Handle for refrigeration unit door
AssigneeTrue Manufacturing Co., Inc.
InventorRobert J. Trulaske, Sr.
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Abstract
This recessed handle (10) may find particular use for refrigeration units, such as freezers and coolers, and includes a front wall (14) having a cut-out wall portion (30) bent to extend inwardly about a bend line (42) to leave a compatibly configurated opening (50). The handle (10) includes an outer frame member (32) for the opening (50) and an inner frame member (34) for the cut-out wall portion (30). The frame members (32 and 34) cooperate to provide a re-entrantly formed portion opposite the bend line (42) providing a finger hold and the frame members are connected by threaded fasteners (94).
Claims7
A recessed handle for a refrigeration unit door, comprising:
- (a) a front wall having a planar surface and including a wall portion defined by a bend line, an upper margin, a lower margin and a connecting margin disposed in spaced relation from the bend line, said wall portion being cut from the front wall and bent inwardly about the bend line out of the plane of the front wall to provide an opening having an upper margin, a lower margin and a connecting margin extending between the upper and lower margin to provide an inner recess wall,
- (b) framing means including an outer frame having a bight portion disposed adjacent the opening connecting margin, an upper arm portion disposed adjacent the opening upper margin and a lower arm portion disposed adjacent the opening lower margin, and an inner frame having a bight portion disposed adjacent the wall portion connecting margin, an upper arm portion disposed adjacent the wall portion upper margin and a lower arm portion disposed adjacent the wall portion lower margin, and
- (c) means connecting said inner and outer frames.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.