Patent ID: 6851776

Claim:
A refrigerator compartment comprising substantially parallel side walls and a rear wall therebetween, a plurality of substantially vertically spaced shelf-supporting ledges along each of said side walls, said shelf-supporting ledges being disposed in substantially horizontally aligned pairs, at least one slidable shelf defined by a piece of glass and front and rear border members each made of a single piece of substantially homogeneous polymeric/copolymeric molded synthetic material, said glass piece having opposite side edges and opposite front and rear edges, said front and rear border members each being of a substantially U-shaped configuration defined by a border bight portion and opposite substantially parallel side border portions having respectively a glass piece front edge-receiving channel and a glass piece rear edge-receiving channel, said opposite side border portions of said front and rear border members being in opposing relationship to each other, said front edge-receiving channel merging with side edge-receiving channels of said front border member side border portions, said rear edge-receiving channel merging with side edge-receiving channels of said rear border member side border portions, said channels front and rear edge-receiving channels and said side edge-receiving channels of said front border side border portions and said rear border side border portions open in opposing relationship to each other, said glass piece front, rear and side edges being received in the respective glass piece front edge-receiving, rear edge-receiving and side edge-receiving channels, said at least one slidable shelf being disposed with said front and rear border members in sliding relationship to one of said horizontally aligned pair of shelf-supporting ledges with said piece of glass being thereby spaced above said horizontally aligned pair of shelf-supporting ledges, and at least a portion of each glass piece side edge disposed between said front and rear border members side border portions being substantially completely exposed whereby air flow within the refrigerator compartment is enhanced.