Brace arrangement for a thermometer

A thermometer comprising a thermometer body plate, a capillary tube and at least one substantially U-shaped resilient brace having a separate inner element with a flexible friction surface engaging the capillary tube for retaining the tube in a spaced relationship with respect to the brace at one side thereof, said body plate having at least one aperture therethrough, and leg portions at the free ends of the U-shaped brace adapted to be received in the aperture, said leg portions be provided with lateral projections engaging the sides of the body plate thereof at which the tube is positioned for maintaining the tube in spaced relationship to the body plate, said leg portions further being resiliently pressable in a direction substantially parallel with the side of the body plate engaged by the lateral projections for disengaging said lateral projections from the engagement therewith in order to allow adjustment of the capillary tube in relation to the thermometer body plate in the longitudinal direction of said tube.