Patent ID: 7671301

Claim:
A cowling operable in an electric self-cleaning cooking appliance, the electric self-cleaning cooking appliance having a means forming an oven cavity and a resistance coil disposed exteriorly of, and at a spacing from, the oven cavity and operable to effect convection heating of the oven cavity via heating of air adjacent to and in contact with the resistance coil and the means forming an oven cavity, the cowling comprising: a body portion that is positionable intermediate, and at respective spacings from both, the means forming an oven cavity and at least a portion of the resistance coil, the body portion for influencing a property of the air via which convection heating of the oven cavity is effected wherein the resistance coil includes a curved segment and a straight segment, and wherein the body portion includes a corresponding curved segment and a corresponding straight segment that substantially trace the curved segment and the straight segment of the resistance coil.