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US 8,616,665 B2Granted
Door bin for a domestic refrigerator
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsMatthew G. Czach, Matthew E. Herr, Scott E. Roales, Michael S. Seeley
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Abstract
A door bin for a refrigerator includes a metallic main body, a first endcap positioned at a first side of the main body, a second endcap positioned at a second side of the main body, an upper rail connecting an upper front corner of the first endcap to an upper front corner of the second endcap, and a glass panel.
Claims19
A door bin for a domestic refrigerator comprising:
- an “L”-shaped metallic main body including a bottom wall and a rear wall extending upwardly from the bottom wall, wherein, at a lower front of the main body, the bottom wall has an upward-facing longitudinal channel defined therein sized to receive a panel,
- a first endcap positioned at a first side of the main body wherein, the first endcap includes a first vertical sidewall to removably couple the door bin in one or more positions within a door,
- a second endcap positioned at a second side of the main body,
- an upper rail connecting an upper front corner of the first endcap to an upper front corner of the second endcap, and
- a transparent panel disposed inside a region defined by the upward-facing longitudinal channel at the lower front of the main body, the first endcap, the second endcap, and the upper rail.
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A refrigerator door bin comprising:
- an “L”-shaped metallic main body including (i) a bottom wall having a front end and a rear end, (ii) a rear wall extending upwardly from the rear end of the bottom wall, and (iii) an upward-facing channel defined in the front end of the bottom wall,
- a first plastic endcap positioned on a first side of the main body, the first plastic endcap having a vertical channel defined therein,
- a second plastic endcap positioned on a second side of the main body, the second plastic endcap having a vertical channel defined therein,
- a metallic upper rail positioned between an upper front corner of the first plastic endcap and an upper front corner of the second plastic endcap, the upper rail having a downward-facing channel defined therein positioned above the upward-facing channel of the main body, and
- a transparent panel positioned in the upward-facing channel of the main body and the downward-facing channel of the upper rail, the vertical channel of the first plastic endcap, and the vertical channel of the second plastic endcap.
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A refrigerator door bin comprising:
- a main body formed of extruded aluminum, the main body including a substantially planar wall and an upward-facing longitudinal channel defined in a front end of the planar wall,
- a rear wall extending upwardly from a rear end of the planar wall,
- a first endcap secured to a first side of the main body, the first endcap including a first vertical sidewall to removably couple the door bin in one or more positions within a door, and a second vertical sidewall that is angled relative to the first vertical sidewall, the second vertical sidewall having a handle and an opening defined through the second vertical sidewall below the handle to receive a hand of a user,
- a second endcap secured to a second side of the main body,
- a rail secured to an upper front corner of the first endcap and to an upper front corner of the second endcap, the rail including a downward-facing longitudinal channel and being formed of extruded aluminum, and
- a transparent panel positioned in the upward-facing longitudinal channel of the main body and the downward-facing longitudinal channel of the rail.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.