General Electric Company

Clarence W Denham

John Keith Besore

Nicholas Okruch, Jr

Richard A Stich

George E Stocking

Carl R Greer

Ralph D Tromble

Joyce A Rolls

A refrigerator freezer compartment has an evaporator forward of its rear wall for maintaining the freezer compartment at the desired temperature with a cover forward of the evaporator to define the rear of the freezer compartment within which food may be stored. A side ladder is attached to each side wall of the freezer compartment. A horizontal bar extends between the bottoms of the two side ladders to which it is attached and is secured to the bottom of a center ladder. The upper end of the center ladder may be supported within a nipple supported by the top wall of the freezer compartment or secured to a horizontal bar extending between the tops of the two side ladders and secured thereto. Each of the side ladders and the center ladder has a column of rectangular shaped slots to receive portions of an adjustable shelf so that one shelf may be mounted between one of the side ladders and the center ladder and another shelf may be mounted between the other side ladder and the center ladder. This insures alignment of all of the slots in the side ladders and the center ladder.

Shelf support system for split cantilever shelves

An adjustable support assembly particularly for use in supporting the bottom shelf in a household refrigerator including a support bracket having a hollow cylindrical sleeve with an interior circumferential surface having a first longitudinal portion with an array of inwardly directed elongated tooth projections along and substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the sleeve and a second longitudinal smooth portion adjacent the first portion. There is a brace having an outside diameter slightly smaller than the inside diameter of the sleeve and has a circumferential outer surface with a first longitudinal portion with an array of outwardly directed elongated tooth projections along and substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the brace and a second longitudinal smooth portion adjacent the first portion, said projections on the first portion being complementary to the tooth projections on the first portion of the interior surface of the sleeve. With this arrangement insertion of the brace into the sleeve with the tooth projections of the brace and sleeve in alignment with the smooth portion of the brace and sleeve allows relative longitudinal movement between the brace and sleeve and rotation of the brace and sleeve relative to each other engages and projections of the brace and sleeve to prevent relative longitudinal movement between the brace and sleeve.

Adjustable support assembly

A pan assembly for use in a household refrigerator fresh food compartment comprising a removable rigid unitary frame having two side plates secured within the fresh food compartment to support the frame, a front horizontal support member and a rear horizontal support member rigidly attached to and spanning the distance between the side plates. There are two pans of different widths and having an open top with outwardly depending flanges along the side walls at the top of the pans. Three slide members with horizontal channels receive the pan flanges and support the pans thereon. The slide carriers are supported on the rear and front support members of the frame and are slidable along and removable from the support members. A removable cover is supported on the front and rear support members of the frame above the slide carriers.

Household refrigerator pan assembly

A tracked support having a large load-bearing area is provided for movably supporting a cabinet. The support comprises an elongated horizontal carrier mounted to the cabinet and a continuous flexible track is formed into an encircling band and rotatably mounted around the carrier. The cabinet may be supported by a plurality of such supports.

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Louisville, KY, United States of America

Clarence W Denham