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US 2004/0124590 A1Published application
Gaskets and gasket-like devices including fasteners for gaskets and a method of making and using the same
OwnerHenry C. Hight JR., Sylvia Hightinventors
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Abstract
A gasket for sealing between a wall and a gasket support surface, such as between an oven housing and an oven door. The gasket includes a clip, the clip typically being made from a single strand of wire. The wire is bent into a head and a base, the base for engaging the gasket and head dimensioned for engagement with a wall for a support surface.
Claims20
A clip for an elongated gasket-like member having a mesh core and a woven sheath around the mesh core, the clip comprising:
- a head having an apex, a pair of shoulders and a neck and having a longitudinal axis;
- and
- a base attached to the head, the base comprising at least one coil coarse the coil coarse having a radius of curvature R, the radius of the coil at an origin of the longitudinal axis of the head, the coil coarse having a plane, the longitudinal axis of the head perpendicular to the coil coarse and intersecting the coil coarse at R.
A clip comprising:
- a single strand of resilient wire, the strand having a first and a second end,
- a portion of the single strand defining a head having a longitudinal axis, the head including the first end of the wire;
- and
- a portion of the single strand defining a base, the base having at least one coil having a radius of curvature R.
1 more element
A sealing apparatus for sealing between two adjacent surfaces, one of which may be an apparatus support surface, the sealing apparatus comprising:
- a gasket;
- and
- a clip engaged with the gasket, the clip having a head and a coiled base, the coiled base with a constant radius of curvature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.