Mounting arrangement for over-the-range cooking appliance

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12446120-B2
Application number	US-202318400809-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 29, 2023
Priority date	Nov 4, 2020
Publication date	Oct 14, 2025
Grant date	Oct 14, 2025

Abstract

An over-the-range cooking appliance for mounting to an underside of a wall cabinet, where the cooking appliance includes: an enclosure with a cooking cavity for food and where the enclosure includes at least a rear-facing side and a top-facing side; a wall bracket configured to be secured to the wall near the wall cabinet and configured to support the enclosure; and a cabinet bracket to support the enclosure from the underside of the wall cabinet. The cabinet bracket includes a first and second cooperating latch member, where the first cooperating latch member is mounted on the underside of the cabinet and the second cooperating latch member is mounted on the top-facing side of the enclosure. The cooperating latch members are respectively configured to latch to one another when the enclosure is supported on the wall bracket proximate the bottom of the rear-facing side thereof and tilted upwardly.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A kit for installing an over-the-range cooking appliance to an underside of a wall cabinet, the over-the-range cooking appliance including an enclosure with a cooking cavity configured to receive food, wherein the enclosure includes at least a rear-facing side and a top-facing side, the kit comprising:
a wall bracket configured to be secured to a wall disposed proximate to the wall cabinet and configured to support the enclosure proximate a bottom of the rear-facing side of the enclosure; and
a cabinet bracket configured to support the enclosure from the underside of the wall cabinet;
wherein a first cooperating latch member of the cabinet bracket is mounted on the underside of the wall cabinet and is configured to engage a second cooperating latching member secured to the cooking appliance when the enclosure is supported on the wall bracket proximate the bottom of the rear-facing side thereof and tilted upwardly to inhibit downward tilting of the enclosure after the first and second cooperating latch members are latched to one another; and
wherein the second cooperating latch member engages the first cooperating latch member along a perpendicular axis of the first cooperating latch member.

2. The kit for installing an over-the-range cooking appliance of claim 1 , further comprising a template configured to allow a user to determine a location for holes to be drilled for installation of the wall bracket on the wall or cabinet bracket on the wall cabinet.

3. The kit for installing an over-the-range cooking appliance of claim 1 , wherein the wall bracket further includes a lip and the enclosure is supported proximate the bottom of the rear-facing side of the enclosure by the lip of the wall bracket.

4. The kit for installing an over-the-range cooking appliance of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first or second cooperating latch members is a support bolt.

5. The kit for installing an over-the-range cooking appliance of claim 4 , wherein the support bolt further includes an engageable head for tightening the support bolt.

6. The kit for installing an over-the-range cooking appliance of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first or second cooperating latch members is a cam.

7. The kit for installing an over-the-range cooking appliance of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first or second cooperating latch members is a cam and at least one of the first or second cooperating latch members is a support bolt.

Assignees

• Midea Group Co Ltd

Inventors

• Scalf Eric
• Langness Brian
• Trice Daniel J
• Zhang Guo Jun
• Speichinger Jared

Classifications

• A47B77/08 Primary

  for incorporating apparatus operated by power, including water power; for incorporating apparatus for cooking, cooling, or laundry purposes · CPC title

• H05B6/6429 Primary

  Aspects relating to mounting assemblies of wall-mounted microwave ovens · CPC title