Patent ID: 8925343
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: F25C,F25D

Abstract:
1. A refrigerator, comprising: a refrigerator housing; at least one compartment disposed within the refrigerator housing; a door for providing access to one or more of the at least one compartments; an ice storage bucket placed beneath an ice chute for receiving ice from an ice making unit remote from the door into the door, the ice storage bucket configured for collecting and storing ice when in an ice harvesting position; wherein the ice storage bucket includes an open top end and an opposite bottom surface with an insulated exterior wall with a window therein; a first and a second cylindrical protrusion proximate the bottom surface of the ice storage bucket and on opposite sides of the ice storage bucket; a mounting plate beneath the ice storage bucket, the mounting plate operatively connected to the door and having opposite side walls, each of the side walls having a top end and an opposite bottom end; a first guide member and a second guide member in the opposite side walls of the mounting plate, each of the guide members being a slot having a lower closed end and an upper open end at the top end of the side wall, the lower closed end and the upper open end spaced apart by front and back track portions, the guide member having an arcuate portion beginning at the lower closed end, the arcuate portion extending upwardly from the lower closed end towards a vertical portion, the vertical portion extending upwardly from the arcuate portion to the upper top end of the side wall, the vertical portion having the front and back track portions; wherein each of the guide members is configured to receive one of the cylindrical protrusions and guide the movement of the ice storage bucket between the ice harvesting position at the lower closed end and an ice bucket removal position at the upper open end; a first and a second hemispherical indentation associated with the first guide member and the second guide member of the mounting plate for mating with the first and the second cylindrical protrusions, each of the hemispherical indentations located along the back track portion of the vertical portion of the guide member between the upper open end and the lower closed end of the guide member and proximate the top end of the side wall, the front track portion of each vertical portion terminating proximate the upper top end of the side wall opposite the hemispherical indentation; wherein mating of the first and second hemispherical indentations with the cylindrical protrusions occurs at an intermediate position between the ice harvesting position and ice bucket removal position; a first and a second horizontal support on opposite sides of the ice storage bucket, each of the horizontal supports configured for mating with the top end of the side wall of the mounting plate when the ice storage bucket is in the ice harvesting position.