Mesh screen to prevent access to hot surfaces within an oven appliance
AssigneeHaier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
InventorsWillie D. Warren, Jr., Frank Jacob Hellwig, Ishan Prakashrao Chimurkar
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Abstract
An oven appliance includes a cabinet, a plurality of walls positioned therein to define a cooking chamber, and a door that provides selective access to the cooking chamber. An air passageway is defined through the door and around the cooking chamber between the plurality of walls and the cabinet. An air handler draws cooling air into the air passageway through an intake aperture and discharges the cooling air through a discharge aperture. A mesh screen is positioned over the discharge aperture of the air passageway to restrict access to hot surfaces within the cabinet.
Claims16
A wall oven defining a vertical, a lateral, and a transverse direction, the wall oven comprising:
- a cooking chamber positioned within a cabinet;
- a door rotatably mounted to the cabinet for providing selective access to the cooking chamber;
- an air passageway that wraps around the cooking chamber, extending from an intake aperture defined at a bottom of the door and a discharge aperture defined below the door;
- a horizontal brace that extends between a left side and a right side of the cabinet along the lateral direction;
- a mesh screen mounted to the horizontal brace over the discharge aperture of the air passageway;
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- a flow diverter positioned in front of the mesh screen such that the mesh screen is behind the flow diverter and in front of the horizontal brace.
An oven appliance defining a vertical, a lateral, and a transverse direction, the oven appliance comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a plurality of walls positioned within the cabinet to define a cooking chamber;
- a door rotatably mounted to the cabinet for providing selective access to the cooking chamber;
- an air passageway defined at least partially between the plurality of walls and the cabinet, the air passageway comprising an intake aperture and a discharge aperture;
- a mesh screen positioned over the discharge aperture of the air passageway;
- a horizontal brace that extends between a left side and a right side of the cabinet along the lateral direction, wherein the mesh screen is mounted to the horizontal brace;
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- a flow diverter positioned in front of the mesh screen such that the mesh screen is behind the flow diverter and in front of the horizontal brace.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.