Movable Partition Within Cooled Compartment Patents (Class 62/329)
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Patent number: 11598571Abstract: A vacuum adiabatic body between a first space and a second space includes an alternating current line through which AC current flows as a driving source, a direct current line through which direct current flows as a driving source, and a signal line through which a control signal flows as electric lines configured to electrically connect the first space to the second space. Thus, the number of lines passing through the vacuum adiabatic body may be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Duchan Ki, Wonyeong Jung, Deokhyun Youn
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Patent number: 11468397Abstract: Described and presented is a delivery vehicle having a consignment store for receiving, storing and reissuing consignments, having a handover device for handing over consignments from the consignment store to a displacing device, and having a control device for controlling at least the displacing device. The displacing device is designed for delivering consignments to a location outside the delivery vehicle by displacing the consignments and so as to be adjustable from a retracted position into a deployed position and back, and the displacing device is designed to be height-adjustable for delivering consignments at different height levels outside the delivery vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Deutsche Post AGInventors: Christoph Dautz, Markus von Gostomski, Florian Markert, Jasmin Quill
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Patent number: 11402141Abstract: The refrigerator and freezer conversion system addresses the problem described above. The refrigerator and freezer conversion system is configured for use with a refrigerator. The refrigerator and freezer conversion system incorporates an insulating cabinet and a refrigeration system. The refrigeration system maintains the temperature within the insulating cabinet. The insulating cabinet is organized into a plurality of chambers. The refrigeration system independently maintains the temperature within each of the plurality of chambers. By independently maintained is meant that the temperature maintained in any initial chamber selected from the plurality of chambers is not affected by the temperature of any subsequent chamber selected from the plurality of chambers.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Inventor: Tracy Polk
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Patent number: 11267637Abstract: A configurable storage container system for storing items includes a tote, an insulated shell with a lid, and an insulated divider configured to divide the internal cavity of the tote into two sections. The insulated shell is configured for receiving the tote. The insulated shell includes a base and a plurality of side walls and is foldable between an expanded configuration and a collapsed configuration such that the tote fits inside the insulated shell when the insulated shell is in the expanded configuration. The lid is configured for closing the tote inside the insulated shell when the insulated shell is in the expanded configuration.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Otter Products, LLCInventors: Grady E. Barfoot, Joshua R. Cornish, W. Travis Smith, Alan V. Morine
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Patent number: 10914512Abstract: For improving the energy efficiency of a home appliance device, in particular a home refrigeration appliance device, the appliance device has at least one inner liner defining at least one storage space, at least one functional unit which is in an assembled state is connected to the inner liner and is located in the storage space, and at least one seal which is in the assembled state compressed between at least one mating surface of the functional unit and the inner liner. The inner liner has at least one protrusion, which the seal abuts on in the assembled state.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Prashantagouda Hosamani, Robert Stahl
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Patent number: 10533803Abstract: An apparatus for cooling liquids that includes a tank that has two longitudinal walls, two lateral walls and a bottom, and cooling flasks that each of them has two longitudinal walls, two lateral walls and a bottom. The flasks are designed to contain coolant. The lateral walls and at least one longitudinal wall of each flask has at least one protrusion smaller than 2.5 millimeters. The flasks are designed to be set within the tank in such a way that the protrusions are attached to the longitudinal walls of the tank. The protrusions create a gap smaller than 2.5 millimeters between each two adjacent flasks and between the lateral walls of the flasks to the longitudinal walls of the tank. These gaps constitute a single cooling space. The total volume of the flasks is three times greater or more than the volume of the single cooling space.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Inventors: Reut Rosenblum, Yedidya Yochai Van Dijk, Mely Rosenbloom
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Patent number: 9797646Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cold air supply device received in an insulating partition that defines a storage compartment into upper and lower storage compartments. As cold air is supplied into the storage compartment below the insulating partition through the cold air supply device, the refrigerator has enhanced productivity and interior volume efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Yang Yeol Gu
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Patent number: 9407176Abstract: An integrated system of circuits for serial fan structure includes a first and a second fan connected back to back. A first driving unit and a first control unit for the first fan and a second driving unit and a second control unit for the second fan are sequentially electrically connected to a circuit board in the second fan. Further, a first coil assembly of the first fan and a second coil assemble of the second fan are also electrically connected to the circuit board in the second fan; and some low-use-rate electronic circuits are included in a common circuit unit of the first and the second fan. Therefore, the serial fan structure can save one circuit board and some low-use-rate electronic circuits from the first fan to achieve the purpose of reducing the manufacturing cost of the serial fan structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2013Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS CO., LTD.Inventors: Chu-Hsien Chou, Yu-An Lin
