Abstract: A pre-insulated cabinet comprises a cabinet body and a fire retardant backing covering the outer surfaces of the cabinet. Fireproof seal may be further attached on the outer edge of peripheral surfaces of the cabinet to further strengthen the fire retardancy of the cabinet.

Abstract: A vacuum insulated refrigerator cabinet comprises a substantially gas-tight container that is filled with a porous core and a gas absorber that communicates with said container and is filled with a gas adsorbent material. Between the container and the gas absorber there is provided a valve adapted to close the communication between the container and the gas absorber, and a heater is provided for heating the gas absorber in order to evacuate gases when the valve is closed.

Abstract: A fire-resistant container for use as a safe. The container is formed of steel and is lined on its inner surface with fire-resistant materials. The preferred fire-resistant materials include mineral-filled paper-faced sheet material, commonly known as “sheetrock,” “gypsum board,” or “drywall.” The sheet material is provided in various thicknesses depending upon the location within the container. An air space is also provided between the fire-resistant materials and the wall. A front wall of the container is formed with an offset jamb for receiving a safe door having a conventional combination lock controlling a plurality of livebolts which are engaged behind a flange formed in the jamb. The door is fitted with fire resistant materials in similar fashion to the container walls, preferably magnesium board, and the jamb is gasketed in intumescent material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a domestic refrigerator or freezer that has a food storage compartment delimited by insulated walls and by one or more access doors to the compartment. One or more walls or doors are provided with a metallic film, preferably a metallised polymeric film, capable of enhancing the performance of the refrigerator with regard to energy saving.

Abstract: A thermal insulation box has a front panel removably attached to an upper front part of its casing body and a top plate removably disposed on the top of the casing body. The front panel has in its panel body a front frame member for preventing deformation of sidewalls of the casing body molded by a synthetic resin integrally therewith. The panel body has an engaging portion that is engageable with a counterpart engaging portion formed in the top plate.

Abstract: A heat-insulating wall, such as a refrigerator door or housing, includes a substantially vacuum-tight outer paneling, an inner paneling, a substantially vacuum-tight connecting diaphragm formed from material having low heat conduction, a diaphragm cover formed from material having low heat conduction, and a protective profile with an opposite magnetic pole or a magnetic seal. The diaphragm is respectively vacuum-tightly connected to the inner paneling and to the outer paneling at free borders thereof. The outer paneling, the diaphragm, and the inner paneling define an evacuable cavity that is filled with an evacuable supporting material. The diaphragm cover covers at least a part of the diaphragm. The protective profile is secured one or both of the inner paneling and the outer paneling and substantially covers the diaphragm cover.

Abstract: A molded unitary storage cabinet and cabinet assembly for storage of supplies or retail stock, the cabinet assembly including at least two cabinet units; where the cabinet units are a butted or adjoined side by side; where each cabinet unit includes: inner and outer polymeric surfaces; formed by molding; where surfaces are defined by multiple joined surfaces; and where each cabinet unit comprises two side walls, one back wall, and a bottom or floor. The inner surfaces surround and define a hollow for containing, within the hollow, supplies or retail stock. An opening is formed in a front portion, opposite the back wall of the cabinet unit, for access to the hollow for storing supplies or retail stock. The back wall of the cabinet unit has an opening for allowing access to electrical outlets, plumbing, and other resources. A serving/work surface is fixedly attached to the upper edges of the side walls and back wall.

Abstract: A cooling receptacle capable of making an installing operation of a handle simpler and fixing the handle on an exterior member or material strongly is provided. The cooling receptacle having a storage room in a heat-insulated housing which has an opening in a front side, said opening being adjustable to open or close by a door, comprising a cut formed in an exterior member of the door a screw hole formed in the exterior surface near the cut, a handle base connected to the cut so as to cover the cut, and a main body of the handle provided in the handle base and fixed in the exterior member by a screw which is screwed to the screw hole, said handle base being provided with a flange extending to a back surface of the exterior member in which the screw hole is placed, and said flange having an installing section for a nut member or material which is held between a holding section and the exterior member by screw.

