Oven door of a kitchen stove

• US 5,735,261 A
• Filed: 09/05/1995
• Issued: 04/07/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerã¤Te GmbH (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Original Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerã¤Te GmbH (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Inventors: Kieslinger, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Jones, Larry
• Application Number:
  US08/523,264
• Time in Patent Office: 945 Days
• Field of Search: 126/190, 126/198, 126/194, 126/200
• US Class Current: 126/190
• CPC Class Codes: F24C 15/04 with transparent panels

Abstract

An oven door of a kitchen stove includes an inner door bottom, an outer door unit having additional door elements and a front panel being formed of glass or glass-like material and forming a door front. Connecting elements act as carriers for the additional door elements. The connecting elements are secured directly or indirectly to the front panel and are connected to the door bottom through contact points of low capacity for heat exchange, for joining the front panel to the door bottom.

Claims

1. An oven door of a kitchen stove, comprising:

an inner door bottom;

an outer door unit having additional door elements;

a front panel forming a door front;

connecting elements acting as carriers for said additional door elements, said connecting elements being secured to said front panel and being connected to said door bottom through contact points of low capacity for heat exchange, for joining said front panel to said door bottom; and

mutually opposite door sides, said connecting elements enabling a fixation of said additional door elements and a connection with said door bottom substantially through form-locking engagement and force-locking engagement in the vicinity of said mutually opposite door sides.

2. The oven door according to claim 1, wherein said front panel is formed of glass or glass-like material.

3. The oven door according to claim 1, wherein said connecting elements are secured directly to said front panel.

4. The oven door according to claim 1, wherein said connecting elements are secured indirectly to said front panel.

5. The oven door according to claim 1, wherein said connecting elements are disposed in pairs.

6. The oven door according to claim 1, wherein said door bottom has bearing grooves or bearing edges of bearing tabs, and each of said connecting elements enabling fixation by form-locking engagement has bearing edges or bearing grooves engaging said bearing grooves or bearing edges of said bearing tabs disposed on said door bottom, for connection with said door bottom.

7. The oven door according to claim 6, including adjustment edges or adjustment surfaces extending obliquely to the insertion direction and joining at least one of said bearing edges and bearing grooves.

8. The oven door according to claim 6, including clamping tabs disposed on said connecting element in the vicinity of at least one of said bearing edge and bearing groove, for mutual play-free bracing of said connecting elements and said door bottom or said additional door element.

9. The oven door according to claim 6, wherein said bearing edge and said bearing groove are disposed substantially at right angles to one another and are braced on one another over a small surface area.

10. The oven door according to claim 1, wherein each of said connecting elements enabling fixation by form-locking engagement has bearing grooves for receiving one of said additional door elements in an insertion direction.

11. The oven door according to claim 10, wherein said front panel has a door viewing window, and said one additional door element is a frame encompassing said door viewing window.

12. The oven door according to claim 10, including adjustment edges or adjustment surfaces extending obliquely to the insertion direction and joining said bearing grooves.

13. The oven door according to claim 10, including clamping tabs disposed on said connecting element in the vicinity of said bearing groove, for mutual play-free bracing of said connecting elements and said door bottom or said additional door element.

14. The oven door according to claim 1, including a peripheral strip being disposed along and gripping a lateral edge of said front panel and having a fastening tab, said connecting element enabling fixation by form-locking engagement having a receptacle being open toward a lateral door boundary, for receiving said peripheral strip in an insertion direction and fixing said peripheral strip with said fastening tab.

15. The oven door according to claim 14, wherein said front panel has an inner surface bounding said receptacle like a groove.

16. The oven door according to claim 15, wherein said receptacle has an edge, said front panel has a lateral boundary edge, said fastening tab of said peripheral strip has adjustment surfaces being aimed at one another and extending obliquely to the insertion direction, and said adjustment surfaces cooperating upon insertion in a centering fashion with said edge of said receptacle and with said lateral boundary edge of said front panel.

17. The oven door according to claim 16, wherein said edge of said receptacle is beveled.

18. The oven door according to claim 14, wherein said connecting element has a centering tab in the vicinity of said receptacle, said centering tab cooperating with a centering groove formed in said peripheral strip.

19. The oven door according to claim 1, wherein each of said connecting elements is symmetrical, has pairs of at least one of bearing edges and bearing grooves on both sides of an axis of symmetry for said additional door elements, and has at least one fastening tab located in the axis of symmetry.

20. The oven door according to claim 19, wherein said connecting elements are T-shaped.

21. The oven door according to claim 1, wherein said door bottom is tub-shaped, and including a composite glass pane structure being secured in said door bottom and forming an inner door unit.

22. The oven door according to claim 21, wherein said composite glass pane structure has at least two opposed sides with meanderingly shaped retaining rails for retaining a plurality of glass panes.