Camco Inc.

Samir Atalla

James Matthew Yates

Nedo Banicevic

Edward George Simmons

Wilfred Wong

Don Chiapetta

Ed Simmons

A two part shelf for use in a refrigerator and preferably in a freezer compartment of a refrigerator has at least four shelf members mounted to the cabinet for supporting the two part shelf assembly. The two part shelf has a main shelf portion and an auxiliary shelf portion. The main shelf portion has a frame that supports a shelf floor that preferably extends from the rear wall towards an open front and partially across the width of the refrigerator cabinet. The main shelf portion has a rear frame member supported by at least two shelf support members and extends across the width of the cabinet beyond the width of the shelf floor. The auxiliary shelf portion has a second frame for supporting a second shelf floor. The second load supporting floor extends from the rear wall towards the open front and extends from one of the side walls towards the first load supporting floor of the main shelf portion. The second frame of the auxiliary shelf has a forward portion mounted by at least one of the shelf supports to the other side wall and the second frame is supported by the rear frame member to the first frame adjacent the rear wall. Studs are utilized to interconnect the two floors and support the frames of the main and the auxiliary shelf portions.

Two part refrigerator shelf

A hollow full grip gas assist appliance handle for use in a household refrigerator has a hollow full grip portion comprising a thermal plastic material that is a 10-40% glass filled homopolymer polypropylene. The distal ends of the hollow grip portion are solid thermoplastic material which encases a metal insert that is adapted to be secured to a side panel of the refrigerator door. The hollow appliance handle provides a solid feel or touch handle along it's full grip portion with solid distal end portions subject to little bending movement due to the metal inserts permitting the door handle to be firmly attached to the side panels of the refrigerator door.

Hollow appliance handle

There is disclosed a refrigerator having an insulated cabinet and a pull-out bottom drawer with an insulated door. The door is mounted to the end of a pair of telescopically extendable guide rails having a rail portion mounted inside the cabinet. A pair of mounting brackets mount the door to the guide rails in a manner that permits the door to be adjusted vertically and horizontally relative to the cabinet. The mounting brackets each have a side plate with four spaced apart apertures positioned adjacent vertically enlarged aligned apertures in the guide rail and through which pass threaded screws. A locking nut is threaded onto the screw to lock the bracket in place relative to the guide rails during assembly. The vertically extending enlarged apertures permit the bracket to be adjusted vertically relative to the rail. The mounting brackets each including a front plate extending inwardly at a right angle from the side plate. The front plate has four spaced apart horizontally enlarged apertures that align with apertures in the door liner and through which threaded screws pass. The horizontally enlarged apertures permit the door to horizontally slide relative to the mounting brackets to permit horizontal adjustment of the door relative to the guide rails and cabinet during door closure.

Refrigerator with pull-out door

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.

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Oakville, Canada

Samir Atalla