Side-by-side refrigerator including low cost evaporator means

Claim 1

A refrigerator comprising: a liner including spaced side walls and a back wall; a vertically extending evaporator adjacent said back wall; an evaporator cover in front of said evaporator and defining with back wall and side walls an evaporator chamber; said evaporator comprising a serpentine tubular member including a plurality of horizontally extending passes arranged in a vertical plane and connected by return bends adjacent said side walls; said evaporator having a refrigerator inlet connected to a lower portion thereof and an outlet at the upper end thereof; said tubular member having two diametrically opposed sets of horizontally extending spaced fins aligned longitudinally of said tubular member; means for maintaining adjacent return bend portions of said tubular member in contact with one another whereby adjacent passes slant in opposite directions; means for supporting said evaporator comprising a pair of pins mounted on said back wall and adapted respectively to be received in return bends on opposite sides of the upper portion of said evaporator; said pins including means for positioning the upper end of said evaporator relatively close to said evaporator cover; retaining means for securing the lower portion of said evaporator in engagement with said rear liner wall; radiant heater defrost means extending substantially the full width of said evaporator to defrost said evaporator, said defrost means being positioned adjacent said retaining means and between adjacent passes of said evaporator; said defrost means including heater shield means between said heater and said evaporator cover; and bracket means mounted on said liner for supporting said heater means and said evaporator cover.