Abstract: The present invention relates to a liner for a refrigerator crisper drawer. The liner comprises a main produce supporting body and provides drawer engaging surfaces. The main body provides a generally upwardly facing produce supporting surface on which items of produce can be placed and has a plurality of openings formed therethrough which enable fluids and air to flow through the main body. The supporting surfaces engage liner supporting surfaces inside the crisper drawer so as to support the items of produce in spaced relation above the floor of the crisper drawer and allow fluids and air to flow along the floor of the drawer beneath the produce supporting body, thereby allowing fluids to drain away from the items of produce through the openings and allowing chilled air within the crisper drawer to flow beneath the items of produce and generally upwardly through the openings to provide circulation to lower portions of the produce.

Abstract: A removable perforated tray for coolers including a tray portion constructed of a plurality of interconnecting horizontal and vertical ribs whereby spaces are created between interconnections of adjacent horizontal and vertical ribs. The tray portion is dimensioned for being received within an interior of a cooler. A plurality of peripheral collars extend through large openings of the tray portion inwardly of a periphery thereof. The collars each have a support leg extending outwardly thereof.

Abstract: A refrigerated product storage system incorporates first, second and third vertically spaced storage sections carried by a unitary support frame attached to an inner wall portion of a fresh food compartment door of a refrigerator. In the most preferred form of the invention, the storage system includes an uppermost dairy compartment, an intermediate chill compartment, and a lower, slidable drawer. The chill compartment is provided with a door which is pivotably mounted about a vertical, inboard pivot axis, with the door being formed with a cut-out handle portion adapted to be aligned with a passageway formed in a partition separating freezer and fresh food compartments of the refrigerator. With this construction, a supply of low temperature air is directed from the freezer compartment directly into the chill compartment through the cut-out handle portion. The door of the chill compartment is provided with a latching mechanism, preferably an over-center acting latching mechanism.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a water dispenser having a water supplying means provided in the outer of the door of the refrigerator for refilling the water tank when it is empty.

Abstract: A mounting device for a temperature control switch in a freezer compartment for advantageously providing a more spacious freezer compartment, which includes a grill member provided on the rear wall having a temperature control switch support member formed on a front surface thereof and having a plurality of openings for permitting cooled air to flow into the freezer compartment; and a temperature control switch, mounted to the back side of the temperature control switch member and having a temperature control knob inserted onto a setting shaft thereof.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a universal mounting bracket, comprising: a plate member; means in said plate member to mount said mounting bracket to a first device; and adjustable means in said plate member to mount said mounting bracket to a second device, said second mounting device having any one of a number of mounting patterns.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for industrially freezing (or cooling) food or the like under pressure. The method consists of isostatically exerting pressure on the material such as food (14) and the frozen body (15) composed mainly of water through the pressure medium (12) contained in the pressure vessel (1), thereby cooling the material (14). When the temperature of the material (14) decreases below 0.degree.C. at which freezing does not take place under pressure, the pressure is released rapidly so that fine ice crystals are formed in the material (14).

Abstract: A food organizing and protecting insert provides a horizontal shelf with food receptacle receiving apertures which mounts in a portable ice chest. The shelf occludes the upper region of the inner liner of the chest forming a closed chamber to hold ice when the chest lid is open. The food receptacles are held by their upper rims in the apertures so that the body of each receptacle is within the cooled chamber. One or more hinged transparent covers, when closed, cover the receptacles, leaving a space above the receptacle for clearance of a serving utensil while permitting viewing of the contents of the receptacles. Downwardly extending support members hold the shelf fixed position parallel to the bottom of the chest. A closable hatch in the shelf may optionally be provided and the shelf may be transparent to permit selection and retrieval of items such as beverage containers stored with the ice chamber.

Abstract: The invention relates to urethane polymers exhibiting excellent heat transfer properties. Specifically these polymers are used as adhesives for the purpose of adhering cooling/condensing tubes to metal panels for the manufacture of freezer and refrigerator cabinets.

