Industrie Ilpea S.p.a.

Pantasote, Inc.

Ilpea S.p.a.

Adriano Merla

Paolo Cittadini

Pier Paolo Ferrante

Bruno Pasqualini

Mauro Guido Mentasti

Gasket for a refrigerator cabinet having a base portion and a soft bellows portion. The base portion of the gasket is designed to couple with an outer door portion and an inner door portion of a door of the refrigerator cabinet before final filling of the shell defined by the outer door portion and inner door portion with a heat insulating material. The base portion has an inverted U shape, delimited by essentially vertical sections and a horizontal section. The vertical sections each terminate with a foot for resting on the door.

Gasket for refrigerator cabinets with high heat insulation properties

A sealing assembly for a refrigerator which comprises a bellows-seal gasket and a profile as a single piece or as multiple pieces where the profile has a base having at opposite ends, sealing strips and has a groove for replacement of the bellows-seal gasket. The profile is provided with a side branch that terminates in a grooved seat having a C-shaped cross-section for receiving an edge of an inner door panel and having a sealing strip that is provided at the end of the grooved seat. The inner door panel is bent to ensure optimal contact with the sealing strip of the side branch.

Refrigerator cabinet sealing assembly having a bellows-seal gasket

A plastic material profile (1) for refrigerators and freezers include a door (30) and an inner door (31) having a bellows gasket (20) portion which provides a seal between the door and the cabinet (32). The profile and the gasket portion are coupled together, or they are just one integral part obtained by coextrusion of two materials having different stiffness in order to allow, when needed, an easy disjunction of the gasket portion from the profile along their connection area, said profile having a groove (23) suitable to receive, in substitution, a bellows gasket portion, said groove (23) being defined by a pair of walls (5) and (5') which extend vertically or obliquely from a base (3), characterized in that said base (3) is shaped substantially as a C-section which can be elastically deformed by means of a soft material elbow (8) obtained by coextrusion on the same section, such elbow thus working as a hinge to allow the elastic enlargement of said C-section, in order to realize the snap engagement of the edge of said inner door (31) inside (19) the section itself, and, externally and below said C-section, of the profile, providing a sealing on the edge of said door (30).

Plastic material profile for refrigerators having a rigid deformable base

The invention provides a plastics structural shape for refrigerator cabinets provided with a door and a door liner comprising a bellows gasket portion forming a seal between the door and the cabinet box part, the structural shape and the gasket portion being joined together or being integral with each other by being co-extruded from two materials having different rigidities so that the gasket portion can be easily detached from the structural shape when necessary along the region in which they are joined together, said structural shape having a channel arranged to receive a replacement bellows gasket portion, and at least one elastically yieldable lateral flange acting as a spring clip for snap-fitting the structural shape to the door liner, characterised in that within said structural shape said channel is defined by a pair of walls which extend vertically or obliquely from a base which when in its coupled operating position overlies the door and door liner along their joining line.

Plastics structural shape for refrigerator cabinets

Magnetic gasket suitable for forming a seal between a fixed part and an

This invention relates to a magnetic gasket particularly suitable for forming a seal between a fixed part and an openable part in regions of curvilinear extension, for example in particular between the body and door of a vehicle, of the type comprising an profiled strip for fixing to the parts and a tubular seat housing a magnetized insert, characterized in that the profiled fixing strip and the tubular seat for the magnetized insert are connected together by an extendable deformable tubular chamber the opposing free walls of which are substantially curvilinear and curved in the same direction.

Magnetic gasket

Bellows gasket for creating in the closing position a tight seal between the door and its related shoulder in a cabinet, in particular in a refrigerator, characterized in that at least the side face of said bellows intended for facing, in its working position, the outside edge of said shoulder, is provided with at least two portions of substantially different stiffness, said two portion being separated by a hinge point.

Sealing gasket between a door and its related shoulder on a cabinet, in

The invention relates to a profile of plastic material for refrigerator and similar cabinets, comprising a bellows gasket portion which provides a tight seal between the door and the cabinet, characterized in that the profile and the gasket portion are integral and form only one piece produced by co-extrusion of two materials having a different rigidity such as to permit a ready detachment of the gasket portion, which is less rigid than the profile, from the profile along the region of their connection, under an appropriate manual or mechanical force, and that the said profile has on its side facing the cabinet a pair of lateral faces between which a groove is defined, suitable for receiving a substituting bellows gasket portion, and on its side facing the door at least one side-flange elastically yielding, acting as a spring for press (snap) coupling the door and the counterdoor in cooperation with the said lateral faces, each one of the said faces operatively self-positioning relatively to the door shell and the counterdoor.

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