Cooking apparatus, door latching construction therefor and metho

Details Cooking apparatus, door latching construction therefor and metho Cooking apparatus, door latching construction therefor and metho

1988-05-23

1990-05-22

Walberg, Teresa J.

Electric heating

Heating devices

Combined with container, enclosure, or support for material...

292123, 292DIG69, 126197, F24C 708, H05B 102

Patent

active

049279963

ABSTRACT:
A cooking apparatus, a door latching construction therefor and methods of making the same are provided, the cooking apparatus including a frame, a cooking chamber carried by the frame, a heating unit carried by the frame and being adapted to be actuated to heat clean the chamber, a switch for permitting the heating unit to heat clean the chamber only when the switch is actuated, a movable door carried by the frame for opening and closing the cooking chamber, a movable latch member carried by the frame and being movable between a non-latching position thereof that permits the door to be opened and closed and a latching position thereof that locks the door in its closed position if the door is in its closed position at the time the latch member is moved to the latching position thereof, and a drive unit carried by the frame and being operatively interconnected to the latch member to move the latch member between the positions thereof, the latch member being movable from the non-latching position thereof to a third position thereof by the drive unit when the drive unit tends to move the latch member from the non-latching position thereof to the latching position thereof when the door is not in a closed condition thereof, the latch member being adapted to actuate the switch only when the latch member is in the latching position thereof.

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