Abstract: A separate-type refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator comprises: a cooling system having a compressor, a condenser and an evaporator for generating cool air, the evaporator having a first evaporating portion and a second evaporating portion which are arranged in series; a main cabinet for forming a main storage room; an auxiliary cabinet installed adjacent to the main cabinet, being spaced from the main cabinet by a predetermined distance, for forming an auxiliary storage room, so that the cool air communicates between the main storage room of the main cabinet and the auxiliary storage room of the auxiliary cabinet; a main fan installed inside the main cabinet, for transferring the cool air from the first evaporating portion to the main storage room of the main cabinet; and an auxiliary fan installed inside the main cabinet, for transferring the cool air from the second evaporating portion to the auxiliary storage room of the auxiliary cabinet.

Abstract: A gasket assembly for use in side-by-side, or French doors for a refrigerator has door stops which bear the door closure forces by engaging the top and bottom walls of the refrigerator food compartment. The door stops form part of an edge flange of a retainer that extends along the length of the refrigerator door. The retainer acts as a seat for a flexible gasket and maintains the integrity of the flexible gasket seal alignment between the side-by-side doors. The advantage provided is that a thermal seal barrier is maintained along the entire length of the door by the door stops maintaining the gasket a constant distance from the top and bottom walls of the food compartment.

Abstract: An energy transfer system is provided for a household or commercial refrigeration appliance. The energy transfer system includes a fluid passage disposed in the housing of the appliance for enabling the transfer of a fluid into, through, and out of the housing. The fluid is circulated through a heat exchanger which can be disposed outside of the home or underground so that the fluid is cooled by the outside air or by the ground.

Abstract: A new Organic Refrigeration System for refrigerating food at an optimum temperature range by taking into account the vertical temperature stratification that develops in a conventional refrigerator. The inventive device includes a refrigerator, a vertical shaft secured within the refrigerator, an upper drum, a middle drum, and a lower drum rotatably secured to the vertical shaft slidably on top of one another forming a cylindrical compartmentalized storage unit. A plurality of storage compartments formed to a syncline shape which removably fit within the drums for storing produce.

Abstract: An energy transfer system for a household refrigeration appliance. The energy transfer system includes a compartment for enclosing a condenser which is associated with the refrigeration appliance, and a set of conduits for enabling the transfer of outside air into, through, and out of the compartment. The system also includes a movable barrier for selectively controlling the transfer of air through the compartment. In one form of the present invention, the system also includes a thermostatically actuated fan for forcing outside air into, through, and out of the compartment in response to a predetermined temperature.

Abstract: A refrigerator provided with an air curtain generator in a refrigerating room is disclosed. A supply duct for an air curtain is installed at the uppermost portion of the refrigerating room. A crossflow fan is provided within the supply duct, and a supply port is formed at a terminal end of the supply duct adjacent to a door for the refrigerating room. The supply port is slit-shaped and extends along a width direction of the refrigerating room. At least one step is provided on a lower surface of the inside of the supply duct. The supply duct is communicated with a suction duct constituting a cooling system of the refrigerator. When the door is opened, the air curtain is formed over the open side of the refrigerating room to block the invasion of the surrounding air.

Abstract: A refrigerator door is provided with a dairy compartment defined, at least in part, by a first dairy compartment member and a second dairy compartment member. The first dairy compartment member is movably connected to an inner wall portion of the door and the second dairy compartment member is slidably attached to the first dairy compartment member. In accordance with a first embodiment of the invention, the first dairy compartment member is constituted by a dairy compartment cover that is pivotally connected to a pair of spaced dike portions formed integral with a liner of the door. In a second embodiment, the first dairy compartment member constitutes a dairy compartment defining shelf member or bucket that is selectively, removably attached to the dike portions. In each of the first and second embodiments, the second dairy compartment member constitutes an element which is slidably attached to the first dairy compartment member and divides the dairy compartment into varying volume storage zones.

