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US 10,208,962 B2Granted
Glass retainer bracket for appliance door
AssigneeHaier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
InventorsElvin Thomas Philip, Anthony Michael Shaw
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Abstract
A bracket for retaining glass used to cover the window of a door of an oven appliance and an oven appliance with such brackets. The bracket supports the glass in position at the window. Embodiments of the bracket may provide features including use on either side of the oven door, use of a shorter length of glass, and other features that can facilitate manufacture.
Claims15
A bracket for glass positioned over a window of a door of an appliance, comprising:
- a main body for positioning against the door, the main body having a planar portion;
- a pair of opposing shelves located on opposing sides of the planar portion, each shelf projecting from one of the opposing sides along a transverse direction that is orthogonal to the planar portion of the main body;
- a pair of tabs located on opposing sides of the planar portion, each tab connected to one of the opposing shelves, each tab projecting along a vertical direction away from one of the shelves and parallel to the planar portion of the main body;
- wherein the tabs project in opposite directions from each other and are coplanar;
- a connector plate attached to the main body and projecting along the transverse direction, the connector plate defining a central aperture;
- and
- an anti-rotation tab attached to the connector plate and projecting along a lateral direction orthogonal to the transverse direction.
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An oven appliance, comprising:
- a cabinet enclosing a cooking chamber for the receipt of food items for cooking, the cabinet defining lateral, transverse, and vertical directions mutually orthogonal to one another;
- a door for selectively accessing the cooking chamber, the door pivotally connected to the cabinet, the door defining an opening whereby the cooking chamber may be viewed from an exterior, the door having an interior surface and a pair of opposing sides extending along the vertical direction;
- a pane positioned at the opening, the pane having a bottom edge;
- a pair of brackets positioned at the bottom edge of the pane, each bracket positioned along one of the opposing sides of the door, each bracket comprising
- a main body for positioning against the interior surface of the door;
- a pair of opposing shelves located on opposing sides of the main body, each shelf projecting from one of the opposing sides along the transverse direction, at least one of the shelves contacting the bottom edge of the pane;
- a pair of tabs located on opposing sides of the main body, each tab connected to one of the opposing shelves, each tab projecting along the vertical direction away from one of the shelves;
- wherein the pair of tabs project away from the shelves within a common plane
- a connector plate attached to the main body and projecting along the transverse direction, the connector plate defining an aperture;
- and
- an anti-rotation tab attached to the connector plate and projecting along the lateral direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.