General Electric Company

William J Armstrong

Richard A Stich

Scott A Calvert

Donald G Falk

Frank S Pang

A shelf assembly for a refrigerator with a pair of ladder tracks secured the rear wall of a storage compartment includes a pair of supports with bases secured to the tracks. Each shelf support includes a vertical wall extending forwardly from the track and a flange projecting inwardly of the vertical wall. A rectilinear shelf member has front, rear and side edges and a rim structure encapsulates the edges of the shelf and includes a pair of slide portions which are positioned below the side edges of the shelf member and are slidably supported on the flanges. Each flange includes a downwardly extending inner edge and each rim slide portion projects downwardly adjacent and then outwardly under the corresponding flange inner edge. The shelf member has a planar upper surface and the rim structure closely overlaps the shelf member edges to restrain flow of spilt liquid between the shelf member and the rim.

Sliding and spill proof cantilever shelf

A compartment assembly for a refrigerator comprising a panel on the inside of a refrigerator door, the panel having a recess area with a rear wall, a top wall and at least two spaced apart vertical dikes directed outwardly from the rear wall. The recess area has at the bottom an inwardly directed lip and the dikes have a side wall and a front face with the front face having a slot. There is a tray having a bottom wall, an integrally formed rear wall, front wall, and side walls, with the side walls each having a flange projecting outwardly perpendicular to the side walls and each of the flanges have a rearwardly projecting hook shaped element parallel to the side walls. The tray has a length such that the hook shaped elements cooperate with the slots in the vertical dikes for engagement and a horizontal depth such that the front wall projects outwardly from the dikes and the rear wall extends to the rear wall of the recess and rests on the projecting lip. A cover having a body portion and end portions is pivotally secured at the end portions to the side walls of the tray.

Compartment assembly for a refrigerator

A container and ice cube tray assembly to store a plurality of relatively small similarly shaped items with easy user manual access. The container has a corrugated bottom wall and two spaced apart side walls integrally connected to the bottom wall and terminating at the top thereof in an outwardly directed flange. Located near the junction of the side walls and outwardly directed flanges is a longitudinal groove extending therealong. The container has two spaced apart end walls, said end walls integrally connected to the bottom and side walls and extend up the side walls a substantial distance and each has a terminal end extending in a horizontal plane parallel to the bottom wall the full width of the container to allow user manual access from either end of the container to the small items stored in the container. The end walls have a flange extending outwardly from the terminal ends and the side walls have outwardly directed flanges connecting the end wall flanges and the top flanges of the side walls to rigidify the container.

Container and ice cube tray assembly

A refrigerator having a freezer compartment with a primary door and an automatic motor-driven ice dispenser within the freezing compartment. The ice dispenser includes an ice mold, an ice ejecting arrangement, a receptacle for receiving ice pieces from the mold, and a rotatable dispensing means positioned within the receptacle for moving the ice pieces through the receptacle and discharging the ice pieces from an opening in the receptacle. There is provided a passage through the primary door for receiving the ice pieces from the receptacle outlet when the primary door is closed. A recess is in communication with the passage and has an opening in the exterior surface of the primary door. The recess has a secondary door hingedly secured to the primary door that seals the opening on the exterior surface of the primary door. An arrangement for actuating the dispenser cooperates with the secondary door to energize that dispenser during the opening of the secondary door whereupon ice pieces are delivered through the receptacle outlet, the primary door passage, and into the recess.

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Louisville, KY, United States of America

William J Armstrong