Abstract: The holding container comprises an inner casing and an outer casing of the same or different materials and a cryogenic liquid withdrawing pipe including an inner portion having a section advantageously in the form of adjacent spiral turns, which is kept in resilient contact, typically by means of a spring spacer against the inner face of the other casing, thus enabling to provide heat exchange contact between the section of the first part of the pipe and the outer casing notwithstanding the nature of the materials constituting the pipe and the outer casing. Application for example to self-pressurizable holding containers.

Abstract: A screened grid (1) is sized and shaped to fit inside of a cooler chest (4). Doors (9) in the screened grid (1) are provided for accessing sealed beverage containers (2) storable under the screen grid (1) in ice water, which cool the sealed containers (2) under the grid (1) and also cool and keep dry or unsealed food items positionable above the screen grid (1). Cubed ice is poured or packed around and on top of the food items, such as wrapped sandwiches. This allows everything to stay cool but not wet because the ice water drops below the grid and cools the sealed beverages and/or sealed food containers stored below the grid. The grid (1) can be constructed of materials which can be pre-cooled to aid cooling effect with a cooler chest (4).

Abstract: An ice box rack designed to keep the stored food and other items dry, while slowing the melting of the ice. The preferred embodiment of the present invention teaches an ice box rack sized and configured to fit the container of a variety of currently sold ice chests, the rack including as a novel and unique feature a planar lower surface to facilitate the uniform application of compressive pressure on the ice. It has been found that this uniform pressure acts to pack the ice, particularly crushed or chipped ice, causing it to melt less quickly, thereby prolonging the cooling process. The present invention may be configured in a variety of different ways, and may be constructed of a number of different materials, including extruded or molded plastics, wood, aluminum, or the like, all with satisfactory results. Further, the rack design of the present invention may be configured to support a variety of differently configured items, such as unpackaged or packaged foods, can beverages, bulk items, etc.

Abstract: A household refrigerator having a freezer compartment with a rear wall, top wall, side walls, bottom wall and an open front. An evaporator unit is mounted in a space in front of the rear wall of the freezer compartment and there is a vertical panel separating the evaporator unit from the rest of the freezer compartment to form an evaporator compartment between the panel and rear wall. The bottom wall of the freezer compartment has a plurality of upwardly open grooves extending from the front section of the freezer compartment under the vertical panel and into the evaporator compartment. A cover is hingedly connected to the panel for movement to a raised position above the bottom wall for access to the grooves in the bottom wall for cleaning and to a lowered position horizontal to the bottom wall to provide a flat level shelf area for storage items in the freezer compartment.

Abstract: A refrigerated cabinet assembly has an open compressor compartment at the lower rear side thereof and the compartment is defined by the side walls of the cabinet and an insulation bottom support having a vertically extending wall portion. The refrigeration compressor is secured to a mounting plate which at one side is secured to a transverse rail extending between the two wall portions, while the mounting plate on the side opposite said rail has a projecting tongue received in an elastomeric bushing mounted in an opening on said vertically extending wall portion, with the bushing extending into and being surrounded by the rigid insulating foam.

Abstract: According to the invention, a support/heat shield is provided for mounting an ice maker from the plastic liner on the inside of a refrigeration apparatus. The invention contemplates mounting the support/heat shield on the liner at the juncture of a first, horizontal wall, and a second vertical wall, depending from the first wall. The support/heat shield, in its simplest state, has third and fourth flat walls, at right angles to each other, with wall surfaces for situation facially against the first and second liner walls. The fourth wall is attached to the first liner wall and the third wall to the second liner wall. The icemaker is attached to the third wall of the support/heat shield.

Abstract: A pan assembly for use in a household refrigerator fresh food compartment comprising a removable rigid unitary frame having two side plates secured within the fresh food compartment to support the frame, a front horizontal support member and a rear horizontal support member rigidly attached to and spanning the distance between the side plates. There are two pans of different widths and having an open top with outwardly depending flanges along the side walls at the top of the pans. Three slide members with horizontal channels receive the pan flanges and support the pans thereon. The slide carriers are supported on the rear and front support members of the frame and are slidable along and removable from the support members. A removable cover is supported on the front and rear support members of the frame above the slide carriers.

