Refrigerator shelving assembly
AssigneeMaytag Corporation
InventorRoger E. Hamilton
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Abstract
A refrigerator shelf includes a glass platform having an encapsulating rim which is integrally formed with a pair of downwardly extending wing members, each having a transverse threaded hole formed therein. A projection member, including an elongated shaft having a threaded section spaced from a tip portion, is provided for each wing member. The threaded section is threadably received in the hole of a respective wing member. The shelf is adapted to be slidably supported upon side wall rails of a refrigerator liner, with the tip portion of each projection member extending beneath a respective one of the rails, thereby preventing tipping of the shelf. The tip portion is also adapted to engage structure on the rail in order to limit the permissible degree of sliding movement of the shelf along the rails.
Claims20
A refrigerator comprising:
- a cabinet shell;
- a liner disposed in the cabinet shell, said liner including opposing, fore-to-aft extending, side walls defining, at least in part, a food storage compartment;
- at least first and second rails extending fore-to-aft across the opposing side walls respectively, said first and second rails including top surfaces extending in a substantially common plane;
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- a shelf including a platform, a peripheral rim extending about at least a portion of the platform, at least one wing member depending from the peripheral rim, and a shaft member, said shelf being slidably supported upon the first and second rails with the at least one wing member extending below the top surface of one of the first and second rails, said shaft member being movably attached to the at least one wing member to shift said shaft member, relative to said at least one wing member, beneath the top surface of said one of the first and second rails to limit tipping of the shelf.
A refrigerator shelf comprising:
- a platform;
- a peripheral rim extending about at least a portion of the platform;
- at least one wing member depending from the peripheral rim;
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- a shaft member, said shelf being adapted to be slidably supported upon first and second side wall rails within a refrigerator compartment, with the at least one wing member extending below a top surface of one of the first and second rails, said shaft member being movably attached to the at least one wing member and being adapted to shift, relative to said at least one wing member, beneath the top surface of one of the first and second rails to limit tipping of the shelf.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.