Abstract: A refrigeration appliance includes a thermally insulating housing and a thermally insulating door. At least one of the housing and the door define an evacuated interspace and have an evacuated thermal insulation filling the interspace, a shaped, thermoplastic, substantially gas and water vapor impermeable outer cladding, and a shaped, thermoplastic, substantially gas and water vapor impermeable inner cladding. The inner cladding and the outer cladding substantially surround the interspace in a vacuum-tight manner. The cladding can be formed from polyolefins, polyvinylidene chloride, perfluoroalkoxy polymers. For reducing gas permeability, the cladding can be formed from ethylene/vinyl alcohol copolymer, polyacrylonitrile, and polyamide. The claddings can have co-extruded and/or laminated layers. The cladding can include a sputtered metal layer and/or a plastic/metal composite foil. The cladding can be formed from a thermoformed or blow-molded plastic.

Abstract: A heat-insulating wall has two spaced-apart, at least essentially vacuum-tight cover layers, between which an evacuable heat-insulation material is provided and which are connected to one another by a vacuum-tight connecting profile which runs along the free edges of the cover layers. The connecting profile has a membrane which spans at least essentially the distance between the cover layers. The connecting profile is made up of a plurality of profile sections adjoining one another in a vacuum-tight manner. At the adjoining ends of the profile sections, the membrane has an end section with a thickness of at least approximately the material thickness of the cover layers.

Abstract: A heat-insulating wall, such as a refrigerator door or housing, includes a substantially vacuum-tight outer paneling, an inner paneling, a substantially vacuum-tight connecting diaphragm formed from material having low heat conduction, a diaphragm cover formed from material having low heat conduction, and a protective profile with an opposite magnetic pole or a magnetic seal. The diaphragm is respectively vacuum-tightly connected to the inner paneling and to the outer paneling at free borders thereof. The outer paneling, the diaphragm, and the inner paneling define an evacuable cavity that is filled with an evacuable supporting material. The diaphragm cover covers at least a part of the diaphragm. The protective profile is secured one or both of the inner paneling and the outer paneling and substantially covers the diaphragm cover.

Abstract: A storage cabinet for use on a golf cart has a body having an upper compartment and a lower compartment. The body is removably attached to and supported by the golf cart. The upper compartment has an upper closure member. The lower compartment has a lower closure member releasably attached to the lower compartment. Each closure member can be hinged to its respective compartment. The body may have a platform between the lower compartment and the golf cart to raise the lower compartment. The lower compartment has shelves. The shelves may be removable or fixed. Removable shelves can be placed at various heights within the lower compartment. The upper compartment is a thermally insulated container, or holds a thermally insulated container.

Abstract: A storage apparatus such as a refrigerator includes a heat-insulated housing having a storage compartment defined by a ceiling, a bottom, two side walls, and a rear wall and a front opening, and a partition frame including a horizontal frame and a vertical frame and mounted on the heat-insulated housing so as to partition the front opening into a plurality of access openings, the access openings having doors respectively. The horizontal frame is formed into a single member fixed to both side walls of the heat-insulated housing so as to extend between them. The vertical frame is formed so as to extend between the ceiling of the heat-insulated housing and the horizontal frame and/or between the bottom of the heat-insulated housing and the horizontal frame.

Abstract: A heat insulation box body includes inner and outer boxes forming a shell of the heat insulation box body and triangular structural materials inserted in the shell held by close-contact by means of a vacuum. Further, at the time of disassembling the heat insulation box body after scrapping, a shell surface is cut and air is introduced into the inside of the shell to return the state of the shell to an atmospheric pressure state and then respective members are separated from each other.

