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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 1996
Filed:
Jul. 11, 1994
Scott A Calvert, Louisville, KY (US);
Frank S Pang, Louisville, KY (US);
William J Armstrong, Louisville, KY (US);
General Electric Company, Louisville, KY (US);
Abstract
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.