Whirlpool Corporation

George A Mikalauskas

Gregory J Paul

Kevin Cheesebrough

Connie Rae Crone

Bobby Joe Jenkins

Corinne M Troiano

Miguel A Valle

An oven having a tray forming a heating element enclosure beneath an oven liner. The heating element compartment has a rear access opening. A heating element is removably supported by the tray beneath a bottom wall of the oven liner. An access panel is provided for closing the rear access opening of the heating element enclosure. The access panel is secured to the oven liner and the rear edge of the tray is fastened to the access panel. An inner chassis is disposed about the oven liner. The inner chassis includes a rear chassis panel and a chassis bottom panel having a rear edge removably attached to the rear chassis panel. A cabinet enclosure surrounds the inner chassis and includes a removable back wall. Access to the access panel is accomplished by removing the back wall and disconnecting the chassis bottom panel from the rear chassis panel such that the chassis bottom panel may be flexed to expose the access panel. Removal of the access panel provides access to the heating element such that it may be serviced.

Heating element support system for oven

An oven having a ventilation system capable of providing reduced temperature, low moisture exhaust air is provided. The oven has an oven cavity defined by a partition having a through hole and enclosed by an oven door having an air inlet to accept incoming air and a separator located within the door to divide the incoming air into at least a first path and a second path. The oven has an air duct surrounding the partition having at least one inlet at the front of the oven below the door, at least one inlet at the back of the oven and an air outlet at the front of the oven above the door. Also, the oven has a ventilation system capable of providing reduced temperature exhaust air out the air outlet located at the front of the oven. The ventilation system includes a vent box having a vent cap located thereon, the vent cap having at least one opening; a vent tube constructed and arranged in the through hole of the partition connecting the oven cavity to the vent box to allow oven air from the oven cavity to pass to the vent box; and a device for generating a supply of forced air from air drawn in through the air inlets via the air duct. The device for generating a supply of forced air is constructed and arranged such that the supply of forced air travels through the opening of the vent cap thereby creating suction to combine the forced air with the oven air from the vent tube to form a combined airflow. The combined airflow is exhausted out the air outlet at the front of the oven above the door.

Low moisture/closed door broil oven ventilation system

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Pleasant Hill, OH, United States of America

George A Mikalauskas