General Electric Company

Stephen G Boughton

William M Webb

Bernard J Grimm

James D Wilkerson, Jr

A single evaporator, single fan combination refrigerator includes a temperature control system which thermostatically maintains the fresh food compartment at a desired temperature by cycling the refrigerator system on and off as required, and which controls freezer compartment temperature by varying airfow through a pair of ducts conducting refrigerated air from the evaporator chamber to the fresh food compartment. The freezer control operates a pair of main dampers disposed in the ducts. In order to compensate for variations in freezer compartment temperature which would otherwise result when the setting of the thermostatic fresh food control is changed, a pair of compensating dampers are also disposed in the ducts and operatively connected to the fresh food control for ganged operation with the thermostatic control. The dampers are constructed to only partially block airflow when in the fully closed position. In certain embodiments, selection of damper characteristics is easier than in other embodiments, and a method of selection is described.

Single evaporator, single fan combination refrigerator with independent

An aligning-securing apparatus has holding elements that are inserted in respective openings of a refrigerator cabinet and a refrigerator door. In the installed position, the apparatus maintains the door aligned relative to the refrigerator cabinet during installation of the door on the cabinet and releasably maintains the door against vertical movement during shipping of the refrigerator.

Aligning-securing apparatus for a refrigerator door

A gasket assembly for side-by-side doors of a household refrigerator-freezer has first and second cooperating gasket elements. Each gasket element is connected to a respective door of the refrigerator-freezer. Each gasket element has a magnet in a magnet chamber for sealing the doors one to the other and a longitudinally extending insulating chamber for contacting the refrigerator mullion and forming a seal between the respective door and the mullion, as is known in the art. The improved construction of this invention has a pair of elongated flanges, each connected to a respective insulating chamber. The flanges each extend from their respective gasket element toward the other gasket element in the closed position of the doors. Where a mullion is present, the flanges are each urged into contact with the mullion by their associated magnet for forming an improved seal. In the absence of a mullion, the flanges contact one another for sealing one gasket element to the other. The gasket elements each have a second longitudinally extending insulating chamber contacting the inner surface of the respective door for forming an improved, insulated seal.

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Louisville, KY, United States of America

Stephen G Boughton