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Patent number: 9226577Abstract: A modular storage system for an interior compartment of a safe and method for storing guns comprises standardized parts for easy construction and assembly, flexible arrangement and configurations, and use in a wide variety of safes. The interior compartment of the safe is configured to have a back wall and two side walls defining an interior width of the safe. The system comprises a plurality of shelves each having a standardized shelf width. The interior width of the safe is a whole number multiple of the standardized shelf width. A gun storage bay is provided with an exterior bay width equal to the standardized shelf width. The plurality of shelves and the gun storage bay are removably mounted on the back wall.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2013Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Prosteel Security Products Inc.Inventors: Richard E. Stepp, Keith Sanders
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Patent number: 7743623Abstract: An ice making and storing system which may be mounted in a refrigeration appliance. The ice making and storing system includes an ice making mechanism, a removable ice storage receptacle positioned adjacent to the ice making mechanism, an insulated cover for the ice making mechanism with a portion engageable with the ice storage receptacle to provide a thermally tight seal between the cover and the ice storage receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2007Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: James Charles Leslie Guarino, Marcus Roland Fischer, Jeffrey J. Anselmino
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Patent number: 6779357Abstract: A mullion shelf assembly is provided that includes a shelf having translucent upper and lower surfaces and contains an insulative medium that resists heat transfer between the surfaces. The mullion shelf assembly may also include a shelf with an upper surface in fluid communication with a sump. The sump is in fluid communication with a drain that remove condensation from the compartment bounded by the mullion shelf assembly.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2003Date of Patent: August 24, 2004Assignee: Viking Range CorporationInventor: Billie Ray Fann
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Publication number: 20040144103Abstract: Quick cooling device is disclosed for quick cooling of canned or bottled drink from a room temperature, quickly. A case has an inside space divided into a cavity and a device chamber, a door is provided on a front part of the case for opening/closing the cavity. Means for bringing a cold accumulation pack into contact with a drink container, and shaking the cold accumulation pack and the drink container together, to cool down drink in the container quickly is provided in the cavity. A refrigerating system is provided in the case for cooling the cold accumulation pack.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2003Publication date: July 29, 2004Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Myung Ryul Lee, Seong Jae Kim, Wook Yong Lee
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Patent number: 6751969Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for use in maintaining a temperature in a vehicle or a shipping container. The device includes a roller having a sheet attached to the roller. One end of the sheet is connected to the roller and the sheet can be rolled around the roller and unrolled from the roller. The sheet has a size such that the sheet can extend substantially transversely across the cargo area of the vehicle or shipping container when the device is mounted on the vehicle or shipping container and the sheet is unrolled from the roller. The device allows for a user to simply unroll the unattached end of the sheet from the roller when the user needs to load or unload goods in the cargo area of the vehicle or shipping container in which the device is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2002Date of Patent: June 22, 2004Assignee: Kaolin Mushroom Farms, Inc.Inventors: Mark Moran, John Pia
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Publication number: 20040107712Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for use in maintaining a temperature in a vehicle or a shipping container. The device includes a roller having a sheet attached to the roller. One end of the sheet is connected to the roller and the sheet can be rolled around the roller and unrolled from the roller. The sheet has a size such that the sheet can extend substantially transversely across the cargo area of the vehicle or shipping container when the device is mounted on the vehicle or shipping container and the sheet is unrolled from the roller. The device allows for a user to simply unroll the unattached end of the sheet from the roller when the user needs to load or unload goods in the cargo area of the vehicle or shipping container in which the device is mounted.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2002Publication date: June 10, 2004Inventors: Mark Moran, John Pia
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Patent number: 6658883Abstract: The present invention teaches systems and methods for improving the thermal efficiency of an existing refrigeration system having a heat exchanger comprising: an enclosure having side walls for enclosing at least a portion of the heat exchanger and being removably attached to the existing refrigeration system; a venting system for flowing cooling air within proximity with the heat exchanger and releasing the cooling air to an outside environment in order to increase a release of heat from the heat exchanger, wherein the enclosure is operable for reducing heating of an inside environment by the existing refrigeration system, or by functionally channelling the heat so it increases heat when desirable while minimizing the impact to refrigeration.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Sun-RGInventor: John Rainbolt