Abstract: A refrigerator is provided with a separately cooled compartment having an air flow independent and segregated from an air flow which cools the main refrigerator compartment. A plate is positioned adjacent to the evaporator and one side of the plate forms a portion of an air passage for air being circulated with the separately cooled compartment. A condensate collection arrangement is provided to capture condensate from the side of the plate within the air passage and to direct the condensate into the condensate collection apparatus provided for the evaporator in the main refrigerator compartment so that only a single waste drain is required.

Abstract: An apparatus for rapid cooling of bottles, cans or other containers of liquid or of solid materials is disclosed. The apparatus is comprised of a top-opening cabinet which has a tub for holding liquid and a refrigeration unit for cooling the liquid in the tub. A plate having an opening is placed across the tube and a bag is positioned in the opening so that it extends into the liquid. The bag is made of a thin, flexible, water impervious material and it is sealed across the opening in the plate so that direct access to the liquid is prevented. The container is placed in the bag which then substantially conforms to the shape of that part of the container lying below the surface of the liquid. The container's contents are cooled without the container ever coming into direct contact with the liquid.

Abstract: A portable cooler includes a main cavity chest for storing foodstuffs and coolant. An auxiliary cavity is used to store beverages which can be consumed simultaneously while being cooled. A partition separates the main cavity and the auxiliary cavity for enabling cool air to be circulated from the main chamber to the auxiliary chamber while preventing items in the main chamber to enter the auxiliary chamber.

Abstract: A container for holding food. The container includes cylindrical side walls fixedly mounted atop a bottom wall. A externally threaded post is rotatably and removably mounted atop the bottom wall and is in meshing engagement with a horizontally extending food supporting wall which sealingly engages the interior surface of the side walls. The top end of the threaded post is reduced in configuration and keyed to receive an external tool to facilitate the rotation of the post allowing the food supporting wall to be moved upwardly maintaining the food level adjacent the top of the container as food is withdrawn therefrom. A second tool removably mounted to the top end of the post allows the post and food supporting wall to be pulled upwardly and removed from the container.

Abstract: A beer keg cooler has a container and a removable lid of relatively thick wall insulated construction larger than a keg to be accommodated by the cooler so that ice may be packed around the keg. A flexible, web shaped harness is secured to the inner wall of the container and straps of the harness are secured by buckles so that the harness can be adjusted to bridge across the container in tight engagement against the keg to secure the keg in position and to prevent the keg from floating as the ice melts. The container has a notch formed in its upper rim to accommodate beverage dispensing equipment and the lid has a central opening for the same purpose. A flexible flap over the lid opening seals any portion of the opening not required for this purpose.

Abstract: A walk-in container for shipping or storage of goods, or housing of equipment, has an optional, built-in refrigeration system for cooling perishable products, together with an internal rack for suspending, by hooks and loops, a multitude of open-top, wire-work baskets for the articles to be loaded therein. The rack includes a plurality of uprights removably connected to an upper and a lower framework functioning also as structural components of the container shell. Handling is facilitated by provision of an underlying pallet, also reinforcing the shell by connection with the lower framework, and by lifting eyelets atop the container for raising and lowering the pallet and the container supported thereby.

Abstract: Apparatus for storing and dispensing leafy vegetables, comprising a container having an aperture and a side wall therein; means for dispensing chilled water within said container above said aperture; and means for supporting leafy vegetables within the container below the water dispensing means and inclined toward the aperture. An additional feature is a shelf extending outwardly from the container adjacent the aperture and inclined toward the interior of the container.

Abstract: A double-walled, hermetically sealed structure with the cavity between the walls containing a polyurethane foam blown with a fluorinated hydrocarbon. During fabrication the cavity is evacuated to remove air and water vapor and then refilled with a fluorinated hydrocarbon.

Abstract: A heat insulated container for cold storage of articles, the container having a device therewithin for containing solid CO.sub.2. The device has a heat insulated body with an internal cavity open to a base thereof, the base resting on a lower heat conductive plate within the container such that the device can be positioned as desired in the container with a lower cavity opening facing the heat conductive plate. Solid CO.sub.2 is positioned within the cavity, resting on a member mounted therewithin and movable in the cavity to vary the spacing of the solid CO.sub.2 from the heat conductive plate, thus to vary the cooling effect of the solid CO.sub.2.