Hold-down clip for electric range surface elements
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsJoseph E. Thompson, Kenneth L. Davis
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Abstract
A hold down or retaining clip is provided for removably securing a supporting spider for a heating element to a top wall of an appliance such as an electric range. Generally in such appliance there is a burner bowl in which the spider and heating element are supported, and the clip, which is secured to the top wall, has upwardly extending arms which project through the bowl to resiliently engage the spider to secure the spider to the top wall. The clip also indirectly secures the burner bowl to the top wall in that the spider rests on top of the burner bowl when installed, which in turn rests directly on top of the top wall of the appliance.
Claims10
In an appliance having a heating element supported within an opening in a top wall of said appliance, comprising:
- a coil-type heating element;
- pan means adapted to be positioned in said opening and having an outer flange for supporting said pan on said top wall;
- support means arranged in said pan means for supporting said heating element above said pan means;
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- retaining means secured to said top wall and projecting upwardly through said pan means for removably securing said support means to said top wall.
An appliance having a heating element supported within an opening in a top wall of said appliance, said opening including a down-turned flange, comprising:
- a coil-type heating element;
- a burner pan positioned in said opening, having a circumferential flange for supporting said pan on said top wall and an internal annular ledge portion;
- a multi-legged spider carried on said annular ledge portion and supporting said heating element;
- a spring metal clip secured to said down-turned flange and having a pair of opposed gripping portions extending upwardly through said burner pan for removably securing said spider to said top wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.