General Electric Company

Thomas M Hahn

Thomas E Jenkins

Donald S Cushing

Ivar Lohmus

George T Sholtes

David E Oakley

An arrangement for stabilizing the in and out movement of a dishwasher dishrack which produces a precise guidance of the rack during its movement, including a stabilizer axle mounted to the rack and extending normally to the direction of movement. Friction rollers are fixed at either end of the stabilizer axle, spring-biased into engagement with an interior surface of the dishwasher cabinet, the constrained simultaneous rotation of each wheel serving to precisely control the movement and attitude of the rack during in and out movement. The spring-bias also preloads the rack mounting components to provide a vertical stabilizing effect. The stabilizer axle is mounted to specially configured rear corner brackets, housing spring-biased plungers which rotatably mount the axle, while producing the upward biasing thereof.

Stabilizing arrangement for movably mounted drawer or rack

A transition sleeve for a double wall structure such as a refrigerator cabinet used to pass tubing or the like through juxtaposed apertures formed therein. The sleeve includes a unitary tubular body of relatively rigid material having a plurality of radially extending integral locking tabs at one end thereof for securing to one of the refrigerator walls through a complementary apertured opening. The tabs have camming faces formed thereon to facilitate rotation about the opening after being inserted therethrough. On a radially extending plane offset from the locking tabs are a plurality of equiangularly disposed stop pads which positively locate the rotational position of the sleeve on the wall. The longitudinal ends of the body include annular flanges which are flared outwardly to sealingly engage the walls perimetrically of the apertures on the cavity side thereof. The tubing is sealed to the core of the sleeve by the use of gum or the like.

Transition sleeve for a cabinet or the like

A heat exchanger for refrigerator evaporators of the type consisting of helically coiled refrigerant-carrying tubing with radially inward extending fins formed along the length of the coiled tubing, with the air to be refrigerated directed across the axis of the coil turns. The coil turns are skewed from the helix angle to expose a greater proportion of the fins into the air flow path between the coil turns so as to increase the air flow contact with the fins. The skewing is created by relatively offsetting opposite portions of the coil turns along the air flow path across the helical coil to increase the obliqueness of a portion of each coil turn with respect to the direction of air flow. The tube coil includes sections folded into a side-by-side relationship, with the skew direction of the coil sections placed in reverse orientations to increase the length of the flow path of the air circulated through the coils and to position gaps between each of the coil turns in either section opposite the areas in the other coil section occupied by radial fins.

Skewed turn coiled tube heat exchanger for refrigerator evaporators

A unitary transition sleeve for a double-wall structure such as a refrigerator cabinet used to pass tubing or the like through juxtaposed apertures formed therein. The sleeve includes a tubular body of relatively rigid material having a plurality of radially extending integral flanges formed at each end therof for sealing engagement with each of said walls. The sleeve is adapted to be rotationally secured to one of said walls by means of a plurality of radially exending integral locking tabs projecting from one end thereof. Each of the tabs have a camming face formed thereon to facilitate rotation during assembly. The sleeve includes a plurality of equi-angularly disposed and radially extending detents which positively locate the rotational position of the sleeve in the wall to which it is secured. The annular flanges are flared axially in the direction of the walls to which they engage such that a moisture tight seal is provided about both juxtaposed openings in the walls simultaneously with the mounting of the sleeve. Thumb tabs are also provided to facilitate rotation of the sleeve during the mounting operation. The tubing is sealed to the core of the sleeve by the use of gum or the like.

Cabinet transition sleeve

A pump and motor assembly for a dishwasher including a food particle macerating means having a cutting arm attached to a helically-wound column. The cutting arm coacts with a grid-like grading element to macerate food particles to reduce them to a size where they will be removed in fluid suspension with an initial rinse liquid in the dishwasher. The food particle macerating device is capable of riding over or slipping around unmacerable food particles, such as particles of bone, without damage to itself or to associated elements of the pump-motor assembly. The macerating device further serves to dislodge unmacerable particles from the grading element, urging them into a trap provided for their collection.

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Louisville, KY, United States of America

Thomas M Hahn