Oven burner cover screen with improved mesh configuration

An oven, comprising:

• a cabinet defining an interior cooking cavity;
• and
• a heating arrangement mounted within the interior cavity adjacent an upper surface thereof, the heating arrangement, including:
• a heating assembly including a plurality of elongate heating members extending along respective longitudinal axes oriented in a first direction and having a width in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction;
• and
• a cover unit affixed with respect to the heating assembly and having a body extending along a plane oriented parallel with the upper surface of the cavity and spaced apart therefrom in a third direction with the heating members positioned between the upper surface and the cover unit, a plurality of openings extending through the body with at least some of the openings being aligned with respective ones of the elongate heating members in the first and second directions, the plurality of openings defining respective lateral axes and longitudinal axes longer than the lateral axes, the longitudinal axes of the plurality of openings extending in the second direction, all of the openings being arranged in respective rows with the longitudinal direction axes of the ones of the openings aligned in the second direction and in respective columns with the lateral axes of the ones of the openings from successive ones of the rows aligned in the first direction.

An oven, comprising:

• a cabinet defining an interior cooking cavity;
• and
• a heating arrangement mounted within the interior cavity adjacent an upper surface thereof, the heating arrangement, including:
• a heating assembly including a plurality of elongate heating members extending along respective longitudinal axes oriented in a first direction and having a width in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction;
• and
• a cover unit affixed with respect to the heating assembly and having a body extending along a plane oriented parallel with the upper surface of the cavity, extending over an entirety of the plurality of elongate heating members in at least the first direction, and spaced apart therefrom in a third direction with the heating members positioned between the upper surface and the cover unit, a plurality of openings extending through the body with at least some of the openings being aligned with a single, respective one of the elongate heating members in the first and second directions, the plurality of openings defining respective lateral axes and longitudinal axes longer than the lateral axes, the longitudinal axes of the plurality of openings extending in the first direction, and the lengths of the openings extending through substantially an entire depth of the cover in the second direction.