Patents by Inventor CHRISTOPHER R. MCELVAIN

CHRISTOPHER R. MCELVAIN has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20080174218
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a refrigerator cabinet and a refrigerator door for providing access to a compartment within the refrigerator cabinet, the refrigerator door includes a door pan and a plurality of corner brackets. The door pan includes a front surface, four sidewalls members extending rearwardly from the front surface thereby forming four corners, and an inwardly extending flange from each of the four side wall members. Each of the plurality of corner brackets is connected to two flanges of the door pan by clinching to thereby conceal the clinching from consumers of the refrigerator and to provide support to the door pan without welding. A method includes clinching a plurality of corner brackets to inwardly extending flanges of the prepainted door pan without welding to form a door pan assembly and assembling the refrigerator using the door pan assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: SCOTT W. LEIMKUEHLER, CHRISTOPHER R. MCELVAIN, ROBERT V. ROBERTSON, RAMAMOORTHY SRIKANTH, JACK J. STANDEFER, RICHARD N. WALKER