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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 1993
Filed:
Jun. 03, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
David L Bien, Middleton, WI (US);
John J Jaschinski, Cross Plains, WI (US);
Assignee:
Sub-Zero Freezer Company, Inc., Madison, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
312404 ; 62344 ; 3124071 ;
Abstract
A refrigerator having a freezer compartment with a freezer door separated by a divider wall from a refrigerator compartment having a refrigerator door, an ice service area in the refrigerator compartment, an automatic ice dispenser within the freezer compartment for dispensing ice pieces, a passage in the divider wall for receiving the ice pieces from the dispenser and a chute assembly mounted on the divider wall in the refrigerator compartment for connecting the passage to the ice service area whereby ice pieces passing through the opening are directed to the service area by the chute assembly.