Electrolux Home Products, Inc.

Michael Anthony Howard

Henry Haley

Daniel Hill

Scott Speck

Todd Brooks

Rhea-Anne Pendley

Aaron Wojcik

An appliance including a cooking cavity wrapper and a first side wall disposed laterally adjacent a first side of the cooking cavity wrapper. The first side wall includes a first hemmed shelf formed as a U-shaped bend therein. The U-shaped bend defines an inward-extending flange comprising a top leg and a bottom leg disposed in face-to-face adjacency with one another. The first hemmed shelf is adapted to support a module of the appliance above the cooking cavity wrapper.

Hemmed shelf for appliance-module assembly

A cooking appliance is provided having a cooking cavity with an opening defined at its base. The cooking appliance also includes a modular accessory that is reversibly receivable in said opening. The modular accessory defines a sump space that extends below the base of the cooking cavity through said opening. The modular accessory can be a modular sump; or it can be a steamer, a water-basin for steaming and/or sous-vide cooking, a holder for briquettes or wood chips used to smoke food, a plate-warming compartment, a pizza stone or a grill rack. The appliance can further include a heating element that extends outside and adjacent to a sidewall of said modular accessory, partially surrounding said modular accessory.

Deep-embossed sump and heating element for an oven

Provided is a backguard panel for an appliance with an integrated front-mounted proud-glass control unit. An opening is defined within the front wall of the backguard panel has for receiving the control unit. A recessed seat, configured to receive a sealing gasket for sealing the space between the control unit and the backguard panel, surrounds the opening. The control unit has a housing suspended from a proud glass pane that protrudes forward of the front wall of the backguard panel when the housing is fully inserted into the opening. Rearwardly projecting brackets establish a friction fit to temporarily hold the control unit in place until fasteners can be installed to apply a compressive force on the sealing gasket between the glass pane and the backguard panel. A cooking appliance with a backguard panel with an integrated front-mounted proud-glass control unit is also provided.

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Gallatin, TN, United States of America

Michael Anthony Howard