Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.

Lydia Stempky

John Adam Yantis

Daniel Ian Moore

Monica Martinez Mendez

Mariana Miranda

An oven appliance includes a cabinet defining a cooking chamber to receive items to be cooked, a cooktop situated above the cooking chamber, and a door. A user interface panel is situated above the door and in front of the cooktop. A gasket occupies the space between the user interface panel and the cooktop, wherein the gasket includes several protrusions on its ends and central body that serve as both locators for consistently orienting the gasket with respect to the user interface panel during assembly and connectors for securing the gasket to the user interface panel.

Cooktop oven gasket location and fasteners

A drawer assembly for an appliance includes a front drawer guide fixed to a frame of the appliance including a front slide, the front slide defining a first sliding surface and a first receiving channel, a drawer body in slidable contact with the front drawer guide, and a rear drawer guide coupled to the drawer body, the rear drawer guide including a hook and a rear slide provided over the hook along the vertical direction, the rear slide defining a second sliding surface and a second receiving channel.

Modular drawer guides for sliding drawers

A drawer glide includes a main body, the main body including a base which defines an X-axis and a Y-axis perpendicular to the X-axis, and a front face extending from the base along a Z-axis perpendicular to the X-axis and the Y-axis; and a slide extension extending from the base along the Z-axis, the slide extension located at a rear of the base distal the front face. The slide extension extends in an opposite direction along the Z-axis from the front face, and the slide extension defines a hook including a first tab extending along the X-axis and a second tab extending along the Z-axis.

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Louisville, KY, United States of America

Lydia Stempky