Refrigerated milk container
OwnerRudolph Abate, Sr., George Spectorinventors
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Abstract
A refrigerated box mounted through an outside wall of a house and which is used by a home delivery route milkman to deposit bottles of milk therein; the box having a door on its outer side for access to the milkman and a door on its inner side for allowing a resident inside the home to remove the milk; a lock automatically locking the outer door when closed, and a hidden lock release being made known only to the milkman so to prevent other strangers from access to the box interior.
Claims4
The combination of a refrigerated box and a wall comprising a box with a refrigerating unit mounted under the bottom side of said box, said box being mounted in an opening in said wall, said box having a hinged outside door at one end and a hinged inside door at an opposite end, including a shelf mounted inside said box vertically movable relative to said bottom side, said shelf having a downward hook engagable with an upward hook of said outside door when said shelf is moved downwardly against a compression spring to lock the outside door, said shelf in downward position engaging a switch on said bottom side to close an electric circuit to actuate the refrigerating unit, whereby placement of packages on said shelf moves said shelf to the downward position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.