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US 2014/0196493 A1Published application
Refrigerator appliance
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorAlan Joseph Mitchell
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Abstract
A refrigerator appliance is provided. The refrigerator appliance includes an ice maker and a container. The ice maker directs ice into a storage volume of the container. The container is removably positioned within a fresh food chamber of the refrigerator appliance. A valve is mounted to the container and configured for regulating a flow of liquid out of the storage volume of the container.
Claims20
A refrigerator appliance, comprising:
- a cabinet defining a fresh food chamber and a freezer chamber;
- an ice maker disposed within the fresh food chamber or the freezer chamber of said cabinet;
- a container defining a storage volume for receipt of ice produced by said ice maker, said container removably positioned within the fresh food chamber of said cabinet;
- a valve mounted to said container, said valve configured for selective adjustment between an open configuration in which said valve permits a flow of liquid out the storage volume of said container and a closed configuration in which said valve hinders the flow of liquid out of the storage volume of said container, said valve configured for shifting between the open and closed configurations when said container is removed from and inserted into the fresh food chamber of said cabinet.
1 more element
A refrigerator appliance, comprising:
- a cabinet defining a fresh food chamber and a freezer chamber;
- a door rotatably mounted to said cabinet for permitting selective access to the fresh food chamber of said cabinet;
- an ice maker disposed on said door within the fresh food chamber of said cabinet;
- a container removably positioned on said door, said container defining a storage volume and an opening, the storage volume of said container configured for receipt of ice produced by said ice maker, the opening of said container configured for directing a flow of liquid out of the storage volume of said container;
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- a valve mounted to said container at the opening of said container, said valve configured for regulating a flow of liquid out the storage volume of said container such that said valve permits the flow of liquid out of the storage volume of said container through the opening of said container when said container is positioned on said door and said valve hinders the flow of liquid out of the storage volume of said container through the opening of said container when said container is removed from said door.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.