Patent ID: 6234161
Filing Date: 2001-05-22
Classification: F24C

Abstract:
A gas cooking appliance comprising:a cabinet including an upper cooktop and a back panel;an oven cavity located within the cabinet, said oven cavity including an open frontal portion, a rear wall spaced forward of the back panel and a top wall spaced below the upper cooktop;an isolation pan extending below the upper cooktop, between the upper cooktop and the top wall of the oven cavity;a plurality of gas burner units, each of the gas burner units including a burner head positioned above the upper cooktop, and a flow tube leading from the burner head into a chamber defined by the upper cooktop and the isolation pan;an air inlet for directing combustion air to the flow tube within the chamber;a gas inlet line leading to the flow tube of a respective one of the gas burner units for supplying combustion gas adapted to mix with the combustion air within the flow tube; anda fan for generating a flow of cooling air for the oven cavity within the cabinet, said cooling air being adapted to flow within a passage extending across the top wall of the oven cavity, between the top wall and the isolation pan, while being fluidly isolated, within the cabinet, from the chamber.