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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 06, 1994
Thomas E Jenkins, Louisville, KY (US);
Charles R Mulligan, Louisville, KY (US);
Duane Jubenville, Louisville, KY (US);
General Electric Company, Louisville, KY (US);
Abstract
A refrigerator has a cabinet with an outer case and an inner liner. The liner forms a storage compartment with an access opening. A cabinet face portion surrounds the opening and a door selectively closes the compartment. The door includes a flange which overlaps the face portion and a gasket mounted on the flange engages face portion. The gasket is an elongated body of a co-extruded material and includes a base wall of a rigid material mounted on the door frame, a contact wall spaced from the base wall for sealing engagement with the face portion and a pair of side walls connecting the base and contact walls to form a hollow interior. The contact wall includes a pair of spaced apart elongated strips of more rigid material connected by an elongated strip of less rigid material. The less rigid strip has an elongated outward projecting bow shape. The side walls are indented in a 'V' shape and the apex of the V has a reduced thickness. A strip of fiber glass, with a net like backing on one side, is in the interior of the gasket.