Whirlpool Corporation

Joseph E Thompson

Kenneth L Davis

Carl R Offutt

Steven M Schatz

Franklin P Hayba

A rack system for an oven wherein the oven includes an oven cavity having top, bottom, rear and side walls, the side walls including a plurality of support runners arranged as associated pairs on the side walls of the oven cavity. The oven cavity has an open frontal portion and an associated width defined by the lateral distance spanning the side walls. The rack system including a lower rack having a width substantially equal to the width of the oven cavity such that the upper rack may be supported by one of the runner pairs provided on the side wall of the oven cavity. An upper rack assembly is provided having a width substantially equal to the width of the oven cavity, the upper rack being supported on one of the runner pairs provided on the side wall of the oven cavity. The upper rack includes a main rack and an insert rack. The main rack has a width substantially equal to the width of the oven cavity and has a platform area and a cutout area. The insert rack has an area substantially equal to the cutout area and is adapted to removably attach to the main rack and fit within the cutout area. The insert rack may be removed from the main rack such that large items having a height greater than the vertical distance between the lower an upper rack may be accommodated.

Oven rack system having cutout area and insert rack

A hold down or retaining clip is provided for removably securing a supporting spider for a heating element to a top wall of an appliance such as an electric range. Generally in such appliances there is a burner bowl in which the spider and heating element are supported, and the clip, which is secured to the top wall, has upwardly extending arms which project through the bowl to resiliently engage the spider to secure the spider to the top wall. The clip also indirectly secures the burner bowl to the top wall in that the spider rests on top of the burner bowl when installed, which in turn rests on top of the top wall of the appliance.

Hold down clip for electric range surface elements

A hold down or retaining clip is provided for removably securing a supporting spider for a heating element to a top wall of an appliance such as an electric range. Generally in such appliance there is a burner bowl in which the spider and heating element are supported, and the clip, which is secured to the top wall, has upwardly extending arms which project through the bowl to resiliently engage the spider to secure the spider to the top wall. The clip also indirectly secures the burner bowl to the top wall in that the spider rests on top of the burner bowl when installed, which in turn rests directly on top of the top wall of the appliance.

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Pleasant Township, Putnam County, OH, United States of America

Joseph E Thompson