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US 2023/0404293 A1Published application
Air curtain guides for refrigerators
AssigneeAerofoil Energy Limited
InventorPaul MCANDREW
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Abstract
An air curtain guide mounting kit for attaching an air curtain guide to an open-display refrigerator, the kit comprising: an arm adapted to be mounted to the refrigerator; and a bracket comprising an engagement section adapted to be connected to an air curtain guide, and a mounting section connected to the engagement section and adapted to form a hinged connection with the arm.
Claims21
-34. (canceled)
An apparatus, comprising:
- an arm configured to be coupled to a refrigerator;
- a bracket coupled to the arm via a hinge and configured to dispose an air curtain guide in an air curtain of the refrigerator;
- a lock configured to reversibly fixedly couple the arm to the bracket such that when the lock is in a first state the bracket and the arm are prevented from moving relative to one another and when the lock is in a second state the bracket can move relative to the arm via the hinge,
- an actuator configured to move the lock from the first state to the second state.
1 more element
A method, comprising:
- manipulating an actuator to move a lock from a first state to a second state;
- rotating a bracket and air curtain guide coupled to an arm disposed in a refrigerator after manipulating the actuator, the lock preventing the bracket from rotating relative to the arm while in the first state, rotating the bracket and the air curtain guide moving the air curtain guide to provide access to a portion of the refrigerator that was obstructed by the air curtain guide prior to the bracket and the air curtain guide being rotated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.