A - Human Necessities – 47 – B
Patent
A - Human Necessities
47
B
312/82.6
A47B 81/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1260525
REFRIGERATOR CABINET AND GASKET CONSTRUCTION ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A refrigerator cabinet including a storage compartment having an access opening surrounded by a face portion of magnetic material. A door is hingedly mounted on said cabinet for closing and opening said access opening. The door comprises an outer panel and an inner panel, said panels having thermal insulation therebetween. There is provided a sealing gasket of resilient material mounted on the door adjacent the peripheral edges and including a base portion and a cabinet engaging portion integrally joined to the base portion and including a magnet to provide the sole means for holding the door in a closed position. The base portion has a web parallel to the door and also has an upwardly extending rigid projection with a terminal end intermediate the ends of the web. The cabinet engaging portion has a web spaced from and resiliently joined to both ends of the base portion and having the magnet retained in a cavity at the front end of the cabinet engaging portion and a support member having a top, bottom, front and rear wall located behind the magnet cavity. The support member extends below and forward of the terminal end of the base portion upstanding projection when the door is in its open position and spaced from the base portion upstanding projection a distance such that upon closing the door the rear wall of the support member may engaged the rigid projection and urge the magnetic means retained in the cavity across of the face portion.
510457
Company General Electric
Eckersley Raymond A.
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