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US 12,239,223 B2Granted
Mounting bracket assembly for appliance
AssigneeMidea Group Co., Ltd.
InventorsDaniel J. Trice, Brian Langness
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Abstract
A mounting bracket assembly for an appliance, such as an over-the-range cooking appliance, for mounting to an underside of a wall cabinet, where the cooking appliance includes having at least a rear-facing side and a top-facing side. The assembly includes a wall bracket configured to be secured to the wall near the wall cabinet and configured to support the enclosure on a ledge. The assembly also includes a cam rotatably mounted to the housing to rotatably engage a surface of the ledge to raise the appliance.
Claims21
An over-the-range cooking appliance comprising:
- an enclosure with a cooking cavity configured to receive food, wherein the enclosure includes a top surface, a bottom surface, a rear surface, side surfaces, and a front surface;
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- one or more wedge screw mechanisms, wherein the rear surface includes the one or more wedge screw mechanisms configured to decrease a gap between the top surface and a bottom surface of an obstacle.
An over-the-range cooking appliance comprising:
- an enclosure with a cooking cavity configured to receive food, wherein the enclosure includes a top surface, a bottom surface, a rear surface, side surfaces, and a front surface;
- a first wedge having a first angled surface opposing a rear surface;
- wherein the rear surface of the enclosure includes a second angled surface;
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- wherein the first angled surface of the first wedge slidably engages the second angled surface between a first sliding position and a second sliding position, wherein in the first sliding position the rear surface of the first wedge is closer to the rear surface of the enclosure than when in the second sliding position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.