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A refrigerator door shelf arrangement wherein the door liner has opposing side panels with corresponding front to back slots or guide channels at a plurality of vertical positions. The slots are formed by a plurality of horizontal ribs, each of which has a laterally facing notch. Bucket shelves have

A refrigerator door shelf arrangement wherein the door liner has opposing side panels with corresponding front to back slots or guide channels at a plurality of vertical positions. The slots are formed by a plurality of horizontal ribs, each of which has a laterally facing notch. Bucket shelves have lateral horizontal runners on the sides arranged to be received in sliding engagement in corresponding slots. Each side of a shelf has a flap that can bend inwardly. As the runners of the shelf are being inserted into corresponding slots, a ramp tab on each flap engages the rib above the runner thereby causing the flap to be bent away from the rib until the tab aligns with and enters the respective notch of the rib. Thus, in the fully inserted position, the shelf is securely mounted, and movement upward, downward, or frontward is prevented. Manual bending of the flaps away from the ribs permits the shelf to be removed for cleaning or to be mounted at an alternate vertical position.

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Refrigerator door apparatus comprising: a door liner having opposing side panels each comprising at least a pair of substantially horizontal ribs forming therebetween a guide channel, said guide channels facing each other from said opposing side panels; a shelf comprising substantially horizontal si

Refrigerator door apparatus comprising: a door liner having opposing side panels each comprising at least a pair of substantially horizontal ribs forming therebetween a guide channel, said guide channels facing each other from said opposing side panels; a shelf comprising substantially horizontal side runners each adapted for being received in sliding engagement into a respective one of said guide channels wherein said shelf is substantially horizontally slidable to an inward position in said guide channels where said shelf is supported by said liner; said shelf further comprising means for latching said shelf to said liner when said shelf is positioned at said inward position; and at least one of said ribs having a notch and said latching means comprising a flexible finger with a tab wherein, as said shelf is being slideably inserted in said guide channels, said tab engages said one rib thereby bending said finger away from said rib until said tab aligns with said notch at which point said finer flexes back as said tab enters said notch to latch said shelf in said inward position.