Toaster ovens
AssigneeHamilton Beach/Proctor-Silex, Inc.
InventorPaul M. Blankenship
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AssigneeHamilton Beach/Proctor-Silex, Inc.
InventorPaul M. Blankenship
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A toaster oven has a sheet metal chassis and plastic, cool-wall support walls which support the chassis. Both a pivotally-mounted bottom panel and a slidable crumb tray may be provided. Parts of the chassis are connected together without the use of fasteners or welds by twist tabs. A sheet metal top panel and, optionally, a plastic top panel extend over the top of the chassis. One of the support walls has a pair of locking pins and the plastic top wall has a forwardly-facing hook engaged with one of said locking pins and a rearwardly-facing hook engaged with the other of said locking pins. Support pads on the inner faces of the plastic support walls may cooperate with mounting members for supporting the toaster oven on the bottom of a kitchen cabinet. A control compartment beside the oven chamber houses electrical controls including a heat sensing thermistor mounted in a porcelain tube held against the wall that separates the control compartment from the oven chamber.
A toaster oven comprising:
A toaster oven having an oven chamber having a pair of end panels, a top panel and a rear panel formed by a sheet metal frame assembly, a sheet metal bottom panel mounted on said frame assembly, and a door mounted on said frame assembly, said toaster oven further having a control chamber separated from said oven chamber by one of said end panels, a top panel, a rear panel and a bottom panel formed by said frame assembly, and a control panel closing the front of said control chamber, said toaster oven additionally having a pair of plastic support walls that support said frame assembly therebetween, each of said plastic support walls having support pads that support said frame assembly and said plastic support walls and said frame assembly having interfitting tabs and recesses that prevent separation of said plastic support walls from said frame assembly, a sheet metal top wall spanning between and connected to the upper ends of both of said plastic support walls, and a plastic top panel generally parallel to and spaced above said sheet metal top wall, said plastic top panel being connected to and spanning between both of said plastic support walls.
A toaster oven having an oven chamber formed by a sheet metal frame assembly, a sheet metal bottom panel pivotally mounted on said frame assembly to permit access to said oven chamber from beneath the toaster oven, and a crumb tray slidably mounted on said bottom panel.
A toaster oven and an under-the-cabinet mounting assembly comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.