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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2005
Michael A. Bowen, Keystone, IA (US);
Lawrence J. Ertz, Amana, IA (US);
Bruce A. Kopf, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Michael A. Bowen, Keystone, IA (US);
Lawrence J. Ertz, Amana, IA (US);
Bruce A. Kopf, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A refrigerator having a forward projecting dispenser that extends forward a front panel of the door. The door has an outer door pan with an outer door cavity and an inner liner having an inner liner cavity. An ice chute may be placed through both the inner liner cavity and the outer door cavity to move ice to the forward projecting dispenser. The dispenser may have a housing that positions a control panel and water outlet forward the front panel. The dispenser may extend to the door handle of the refrigerator or beyond the handle. The distance the dispenser extends forward the front panel of the door is minimized using a slight diagonal rear side of the dispenser housing.