Rack assembly for an indoor smoker
AssigneeHaier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
InventorsTomas Garces, Daniel Carballo
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Abstract
An indoor smoker includes a smoking chamber that is defined at least in part by a chamber wall and a smoke generating assembly for providing a flow of smoke into the smoking chamber through a chamber inlet defined in the chamber wall. A rack assembly is positioned within the smoking chamber and includes a ladder rack mounted to the chamber wall for supporting a plurality of racks. The ladder rack includes L-shaped mounting flanges that are secured to the chamber wall and a support plate that is secured to the distal ends of the mounting flanges to define a flow plenum for distributing the flow of smoke throughout the smoking chamber.
Claims20
An indoor smoker defining a vertical direction and a horizontal direction, the indoor smoker comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a smoking chamber positioned within the cabinet, the smoking chamber being defined at least in part by a chamber wall that defines a boundary of the smoking chamber along the horizontal direction, the chamber wall defining a chamber inlet on a bottom half of the chamber wall;
- a smoke generating assembly positioned immediately adjacent the chamber inlet for providing a flow of smoke into the smoking chamber through the chamber inlet defined in the chamber wall;
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- a rack assembly positioned within the smoking chamber, the rack assembly comprising:
- a ladder rack mounted to the chamber wall, the ladder rack comprising a support plate that is spaced apart from the chamber wall to define a flow plenum, the support plate defining one or more receiving slots configured to permit the flow of smoke to pass from the flow plenum into the smoking chamber, wherein the chamber inlet is positioned between adjacent slots of the one or more receiving slots along the vertical direction such that the flow of smoke is impinged on the support plate at a location between adjacent receiving slots along the vertical direction such that at least a portion of the flow of smoke is directed along the vertical direction within the flow plenum to the adjacent slots;
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- one or more racks removably mountable in the receiving slots of the ladder rack.
A rack assembly for an indoor smoker, the indoor smoker comprising a smoking chamber positioned within a cabinet and being defined at least in part by a chamber wall that defines a boundary of the smoking chamber along the horizontal direction, the chamber wall defining a chamber inlet on a bottom half of the chamber wall for receiving a flow of smoke from a smoke generating assembly positioned immediately adjacent the chamber inlet, the rack assembly comprising:
- a ladder rack mounted to the chamber wall, the ladder rack comprising a support plate that is spaced apart from the chamber wall to define a flow plenum, the support plate defining one or more receiving slots configured to permit the flow of smoke to pass from the flow plenum into the smoking chamber, wherein the chamber inlet is positioned between adjacent slots of the one or more receiving slots along a vertical direction such that the flow of smoke is impinged on the support plate at a location between adjacent receiving slots along the vertical direction such that at least a portion of the flow of smoke is directed along the vertical direction to the adjacent slots;
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- one or more racks removably mountable in the receiving slots of the ladder rack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.