EP0774626A2 - Four ménager à panneau frontal continu - Google Patents

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EP0774626A2
EP0774626A2 EP96201937A EP96201937A EP0774626A2 EP 0774626 A2 EP0774626 A2 EP 0774626A2 EP 96201937 A EP96201937 A EP 96201937A EP 96201937 A EP96201937 A EP 96201937A EP 0774626 A2 EP0774626 A2 EP 0774626A2
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Silvano Fumagalli
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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
    • 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
    • F24C7/00—Stoves or ranges heated by electric energy
    • F24C7/08—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices
    • F24C7/082—Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices on ranges, e.g. control panels, illumination

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  • the present invention relates to a domestic oven with a continuous front panel.
  • Electric, gas or combination ovens are known, either of the type for fitting into a modular unit or of the free-standing type, in which the front loading aperture is closed by an openable door releasably hinged to the body of the oven and of a composite metal/glass structure forming a transparent window to allow the monitoring of the cooking process without the need to open the door.
  • control panel or display which is fixed to the body of the oven and houses the devices for controlling the oven, generally a mechanical timer and a switch or tap associated with a thermostatic regulator element.
  • the door has a handle for opening it, fixed to the metal structure of the door which forms a support frame for an inner glass panel (removable for cleaning) and a continuous outer panel of screen-printed glass which extends over the entirety of the door.
  • the handle is generally positioned near or above the transparent window in the door and, in many cases, projects substantially both so that it can be gripped correctly and to ensure that it is well insulated from the heat and thus comfortable to the touch.
  • This position does not, however, allow full and easy viewing into the oven unless the angle of viewing between the user and the door is greatly increased or the user bends down, assuming a highly uncomfortable position, in order to check how the food is cooking.
  • experience reveals that the monitoring window is rarely used, the user frequently preferring to open the door to obtain a better view but at the expense of considerable heat loss, which lowers the temperature of the oven and in some cases may interfere with the cooking process.
  • control devices are, to advantage, provided with operating knobs either of the push-pull or bistable type, normally arranged flush with the outer surface of the door so that they are operable when the door is open but which can also be made to project through their respective apertures by a push-button action so that any desired control and adjustment operation can easily be carried out with the door closed.
  • This push-button action which allows control and adjustment operations to be carried out with the door closed, also gives intrinsic protection against improper handling of the controls.
  • the oven door handle is, to advantage, constituted by an elongate slot-like aperture near the upper edge of the door and facing a corresponding recess in the control panel thereby leaving the surface of the door entirely free for the provision of a larger monitoring window, thus reducing the aforesaid problems regarding the opening of the oven door.
  • the oven-door structure thus formed is not only especially ergonomic, it also satisfies aesthetic requirements for elegance and simplicity of design which ensures that it will fit well with modular units since, when the oven door is closed, the front of the oven is formed by a single flat, continuous panel with no raised surfaces.
  • a domestic oven comprises a body 1 of rectangular box shape supported on a base 2 and closed at the front by an oven panel or door 3, hinged at the bottom (by hinges 4, 5) to the body 1 so as to be releasable.
  • the oven door 3 is constituted in known manner by an outer glass panel 6 and a metal inner support frame 7 which supports a removable inner glass window 8 separated from the outer panel by a heat-insulating cavity.
  • the oven door 3 differs from those in known domestic ovens in that it extends up to the top 9 of the body of the oven which generally bears a continuous work surface 10, shown in section, of a modular kitchen unit.
  • a gas or electric hob 11, in itself entirely conventional, may be fitted into the work surface 10 or may form part of the oven itself and be fixed to the body 1.
  • the oven door 3 thus covers the front control panel of the oven where the knobs 12, 13 are arranged for controlling a timer and a thermostatic regulator respectively, and possibly other devices (oven light, grill, spit).
  • control knobs 12, 13, housed in the thickness of the oven door are operable when the oven door is open but are also accessible through apertures in the oven door so they can be operated even when the door is closed.
  • knobs are of the bi-stable or push-pull type so that, if pressure is exerted on them, they slide axially along their axes of rotation and project a convenient distance, of the order of 15-20mm, from the outer surface of the door 3 so that they can be gripped and turned even when the oven door is closed.
  • the extension of the door 3 to the top of the oven 1 enables a monitoring window to be provided in the door 3 which also extends upwardly, as illustrated, thereby giving an easy view of the inner chamber of the oven.
  • the broken line 14 indicates the upper edge of the door of a conventional domestic oven while the broken line 15 represents the upper edge of the monitoring window, again in a conventional oven.
  • the front of the oven forms a single, homogeneous unit, without the break constituted by the gap between the door and the control panel.
  • the handle of the door 3 is advantageous, but not essential, for the handle of the door 3 to be integral with the front glass panel 6, it being formed as an elongate aperture 16 therein, located so as to face a convenient recess in the control panel which is sufficiently wide and deep for the fingers of a hand to be able to grasp the upper or lower edge of the aperture 16, thus ensuring that the handling position is away from the hottest region.
  • Figure 2 shows a section through part of the body 1 and part of the overlying oven door 3 in order better to illustrate the structure thereof.
  • the door is constituted by an outer glass panel 6 fixed by glue and/or engagement in a frame to a metal inner frame 7 suitably shaped to correspond with the oven opening so as to form a support for a resilient seal 17 and for a glass inner panel 8.
  • a heat insulating cavity is formed between the outer panel 6 and the frame 7 or the inner panel 8 which can be partly filled with thermally-insulating material but with a window left free for the monitoring of the cooking chamber 19.
  • This latter is defined by an internal wall 20 of the oven, the outer face of which is covered with thermally-insulating material 21 and which extends upwardly to support a front control panel 22 which faces the upper portion of the door 3.
  • control panel is bent inwardly to form a housing 24 which enables the handle to be gripped easily.
  • Figure 3 shows a detailed section of part of the door 3 which faces a control device, for example a thermostated switch 25, mounted in the control panel.
  • a control device for example a thermostated switch 25, mounted in the control panel.
  • the switch 25 which is conventional in itself, is mounted on the body of the oven, either directly on the inner wall 20 which is appropriately shaped or by means of support brackets, and has a control shaft 26 extending perpendicular to the front of the oven.
  • An annular member 27 which forms a cavity is keyed to the shaft and has a peripheral indicator dial 28 coplanar with the control panel 22 and a knob 29, of the bistable push-button type, partially housed in the cavity of the annular member 27, the knob projecting suitably from the control panel and passing freely through an aperture in the outer panel 6 and the inner frame 7 of the door 3 so that its head is coplanar with the outer surface of the door 3 when this is closed.
  • the aperture in the outer glass panel 6 which houses the knob 29 has a suitable plastic or metal seal 30, around its periphery.
  • the knob 29 can be manipulated easily thanks to the cavity formed by the annular member which is large enough to receive the fingers of a user and give a comfortable and secure grip on the knob to allow the control device 25 to be set in a required condition identified by the correspondence of one of several indicators on the dial 28 with a fixed reference index 31 on the control panel.
  • the knob can be manipulated even when the door is closed and the angular position of the dial 28 relative to a fixed reference index 33, printed on the glass panel 6, can be read through the glass.
  • annular portion or at least a section of an annulus of the glass of the outer panel is left free of printing around the knob 29 and in this position the inner frame 7 of the door is suitably cut away.
  • the various controls for the hotplates can be arranged on the front panel along with the oven controls.
  • control panel it is not essential for the control panel to be positioned above the access opening to the oven with the door hinged at the bottom.
  • control panel 41 can be positioned below the access aperture 42 and this may be closed by a door 43 which also extends over the control panel and is hinged at the top and pivots upwardly to open.
  • the lower edge 44 of the front panel of the door which extends to the lower edge 45 of the oven body or just beyond it, can constitute a grip which enables the door to be opened or closed without the need to provide a handle-aperture in the panel.
  • the lower front edge 45 of the body of the oven may be formed with a recess 46 to facilitate the grip, this recess being covered by the front door panel when the door is closed.
  • the lower edge 44 of the front door panel may project conveniently beneath the lower front edge 45 of the oven body.
  • This concept can also be applied in the case of an oven which is fitted into a conventional unit beneath a work surface or a hob.

