Patent ID: 7595465

Claim:
Device for keeping a heating wire in position in a horizontal oven, the device comprising: a bar and a number of spacer elements, each spacer element consisting of a bar-shaped part, on which a Y-shaped part is placed near the centre of the bar-shaped part, the plane through the Y-shaped part being at right angles to the axial direction of the bar-shaped part, wherein a V-shaped part of the Y-shaped part can partially enclose the bar, wherein the bar-shaped part, near one of its axial ends, is provided with an upstanding transverse part which runs parallel to at the one side of the Y-shaped part, creating a U-shaped recess in which the heating wire can be accommodated, wherein the other side of the Y-shaped part and the adjacent portion of bar-shaped part together form an L-shaped recess in which the heating wire can also be accommodated, and wherein the spacer elements are made of ceramic material.