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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 06, 1997
Miguel A Valle, Oxford, MS (US);
Bobby Joe Jenkins, Oxford, MS (US);
George A Mikalauskas, Dayton, OH (US);
Gregory J Paul, Englewood, OH (US);
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
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.