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An oven door seal comprises a braided tubular gasket of wire and a mineral fiber, such as glass fiber, a ceramic or quartz or mixtures thereof. The gasket has the characteristic of a braided structure of radial expansion upon axial compression and radial contraction upon axial extension. Clips of re

An oven door seal comprises a braided tubular gasket of wire and a mineral fiber, such as glass fiber, a ceramic or quartz or mixtures thereof. The gasket has the characteristic of a braided structure of radial expansion upon axial compression and radial contraction upon axial extension. Clips of resilient wire are prebent in a common plane so as to have an apexed head formed near the mid point of the wire intermediate parallel sections and crossing end sections are disclosed. The clips are inserted into the gasket with the crossing ends spanning one or more filaments in the lattice structure of the braided tubular gasket and the crossing ends pass through the wall structure and are deflected generally parallel to the wall as the clip wire sections at the apex flex together. The apertures are formed in the oven door perimeter at different spacings depending upon the gasket diameter desired along the edge having a particular spacing and the clip inserted at equal spacings in an oven door. The installed gasket may have a smaller diameter along the hinge side of the door and a larger diameter along the side most remote from the door on account of the variable spacing of the apertures.

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[ I claim:] [1.] A clip system for securing a braided gasket comprised of a tubular sidewall of interbraided wire filaments, said braided gasket being radially expanded upon axial contraction and being securable to one of a pair of relatively movable interengagable surfaces, wherein one of said surf

[ I claim:] [1.] A clip system for securing a braided gasket comprised of a tubular sidewall of interbraided wire filaments, said braided gasket being radially expanded upon axial contraction and being securable to one of a pair of relatively movable interengagable surfaces, wherein one of said surfaces has spaced apertures for insertion of individual clips affixed to said gasket, said clip system comprising:a plurality of individual clips each comprised of a unitary wire being flexible and formable having a relatively high modulus, said wire having a centrally located first bend and first pair of wire sections diverging from said first bend to form a head portion, said first pair of wire sections being subject to flexure from a first angular position to a second angular position in which the first and second wire sections are disposed at an angle which is acute relative to the angle at the first angular position;a second pair of wire sections integrally joined to the first pair of wire sections, said second pair of wire sections extended from the first pair of wire sections and being substantially in parallel relationship when the first pair of wire sections is in the first angular position;a third pair of wire sections integrally joined to and inclining inwardly from the second pair, said third pair of wire sections terminating in crossing ends spanning at least one of said wire filaments when the first pair of wire sections are in said first angular position, said third pair of wire sections being extended in opposite directions lengthwise of the gasket and said second pair of wire sections being moved into crossing relationship upon flexure of the first wire portions to said second angular position, said first wire portions being flexed to said second angular position upon application of radially directed inward pressure against at least one of said filaments spanned by said crossing ends, said pressure being applied with sufficient force to flex said first pair of wire sections from said first to said second angular position.