Patents by Inventor Phillip A. Smith

Phillip A. Smith has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4972682
    Abstract: A cooler cabinet having a refrigeration system, and particularly devised to maintain articles to-be-cooled, such as milk cartons and the like, and permit the continuous entry into the cabinet enclosure for the removal of the articles is disclosed as having a main chamber for the articles, an upper, separated chamber for enclosing the evaporator for the refrigeration system and a lower, separated chamber for enclosing condenser and compressor. Air distribution fans are positioned in the upper chamber and are arranged to produce circulatory air movement across the evaporator to be cooled thereby in the upper chamber, then downwardly along the front wall of the main chamber then across the floor of the main chamber, then upwardly along the back wall of the chamber in an air return path and back to the vicinity of the evaporator for continued recirculation. Wire grates are positioned on the floor and the front wall along which air is moved downwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1990
    Assignee: Specialty Equipment Companies, Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip A. Smith, Robert A. Johnson, Michael A. Branz
  • Patent number: D314000
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1991
    Assignee: Specialty Equipment Companies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert A. Johnson, Phillip A. Smith