Refrigerator with tiltable drawer
AssigneeDongbu Daewoo Electronics Corporation
InventorJun Wan Kang
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Abstract
A refrigerator including a tiltable storage drawer. Guide units are disposed at opposite side walls of the storage drawer and include a pair of guide rails and guide projections extending upward from the guide rails. The drawer is installed with a pair of continuous tilting ribs having portions with different inclination orientations, which enable the drawer to be tilted at two tilting angles when the drawer is pulled outward from the housing along the guide rails. The drawer in an extended state can be automatically pushed into a retracted position in the refrigerator by the motion of the refrigerator door.
Claims11
A refrigerator comprising:
- a housing comprising:
- a door;
- and opposite side walls;
- guide units respectively coupled to the opposite side walls and comprising:
- a pair of guide rails;
- and guide projections extending upward from the pair of guide rails respectively;
- and
- a drawer coupled to the guide units and comprising a pair of tilting ribs configured to enable the drawer to tilt when the drawer is pulled outward from the housing along the pair of guide rails to an extended position,
- wherein each of the pair of tilting ribs comprises:
- a first horizontal portion extending horizontally with reference to the refrigerator when the drawer is at a retracted position;
- a second horizontal portion extending horizontally with reference to the refrigerator when the drawer is at the retracted position and positioned to be higher than the first horizontal portion;
- and
- an inclined portion disposed between the first horizontal portion and the second horizontal portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.