Spill guard for a gas oven burner
AssigneeHaier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
InventorHans Juergen Paller
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Abstract
An oven appliance includes a cooking chamber defined at least in part by a bottom wall having an outlet port defined therein, wherein the outlet port defines a virtual boundary projected in the vertical direction, a burner positioned below the bottom wall proximate the outlet port and outside of the virtual boundary of the outlet port, and a burner shield. The burner shield includes a cover portion positioned directly over the burner, and a first extension having a first edge connected to the cover portion and a second edge opposite the first edge, wherein the first extension extends toward the outlet port.
Claims19
An oven appliance defining a vertical direction, lateral direction, and transverse direction, the oven appliance comprising:
- a cooking chamber defined at least in part by a bottom wall having an outlet port defined therein, wherein the outlet port defines a virtual boundary projected in the vertical direction;
- a burner positioned below the bottom wall proximate the outlet port and outside of the virtual boundary of the outlet port;
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- a burner shield comprising:
- a cover portion positioned directly over the burner;
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- a first extension having a first edge connected to the cover portion and a second edge opposite the first edge, wherein the first extension extends toward the outlet port.
A burner assembly of an oven appliance comprising a bottom wall and an outlet port defined in the bottom wall, the burner assembly comprising:
- a burner positioned below the bottom wall proximate the outlet port and outside of a virtual boundary of the outlet port that extends in a vertical direction;
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- a burner shield comprising:
- a cover portion positioned directly over the burner;
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- a first extension having a first edge connected to the cover portion and a second edge opposite the first edge, wherein the first extension extends toward the outlet port.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.