Abstract: A refrigerator for selectively discharging vertical stream of cool air to the front of the freezer and freshfood compartments is disclosed.

Abstract: A refrigerator having a middle fresh food compartment and a relatively large bottom freezer compartment arranged below the fresh food compartment and a relatively small freezer compartment arranged above the fresh food compartment. The bottom freezer compartment preferably supports a drawer including a frame and a removable bin. Cool air can be supplied to the compartments of the refrigerator by employing a two fan control system such that no electro-mechanical baffles are required. Alternatively, cool air can be directed to the compartments of the refrigerator by use of a baffle which requires only a single electro-mechanical device to control air flow into three different compartments. The baffle includes a main rotary damper which can be positioned to provide proportional amounts of chilled air to the three separate compartments based on the degree of cooling required.

Abstract: An upright split door, ultra low temperature freezer which includes a single chamber cooled by a cold wall refrigeration system and accessible by separate upper and lower doors. The refrigeration system maintains the chamber at a substantially constant, ultra low temperature, such as within the range of about -50.degree. C. to -90.degree. C. Short term items may be stored in and accessed from an upper portion of the chamber by the upper door without causing the very cold air in the freezer chamber from spilling out the lower portion of the chamber. Long term items may be stored in the lower portion of the chamber and accessed by the lower door. A horizontal mullion is mounted to the freezer side walls and extends between the two doors to provide a seal for respective lower and upper edges of the two doors. A self-regulating heater strip is disposed within the mullion between upper and lower resilient sealing bulbs extending horizontally to prevent condensation build up in the mullion area.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes a freezer, a fresh food compartment and an evaporator chamber. A supply conduit conducts cold air from the evaporator chamber to the top rear of the fresh food compartment and a return conduit conducts warm air from the fresh food compartment to the evaporator chamber. A fan mounted adjacent the bottom rear portion of the fresh food compartment directs air up the rear wall of the fresh food compartment to enhance air circulation in the fresh food compartment and reduce moisture condensation therein.

Abstract: An energy-efficient refrigerator includes a refrigerator control system for generating refrigerator control signals responsive to cooling demands of respective refrigerator compartments; a refrigeration apparatus coupled to the control system; and a multiplex damper system disposed to selectively direct the cooling-air from the refrigeration apparatus to compartments in response to the refrigerator control signals. The multiplex damper system comprises a single movable control damper disposed to direct cooling-air flow to a single or multiple compartments. The evaporator and its associated fan and a variable speed compressor are independently controlled by the refrigerator control system. The variable speed compressor typically comprises a continuously variable speed motor such as an electronically commutated motor.

Abstract: A cargo transportation apparatus includes an elongated body having a front end and a rear end and defining an interior cavity. The body is configured to selectively define at least three longitudinal compartments within the interior cavity and to provide access to each longitudinal compartment from the rear end. The apparatus also includes an air conditioning system configured to independently control temperature within at least two of the selectively definable longitudinal compartments.

Abstract: An improved cooling air circulating structure for a refrigerator which is capable of enabling a smooth flowing of a cooled air by providing a vertically arranged duct unit in a refrigerating compartment thereof and integrally forming a cooled air returning path with the duct unit, which includes a shroud disposed between the evaporator chamber and the grill panel for distributing cooling air generated in the evaporating chamber into the freezing compartment and the refrigerating compartment, respectively, and a duct unit disposed in the refrigerating compartment, comprising an upper freshening section duct portion disposed at an upper rear portion of the refrigerating compartment for providing cooling air into a freshening section of the refrigerating compartment and for returning an air circulated in the upper freshening section portion to the evaporator chamber through an air flow path, and a lower refrigerating section duct portion of which an upper end is integrally connected with a bottom portion of the

Abstract: A refrigerator having a chilled air circulation system in which the chilled air in a refrigerating compartment is exhausted through the upper portion and the lower portion of the refrigerating compartment, is disclosed. Inlets for directing the chilled air into the refrigerating compartment are formed at the side wall and the inner wall of the refrigerator. At the lower portion of the refrigerating compartment, a chilled air exhausting duct for exhausting the chilled air, is installed. The chilled air exhausted from the refrigerating compartment through the chilled air exhausting duct is directed through an air duct formed between an intermediate wall and an outer wall toward an attaching plate installed at the upper end portion of the air duct. The chilled air is primarily cooled by the attaching plate and secondarily cooled by the evaporator. Uniform cooling of the refrigerating compartment can be achieved and the cooling efficiency of the evaporator can be increased.

