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AssigneeWhite Consolidated Industries, Inc.
InventorsGunnar Alvring, Kenneth Anderson, Per-Olof Lindqvist, Andrew Moseley, Bo Nilsson
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A locking handle for a refrigerator includes a mounting element rigidly secured to a refrigerator door, a hand grip rigidly secured to the mounting element, and a latch attached to the mounting element. The latch has a catch movable between a locked position and an unlocked position and an actuator operably connected to the catch for moving the catch from the locked position to the unlocked position. The latch provides a positive lock which is actuated to an unlocked position with a manipulation separate from pulling the hand grip but has an actuator located near the hand grip so that it can be manipulated by a hand grasping and pulling the hand grip. In a first embodiment, the catch is integrally molded with the mounting portion and is laterally deflectable away from a retainer mounted beside the door. In a second embodiment the catch is a vertically extending spindle which is downwardly movable away from a retainer mounted above the door.
A refrigerator comprising:
The refrigerator according to claimed 1, wherein said latch includes a spring element resiliently biasing said spindle to the locked position.
A refrigerator comprising;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.