US 12,241,635 B2
Retractable range hood
Bradley Mergener, Hartford, WI (US); Ryan Revers, Hartford, WI (US); Richard R. Sinur, Hartford, WI (US); Brian Wellnitz, Hartford, WI (US); Brent Lillesand, Hartford, WI (US); and Jason Asmus, Hartford, WI (US)
Assigned to Broan-NuTone LLC, Hartford, WI (US)
Filed by Broan-NuTone LLC, Hartford, WI (US)
Filed on Mar. 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/701,739.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/166,582, filed on Mar. 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0307700 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. F24C 15/20 (2006.01); H05B 6/64 (2006.01)
CPC F24C 15/2092 (2013.01) [F24C 15/2042 (2013.01); H05B 6/6423 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A range hood comprising:
a range-hood mount configured to couple to at least one of a microwave and a structure adjacent to the microwave,
a pair of hood slides coupled to the range-hood mount, a portion of each hood slide being configured to move relative to the range-hood mount between a retracted position and an extended position, and
an expandable hood extension coupled to the pair of hood slides and configured to move from a collapsed configuration, when the pair of hood slides are arranged in the retracted position, to an expanded configuration, when the pair of hood slides are in the extended position,
wherein the expandable hood extension includes a plurality of panels that are stacked on top of one another in the collapsed configuration and that are at least partially offset relative to one another so as to be shiplapped in the expanded configuration.