Alignment features for a panel assembly of an appliance
AssigneeHaier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
InventorsHans Juergen Paller, Jeremy Ryan
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Abstract
An oven appliance including a plurality of sidewalls defining a cooking chamber within a cabinet; a door movable between an open position and a closed position to selectively open and close the cooking chamber; a bottom panel selectively received within the cooking chamber; a panel bracket provided at a bottom of the cabinet; and an elastic member provided between the bottom panel and the panel bracket, wherein the elastic member is configured to selectively bias the bottom panel toward a front of the oven appliance.
Claims18
An oven appliance defining a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and a transverse direction, the oven appliance comprising:
- a plurality of sidewalls defining a cooking chamber within a cabinet;
- a door movable between an open position and a closed position to selectively open and close the cooking chamber;
- a bottom panel selectively received within the cooking chamber;
- a panel bracket provided at a bottom of the cabinet;
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- an elastic member provided between the bottom panel and the panel bracket, wherein the elastic member is configured to selectively bias the bottom panel toward a front of the oven appliance.
A cavity assembly for an appliance, the cavity assembly defining a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and a transverse direction, the cavity assembly comprising:
- a plurality of sidewalls defining a chamber;
- a bottom panel removably provided within the chamber;
- a panel bracket provided at a bottom of the chamber, wherein the bottom panel and the panel bracket collectively form a housing below the chamber;
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- an elastic member provided between the bottom panel and the panel bracket within the housing, wherein the elastic member is configured to selectively bias the bottom panel toward a front of the appliance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.