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US 7,406,833 B2Granted
Refrigerator storage system
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsLawrence J. Ertz, Chad J. Rotter
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Abstract
A refrigerator comprising a fresh food compartment, a freezer compartment, a lower freezer drawer and an upper freezer bin. A primary set of glides allow the freezer drawer and the upper bin to be pulled out of the freezer compartment. A secondary set of glides mounts the upper bin onto the lower drawer for movement along the drawer, and back into the freezer compartment to allow access to the contents of the lower drawer.
Claims12
A refrigerator comprising:
- a fresh food compartment;
- a freezer compartment below the fresh food compartment;
- the freezer compartment having a bottom wall, side walls, a back wall;
- a lower freezer drawer including side walls having a top edge;
- a primary set of glides connected to the side walls of the freezer compartment and to the freezer drawer to allow the freezer drawer to be pulled forwardly out of the freezer compartment and to be pushed rearwardly into the freezer compartment;
- at least one upper freezer bin;
- and
- a secondary set of outer glides assemblies mounting the upper freezer bin on the lower freezer drawer and allowing the upper bin to be moved forwardly and rearwardly relative to the lower drawer;
- wherein each outer glide assembly includes an outer glide having at least a female track and a male member, a bin adaptor attached to the male member and having a support surface to support an upper freezer bin, and a glide retainer connecting the female track to the lower freezer drawer;
- and
- further wherein the at least one upper freezer bin engages two bin adaptor support surfaces to mount the at least one upper freezer bin on the lower freezer drawer.
8 more elements
A method of mounting a bottom storage system in a refrigerator freezer comprising the steps of:
- attaching a primary set of glides to a freezer drawer and to freezer side walls to support the drawer for movement into and out of the freezer;
- attaching a secondary set of outer glide assemblies to the freezer drawer to support an upper bin above the freezer drawer for forward or rearward movement on the freezer drawer including the steps, of snapping a bin adaptor to each outer glide;
- positioning each outer glide in a glide retainer and snapping each glide retainer and outer glide to the freezer drawer to retain the outer glides on the freezer drawer;
- and mounting the upper bin on the bin adaptors.
1 more element
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.