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US 8,894,167 B2Granted
Refrigerator
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsDaesung Lee, Seonkyu Kim, Woonkyu Seo
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Abstract
A refrigerator is provided with an easily removable basket at an inside of a pull-out door. The refrigerator includes a pull-out door for opening or closing a storage chamber of the refrigerator, rail assemblies mounted in the storage chamber, a frame coupled to the pull-out door and mounted to the rail assemblies to be pulled out from the storage chamber while supported by the rail assemblies, and at least one basket seated on the frame, the basket including at least one handle to take the basket out from the frame.
Claims14
A refrigerator comprising:
- a cabinet having an upper storage chamber and a lower storage chamber;
- a pull-out door to open or close the lower storage chamber;
- a pair of rail assemblies mounted in the lower storage chamber at lower portions of side walls of the lower storage chamber;
- a frame coupled to a lower portion of the pull-out door and mounted to the rail assemblies to be pulled out from the lower storage chamber while supported by the rail assemblies, the frame comprising a bottom wall and a separation wall protruded from the bottom wall;
- a pair of baskets removably seated on the bottom wall of the frame;
- and
- a pair of handles pivotably mounted at a top rim of the basket, to enable a user to lift and take out the basket with one hand, a support portion being provided at the top rim of the basket;
- and
- a plurality of air holes formed in the side walls of the basket through which cold air passes,
- wherein an access space is provided over the rail assembly so that the basket may be taken out from the bottom wall of the frame laterally when the pull-out door is opened.
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A refrigerator comprising:
- a pivotable door provided at one side of a body of the refrigerator, to open or close an upper storage chamber defined in the body of the refrigerator;
- a drawer type door to open or close a lower storage chamber defined in the body of the refrigerator;
- a pair of rail assemblies mounted at a level corresponding to ⅓ or less of an inner height of the lower storage chamber;
- a support base coupled to the pair of rail assemblies at one side of each rail assembly, to be supported by the rail assemblies in a manner in which the support base can be pulled out of the lower storage chamber, the support base, a bottom wall and a separation wall formed at a central portion of the support base;
- a pair of portable food containers separably installed on the bottom wall of support base;
- a pair of handles pivotably mounted at a top rim of the food container, to enable a user to lift and take out the food container with one hand;
- and
- a plurality of air holes formed at upper portions of the side walls of the food container through which cold air passes,
- wherein upper and side portions of the support base provide a take-out space allowing take-out of the food container in an open state of the drawer type door.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.