Adjustable ice bin capacity in a refrigerator appliance
AssigneeHaier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
InventorsBrian Culley, Scott Edward Roales
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Abstract
A refrigerator appliance includes a cabinet defining a chilled chamber, a door assembly rotatably mounted to the cabinet to provide selective access to the chilled chamber, an icemaker operably coupled to the chilled chamber and configured for forming ice, and a drawer assembly. The drawer assembly includes a drawer frame comprising a front wall, a rear wall, and a bottom wall, wherein the drawer frame at least partially defines an ice reservoir for storing the ice from the icemaker, a partition mounted within the drawer frame and being slidable along the lateral direction, and one or more locating features defined on at least one of the front wall or the rear wall.
Claims20
A refrigerator appliance defining a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and transverse direction, comprising:
- a cabinet defining a chilled chamber;
- a door assembly rotatably mounted to the cabinet to provide selective access to the chilled chamber;
- an icemaker operably coupled to the chilled chamber and configured for forming ice;
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- a drawer assembly comprising:
- a drawer frame comprising a front wall, a rear wall, and a bottom wall, wherein the drawer frame at least partially defines an ice reservoir for storing the ice from the icemaker;
- a partition mounted within the drawer frame and being slidable along the lateral direction;
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- one or more locating features defined on at least one of the front wall or the rear wall.
A drawer assembly for a refrigerator appliance, the refrigerator appliance comprising an icemaker operably coupled to a chilled chamber and configured for forming ice, the drawer assembly comprising:
- a drawer frame comprising a front wall, a rear wall, and a bottom wall, wherein the drawer frame at least partially defines an ice reservoir for storing the ice from the icemaker;
- a partition mounted within the drawer frame and being slidable along the lateral direction;
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- one or more locating features defined on at least one of the front wall or the rear wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.