Cooking appliance with movable heating element
AssigneeHaier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
InventorsDaniel Carballo, Steven Fox
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Abstract
A cooking appliance includes a cabinet and a heated chamber positioned within the cabinet. The heated chamber is defined by a plurality of walls. The cooking appliance also includes a heating element positioned within the heated chamber. The heating element is movably mounted within the heated chamber such that the heating element is movable between a first position and a second position. The first position may be adjacent one wall of the plurality of walls and the second position may be spaced apart from the one wall of the plurality of walls. The first position may be approximately parallel to a horizontal direction and the second position may be approximately perpendicular to the horizontal direction.
Claims17
A cooking appliance defining a mutually perpendicular vertical direction, lateral direction, and transverse direction, the cooking appliance comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a heated chamber positioned within the cabinet, the heated chamber defined by a plurality of walls;
- a heating element positioned within the heated chamber, the heating element movably mounted within the heated chamber whereby the heating element is movable between a first position approximately parallel to the transverse direction and a second position approximately perpendicular to the transverse direction.
A cooking appliance, comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a heated chamber positioned within the cabinet, the heated chamber defined by a plurality of walls;
- a heating element positioned within the heated chamber, the heating element movably mounted within the heated chamber whereby the heating element is movable between a first position adjacent one wall of the plurality of walls and a second position spaced apart from the one wall of the plurality of walls.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.