Patent ID: 7173217

Claim:
An electric oven comprising: a housing defining a cooking chamber; guides in the chamber; a rack slidable inside the housing on the guides; a door hinged on the housing and pivotal between an open position and a closed position; and means including a linkage between a side wall of the cooking chamber and the housing for automatically ejecting the rack on movement of the door into the open position, the linkage being oriented in a vertical plane and having a lever pivoted in the housing outside the chamber and having a first arm and a second arm; a link connecting the first arm of the lever to the door such that the lever pivots when the door moved between its positions; a thruster element pivoted between the housing and the chamber and having a first outer part outside said cooking chamber and slidably engaged in a slot of said second arm of said lever, and a second inner part inside said cooking chamber and slidably engaged in an opening of said rack.