Encapsulated oven window pack
AssigneeGemtron Corporation
InventorsBrian Adams, Michael Schwall
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides a glass assembly having a plastic frame and two glass panes in spaced parallel arrangement, wherein at least one of the glass panes is encapsulated within the plastic frame. The glass assembly is part of a door that is connected to an oven to allow selective access to the interior oven cavity. The encapsulated glass pane can face the interior oven cavity, or face away from the interior oven cavity, toward the environment outside the oven. Each glass pane can also be encapsulated within a frame half, and the two frame halves can be connected to one another. The disclosure also provides a method of making the glass assembly.
Claims19
An assembly comprising:
- a plastic frame extending at least partially around a perimeter of the assembly, the plastic frame having an L-shaped cross-sectional shape with a forwardly extending first leg having a first, inner surface and an outwardly extending second leg having a second, rear surface, the first and second surfaces being adjacent and transverse to one another to form a corner between the first and second legs;
- a first glass pane;
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- a second glass pane that extends outwardly of the first leg, wherein the first glass pane and the second glass pane are in substantially parallel, spaced arrangement,
- wherein the first glass pane is encapsulated by the frame in the first leg through the first surface;
- wherein the second glass pane extends along the second surface of the second leg outwardly of the corner and is not encapsulated by the frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.