HAROLD A DEREMER
Engineers in Allentown, PA

4277659, Jul 7, 1981

Jan 8, 1979

6/001452

Harold A. DeRemer - Allentown PA

General Electric Company - New York NY

H01H 316

200 6162

A power interlock switch for an appliance having a removable panel, the power interlock switch comprising a base mounted to the housing, first and second switch terminals mounted to the base, a leaf spring conductor mounted to the first switch terminal and deflectable into contact with the second switch terminal, and a pivotally mounted lever which is engaged by the removable panel and rotates to deflect the leaf spring conductor into bridging contact across the two switch terminals. One conductor of the appliance line cord is connected to one of the switch terminals via a clip and tab structure, and the other switch terminal is connected to electrical components of the appliance. A third terminal mounted to the base has tabs for connecting the other conductor of the line cord and an additional conductor completing the circuit. A cover is provided and clamps the line cord to the base for strain relief purposes. When the removable panel is removed from the appliance, the leaf spring conductor separates from contact with the second switch terminal to cut off power to the electrical components of the appliance.

4166994, Sep 4, 1979

Dec 20, 1977

5/862351

Harold A. DeRemer - Allentown PA

General Electric Company - New York NY

H01H 3752

337350

Thermostats for use in electrically heated appliances have a positive off position and are adapted for transition to a low temperature on position within a small amount (approximately one radian) of control shaft rotation. The thermostats comprise a stacked blade assembly including a lower bimetal temperature responsive blade, an intermediate stiff spring blade and an upper less stiff flexible spring blade, with the spring blade having juxtaposed switch contacts thereon and the bimetal blade operating to separate the switch contacts when the set temperature is attained. A control bracket mounted above the stacked blade assembly defines an opening through which a control shaft extends, the control shaft butting against the stiff spring blade and positioning it. The shaft mounts a cam and the control bracket has a depending cam follower for the cam, wherein the spring blade urges the cam against the cam follower. The cam has an on/off transition portion which achieves the transition of the thermostat between its positive off position with the switch contacts separated and a low temperature positive on position with the switch contacts together at good contact pressure.

4188867, Feb 19, 1980

Jan 8, 1979

6/001647

Harold A. DeRemer - Allentown PA

General Electric Company - New York NY

A47J 3700

99385

A toaster/oven having a door and a door frame and door jam peripherally surrounding the cooking chamber front opening. The door is pivotally mounted on two hinge pins, a first hinge pin being received in an opening on one side of the door frame and a second hinge pin being received in a slot on the other side of the door frame. The geometry of the slot and pin position on the door is such that the door is not removable except when in its fully opened position. The toaster/oven also comprises door retention means for selectively holding the door in a closed, partially open broil and a fully opened position. The pivotal movement of a lever arm operates first and second switch means which respectively cut off power to the heating elements of the toaster/oven and provide a signal to the controls of the toaster/oven when the door is open. The switches comprise leaf spring conductors biased toward terminals, and a bell crank rocked by the lever arm displaces the leaf spring conductors from their respective terminals to open the switches.

4307285, Dec 22, 1981

Jan 8, 1979

6/001529

Harold A. DeRemer - Allentown PA

General Electric Company - New York NY

F24C 1516

219392

A toaster/oven comprises a housing and a cooking chamber defined within the housing by a cooking chamber bottom panel, first and second cooking chamber side panels, a cooking chamber top panel and a cooking chamber back panel (which may be removable), the cooking chamber thereby defining a front opening. A door is pivotally mounted to the housing for closing the front opening. Removable cooking chamber side liners are removably mounted to the cooking chamber side panels and define grooves for supporting at least one rack therebetween. Each cooking chamber side liner has an offset flange including an offset portion and a tip extending from the top edge thereof and bottom tabs extending perpendicularly from the bottom edge thereof. Each cooking chamber side panel defines slot openings cooperatively positioned for receiving the offset flange and bottom tabs of one of the cooking chamber side liners for removably mounting the cooking chamber side liner thereto. Mounting is accomplished by sequentially inserting the offset top flange into the upper slot opening in the cooking chamber side panel and then pivoting the cooking chamber side liner about its top offset flange to insert the bottom tabs in their respective slot openings.

4363075, Dec 7, 1982

Dec 29, 1980

6/220441

Harold A. DeRemer - Allentown PA

General Electric Company - New York NY

H05K 720

361383

Equipment having a source of substantial heat is provided with a ventilated housing and an electronic assembly which can be mounted between ventilating air inlet and outlet opening means in the housing. The electronic assembly includes a plurality of parallel spaced-apart plates of which at least one of each adjacent pair of plates has electronic circuitry mounted thereon, the size and configuration of the inlet and outlet opening means and the spacing between the adjacent pairs of plates being sufficient for the flow of adequate ventilating air for the cooling of electronic circuitry mounted on the plates. The electronic assembly may be assembled into an integral unit by means of unique support elements prior to being mounted in the ventilated housing.