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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 1981
Filed:
Oct. 11, 1979
William J Buchser, Marrs Township, Posey County, IN (US);
Ralph Tate, Center Township, Vanderburgh County, IN (US);
Charles W Haag, Center Township, Vanderburgh County, IN (US);
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A french door refrigerator seal having vertically extending seal elements on the juxtaposed edges of the french doors defining an air space therebetween. Closure seals are provided at the upper and lower ends of the edge seals to close the air space and thereby define an insulative dead air space between the french door edge portions when the doors are in the closed position. The closure seals illustratively may be formed as overlapping flexible flaps carried by the vertical edge seal elements which illustratively may form pairs of flexible flaps.