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US 9,049,929 B2Granted
Appliance apparatus including a bonded bracket
AssigneeA. Raymond Et Cie
InventorsDorian J. Kilgore, William Teller, Jeffrey Moser
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Abstract
An appliance apparatus includes an adhesively bonded bracket or support. In another aspect, a clothing apparatus includes a moveable transparent panel, such as a glass door or lid, which has a polymeric support or bracket adhesively bonded thereto. A further aspect provides polyurethane adhesive pellets bonding a polymeric hinge bracket to only a backside of a glass appliance panel.
Claims22
An appliance apparatus comprising:
- a moveable transparent appliance panel;
- a polymeric support including a surface facing the moveable transparent appliance panel;
- at least one adhesive pellet securing the polymeric support solely to a backside surface of the appliance panel;
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- at least one raised pad extending outwardly from the surface of the polymeric support that faces the moveable transparent appliance panel that contacts the at least one adhesive pellet during bonding of the moveable transparent appliance panel to the polymeric support;
- wherein the polymeric support has a generally U-shaped cross-sectional configuration with open ends and comprises a pair flanges extending outwardly to defining the surface of the polymeric member that faces the moveable transparent appliance panel, the surface being substantially parallel to the adjacent backside surface of the appliance panel, the polymeric support further comprising main walls offset angled from the pair of flanges and spaced apart tapered ribs spanning between the flange and the main walls, the flange, main walls and ribs all being integrally created.
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An appliance apparatus comprising:
- a moveable glass appliance door;
- polyurethane adhesive pellets which are heat activatable above 100° C.;
- a polymeric hinge bracket directly bonding to the glass door by the adhesive pellets;
- the polymeric hinge bracket comprising a pair of flanges extending along a surface that is substantially parallel to an adjacent backside surface of the appliance door, the polyurethane adhesive pellets being disposed between the pair of flanges and the adjacent backside surface of the appliance door;
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- the polymeric hinge bracket further comprising main walls extending from each flange of the pair of flanges at an angle that are spaced apart from one another and that are connected by a spanning bottom wall, the main walls and the spanning bottom wall of the polymeric hinge defining a recessed space with at least one open end that receives a hinge member.
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A clothing appliance comprising:
- a rotating clothing basket;
- a glass door including a transparent middle section and a substantially non-transparent peripheral section having frit on a backside thereof;
- a hinge allowing the door to open and close relative to the basket adjacent the backside of the door;
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- a polymeric hinge bracket coupling the hinge to the door, the bracket including an integrally molded flange, an offset wall defining a trough with open ends that receives the hinge, the offset wall extending axially beyond flange where the offset wall defines at least one hole that receives a fastener securing the polymeric hinge bracket to the hinge.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.