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Patent number: 6606875Abstract: An enclosed container for storing temperature sensitive goods. The container has opposed side walls and end walls as well as a floor and a ceiling. First and second bulkheads are moveably mounted within the container for dividing the container into three separate compartments. Two end compartments are services by fixed heat exchanges for conditioning the air in the compartments. A center compartment is serviced by a movable heat exchanger. By repositioning the bulkheads and the movable heat exchanger the volume and thus the load carrying capacity of the compartments can be varied to accommodate different types of cargo and the temperature levels in the compartment independently maintained.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2002Date of Patent: August 19, 2003Assignee: Carrier CorporationInventors: Alain Grand, Bernard Valentin, Philippe Vaas
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Patent number: 6457402Abstract: Apparatus for aiding in the ripening of produce that includes a sealed container having a refrigeration unit for supplying conditioned air for cooling produce stored in a container. A gas generator is arranged to mix a ripening gas with conditioned air within the container. A fresh air exchanger is integrated into the refrigeration unit for venting conditioned air from the container to ambient and exchanging the vented air with outside fresh air. The fresh air exchanger is automatically operated by a controller which coordinates the cycling of the gas generator with the exchange of fresh air so that the ripening process can be closely regulated.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2002Date of Patent: October 1, 2002Assignee: Carrier CorporationInventors: Jan M. Parker, Michael E. Davis
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Patent number: 6443056Abstract: Apparatus for delivering conditioned air from the mixing chamber of a mobile container into a pair of supply air plenums that extend rearwardly along the side walls of the container. A series of fan units are contained within pods located within the mixing chamber adjacent to the front end of each supply air plenum. The pods are stacked in vertical alignment from the floor of the container to about the height of the container ceiling. Each pod includes two fan units that are contained in separate compartments. Each fan unit can be removed easily from the compartment and each pod unit can similarly be removed separately from the stack to facilitate mounting and removal of the pods as well as the individual fan units.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2002Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Carrier CorporationInventors: David D. Kiefer, Michael E. Davis, David R. Carey
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Patent number: 6431060Abstract: An enclosed container having an air conditioning unit for providing conditioned air to the mixing plenum of an air handling system for circulating conditioned air through a load of perishable goods stored within the container. An open-sided supply duct is connected to the plenum that runs along the center of the length of the container and a pair of spaced-apart, open-sided return ducts pass along the side walls of the container parallel to the supply duct. A load of perishable goods is stacked between the ducts and blower units are mounted within the return ducts for drawing supply air through the load and returning the air into the mixing plenum at an increased pressure. The return air in the plenum is combined with conditioned air from the refrigeration unit and is circulated back into the supply duct for reuse in the system.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2002Date of Patent: August 13, 2002Assignee: Carrier CorporationInventor: August William Gutheim
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Patent number: 6405644Abstract: The present invention describes an apparatus useful for maintaining perishable products in a controlled environment as a modular unit. This modular unit, or self-contained apparatus, encompasses all the equipment necessary for installation while offering temperature stability, simplified maintenance requirements, and ultimately, precise control of ripening. Designed for efficiency, typical labor and equipment costs and energy consumption of a ripening room are reduced with the palletized ripening cabinet. The present invention may also be easily adapted for the combination of units or for various temperature requirements and otherwise from pre-cooler to freezer.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2001Date of Patent: June 18, 2002Inventor: Robert J. Windecker
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Patent number: 6012384Abstract: A mobile container adapted for transporting perishable goods includes a front wall, a rear wall, a pair of side walls extending therebetween so as to define an elongated enclosure having a longitudinal axis and adapted to receive a cargo load. An air recirculation plenum is defined in the enclosure adjacent to the front wall. A refrigeration system is in fluid communication with the air recirculation plenum and is adapted to induct air at a first temperature and to exhaust air at a second temperature. A pair of air delivery plenums extend from the bulkhead along the length of the enclosure parallel to the longitudinal axis. Each of the pair of air delivery plenums is defined by a corresponding one of the pair of side walls and a plenum wall disposed spaced from the corresponding side wall and extending from the upper margins of the enclosure such that the plenum wall is adapted to be co-extensive and in abutting contact with a portion of the cargo load.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1999Date of Patent: January 11, 2000Assignee: Trans Tech Holdings GroupInventors: Mark A. Badalament, Daniel S. Harmsen
