Patent ID: 8640485

Claim:
A refrigerator with dispenser, the dispenser further includes: a dispensing assembly arranged at a refrigerator door and defining a cavity within a front surface of the refrigerator door; an ice dispensing switch positioned within the cavity defined by the dispensing assembly; an ice dispensing outlet through which ice is discharged that is positioned within the cavity defined by the dispensing assembly and oriented closer to the front surface of the refrigerator door than the ice dispensing switch; a liquid dispensing switch located separately from the ice dispensing switch and positioned within the cavity defined by the dispensing assembly; and a liquid dispensing outlet through which liquid is discharged that is oriented closer to the front surface of the refrigerator door than the liquid dispensing switch; wherein the liquid dispensing outlet is oriented closer to the front surface of the refrigerator door than the ice dispensing outlet and both the liquid dispensing outlet and the ice dispensing outlet are configured to be aligned along a plane that extends substantially perpendicular to the front surface of the refrigerator door within which the cavity is defined and that extends substantially parallel to a longitudinal direction of the refrigerator door, and wherein the liquid dispensing switch is positioned higher than the ice dispensing switch within the cavity defined by the dispensing assembly and both the liquid dispensing switch and the ice dispensing switch are configured to be aligned along the plane.