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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2007
Justin T. Brown, Louisville, KY (US);
Brian Henninger, LaGrange, KY (US);
Philip Ames Barber, Louisville, KY (US);
Vern Alden Neal, Louisville, KY (US);
Justin T. Brown, Louisville, KY (US);
Brian Henninger, LaGrange, KY (US);
Philip Ames Barber, Louisville, KY (US);
Vern Alden Neal, Louisville, KY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of opening an appliance door includes translating the door up and away from a unit so as to clear a lower edge of a physical constraint, thus allowing for gaps to be minimized, further translating the appliance door out so that its handle would not make contact with an adjacent door should the adjacent door be closed or opened while the appliance door is opened, thus allowing the appliance door to be lowered when the same is fully opened in order to increase the usable height and to reduce the gaps below and above the appliance door.