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A refrigerator door structure comprising a door hingedly mounted on a mullion is disclosed, one or more of which may be mounted in a suitable opening through the wall of a refrigerator compartment without a frame and with or without a starter mullion to close such opening while providing access ther

A refrigerator door structure comprising a door hingedly mounted on a mullion is disclosed, one or more of which may be mounted in a suitable opening through the wall of a refrigerator compartment without a frame and with or without a starter mullion to close such opening while providing access therethrough. The door and mullion are designed to be inverted to provide for either right-hand or left-hand opening of the door. The packaging of the door structure with appropriate shelving elements is described.

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In a rectangular opening through the wall of a refrigerator compartment having a substantially flat exterior surface, said opening bounded by substantially horizontal upper and lower structural members spaced from each other a given vertical distance and by substantially vertical side structural mem

In a rectangular opening through the wall of a refrigerator compartment having a substantially flat exterior surface, said opening bounded by substantially horizontal upper and lower structural members spaced from each other a given vertical distance and by substantially vertical side structural members; a. a starter mullion having a length slightly less than said given vertical distance and mounted substantially vertically along one side structural member of said opening by mounting means at each of its ends rigidly fixing said ends of said starter mullion to said upper and lower structural members of said opening; b. a plurality of door structures individually mounted in said opening and each of said door structures comprising a mullion and a rectangular door hingedly mounted on said mullion, said rectangular door of each door structure having sides of common length greater than said given vertical distance and being of given common width with one side extending overlappingly along said mullion in alignment therewith, said mullion of each of said plurality of door structures having a length slightly less than said given vertical distance and having means at each of its ends rigidly fixing said ends thereof to said upper and lower structural members of said opening with said mullion in a substantially vertical position within said opening, said mullion of a first one of said plurality of door structures being mounted in said opening adjacent said starter mullion and spaced therefrom a distance less than said given common width of said doors whereby the other side of said door of said first one of said plurality of door structures overlaps said starter mullion with the ends of said door overlapping said flat exterior surface of said refrigerator compartment in the closed position thereof, and the mullion of the remaining ones of said plurality of door structures being each serially mounted in turn along said upper and lower structural members of said opening spaced from the mullion of the preceding door structure a distance less than said given common width of said doors whereby the other side of said door of each of said door structure overlaps the mullion of said preceding door structure with the ends of each door overlapping said exterior surface of said refrigerator compartment; and c. each of said door structures including a torsion rod means acting solely between said mullion and said door thereof to urge said door and mullion to the closed position thereof with respect to each other; whereby said starter mullion may be mounted along either end of said opening and said door structures individually inverted for either right-hand or left-hand hinged movement of said door thereof with respect to said mullion thereof.