Abstract: This invention is directed to a device for holding an object such as a microwave oven above the burner area of a kitchen stove or range of the type commonly used in homes. The disclosed invention includes a platform for holding the object which is rigidly secured to a support. The support is adapted to engage the drip rails on both sides of the burner area of the range to hold the platform at a predetermined height above the burner area. A stiffening member is secured to the platform and to the support to provide rigidity to the shelf which stiffening member has a heat reflective surface extending substantially across the burner area of the range to reflect heat back toward the burner area and away from the shelf.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a mechanism for locking and restraining one or more objects of various lengths and diameters or widths in a holding rack of the type in which an end of the object is seated in a depression in a fixed base, the base being secured immovably. The disclosed invention includes a shaft which has a radius which varies with respect to a longitudinal axis for pivoting and further has notches along its length at the point of its largest radius. A cap member, receptive to an end of the object not seated in the base, is slidably mounted upon the shaft and is able to engage the notches of the shaft whenever the shaft is provided into a given position. There is also provided a slotted plate which is located between the shaft and the cap member such that as the cap member slides on the shaft, it moves within the constraints of the slot on the plate, and is prevented from rotating about the shaft.