Abstract: A filler assembly for spanning, filling, and concealing a gap between an installed metal cabinet and an adjacent wall, or adjacent cabinet is disclosed. The assembly includes a bracket and a filler strip and the filler strip is formed with a projecting tongue. The bracket includes a narrow channel sized to receive the tongue of the filler strip in a sliding relationship. The tongue of the filler strip can slide into the channel to different depths so that the tongue and bracket span and fill the gap.

Abstract: A filler assembly for spanning, filling, and concealing a gap between an installed metal cabinet and an adjacent wall, or adjacent cabinet is disclosed. The assembly includes a bracket, a backing strip and a filler strip and the filler strip is formed with a projecting tongue. The bracket includes a narrow channel sized to receive the tongue of the filler strip in a sliding relationship. The tongue of the filler strip can slide into the channel to different depths so that the tongue and bracket span and fill the gap and the position of the backing strip can be adjusted by an adjustment feature.

Abstract: An accessory socket assembly for a mixer is provided. The assembly includes an accessory shaft, with a threaded end and a non-threaded end and with at least a first pin therebetween, and an accessory socket, with a bore sized to receive the accessory shaft. The accessory socket has at least a first J-slot in the bore. The first J-slot including an upper wall and first and second pin retention walls, and being sized to receive the first pin of the accessory shaft when the shaft is inserted into the bore. Methods of inserting the accessory shaft into the accessory socket, and attaching an accessory are also provided.

Abstract: An airflow control system for an oven having an oven cavity and a fan having a first operating mode for generating a first flow of air and a second operating mode for generating a second flow of air is provided. A baffle is included adjacent the fan to direct the first flow of air to a first region of the cavity in the first operating mode and to direct the second flow of air to a second region of the cavity in the second operating mode. A method of controlling airflow in an oven having an oven cavity is also detailed. The method can include different modes of operation, with different clockwise and counterclockwise rotational times for the fan, with different heating elements energized, or a combination of both, depending upon the food to be cooked in the oven.

Abstract: A refrigerator has a machine compartment located at its top end. The refrigerator includes a drain tube and a pump coupled to the drain tube and located at the bottom end of the refrigerator. The pump transfers the accumulated condensation from the drain tube to a pan located at the top end of the refrigerator. The heat and airflow generated by the machine compartment then evaporates the condensation from the pan.

Abstract: An ice dispenser includes an ice chute door. The dispenser further includes a shaft coupled to the door, a motor coupled to the shaft, and a biasing device, such as a spring, coupled to the door. The motor rotates the shaft to open the door. To close the door, the motor is de-energized after a predetermined time period, and the biasing device then closes the door with a strong sealing force.

Abstract: A method of making a removable refrigerator storage assembly is provided. The method includes feeding a polymeric or metal material into an extruder and directing the material through a die having an aperture with a first and second leg formed therein, thereby forming an intermediate shelf extrusion. The intermediate shelf extrusion is cut into a predetermined length to form the shelf extrusion having a bottom wall integrally formed with a side wall. The shelf extrusion is painted or plated to a specific finish. The method also encompasses attaching to both ends of the shelf extrusion end walls having brackets formed thereon for removably engaging supports formed on the door of a refrigerator.

Abstract: A stand mixer is provided with wheels proximate the base. The base houses a mixing bowl capable of being placed into a locked position. When the mixing bowl is in the locked position, its handle faces outward. The mixer can be lifted with the handle to transfer the weight of the stand mixer from the feet to the wheels. The stand mixer can then be moved into a desired position.

Abstract: An adjustable wine rack supports one or more wine bottles in a substantially horizontal or inclined position. The adjustable wine rack generally includes a frame that may be rollably disposed within a refrigerator. The frame supports a bottle support that is adjustable from a substantially horizontal position to an inclined position. A prop is also connected to the frame and engages the bottle support so as to maintain the bottle support in the inclined position.

Abstract: Modular storage assemblies for refrigerators are provided. The storage assemblies include drawers formed of multi-component frames that support pans. The drawers are provided in a variety of configurations and include parts that can be used in various configurations.

Abstract: A mullion shelf assembly is provided that includes a shelf having translucent upper and lower surfaces and contains an insulative medium that resists heat transfer between the surfaces. The mullion shelf assembly may also include a shelf with an upper surface in fluid communication with a sump. The sump is in fluid communication with a drain that remove condensation from the compartment bounded by the mullion shelf assembly.

Abstract: A burner for a cooking range includes a burner base disposed on the range top, a burner body extending upwardly through aligned openings in the range top and the burner base to a threaded rim, a venturi having a threaded annular flange secured to the threaded rim of the burner body and a venturi tube depending from the flange through the burner body to a lower end. The burner base is sandwiched between the annular flange of the venturi and the range top and is thereby mounted to the range top by means of the venturi. A gas orifice is disposed beneath the bottom end of the venturi tube for ejecting gas upwardly into the venturi tube and a ported burner ring and burner cap rest on the burner base overlying the venturi tube. The burner is easily assembled and disassembled from the top without special tools and without raising or removing the range top. Components of the burner may be individually removed from the top of the range for maintenance or replacement.

Abstract: A convection and radiant heated oven has a cooking chamber and an air heating chamber below and spaced from the cooking chamber. Shield means above the heating chamber defines, with the oven bottom, a heat space in which an apertured duct receives heated air from the heating chamber and conducts it to a convection fan where it mixes with air from the cooking chamber and is ducted into the cooking chamber. Heated air is also passed upward from the heat space directly into the cooking chamber.