Patent ID: 8434838
Filing Date: 2013-05-07
Classification: F25D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An individual locker assembly for a refrigerator, the refrigerator having a lower interior panel and an upper interior panel, the lower interior panel and the upper interior panel each including a plurality of locker assembly engagement receptacles therein, the individual locker assembly comprising: a first side panel having an upper edge and a lower edge opposite the upper edge; a second side panel disposed laterally opposite the first side panel, the second side panel having an upper edge and a lower edge opposite the upper edge; a rear panel extending between the first side panel and the second side panel, the rear panel having an upper edge and a lower edge opposite the upper edge; a bottom panel extending between the lower edge of first side panel and the lower edge of the second side panel; a top panel extending between the upper edge of the first side panel and the upper edge of the second side panel; a plurality of resiliently extendible pins extending from the upper edges and the lower edges of the first side panel, the second side panel, and the rear panel, respectively, the pins being adapted for engaging corresponding locker assembly engagement receptacles in the bottom panel and the top panel; a plurality of intermediate dividers disposed between the first side panel and the second side panel, each of the intermediate dividers having a plurality of shelf engagement slots defined therein extending from a rear edge into the divider; a plurality of intermediate shelves disposed between the bottom panel and the top panel, so that the first side panel, the second side panel, the rear panel, the top panel, the bottom panel, the plurality of intermediate dividers, and the plurality of intermediate shelves define a plurality of individual compartments, each of the compartments having a front, each of the intermediate shelves having a plurality of divider engagement slots defined therein extending from a front edge into the shelf, the divider engagement slots engaging the shelves and the shelf engagement slots engaging the dividers to orthogonally interlock the dividers and the shelves to form walls of the compartments; a plurality of mutually independent lockable doors extending across the corresponding front of each of the compartments, respectively; and wherein the first side panel, the second side panel, the rear panel, and the plurality of intermediate dividers include a plurality of ventilation passages disposed therethrough to accommodate the flow of refrigerated air through the locker assembly.