General Electric Company

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David N Cherry

Donald G Falk

Gerald J Kushner

David Laurence Kinny

John August Sedovic

William D Irish

Kermit B Keeling, Jr

Garland W Insko

Gary L Haynes

Stephen P Virgin

A refrigerator includes a refrigerated compartment with an access opening and a door mounted to selectively close the opening. The door includes vertically extending front and side walls. An elongated support member is removably mounted to each side wall by screws which extend through the side walls and are received in elongated stiffening members inside the door. A decorative cover overlies the front wall of the door and is removably secured to each support member. A handle is mounted to the front of the cover by screws which support the handle and cover from one of the support members.

Refrigerator with improved door front and handle attachment

The utility conduits (electric conductors and water conduit) of a door mounted dispenser are conducted from below the cabinet to the inside of the door through an inflexible tube. One section of tube rests on a shelf under the refrigerator cabinet and a second section of the tube projects into the bottom of the door in free-standing relationship to the door. The lengths of the tube sections assure that the second section stays in the door without the need of any mechanical connection between the tube and door.

Refrigerator with door mounted dispenser supply mechanism

A household refrigerator shelf assembly includes an unitary support structure having a rear and spaced apart side walls with a horizontally oriented channel extending around the periphery of the structure. A high tempered, high strength sheet is mounted in the channel with adhesive positioned between the sheet and the support structure. The side walls extend along only the rear portion of sides of the glass sheet and bosses are formed in the channel to assure room for an effective amount of adhesive.

Refrigerator shelf assembly

The biasing mechanism of a refrigerator includes a spring connected to provide biasing force in the desired directions at the appropriate degrees of door opening and an arm and roller arrangement which compliments the action of the spring. Within about 30 degrees or so of its closed position the door is biased toward its closed position. From about 30 degrees to about 90 degrees of door opening the biasing mechanism slightly biases the door toward its open position. At about 90 degrees the door is stable and beyond about 90 degrees the mechanism provides an addition stable position.

Refrigerator door biasing mechanism

An improved gas fueled cooking appliance incorporating surface heating units comprising burners with automatic reignition capability adapted for use in combination with surface level downdraft venting is provided with an air deflector disposed proximate the igniter to alter the flow of air in the vicinity of the igniter so as to prevent the downdraft vent induced air flow from moving the flame from the igniter. In a preferred form the air deflector is a thin wall extending upwardly from the cooktop surface. The wall extends away from the burner with the end of the wall nearest the burner being laterally spaced from and even with or downstream from the igniter electrode located on the periphery of the burner.

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Louisville, KY, United States of America

David N Cherry