoves or ranges, e.g. the arrangement or mounting of the heating elements, the arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices used on these devices.
This place does not cover:
Stoves or ranges specially adapted for the use of two or more kinds of fuel or energy supply |
Simulated fireplaces using solid fuel are classified in F24B 1/1808.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Artificial stove with gaseous fuel | |
Lighting devices or systems simulating flames |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Heating using microwaves |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Measuring temperature; measuring quantity of heat; thermally-sensitive elements not otherwise provided for | |
Controlling members, e.g. knobs or handles; | |
Switches | |
Touch switches | |
Circuit arrangements for electric heating |
This place covers:
Stoves and ranges using a single type of energy supply not covered by groups F24C 3/00 - F24C 7/00 or subclass F24B.
Stoves or ranges using the heat from an exothermal reaction not involving a supply of free oxygen gas.
Stoves or ranges using special gaseous fuel, e.g. acetylene and hydrogen.
This place does not cover:
Solar heat collectors for heating objects, e.g. solar cookers |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Using the heat from exothermal reactions other than by combustion |
This place covers:
Combinations of two or more stoves or ranges, e.g. each having a different kind of energy supply.
This place covers:
Stoves or range wherein residual heat is used for heating water.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Mounting arrangements of water heaters or water-heating elements |
This place covers:
Pyrolytic cooking ovens.
Stoves or ranges wherein a cleaning liquid is used.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Removing cooking fumes | |
Cleaning in general; prevention of fouling | |
Detergent compositions |
This place covers:
Details of stoves or ranges such as: arrangements for circulation of cooling air to avoid excessive heat in the housing or door, illumination of oven cavities, doors specially adapted for stoves or ranges, shelves or racks used in cooking ovens.
Cooking hot plate using gas or electrical energy.
Devices for removing cooking fumes, either from a cooking cavity or from a cooking area, e.g. extractor hoods.
Arrangements of ducts for hot gases in or around baking ovens, e.g. convection baking ovens.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Electric heating elements or arrangements |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Enamels; Glazes |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Means for illuminating ovens | |
Details of lighting of general application | |
Lighting for ovens | |
Lighting devices in microwave cavity |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Sealings for wings in general |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Bolts or fastening devices for wings, specially for doors or windows |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Locks; accessories therefore; handcuffs |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devitrified glass ceramics | |
Surface treatment of glass, not in the form of fibres or filaments, by coating | |
Ohmic resistance heating arrangements specially adapted for cooking plates or analogous hot-plates | |
Induction cooking plates with coil cooling arrangements |
This place covers:
This group covers shelves, racks and related accessories like rotisserie spits, trays and supports to be used inside ovens.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Sliding drawers for tables, cabinets or like furniture | |
Roasting apparatus with movably-mounted food supports or with movable heating implements; spits | |
Roasters; grills; sandwich grills | |
Racks for washing or rinsing machines for crockery or tableware | |
Bearings for parts moving only linearly | |
Shelves in refrigerators |
This place covers:
Arrangement of compartments additional to cooking compartments, e.g. for warming, for storing utensils or fuel containers; Arrangements of additional heating or cooking apparatus, e.g. grills, and additional cooking arrangements on stoves.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Grills per se |
This place covers:
Devices for removing cooking fumes from cooking cavities or from cooking ranges, e.g. using an extractor hood.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Parts, detail or accessories of cooking-vessels for withdrawing or condensing cooking vapour from cooking utensils | |
Control of fire-fighting equipment | |
Separating dispersed particles from gases or vapours by gravity, inertia or centrifugal forces | |
Filters or filtering processes specially modified for separating dispersed particles from gases or vapours | |
Air-conditioning; air-humidification; ventilation | |
Microwave oven air circulation system also used as air extracting hood |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Kitchen cabinets incorporating apparatus operated by power | |
Arrangements for mounting in vehicles functioning as mobile restaurants, food kiosks | |
Arrangements of living accommodation in campers, caravans | |
Restaurant cars of railway vehicles | |
Galleys on ships or other waterborne vessels | |
Galleys in aircrafts |
This place covers:
Baking ovens comprising convection heating using forced circulation.
Baking ovens comprising air moisturising means, e.g. steam ovens.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Ovens heated by media flowing there through | |
Air-treatment devices for ovens, e.g. regulating humidity | |
Steam-heated kettles for domestic use | |
Heat-insulated warming chambers with forced air circulation | |
Heating using microwaves combined with convection heating and using steam |