Claims
- 1. A cooking apparatus for mounting on a wall comprising a front structure and a back structure which are removably attachable to each other to form together a housing for said apparatus, said back structure including back and bottom plates which form portions of said housing, said back structure being directly attached to a wall surface, said apparatus becoming mounted on said wall surface with said front structure becoming secured to said back structure; and
- wherein said back structure further includes side plates, said front structure also includes side plates, and said side plates of said front and back structures fit together to form side walls of said housing; and
- wherein said housing is slidably attachable to said back structure.
- 2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said back plate is provided with apertures.
Priority Claims (1)
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Parent Case Info
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 037,061 filed Apr. 13, 1987, now abandoned which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 826,756 filed Feb. 6, 1986 abandoned.
This invention relates to a cooking apparatus such as a combined microwave oven and a range hood adapted to be mounted on a wall and in particular to a structure for mounting such a cooking apparatus on a wall.
In FIG. 4 which is a side cross-sectional view showing how a cooking apparatus may be mounted in a kitchen wall by a conventional method such as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,453,690 assigned to the present assignee, numeral 1 indicates a cooking apparatus such as a combined microwave oven and a range hood of a so-called space-saver type and numeral 2 indicates an attachment board which is a part of the mounting assembly for mounting the apparatus 1 on a wall surface below a shelf 3 and above a gas range 4. The board 2 has a protruding section at its bottom and is preliminarily secured to a wall surface by screws or the like. The apparatus 1 is subsequently secured to this attachment board 2 by engaging the bottom rear edge of the apparatus 1 to this protruding part at the bottom edge of the attachment board 2. As shown in FIG. 5, a coupling member 5 is placed inside the cooking apparatus 1 near its back wall 15 which is provided with an elongated aperture 6 such that an engaging portion 7 horizontally protruding from the attachment board 2 will be projected through the aperture 6 when the cooking apparatus 1 is secured to the attachment board 2 in the manner described above and illustrated in FIG. 4. The top end of the coupling member 5 is connected rotatably through a pivot 18 to a relatively shorter rod 16 which is secured rotatably around a fulcrum 17 to the back wall 15 of the cooking apparatus 1. When the coupling member 5 is pushed up, the corresponding force is communicated to the rod 16 through the pivot 18 and the rod 16 is caused to rotate in a clockwise direction as shown by the arrows until the opposite end of the rod 16 latches to the engaging portion 7 as shown by the broken lines in FIG. 5. The cooking apparatus 1 is thus fastened to the attachment board 2 behind it and is prevented from falling to the front.
The method of mounting a cooking apparatus on a wall as described above is inconvenient because not only is the cooking apparatus relatively heavy but also the coupling member must be operated while the cooking apparatus itself is pressed against the attachment board over an existing gas range or the like and it frequently takes two persons to mount such an apparatus on the wall.
It is therefore an object of the present invention in view of the above to provide a cooking apparatus such as a combined microwave oven and a range hood which can be installed easily on a wall without increasing the number of component parts.
The above and other objects of the present invention are achieved by providing a cooking apparatus of the space-saver type having a unitized mounting structure comprising portions of the back and bottom plates forming parts of its housing such that this mounting structure is initially secured to the wall surface and the housing is subsequently attached to this mounting structure.
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| 2155768 |
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Patent Grant
4796850
