Patent ID: 7108341

Claim:
A method of assembling a refrigerator cabinet including a shell having first and second laterally spaced upstanding side walls interconnected by a top wall with each of the top and side walls including an in-turned flange that defines respective liner receiving cavities comprising: attaching a base member between the upstanding side walls; mounting a mullion bar to divide the shell into first and second liner receiving portions; flex loading a first liner having a plurality of peripheral rim portions that define a corresponding plurality of outwardly projecting edge portions such that at least two sides of the first liner are flexed to enable at least two of the plurality of outwardly projecting edge portions to be received into respective ones of the liner receiving cavities, while another one of the plurality of peripheral rim portions extends along a first mullion land; flex loading a second liner having a plurality of peripheral rim portions that define a corresponding plurality of outwardly projecting edge portions such that at least two sides of the second liner are flexed to enable at least two of the plurality of outwardly projecting edge portions to be received into respective ones of the liner receiving cavities, while another one of the peripheral rim portions extends along a second mullion land; and mounting a mullion cover such that a portion of the mullion cover extends over the first and second mullion lands and the another ones of the peripheral rim portions.