Door holding apparatus of refrigerator

Details Door holding apparatus of refrigerator Door holding apparatus of refrigerator

1993-12-16

1995-06-20

Kannan, Philip C.

Movable or removable closures

Bipartite, center opening

49306, 49313, 49394, E05C 704

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054252059

ABSTRACT:
A refrigerator includes a body forming a refrigeration compartment (for cooling or freezing). The compartment has an access opening closed by a pair of side-by-side doors that are hinged adjacent opposite vertical edges of the opening. Each door includes a frame and a slide mounted in a free edge of the slide for horizontal sliding movement. When the doors are being closed, the slides engage displacement surfaces on the body which pull the slides partially out of the frame so that resilient packing members carried by the slides are moved into contact with one another to create an air seal along a vertical interface between the two doors. A magnet on the body attracts metal plates carried by the slides to hold the doors closed. Keeper members can be mounted on the body for yieldably engaging grooves formed in the slides for aiding in holding the doors closed.

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patent: 3362108 (1968-01-01), Jones
patent: 3660940 (1972-05-01), Tavano

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