Heating element assembly for clothes drier
AssigneeISE Stamping Inc.
InventorSylvain Gagnon
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Abstract
A heating element assembly for a clothes drier, comprising: a heating wire coil adapted to be wired to a power source for heating air passing through a heating element housing of a drier for subsequent drying of clothes in a drum of the drier. The heating wire coil has straight portions intermittently positioned between coil portions. Support members are adapted to be secured to the heating element housing in a predetermined pattern for supporting the straight portions of the heating wire coil while preventing displacement of the coil portions, so as to retain the heating wire coil on the heating element housing.
Claims6
A heating element assembly for a clothes drier, comprising:
- a heating wire coil adapted to be wired to a power source for heating air passing through a heating element housing of a drier for subsequent drying of clothes in a drum of the drier, the heating wire coil having straight portions intermittently positioned between coil portions;
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- support members adapted to be secured to the heating element housing in a predetermined pattern for supporting the straight portions of the heating wire coil while preventing displacement of the coil portions, so as to retain the heating wire coil on the heating element housing, the support members each having a body having a pair of lateral surfaces, a slot being defined in the body between the lateral surfaces so as to accommodate one of the straight portions of the heating wire coil, the slot being sized such that coil portions of the heating wire coil are retained opposite lateral surfaces of adjacent ones of the support members when the straight portions are in the slots, and being open to a surface transverse to the lateral surfaces and defining a hook shape in the lateral surfaces, such that the straight portion of the heating wire coil is held captive in the slot.
A heating element assembly for a clothes drier, comprising:
- a housing having at least one foldable tab;
- a heating wire coil for heating air passing through the housing for subsequent drying of clothes in a drum of the drier;
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- support members for retaining a portion of the heating wire coil onto the housing, each of the support members having a tab receiving portion in which the at least one foldable tab is abutted to secure the support member to the housing, each of the support members having a slot being perpendicular to a pair of lateral surfaces of the support member, the slot being sized such that coil portions of the heating wire coil are retained between opposite lateral surfaces of adjacent ones of the support member when straight portions of the heating wire coil intermittently positioned between the coil portions are in the slots.
The heating element assembly according to claim 5, wherein the support members are positioned on the housing such that openings to the slots are in a selected orientation to retain the straight portions of the heating wire coil in the support members.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.