Features
While not all models had all the following features, most of the more commonly sold Chambers ranges included:
- Automatic Oven Safety Systems - to shut off the oven gas should the pilot light go out.
- Basket-style oven racks.
- Built-in Lamps.
- Child-protective locking thumb-latches on all gas valves.
- Chrome-Plated cooktop, which Chambers called "Duracrome".
- Full porcelain finishes - guaranteed by the factory for 25 years.
- Heat from Range vented out through the backsplash, enabling it to be set flush to the wall
- Mechanical Timer, which Chambers called a "Minute Minder".
- Multi-fuel design - able to operate on natural gas, propane, butane.
- Patented "daisy" burners - efficient and uniform in their distribution of heat.
- Some of the first built-in ovens and cooktops (early 1950s) made in America.
- Teardrop design gas handles.
- The use of "ThermalEye" (1950s) - developed by Robertshaw and marketed by Chambers as "The Burner With A Brain", this device made it possible to set the desired cooking temperature of a pot that had been placed on the special burner on the top of the range, and the heat would be regulated automatically.
- Thermobaker insert for the Thermowell - enabled baking of small items and meals in the Thermowell.
- Top Burner Pilot - could be used as a warming burner.
- Utility (Service) Cabinet - designed for access to the inner mechanisms and gas pipes of the range, and for storage of pots, pans, and Thermowell kettles. Misunderstood by some to be a warming oven.
- Wide grates designed to accommodate any size cooking utensil.
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