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Patent number: 5789007Abstract: A ripening room for controlled ripening of produce includes a chamber defined by a ceiling, a floor, and a plurality of walls connecting the ceiling and the floor. The chamber is configured to receive two rows of boxed produce that are spaced apart from each other to define an interstitial volume therebetween. Each row of produce is proximate and spaced apart from one of the walls to define a side airspace therebetween. The ripening room also includes an air control system for transferring air between the side airspaces and the interstitial volume and controlling the temperature of the transferred air. The side airspaces and the interstitial volume are generally enclosed to inhibit airflow therebetween except for airflow through the air control system and through openings in the produce boxes.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 1996Date of Patent: August 4, 1998Assignee: Cool Care, Ltd.Inventor: Michael Bianco
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Patent number: 5720185Abstract: A refrigerator having a cool air dispersing shelf is inherently installed with a dispersing apparatus for spreading the cool air to the shelf for consistently dispersing the cool air throughout the interior of a cooling chamber within a short time period, and supplies the cool air to respective shelves simply by installing/removing the shelves. For this, a supply duct circulated with the cool air supplied into the cooling chamber therethrough has at least one discharging hole toward the cooling chamber, and an open/close member is installed in the supply duct for opening/closing the discharging hole in accordance with the installation/separation of the shelf. Also, the shelf is formed with cool air spray holes in the lower plane and a pushing portion provided by one end of a cool air suction hole for opening/closing the open/close member.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 1996Date of Patent: February 24, 1998Assignee: Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Sang-Moo Lee
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Patent number: 5626028Abstract: A modular food display case system permits a particular display case arrangement to be easily customized from a basic design. A plurality of modular bed sections, which are pre-manufactured from a lightweight composite honeycomb material, are used as the basic building blocks of the customized display case, and are arranged end to end. Their lengths may be cut and angled as desired to further customize the arrangement of the customized display case. Partitions divide different temperature-controlled zones within the display case, and may be positioned anywhere along the length of the case, according to the specific arrangement and lengths of hot, cold, and dry (ambient temperature) zones employed, without regard to the ends of the case or the location of joints separating each of the bed sections.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 1994Date of Patent: May 6, 1997Assignee: Architectural Stainless, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth T. Graat, Randall C. Danta
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Patent number: 5577822Abstract: A refrigerator is divided into a freezing compartment and a cooling compartment. An intermediate partition wall separates the compartments. The partition wall is vertically adjustable for increasing a volume of one of the compartments while simultaneously reducing a volume of the other compartment. The door carries a vertically adjustable sealing member for engaging a front surface of the partition wall. The freezing compartment includes an evaporator separated from the remainder of the freezing compartment by a vertical isolating wall, a portion of which isolating wall is spring-biased toward the partition wall.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1994Date of Patent: November 26, 1996Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jin K. Seon
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Patent number: 5373780Abstract: An apparatus is provided for controlling the ripening of produce. The apparatus includes a chamber having a ceiling, a floor and a plurality of walls. Positioned in the chamber is a support and position structure to support two rows of palletized produce and to space the palletized produce away from the walls to define a fluid circulation space around the palletized produce. The rows of palletized produce are spaced apart to define an interstitial volume therebetween. Each row of palletized produce includes at least an upper and a lower tier with a vertical spacing therebetween. A flexible sealing strip is affixed to the support and position structure to generally seal the vertical spacing between the tiers from the fluid circulation space.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 1992Date of Patent: December 20, 1994Assignee: Cool Care Consulting, Inc.Inventor: Michael Bianco
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Patent number: 4895001Abstract: An expandable refrigeration system for use in dispensing products to the public, the system including a base unit with a product containing chamber, a refrigeration system in the base unit and having a compressor and condenser portion and a fan for moving ambient air past the condenser, an evaporator cabinet supported adjacent the refrigeration system having an evaporator therein which is connected to the compressor and condenser of the refrigeration system and a fan for moving air past the evaporator whereby the air is coated, openings through which cooled air from the evaporator is conducted into the base unit product containing chamber, a slave unit having a product containing chamber contiguous with the base unit, first and second ducts communicating the interior of the base unit product containing chamber with the slave unit product containing chamber so that cooled air circulated in the base unit is also circulated in the slave unit allowing the addition of increased product containing space without anType: GrantFiled: March 17, 1989Date of Patent: January 23, 1990Inventor: Joseph S. Jondahl
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Patent number: 4887437Abstract: An integral false ceiling for a refrigerated vehicle body using a sealed ductwork, flow restriction and bleed means to provide selective transmission of refrigerated air to one or more cargo compartments in the vehicle body and return of air to an air conditioning unit, enhancing temperature control and minimizing intrusion into the cargo compartments.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1988Date of Patent: December 19, 1989Assignee: Trailmobile Inc.Inventors: Gary Fenton, Tom Huddle
