Home appliance having a flue gas air diverter

Abstract

A home cooking appliance includes a housing having a cooktop surface on a top of the housing, a burner on the cooktop surface, a cooking grate disposed above the burner, a cooking compartment in the housing, an oven flue that exhausts air from the cooking compartment, and a flue gas air diverter configured to divert the air exiting from the oven flue under a portion of the cooking grate.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a Continuation-in-part application of co-pending U.S. application Ser. No. 14 / 603,472, filed on Jan. 23, 2015, and a Continuation-in-part application of co-pending U.S. application Ser. No. 14 / 603,473, filed on Jan. 23, 2015, for which priority is claimed under 35 U.S.C. §120, the entire contents of the above identified patent applications are hereby incorporated by reference.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention is directed to a home cooking appliance having a rear vent trim, and more particularly, to a home cooking appliance having a rear vent trim including a flue gas air diverter.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]A conventional home cooking appliance, such as a Free Standing Range (FSR), includes a housing having a cooking compartment, such as a baking oven, convection oven, steam oven, warming drawer, etc., and a cooking surface formed, for example, by cooking grates disposed over gas burners on top of ...

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Benefits of technology

[0007]An exemplary embodiment of the invention comprises a home cooking appliance including a housing having a cooktop surface on a top of the housing, a burner on the cooktop surface, a cooking grate disposed above the burner, a cooking compartment in the housing, an oven flue that exhausts air from the cooking compartment, and a flue gas air diverter configured to divert the air exiting from the oven flue under a portion of the cooking grate. In this way, one or more flue gas air diverters divert hot air (i.e., flue gases) exiting from the cooking compartment under the cooking grates and away from the back wall of the kitchen, thereby reducing an amount of heat transferred from the hot air flowing from an exhaust channel of one or more oven flues to the back wall of the kitchen, which results in significantly lower surface temperatures on the back wall of the kitchen during operation of the cooking appliance compared to conventional arrangements, for example, which permit the hot flue gas to exit straight upward from the appliance. As a result, the present invention can minimize or eliminate a required minimum clearance between the rear wall of the appliance and a back wall of the kitchen, which faces the rear wall of the appliance, while at the same time maintaining compliance with industry standards and regulations, thereby enabling the cooking appliance to be installed with a 0″ clearance to a combustible surface, such as the back wall of the kitchen, while complying with industry standards and regulations.

Problems solved by technology

The hot air / flue gases can transfer heat to the back wall of the kitchen, thereby undesirably increasing a temperature of a surface of the back wall of the kitchen and exceeding industry standards and regulations.

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