Abstract: An improved door structure for a refrigerator capable of increasing usable space of refrigerator by removing an intermediate insulation wall of a refrigerating compartment and of preventing cooled air in the refrigerating compartment from discharging to the outside of the refrigerator by providing a door sealing member which includes a door sealing member hinged to the door so as to prevent a cooled air from discharging to the outside of the system and vertically rotatable in the door opening direction, wherein a cam provided at both sides of the door sealing member and a cam guide provided at a side wall of the refrigerating compartment, so that the door sealing member is rotatable in cooperation with the cam and the cam guide.

Abstract: A cool air supplying apparatus capable of dispersedly supplying cool air into the refrigerator by use of a swing plate disposed within a cool duct is disclosed. The cool duct comprises a main duct extending through a freezing room and a refrigerating room and at least one sub-duct communicated with the main duct and having a plurality of holes for supplying the cool air. The swing plate is disposed within the sub-duct along its longitudinal direction. A shaft is disposed within the main duct to be capable of reciprocating along its longitudinal direction and is operatively connected with the swing plate. A motor is installed at an upper portion of the main duct, and a crank is operatively connected with each of a rotary shaft of the motor and the shaft.

Abstract: A see-through refrigerator/freezer is provided which consists of a cabinet having a plurality of compartments for storing food items therein and a plurality of transparent doors, each located in front of each compartment. A person can look into each compartment before opening the respective transparent door to retrieve the food items therefrom.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes a food storage compartment having a rear wall. Mounted on the rear wall is a vertical air duct for conducting cool air to the compartment. The air duct includes first and second vertical air passages, and a row of vertically spaced discharge openings disposed between the air passages. Each discharge opening includes first and second horizontally adjacent discharge portions, one of which extends higher than the other. The higher discharge portion communicates with a respective air passage by a branch duct. One of the branch ducts of each discharge opening intersects both its respective discharge portion and its respective air passage at higher levels than does the other branch duct of that same discharge opening. Each branch duct includes vertically spaced upper and lower walls, the lower wall projecting farther into the respective air passage than the upper wall.

Abstract: The present invention provides a refrigeration process and apparatus which includes refrigeration means detachably connected by conduits, preferably insulated, to a series of individually refrigerated compartments, preferably drawer units, having evacuation conduits also detachably connected to the drawer units to direct circulating cold air flow through each individual drawer without a vast unrestricted flow of cold air throughout a refrigerator housing.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a pacifier shaped teether with an internal bladder filled with food grade propalyne glycol which can be brought to freezing temperatures while maintaining it's liquid nature. There is a hollow portion in the mouth guard of the pacifier which is connected to a hemispherical chamber allowing room for expansion of the bladder into the chamber as the nipple is being sucked. One or more pacifier shaped teether(s) may be stored in a portable, insulated, gel ice filled storage container thereby keeping the pacifiers cold for several hours.

Abstract: An enclosed structure is provided for use with a refrigerator having a door assembly. The enclosed structure preferably contains superinsulation materials and a plurality of matching drawers. The enclosed structure preferably includes corner joints which minimize thermal energy transfer between adjacent superinsulation panels. The refrigerator may include a cooling system having a thermoelectric device for maintaining the temperature within the refrigerator at selected values. If desired, a fluid cooling system and an active gasket may also be provided between the door assembly and the enclosed structure. The fluid cooling system preferably includes a second thermoelectric device to maintain the temperature of fluid flowing through the active gasket at a selected value. The drawers associated with the refrigerator may be used for gathering, processing, shipping and storing food or other perishable items.

