Patent ID: 6067980
Filing Date: 2000-05-30
Classification: F24C

Abstract:
A gas cooking appliance comprising:at least one gas-radiation or atmospheric gas burner;a glass or glass-ceramic plate having a plane defining a planar cooking surface, which plate is attached to a cooking area frame, the plate being partially bent out of the plane of the planar cooking surface to form a bent area which is unitary with the planar cooking surface, andan associated guideway with an outlet opening for exhaust air in the case of gas-radiation burners or at least one inlet opening for fresh air in the case of atmospheric burners, the guideway being free of ventilation lattices in the bent area and the opening being spaced a distance from the planar cooking surface, and when used as an exhaust air opening, the juncture between the glass or glass-ceramic plate and cooking area frame being free from adhesive.