Patent ID: 9103582
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: B23P,F25D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A refrigerator appliance, the refrigerator appliance defining a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and a transverse direction, the vertical, lateral, and transverse directions being mutually perpendicular, the refrigerator appliance comprising: a cabinet that defines a chilled chamber for receipt of food items for storage, the cabinet extending between a front portion and a back portion along the lateral direction, the cabinet having a back wall positioned at the back portion of the cabinet and defining an opening for accessing the chilled chamber of the cabinet at the front portion of the cabinet; and a shelf assembly positioned within the chilled chamber of the cabinet, the shelf assembly comprising: a fixed shelf, the fixed shelf comprising a pair of guides that each extend along the lateral direction; and a movable shelf slidably mounted to the fixed shelf, the movable shelf comprising a pair of guides that each extend along the lateral direction and is slidable along the respective one of the pair of guides of the fixed shelf, wherein in an extended position, the pair of guides of the movable shelf cantilever from the pair of guides of the fixed shelf such that the movable shelf is only supported at rear ends by the fixed shelf and unsupported at front ends of the pair of guides of the movable shelf.