Extendable oven rack assembly
AssigneeBSH Home Appliances Corporation
InventorsKlaus Erdmann, Kevin Sherbert
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Abstract
An extendable oven rack assembly includes an oven rack adapted for positioning in an oven cavity. The rack is supported on two telescoping extension slides shaped for being received in support slots or ledges of an oven cavity. The telescoping extension slides are made of at least a first section received in fixed position within an oven. At least a second section is slidable in relationship to the first section and can be extended out of the oven. The second section supports the oven rack thereon.
Claims16
An extendable oven rack assembly, comprising:
- an oven rack adapted for positioning in an oven cavity;
- two telescoping extension slides shaped for being received in support slots in walls of an oven cavity, and having a first section for being received in fixed position in a corresponding support slot of an oven cavity and at least one second section in sliding relation to a corresponding first section;
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- each one of said at least one second section having said oven rack supported thereon.
An extendable oven rack assembly, comprising:
- an oven rack adapted for positioning in an oven cavity, and having support extensions extending the length of the oven rack at each side thereof, and each support extension having at least one first engagement section thereon;
- two telescoping extension slides, a respective one corresponding to one of said support extensions and each having at least one second engagement section for receiving said oven rack thereon through engagement between said at least one first engagement section of said support extensions and a corresponding one of said at least one second engagement section of a corresponding one of said two telescoping extension slides;
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- said two telescoping extension slides, each comprised of at least two sections, a first section constructed for being received in fixed position within the oven cavity in respective support slots in side walls of the oven cavity, and at least a second section slidably engaged with said first section, for supporting said oven rack, and for allowing the oven rack to be slidably moved out of the oven cavity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.