Patent ID: 7484707

Claim:
A supporting apparatus for a refrigerator, comprising: at least one or more lifting rods mounted on a bottom surface of a refrigerator main body to be adjustable for a height thereof; an upper cap fixed to a lower end of the lifting rod and having an opened lower side; a lower cap movably inserted into the upper cap in an up and down direction; and a damping spring set between the upper cap and the lower cap, for performing a damping operation, wherein a spring supporting member is installed for relatively rotating the upper cap and the damping spring between the upper cap and the damping spring, and wherein the spring supporting member is formed a separation preventing rib for preventing the damping spring from being separated at a lower surface of the spring supporting member, and a spheric protrusion rotatably inserted into a spheric groove positioned at the upper cap is formed at an upper surface of the spring supporting member.