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US 8,526,800 B2Granted
Glass-ceramic cooktop and method of assembling the same
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsPhillip K. Fritschie, Richard K. Morrow
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Abstract
A cooking appliance includes a glass cooktop panel and a cooktop frame. A radiant heating element is positioned between the cooktop frame and the glass cooktop panel. The heating element has an upper surface biased toward a lower surface of the glass cooktop panel. A screwless spring clip is coupled to both the heating element and the cooktop frame so as to secure the heating element to the cooktop frame.
Claims6
A method of assembling a cooking appliance, comprising:
- squeezing a spring clip so as to move a biasing tab of the spring clip from an engaged position to a disengaged position,
- inserting a locking tab of the spring clip into a slot formed in a lower surface of a heating element while the biasing tab of the spring clip is positioned in the disengaged position, and releasing the spring clip such that the biasing tab of the spring clip is moved from the disengaged position to the engaged position and into contact with a sidewall of the heating element so as to secure the spring clip to the heating element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.