US 12,031,370 B2
Oven with split doors
Lyle Oscar Dingman, East Troy, WI (US); Michael Abraham Schneck, New Berlin, PA (US); Gary Allen Hanson, Janesville, WI (US); David Allen Strand, Burlington, WI (US); Michael Laddie Grande, Elkhorn, WI (US); Geoffry Allen Gromiuk, Mukwonago, WI (US); Steven Edward Kempowski, Oconomowoc, WI (US); Jon Allen Ludlum, Darien, WI (US); and Zachary Alan Griffa, Milwaukee, WI (US)
Assigned to TPS IP, LLC, Cleveland, OH (US)
Filed by TPS IP, LLC, Cleveland, OH (US)
Filed on Feb. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/677,632.
Application 17/677,632 is a division of application No. 15/922,569, filed on Mar. 15, 2018, granted, now 11,299,925.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/570,974, filed on Oct. 11, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0178192 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. E05F 15/611 (2015.01); A21B 3/02 (2006.01); E05F 15/665 (2015.01); F24C 15/02 (2006.01)
CPC E05F 15/611 (2015.01) [A21B 3/02 (2013.01); E05F 15/665 (2015.01); F24C 15/023 (2013.01); F24C 15/028 (2013.01); E05Y 2900/308 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An oven, comprising:
an oven body comprising a hollow space defined by a plurality of sides, wherein a side of the plurality of sides having a hole that connects the hollow space to an environment outside the oven body; and
an oven door operating frame adjacent to the side having the hole, the oven door operating frame comprising:
a first panel comprising a first plurality of grooves that traverse a side surface of the first panel;
a second panel comprising a second plurality of grooves that traverse a side surface of the second panel, wherein the side surface of the first panel faces the side surface of the second panel; and
an oven door positioned between the side surface of the first panel and the side surface of the second panel, the oven door comprising a plurality of projections that extend from the oven door into the first plurality of grooves and the second plurality of grooves, wherein
the first plurality of grooves and the second plurality of grooves extend in a first direction and then turn to extend in a second direction, wherein the first plurality of grooves and the second plurality of groves extend in the first direction along a length of the side surface of the first panel and the side surface of the second panel parallel to a vertical length of the oven body then turn to extend in the second direction towards an interior of the oven hollow space, wherein each of the first plurality of grooves and the second plurality of groves are extending parallel to one another along the first direction and the second direction,
a second oven door positioned between the side surface of the first panel and the side surface of the second panel, wherein the second oven door is adjacent to the side of the oven having the hole, the second oven door comprising a plurality of projections that extend from the second oven door into the first plurality of grooves and the second plurality of grooves,
wherein the plurality of projections of the oven door and the plurality of projections of the second oven door facilitate independent movement of the oven door and the second oven door in different directions along the first plurality of grooves and the second plurality of groves.