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Assignee: Camco Inc.


Location: Mississauga, CA
No. of patents: 41

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NumberTitleIssue Date
6892476Clothes dryer with movable rear panel spacer
A clothes dryer has a rear panel and an exhaust vent passing through the rear panel. The exhaust vent is adapted to be connected with a flexible venting hose. The spacer is pivotally mounted to the rear panel of the clothes dryer for movement between an upright ship...
05/17/2005
6874250Clothes dryer
A clothes dryer has a first four pole motor that rotates a rotatable drum in the dryer through a transmission system. The clothes dryer has a second two pole self speed regulated induction motor connected to a blower fan in the air passageway of the dryer. The secon...
04/05/2005
6792694Control system for an automatic clothes dryer
A control system for a clothes dryer has an inlet thermister located in the air flow system prior to the dryer drum to monitor the inlet temperature. This inlet temperature signal is provided to a microprocessor which samples this temperature over time and when this...
09/21/2004
6739069Cool down temperature control system for clothes dryer
An automatic clothes dryer has a drying cycle followed by a cool down cycle where the cool down cycle is terminated when the sensed output temperature of the dryer drum falls below a default temperature value preselected or altered by user. This permits the user to ...
05/25/2004
6736472Refrigerator cabinet refrigerant tube assembly
There is disclosed a support tube for use in supporting a refrigerant tube within the insulation of a refrigerator cabinet. The support tube is mounted at it's lower end by a shoulder to extend through an exit opening in the bottom wall of the shell from the compres...
05/18/2004
6700102Dryer control circuit
A control circuit for a clothes dryer operating with a 120 volt power supply compensates for changes in the ambient temperature to compensate for premature advancement of the dryer timer motor during an automatic drying cycle. The control circuit has a th...
03/02/2004
6679006Thermal and reinforced refrigerator door
A refrigerator door has reinforcing corner brackets that structurally complete the corners of the door. The corner brackets are located at the door corners adjacent vertical and horizontal side walls of the outer door skin of the door. At least one reinfo...
01/20/2004
6663204Two part refrigerator shelf
A two part shelf for use in a refrigerator and preferably in a freezer compartment of a refrigerator has at least four shelf members mounted to the cabinet for supporting the two part shelf assembly. The two part shelf has a main shelf portion and an auxi...
12/16/2003
6609774Reinforced refrigerator cabinet closing drawer
A refrigerator with a pull out drawer has plastic cabinet and drawer liners and a closed reinforcing assembly mounted within the drawer and cabinet for supporting loads carried by the drawer. The assembly has a reinforcing brace secured within the drawer ...
08/26/2003
6574984Refrigerator door mounted water dispensing assembly
A portable water dispensing module is mounted to a refrigerator door inner liner. The liner has side walls with aligned vertically spaced module supports. The water dispensing module comprises a reservoir having a fill chamber located above a main reservo...
06/10/2003
6565170Reinforced refrigerator cabinet closing drawer
A refrigerator with a pull out drawer has plastic cabinet and drawer liners and a closed reinforcing assembly mounted within the drawer and cabinet for supporting loads carried by the drawer. The assembly has a reinforcing brace secured within the drawer ...
05/20/2003
6546597Hollow appliance handle
A hollow full grip gas assist appliance handle for use in a household refrigerator has a hollow full grip portion comprising a thermal plastic material that is a 10-40% glass filled homopolymer polypropylene. The distal ends of the hollow grip portion are...
04/15/2003
6505442Thermal and reinforced refrigerator door
A refrigerator door has reinforcing corner brackets that structurally complete the comers of the door. The corner brackets are located at the door corners adjacent vertical and horizontal side walls of the outer door skin of the door. At least one reinfor...
01/14/2003
6447083Refrigerator with pull-out door
There is disclosed a refrigerator having an insulated cabinet and a pull-out bottom drawer with an insulated door. The door is mounted to the end of a pair of telescopically extendable guide rails having a rail portion mounted inside the cabinet. A pair o...
09/10/2002
6428130Refrigerator mullion
A mullion assembly for a refrigerator cabinet has a pair of adjacent edge wall insulating gasket members extending toward the open side of the cabinet. The edge wall members each have a forward surface extending flush to the open side for supporting a por...
08/06/2002
6259070Electrical resistance heater insulator
There is disclosed an electrically resistance insulator for use in supporting a helical heater coil at seven locations on the coil. The insulator is supported from a support structure and has a pair of arms that extend from the base for supporting the hea...
07/10/2001
6231146Refrigerator door bottom storage module assembly
A refrigerator door bottom storage module assembly extending across the refrigerator door. The refrigerator door has an inner liner having side walls, a bottom wall and a rear wall defining a liner recess. The bottom wall has a forward lower landing and a...
05/15/2001
6222133One-piece ceramic terminal insulator mounting arrangement
There is disclosed a one-piece ceramic terminal suitable for use for mounting an electrical conductor in insulated relation to a supporting wall of a heating assembly. The ceramic insulator has a central block adapted to pass through a central portion of ...
04/24/2001
6209342Refrigerator evaporator housing
A refrigerator cabinet has an exterior cabinet shell and a plastic liner insert defining a fresh food compartment and a freezer compartment where foamed in place insulation extends between the exterior cabinet shell and the interior liner. The liner has a...
