Whirlpool Corporation

Joseph L Coleman

Allan R Steinkuhl

Duane A Schmidt

Ralph Tate, Jr

Brent Alden Junge

Gregory Gene Hortin

Alan Stevenson Lucas

Jan M Watson

Harish Prakash Kulkarni

Michael H Fisher

Dianne D Mueller

Mural E West

Randy Howell

Bozhi Yang

Steven R Cawley

Scott D Adams

Storage cabinet

The present invention relates to a refrigerator having a water filter, a water filter housing, a water filter cap, and a tool for rotating the water filter cap. Engagement of the tool and the water filter cap and subsequent rotation of the tool thereby rotates the water filter cap and water filter. The tool includes a head portion and a body portion and the head portion is an inverse surface of at least a portion of the water filter cap for mating with the water filter cap.

Water filter removal and installation tool

A hinge for controlling the movement of a door on a refrigerator is disclosed, the hinge allowing the refrigerator to be installed flush to adjacent cabinets. The door translates and rotates in order to allow access to the refrigerator cabinet interior without contacting the adjacent cabinets.

Articulated hinges using non-circular gears

Wall cabinet

A refrigerated oven having a cooking chamber in which is provided a heating elements and a refrigeration unit chamber in which is provided a refrigeration unit. The refrigeration unit is fluidly connected to the cooking chamber. Both the heating element and the refrigeration unit are selectively operable to either cool or heat the cooking chamber to thereby cool or heat a food item located therein. The refrigeration unit as preferably modular refrigeration unit that the slid into and out of the refrigeration unit chamber. Preferably, the refrigeration unit includes an evaporator that is thermally isolate is from a condenser. The condenser as preferably conductively coupled to a base supporting the elements of the modular refrigeration unit.

Refrigerated oven

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Evansville, IN, United States of America

Joseph L Coleman