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US 2026/0264731 A1Published application
Grocery containment system for last mile of order fulfillment
AssigneeVesture Corporation
InventorsByron C. OWENS, Henry Chad BROWN
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AssigneeVesture Corporation
InventorsByron C. OWENS, Henry Chad BROWN
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A cart assembly includes a cart and a container assembly that is removably supported on the cart. The container assembly may simply rest on a platform of the cart, or may be removable secured to the cart. The container assembly includes a crate and a liner that is removably received within and supported by walls defining an interior cargo space of the crate. The liner itself includes walls containing a phase change material. The walls may be defined by panels having interior spaces in which components encasing the phase change material are contained. The liners are collapsed and stored in a freezer until needed. The liners are then placed within the crates and food items requiring refrigeration are placed within the lined cargo spaced of the crates. The crates are then staged awaiting customer pickup or packed in a vehicle for customer delivery all without further refrigeration.
1-100. (canceled)
A method of storing liners so that the liners are ready for use in cooling applications, each liner comprising a plurality of panels that define a generally box shaped configuration when the liner is erected for lining a crate, a plurality of the panels of the liner comprising a phase change material, the method comprising (a) collapsing the erected liners to a generally slim height and vertically stacking the liners on top of each other in a walk-in freezer, the step of collapsing the erected lines comprising collapsing each liner by folding the liner along fold lines that lie within a common plane, the fold lines comprising a fold line in a first end panel of the liner, a fold line within a bottom panel of the liner, and a fold line within a second end panel of the liner that is opposite to the first end panel of the liner;
A method of storing liners so that the liners are ready for use in cooling applications, each liner comprising a plurality of panels that define a generally box shaped configuration when the liner is erected for lining a crate, a plurality of the panels of the liner comprising a phase change material, the method comprising (a) collapsing the erected liners to a generally slim height and vertically stacking the liners on top of each other in a temperature-controlled area, the step of collapsing the erected lines comprising collapsing each liner by folding the liner along fold lines that lie within a common plane, the fold lines comprising a fold line in a first end panel of the liner, a fold line within a bottom panel of the liner, and a fold line within a second end panel of the liner that is opposite to the first end panel of the liner;
A method of storing liners so that the liners are ready for use in heating applications, each liner comprising a plurality of panels that define a generally box shaped configuration when the liner is erected for lining a crate, a plurality of the panels of the liner comprising a phase change material, the method comprising (a) collapsing the erected liners to a generally slim height and vertically stacking the liners on top of each other in a temperature-controlled area, the step of collapsing the erected lines comprising collapsing each liner by folding the liner along fold lines that lie within a common plane, the fold lines comprising a fold line in a first end panel of the liner, a fold line within a bottom panel of the liner, and a fold line within a second end panel of the liner that is opposite to the first end panel of the liner;
107-114. (canceled)
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