04/03/2001
6209265Refrigerator door corner construction
The present invention relates to a door for a refrigerator appliance having reinforcing corner brackets that structurally complete the corners of the door. The corner brackets are located at the door corners of the vertical and horizontal side walls of th...
04/03/2001
6199400Refrigerator damper control and lighting assembly housing
A refrigerator damper control and lighting assembly is mounted to a top wall of a fresh food compartment. The housing includes dials which are accessible from the front of the housing to a user to control thermostat and to control a damper located on a re...
03/13/2001
6192630Refrigerator door epaulet
A refrigerator door has an outer door panel having an outer skin with rearwardly extending peripheral vertical and horizontal side walls. Four corners are located between adjacent horizontal and vertical side walls. An inner door liner is secured to the o...
02/27/2001
6108940Heater housing for an electric clothes dryer
An electric clothes dryer has an irregular polygonal shaped rear wall where the apexes in the polygon align readily with the center of the heater housing to define positions where the electrical insulators are mounted to the heater housing rear wall. Rais...
08/29/2000
6094932Refrigerator air flow diffuser assembly
A diffuser assembly for controlling air flow in a fresh food compartment of a refrigerator has a housing mounted to the refrigerator liner wall that covers a first air flow opening in the fresh food compartment liner. The housing has side walls and an ext...
08/01/2000
6056383Refrigerator cabinet breaker assembly
A refrigerator cabinet construction is disclosed where a breaker strip interconnects an exterior cabinet shell with an interior liner. The exterior cabinet shell has an open side and a shell edge flange. The interior liner is to fit within the exterior ca...
05/02/2000
6036294Refrigerator mullion
A refrigerator cabinet has an outer metallic shell into which is inserted a one-piece plastic interior liner having a fresh food compartment separated by a mullion wall from the freezer compartment. The mullion wall is part of the interior liner. A metall...
03/14/2000
6002116Heater coil mounting arrangement
There is disclosed an arrangement for mounting a heating coil relative to a supporting wall of a clothes dryer heater housing. An insulator has a main body portion adapted to secure the heating coil relative thereto and a base portion adapted to be seated...
12/14/1999
5980009Basket mounting arrangement for a refrigerator
A basket mounting arrangement for use in a domestic refrigerator, and in particular a bottom mount refrigerator has two baskets mounted in the freezer compartment, one above the other. The lower basket is mounted relative to the freezer compartment for mo...
11/09/1999
5975664French door gasket corner seal
A refrigerator cabinet has a food storage compartment bounded by front facing vertical and horizontal walls. A pair of French doors are pivotally mounted to the refrigerator cabinet to close the open front of the refrigerator. In the closed position the d...
11/02/1999
5975661Refrigerator door seal assembly
A refrigerator has French doors with vertically extending confronting side walls. At least one of the confronting side walls has a movable sealing gasketing member adapted to sealingly engage the other confronting side wall when the doors are in a closed ...
11/02/1999
5935471Heater coil support and mounting bracket
A ceramic heater coil support bracket, suitable for use in a clothes dryer, supports a helically wound heating coil in spaced apart relation from a support surface or wall. The bracket includes a base adapted for securement to the support surface and a pa...
08/10/1999
5901465Clothes dryer with noise reduced drum
A clothes dryer is disclosed having improved noise insulation characteristics which requires minimum alteration of existing dryer drum construction thereby adding relatively little additional cost over and above the cost of materials. The clothes dryer ha...
05/11/1999
5816080Refrigerator side-by-side door seal assembly
A gasket assembly for use in side-by-side, or French doors for a refrigerator has door stops which bear the door closure forces by engaging the top and bottom walls of the refrigerator food compartment. The door stops form part of an edge flange of a reta...
10/06/1998
4994654Heater coil mounting for a dryer
A support bracket and a method for mounting a heating coil in a dryer or the like by means of such bracket is disclosed. The support bracket is a plate of unitary construction having one or more openings for receiving and supporting an insulating bushing ...
02/19/1991
4724579Hinge including slots and tabs structure
A hinge structure is formed by at least two ears projecting from one side edge of a panel with each of the ears being provided with a lobe extending in the same direction from its respective ear and spaced from the edge of the panel to provide an undercut...
02/16/1988
4687262Anti-tilt system for appliances
The cabinet of an appliance with a downwardly opening door is stabilized by a pair of legs each pivotally mounted to the cabinet on an axis fixed to the cabinet and oriental relative to the cabinet so that pivotal movement of each leg above its respective...
08/18/1987
4677760Drier storable rack
A conventional clothes drier is provided with a rack structure mounted on the bulkhead that extends into and plugs the access opening to the drum of the drier. The rack is selectively mountable in either an operative extended position projecting cantileve...
07/07/1987
4656340Heater coil mounting
A heater coil mounting is provided by means of a bracket having seats formed at or adjacent each axial end and into which an insulator through which the heater element passes, is adapted to be received. The bracket is mounted in position on a wall using t...
04/07/1987
4608962Glass countertop range mounting
A glass top countertop range is mounted on a structure formed by a first box structure that fits through a hole in the countertop and is supported by a peripheral flange and a second, but inverted, box structure significantly smaller than the first box st...
09/02/1986
4593441Retainer clip
A one piece substantially W-shaped plastic clip has a pair of outer legs that are flexible and can move in a first direction toward an intermediate member that in turn is movable in a direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction of movemen...
06/10/1986
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