Refrigerator cabinet incorporating a plastic kickface
CA 2270237 C · Owner: Myers, John P. · Inventors: Wolanin, Gerald L.; Myers, John P.; Mandel, Sheldon W.
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A plastic kickface, that consolidates a conventional metal face plate and a plastic kickplate extends across a lowermost frontal portion of a shell of a refrigerator cabinet assembly. At least one lower door hinge bracket is secured to reinforcement structure of the cabinet shell by fasteners that extend through tubular spacers located in holes formed in the plastic kickface. Provisions are made for creating a seal along a lower section of a door of the refrigerator cabinet assembly by interconnecting the kickface with a sealing strip that is adapted to be engaged by a section of an annular gasket attached to the door of the refrigerator cabinet assembly. When the door incorporates a …
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- Filed April 27, 1999 and granted April 22, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 27, 2019.
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