General Electric Company

Edward H Roberts

Gordon V Carter

An arrangement for mounting hinge pin sockets within cabinet doors, particularly adaptable to reversible door refrigerators, including an anchor plate frictionally secured within each door corner, and formed with a hole pattern for receiving threaded fasteners used to mount the cabinet door handles and the door stop with a common hole location allowing a reverse assembly of the door handle and the door stop on either side of the cabinet door. The anchor plates serve to mount a hinge pin socket at each corner of the door, the sockets extending into opposed lateral sides of the cabinet door in corresponding location to reversibly mounted hinge pin assemblies secured to the cabinet. The hinge pin sockets are mounted to the anchor plates by a thread mount comprised of an external thread formed on each hinge pin socket engaging a pair of threading strips formed on each anchor plate, the threading strips extending radially inward with an intermediate space therebetween aligned with clearance bores in the door edge and the anchor plate. The hinge pin sockets are driven at assembly into the anchor plates by a tool drive recess formed at one end of the hinge pin receiving bore in each of the hinge pin sockets.

Arrangement for mounting hinge pin sockets to cabinet doors

A front-mounted door pull handle assembly is shown on a refrigerator door. The handle is formed of a long extruded metal bar having a mounting bracket fastened on each end. A fastening screw extends through the end of the bar and through the mounting bracket and into a supporting surface. A flexible, decorative cover member snaps over the outside of the bar. The cover has longitudinal ribs to rigidify the cover and hold it on the bar. The bar, in turn, has longitudinal grooves for receiving the ribs.

Door pull handle assembly

A door handle of a household refrigerator has a base assembly formed of three elements. The first and second elements hook together and the third element nests in the first element and extends over the hook portion of the third element. A cover extends over the base assembly and is nestable in the second and third elements. The cover has locking tabs matable with edges of the second element for connecting the cover to the second element and maintaining the elements together to form a unitary handle that is attachable to a refrigerator door.

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Jeffersontown, KY, United States of America

Edward H Roberts