Home appliance with improved oven rack
AssigneeBSH Home Appliances Corporation
InventorsJennifer A. Hoffman, Rose Marie Parker
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Abstract
A home appliance having an oven rack including an appliance body having a plurality of oven walls defining an oven cavity; an oven rack for removable disposition in the oven cavity, wherein the oven rack includes two flat side panels and a plurality of straight cross members extending laterally therebetween to define a cooking vessel support surface; and a pair of traveling gliders wherein each glider includes a channel configured for receipt of one of the side panels wherein the oven rack can travel in and out of the oven cavity supported at the side panels by the traveling gliders.
Claims28
A home appliance having an oven rack comprising:
- an appliance body having a plurality of oven walls defining an oven cavity;
- an oven rack for removable disposition in the oven cavity, wherein the oven rack includes two planar side panels with each side panel having a uniform height and a uniform width, and a plurality of straight cross members mounted to the side panels and extending laterally therebetween to define a cooking vessel support surface;
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- a pair of traveling gliders operatively engaged with two glider support elements mounted to the oven walls,
- wherein each of the pair of traveling gliders includes a channel, and
- wherein each of the two planar side panels is mounted within the channel of each of the pair of traveling gliders such that the oven rack can travel in and out of the oven cavity with the traveling gliders.
A rack assembly for use in an oven, the rack comprising:
- a rack body having two planar side panels with each side panel having a uniform vertically extending height and a uniform horizontally extending width and a plurality of straight cross members mounted to the side panels and extending laterally therebetween to define a cooking vessel support surface;
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- a pair of traveling gliders operatively engaged with two glider support elements mounted to walls of the oven,
- wherein each of the pair of traveling gliders includes a channel, and
- wherein each of the two planar side panels is mounted within the channel of each of the pair of traveling gliders such that the oven rack can travel in and out of the oven cavity with the traveling gliders.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.