Abstract: A deodorizing device for a refrigerator is disclosed. The deodorizing device includes a deodorizing unit which is detachably mounted to a cooling air return port of a cooling chamber and sucks the cooling air laden with odor and bacteria thereinto by the blowing force of a cooling air fan. The deodorizing unit includes a cooling air grille provided with a plurality of cooling air through holes, a deodorant container provided on each side of the top surface of the grille a guide cover detachably coupled to the grille for guiding the cooling air to the cooling: air return passage, and a fixing plate for fixing the guide cover to an inner case of the freezing chamber so as to mount the deodorizing unit to the second cooling air return port. The fixing plate is placed on the top of the guide cover.

Abstract: A portable produce cooling apparatus capable of cooling produce loaded into a number of transport vehicles simultaneously is disclosed, the apparatus having a number of ports with air egress means, forced air means and air ingress means, the apparatus having a lower common warm air chamber and an upper common cold air chamber separated by a horizontally mounted air-to-water heat exchanger means, such that warm air from each of the transport vehicles enters the lower common warm air chamber, passes upward through the heat exchanger means, into the upper common cold air means, and out the individual air egress means into the transport vehicles.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes a refrigerating compartment, a freezing compartment disposed beneath the refrigerating compartment, and a vegetable compartment disposed beneath the freezing compartment. Air discharged from the refrigerating compartment is conducted to the vegetable compartment. Air discharged from the freezing and vegetable compartments is conducted to the evaporator. Before reaching the evaporator, the air discharged from the freezing and vegetable compartments is combined to create a single air flow of uniform temperature entering the evaporator. The cool air discharged from the freezing compartment is discharged therefrom through separate outlets disposed at front and rear ends of the freezing compartment.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes a refrigerating compartment disposed above a freezing compartment, with a horizontal divider wall disposed therebetween. A vegetable compartment is disposed below the freezing compartment. A kimchi chamber having its own heater rests on the divider wall. An air flow discharged from the kimchi chamber is combined with an air flow discharged from the refrigerating compartment, and those combined air flows are directed to the vegetable compartment. That combining of air flows occurs within the divider wall.

Abstract: A refrigerator with heat exchanger optimally configured to conserve electricity and improve a food storing capability at its best state. The refrigerator includes: a freezing room connected from an evaporator through a circulating passage, the freezing room having the circulating passage which circulates an air cooled by the evaporator; a storage room connected to the freezing room, in which a temperature of the storage room is set higher than that of the freezing room; a flow-in passage connected to the storage room where the air cooled by the evaporator flows into the storage room; a flow-out passage connected from the storage room where a chilled air flows out of the storage room; and a heat exchanger for exchanging heat between the cooled air flowing through the circulating passage and the chilled air flowing through the flow-out passage, so that the temperature inside the storage room is evenly and smoothly stable.

Abstract: A refrigerator has a body forming a compartment, and first and second doors mounted in side-by-side relationship on the body for closing the compartment. Each door is hinged along an outer vertical edge thereof such that the inner vertical edges of the doors face one another and form a gap when the doors are closed. In order to prevent cool air loss through that gap, a leak prevention member is hinged on the back side of the first door for rotation about a vertical axis. When the first door is closed, a pin on the leak prevention member engages a guide groove formed on the body for rotating the leak prevention member to an operative position in which it extends across the gap to resist cool air leakage. A locking element carried by the leak prevention member locks the leak prevention element against rotation to its operative position while the first door is open.

Abstract: This invention concerns a process and device for storing foodstuffs, plants, meat and other organic substances in which the products to be stored are held in a hermetically sealed cold chamber with no apertures, where the temperature is even everywhere and lies in the range from +0.5.degree. to -0.5.degree. C. The device has at least one chamber (1) which can be hermetically sealed by a cover, whereby the chamber (1) and the cover (12) are bordered by double walls enclosing sealed spaces (2, 6) and the sealed spaces (2, 6) are in mutual heat-conducting communication, the inner of the double walls is preferably made of plastic and the sealed spaces (2, 6) are filled with a refrigerated, non-freezing fluid and 10 the outside of the double wall is lagged (3).

