Brackets Or Stands Patents (Class 126/333)
  • Patent number: 9993383
    Abstract: A shelf assembly comprises a shelf, an arm having a distal end and a proximal end, a first pivot connection between the shelf and the distal end of the arm, and a second pivot connection between the proximal end of the arm and a base. The base comprises a drawer movable in translation between at least a storage position and an operating position. A cabinet for a swing-out shelf is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: A-dec, Inc.
    Inventors: David Anthony Hovenden, Joshua D. Vail
  • Patent number: 9726304
    Abstract: A double offset hanger and restrainer device for securely supporting a pipe or the like against undesirable sway and seismic disturbances is provided. The hanger and restrainer device includes a proximal portion mountable to a beam or the like and a specially contoured distal portion with an opening that can receive the pipe in a “snap-on” manner. The snap-on or press-fit feature also provides the advantage of retrofit installation, thereby permitting one or more of the devices to be added on without disassembly of an existing installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Cooper B-Line, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard W. Heath
  • Patent number: 9554648
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sliding system for a drawer comprising a main base which is fixed unto a grill whose front end of the base overlaps from the same; a wire rod base set over the main base by means of a fixed rail, said wire rod base allows for the complete aperture of the drawer; a drawer base which supports the drawers and remains fixed unto the system; a plurality of bushings which decrease the amount of friction, which allows for smooth and silent sliding; a magnet which provides closing force to the drawer which grants the closing sensation when the drawer reaches the bump and extractable drawers which are transportable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: MABE, S.A. DE C.V.
    Inventor: Carlos Hernandez Zaragoza
  • Patent number: 9387385
    Abstract: A golf training device having an alignment structure with a body configured to connect to an end of a shaft. The alignment structure has an alignment structure primary end located opposite an alignment structure secondary end. The alignment structure primary end has three protrusions radiating from the body of the alignment structure. The alignment structure secondary end has a single protrusion radiation from the body of the alignment structure. At least one protrusion is adapted to contact a portion of a user's torso. The body has an opening configured to connect to an end of a shaft. The shaft is configured to connect to a structure having a primary end being a golf club attaching end located opposite a secondary end of the structure being a shaft attaching end. The primary end of the structure has a hingedly connected jaw configured to grip the shaft of a golf club.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Inventor: Robert Vincent Strano
  • Patent number: 8813740
    Abstract: An oven accessory may include a frame structure formed of a material that is substantially invisible to RF energy and a plurality of removable inserts. The frame structure may include legs and a periphery supported by the legs to be elevated above a base disposed within an oven. The periphery may define a receiving opening and lie in a first plane that is spaced apart from and substantially parallel to a second plane in which the base lies. At least some of the removable inserts may be configured to be interchangeably disposed at the receiving opening independently of each other. At least one of the removable inserts may be configured to define at least one elevated food holding location to combine with at least one other food holding location to enable support of a food product in a substantially vertical orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Joshua Linton
  • Patent number: 8646444
    Abstract: A rack for an appliance includes a main section having a support frame, and an arm coupled to the support frame and movable relative to the support frame between a first position and a second position. In one example, the arm is movable towards the first position and is configured for engagement with a stop portion of an appliance cavity for inhibiting removal of the main section therefrom. In another example, the appliance cavity includes at least one stop portion, and the arm is movable towards engagement with the stop portion for inhibiting removal of the main section from the appliance cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Wayne Williams, Jason Paul Norberg, Bryan Thomas Phillips, Julie Anne Robinson, Timothy Paul Doyal, Jeffrey A. Ambrose, Jason Robert Yochum
  • Patent number: 8629376
    Abstract: An oven rack is received in an oven above a lower surface of the chamber and having a bake element mounted in the chamber either above or below the lower surface. The oven rack is configured to support cooking ware on one of the lower surface of the oven chamber or on rack shelf portions provided in sidewalls of the chamber. The rack includes a first portion having a substantially planar top surface, a second portion having a substantially planar lower surface spaced from the top surface and it is also configured to support the rack in one of the rack shelf portions or on the lower surface of the oven chamber. First and second walls extend between these first and second portions whereby the walls have a first dimension slightly greater than a height from the bottom surface of the oven chamber to a top of the bake element when the bake element is mounted above the lower surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Srinivasa Palla, Philip Barber, Michael Gallant, Jonathan Sprigler
  • Patent number: 8308250
    Abstract: A rack system for an appliance is provided. The rack system includes a door link, a first coupler link, a first rack, a bracket, a second coupler link, and a second rack. The door link is attached to an appliance door. The first coupler link is attached to the door link and connected to the first rack. The bracket is attached to either the first rack or the second rack. The second coupler link is attached to the bracket at one of the sites for attachment and connected to whichever one of either the first or second racks to which the bracket is not attached. The linear movement of the first and second racks can be non-staggered or staggered depending on the attachment site of the bracket to which the second coupler link is attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Edwin Koehler
  • Patent number: 7735481
    Abstract: An oven includes an oven cavity having multiple pairs of horizontally disposed guide slots recessed into the side walls of the oven cavity. At least one oven rack is configured with at least two wheels mounted on axles secured to at least one hinged support along an edge of the oven rack. After the oven rack is inserted into the oven cavity, the hinged support is pivoted to move the axles of the wheels to a generally horizontal position to cause the wheels to engage the horizontal slots and support the oven rack. The oven rack is removed from the oven cavity by lifting the oven rack to cause the wheels to disengage from the horizontal guide slots and to pivot so that the axles are at an angle with respect to the horizontal position. With the wheels disengaged from the guide slots, the oven rack is readily removable from the oven cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Capital Cooking Equipment, Inc.
