Bsh Hausgerate Gmbh

Bsh Home Appliances Corporation

Ray Briscoe

Michael John Gerdes

Brandon Kornegay

Conor Cross

Gayle Collins

Chris Hoyle

A home cooking appliance includes a housing having a rear exhaust exit, a cooking surface on top of the housing, the cooking surface having an upper surface, a cooking compartment in the housing, a cooling air system that conveys cooling air through the housing, an exhaust channel in fluid communication with the cooling air system and the rear exhaust exit, the exhaust channel for guiding a portion of the cooling air from the cooling air system to the rear exhaust exit, and an airflow metering device configured to control an airflow of the portion of the cooling air flowing at least one of into the exhaust channel and within the exhaust channel.

Home cooking appliance having a metered exhaust channel

A cooktop has a top sheet; a space below the top sheet; a first passageway through the top sheet; a second passageway through the top sheet; a first gas burner that draws primary combustion air from the space below the top sheet; a first gas control knob that controls an amount of gas that flows to the first gas burner, the first gas control knob protruding through the first passageway; a second gas burner that draws primary combustion air from the space below the top sheet; and a second gas control knob that controls an amount of gas that flows to the second gas burner, the second gas control knob protruding through the second passageway. The first passageway and the second passageway have different airflow rates at a given negative air pressure in the space below the top sheet.

Apparatus and method for cooling gas cooktop knobs

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Havelock, NC, United States of America

Ray Briscoe