Labyrinth door seal for a refrigerator
CA 2111066 C · Owner: Banicevic, Nedo · Inventors: Banicevic, Nedo; Pettit, Doug James
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A novel refrigerator door liner construction and sealing gasket provides an improvement in the insulating value of a refrigerator door in the area immediately, adjacent the gasket. The door liner is arranged to have a raised abutment adjacent a flat sealing portion of the gasket. The door liner almost abuts an adjacent surface of a refrigerator cabinet liner when the door is closed so as to, effectively form a labyrinth seal with the gasket sealing portion between the door, liner and the cabinet liner. The labyrinth seal provided between the door liner, and refrigerator cabinet liner reduces the heat stress on the gasket and improves, the overall efficiency of the refrigerator.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed December 9, 1993 and granted March 13, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 9, 2013.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by December 9, 2015.
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