    Inventors: Surjit S. Kalsi, Rafael H. Romero, Surya Kanwal Kalsi, Roberto Bernal
  • Patent number: 7665456
    Abstract: A barbecue apparatus is provided, the apparatus comprises: a grill body comprising at least one cooking chamber and a fire bowl having a topside opening; at least one lid, and the lid being designed to cover the topside opening of the fire bowl during a closed position; at least one mounting assembly attached to the firebowl, and the mounting assembly having at least one aperture; and at least one swing out shelf system, and the system comprises at least one shelf and at least one bracket with opposing ends, a first end being connected to said shelf and a second end comprising at least one shaft extending downwardly therefrom and designed to fit and rotate within the aperture of the mounting assembly whereby the shelf can be swung between a first position for use and a second position for storage, at least a portion of the shelf being situated away from the topside opening of the fire bowl in the first position and the shelf is situated generally above the topside opening of the fire bowl during the second po
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: IBT Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert DeMars
  • Patent number: 7604002
    Abstract: A baking apparatus with a removable rack and adjustable pan supports provides the user with versatility by permitting manual re-configuration of the spacing of the oven racks as desired by the user. The removable rack component includes two interfaces for the oven, a locking rib on the top and a fastener or plunger on the bottom. These permit the user to manually remove the rack from the oven without using tools or other apparatus. The adjustable pan supports include offset tabs for removably and easily engaging the oven rack. The pan supports are removed and repositioned, adjusting shelf height and distance, by lifting and turning the pan supports 90 degrees to release the supports from the rack slot, removing the supports, and repositioning them as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: G.S. Blodgett Corporation
    Inventors: Jiri Rabas, Kevin L. Griswold, Daniel J. Swayze
  • Patent number: 7385160
    Abstract: A food holding cabinet having a housing defining a heating chamber for holding a covered food tray in a tray location has a pair of elongated rigid rods mounted to the housing for suspending a food tray cover thereon in a position above the tray location. A front rod extends across the opening to the heating chamber and supports the front end of the tray cover and a rear rod supports the rear of the cover. When a food tray is inserted into the tray location, it lifts and supports the cover. When the tray is removed, the front rod prevents removal of the cover along with the underlying tray. The front rod is spring-loaded to be pulled away from the housing to facilitate removal of the cover. A tray cover is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Merco/Savory, LLC.
    Inventor: Douglas Scott Jones
  • Patent number: 7222619
    Abstract: A barbecue has a pair of storable shelves mounted on opposite portions of the barbecue housing adjacent the upper open end of the housing. The shelves are rotatable about generally vertical pivot axes so that each can be swung between a first position for use outside the housing and a second position for storage inside the housing. The shelves are positioned, one over the other, for storage inside the housing when each is in the second position. Swinging movement of each of the shelves between the first and second position is provided by a downwardly extending shaft at an end of a bracket on which the shelf is mounted, which shaft is rotatably received within a mating vertical aperture in a mounting assembly mounted at the inside surface of the barbecue housing. Recesses in the shelf brackets permit the brackets to be positioned over and to nest on the rim of the housing when in the first position outside of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Original Ideas, Inc
    Inventor: Robert A. DeMars
  • Patent number: 7183521
    Abstract: An oven having a cooking cavity and a removable rack structure has a rack sensor in the oven. The sensor provides an indication of an absence or presence of the structure and an oven control permits oven cleaning in response to the indication of the absence of the structure or prevents oven cleaning in response to the indication of the presence of the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Gary Fisher
  • Patent number: 7183520
    Abstract: An oven that is capable of minimizing heat transfer between adjacent cooking spaces along the wall of a cooking chamber. The oven includes an oven body having a cooking chamber, a partition to partition the cooking chamber into a plurality of cooking spaces, and insulating grooves formed at a wall of the cooking chamber to minimize heat transfer between the cooking spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guen Yong Park
  • Patent number: 7087862
    Abstract: A rack assembly includes a pair of laterally spaced inner rails, wherein each inner rail includes a coating layer configured to withstand a self clean oven temperature, and a pair of laterally spaced outer rails, wherein each outer rail is slidably coupled to a corresponding inner rail, and each outer rail includes a coating layer configured to withstand a self clean oven temperature. The rack assembly also includes a plurality of bearings positioned between the inner rails and the outer rails, a lubricant to facilitate movement between the plurality of bearings and at least one of the inner rails and the outer rails, wherein the lubricant is configured to withstand a self clean oven temperature, and a cooking rack coupled to each inner rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Timothy Scott Shaffer, Anthony Leo Muth
