Patent ID: 8312735

Claim:
A door assembly for a refrigerator comprising: a door having an interior side and an exterior side, the door operable between an open position and a closed position; an ice maker adjacent the interior side of the door when the door is in the closed position; a frame defining an aperture extending from the interior side to the exterior side; an ice bucket disposed in the aperture and operable between a lowered position, wherein a reservoir portion of the bucket is accessible when the door is closed, and a raised position, wherein the reservoir portion of the bucket is inaccessible when the door is closed; a first ice hatch disposed between the ice maker and the ice bucket; a second ice hatch disposed below the reservoir portion of the ice bucket; and an ice dispenser disposed below the ice bucket, wherein the ice bucket is attached to the frame proximate the exterior side of the door by the first hinge adapted for swinging the ice bucket about a vertical axis away from the door, and by a second hinge adapted for tilting the ice bucket downward about a horizontal axis such that stored ice can be dumped from the ice bucket.