Refrigerator temperature controls

Claim 1

In a refrigerator having cool and freezer compartments and a door for each compartment having an improved design and arrangement of the elements of a temperature control unit for manually regulating, with improved modality, compartment temperature from outside the refrigerator, each such control unit comprising a consolidated instrument panel containing two elements in juxtaposition, one element comprising a temperature indicator for the visible monitoring of internal compartment temperature and the second element comprising a manually operable rotatable temperature selector including a pointer registrable over a fixed calibrated temperature scale, said temperature selector being operative of a thermoelectric mechanism to regulate internal compartment temperature at the discretion of the operator of the rotatable temperature selector, said temperature control units each being externally mounted on and integral with the corresponding compartment door, each rotatable temperature selector being manually rotatable from exteriorly of the associated compartment door and each thermoelectric mechanism being recessed inwardly of the inner side of the associated door and having a protective shield thereover, the recessing of the thermoelectric mechanisms within the inner sides of the associated compartment doors resulting in elimination of space consuming thermoelectric mechanism housing chambers within the cool and freezer compartments.