Patent ID: 8522565

Claim:
A refrigerator comprising: a housing; a chilled air storage compartment within the housing; an opening in a front of the housing through which a user may access the chilled air storage compartment; a door mounted on the front of the housing for selectively closing the opening in the housing; a cooling unit removable mounted in the housing for generating a flow of chilled air directed into the storage compartment; a port in the cooling unit through which chilled air exits the cooling unit; a plenum in the housing in communication with the storage compartment and the port in the cooling unit to direct the chilled air into the storage compartment and to direct warmer air exiting the storage compartment to the cooling unit; wherein the cooling unit is selectively removable from and replaceable into the front of the housing; a chamber in the housing accessible from the front of the refrigerator and positioned below the storage compartment such that the cooling unit is removably positioned in the chamber; a bulkhead between the storage compartment and the chamber, a lower surface of the bulkhead confronting the chamber being sloped downwardly from the front of the refrigerator rearward; and an upper surface of the cooling unit being sloped downwardly from a front of the cooling unit rearward in a mating arrangement with the lower surface of the bulkhead when the cooling unit is located in the chamber.