Abstract: A heat insulation box body includes inner and outer boxes forming a shell of the heat insulation box body and triangular structural materials inserted in the shell held by close-contact by means of a vacuum. Further, at the time of disassembling the heat insulation box body after scrapping, a shell surface is cut and air is introduced into the inside of the shell to return the state of the shell to an atmospheric pressure state and then respective members are separated from each other.

Abstract: A thermal insulation panel exhibits little or no warping due to temperature differences between different portions of the panel. The panel comprises insulation material and an envelope for encapsulating the insulation material. The envelope comprises a base member and a cover member. The cover member is supported by the base member in a floating and sealing engagement with the base member. The cover member can slide relative to the base member to compensate for differential thermal expansion effects on the respective base member and cover member. In an alternative embodiment the cover member is adapted to be exposed to a temperature significantly below the temperature to which the base member is exposed. The cover member is formed of a metal having a low coefficient of thermal expansion to compensate for differential thermal expansion effects in the respective base member and cover member. The cover member and the base member are joined to provide the envelope with a hermetic seal.

Abstract: A heat-insulating housing, such as for an oven chamber of a household oven or a refrigeration chamber of a household refrigerating appliance, includes at least one working space which is surrounded by housing walls and can be closed by a door. The housing walls are formed from two substantially dimensionally rigid housing shells which are at a spacing from each other and together substantially enclose an intermediate space that can be evacuated and is filled with heat-insulating material which can be introduced loosely.

Abstract: A cabinet structure is thermally insulated by placing a first insulation material directly upon a surface of the cabinet structure and then covering the insulation material with a barrier sheet that is affixed along an annular edge portion thereof to the cabinet structure. In this manner, the insulation material is retained within a chamber defined between the barrier sheet and the cabinet structure. This chamber is then evacuated to a low pressure, generally in the order of 0.1-10 mm Hg, and sealed.

Abstract: The heat insulation wall is a sandwich formed by two outer, at least substantially vacuum-tight, spaced-apart surface layers and a thermal insulation in between. The outer surface layers are connected to one another in vacuum-tight fashion by a connecting profile that extends along their contour. The connecting profile has an essentially U-shaped cross section and it is composed of a plurality of profile sections. The connecting profile and the surface layers together enclosing an evacuable space that is filled with the evacuable thermal insulation material. The profile sections of the connecting profile include corner sections which enclose the corners of the heat insulation wall in one-piece form.

Abstract: A folding wardrobe having a bottom wall, top wall and left and right side walls which are each constructed of front and rear panels. The rear panels of each wall are fixed to a back panel and extend forwardly from a front face of a back panel. The front panels of each of the bottom, top and left and right side walls are hinged to the rear panels of each of the side walls so that the front panels of each of the walls can be folded to a stowed position overlying the back panel.

Abstract: An insulated structure is formed by injection of a foamed thermal-insulating material created by foaming into a space between a plastic board and metal plate with a disposition of copper pipes. A non-halogenated organophosphorus compound having a molecular weight over 150 as an additive with an OH group as a functional group is mixed with the raw materials of the foamed thermal-insulating material including polyol, a foam stabilizer, a catalyst, a foaming agent having at least one component of hydrocarbon, and an organic polyisocyanates. By adding a non-halogenated organophosphorus compound, which has a molecular weight over 150 as an additive with an OH group as a functional group, the burning rate of the foamed thermal-insulating material becomes the same as that of the foamed thermal-insulating material which uses CFC11 as a foaming agent.

Abstract: A switchgear cabinet having a rack assembled from a plurality of frame legs bent at the side walls. The rack has open, vertical sides which are closed off by side walls and a rear wall fastened to facing frame legs of the rack. A cabinet door is hingedly connected to vertical frame legs of the rack front against which it is arrested in the closed position. The rear and side walls are covered by corresponding protective walls spaced apart from the rear and side walls and connected to facing vertical frame legs of the rack. The cabinet door is double-walled, an outer door wall of which is spaced apart from an inner door wall thereof and forms receptacle spaces for seals, hinges and locking elements free in the direction of vertical edges of the outer door wall. The protective walls of the side walls have beveled protective wall vertical edges which cover the free space between the protective wall of the rear wall and the receptacle space between the outer door wall and the rack.

