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US 4,848,091 AGranted
Refrigerated table-bar
AssigneeInstabar Corporation
InventorSolly Border
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Abstract
A portable refrigerated table-bar useful in the hospitality industry comprises an upright cylindrical cabinet having a table top, a centrally disposed dual tube arrangement for raising or lowering slidingly a pair of trays affixed thereto in spaced apart relation and a thermoelectric refrigerating unit disposed within the lower portion of the cabinet. The sliding movement of the trays is activated by electromechanical means associated therewith. One tray is provided with a plurality of depressions for accomodation of beverage bottles.
Claims13
A refrigerated table-bar comprising, in combination:
- an upright cabinet having a base structure, a refrigerated chamber enclosed in a cylindrical body and a round table top wall;
- a thermoelectric refrigerating unit disposed in said base structure;
- a central upright actuating mechanism imparting vertical motion including a tube means positioned between upper end of said base structure and underside of said table top wall, said tube means comprising an outer tube, an inner tube and a gas spring;
- a lower tray affixed transversely to lower portion of said tube means comprising a plurality of concave depressions adapted for placing beverage bottles therein;
- an upper tray affixed to upper portion of said tube means in parallel relation to said lower tray and supported by a plate secured to said tube means;
- said lower and upper trays being disposed inside said chamber and adapted for upward and downward movement;
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- electromechanical means to activate said outer tube for said vertical motion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.