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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 1979
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1977
Edward H Roberts, Jeffersontown, KY (US);
General Electric Company, Louisville, KY (US);
Abstract
An arrangement for mounting hinge pin sockets within cabinet doors, particularly adaptable to reversible door refrigerators, including an anchor plate frictionally secured within each door corner, and formed with a hole pattern for receiving threaded fasteners used to mount the cabinet door handles and the door stop with a common hole location allowing a reverse assembly of the door handle and the door stop on either side of the cabinet door. The anchor plates serve to mount a hinge pin socket at each corner of the door, the sockets extending into opposed lateral sides of the cabinet door in corresponding location to reversibly mounted hinge pin assemblies secured to the cabinet. The hinge pin sockets are mounted to the anchor plates by a thread mount comprised of an external thread formed on each hinge pin socket engaging a pair of threading strips formed on each anchor plate, the threading strips extending radially inward with an intermediate space therebetween aligned with clearance bores in the door edge and the anchor plate. The hinge pin sockets are driven at assembly into the anchor plates by a tool drive recess formed at one end of the hinge pin receiving bore in each of the hinge pin sockets.