Refrigeration – Display type – With air controlling or directing means
Patent
1998-02-10
2000-01-18
Tapolcai, William E.
Refrigeration
Display type
With air controlling or directing means
62414, A47F 304
Patent
active
060148675
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a refrigerating counter, particularly for continuous cooling of bottles and cans, preferably containing beverages, comprising cooling apparatus and cold air supply to said bottles, cans, etc. to be cooled.
The cold air supply may be based on natural and/or forced supply, and the same applies to the removal of warmer air which has accepted heat from the bottles, etc. and which, in a first removal step, is superseded by the supplied cold air. In forced supply/removal, usually fans are used. Natural movement of air presupposes that hot air rises, while cold air will sink. These principles are well known and in general use in i.a. refrigerating counters.
One conventional refrigerating counter design which constructively and functionally has been built up with a view to cool especially beverages in bottles and cans, is represented by cupboard-like refrigerating counters having front glass door(s) and rearwardly positioned shelves, the socalled cupboard or cabinet coolers. Here, bottles and/or cans are arranged in an upright position on horizontal shelves, offered for sale.
A problem of these cabinet coolers for beverages in bottles and/or cans is that the act of opening the cabinet door represents a psychological "barrier" for a possible buyer of cold beverage. Another problem is that the cabinet/shelf arrangement invites the purchaser to take the bottle/can standing closest to the opened cabinet door, and which often is the one placed into the cabinet last and which, consequently, is not cooled or only insufficiently cooled. This causes that the oldest and, thus, coldest bottle/can, will be left untouched hindmost in the cabinet. Other customers will be liable to rummage within the cabinet and to overturn bottles and/or cans while trying to find a bottle/can which is cold. Often, the attendants are brought upon extra work, displacing cold bottles from the inner shelf portions and placing them foremost.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to find a simple solution to these problems and, thus, provide a refrigerating counter, especially for bottles and/or cans, preferably containing beverages, wherein the bottles/cans lie more immediately offered for sale than in the above mentioned cabinet coolers; wherein measures have been taken in order to secure movements in the bottle/can mass so that the respective bottles/cans circulate from a less visible filling position for recently fed in, not cooled bottles/cans to an easily visible take out (removal) position for cooled bottles/cans. Said circulation should be caused naturally, i.e. that the bottles/cans are desired to be moved due to the fact that one or more bottles/cans are removed by a customer. Thus, the coldest bottles, etc. will be found at the most conspicuous place of the refrigerating counter, namely the take out place for the bottles/cans, from where they are removed by the customer and effect new movements in the remaining bottle/can mass.
Said object is achieved in that the refrigerating counter is such shaped and designed that it exhibits the features as defined in the claims.
The following sub claims define advantageous features of embodiments which are conformable and uniform with the invention according to the main claim.
A refrigerating counter shaped and designed in accordance with the apparatus of claim 1, comprises one, but preferably more drawers for occasional, disorderly accommodation (helter-skelter, resting supportingly against each other while exhibiting varying longitudinal axis slope) of bottles, cans and other containers or other goods to be cooled (meat, fish, vegetables, fruit and berries in portion packages), and formed with an upwardly open front portion forming the place where to take out the bottles, etc.--"the take out place".
In order to secure a natural displacement of e.g. bottles which in uncooled condition are placed innermost within a drawer, ahead in a direction forwardly towards the upwardly open front portion of the drawer, where the
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