Stoves and furnaces – Stove doors and windows
Patent
1994-03-30
1994-12-27
Yeung, James C.
Stoves and furnaces
Stove doors and windows
126200, 160201, F23M 700, F24C 1504
Patent
active
053755871
ABSTRACT:
A new and improved oven door apparatus includes a pair of guide channel assemblies connected to a pair of sidewalls of the oven. Each of the guide channel assemblies includes a straight vertical guide channel portion, a curved, right angled guide channel portion, and a straight horizontal guide channel portion. The straight vertical guide channel portion is connected to an oven sidewall adjacent to a front, open portion of the oven which provides access to the interior of the oven. The straight horizontal guide channel portion is connected to an oven sidewall adjacent to a top portion of the oven. An articulated door assembly includes a plurality of rectangular door panel assemblies and is connected together by articulated connection assemblies, e.g. hinge assemblies. A wheel assembly is positioned adjacent to each corner of each door panel assembly. Wheels ride in the guide channel assemblies. The bottommost of the door panel assemblies includes a handle. A first gasket assembly is located between the bottommost door panel assembly and a bottom portion of the oven. Inter-door-panel-assembly sealing elements, supported on edge surfaces of adjacent door panel assemblies, provide seals between adjacent door panel assemblies when the articulated door assembly is in a closed orientation. One of the door panel assemblies includes a transparent portion, e.g. glass panel, which permits a person to view inside the oven without opening the oven door.
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Ward Laurie A.
Ward Shawn K.
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