EP0699871A2 - Porte d'un appareil de cuisson - Google Patents

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EP0699871A2
EP0699871A2 EP95110561A EP95110561A EP0699871A2 EP 0699871 A2 EP0699871 A2 EP 0699871A2 EP 95110561 A EP95110561 A EP 95110561A EP 95110561 A EP95110561 A EP 95110561A EP 0699871 A2 EP0699871 A2 EP 0699871A2
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
    • F24C—DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES ; DETAILS OF DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F24C15/00—Details
    • F24C15/02—Doors specially adapted for stoves or ranges
    • F24C15/04—Doors specially adapted for stoves or ranges with transparent panels

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  • the invention relates to a stove door of a cooker according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • a known stove door (DE-PS 28 10 123) an outer glass pane is provided as the front plate of the stove door, while a further inner glass pane is arranged on the inner boundary of the door bottom.
  • angle rails are attached to the inside of the outer glass pane by gluing, which are connected to corresponding holding elements of the inner door floor.
  • an angle-like holding element is also glued to the lower boundary of a glass plate on the front, which latches with a lower bar of the door floor, while on the top of the door the outer glass pane in a bar surrounding this inner door floor is held.
  • the invention has for its object to improve such a stove door for a stove so that even with the presence of relatively numerous door elements, the structural design, the assembly and in particular also the formation of product variants are simplified and the heat energy generated during operation of the cooker is at least largely prevented from passing through the cooker door and a cool cooker front results.
  • the connecting elements are assigned a multiple function.
  • the connecting elements serve to hold additional door elements, e.g. a funnel-like frame, which includes the door see-through window and determines its aperture, the holder and positionally accurate fixing of side front strips and the like. More within the outer door assembly.
  • the aforementioned door assemblies are preferably connected to one another in that the connecting elements are connected to the front panel via an adhesive connection, which in turn reduces the thermal conductivity of this mechanical connection.
  • a very low heat exchange capacity between and the outer door assembly is achieved in that the contact points within the outer door assembly and with the door base are essentially limited to individual points of contact.
  • the special design of the connecting elements ensures that the door assemblies and the door elements are connected by self-centering, so that a maximum of mechanized production can be achieved.
  • the cooker shown in Figure 1 is a so-called built-in stove, the front of which is characterized by a large stove door 1, behind which there is a baking chamber, and by an operating panel 2 with a large number of switching and display elements located above the Stove door 1 is located.
  • the stove door is provided with a handle 3 at the top and has a door see-through window in the door center 4, formed on the front side by a transparent, rectangular section of a continuous front plate 5 made of glass or glass-like material in the exemplary embodiment.
  • Both the control panel and the stove door are delimited on both sides by vertical edge strips 6, which are detachably connected to the stove door 1 and the control panel 2 are.
  • the stove door 1 can be equipped as a so-called folding door with a folding axis arranged on the underside or as a stove door that can be moved like a drawer or the like.
  • the oven door 1 shown in a sectional view in FIG. 2 essentially consists of two door assemblies, namely an inner door assembly 7 and an outer door assembly 8.
  • the inner door assembly facing the cooking treatment space has a metal part as a load-bearing part 9, which in the exemplary embodiment has one tub-like part 10 and has a smaller, circumferentially shaped, toward the cooking treatment space, also rectangular part 11.
  • a glass pane assembly 12 with holding rails 13 is arranged in the last-mentioned door base part 11, this inner door base part 11 also having a rectangular window cutout 14 in which an innermost glass plate 15 or, if a microwave device is present, a metal grill or a perforated plate is arranged and fastened.
  • the outer door assembly 8 has as its outermost boundary a front plate 5 which extends practically over the entire door surface.
  • this front panel 5 is shown as a single disc.
  • a synopsis of FIGS. 2 and 3 and 4 shows that in the lower region and on both sides of the front plate 5, metallic connecting elements 20, which are explained in more detail below, for example for reasons of thermal expansion, are arranged from elastically resilient spring material and are attached to fastening lugs 21 by an adhesive material 22 the inside of the front panel 5 are attached by gluing, these attachment lugs 21 having pronounced knobs 23, through which a gap, which permits correct bonding, is obtained between the aforementioned attachment lugs 21 and the front panel 5.
