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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2013
Bsh Home Appliances Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Michael Penuel, Swansboro, NC (US);
BSH Home Appliances Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A modular, multi-piece, domestic appliance combination unit includes a lower appliance; an upper appliance; a universal connector bracket attached to the upper appliance; a support bracket attached to the lower appliance, the support bracket having a plurality of attachment locations that are positioned relative to each other in the horizontal direction; a slide mechanism having an upper slide member fixed to the universal connector bracket, and a lower slide member fixed to the support bracket and slidably attached to the upper slide member. The upper appliance moves relative to the lower appliance in a direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction when the upper slide member moves relative to the lower slide member, and the support bracket is attachable to the lower slide member at different ones of the plurality of attachment locations such that the lower slide member is positionable at different locations along the horizontal direction.