Foam-insulated side-by-side refrigerator
AssigneeCanadian General Electric Company Limited
InventorRaymond Robert Sherburn
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Abstract
In a side by side refrigerator-freezer appliance, thermal leakage between the compartments is reduced by forming the liners separately for each compartment, but without the partition wall. Adjacent edges of the liners are spaced apart and desirably out-turned to form a truncated V groove. A partition wall is separately formed and foam insulated; edges of the partition are upset to form a tongue slidable along the groove whereby the partition is retained in position.
Claims6
In a combined refrigerating freezing appliance having two compartments with a common vertical partition wall, an improved means of reducing undesired thermal flow between said compartments, said means comprising:
- a separate liner for each compartment, each of said liners having a top, bottom, rear, and outer side wall;
- said liners being positioned in an encasing shell and spaced therefrom, with foam insulation material in the space between said liners and the shell, adjacent edges of said liners being spaced apart;
- a separate partition wall including a pair of opposed, spaced apart sheet members havng spaced apart adjacent edges, with foam insulation material between said sheet members;
- complimentary channel and tongue means along the spaced apart adjacent edges of said liner and said partition wall, said complimentary channel and tongue being in the form of a truncated V;
- whereby said partition wall maybe slidably positioned to divide said appliance into the two compartments with neither of said partition wall sheet members or portions thereof being common to both compartments.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.