The present invention describes an improved kind of oven for cooking food, preferably intended for home use, comprising a laterally opening door for gaining access into and closing the cooking cavity of such oven.
While reference is specially made throughout the following description to a food cooking oven of the built-in type, it will nevertheless be appreciated that what is being explained, illustrated and generally set forth in the same specification shall be understood as equally applying to - and thus used in - food cooking oven that is integrated in a free-standing cooking appliance that includes both a cooking oven and a cooking surface, i.e. a cooktop.
The ovens, which the present invention refers to, are largely known as such in the art, as they are for instance described in the European patent application No.
The present invention solves the following two drawbacks generated by the laterally opening door in a cooking oven, i. e.:
It would therefore be desirable, and it is actually a main purpose of the present invention, to provide an oven for food cooking applications, which is provided with a side-hinged door, in which the above drawbacks have been avoided, by automatically stopping the rotation of the side-hinged door when it reaches a pre-defined position.
According to the present invention, these aims, along with further ones that will become apparent from the following disclosure, are reached in a kind of cooking oven provided with a sidewise opening door that incorporates the features and characteristics as defined and recited in the appended claims.
Advantages and features of the present invention will anyway be more readily understood from the description that is given below by way of non-limiting example with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
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In correspondence of said vertical edge, a vertical support 7, connected to said edge, is attached, which is also integer with the door; between said vertical support and said plate suitable hinges are engaged through known means, and which allow the door to laterally rotate, i. e. with respect to a vertical axis "X" passing both through said vertical support 7, and through said plate.
It comprises, on at least a top or bottom extreme, a first horizontal flat element 10 ending with a vertical prolongation 11; also said vertical support 7 comprises a respective second horizontal flat element 12, apt to rotate around said vertical axis "X".
In the interference position, the two surfaces (S1, S2) of said vertical prolongation (11) and of said appendix (13), which about each other, are flat and contact on their respective front sides.
Said horizontal elements 10 and 12 are so implemented to be adjacent, and almost into contact, to each other, as usual for the common hinges; moreover the element 12 is provided with a horizontally extending appendix 13.
According to the invention, said vertical prolongation 11 and said appendix 13 are sized and reciprocally placed so as to reciprocally interfere to each other when the vertical support 7 is being rotated from a first position to a second pre-defined position.
Basically, said vertical prolongation 11 realizes a "Stopper", which is firm with the oven frame, and which prevents the door, to which said appendix 13 is connected, from rotating from a first position, next to the closing position, to a second and pre-defined position closer to the opened position, so achieving the main scope of the invention.
It was also noted that an optimum compromise, between the need of avoiding a too wide door opening and a too limited opening, which wouldn't avoid the risk of skin burning, consists in determining to around 120° the door rotation angle, to which the door itself is stopped by said prolongation 11, here acting as an interference stopper.
Of course, as shown in the figures, the implementation of the just described elements may be advantageously carried out not only on one extremity of said plate and on said support 7, but on both said extremities; however such information seems to be fully obvious to a man skilled in the art and therefore, being intended that what has been previously explained and what follows may be applied on both the upper and lower door edges, will not further discussed.
With regard to the door hinge, advantageously and for constructive, more than functional reasons, it is implemented by engaging said first flat horizontal element 10 with said second flat horizontal element 12; such engagement is implemented preferably by placing a vertical pivot 14 on one of said elements, and a corresponding vertical through-hole 15 on the other element.
Apparently the material implementation of such solution may be reversed, in the sense that, obviously, the vertical pivot 14 and the through-hole 15 may be changed in their position, differently from what shown in the figures; but such obvious possibility will not further considered.
Moreover, in order to simplify the implementation and the mounting of the involved components, and with ref. to the
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