Kitchen appliance having floating glass panel
AssigneeMaytag Corporation
InventorsNorman B. Davis, Lawrence J. Ertz, Jon Freesmeier, Steven M. Haring, Chad Jonathan Rotter, Barry E. Tuller
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AssigneeMaytag Corporation
InventorsNorman B. Davis, Lawrence J. Ertz, Jon Freesmeier, Steven M. Haring, Chad Jonathan Rotter, Barry E. Tuller
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A kitchen appliance includes a door having an outer panel portion and an inner panel portion, with a plurality of mounting members being spaced about the outer panel portion of the door. A glass panel assembly, including a glass panel and a plurality of mounting elements, is detachably mounted to the door through the interengagement of the plurality of mounting elements with the plurality of mounting members. The mounting elements are adhesively secured to the glass panel. Neither the plurality of mounting members nor the plurality of mounting elements are readily visible normally when viewing the kitchen appliance such that the glass panel appears to float relative to the door.
A kitchen appliance comprising:
A method of mounting a glass panel to a door of a kitchen appliance, the door including a main body panel having a top edge section, a bottom edge section and opposing side edge sections that define an inner panel portion and an outer panel portion, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.