Refrigeration – Automatic control – Refrigeration producer
Patent
1989-09-21
1990-05-22
Tapolcai, William E.
Refrigeration
Automatic control
Refrigeration producer
236 51, 74108, 745016, 337303, 337312, F25B 4900
Patent
active
049266543
ABSTRACT:
A control assembly for a household refrigerator having a mullion partition separating the freezer compartment and the fresh food compartment with a front face and a bottom panel forming the top of the fresh food compartment. There is a control bracket mounted on the bottom panel at the rear of the mullion partition and this bracket has a circular aperture with two radial notches. A thermostat having a rotatable stem for adjusting the thermostat setting is mounted on the control bracket. There is a rotatable hub member having a circular central portion with radial lugs slightly smaller than the circular aperture and radial notches of the control bracket. The portion of the central portion that projects through the circular aperture and radial notches is rotated to mount the hub member on the control bracket. There is an aperture in the center of the circular central portion to receive the rotatable stem of the thermostat and it is dimensioned to rotate the stem in unison with rotation of the hub member. A lever arm extends radially outward from the central portion of the hub member and there is a push-pull device located inside the mullion partition having one end secured to the lever arm and the opposite end is a manual actuator located at the front of the mullion partition whereby movement of the actuator rotates the hub member which rotates the thermostat stem to adjust the thermostat setting.
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General Electric Company
Reams Radford M.
Tapolcai William E.
Weidner Frederick P.
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