White Consolidated Industries, Inc.

Robert McFarland

James L Ayres

Timothy J Tupa

Duane A Lee

A control panel assembly for a domestic appliance providing an improved assembly which insures uniform and proper alignment of control instruments mounted therein. The control panel assembly includes a control panel faceplate, a control instrument mounting bracket, and a bracket retainer. The faceplate includes an indexing or positioning notch into which the mounting bracket, which has the control instruments mounted thereto, fits to correctly locate the control instruments relative to openings in the faceplate. The bracket retainer attaches the mounting bracket to the control panel faceplate. The control panel faceplate, with the mounting bracket and bracket retainer mounted thereon, is slidably and removably attached to a trim wrapper and deflector provided by the control panel. The present invention improves upon control panels known in the art which do not index or relate the control instruments or mounting bracket to the faceplate, and which do not allow access to the control instruments from a front of the control panel.

Method of attaching a faceplate assembly to an appliance

Control panel brackets

A domestic cooking range provides an upswept cook top which promotes ease of cleaning in combination with a vent stack which exhausts flue gases from the oven through an elongated opening between the upswept portion and a control panel on the backguard. A deflector is provided to prevent the flue gases from impinging upon either the control panel or the cook top.

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Springfield, TN, United States of America

Robert McFarland