Refrigeration – Cooled article storage compartment and cooled isolated... – Liquid container or flow line within cooled enclosure
Reexamination Certificate
2004-06-09
2009-06-23
Tapolcai, William E (Department: 3744)
Refrigeration
Cooled article storage compartment and cooled isolated...
Liquid container or flow line within cooled enclosure
C062S389000, C220S254100, C222S146600, C312S405000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07549299
ABSTRACT:
A water reservoir for a refrigerator having a refrigerating compartment provided with a front door having an internal panel in which shelves and a water reservoir are removably affixed. The front door having an external face carrying a dispensing valve supplied by the water reservoir. The recipient is superiorly opened and removably affixed to the internal panel of the door between the fixation positions of two consecutive shelves, and incorporates a lower outlet nozzle projecting through the door so as to be maintained in fluid communication with the dispensing valve. The reservoir including a lid removably fitted onto the recipient and provided with an opening; and an over-lid provided with a window and mounted to the lid, in order to be selectively and manually displaced in a plane parallel and adjacent to the mounting plane of the lid between an open position, in which its window is aligned with the opening of the lid and a closed position, in which the opening of the lid is blocked by the over-lid.
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Amaral Claiton Emílio do
Bento Edson Isaltino
Filho Ricardo Kolb
Floeter Júnior Rodolfo
Darby & Darby P.C.
Tapolcai William E
Whirlpool S.A.
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