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Patent number: 4879877Abstract: A method and system for conditioning the cargo containing space of a vehicle are disclosed wherein refrigerated or heated air is introduced into a supply duct and circulated through the cargo to a return duct. The return duct or ducts are preferably formed by movable reefer pallets or racks, controlled openings in the pallets regulating flow into the return duct to develop a uniform pressure differential between the cargo space and the return duct and achieve more uniform cooling. Heat barrier spacers are arranged on vertical walls to minimize heat passage to the cargo. A method and system are also disclosed for supplying refrigerated gas through a supply duct and returning it through a return duct, a control unit being normally responsive to a master temperature sensor arranged in an inlet, a sub-master temperature sensor being arranged for sensing freezing or chilling conditions and overriding the master temperature sensor.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1988Date of Patent: November 14, 1989Inventor: Gerald E. Hicke
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Patent number: 4876860Abstract: A refrigerator with a plurality of storage chambers is disclosed. The interior of the refrigerator is divided into at least two chambers by an adjustable shelf. An air passageway is formed by a gap between the refrigerator cabinet and an inner separation member. Air is circulated past an evaporator through the air passageway and into each storage chamber. Air collected from each storage chamber passes over the evaporator after flowing through a connecting hole in the rear of the inner separation member.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 1988Date of Patent: October 31, 1989Assignee: Sanden CorporationInventor: Kozaburo Negishi
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Patent number: 4638644Abstract: An improved refrigerator of the forced refrigerated air type is disclosed in which a divider shelf is provided for the convenience of the user who wishes to convert a portion of the freezer section into a standard refrigeration section or a portion of the standard refrigerator section into a freezer section. The shelf is formed of an insulating material and is dimensioned and shaped to be positioned in a selected compartment in any of a plurality of selectable locations. The shelf has a resilient sealing member along peripheral portions which engage the corresponding walls of the compartment in which it is positioned so as to permit the shelf to selectively alter the flow of refrigerated air in such a manner as to permit the separate thermostatic temperature control of the separate sections created by the shelf.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1984Date of Patent: January 27, 1987Inventor: Edward Gidseg
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Patent number: 4505126Abstract: A transport system for food products contemplates a land vehicle with a van body and a refrigeration unit and a food product carrier which may be inserted and withdrawn from the interior of the van body. The carrier has a plurality of compartments for housing the refrigerated food products and when the carrier is in its operative position in the van body, it is arranged to cooperated with the refrigeration unit so that the unit serves to refrigerate the food products in one of the end compartments of the carrier. Between the compartments, the carrier is provided with movable panels that are equipped with motorized fans for circulating air between adjacent compartments. This circulates air between the compartments and the arrangement is such the temperature range maintained in each compartment rises from one compartment to the next. Each compartment is accessible from the exterior of the van body and through aligned doorways in the adjacent side walls of the van body and carrier.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1984Date of Patent: March 19, 1985Assignee: Certified Grocers of Florida, Inc.Inventors: Robert Jones, Hubert R. Thompson
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Patent number: 4467618Abstract: An improved refrigerator of the forced refrigerated air type is disclosed in which a divider shelf is provided for the convenience of the user who wishes to convert a portion of the freezer section into a standard refrigeration section or a portion of the standard refrigerator section into a freezer section. The shelf is formed of an insulating material and is dimensioned and shaped to be positioned in a selected compartment in any of a plurality of selectable locations. The shelf has a resilient sealing member along peripheral portions which engage the corresponding walls of the compartment in which it is positioned so as to permit the shelf to selectively alter the flow of refrigerated air in such a manner as to permit the separate thermostatic temperature control of the separate sections created by the shelf.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1981Date of Patent: August 28, 1984Inventor: Edward Gidseg
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Patent number: 4304101Abstract: An improved refrigerator of the forced refrigerated air type is disclosed in which a divider shelf is provided for the convenience of the user who wishes to convert a portion of the freezer section into a standard refrigeration section or a portion of the standard refrigerator section into a freezer section. The shelf is formed of an insulating material and is dimensioned and shaped to be positioned in a selected compartment in any of a plurality of selectable locations. The shelf has a resilient sealing member along peripheral portions which engage the corresponding walls of the compartment in which it is positioned so as to permit the shelf to selectively alter the flow of refrigerated air in such a manner as to permit the separate thermostatic temperature control of the separate sections created by the shelf.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 1978Date of Patent: December 8, 1981Inventor: Edward Gidseg