Abstract: A refrigerator has a freezer compartment, a refrigeration compartment located beneath the freezer compartment, and a heating/cooling compartment located beneath the refrigeration compartment. The heating/cooling compartment contains its own heating and cooling mechanisms mounted on external surfaces of walls which form the heating/cooling compartment. The heating/cooling compartment can be used to ferment and then store food such as kimchi.

Abstract: A mechanism to control air flow between the freezer and fresh food compartments of a refrigerator includes an elongated air flow tube and a flow control housing with mating planar surfaces angled relative to the longitudinal axis of the air flow tube. A mating gasket is positioned between the planar surfaces and joined to each with adhesive. An electrical conductor extends through the air flow passageway in the tube and housing and includes a plug of material around the conductor's protective cover. A recess in the housing mounts the plug with an angled surface of the plug filling a matching interruption in the housing's planar surface to prevent air leaks around the conductor. The housing and plug include cooperating dimples which receive a capillary tube extending through the air passage.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes an improved air return system providing a channel of air below the crisper pans. Particularly, a separator top is positioned above a separator insulation body to define a space therebetween providing an air flow path for channeling return air flow. An inlet to the space is positioned proximate the front of the separator wall and an outlet is positioned proximate the rear of the separator. An air flow passage through the separator is in communication with the outlet for returning refrigerated air to the freezer compartment.

Abstract: An ice maker module is built on an integrally formed plastic base. One or more ice making modules are stacked on top of an ice bin. Integrally formed within the plastic base is "wet" compartment within which are disposed multiple numbers of evaporators on which water is frozen into ice cubes. The plastic base also separates the wet compartment from a dry compartment in which is mounted refrigeration components and control circuitry. The evaporators are constructed of two plates of stainless steel. Icing sites are located on the flattened sides of a serpentine refrigeration channel formed between depressions in the stainless steel plates. A microcontroller operates the ice making process. Harvesting of the ice cubes is initiated after the ice maker has used an amount of water necessary to make the ice. An ultrasonic range finder monitors the amount of ice in the bin.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes a freezing compartment and a refrigerating compartment located therebelow. A front door to the refrigerating compartment carries vertically spaced shelves for storing food. An air path extends from the freezing compartment to the respective shelves for permitting cold air from the freezing compartment to descend into the shelves to maintain an acceptably cool temperature in the shelves.

Abstract: An ice storage and delivery system is provided for a refrigeration apparatus including a refrigerated compartment housing an ice making apparatus and a door providing selective access to the compartment and including a dispenser for delivering formed ice bodies. The system includes an ice container assembly in the refrigerated compartment having a container for storing ice bodies and an auger for conveying ice bodies from the container to a downwardly facing discharge opening. A platform rests on a shelf in the compartment below the ice making apparatus. The platform includes support means for supporting the container assembly below the ice making apparatus and an ice chute for delivering ice bodies from the container discharge opening to the dispenser. A drive motor is mounted to the platform and is operatively associated with the wire auger for driving the wire auger.

Abstract: A multi-purpose refrigerator includes a main door and a fresh storage compartment mounted on a rear side of said main door and being accessible through an auxiliary door formed in said main door. The fresh storage compartment comprises a multi-section housing mounted to a pair of vertical walls disposed on the rear or inner side of the main door. Each housing section includes front and rear portions. The front portion fits between the walls. The rear portion is wider than the front portion to form shoulders therebetween. The shoulders carry hooks which fit removably into slots formed in rearwardly facing edges of the walls. The housing has openable apertures to communicate said refrigerator compartment with said fresh storage compartment.

