Patent ID: 6926379

Claim:
A refrigerator cabinet assembly comprising: a cabinet shell including a pair of laterally spaced side panels, a top panel interconnecting upper end portions of the laterally spaced side panels and an open frontal zone permitting access to within the cabinet shell; at least one liner positioned within the cabinet shell, said at least one liner defining laterally spaced, fresh food and freezer compartments separated by a fore-to-aft extending divider wall, said divider wall including at least first and second interconnected upright portions which are laterally offset, wherein each of the fresh food and freezer compartments has varying lateral dimensions; fresh food and freezer doors each including a front face portion, an inner panel portion and a liner extending along the inner panel portion, each of the fresh food and freezer doors further including an outer lateral portion pivotally mounted to the cabinet shell about a substantially vertical axis and an inner lateral portion defined by laterally offset sections, wherein the fresh food and freezer doors have vertically offset, varying widths portions adapted to extend across and seal the fresh food and freezer compartments respectively; and a door brace member provided along the inner panel portion and at the laterally offset section of at least one of the fresh food and freezer doors, said door brace member providing structural support for the varying width portions of the at least one fresh food and freezer doors.