Cooking appliance with elevating platform
AssigneeHaier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
InventorByung Cheon Lee
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Abstract
A cooking appliance includes a cabinet that defines a vertical direction and an inner shell positioned within the cabinet. The inner shell defines a cooking chamber therein. The cooking appliance also includes an upper heating module positioned at or proximate to an upper wall of the inner shell. The cooking appliance further includes a movable platform mounted to the inner shell within the cabinet. The movable platform is configured to move along the vertical direction between a bottom position wherein the movable platform is at least partially flush with a bottom wall of the inner shell and an elevated position wherein the movable platform is positioned above the bottom wall of the inner shell.
Claims16
A cooking appliance comprising:
- a cabinet defining a vertical direction;
- an inner shell positioned within the cabinet, the inner shell defining a cooking chamber therein;
- an upper heating module positioned at or proximate to an upper wall of the inner shell;
- a movable platform mounted to the inner shell within the cabinet, the movable platform configured to move along the vertical direction between a bottom position wherein the movable platform is at least partially flush with a bottom wall of the inner shell and an elevated position wherein the movable platform is positioned above the bottom wall of the inner shell;
- a hydraulic piston coupled to the movable platform, whereby the hydraulic piston is configured to move the movable platform along the vertical direction between the bottom position and the elevated position;
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- a guide rail mounted to a bottom surface of a frame.
A cooking appliance comprising:
- a cabinet defining a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and a transverse direction, the vertical direction, the lateral direction, and the transverse direction being mutually perpendicular;
- an inner shell positioned within the cabinet, the inner shell defining a cooking chamber therein, the cooking chamber extending along the transverse direction from an opening at a front end of the cooking chamber to a rear wall of the inner shell;
- an upper heating module positioned at or proximate to an upper wall of the inner shell;
- a movable platform mounted to the inner shell within the cabinet, the movable platform configured to move along the vertical direction between a bottom position wherein the movable platform is at least partially flush with a bottom wall of the inner shell and an elevated position wherein the movable platform is positioned above the bottom wall of the inner shell;
- a hydraulic piston coupled to the movable platform, whereby the hydraulic piston is configured to move the movable platform along the vertical direction between the bottom position and the elevated position;
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- a guide rail mounted to a bottom surface of the movable platform.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.