Dispensing assembly for top mount refrigerator
AssigneeMaytag Corporation
InventorsDouglas A. Pohl, Virgil R. Thompson
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AssigneeMaytag Corporation
InventorsDouglas A. Pohl, Virgil R. Thompson
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A top mount refrigerator having a freezer door pivotally mounted to a cabinet at a position spaced above a fresh food compartment door is provided with a dispenser assembly mounted in the freezer door. A water supply line for the dispenser assembly is routed to the freezer door through a center hinge unit for the two doors. In the preferred embodiment, the water supply line, which preferably leads from a water storage tank housed within the fresh food compartment, is routed to the center hinge unit through a lower hinge unit upon which the fresh food door is pivotally mounted and a conduit that is foamed in-situ within the fresh food door. In models incorporating a dispenser assembly requiring a supply of electrical power, wires are lead into the freezer door through an upper hinge unit associated with the freezer door.
A top mount refrigerator cabinet assembly comprising:
In a refrigerator having an upper freezer compartment adapted to be sealed by a freezer door pivotally mounted through an upper hinge unit and a central hinge unit and a lower fresh food compartment adapted to be sealed by a refrigerator door pivotally mounted through a lower hinge unit and the central hinge unit, a dispensing assembly comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.