  • Patent number: 7087863
    Abstract: An oven capable of preventing heat transfer from one cooking space having relatively high temperature to another cooking space having relatively low temperature along each side plate of a cooking chamber having a plurality of partitioned cooking spaces. The oven includes an insulating unit and a cooling unit mounted at each side plate to prevent heat transfer between first and second cooking spaces along each side plate. The insulating unit includes a slit formed right under the partition, an insulating member fitted in the slit, and a supporting member attached to the inside of each side plate. The cooling unit includes an air guide member attached to the outside of each side plate to cover the insulating member, and a blowing fan connected to the air guide member to forcibly blow outside air to the air guide member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheol Jin Kim, Yun Ic Hwang, Seok Weon Hong, Pung Yeun Cho, Yu Jeub Ha, Kyoung Ho Kim, Sung Kwang Kim, Kil Young Lee, Sung Soo Park, Tae Ho Kim, Sang Hyun Kang
  • Patent number: 7071448
    Abstract: An electric oven includes a partition member to partition a cooking chamber into two cooking regions. The partition member for use in the electric oven includes an insulating board interposed between upper and lower plates of the partition member, and a shock-absorbing unit to prevent damage to the insulating board. Using the electric oven configured as stated above, it is possible to intercept heat transfer between the partitioned respective cooking regions, thereby preventing heat loss between the respective cooking regions and damage to the interior of the partition member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoung Ho Kim, Cheol Jin Kim, Sung Soo Park, Kil Young Lee, Suk Yoon Yum, Sung Wook Kang
  • Patent number: 6960742
    Abstract: This invention discloses an electric oven with detachable liners includes a front door, a control panel and a rear shell; inside the rear shell is an inner chamber where an electric heater and a baking rack are installed; wherein, said electric oven further includes at least one piece of detachable liners, each detachable liner is in the shape of plane plate and is detachably installed at the inner side of said inner chamber. By adding the detachable liners, the inner chamber of the electric oven can be always kept clean and new. Besides, it is convenient to put the detachable liners into conventional dish washing troughs or dish washing machines for soaking and cleaning. The present invention is widely applicable to conventional electric ovens by modification of the existing ovens and addition of the detachable liners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Inventor: Kun-lian Wei
  • Patent number: 6945245
    Abstract: An oven rack for an oven provides includes a first portion and a second portion extending from the first portion. A pair of handles extend from the first portion to permit a user to easily grasp the oven rack. A support system is attached to the oven rack and extends from the first portion to contact a bottom surface of a cooking chamber when the oven rack is installed in the oven and permits the oven rack to be used as a countertop trivet rack. An oven rack is provided which increases the cooking capacity of the cooking chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Arthur Cameron Wilson
  • Publication number: 20040104323
    Abstract: A bracket for support bases in household appliances, for example refrigerators or freezers or stoves, having at least one profiled rail which is mounted, extending substantially vertically, in a reception chamber of the household appliance, and having at least one support element, to which a support base is attached and which can be selectively displaced along the profiled rail or fixed in place on the profiled rail. In accordance with this invention, the support element can be substantially positively fixed in place on the profiled rail against a movement along the profiled rail, preferably in the form of a frictional locking mechanism, or a clamp. The result is a simply embodied and easy to clean bracket for support bases in household appliances, which permits a more flexible adjustment of the height of the support bases than the prior art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2003
    Publication date: June 3, 2004
    Inventors: Stefan Hubert, Werner Henkel, Kay-Uwe Witte
  • Patent number: 6349717
    Abstract: A rack system for an oven wherein the oven includes an oven cavity having top, bottom, rear and side walls, the side walls including a plurality of support runners arranged as associated pairs on the side walls of the oven cavity. The oven cavity has an open frontal portion and an associated width defined by the lateral distance spanning the side walls. The rack system including a lower rack having a width substantially equal to the width of the oven cavity such that the upper rack may be supported by one of the runner pairs provided on the side wall of the oven cavity. An upper rack assembly is provided having a width substantially equal to the width of the oven cavity, the upper rack being supported on one of the runner pairs provided on the side wall of the oven cavity. The upper rack includes a main rack and an insert rack. The main rack has a width substantially equal to the width of the oven cavity and has a platform area and a cutout area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2002
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph E. Thompson, Steven M. Schatz, Carl R. Offutt, Franklin P. Hayba
  • Patent number: 6220239
