General Electric Company

James Tomaszewski

Daniel J Trice

James Lee Armstrong

Joshua Stephen Wiseman

Justin Patrick Todd

Cecil Clay Clements

Timothy Andrew Gillespie

Robert Dennis Halleron

A rack for an oven includes a sheet of metal having a front edge, a back edge, opposing side edges, a top surface and a bottom surface. A row of punched openings is formed in the metal sheet, with a solid region of metal adjacent to the row of punched openings. A stiffening rib is formed in a surface of the rack in the solid region of metal having a substantially semi-circular, indented cross-section.

Oven rack

Microwave appliances and methods for operating microwave appliances are provided. A method includes operating a fan of the microwave appliance in order to draw a flow of air through a circulation conduit of the microwave appliance, measuring an operational characteristic of the fan with a sensor of the microwave appliance during the operating step, and providing an indicator signal when the operational characteristic exceeds a threshold value at the measuring step.

Microwave appliances and methods for operating the same

A gas cooking appliance includes a gas oven cavity for cooking a food item, the gas oven cavity including a top surface and a bottom surface, a lower heat source disposed adjacent the bottom surface of the gas oven cavity, an upper heat source disposed adjacent the top surface of the gas oven cavity, and a controller configured to cycle the upper heat source and the lower heat source for providing heat above and below the food item during cooking, wherein a cycle of the upper heat source is time-dependent, and a cycle of the lower heat source is temperature-dependent.

Baking system for a gas cooking appliance

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Louisville, KY, United States of America

James Tomaszewski