Whirlpool Corporation

Sinuhé Argumedo

Gregory Gene Hortin

Frank Weston Maglinger

Frank W Klitzing

Mark G Steffenhagen

Matthew P Dieg

Jeffrey J Smale

Kevin R Leatherwood

Jeffrey Neil Wilson

Joseph Michael Griffith

Leonardo Rangel

Sooraj Puthiyaveetil

A refrigerator having an in-door water dispenser and a water routing system is provided with a cabinet. A door is reversibly hinged to the cabinet at either a first edge or a second edge. A water supply line leads from a water reservoir and has a first connection at a first top front corner of the cabinet and a second connection at a second top front corner. A feeder line leads from the dispenser to a top surface of the door with an end at one of the first door edge and the second door edge. When the door is hinged along the first edge, the end of the feeder line is connected to the first connection and when the door is hinged along the second edge, the end of the feeder line is connected to the second connection.

Water routing system for reversible door refrigerator with dispenser

An ice harvesting prevention mechanism, including an actuator, is provided for an ice maker. The ice maker is arranged to make, harvest and dispense ice to an ice bucket located in an ice receiving position. An ice harvesting prevention device is arranged to prevent dispensing of ice in a first position of the actuator and to permit dispensing of ice in a second position of the actuator. The ice bucket itself, or a movable button carried on the ice bucket, may engage the actuator, when the ice bucket is placed in the ice receiving position, to move the actuator from the first position to the second position. The button may be moved to an 'off' position to prevent engagement with the actuator, thereby preventing dispensing of ice when the ice bucket is in the ice receiving position.

Ice harvest prevention mechanism in a refrigerator

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Guadalupe, Mexico

Sinuhé Argumedo