Maytag Corporation

Whirlpool Corporation

Mile High Equipment Company

Other

Kinze Manufacturing, Inc.

Whirlpool Corporaton

Todd E Kniffen

Michael J Eveland

Timothy Mark Nugent

John Frank Zinni

Ravi Kumar Sawhney

Bill J Koons

Steven G Herndon

David J Olberding

Tim L Coulter

Joseph R Adamski

Lou Montuoro

John H Tenhundfeld

Jason Colsch

David Thalacker

Glenn E Goetz

Brett Vladika

Eric S Svenby

Dennis E Winders

James H Jenkins

Forrest F Wing

Robert J Alvarez

James J Wilson

Clinton O Schahrer

Duane D Flim

Scott E Bredesen

Scott William Leimkuehler

Thomas Edward Gose

Lawrence J Ertz

Jonathan J Tiemeier

Roger K Bush

J Michael Nurre

Tamara Kappler

Robert Pohl

Pawan Mansukhlal Gandhi

Matthew J Wilhelmi

Dustan Lee Hahn

David Allen Stauffer

Ravi K Sawhney

Rhett Schildroth

Merlan J Rolffs

Courtney N Achen

Marvin Bachman

Michael J Myers

John J Pink

Ryan Legge

John P Mulherin

Raymond J Chekal

Tim A Bergmann

Doug A Heims

Bret Vladika

Ravi Kumar Wahney

A bottom mount household refrigerator is provided with an apparatus to permit the dispensing of ice. According to one embodiment, a sealed ice making compartment is provided within the fresh food compartment. The sealed ice making compartment may be located at the bottom, at the top, or along a side wall within the fresh food compartment. According to another embodiment, ice is made in the ice compartment, and lifted upward to a dispensing location through the door of the fresh food compartment.

Apparatus and method for dispensing ice from a bottom mount refrigerator

A bottom mount refrigerator is provided with a pantry compartment that is accessible from outside the refrigerator by pulling open an easy access pantry drawer without the need to first open the fresh food compartment or the freezer compartment. A divider between the pantry compartment and the fresh food compartment is formed by a secondary mullion and a transparent shelf. The secondary mullion is provided with a light source for illuminating the contents of the pantry drawer. A light source at the rear of the pantry compartment shines generally forwardly and upwardly to illuminate the fresh food compartment.

Refrigerator with easy access drawer

An agricultural planter includes a plurality of row units attached to a toolbar. The row units include seed meters for receiving, singulating, and dispensing seed or other particulate. The seed meters include a circular seed disc with a seed path for receiving the seed in the seed meter housing. Integrated with the seed disc is a motor that is housed within the seed meter housing and that includes a rotatable portion being attached to the circular disc such that the two rotate in tandem. The integrated motor can be positioned within an interior portion of the circular seed disc such that the width of the disc and motor combination is kept to a minimum.

Seed disc with integrated drive

The invention relates generally to an articulating drawer for a bottom mount freezer refrigerator. The drawer can be slidably mounted in the freezer compartment on slides that can include pivots to pivotally mount a drawer front on the slides. A support mechanism can mount a food storage basket for movement with the drawer front and movable slides and can move the food storage basket upward when the door is moved to the open position. The support mechanism can include a pair of guide plates connected to the slides having a guide surface arranged to be engaged by a food storage basket guide surface follower and a pair of links each connected to the drawer front at one end and having a first link pivot at a distal end arranged to pivotally connect to a food storage basket pivot.

Articulated freezer drawers

The invention relates generally to an articulating drawer for a bottom mount freezer refrigerator. The drawer can be slideably mounted in the freezer compartment on slides that can include pivots to pivotally mount a drawer front on the slides. A support mechanism can mount a food storage basket for movement with the drawer front and movable slides and can move the food storage basket upward when the door is moved to the open position. The support mechanism can include a pair of guide plates connected to the slides having a guide surface arranged to be engaged by a food storage basket guide surface follower and a pair of links each connected to the drawer front at one end and having a first link pivot at a distal end arranged to pivotally connect to a food storage basket pivot.

An extending vertical wall secures to the rear edge of a shelf assembly inside a refrigerator compartment. The vertical wall comprises a vertical panel with two downwardly protruding legs. The legs removably reside within sockets included in the rear edge of the refrigerator shelf assembly. When the vertical wall is attached to the refrigerator shelf assembly, the vertical wall prevents items placed on the shelf from toppling off the back edge of the shelf assembly. At the user's discretion, the vertical wall may be quickly and easily removed from the shelf assembly. In an alternative embodiment, the wall is a formed retainer having an inserted U-shape such that the legs are received in the shelf sockets.

Upright rear wall extension for refrigerator shelves

A refrigerator water filter assembly is provided in the ceiling of a refrigerator and is adapted to hinge downwardly from the ceiling for changing the filter cartridge. The cartridge is normally partially recessed within the ceiling so as to minimize the use of space in the food compartment of the refrigerator. The filter assembly includes a base mounted in the refrigerator ceiling, a manifold pivotally mounted on the base, a filter cartridge attached to the manifold, and a cover pivotally mounted on the manifold so as to be movable between open and closed positions. When the cover is opened, the filter cartridge is angled downwardly from the ceiling for easy grasping by a person for replacement of the cartridge.

Method for accessing a hinge down refrigerator water filter

A bottom mount household refrigerator is provided with an ice dispenser in the fresh food door to dispense ice from a sealed ice making compartment within the fresh food compartment. A conveyor carries ice from a storage bin in the ice compartment to the dispenser.

Ice maker and dispenser for a bottom mount refrigerator

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Williamsburg, IA, United States of America

Todd E Kniffen