Article: North Carolina Inventors Develop Motor Driven Oven Door Latch

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 11 -- Charlie Bruce Simmons Jr. and Manfred Staebler, both of New Bern, N.C., have developed a motor driven door latch for self-cleaning ovens or ranges.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "simple, highly reliable automatic motor driven oven door latch for an oven self-cleaning operation. To ensure that the motor has operated correctly and has not stopped in a null position, the motor is provided with a start pulse and the location of the latch or locking member of the latching mechanism is monitored to guarantee that the locking member has moved to the correct position."

An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent ...

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