Patent ID: 8328301

Claim:
A refrigerator comprising: a main body cabinet forming a storage compartment with a front opening; and a drawer type door movably coupled to the main body cabinet, the drawer type door comprising a basket which is movable with respect to the storage compartment in forward and backward directions, the drawer type door comprising; a door main body having a gasket installed at an inner surface thereof to establish a gasket seal when the door main body is in a closed position to close the front opening of the storage compartment; a horizontally extending pocket formed in an upper part of the door main body, the pocket having an upper opening to allow fingers of a user to be inserted; a handle member rotatably installed in the pocket such that the handle member is operable by user fingers inserted in the upper opening of the pocket to rotate in forward and backward directions with respect to the door main body; and a pair of sliders which are disposed in an inner part of the door main body to face front surfaces of lateral walls of the storage compartment and reciprocate depending on a rotation of the handle member between an opening position protruding from the door main body to press the front surfaces of the lateral walls of the storage compartment to cause the gasket seal to break between the door main body and the main body cabinet, and a closing position accommodated in the inner part of the door main body.