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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2021
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
An oven including (i) a cooking chamber; and (ii) a water reservoir assembly comprising (a) an inlet, (b) a water storage chamber, (c) an outlet, (d) a fillable state where the inlet is accessible from an external environment to deposit water into the water storage chamber through the inlet, (e) a water supply state where the water reservoir assembly is inserted further into the oven than in the fillable state and the oven is configured to extract water from the water storage container via the outlet to supply steam to the cooking chamber, and (f) a fabric proximate the inlet through which water flows before flowing through the outlet. The fabric is sufficiently porous to permit water that is deposited into the inlet to flow through the fabric and into the water storage chamber of the water reservoir assembly.