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;
- a smoke generating assembly for providing a flow of smoke into the smoking chamber through a 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;
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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, the chamber wall defining a chamber inlet for receiving a flow of smoke from a smoke generating assembly, 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;
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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.