Oven appliance and embossed heat shield for an oven appliance
AssigneeHaier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
InventorsRebekah Leigh Tyler, Hans Juergen Paller
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Abstract
An oven appliance includes a cabinet forming an oven cavity; a bottom wall provided within the oven cavity and defining a cooking chamber and a burner housing positioned below the cooking chamber along the vertical direction; a heat shield accommodated within the burner housing beneath the bottom wall along the vertical direction, the heat shield including a base panel; and a protrusion protruding upward from the heat shield along the vertical direction toward the bottom wall, the protrusion being provided behind a center point of the oven appliance along the transverse direction.
Claims15
An oven appliance defining a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and a transverse direction, the oven appliance comprising:
- a cabinet forming an oven cavity;
- a bottom wall provided within the oven cavity and defining a cooking chamber and a burner housing positioned below the cooking chamber along the vertical direction;
- a heat shield accommodated within the burner housing beneath the bottom wall along the vertical direction, the heat shield comprising a base panel;
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- a protrusion protruding upward from the heat shield along the vertical direction toward the bottom wall, the protrusion being provided behind a center point of the oven appliance along the transverse direction, the protrusion extending along the lateral direction from a first end to a second end, the first end being positioned proximate a first lateral edge of the heat shield and the second end being positioned proximate a second lateral edge of the heat shield opposite the first lateral edge along the lateral direction, the protrusion comprising:
- a body extending between the first end and the second end along the lateral direction, the body comprising:
- a front surface, the front surface extending at a first predetermined angle with respect to the base panel along the vertical direction and the transverse direction;
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- a second surface, the second surface extending at a second predetermined angle with respect to the base panel along the vertical direction and the transverse direction.
A heat shield for an oven appliance, the heat shield defining a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and a transverse direction, the heat shield comprising:
- a base panel defined along the lateral direction and the transverse direction;
- a front panel extending predominantly along the vertical direction from a front edge of the base panel;
- a rear panel extending predominantly along the vertical direction from a rear edge of the base panel;
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- a protrusion protruding upward from the base panel along the vertical direction, the protrusion being provided behind a center point of the heat shield along the transverse direction, the protrusion extending along the lateral direction from a first end to a second end, the first end being positioned proximate a first lateral edge of the heat shield and the second end being positioned proximate a second lateral edge of the heat shield opposite the first lateral edge along the lateral direction, the protrusion comprising:
- a body extending between the first end and the second end along the lateral direction, the body comprising:
- a front surface, the front surface extending at a first predetermined angle with respect to the base panel along the vertical direction and the transverse direction;
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- a second surface, the second surface extending at a second predetermined angle with respect to the base panel along the vertical direction and the transverse direction.
An oven appliance defining a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and a transverse direction, the oven appliance comprising:
- a cabinet forming an oven cavity;
- a bottom wall provided within the oven cavity, wherein the bottom wall divides the oven cavity into a cooking chamber and a burner housing positioned below the cooking chamber along the vertical direction;
- a protrusion protruding upward from a bottom of the burner housing along the vertical direction toward the bottom wall, the protrusion being provided behind a center point of the oven appliance along the transverse direction, the protrusion extending along the lateral direction from a first end to a second end, the protrusion comprising:
- a body extending between the first end and the second end along the lateral direction, the body comprising:
- a front surface, the front surface extending at a first predetermined angle with respect to the bottom of the burner housing along the vertical direction and the transverse direction;
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- a second surface, the second surface extending at a second predetermined angle with respect to the bottom of the burner housing along the vertical direction and the transverse direction;
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- a burner provided within the burner housing, the burner being positioned above the protrusion along the vertical direction, wherein the burner contacts the protrusion at a first lateral end and a second lateral end thereof.
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