Refrigerator freezer compartment floor cover assembly
CA 2013935 C · Owner: General Electric Company · Inventors: Beers, David Gardner; Jenkins, Thomas Edward
Overview
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A household refrigerator having a freezer compartment with a rear wall, top wall, side walls, bottom wall and an open front. An evaporator unit is mounted in a spate in front of the rear wall of the freezer compartment and there is a vertical panel separating the evaporator unit from the rest of the freezer compartment to form an evaporator compartment between the panel and rear wall. The bottom wall of the freezer compartment has a plurality of upwardly open grooves extending from the front section of the freezer compartment under the vertical panel and into the evaporator compartment. A cover is hingedly connected to the panel for movement to a raised position above the bottom wall for …
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- Filed April 5, 1990 and granted September 30, 1997. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 5, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 5, 2012.
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