Cooking appliance
First Claim
1. A cooking appliance comprising an oven unit, the oven unit being adapted to be built into a space within an item of kitchen furniture having a cooking cavity, the cooking appliance further comprising a control unit for the oven unit, and a hob unit separate from the oven unit, the control unit incorporating at least one control operable by a user to control operation of the oven unit and at least one further control operable by a user to control operation of the hob unit, the control unit being mounted on the hob unit remote from the oven unit, outside of the said space, so as to permit a volume within the cooking cavity to be maximized within the space.
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Abstract
A cooking appliance is disclosed which comprises an oven intended to be built into a space of predetermined volume in a kitchen unit. Controls for the oven are mounted externally of the space in order to maximise the volume available for the oven cavity. In preferred embodiments, the oven has a partition to divide its cavity into a plurality of cooking spaces. In a further preferred embodiment, the oven has a door assembly having a plurality of leaves which can be opened individually or together to give access to the whole cavity.
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- 1. A cooking appliance comprising an oven unit, the oven unit being adapted to be built into a space within an item of kitchen furniture having a cooking cavity, the cooking appliance further comprising a control unit for the oven unit, and a hob unit separate from the oven unit, the control unit incorporating at least one control operable by a user to control operation of the oven unit and at least one further control operable by a user to control operation of the hob unit, the control unit being mounted on the hob unit remote from the oven unit, outside of the said space, so as to permit a volume within the cooking cavity to be maximized within the space.
- 3. A cooking appliance comprising an oven unit, the oven unit comprising an oven cavity into which food to be cooking can be place, a partition received within the cavity to divide the cavity into a plurality of cooking spaces, a cooking temperature of each cooking space being independently controllable, the cooking appliance comprising further a control unit, and detection means for detecting the presence of or absence of the partition, the detection means begin operative to modify the operation of the control means.
- 12. A cooking appliance comprising a door assembly which door assembly comprising first and second leaves arranged, in a closed condition, to be adjacent one another and each hingedly mounted to be openable independently of the other through pivoting about respective spaced parallel axes to reveal a respective opening, in which the first leaf is mounted such that its axis is displaceable in a direction normal to the axes towards the axis of the second leaf, in which displaced condition the opening of the first and second leaves reveals a single opening of size greater than that of either said respective opening, the first leaf being mounted on a linkage assembly, which linkage assembly functions to secure the first leaf onto the cooking appliance which linkage assembly comprises hinge components to which the leaf is hingedly mounted and occurring components which connect the hinge components to the cooking appliance such that the hinge components are displaceable in said direction normal to the axes, and which linkage assembly comprises urging members which, on displace of the hinge components, move to urge the second door leaf from its closed condition towards its open position.
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