Abstract: An automatic washing machine suspension system includes a plurality of suspension units. Each unit includes a rod suspended from a stationary support ring. A hollow cylinder, with a cylindrical side wall and a transverse base, is connected to the moving system and is mounted around the distal end of the rod. A piston mounted on the rod within the cylinder side wall includes a circumferentially continuous skirt extending axially of the side wall. A retainer spring mounted on the rod within the skirt includes a series cantilever beam fingers biasing the piston skirt into engagement with the cylinder side wall. A washer is mounted on the rod within the fingers. A coil spring is mounted around the rod and extends between the base of the cylinder and the piston.

Abstract: A self-cleaning gas range has its frame support an oven with a storage compartment beneath the oven in spaced relation thereto. A burner, which is beneath the oven and above the storage compartment, heats the oven to a temperature to produce self cleaning. A baffle assembly, which is beneath a heat shield beneath the burner and above the storage compartment, prevents the top of the storage compartment from exceeding a predetermined maximum temperature when self cleaning occurs. The baffle assembly includes a bottom baffle of galvanized steel attached to the frame and forming the top of the storage compartment, an intermediate baffle of galvanized steel above the bottom baffle in spaced relation thereto, and an inner baffle of reflecting aluminum above the intermediate baffle in spaced relation thereto with the three baffles assembled to each other.