Oven door

• US 5,546,927 A
• Filed: 01/20/1995
• Issued: 08/20/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Eurofours S.A.
• Original Assignee: Eurofours S.A.
• Inventors: Lancelot, Pierre
• Primary Examiner(s): Jones, Larry
• Application Number:
  US08/360,704
• Time in Patent Office: 578 Days
• Field of Search: 126/194, 126/190, 126/198, 126/200, 126/545, 110/173 R, 110/180, 110/173 B
• US Class Current: 126/194
• CPC Class Codes: F24C 15/045 being dismountable, e.g. giving access for cleaning

Abstract

The oven door comprises a frame on which two panes are mounted. These two panes are parallel and spaced apart from each other. The inside pane is hinge-mounted relative to the frame by means of a hinge piece and pivatable about a hinge axis at a lateral side of the frame. Rapid-action locking and unlocking closure means, that are point spacers, are situated remote from the hinge axis of the inside pane. The spacers enable the inside pane to be held in a closed position relative to the frame. The point spacers provide rapid-action locking and unlocking the closure, and keep a space between the inside pane and the inside face of the frame when the inside pane is closed. The hinge piece includes at least one plate. The inside pane is fixed at a distance from the plate by at least one fixing point spacer in such a manner that when the inside pane is in the closed position the plate engages and bears against the inside face of the frame.

Claims

1. An oven door comprising:

a frame on which an inside pane and an outside pane are mounted that are parallel and spaced apart from each other, said inside pane being hinge-mounted relative to the frame by means of a hinge piece and pivotable about a hinge axis thereof along one of four side edges of the inside face of the frame; and

rapid-action locking and unlocking closure means situated remote from the hinge axis of the inside pane and enabling the inside pane to be held in a closed position relative to the frame;

wherein the closure means comprise one or more point spacers providing rapid-action locking and unlocking closure, said point spacers capable of maintaining a space between the inside pane and the inside face of the frame when the inside pane is closed, wherein the hinge piece includes at least one plate, and wherein the inside pane is fixed at a distance from said plate by at least one fixing point spacer in such a manner that when said inside pane is in the closed position said plate engages and bears against the inside face of the frame.

2. An oven door according to claim 1, wherein the hinge piece includes at least two small-sized plates, and wherein the inside pane is fixed to each plate by means of a respective single fixing point spacer.

3. An oven door according to claim 1, wherein one end of each fixing point spacer passes through each corresponding plate of the hinge piece, and wherein the inside face of the frame includes an opening for passing said end, such that each plate of the hinge piece presses and positions itself accurately against said inside face of the frame.

4. An oven door according to claim 1, wherein each closure point spacer comprises a clip type locking ring which is fixed to the frame of the door, and a quarter-turn screw which is secured to the inside pane so as to co-operate with the locking ring when the inside pane is in its closed position.