US 2013/0278126 A1Published application

Refrigerator

AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

InventorsMyoung Jin JANG, Chul Woo Kim, Sung Cheul Park

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Abstract

A refrigerator having an improved structure of a storage box and a shelf thereof so as to achieve increased space utilization of a storage compartment. The storage box may have slide protrusions respectively formed on both of outer side-faces of the storage box at a lower portion thereof to allow the storage box to be slidably retracted in or extended from the storage compartment. The shelf may have a support structure to support food thereon and slide grooves respectively formed above both sides of the support structure, each groove receiving the corresponding slide protrusion of the storage box. When the storage box is mounted on the shelf, food may be put in the inner space of the storage box, whereas when the storage box is dismounted from the shelf, a food storage space may be present on the support structure of the shelf.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A refrigerator comprising:

a body;
a storage compartment defined in a body;
a door to open or close an open front of the storage compartment;
a storage box having an inner space to store food;
and
a shelf having a support structure to support food thereon, and protrusion-receiving shelf portions respectively extending along edges of both sides of the support structure and protruding from the support structure,
wherein the storage box has slide protrusions respectively formed on both outer side-faces of the storage box at a lower portion thereof, and each of the protrusion-receiving shelf portions has a slide groove to receive the corresponding slide protrusion of the storage box, so that the storage box is able to be slidably mounted on or dismounted from the protrusion-receiving shelf portions of the shelf, and
wherein, when the storage box is mounted on the protrusion-receiving shelf portions of the shelf, food is put in the inner space of the storage box, whereby when the storage box is dismounted from the frames of the shelf, food is put on the support structure of the shelf.

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A refrigerator comprising:

a body;
a storage compartment defined in the body;
a door pivotally coupled to the body so as to open or close an open front of the storage compartment;
a storage box having slide protrusions respectively formed on both outer side-faces of the storage box at a lower portion thereof to allow the storage box to be slidably retracted in and mounted onto the storage compartment or to be slidably extended and dismounted from the storage compartment;
protrusion-receiving units respectively provided on both inner side-faces of the storage compartment to respectively receive the slide protrusions of the storage box,
wherein, the protrusion-receiving units are provided separately with the storage compartment.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.