Multi-panel spacer/shipping bracket
AssigneeCarrier Corporation
InventorsMerle D. Sears, Howard E. Jameson
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Abstract
A multi-panel spacer/shipping bracket for supportively spacing at least one panel located within a compartment, the bracket comprising: a base member; an attachment member extending therefrom and attached to the compartment; and a retention member extending from the base member, and further comprising an insertion member having a slot therein for retaining a panel, the slot defining an approach opening sized to receive the panel thereinto, and a spring member, positioned relative to the slot so as to operate to urge the panel against an interior vertical wall of the slot.
Claims9
In conjunction with a furnace, having at least one heat exchange panel, and having a compartment within which the heat exchange panel is located, a multi-panel spacer/shipping bracket for supportively spacing at least one heat exchange panel, the bracket comprising:
- a base member;
- an attachment member extending from said base member, said attachment member attached to the compartment;
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- a retention member extending from said base member, said retention member further comprising:
- an insertion member having a slot therein for retaining a panel, said slot defining an approach opening sized to receive the panel into said slot, and
- a spring member, said spring member positioned relative to said slot so as to operate to urge the panel against an interior vertical wall of said slot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.