Bsh Hausgerate Gmbh

Bsh Home Appliances Corporation

Drummond Bryant

Michael Petrino

A grommet is provided for use with a gas valve assembly on a domestic kitchen appliance. The grommet has a collar portion configured to contact a shaft of a gas valve around a complete circumference of the shaft; an upper maintop contacting portion; a lower maintop contacting portion; and a central portion extending between the collar portion and the upper maintop contacting portion and having an inner diameter that increases with distance from the collar portion, the central portion having an inner surface configured to face the shaft. An air space is created in a radial direction between opposite sides of the inner surface of the central portion, the central portion being configured such that the air space exists between the inner surface of the central portion and the shaft in a radial direction, the radial direction being perpendicular to the axial direction.

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Drummond Bryant