Oven, heating element and socket assembly

• US 3,899,655 A
• Filed: 11/01/1974
• Issued: 08/12/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Emerson Electric Company
• Original Assignee: Charles Arthur Skinner
• Inventors: Skinner, Charles Arthur
• Primary Examiner(s): Mayewsky, Volodymyr Y.
• Application Number:
  US05/519,905
• Time in Patent Office: 284 Days
• Field of Search: 219/402,403,404
• US Class Current: 219/404
• CPC Class Codes: F24C 7/06 Arrangement or mounting of electric heating elements

Abstract

A socket assembly for suspending a rod-type heating element from the wall of an electric oven comprises a base plate attached to the inside surface of the oven wall and a hinge plate to which the ends of the heating element are attached. The hinge plate is pivotally engaged to the base plate to enable the heating element to pivot from a normal operating position perpendicular to the oven wall to an alternate angular position for cleaning. A finger struck from the base plate maintains the two plates in engagement and indexes the heating element in its normal and alternate positions. The socket assembly requires only two component parts, can be conveniently removed as a unit from the oven for replacement of the heating element, and has no protrusions which might interfere with use of the oven.

Claims

1. In an oven, the combination of:

an oven housing having a side wall and defining an aperture in said side wall;

a rod-type heating element in said oven housing; and

a socket assembly over said aperture of said housing for suspending said rod-type heating element, said socket assembly comprising;

a base plate dimensioned so as to be able to overlie the aperture of the oven and including means adapting the Base plate to be affixed overlying that aperture;

a hinge plate having means for receiving in locking engagement a portion of the rod-type heating element; and

said hinge and base plates defining means for holding said plates together and for allowing said hinge plate and its captivated heating element to be pivoted from a normal operating position wherein said plates are parallel and adjacent to one another and said heating element is substantially perpendicular to said side wall, to an alternative position wherein said plates are pivoted apart to be on an angle with respect to each other, and said heating element is angularly disposed to said side wall;

said means for holding said plates together including earreceiving means formed longitudinally on one of said plates and longitudinally extending ear formed on the other of said plates; and

said means for holding said plates together further including a tab formed unitarily with and depending from one of said plates for bearing against a cutout portion of the other of said plates to urge said ear into engagement with said ear-receiving means.