Abstract: A door for the oven of a cooking range includes an inner panel that closes the oven and an outer panel spaced from the inner panel. The inner and outer panels are connected adjacent their upper edges by an upper panel. The inner panel includes a first window in the form of a wide-angle lens. The upper panel includes a second window. Light-transmissive devices including a prism and a mirror are disposed between the inner and outer panels so as to direct light received through the lens upwardly and outwardly through the second window. The interior of the oven is illuminated by low-voltage halogen lights carried by the inner panel. The door is insulated by disposing a microporous metal oxide thermal insulation material against the oven side of the inner panel. The insulation is held in place by a plate. The door includes an oven-contacting gasket that extends beyond the boundaries of the plate to provide a thermal barrier when the door off the oven is closed.

Abstract: A housing assembly for an appliance, such as a front loading clothes dryer, includes side panels joined by a front panel. A cover includes a front member and a rear member. The rear member is mounted on the side panels while the rear portion of the front member is positioned between the top of the side panels and upwardly offset front portions of the rear member. Tabs and slots align the front cover member with the top of the housing front and side panels and fasteners connect the front member to the front panel. A control housing includes an assembly of an elongated rear wall connected to a pair of spaced apart end caps. The end caps are mounted on the rear cover member and the rear wall extends across the rear of the cover. A control panel assembly is mounted on the rear portion of the front cover member and is attached to the rear wall/end cap assembly.

Abstract: A control housing for an appliance includes a rear wall and a pair of end caps extending forward from the ends of the rear wall. A control panel assembly extends between the end caps forward of the rear wall. The panel assembly includes a cover plate with a planar body having a perpendicularly projecting rim extending along its top, bottom and ends. The assembly also includes a control mounting plate with a planar body. The mounting plate is shorter than the cover member. The plates are assembled in overlying relationship with the mounting plate positioned within the cover plate rim. A pair of bridging members are connected to the ends of the mounting plate and fit closely within the end portions of the cover plate.

Abstract: A shelf assembly for a refrigerator with a pair of ladder tracks secured the rear wall of a storage compartment includes a pair of supports with bases secured to the tracks. Each shelf support includes a vertical wall extending forwardly from the track and a flange projecting inwardly of the vertical wall. A rectilinear shelf member has front, rear and side edges and a rim structure encapsulates the edges of the shelf and includes a pair of slide portions which are positioned below the side edges of the shelf member and are slidably supported on the flanges. Each flange includes a downwardly extending inner edge and each rim slide portion projects downwardly adjacent and then outwardly under the corresponding flange inner edge. The shelf member has a planar upper surface and the rim structure closely overlaps the shelf member edges to restrain flow of spilt liquid between the shelf member and the rim.

Abstract: A slide-out shelf assembly for a refrigerator includes a pair of supports mounted in spaced apart relationship in a refrigerated compartment. Each support includes a top wall and a pair of spaced apart, depending side walls. The lateral edge portions of a shelf structure are mounted for sliding movement on the support top walls between a retracted position fully contained in the refrigerated compartment and an extended position at least partly out of the refrigerated compartment. A latch member is mounted between the side walls of one of the supports and includes a resilient finger having a rest position in which a portion of the finger projects through an opening in one of the support side walls. The corresponding lateral edge portion of the shelf structure interfits with the projecting portion of the latch to releasably retain the shelf in its retracted and its extended positions and to prevent the shelf structure from being moved out of the refrigerator further than its extended position.

Abstract: A handle assembly for use with doors of household refrigerators includes an elongated stiffener member in the shape of a channel having a base and projecting sides. A number of apertures are spaced along the base. Each end of the member is formed with offset portions. A body of thermoplastic elastomer having a Shore A Durometer hardness of no more than about 50 is injection molded about the stiffener member. The elastomer fills the apertures and surrounds the offset portions.

Abstract: A tub assembly is provided wherein a bathtub assembly comprised of a bowl section having an apron extending downwardly therefrom and a pivotally mounted apron brace releasably secured to the bottom of the bowl in a first position to permit nestable stacking of one tub assembly within another for shipping and rigidly securable in a second position to provide lateral support to the apron.

Abstract: A solar collector assembly is provided comprising an absorber means adapted to transfer heat to a fluid, a solar energy transmitting cover member, and a housing adapted to receive said cover member and to contain said absorber means, said housing having a bottom wall and foot sections adapted to receive an after-defined elastomeric mounting means; and elastomeric mounting means being fastened to said foot sections and being adapted to cooperate with a fastener means associated with a mounting bracket to movably secure said housing to said bracket.

Abstract: Backwall and sidewall panels for assembly with a bathtub in the forming of a shower enclosure are molded with integral interlockable portions respectively thereon whereby the sidewall panel can be assembled with the backwall panel to provide firm engagement therebetween by the interengaging of the interlockable portions with each other.

Abstract: A finishing strip or molding adapted to engage a wall and an article having a flange adapted to be secured to the wall comprising: a first rigid section having a channeled portion adapted to engage said flange such that a portion of the channeled section is positioned between the wall and the flange; a second rigid section having at least one projection adapted to limit the relative spacing between said first section and said second section, said second section having an extended portion having a tab adapted to engage an ear projecting from said channeled portion of said first section to fixedly position said first section with respect to said second section; a first flexible section jointed to said first rigid section and second rigid section adapted to permit relative movement between the first and second rigid sections; and a second flexible section projecting from said second rigid section a predetermined distance sufficient to contact the wall when said finishing strip is installed and in the closed posi