Abstract: A storage apparatus comprises a housing for defining a cryogenic storage unit and a plurality of low-temperature chambers disposed one next to the other, the housing including partitions for separating the chambers from one another. Temperature controls for controlling temperature independently in each of the chambers is operatively connected to each of the chambers. Each one of the chambers has access to at least one other chamber contiguous with the one chamber. Supports are provided for holding a plurality of specimens within each chamber. A conveyor or transfer mechanism is provided for transfering selected specimens between contiguous chambers, independently of other specimens in the housing. In addition, access is provided to the housing to enable deposition and removal of given specimens from the housing.

Abstract: A tube and fin-type evaporator is provided for a refrigerator having trapezoidally shaped fins with the wider portion of the fins disposed upstream in the cooling air flow path through the evaporator. The refrigerant tube passes through at least two rows of openings in these fins, and those openings are staggered and of different length to enhance turbulence and reduce tube shielding within the cooling air flow. Projections (dimples) on the fins adjacent the downstream side of each opening are provided to reduce dead air space downstream from the tube. Further, the openings are provided with collars to increase heat transfer between the fins and the tube. These projections and collars also serve to increase rigidity of the fins. The present invention enables the use of relatively small diameter, thin walled refrigerant tubes within the evaporator. Also, the tubes can be hydraulically expanded within the fins to enhance fin to tube contact and decrease heat transfer resistance.

Abstract: An air conditioning system for use in an aeroplane hangar. The hangar includes a fuselage work area for works on a fuselage of an aeroplane and a main-wing work area for works on a main wing of the aeroplane, with the work areas being partitioned by a partition wall. An air conditioning device is provided for conditioning temperature of air to be fed to either work area. Further, a recycling device is provided for cleaning air exhausted from the one area and then feeding the cleaned air to the other area.

Abstract: A refrigerating apparatus is provided which comprises a cabinet (1) with a refrigeration compartment (10) closable by a door (12), which compartment is connected to an evacuating system comprising a vacuum pump (6) arranged in the cabinet and an evacuation pipe (8) between the vacuum pump and said compartment. The apparatus comprises a container (17) closable in a vacuum-tight manner and movable within said compartment (10), and means for detachably connecting the inner space of the container (17) with the pipe (8) of the evacuating system. The means comprise a container pipe (23) provided in a wall (24) of the container (17) through which the inner space of the container can be evacuated, and a hollow elastic element (25) connected to one of the ends of the pipes (8,23) facing each other to form a detachable seal against the other end.

Abstract: The refrigerator of this invention includes a thermal insulating box, an upper storing box and a lower storing box within the thermal insulating box, and a cooling unit arranged above the upper storing box. An interior space within the thermal insulating box is divided into a first passage communicating with a cold air blowing side of the cooling unit to cool the storing box while lowering the cold air and a second passage communicating with a cold air sucking side of the cooling unit to cool the storing box while raising the cold air descended down to the bottom part of the thermal insulating box and to return the cold air to the cooling unit. A space having the cooling unit stored therein is divided by a partition wall into a first chamber having the cooling unit arranged therein and a second chamber having an air blowing fan arranged therein. The partition wall is provided with through-holes at locations corresponding to the cold air passage within the first chamber.

Abstract: A fan device for a refrigerator includes a hollow wall having a front wall portion and a rear wall portion for dividing an interior space of the refrigerator into a heat exchanging zone and a first portion of a storage zone. An air suction opening is formed in the rear wall portion for allowing an air cooled in the heat exchanging zone to be induced into the hollow wall. A fan is disposed in alignment with the air suction opening so as to induce the cooled air. A plurality of forward air outlet slots are formed in the front wall portion for allowing the air in the hollow wall to be blown to the first portion of the storage zone. A rearward air outlet is formed in the rear wall portion for allowing the air in the hollow wall to be blown to a second portion of the storage zone through a duct communicating the rearward air outlet to the second portion.