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EP19960201937 1995-11-20 1996-07-10 Four ménager à panneau frontal continu Expired - Lifetime EP0774626B1 (fr)

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ITMI950801 IT237294Y1 (it) 1995-11-20 1995-11-20 Forno domestico a pannello frontale continuo
ITMI950801U 1995-11-20

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EP0774626A3 EP0774626A3 (fr) 1999-04-07
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FR2834332A1 (fr) * 2001-12-27 2003-07-04 Brandt Cooking Four, notamment du type a micro-ondes, a esthetique amelioree
WO2007080038A1 (fr) * 2006-01-10 2007-07-19 BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH Porte d'appareil ménager et module de commande associé
WO2007080037A1 (fr) * 2006-01-10 2007-07-19 BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH Porte d'appareil de cuisson et module de commande associe
DE102007012378A1 (de) * 2007-03-14 2008-09-18 BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH Hausgerät, insbesondere Backofen
CN108013848A (zh) * 2016-10-28 2018-05-11 青岛海尔洗碗机有限公司 一种控制面板的集成结构及洗碗机
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DE10059169A1 (de) * 2000-11-29 2002-06-13 Bsh Bosch Siemens Hausgeraete Haushaltsgerät
FR2834332A1 (fr) * 2001-12-27 2003-07-04 Brandt Cooking Four, notamment du type a micro-ondes, a esthetique amelioree
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WO2007080038A1 (fr) * 2006-01-10 2007-07-19 BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH Porte d'appareil ménager et module de commande associé
WO2007080037A1 (fr) * 2006-01-10 2007-07-19 BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH Porte d'appareil de cuisson et module de commande associe
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DE102007012378A1 (de) * 2007-03-14 2008-09-18 BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH Hausgerät, insbesondere Backofen
US10908762B2 (en) 2015-07-20 2021-02-02 Whirlpool Corporation Household appliance closure element with touch interface
US11622665B2 (en) 2015-07-20 2023-04-11 Whirlpool Corporation Household appliance closure element with touch interface
CN108013848A (zh) * 2016-10-28 2018-05-11 青岛海尔洗碗机有限公司 一种控制面板的集成结构及洗碗机
IT201700118235A1 (it) * 2017-10-19 2019-04-19 Unipro S R L Porta per un forno di tipo industriale per la cottura di cibi e forno comprendente tale porta

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DE69623568D1 (de) 2002-10-17
ITMI950801V0 (it) 1995-11-20
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