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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2005
Tim A. Bergmann, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Bradley Thomas Hebeler, Blue Grass, IA (US);
Douglas A. Pohl, Benttendorf, IA (US);
Tim A. Bergmann, Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Bradley Thomas Hebeler, Blue Grass, IA (US);
Douglas A. Pohl, Benttendorf, IA (US);
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A refrigerator includes a multiple slide crisper system. More specifically, a universal crisper pan and support frame for a refrigerator can be used with various, distinct glide arrangements, including friction, roller or ball bearing glides. For frictional sliding movement, crisper pan side walls slide directly upon molded inner rails on the frame. With the roller system, various rollers are fitted to a rear portion of the crisper pan through the use of pins, while commensurate rollers are mounted at front portions of the frame. When using ball bearing glides for a precision slide support, the glides are preferably mounted to the support frame at an acute angle to the axis of travel of the friction and roller glide systems.