Abstract: A freshener device for air for use in a refrigerator or freezer compartment for replacing an unwanted odor with a food or fruit-like scent. A process therefor is also provided. The device includes a perforated front plate and a perforated rear plate and a peripheral plate enclosing a chamber containing a selected particle mixture of about a 5 percent food or fruit extract, about 47 percent carbon filter type particles and about 48 percent sodium carbonate particles. The rear plate has a support and attachment means for mounting the device on an inner surface of a refrigerator or freezer wall and spaced therefrom.

Abstract: A refrigerator including: storage chambers formed inside a thermal insulation box having generally rectangular horizontal cross section, said chambers having a duct provided at one rear corner of respective chamber for communication with the rear space behind the storage chambers where cold air is generated by a heat exchanger of the refrigeration unit; rotatable round shelves in the storage chambers; a lamp provided at the other rear corner of the storage chamber; and door pockets provided on the inner surface of the doors, said door pockets extending to front corner space in the storage chambers.

Abstract: Agricultural crops are cooled immediately after harvest to prevent postharvest deterioration. A forced-air cooling system is utilized wherein air permeable containers of produce are stacked in rows within a warehouse to define multiple cooling bays. Each bay is independently operated for the sequential loading, cooling and unloading of its contents without appreciable energy losses to surrounding bays.

Abstract: There is disclosed a refrigerator comprising a first passage defined in a space in the interior of a heat-insulating box to guide cold air from a evaporator downwardly, and a second passage which guides the cold air that has flowed downwardly in the first passage and rises to return to the evaporator, a partition plate which is disposed within the first passage to divide the passage into a passage which communicates the first passage with the second passage in order to allow the flow of the cold air in contact with the upper storage box, and a passage communicating with the second passage, allowing the cold air to flow into the upper storage box out of contact with the upper storage box; a regulating means which is disposed in a cold air passage from the evaporator, and regulates the flow of the cold air into the passage; and a cold air introducing means disposed in the passage.

Abstract: A storage apparatus comprises a housing defining a plurality of chambers disposed one next to the other, the housing including partitions for separating the chambers from one another. Temperature control components are provided for controlling temperature independently in each of the chambers. Access openings are provided in the partitions between the chambers for enabling communication between each chamber and the chamber of chambers contiguous therewith. A support member movably supports a plurality of specimen-containing receptacles within the housing, while a drive is operatively connected to the support member for moving the receptacles from chamber to chamber through the access openings. An access door in the housing enables deposition and removal of a selected one of the receptacles from the housing.

Abstract: A refrigerator comprising a thermal insulation box, a plurality of storing boxes, a cooler, a horizontal passage and a partition plate, wherein the cold air coming from any one of the upper and lower internal spacings is communicated within the horizontal passage along the partition plate, and further the internal spacing of the thermal insulation box is divided into a first passage and a second passage, the horizontal passage and a first passage are divided into an upper segment and a lower segment by a partition plate, and the upper passage and the lower passage defined in the horizontal passage are communicated at a side opposite to a side communicating with the first passage.

Abstract: A refrigerator which includes cooling chamber including a refrigerating chamber and a freezing chamber, an axial flow fan for circulating air within the cooling chamber, a heat exchanger for cooling the air circulated by the axial flow fan, a suction side space so formed as to guide the air cooled by the heat exchanger from the heat-exchanger to the axial flow fan, and a sound absorbing material for absorbing noises produced in the suction side space and the cooling chamber so as not to leak outside the refrigerator, with the suction side space and the cooling chamber respectively having resonance dimensions for resonation at specific frequency regions. The suction side space is set, in its resonance dimension, to the frequency region at which the sound absorbing material can absorb the sound in an efficient manner.

Abstract: A warehouse having a cluster of inner cells for receiving and storing processed frozen food products at extremely low temperatures. The inner cells are surrounded by outer cells for receiving and storing processed refrigerated food products at a more moderate temperature. The outer cells function to insulate the inner cell from cooling temperature losses resulting from higher temperatures externally of the outer cell. The inner and outer cells being cooled by heat transfer of rising warm air from the cells to cooled air being driven by combination evaporator and fan units through closed loop finned duct systems located beneath the cell ceilings.