Refrigerator gasket assembly

A refrigerator comprising:

• a cabinet having an outer case and an inner liner, a storage compartment formed by said liner and having an access opening surrounded by a cabinet face portion;
• a door hingedly mounted along one of its edges for selectively closing said access opening, said door including a peripheral flange;
• an elongated gasket mounted on said door peripheral flange for sealing engagement with said cabinet face portion when said door closes said access opening;
• said gasket comprising an elongated body of co-extruded material including an elongated base wall mounted along said door flange, a contact wall overlying and spaced from said base wall for sealing engagement with said cabinet face portion, and a pair of spaced apart flexible side walls joining said base and contact walls and forming therewith a hollow interior containing compressible insulation material;
• said contact wall comprising alternate longitudinally extending strips of more rigid material and less rigid material;
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• each of said side walls is formed with an inwardly projecting offset in the general shape of a V with its apex inward of the junctions of that side wall with said base wall and said contact wall, and each of said side walls has a reduced thickness in the area of said apex of said V.