Oven door assembly
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsTodd William Lambkin, Joel Matthew Sells
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Abstract
A method of cooling an oven door assembly having an inner frame and an outer frame together forming a portion of an oven door for an oven, the method comprising sealing an inner glass panel against the inner frame of the oven door and spacing an outer glass panel from the inner glass panel to define an air gap between the inner glass panel and the outer glass panel.
Claims19
A method of assembling an oven door for an oven, the oven door having an inner frame and an outer frame spaced from each other to define a gap, the method comprising:
- compressively retaining only a first pair of opposing lateral sides of an inner glass panel of the oven door directly against flanges corresponding with a pair of inner brackets coupled to the inner frame without compressively retaining a second pair of opposing upper and lower sides of the inner glass panel.
A method of assembling an oven door having an inner frame and an outer frame spaced from each other to define a gap, the method comprising:
- compressively retaining a first pair of opposing sides of an inner glass panel defining an innermost glass panel of the oven door directly against flanges corresponding with a first pair of brackets coupled to the inner frame and sealing the inner glass panel against the inner frame without using a gasket seal;
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- further comprising not compressively retaining a second pair of opposing sides of the inner glass panel by the flanges.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.