  • Each connecting element 20 is essentially T-shaped and has the fastening lugs 21 already mentioned, which are located in a common plane and are arranged in the region of an axis of symmetry X. Between the two attachment lugs 21 there is a bridge-like shape 24 forming a attachment lug, the bearing flaps 25 with bearing edges 26 which are cut free in pairs on both sides of the axis of symmetry X and bearing edges 26 on both sides of the axis of symmetry X and also on both sides of the axis of symmetry X on extended approaches 27 adjustment edges 28a and 28b (see FIG. 6a ) to 6d).
  • the adjustment edges 28b facilitate the insertion of a flat door element, e.g. a frame 31 described in the arrow direction in the bearing groove 30 simplified.
  • FIG. 7b shows the arrangement in plan view, the frame 31 being inserted into the bearing groove or bearing grooves 30.
  • the frame 31 is pivoted or positioned vertically according to FIG. 7c)
  • the adjacent frame part is supported on the support projection 29 and is pressed against an edge of the bearing groove 30 as a result of the lever action.
  • the connecting element 20 following the inner fastening projection 21 on the T-shaped legs of the part 21, has L-shaped receptacles 32 which, in connection with the inner surface of the front plate 5, have receiving grooves 33 forms.
  • a fastening projection 34 of the edge strip 6 mentioned at the beginning can be inserted into these receiving grooves 33.
  • Edge strip 6 made of aluminum material has a curved profile on the front and a longitudinal groove 35 into which the vertical boundary edge of the front plate 5 engages.
  • the fastening projection 34 has inclined and oppositely directed adjustment surfaces 36 and 37 for the insertion direction of the edge strip (arrow), which, when the edge strip 6 is inserted, cooperate centering with the likewise beveled edge 38 of the receptacle 32 and with the lateral boundary edge of the front plate 5.
  • the connecting element 20 has in the area of the middle receptacle 32 a centering projection 39 which interacts with a centering groove 40 of the edge strip 6 in such a way that the edge strip 6 is fixed in position with respect to the stove door. It is provided that there is a screw connection between the receptacles 32 and the fastening projection 34 at the points 41.
  • connecting elements 42 are provided, which are glued directly to the inside of the front plate 5 with fastening projections 43.
  • Each connecting element 42 has an approximately U-shaped bracket 44 and an essentially L-shaped fastening projection 45, the latter fastening projection 45 projecting beyond the bracket 44.
  • an approximately diamond-shaped cabinet flap 46 is formed in the form of a free cut, which can be rotated, for example by 90 °, for fixing a door element that is still described.
  • the non-free leg of the bracket 44 has a substantially circular locking recess 47, while the attachment projection 45 is provided with an elongated opening 48, for example.
  • part of the connecting element 42 is a receptacle 49, which is similar to the receptacle 32 on the connecting element 20, but without a centering shoulder, but with a bevelled edge.
  • the upper end of the edge-side rim 6 in the exemplary embodiment which, as shown in FIG. 5, is essentially designed as a hollow body, can be inserted.
  • the lower connecting elements 20 have a symmetrical shape, so that they can be attached to both sides of the front plate 5 in a mirror-image arrangement.
  • a door element assigned to the outer door assembly 8, namely the frame 31, is fastened to the connecting elements 20 and 42 provided in pairs.
  • This frame has a flat base 50 and, with the exception of the corner regions, a flange 51 which extends in steps or at an angle to the inner door assembly 7 and which forms or limits the aperture of the viewing window of the oven door 1.
  • the frame 31 is inserted into the bearing grooves 30 of the connecting element 20 in the manner shown in FIGS. 7a) to 7c), with cut-out bearing edges 52 present on both sides at the lower frame boundary, oblique centering edges 53 facilitating the precise assembly .
  • the frame 31 is pressed into the vertical position, whereby the base 50 of the frame 31 is supported on the associated support lugs 29 and is fixed without vibrations.
  • the frame has L-shaped tabs 54, each with a spherical section-shaped latching shape 55 and with an elongated hole-like fastening opening, whereby after the frame has been inserted into the lower connecting elements 20, this frame 31 is pressed in the direction of the upper connecting elements 42, whereby the latching features 55 engage in the locking recesses 47 of the connecting element 42 and the last-mentioned slot-like fastening opening engages behind the cabinet flaps 46, after which these cabinet flaps are rotated and the frame 31 is thus fixed.
  • the edge part of an oven muffle 57 arranged behind the oven door 1 can be seen, on the flange 58 of which the oven door 1 with the door base 9 and the intermediate layer of a seal 59 can be placed when the oven door is closed.
  • An inner glass pane 15 is held in the window cutout 14 of the door base 9. While the door bottom in the embodiment according to FIG. 3 is only trough-like, in the embodiment according to FIG. 5 the door bottom consists - as already explained - of two stepped door floor parts 10 and 11. In the innermost door floor part 11 are the already mentioned holding rails 13 for inner ones Glass panes arranged.

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