Whirlpool Corporation

Ramiro Ruthes Junior

Fabio Bianchi

Cleberson Jean Sousa

Leonel Avila

Rodrigo Wojcik Nunes Pereira

Foad Mobini Kesheh

Leopoldo Zandardo Franca

Pedro Balbinotti

Vinicius Menezes Rodovalho

A domestic appliance including a built-in oven configured to be positioned in a cut-out defined in a kitchen. The built-in oven includes a housing having a cooking chamber defined therein, a lower frame positioned below the cooking chamber, and a height adjuster coupled the lower frame. The built-in oven has a first vertical height when the height adjuster is positioned in a first predetermined position and a second vertical height when the height adjuster is positioned in a second predetermined position.

Built-in oven with height adjuster

A method of installing a replacement built-in oven into a cut-out defined in a kitchen includes identifying a used built-in oven positioned in the cut-out of the kitchen, positioning a height adjuster of the replacement built-in oven into one of a number of predetermined positions based on the identity of the used built-in oven, and installing the replacement built-in oven in the cut-out of the kitchen.

Method and apparatus for installing a built-in oven into a cabinet cut-out

A lighting unit for use in illuminating an oven cavity is internally, asymmetrically constructed and externally, substantially symmetrically constructed. Due to the symmetrical external construction, the lighting unit can be readily mounted in an oven cavity in multiple configurations to establish varying levels of illumination depending on the selected mounting arrangement. In particular, the lighting unit can be rotated prior to insertion in a side wall opening of the oven cavity, with the illumination intensity varying depending on the selected mounting position. In one preferred embodiment of the invention, the outer shell is rectangular in shape to establish two distinct, potential mounting positions upon rotation of the lighting unit 180&#xb0;, with the level of illumination varying in the order of at least 45% between the two mounting positions.

Lighting system for cooking appliance

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