Refrigerator

- Whirlpool Corporation
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Description

FIG. 1 is a front view of a refrigerator according to a first embodiment of our design in a first configuration thereof shown in place within an unclaimed refrigerator, back, right side, left side, top and bottom views showing no claimed portion of the design when in place within unclaimed portions of the refrigerator;

FIG. 2 is a front-perspective view of the refrigerator of FIG. 1 with unclaimed portions of the refrigerator removed;

FIG. 3 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a back view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 8 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 9 is a front view of a refrigerator according to the first embodiment of our design in a second configuration thereof shown in place within unclaimed portions of the refrigerator, a second embodiment of the design in a second configuration being a mirror-image of the first embodiment in the second configuration, and back, right side, left side, top and bottom views of the design showing no claimed portion of the design when in place within the unclaimed portions of the refrigerator;

FIG. 10 is a front-perspective view of the refrigerator of FIG. 9 with unclaimed portions of the refrigerator removed;

FIG. 11 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 12 is a back view thereof;

FIG. 13 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 14 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 15 is a top view thereof; and,

FIG. 16 is a bottom view thereof.

Broken lines are environmental only and form no part of the claimed design. Additionally, broken lines between shaded and un-shaded areas represent bounds of the claimed design.

The applied shades in the drawings are presented to show a contrast in appearance.

The dash-dot depiction of a rectangular prism in FIGS. 2-9, and 10-16 that enclose claimed portions of the refrigerator with unclaimed portions of the refrigerator depicted in of FIGS. 1 and 9 removed is similarly unclaimed and represents a space within an interior of the refrigerator in which the claimed portion of the refrigerator may be present.

Claims

The ornamental design for a refrigerator, as shown and described.

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Patent History
Patent number: D810795
Type: Grant
Filed: Mar 17, 2015
Date of Patent: Feb 20, 2018
Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation (Benton Harbor, MI)
Inventors: Julia B. Burke (Chicago, IL), Daniel Chow (St. Joseph, MI), Todd Tunzi (St. Joseph, MI)
Primary Examiner: Ian Simmons
Assistant Examiner: Khawaja Anwar
Application Number: 29/520,679
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: Element Or Attachment (D15/89)