Patent ID: 9423167
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: F25C,F25D

Claim Text:
1. A refrigerator comprising: a cabinet; a door attached to the cabinet, the door having a front panel and an inner liner; an opening through the liner for receiving ice from an ice storage area; an ice chute in the door in operable connection with the opening for transporting ice received through the opening to an ice receiving area; and an ice dispenser attached to the door and engaging the ice chute, and terminating in an outlet for discharging ice into a container positioned in the ice receiving area beneath the outlet; a food storage area on the inner liner directly behind the ice receiving area; and a seal between the ice storage area and the ice chute; wherein the inner liner has a liner surface surrounding an upper portion of the chute that faces generally upwardly and towards the ice storage area, and wherein the ice storage area has an outer wall with a wall surface that faces generally downwardly and towards the door liner, and wherein the liner surface and the wall surface have complementary slopes.