Clip gasket termination
AssigneeDavlyn Manufacturing Co., Inc.
InventorJames J. Bono JR.
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Abstract
A hollow oven gasket has a flexible tubular member with tubular wall and fasteners in the form of clips that are captured within and extend through the wall. First and second free ends of a length of the gasket material are brought together in a termination to form a closed loop gasket member. The first end of the device is at least partially collapsed to form a male end. The second opposing end is left uncollapsed to form a female end. The male end is received within the female end to form a joint held together by engagement of the clips adjoining the joint with an oven face surrounding an oven mouth or an oven door.
Claims14
A termination of a flexible hollow gasket mounted to close a gap between an oven door and an oven face surrounding an oven mouth and facing the oven door comprising a gasket being attached to one of the oven door and the oven face, the gasket including a tubular member having first and second opposing ends, a resiliently flexible wall formed at least substantially by intertwined fibrous yarns extending between the ends and a plurality of fasteners extending through the flexible wall and outwardly from the flexible wall and configured to be received in spaced openings in the one of the oven door and oven face receiving the gasket;
- the first end of the flexible wall being at least partially collapsed to form a male end and the second end of the wall being left uncollapsed to form a female end such that the male end is adjustably received within the female end to form a joint engaging the first and second ends together to form a closed loop, the joint being held together by the fasteners immediately adjoining each of the first and second ends of the wall received in two of the spaced openings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.