Raised-level built-in cooking appliance
AssigneeBSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
InventorsEdmund Kuttalek, Peter Mallinger
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Abstract
A raised-level built-in cooking appliance, such as a wall-mounted oven, has a housing with a cooking chamber that is downwardly open. A floor chamber opening is selectively closed by a lowerable trapdoor. A door guide enables the bottom door to be lowered along a lifting path. The trapdoor guide has a first guide element on the housing side and a second guide element on the trapdoor side. In addition, at least one intermediate element is provided so that the trapdoor may be lowered over as long a lifting path as possible. The intermediate element connects the first guide element to the second guide element and extends the lifting path of the trapdoor.
Claims4
A wall-mounted cooking appliance, comprising:
- a housing formed with a muffle and a bottom muffle opening;
- a lowerable bottom door for selectively closing said bottom muffle opening;
- a bottom door guide connecting said bottom door to said housing and mounting said bottom door for selective lifting and lowering along a lifting path, said bottom door guide having:
- at least one housing-side first guide element;
- a bottom door-side second guide element;
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- at least one intermediate element connecting said first guide element with said second guide element and lengthening the lifting path of said bottom door;
- a drive mechanism having a tensile element disposed in a channel formed of said guide elements and said intermediate element, and said tensile element being connected to said bottom door for lifting and lowering said bottom door;
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- a tensile force mechanism associated with said drive mechanism for causing a predetermined minimum tensile force to be maintained on the tensile element to counter slack introduced into said tensile element as a result of said bottom door coming to rest on a surface when in an opened condition, and before the drive mechanism shuts down.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.