DR. THOMAS MOORE JENKINS, M.D.
Medical Practice at Floyd St, Louisville, KY

5584551, Dec 17, 1996

Mar 27, 1995

8/410859

Thomas E. Jenkins - Louisville KY

General Electric Company - Louisville KY

A47B 8100, E06B 716

312401

A refrigerator cabinet includes a metal outer case with top and side walls. A narrow front face projects inward from the walls and a stiffening flange, positioned rearward of the face, projects inward of the walls substantially further than the face. A pair of open front liners are received within and spaced from the outer case and from each other. The liners have top and side walls with distal edges located rearward of the stiffening flange. An elongated plastic breaker strip extends between the outer case front face and the liner top and outer side walls. The breaker strip front wall overlaps the outer case front face and extends inward to a position inward of the inner edge of the stiffening flange. The breaker strip side wall extends rearward from the breaker strip front wall to a position overlapping the top and outer side walls of the liners. An elongated plastic mullion has a front wall positioned in the plane of the breaker strip front wall and extending from one liner inner side wall to the other liner inner side wall.

3969137, Jul 13, 1976

Jun 25, 1975

5/599393

Thomas E. Jenkins - Louisville KY
Donald S. Cushing - Louisville KY

General Electric Company - Louisville KY

B08B 302

134176

A telescoping conduit for transmitting washing liquid from a lower spray arm assembly to an upper spray arm in the wash chamber of a dishwasher. The conduit includes telescoping stabilizing means to insure that the conduit engages a connection member positioned on the upper spray arm.

5720536, Feb 24, 1998

Mar 27, 1995

8/410860

Thomas Edward Jenkins - Louisville KY
Thomas Charles Zimmer - Bloomington IN
Darrell Wayne Shewmaker - Georgetown IN
Ronald Gary Foster - Louisville KY

General Electric Company - Louisville KY

A47B 8100, E06B 716

3124062

A refrigerator cabinet has an outer case with lateral walls and a continuous front flange. A pair of liners are nested in the case and have lateral walls with a front edge positioned rearward of the case front flange. A resilient breaker strip connects the case walls to corresponding liner walls. The strip front wall extends inward from the case flange to a point inward of the liner wall and a side wall extends rearward to overlap the liner wall. A bifurcated edge of the strip receives the case flange. The strip side wall is return bent to form an inner wall engaging the inner surface and a resilient finger engaging the outer surface of the liner wall. A resilient mullion, connecting the adjacent inner lateral walls of the liners, has a front wall extending across the space between the liners and a side wall projecting rearward from each edge of the front wall to overlap the liner lateral wall. Each mullion side wall is return bent to form an inner wall engaging the inner surface and a resilient finger engaging the outer surface of the liner wall.

4917841, Apr 17, 1990

Oct 7, 1988

7/254732

Thomas E. Jenkins - Louisville KY

General Electric Company - Louisville KY

B29C 6722

264 465

A refrigerator liner of a vacuum formed plastic with a thickness of about 0. 007" to 0. 050" has each corner formed without crinkling when thermal insulation material is foamed against the outer surface of the liner. The non-crinkling of each corner of the refrigerator liner is accomplished through forming each of the corners with a flat surface having its periphery as a circle during vacuum forming of the refrigerator liner rather than with a spherical radius. This enables the flat surface to be placed in tension when moved against a corresponding flat surface of a foam plug by the pressure produced during foaming of the foamed thermal insulation material. This results in each corner having a central portion with a convex cross section and an outer portion surrounding the central portion and concave in cross section whereby it does not appear to be crinkled.

4484243, Nov 20, 1984

Sep 30, 1982

6/430901

LeRoy J. Herbst - Monroe CT
Robert K. Hollenbeck - Louisville KY
John M. Hooker - Louisville KY
Thomas E. Jenkins - Louisville KY
John L. Preher - Louisville KY
Jimmy R. Rickard - Louisville KY

General Electric Company - Louisville KY

H02H 314

361 50

A protective circuit arrangement for sheathed heating elements which interrupts ground fault conditions by effectively decoupling the power line from the heating element regardless of the polarity of the power supply connections. A fusible link couples each side of the heating element to the power supply. A normally open switch responsive to current in the ground path switches a relatively low resistance shunt current path across the heating element when the ground current exceeds a predetermined threshold level. Closure of the shunt path enables sufficient current to flow in the power supply lines to actuate the fusible links. Circuit parameters are selected such that the current in the fusible link coupled to the hot power line is sufficiently greater than that in the fusible link coupled to the neutral line to cause the hot power line fusible link to be actuated first, thereby interrupting the fault condition and decoupling the hot power line from the heating element.

