Patent ID: 8833100
Filing Date: 2014-09-16
Classification: F25D

Abstract:
1. A water vessel for use with a refrigeration device having a cabinet with a filter enclosed in a filter housing having an internal volume with some unoccupied space and a water dispensing system to dispense water from a water supply line to an exterior water dispenser and/or an icemaker, the water vessel comprising: an inlet adapted to be in continual open fluid communication with the water supply line and an outlet adapted to be in continual open fluid communication with the exterior water dispenser; the water vessel enclosed within the filter housing within the cabinet, whereby the water supply line passes through a wall of the filter housing and is attached within the housing at the inlet of water vessel; opposing elongated side and top and bottom pressure resistant walls spaced between opposing end walls, wherein the inlet and the outlet pass through the respective end walls adapted to form an internal volume to reservoir water within the filter housing; and one end wall of the water vessel having a concave-shaped profile adapted to fit within the volume of unoccupied space within the filter housing behind a filter release on the housing; the water vessel constructed to reservoir water under continuous hydrostatic pressure from the water supply line for providing a charge of water through a line passing through the wall of the filter housing when requested by the exterior water dispenser and/or the icemaker.