Patent ID: 9341406
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: E05B,F25D

Claim Text:
1. A refrigerator, comprising: a refrigerator body having a cooling chamber; a case comprising a case body having a guide rail and a transformation preventing member formed of a higher strength material than a material of the case body, wherein the transformation preventing member is provided at a front opening of the case body to prevent transformation of the case; a drawer that is withdrawably accommodated in the case; and a retainer attached in the case to allow a door of the drawer to contact the case at a front opening thereof by a backward pulling of the drawer into the case by the retainer when the drawer is introduced into the case, wherein the retainer comprises: a guiding member extending from an end of the guiderail and attached to ax inner wall of the case to guide a movement of the drawer, the guiding member having a guiding slot extending along a major axis of the guiding member and a locking slot extending from an end of the guiding slot; a sliding member coupled to the guiding member, the sliding member being slidable on the guiding member; an elastic member having one end attached to the guiding member, having and another end attached to the sliding member, and having an elastic restoration force to provide the backward pulling of the drawer by the sliding member; and a locking member attached to an outer wall of the drawer, to reciprocate with the drawer on the guide rail, the locking member having a locked state to lock the sliding member when the drawer is withdrawn from the case, and a released state in which the sliding member is released from the locked state when the drawer is introduced into the case, wherein the sliding member comprises: a sliding body which reciprocates on the guiding member; a sliding rib extending from the sliding body; and a guide rail to which the guiding member is attached between the sliding body and the sliding rib, wherein the sliding member performs a reciprocating sliding motion on the guiding member via the guiderail, and wherein the sliding member comprises: a through hole formed at the sliding body in a vertical direction thereof; a first protrusion protruding toward an upper side of the through hole, and selectively locked by the locking member; a third protrusion protruding toward a lower side of the through hole and insertable into the guiding slot, the third protrusion performing a reciprocating sliding motion and selectively locked by the locking slot, a second protrusion, the second protrusion being a hinge shaft of the first protrusion and the third protrusion, whereby the second protrusion is inserted into the guiding slot from the sliding body and performs a reciprocating motion therein, and wherein the first protrusion and the third protrusion extend in a vertical orientation in a state where the through hole is interposed therebetween.