Abstract: A drawer head which is readily removable and replaceable from the front of a conventional drawer body is disclosed. The drawer head generally takes the form of a rectangular cover panel sized to cover the front panel of a drawer body. An arcuate handle extends outwardly along the top of the cover panel for allowing a user to easily grip the drawer head in order to slide the drawer in and out of a cabinet. The drawer head includes an elongated slot extending substantially between the sides of cover panel and being adapted to receive a header flange of a drawer body. To attach the drawer head to a conventional drawer body, the header flange of the drawer body is inserted through the elongated slot so that the header flange supports the drawer head with the drawer head in a contiguous relationship with the front panel of the drawer body. Fasteners are then used to secure the bottom of the drawer head to the drawer body.

Abstract: An end member or "patch end" of a supermarket food display case includes a pair of substantially parallel panels and an insert extending around the periphery of the panels that interconnects the panels. A foamed insulation material is installed in the cavity defined by the insert and the panels. A decorative strip covers the insert and is releasably attached to the insert so that the decorative strip can be installed, removed, and replaced as necessary to conform to different color schemes.

Abstract: A refrigerator door has an outer member formed from a folded sheet of steel, with a front panel and a perpendicularly projecting flange forming a cavity. A reinforcing member of thin sheet steel has a front panel, smaller than the outer member front panel, with a perpendicularly projecting flange. The reinforcing member is positioned in the cavity. A body of insulation foamed-in-place in the cavity secures the reinforcing member within the cavity in spaced apart relationship with the outer member.

Abstract: A semiconductor processing system, such as a system for scrubbing both sides of a wafer at the same time, that includes a brush box containment apparatus for use with highly-acidic or other volatile chemical solutions, a roller positioning apparatus and a (brush) placement device.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes a front face surrounding the front openings of the storage compartments. Operation of the refrigerator tends to cause some portions of the face to be colder than the dew point temperature of the surrounding air. Moisture in the surrounding air tends to condense on such colder than dew point portions. Sheets of aluminum foil are in intimate contact with the inside of the case, extend along those portions of the face subject to condensation and project onto adjacent areas of the case which are warmer than the dew point temperature. This keeps the temperature of those portions subject to condensation above the dew point temperature. Portions of the doors, such as the adjacent peripheral walls of doors on multi-compartment units, also may tend to be below the dew point temperature. Sheets of aluminum foil are positioned in intimate contact with the inside of those portions of the doors and project onto adjacent areas of the doors which are warmer than the dew point temperature.

Abstract: A temperature-controlled cabinets, particularly, refrigerators, freezers, fridge-freezers and drinks coolers (chillers) which, in order to overcome the problem of inferior insulative properties of alternative polyurethane foams used to reduce the emission of CFC's during injection and setting of foamed polyurethane, provides a cabinet within which a controllable stable temperature may be maintained. This cabinet includes an inner container (25a), an outer shell (10a), and a thermally insulating material (45a) sandwiched therebetween, wherein at least a portion of a front side (50a) of the outer shell (10a) has a panel (85a) which is displaced outwardly from the rest of the front side (50a) of the outer shell (10a). In a preferred embodiment, the cabinet forms a chest freezer (5a).

Abstract: A refrigerated cooler having a moisture proof, fungus proof floor disposed over an existing metal subfloor. The floor includes a plurality of rigid panels each coated to provide moisture resistance. The plurality of panels are precut and butted together to entirely cover the metal subfloor. A baseboard is disposed on the panels flush with the walls of the cooler. At least one coating of a sealant covers the baseboard and the panels. A layer of granular aggregate covers the coating on the baseboard and on the panels. A method for installing the floor sealing structure is disclosed.

