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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2011
Srinivasa Palla, Hyderabad, IN;
Philip Barber, Louisville, KY (US);
Michael Gallant, Ooltewah, TN (US);
Jonathan Sprigler, Louisville, KY (US);
Srinivasa Palla, Hyderabad, IN;
Philip Barber, Louisville, KY (US);
Michael Gallant, Ooltewah, TN (US);
Jonathan Sprigler, Louisville, KY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An oven rack is received in an oven above a lower surface of the chamber and having a bake element mounted in the chamber either above or below the lower surface. The oven rack is configured to support cooking ware on one of the lower surface of the oven chamber or on rack shelf portions provided in sidewalls of the chamber. The rack includes a first portion having a substantially planar top surface, a second portion having a substantially planar lower surface spaced from the top surface and it is also configured to support the rack in one of the rack shelf portions or on the lower surface of the oven chamber. First and second walls extend between these first and second portions whereby the walls have a first dimension slightly greater than a height from the bottom surface of the oven chamber to a top of the bake element when the bake element is mounted above the lower surface.