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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8047198 | Device with a door A device with a door, in particular a door of a cooking appliance, supported for pivoting movement in a pivoting direction, for closing a useable space and with a guide system for at least partially lowering the door into a storage space in a guided manner, the devi... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7743762 | Thin profile door for a cooking appliance A cooking appliance includes an oven cavity, a trim element and a door designed to pivot about a substantially vertical axis. The door is mounted for pivotal movement relative to the oven cavity about a substantially vertical axis. The door includes a main body port... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7703451 | Oven door An oven door includes upper fixtures, lower fixtures and middle frames which are attached to a front glass of the door. One or more panes of glass are mounted behind the front glass and are spaced from the front glass. As a result, air can circulate through a space ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7686009 | Oven with cooling door Disclosed herein is an oven that is capable of discharging hot air generated when cooling a door and heat generated in a cooking chamber through the lower end of the door. The oven includes a door having at least two separated air channels. The air channels comprise... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7383836 | Firepit with pivoting sliding door The invention includes a fire pit having a domed firescreen fixed atop a firebox bowl fixed atop a support frame. One specific version of the invention includes a domed firescreen having an essentially triangular doming door panel that pivots at its apex while its b... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7282674 | System and method for limiting the escape of heat and steam from an open oven door A system for reducing discharges from an oven prior to opening an oven door. In particular, the system includes a housing forming a cooking compartment arranged within the oven. The system also includes a purge passage extending through the housing into the cooking ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7275479 | Bread maker A bread maker having a main body, an oven accommodated in the main body, a baking tray provided inside the oven, and a door rotatably connected to the main body to open and close the oven, the bread maker including a sealing part on an inside of the door to prevent ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7261100 | Household appliance A household device includes a useful storage volume that can be closed by a door and a storage compartment disposed below, above, or to the side of the useful storage volume into which the door can be displaced. The door is associated with a guiding system including... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7255101 | Apparatus with a door, in particular, a cooking appliance door An apparatus includes a door, in particular, a cooking appliance door, through which a useful space can be closed, and having a stowage space, into which the door can be lowered at least partly, guided by a guide system that has a pivot axis and at least one guide e... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7234457 | Household-appliance door and household appliance A door for household appliances, in particular, a door for cooking appliances, are mounted to pivot about an articulation axis include a door handle that can be pivoted about a door-handle axis that runs parallel to the articulation axis and is connected to at least... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7225595 | Door A peripherally encapsulated product, such as an oven door outer shell, is molded in accordance with this invention by placing a piece of glass between mold clamping portions of relatively movable closed bodies when the latter are in an open position. Preferably both... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7188619 | Household food warmer A household food warmer includes a housing and a drawer. The drawer, which can be inserted into the interior chamber of the housing, has a drawer bottom and a front wall with a first opening. The front wall is provided with a sliding device that has a handle, and th... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7171794 | Door A peripherally encapsulated product, such as an oven door outer shell, is molded in accordance with this invention by placing a piece of glass between mold clamping portions of relatively movable closed bodies when the latter are in an open position. Preferably both... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7157667 | Cooking device A cooking device including a cooking area, a door for closing the cooking area and a lighting system for lighting the cooking area. The lighting system includes a light source and at least one reflector arranged in the internal space of the door, which reflects ligh... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7152836 | Adjustable tilt mount A mounting system for an interface such as a flat panel display such as a computer monitor or television allows the display to be pivoted about a virtual pivot axis which passes through a center of gravity of the display. The system includes a support which is conne... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7137387 | Oven lock with mechanical actuation of remotely located door switch An oven lock mechanism is disclosed having a latch mechanism driven by a motor between a latched position wherein the oven door is held in a closed position and an unlatched position wherein the oven door freely opens and closes. The motor is controlled by a switch ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7122766 | Range anti-tip device and method A method and safety control are provided for a free standing kitchen range which reduces the likelihood that the range will tip due to a child climbing onto the oven door. The safety control is configured to cause the oven door to be heated whenever a cooktop burner... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7064296 | Oven with an articulating and retractable door In one embodiment of the present invention, an oven having a flexible and retractable door is described. The oven door is adapted to move from a closed position wherein it effectively closes an open side of the oven box and an open position wherein the door is retra... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062889 | Door A peripherally encapsulated product, such as an oven door outer shell, is molded in accordance with this invention by placing a piece of glass between mold clamping portions of relatively movable closed bodies when the latter are in an open position. Preferably both... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7036499 | Household appliance and household appliance door Household devices that a useful compartment and can be closed by a door provided with a door handle include a storage compartment into which the door can be displaced by guiding system and at least one guiding element associated with the door and guided in a sliding... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7034269 | Wall-mounted microwave oven A wall-mounted microwave oven is provided capable of performing an exhaust function irrespective of a folded state or an unfolded state of a guide plate while achieving an improvement in the exhaust function. The wall-mounted microwave oven includes an oven body, an... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7021203 | Vented countertop rotisserie oven An enclosed rotisserie cooking oven having an enclosure able to rest on a horizontal surface housing a rotisserie spit, and opening to introduce food into the enclosure, a door covering the opening having a first and a second axle rod protruding from the door's peri... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6959705 | Oven door assembly An oven door includes a transparent zone defined by a window pack and an additional piece of glass arranged in front of the window pack. Specifically, the additional piece of glass is mounted at an angle to the panes of the window pack, with the angled glass divergi... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6956191 | Microwave oven having a projection door which extends a cooking chamber of the microwave oven A microwave oven includes a cooking chamber and a door. The cooking chamber includes a front opening and a bottom plate. The bottom plate is projected forward from the cooking chamber. The door selectively opens and closes the cooking chamber, and is projected forwa... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6883515 | Cooking device A cooking device with a muffle bounding a cooking space, a linear door for closing a muffle opening and a drive device for moving the linear door to open or close the cooking space. In order to increase the operational reliability the cooking device has an anti-trap... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6851423 | Firepit An outdoor fireplace having a supporting base and a vertical pedestal projecting upwardly from the base. A firebox in the shape of a hollow bowl open at its top is supported by the pedestal. A vertical hollow cylindrical wall is carried at its bottom end by the peri... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6750434 | Microwave oven A microwave oven includes a cooking chamber having opening and a door which selectively opens and closes the opening of the cooking chamber. The door includes a frame which is constructed to form a circumferential edge of the door and be brought into contact with a ... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6735906 | Warp resistant access door assembly for a high temperature combustion chamber A warp resistant fuel feed door assembly for use in injecting supplemental fuel into a high temperature combustion chamber such as a rotating cement kiln without substantial loss of heat or combustion gases. The apparatus, which is positioned on the exterior side of... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6693261 | Electric stove to cook food, and the like There is now provided an electric stove with an electric stove body having an exterior comprising side walls, a top, and a bottom spaced from said top. The top has a an exterior top surface on which are disposed a plurality of electric heating elements. T... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6686574 | Microwave oven having two doors A microwave oven includes two doors which primarily and secondarily prevent a leakage of microwaves from a cooking cavity during a cooking operation. A first door is rotatably hinged to a front wall of a cabinet of the microwave oven, so as to open and cl... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6679246 | Oven with door seal between the oven muffle flange and the oven door A baking oven includes a seal located between the baking oven muffle flange and the baking oven door. The seal has chambers. The chambers have an elastic lip-like lateral wall, are aligned in a direction toward the adjacent door walls and muffle flange wa... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6609908 | Replaceable heater cover A replaceable heater cover including a frame that is shaped to be removably coupled to an outer surface of a heater and an insulating material coupled to the frame. The insulating material is shaped to receive a vessel thereon during heating of the vessel... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6608288 | Oven chamber having a pass-through design An oven includes an internal preparation chamber defining a cavity that receives and prepares food product therein. The oven further includes a first chef-side door that provides access to the cavity by the chef for the placement of food product to be pre... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6601575 | Window for a hot chamber that is sealed off from the surroundings The window for a hot chamber sealed off from the surroundings includes a multi-pane module. The multi-pane module has at least two transparent panes (1, 2) held apart by peripheral spacers (3) and interconnected with the peripheral spacers (3) in a gas-ti... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6591829 | Cool-door oven The cool-door oven comprises a chamber which has an opening that can be closed by a hinged door. The chamber is mounted on a chassis with the chamber being insulated with respect to the chassis and the oven door being hinged to the chassis. Application to oven... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6588415 | One-piece hood for an outdoor grill A one-piece hood for a gas grill is formed from a single sheet of steel and comprises at least a front wall, a back wall, opposing side walls, and a top wall. Each of the opposing side walls further includes an indented central portion that has a substant... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6561180 | Oven door assembly An oven door assembly having a minimum number of required components parts is constructed by attaching a pair of spaced hinge assemblies, preferably through a tab and slot arrangement to the first panel, and positioning a central window pack on a first pa... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6467475 | Stove for cooking food with a viewing window, and a viewing window for household appliances, such as cooking stoves or ovens The invention relates to a stove for cooking food with a viewing window, and a viewing window for household appliances, such as cooking stoves or ovens, which window can be mounted in a wall of the housing of the stove for cooking food or the household ap... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6408841 | Heat insulated housing for a refrigeration device and a domestic oven A heat insulated wall having two surface layers disposed at a distance from one another and are at least substantially vacuum-tight in construction. The two surface layers together with an at least substantially vacuum-tight connection element enclose an ... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6380519 | Electrical oven having a housing with a turnable lid An electrical oven includes a housing defining an inner space and having a bottom wall, two opposite side walls, a lid that is mounted pivotally on the side walls and that confine the inner space at rear and top sides of the housing, and a front opening f... | 04/30/2002 |
