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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 26, 1996
Daniel Shanok, Warren, NJ (US);
William Shanok, New York, NY (US);
Joseph Limansky, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Victor Matias, Branchburg, NJ (US);
Silvatrim Associates, South Plainfield, NJ (US);
Abstract
A shelf assembly for refrigerators, freezers and the like including a glass shelf, an extruded edge trim wrapped around and enclosing the peripheral edges of the shelf, and a shelf supporting unit including a pair of side brackets connected together by spaced apart front and rear bars, the edge trim having a U-shaped construction for receiving the peripheral edges of the shelf therein, so that the edge trim provides a rectangular frame arrangement around the shelf to form a raised dam barrier adjacent the peripheral edges of the shelf to prevent any spilled liquid from running off an upper surface of the shelf, thus making the shelf spillproof. Cut-out securement openings are provided in the shelf edge trim to receive the front and rear bars therein, one of the bars being hooked in one pair of cut-outs, and the other one of the bars being snapped into the other pair of cut-outs. In one modified embodiment, a sealing fin of soft, resilient, flexible and deformable material is provided longitudinally along an upper free end of the U-shaped edge trim to provide a tight seal between the edge trim and the shelf.