IS 4760 : 2002 Domestic Cooking Ranges Including Grillers for Use with Liquefied Petroleum Gases - Specification

1 Scope

1.1 This standard specifies construction, operation, safetyrequirements and tests for domestic cooking ranges includinggrillers, for burning gases at a rate not exceeding 1500 g/h,intended for use with liquefied petroleum gases at 2942 kN/m² (30 gf/cm²) gas inlet pressure.

1.1.1 Cooking ranges shall be classified as follows:

a) Top or Surface range - A unit designed for installation in,or on a counter top. It may have top burners, a griller, a deepwell cooker, or any combination thereof.

b) Oven range - A range designed for installation in a cabinet,wall or partition, or for installation on a counter. It may be aseparate oven, may be equipped with a griller that uses the ovenburner, or the oven may serve as a griller unit with a burner inthe upper portion of the oven.

c) Griller range - May have an open top or enclosed, may have aseparate griller.

d) Combination of (a), (b) or (c) above, or any other domesticcooking device that may be designed for similar installation.

Note - The requirements for top or surface ranging having topburners and grillers and griller ranges having griller only havebeen excluded from this standard and covered in IS 11480.

1.1.2 For convenience, this standard has been divided into threesections as follows:

Section 1 Construction

Section 2 Performance

Section 3 General

2 References

The standards given at Annex A contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provision of this standard At the time of publication, the editions indicated were valid All standards are subject to revision, and parties to agreements based on this standard are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent edition of the standards