Wall-Mounted Appliance Apparatus

Abstract

Wall mounted appliance apparatus ( 10 ) including an appliance support for supporting an appliance ( 11 ) in operative orientation, a housing ( 12 ) arranged for mounting to a wall ( 13 ), said housing being sized to accommodate the appliance support; mounting means comprising two pairs of struts, normally a short strut pair ( 14 ) and a long strut p ( 15 ), each strut pair being including a square or rectangular strut plate ( 16 ) extending between pairs of struts. The mounting means operatively interposed between said housing and said appliance support for mounting said appliance support to said housing for movement between a close attitude at which said appliance support is substantially parallel to coplanar with the wall and an open attitude at which said appliance support is spaced away from the wall a distan sufficient for effective operability of an appliance mounted in, on or to said appliance support.

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       10 . A wall-mounted appliance apparatus comprising: 
 an appliance support for supporting an appliance in an operative orientation;    a housing arranged for mounting to a wall, said housing being sized to accommodate the appliance support;    mounting means operatively interposed between said housing and said appliance support for mounting said appliance support to said housing wherein said mounting means includes two pairs of mounting struts, each having a housing end pivotally mounted to spaced housing mounting points on or in the housing and remote from the housing ends an appliance ends pivotally mounted to spaced cradle mounting points on or in the appliance support, the length of the mounting struts and relative positions of the housing mounting points and cradle mounting points being selected to permit movement of said appliance support between a closed attitude at which said appliance support is substantially parallel to or coplanar with the wall and an open attitude at which said appliance support is spaced away from the wall a distance sufficient for effective operability of an appliance mounted in, on or to said appliance support.    
   
   
       11 . A wall-mounted cooking apparatus comprising: 
 a cooking module adapted for cooking food in a substantially vertical orientation;    a housing arranged for mounting to a wall, said housing being sized to accommodate the cooking module;    mounting means operatively interposed between said housing and said cooking module for mounting said cooking module to said housing, wherein said mounting means includes two pairs of mounting struts, each having a housing end pivotally mounted to spaced housing mounting points on or in the housing and remote from the housing ends an appliance ends pivotally mounted to spaced cradle mounting points on or in the cooking module, the length of the mounting struts and relative positions of the housing mounting points and cradle mounting points being selected to permit movement of said cooking module between a closed attitude at which said cooking module is substantially parallel to the wall and an open attitude at which said cooking module is spaced away from the wall a distance sufficient for effective operability of said cooking module.    
   
   
       12 . A wall-mounted cooking apparatus comprising: 
 a cooking module adapted for cooking food in a substantially vertical orientation;    a housing arranged for mounting to a wall, said housing being sized to accommodate the cooking module;    mounting means operatively interposed between said housing and said cooking module for mounting said cooking module to said housing, wherein said mounting means includes two pairs of mounting struts, each having a housing end pivotally mounted to spaced housing mounting points on or in the housing and remote from the housing ends an appliance ends pivotally mounted to spaced cradle mounting points on or in the cooking module, the length of the mounting struts and relative positions of the housing mounting points and cradle mounting points being selected to permit movement of said cooking module between a closed attitude at which said cooking module is substantially coplanar with the wall and an open attitude at which said cooking module is spaced away from the wall a distance sufficient for effective operability of said cooking module.    
   
   
       13 . A wall-mounted cooking apparatus according to  claim 12 , wherein the cooking module is in the form of a toaster, the general shape of which is greater in two orthogonal dimensions than the third orthogonal dimension, and wherein one of the greater orthogonal dimensions is substantially vertical.  
   
   
       14 . A wall-mounted appliance apparatus according to  claim 10  configured as a wall-mounted cooking apparatus.  
   
   
       15 . A wall-mounted appliance apparatus according to  claim 10  configured as wall-mounted cooking apparatus, wherein the cooking module is in the form of a generally rectilinear toaster having two orthogonal dimensions greater than the third and where one of the greater orthogonal dimensions is substantially vertical.  
   
   
       16 . A wall-mounted appliance apparatus according to  claim 10 , wherein the spacing between housing mounting points is greater than the spacing between the cradle mounting points, whereby the locus of the appliance cradle in its movement between the closed and open attitudes is such that, taken from the closed attitude, for a first portion of the locus, the cooking module moves substantially normal to the plane of the wall, remaining substantially parallel thereto, and for a second portion of the locus, the cooking module pivots or resolves about an axis substantially parallel to the wall such that the plane of the appliance cradle is oblique to the plane of the wall.  
   
   
       17 . A wall-mounted appliance according to  claim 16 , wherein at least one of the pairs of struts are reinforced with cross bracing in the form of a plate.  
   
   
       18 . A wall-mounted appliance according to  claim 17 , wherein the plate and struts are integrally formed.