    Abstract: A cooking appliance door has a door base. A front panel is secured at the front side and an inner panel is secured at the rear side of the door base. Cooking-product support brackets are fastened to the rear side of the cooking appliance door. In order to ensure a stable fastening of the cooking-product support brackets, they are fastened to the door base with fastening elements that extend through openings in the inner panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Kieslinger, Klemens Roch
  • Patent number: 6201217
    Abstract: A counter-top electric oven is provided that includes a number of features that prevent overheating of the components of the oven. These features include an actively cooled fan chamber, a hot gas vent, a cooling manifold that directs cooling air to cool the cooking enclosure and hot gas vented from the hot gas vent, and a base with thermally insulated supports for a metallic oven pan of the cooking enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Heartware Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Jung S. Moon, Rong Liu, Alan R. Kelley
  • Patent number: 6114665
    Abstract: An electric oven with an oven muffle which can be closed by a door and in which a cooking-product support can be held on a holder element. The cooking-product support has its own cooking-product support heater element, and via a power supply element, the cooking-product support heater element can be fed with an electric voltage of the oven, is known. In order to keep the outlay for providing electrical contact for the cooking-product support heater element low, the holder element for the cooking-product support at the same time serves as the power supply conduit or element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Jose Andres Garcia, Joachim Reichard, Felicitas Ziegler, Manfred Plankl, Hans Lappat, Armin Sigmund, Bernd Stitzl, Michael Wagner, Kurt Knebel, Klaus Erdmann, Hans Linde, Uwe Neumann, Andreas Rehklau
  • Patent number: 6067981
    Abstract: An oven cavity, having an associated width defined by a lateral distance spanning side walls thereof, is provided with an oven rack that has a maximum lateral dimension which is substantially less than the width of the oven cavity and is directly supported by the oven cavity. In accordance with the preferred embodiment of the invention, the oven rack includes a platform portion, as well as first and second support portions. The first support portion is attached to a rear wall of the cavity and the second support portion is adapted to engage a runner provided on one of the side walls of the cavity, at least when the platform portion is weighted down by an item to be cooked. In the preferred embodiment, the first support portion projects rearwardly and upwardly from the platform portion and has an uppermost section provided with a pair of spaced retaining clips that are received within lanced tabs formed in the rear wall of the oven cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: Maytag Corporation
    Inventors: Russ Brian Peter, John Scott Brown
  • Patent number: 5178126
    Abstract: An adjustable grill assembly for a barbeque grill having outwardly extending support projections supportingly engaged in notches of four corner support brackets that extend upward from the firebox and are attached therebelow to the front and rear walls of the firebox. A pivoting hood covers the barbeque grill and provides cut-out apertures at opposite ends whereby the handles of the grill extend grill outwardly of the hood to facilitate grill-height adjustment while the hood is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1993
    Assignee: Flame King, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank W. Beller
  • Patent number: 4628896
    Abstract: A barbecue grill makes it possible to effect quick and easy extinguishing of any flames that could develop as drops of fat fell into the heating chamber of that grill, by having a grid which normally holds meat in position over that heating chamber but which can be shifted horizontally to move that meat away from that heating chamber, and thereby keep further drops of fat from falling into that heating chamber. When the flames subside, as they will quickly do, that grid can be shifted to shift the meat back into position over the heating chamber to permit further cooking of that meat. Also, the barbecue grill enables a person to use his or her hands in placing all kinds of meat on the grid by permitting that grid to be shifted horizontally away from the heating chamber whenever any meat is to be placed on it. Further, the grill enables a user to shift the grid, and the meat thereon, away from the heating chamber whenever that user wishes to test, turn or remove that meat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1986
    Assignee: Turco, Inc.
    Inventor: William R. Baynes
  • Patent number: 4414959
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a device for holding an object such as a microwave oven above the burner area of a kitchen stove or range of the type commonly used in homes. The disclosed invention includes a platform for holding the object which is rigidly secured to a support. The support is adapted to engage the drip rails on both sides of the burner area of the range to hold the platform at a predetermined height above the burner area. A stiffening member is secured to the platform and to the support to provide rigidity to the shelf which stiffening member has a heat reflective surface extending substantially across the burner area of the range to reflect heat back toward the burner area and away from the shelf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1983
    Assignee: Top Shelf Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Rickey F. Fair, John R. Wilcox