Cooking time adjusting arrangement for use in electronic oven

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, said instrument panel having a front surface with a window portion and an aperture therein;
• a pair of rolls rotatably mounted one above the other within said instrument panel;
• a belt member having a length greater than the spacing between said rolls, said belt member having opposite ends wound around and connected to said rolls, said belt member having a front surface visible through said window portion of said instrument panel, said front surface of said belt member having thereon data relating to cooking menus and cooking times corresponding thereto;
• driving means coupled to at least one of said rolls for synchronously rotating said rolls in the same direction, to thereby place selected of said menu and corresponding cooking time data on said belt member in a position to be viewed through said window portion;
• a timer device mounted in said instrument panel and having an operating shaft extending through said aperture in 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 visible through said window portion, and operation and stopping of said timer device start and stop said means for generating high frequency energy;
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• a movable pointer needle mounted on said instrument panel and operatively coupled to said operating shaft to be moved thereby along said window portion and indicate the operating time of said means for generating high frequency energy corresponding to said cooking time of said selected menu.