Whirlpool Corporation

Sachin Karade

Tushar Sopan Jadhav

Atul Nalawade

Sachin Jaganath Kadus

Patrick J Duffy

Pradeep Thorat

Deeptiranjan Barik

A cooktop for an appliance includes a cooktop base surface that defines an edge. A cooktop burner is mounted on the cooktop base surface. A support base is rigidly fixed with the cooktop base surface adjacent the edge. A grate is rotatably supported to the support base and is rotatable between a raised position and a lowered position to alternately cover and uncover the cooking burner. A biasing member is coupled to the support base and exerts an upward biasing force on the grate.

Cooktop with hinged burner grates

A heating appliance includes an appliance cabinet having a plurality of sidewalls that defining a heating cavity. A door is operably connected to at least one of the sidewalls and operable between open and closed positions. A vertical translating assembly extends from the appliance cabinet to the door. The vertical translating assembly includes drive and offset arms and a power assist mechanism in operable communication with the drive arm. The power assist mechanism at least partially operates the door between the open and closed positions.

Vertically translating hinge mechanism for a built-in oven

A domestic appliance, such as a double oven range, incorporates a door having a bottom end portion which, when shifted between closed and opened positions, both pivots and vertically shifts relative to a frame body of the appliance through at least a connecting rod, push rod and pivot arm of a hinge mechanism. Due to a combined pivoting and lifting action of the door, minimal to no clearance is required between the bottom end portion and adjacent structure.

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