Sharp KB-4425J - Manual (Page 5)

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IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE USING
IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTICE AND
WARNING
The California Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement
Act of 1986 (Proposition 65) requires the Governor of
California to publish a list of substances known to the State
of California to cause cancer or reproductive harm and
requires businesses to warn customer of potential exposures
to such substances.
Users of this appliance are hereby warned that when it
is engaged in the self-clean cycle, there may be low level
exposure to carbon monoxide, a chemical known to the State
of California to cause reproductive harm. Exposure can be
minimized by properly venting the oven to the outdoors
during the self-clean cycle, by opening a window and/or door
in the room where the appliance is located.
WARNING All ranges can tip and injury
could result. To reduce the risk of tipping of the
appliance from abnormal usage by excessive
loading of the oven door, the appliance must
be secured to wall and floor by installing the
Anti-Tip device supplied. If it is not, there is
a possible risk of the range tipping over and
causing injury if you or a child stand, sit or lean
on an open door. Please refer to the Anti-Tip
device information in the Installation Manual.
To check if the device is properly installed and engaged, look
underneath the range with a flashlight to make sure one of
the rear leveling legs is properly engaged in the bracket slot.
The Anti-Tip device secures the rear leveling leg to the floor
when properly engaged. You should check this anytime the
range has been moved.
SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
When using electrical appliances, basic safety precautions
should be followed, including the following:
1 Use this appliance only for its intended purpose as
described in this manual.
2 Be sure your appliance is properly installed and
grounded by a qualified technician in accordance with
the provided installation instructions.
3 Never use appliance for warming or heating the room.
4 Children should not be left alone or unattended in area
where appliance is in use. They should never be allowed
to sit or stand on any part of the appliance.
5 Never wear loose-fitting or hanging garments while
using the appliance. Be careful when reaching for items
stored over the range. Flammable material could be
ignited if brought in contact with hot surface units or
heating elements and may cause severe burns.
6 Do not repair or replace any part of appliance unless
specifically recommended in this manual. All other
servicing should be referred to a qualified technician.
7 Do not store flammable materials in an oven, Microwave
Drawer or near surface units. Do not store or use
combustible materials, gasoline or other flammable
vapors and liquids in the vicinity of this appliance.
8 Do not use water on grease fires. Smother a flame or
use a dry chemical or foam-type extinguisher. Flaming
grease outside a pan can be put out by covering it with
baking soda or, if available, by a multi-purpose dry
chemical or foam-type fire extinguisher.
9 Use only dry potholders - a moist or damp potholder on
hot surfaces may result in burns from steam. Do
not let potholders touch hot surfaces, radiant surface
units or heating elements. Do not use a towel or other
bulky cloth.
10 CAUTION Do not store items of interest to children
in cabinets above a range or on the backsplash of a range.
Children climbing on the range to reach items could
be seriously injured.
11 Do not touch the surface units, heating elements or the
interior surface of the oven. These surfaces may be hot
even though they are dark in color. These surfaces may
become hot enough to cause burns. During and after
use, do not touch or let clothing or other flammable
materials contact surface units, heating elements or
interior surfaces of oven until they have had sufficient
time to cool. Other potentially hot surfaces include:
cooktop, areas facing the cooktop, oven vent opening,
surfaces near the vent opening, oven door and window
and area around the door.
12 Have the installer show you the location of the circuit
breaker or fuse. Mark it for easy reference.
13 Before performing any service, disconnect the range
power supply at the household distribution panel by
removing the fuse or switching off the circuit breaker.
14 Do not allow anyone to climb, stand or hang on the
door, Microwave Drawer or cooktop. They could
damage the range and even tip it over, causing severe
personal injury.
15 Teach children not to play with the controls or any other
part of the range.
16 Always keep wooden and plastic utensils and canned
food a safe distance from your range.
17 Always keep combustible wall coverings, curtains or
drapes a safe distance from your range.
RADIANT SURFACE UNITS
1 Use proper pan size — this appliance has different size
surface units. Select utensils having flat bottoms
large enough to cover the surface unit heating element.
The use of undersized utensils will expose a portion
of surface unit heating element to direct contact and
may result in ignition of clothing. Proper relationship
of utensils to heating element will also improve
efficiency.
2 Never leave surface units unattended at high heat
settings. Boilovers cause smoking and greasy spillovers
that may catch on fire.
3 Only certain types of glass, glass/ceramic, ceramic,