Refrigeration – Automatic control – Refrigeration producer
Patent
1977-12-23
1980-04-15
King, Lloyd L.
Refrigeration
Automatic control
Refrigeration producer
62233, 62234, F25B 4900
Patent
active
041977173
ABSTRACT:
An automatically-defrosting household refrigerator including a user-operable "vacation switch" effective to enable the operation of the refrigerator in a mode appropriate to a condition of zero usage. When the vacation switch is thrown to the vacation position, the user is assured at once that unnecessary energy consumption will be avoided and the likelihood of failure of the refrigerator while unattended will be diminished. The mode appropriate to a condition of zero usage includes having the interval between successive automatic defrosting operations extended. Additionally, the vacation switch may be effective to simultaneously disable an automatic icemaker, to increase the temperature set point of the thermostatic control means which maintains the temperature within the refrigerator to disable anti-condensation heaters, and to disable butter conditioner heaters.
There is further disclosed a particular means for extending the interval between successive automatic defrosting operations. A temperature-responsive switch is mounted so as to be responsive to the temperature of a predetermined portion of the refrigeration system high side. The switch is closed at ambient temperature and opens at a predetermined temperature which is reached by the predetermined portion of the refrigeration system high side a few minutes into each operating cycle of the refrigerator compressor. The temperature-responsive switch is arranged to disable the defrost control timer when the sensed temperature exceeds the predetermined value during each operation of the refrigeration system. During normal operation of the refrigerator, the temperature-responsive switch is bypassed, and the defrost control timer operates normally.
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General Electric Company
King Lloyd L.
Reams Radford M.
Tapolcai William E.
Weidner Frederick P.
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