摘要 |
<p>A refrigerator compartment includes opposite side walls (SW1,SW2) having vertically spaced shelf-supporting ledges (10) along the side walls in horizontally aligned pairs. A shelf (30) includes a one-piece open frame (31) made of molded synthetic material and a piece of glass (35) closing an opening of the frame. Each of opposite side frame portions (46,47) are defined by an upper wall (71), a side wall (73) and at least one finger (86,87) with the opposing fingers being spaced from each other and each defining with an associated upper wall a glass piece side edge-receiving channel (100). The glass piece is snapped into the glass piece side edge-receiving channels. The fingers (86,87) slide upon the ledges (10) whereby product loading upon the glass piece which might cause the fingers to inadvertently deform and release the glass piece side edges is effectively resisted to preclude inadvertent glass piece/frame disassembly under load.</p> |