Patent ID: 7735836
Filing Date: 2010-06-15
Classification: F16J,F24C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A termination of a flexible hollow gasket mounted to close a gap between an oven door and an oven face surrounding an oven mouth and facing the oven door comprising a gasket being attached to one of the oven door and the oven face, the gasket including a tubular member having first and second opposing ends and a resiliently flexible wall formed at least substantially by intertwined fibrous yarns extending between the ends, the gasket further including a plurality of fasteners extending through the flexible wall and outwardly from the flexible wall and configured to be received in spaced openings in the one of the oven door and oven face receiving the gasket; the first end of the flexible wall being at least partially collapsed to form a male end of the flexible wall and the second end of the wall being left uncollapsed to form a female end of the flexible wall such that the at least partially collapsed male end is adjustably received within the uncollapsed female end to form a joint engaging the first and second ends together to form a closed loop of the tubular member, the joint being held together by the fasteners immediately adjoining each of the first and second ends of the wall received in two of the spaced openings wherein the fasteners are formed from a single continuous spring wire member, the fasteners being engagement portions of the wire member protruding from the flexible wall.