Patent ID: 7874460

Claim:
A refrigerator dispenser, comprising: a refrigerator dispensing assembly arranged integral to a refrigerator door and defining a refrigerator door cavity within a front surface of the refrigerator door; an ice dispensing actuator positioned within the refrigerator door cavity defined by the refrigerator dispensing assembly; an ice dispensing chute positioned within the refrigerator door cavity defined by the refrigerator dispensing assembly; an ice dispensing housing positioned within the refrigerator door cavity and configured to define an ice dispensing cavity through which ice dispensed by the ice dispensing chute passes; a liquid dispensing chute positioned closer to the front surface of the refrigerator door than the ice dispensing housing; and a liquid dispensing actuator positioned on the ice dispensing housing and configured to receive input to inspire dispensing of liquid through the liquid dispensing chute, the liquid dispensing actuator being positioned such that a container whose deepest surface actuates the liquid dispensing actuator is not positioned below the ice dispensing cavity through which ice dispensed by the ice dispensing chute passes and thus not exposed to ice dispensed by the ice dispensing chute.