Patent ID: 7410229

Claim:
A refrigerator 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 and including top and bottom flanges; 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; fresh food and freezer doors pivotally mounted to the cabinet shell about substantially vertical axes for rotation between open and closed positions, each of the fresh food and freezer doors including a front face portion, an inner portion and a door seal extending about the inner portion; and a longitudinally extending generally vertical mullion connected to the top and bottom flanges and located laterally between the fresh food and freezer compartments and against which the door seals abut when the fresh food and freezer doors assume their closed positions, said mullion being bowed in vertical cross-section substantially from the top flange to the bottom flange to have an outer convex surface having a vertical longitudinal curvature which is engaged by the door seals when the fresh food and freezer doors are in their closed positions, wherein the fresh food and freezer doors maintain a substantially uniform seal against the mullion assembly when the doors are in their closed positions.