Camco Inc.

Edward George Simmons

Nedo Banicevic

Samir Atalla

Les A Jeziorowski

Arnold Estravillo

A basket mounting arrangement for use in a domestic refrigerator, and in particular a bottom mount refrigerator has two baskets mounted in the freezer compartment, one above the other. The lower basket is mounted relative to the freezer compartment for movement relative thereto in and out of the open front of the freezer. The second upper basket is mounted on top of the first lower basket and is movable forward and backward of the first lower basket and also out of the open front of the freezer. The mounting of the upper basket relative to the lower basket permits a user to access a majority of the food articles in the bottom mount freezer by pulling the upper basket out of the freezer and thereby pull the lower basket from the refrigerator. The user can then push the upper basket back into the freezer to gain access to articles in the lower basket from the freezer. Upper basket support rails are mounted fixedly to the lower basket and include a trackway allowing the upper basket to slide horizontally forward and backward relative to the lower basket.

Basket mounting arrangement for a refrigerator

A refrigerator has French doors with vertically extending confronting side walls. At least one of the confronting side walls has a movable sealing gasketing member adapted to sealingly engage the other confronting side wall when the doors are in a closed position. The doors move between an open position and into the closed position through a temporary intermediate partially closed position. In the partially closed position the doors extend over the refrigerator compartment with temporary non-sealing vertically extending portions of the confronting side walls of the doors spaced apart from one another a predetermined gap distance. A first set of magnets are positioned in the doors at least along the temporary non-sealing vertically extending portions of the confronting side walls. The first magnets have a magnetic field attraction strength insufficient to move the gasketing member across the predetermined gap distance and sufficient to seal the gasketing member to the other confronting side wall when the predetermined gap distance is reduced. A second set of magnets have a magnetic field strength greater than the first magnets. The second magnets are positioned in at least one location along each of the confronting side walls to trigger local movement of the gasketing member towards the other confronting side wall locally reducing the predetermined gap. This triggers the first magnets to move the gasket along the vertically extending portions into sealing engagement with the other side wall. In the preferred embodiment the second magnets are located as a continuation of and in alignment with the first magnets. Swiping of the confronting side walls of the doors is limited at the second magnets.

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Hamilton, Canada

Edward George Simmons