4632470, Dec 30, 1986

Jun 28, 1985

6/749821

Thomas E. Jenkins - Louisville KY
Donald S. Cushing - Louisville KY

General Electric - Louisville KY

F25D 1100

312214

A refrigerator cabinet having an outer metal case including side walls and a top wall, a plastic inner liner and a partition separating a freezer and fresh food compartments and separate front door openings. A front face is formed along the front edge of the side walls and top wall defining the door openings. The front face along each side wall is provided with a first pair of vertically spaced openings arranged in the area adjacent the partition and a lower pair of vertically spaced openings arranged in the lower end of the front face. A support frame system is provided including vertically extending side support bars, each having pairs of vertically spaced upper and lower openings dimensioned to align with the upper and lower openings in the front face. An upper cross member extending between the side walls is positioned adjacent the front portion of the partition and a lower cross member extending between the lower edge portion of the side walls. The upper and lower cross members include a pair of vertically spaced openings adjacent each end thereof which are cooperatively arranged relative to the upper and lower pair of vertically spaced openings in the front face and support bar.

4183437, Jan 15, 1980

Dec 14, 1977

5/860515

John G. Crawford - Louisville KY
Thomas E. Jenkins - Louisville KY

General Electric Company - Louisville KY

A47F 501

211 41

A rack holder for large diameter items of dishware of varying depths such as plates and bowls, including an arrangement of dish holder wire form elements mounted to a rack frame which efficiently accommodates either shallow depth items such as plates or deeper items such as bowls while maintaining a stable, slightly inclined vertical positioning of these items. The arrangement includes a succession of aligned pairs of dish holder elements of alternate configuration. One is comprised of upwardly extending fingers and the other of diverging substantially shorter elements. Both configurations are spaced and formed so as to securely engage shallow depth plates between successive pairs of elements of either configuration, while the divergent elements accommodate deeper bowl items allowing them to be received between the upwardly extending fingers. Particular dimensions and configuration of the elements accommodate the arrangement to a wide variety of dishware. The holder arrangement properly positions the dishes to be particularly adapted to dishwashing machine racks.

4787133, Nov 29, 1988

Feb 8, 1988

7/153051

Stephen C. Lesmeister - Louisville KY
Thomas E. Jenkins - Louisville KY

General Electric Company - Louisville KY

B23P 1904

29460

A refrigerator door assembly comprising an outer metal rectangular shaped shell having a base panel, four upwardly turned side panels on each side and perpendicular to the base panel, and two sets of two opposite facing inturned flanges, each flange being perpendicular to each of the side panels and having free terminal edges. Two cross braces, each having two legs with each of the legs having at one end a U-shaped channel section having an offset portion terminating with a flat tab, an intermediate section and a flat section at the end opposite the channel section. The flat sections of two legs are rigidly secured to each other to accommodate the desired brace length to diagonally span the door such that the cross braces form an X and the flat tabs of each brace are secured to one set of opposite facing flanges.

5370455, Dec 6, 1994

Jan 28, 1993

8/010657

John A. Sedovic - Louisville KY
Thomas E. Jenkins - Louisville KY

General Electric Company - Louisville KY

F25D 1100

3124051

A storage module assembly for a refrigerator door having an outer shell and an inner liner. The liner includes a rear wall and a pair of side walls forming a recess. The side walls have vertically spaced apart, horizontally aligned pairs of module mounting bosses. Each boss includes top and bottom walls joined by side walls which diverge in the downward direction. Each module includes a bottom wall and side walls positionable adjacent the liner side walls. The module side walls include slots with horizontal portions open to the rear and vertical portions at their opposite ends. The vertical portions have downwardly diverging side walls and receive the bosses in a conforming overfitting manner. A module is mounted in the door by sliding the horizontal portions of the slots over the bosses and then moving the module downward to seat the bosses in the vertical portions.

5909937, Jun 8, 1999

Jan 15, 1997

8/783779

Thomas Edward Jenkins - Louisville KY
Duane Jubenville - Louisville KY

General Electric Company - Louisville KY

A47B 9604

3124051

A refrigerator door has an outer member formed from a folded sheet of steel, with a front panel and a perpendicularly projecting flange forming a cavity. A reinforcing member of thin sheet steel has a front panel, smaller than the outer member front panel, with a perpendicularly projecting flange. The reinforcing member is positioned in the cavity. A body of insulation foamed-in-place in the cavity secures the reinforcing member within the cavity in spaced apart relationship with the outer member.