Refrigeration – Display type – With air controlling or directing means
Patent
1990-02-22
1991-10-22
Tapolcai, William E.
Refrigeration
Display type
With air controlling or directing means
62251, A47F 304
Patent
active
050583930
ABSTRACT:
A portable, refrigerated article display apparatus for indirectly refrigerating individually packaged articles, such as food items and/or beverages, and promoting impulse buying comprises a base, a hollow housing having a transparent, outer cylindrical-shaped wall and an article support assembly mounted in the interior of the housing atop a rotatable article support carriage. The article support assembly comprises either a shelf unit having a series of interlocking, vertically stacked shelf members adapted to support food items such as prepared sandwiches, a beverage rack having a plurality of vertically extending columns adapted to support beverage containers stacked end-to-end, or a combination shelf unit and beverage rack. A refrigeration system circulates refrigerated air within a substantially enclosed interior chilling space formed by the article support assembly to chill the surfaces of the shelf unit and/or beverage rack in the displaying space defined between the transparent outer wall and the article support assembly of the hollow housing, so that the food or beverage items carried thereon in the displaying space are effectively yet indirectly refrigerated via radiation and/or conduction. This unique construction also substantially prevents condensation on the transparent outer wall of the housing of the display apparatus since it is isolated from the flow of refrigerated air in the enclosed interior chilling space.
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Benison Harvey W.
Callon Floyd R.
Dyment Limited
Tapolcai William E.
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