Electric oven toaster bread rack and door mechanism

Claim 2

An electric oven toaster having an electric heating element, and a cooking chamber including a bottom wall, two generally vertical side walls, a top wall and a front opening comprising: a. a generally horizontal food supporting rack positioned in said chamber for movement through said front opening, said rack including a generally horizontal portion extending outwardly at one of the sides thereof; b. means for moving the generally horizontal food supporting rack through said front opening; c. a pair of pivots mounted at the upper portion of said oven toaster; d. a pair of generally vertical links pivotally mounted at their upper ends on said pair of pivots, each of said links extending downwardly and including an integrally formed generally horizontal tab at its lower end portion; e. a pair of apertures formed in the outwardly extending generally horizontal portion of said bread rack, the lower end portions of each of said links extending through said apertures and the lower surfaces of the outwardly extending horizontal portion of the bread rack being positioned on the upper surfaces of said tabs whereby the bread rack may be readily connected to said links and supported thereon by passing the tabs through the apertures and swinging the links upward into engagement with their upper pivots.

Claim 3

An electric oven toaster construction as defined in claim 1 wherein the upper surfaces of said generally horizontal tabs are curved in the shape of a rocker for achieving limited surface contact with the lower surface of said outwardly extending side portions in the vicinity of said apertures.

Claim 4

An electric oven toaster construction as defined in claim 1 wherein each of the links is formed with a narrow generally vertical pivot portion directly above said horizontal tabs for receiving said apertures and a wider portion directly above said narrow portion for suitably confining said bread rack for movement between said horizontal tabs and said wider portions of said links.

Claim 5

An electric oven toaster construction having an electric heating element, and a cooking chamber including a bottom wall, two generally vertical side walls, a top wall and a front opening comprising: a. a door for closing said front opening; b. a pair of arms fixed to said door and extending rearwardly therefrom; c. a pair of hinge connections for each of said arms mounted on the oven toaster for supporting said door for movement from an open to a closed position with respect to said front opening; d. a generally horizontal food supporting rack positioned in said chamber for movement through said front opening, said rack including a generally horizontal portion extending outwardly at one of the sides thereof; e. a pair of generally vertical links pivotally mounted at their upper ends on the oven toaster, each of said links extending downwardly and said rack being pivotally mounted on the lower ends of said links; f. a driving pin fixed to one of said door arms and extending outwardly therefrom, the driving pin being formed to include a reduced diameter shaft portion and a larger diameter head portion positioned outwardly from said shaft portion; g. an elongated slot formed in one of said links, said slot including a circular portion at its upper end of a size slightly larger than the diameter of the head portion of said driving pin and a downwardly extending portion having a width less than the diameter of the head portion of said driving pin but greater than the shaft portion of said driving pin so that said link may be readily drivingly connected to said driving pin by simply placing the enlarged circular portion of said link slot over the head of said driving pin and then lifting the link so that the head portion of the pin is moveD into the vicinity of the smaller width portion of said slot in order to suitably hold the link in assembled position on the oven toaster.

Claim 6

An electric oven toaster construction having an electric heating element, and a cooking chamber including a bottom wall, two generally vertical side walls, a top wall and a front opening comprising: a. a door for closing said front opening; b. a pair of arms fixed to said door and extending rearwardly therefrom; c. a pair of hinge connections for each of said arms mounted on the oven toaster for supporting said door for movement from an open to a closed position with respect to said front opening; d. a generally horizontal food supporting rack positioned in said chamber for movement through said front opening, said rack including a generally horizontal portion extending outwardly at one of the sides thereof; e. a pair of generally vertical links pivotally mounted at their upper ends on the oven toaster, each of said links extending downwardly and said rack being pivotally mounted on the lower ends of said links; f. a driving pin fixed to one of said door arms and extending outwardly therefrom, the driving pin being formed to include a reduced diameter shaft portion and a larger diameter head portion positioned outwardly from said shaft portion; g. an elongated slot formed in one of said links, said slot including a circular portion at its upper end of a size slightly larger than the diameter of the head portion of said driving pin and a downwardly extending portion having a width less than the diameter of the head portion of said driving pin but greater than the shaft portion of said driving pin so that said link may be readily drivingly connected to said driving pin by simply placing the enlarged circular portion of said link slot over the head of said driving pin and then lifting the link so that the head portion of the pin is moveD into the vicinity of the smaller width portion of said slot in order to suitably hold the link in assembled position on the oven toaster.

Claim 7

An electric oven toaster construction having an electric heating element, and a cooking chamber including a bottom wall, two generally vertical side walls, a top wall and a front opening comprising: a. a door for closing said front opening; b. a pair of arms fixed to said door and extending rearwardly therefrom; c. a pair of hinged connections mounted on the oven toaster for supporting said door for movement from an open to a closed position with respect to said front opening; d. a tension spring connected between one of said door arms and said oven toaster for biasing said door to its open position; e. a dash-pot having a piston said piston having a piston rod extending upwardly therefrom and being shaped to include an offset upper end portion; f. said door arm including an outwardly extending tab having an aperture formed therein and the L-shaped end portion of said piston rod being inserted within said aperture with its offset transverse portion being in contact with the door tab in the vicinity of the aperture so that movement of said door to the open position will cause upward movement of the door arm tab and upward movment of the piston rod and piston, whereby the dashpot may be readily connected to the oven toaster by inserting the offset end portion of the piston rod within the aperture in the door tab and swinging the entire dash-pot assembly downward.

Claim 8

An electric oven toaster construction having an electric heating element, and a cooking chamber including a bottom wall, two generally vertical side walls, a top wall and a front opening comprising: a. a door for closing said front opening; b. a pair of arms fixed to said door and extending rearwardly therefrom; c. a pair of hinged connections mounted on the oven toaster for supporting said door for movement from an open to a closed position with respect to said front opening; d. a tension spring connected between one of said door arms and said oven toaster for biasing said door to its open position; e. a dash-pot having a piston said piston having a piston rod extending upwardly therefrom and being shaped to include an offset upper end portion; f. said door arm including an outwardly extending tab having an aperture formed therein and the L-shaped end portion of said piston rod being inserted within said aperture with its offset transverse portion being in contact with the door tab in the vicinity of the aperture so that movement of said door to the open position will cause upward movement of the door arm tab and upward movment of the piston rod and piston, whereby the dashpot may be readily connected to the oven toaster by inserting the offset end portion of the piston rod within the aperture in the door tab and swinging the entire dash-pot assembly downward.