Abstract: A room air conditioner designed to provide convenience in assembly and improve productivity by improving the structure of a wall portion for guiding and expelling conditioned air to a room. In the air conditioner, the wall portion includes a lower isolation and upper isolation wall portion. The lower isolation wall portion is molded and formed to provide a base wall, a lower barrier wall, a scroll section, a lower evaporator cover wall, a condensate gutter and a lower control unit chamber. The upper isolation wall portion is molded and formed to provide an upper barrier wall, an upper evaporator cover wall, a brace, and an upper control unit chamber. The lower and upper isolation wall portions are assembled together by latching structures.

Abstract: The camp kitchen cabinet structure of the invention is arranged to employ a housing, having a first row of shelves, each shelf having an abutment plate, with an intermediate row of shelves, each having an abutment plate, wherein the intermediate row includes a lowermost cavity arranged to accommodate various camping paraphernalia having extended height, with each of the shelves of various heights to accommodate various components. A cooler cabinet is selectively received within the cabinet structure of the invention for subsequent use. A top wall includes a hinged member arranged to accommodate storage and a utilizty shelf during use.

Abstract: A storage system (10) incorporates protective shelving (24) of improved construction. The protective shelving (24) includes a semi-rigid overlay (50) covering the top surface and front edges of a rigid undercore (48). The overlay (50) includes a rounded front edge, and raised ribs and alternate grooves extending continuously between the front and rear ends for more strength, resilience and impact resistance.

Abstract: Sandwich elements in the form of slabs, shells and the like, consisting of facings and a rigid polyurethane foam core can be joined together in an airtight and watertight manner when they are provided with edge profiles which are cast from casting materials forming flexible polyurethane foam and which have a groove and a tongue.

Abstract: This invention relates to the use of a barrier film consisting essentially of thermoplastic homo- or copolymer polyester resin to protect a styrenic resin sheet which constitutes the inner liner wall of an insulative cabinet wall of, for example, a refrigeration appliance unit from attack by the halogen-containing blowing agents present in the insulative polyurethane foam found within the cabinet wall.

Abstract: A multiple layer article of a thermoformable structural polymeric layer which is susceptible to damage upon exposure to hydrohalocarbon blowing agents and a polymeric layer which is a barrier to such hydrohalocarbon blowing agents provides a useful refrigerator liner. Related structures are useful for preventing the migration of hydrohalocarbons.

Abstract: An air conditioning or cooling device for a control cabinet with a spacer frame constructed of horizontal and vertical frames sections, each having fastening bores closed by wall panels and a door of the cabinet and being in the shape of a box. The air conditioning or cooling device is designed with its two exterior dimensions being equal to or less than two corresponding clearances between the vertical and horizontal frame sections of one side of the spacer frame and the air conditioning or cooling device is installed in this side. The installation of the air conditioning or cooling device on or in one side of the control cabinet in different positions, with respect to the interior of the control cabinet, is simply accomplished since the outer end area of at least its vertical sides with fastening edges, can be optionally connected directly or with spacing elements to the facing vertical frame sections of the spacer frame.

Abstract: An improved fire-extinguisher cabinet for insertion into a vertical wall surface consisting of double fire wall cabinets creating an internal cavity which hold a fire-retardant material. The improved double-walled fire extinguisher cabinet satisfies all the requirements of the Uniform Building Code 43-6 "Fire Tests of Through-Penetration Fire Stops" based on ASTM 81-4-83 of the Warnock Hersey International (WHI) of Middleton, Wis., test label for 1- and 2-hour combustible and noncombustible walls. When installed and exposed to a fire the improved double-walled extinguisher cabinet will not permit and/or will retard the spreading of the fire at the installation sight. In addition, the improved double-walled fire extinguisher cabinet provides a convenient, easily accessible, cabinet for containment of a fire-fighting apparatus.