Refrigeration – Cooled enclosure – Plural cooled compartments
Patent
1998-06-30
2000-07-11
Bennett, Henry
Refrigeration
Cooled enclosure
Plural cooled compartments
62465, 312292, 312405, F25D 1102
Patent
active
060855428
ABSTRACT:
A refrigerated product storage system incorporates first, second and third vertically spaced storage sections carried by a unitary support frame attached to an inner wall portion of a fresh food compartment door of a refrigerator. In the most preferred form of the invention, the storage system includes an uppermost dairy compartment, an intermediate chill compartment, and a lower, slidable drawer. The chill compartment is provided with a door which is pivotably mounted about a vertical, inboard pivot axis, with the door being formed with a cut-out handle portion adapted to be aligned with a passageway formed in a partition separating freezer and fresh food compartments of the refrigerator. With this construction, a supply of low temperature air is directed from the freezer compartment directly into the chill compartment through the cut-out handle portion. The door of the chill compartment is provided with a latching mechanism, preferably an over-center acting latching mechanism. In addition, the slidable drawer cooperates with a locking mechanism, which is preferably located at an inboard, visually obstructed location to restrict access to the contents of the slidable drawer.
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Albert Jane
Dietz Larry Edward
Johnson Warren F.
Pohl Douglas Alan
Bennett Henry
Diederiks, Jr. Everett G.
Jones Melvin
Maytag Corporation
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