Adjusting apparatus for refrigerators supporting shelf

Claim 1

An adjusting apparatus for supporting shelves of a refrigerAtor from the interior sidewalls thereof, comprising: a pair of guiding rails disposed in facing relationship on oppositely spaced sidewalls, said sidewalls having a cross section of a trapezoid configuration and being vertically disposed, said guiding rails each having a plurality of adapting holes; a pair of fork-like members mounted on opposite side edges of the shelve and slidingly engaging and being retained on a respective guide rail, each of said fork-like members having a tongue slidably disposed therein and spring biased to a position where a tip portion of said tongue normally extends into an adapting hole in the associated guide rail; a manually actuated mechanical linkage arrangement for simultaneous retracting said tongues, against the spring biasing force, from said holes in said side rails so as to permit guided slidable movement of the shelf along said side rails, said mechanical linkage arrangement having a handle disposed beneath the shelf to be manually grasped at one end and being pivotally mounted on the shelf adjacent the opposite end, and a pair of force transmitting means being connected on opposite sides of the pivotally mounted and extending to and being connected to a respective tongue.