Latch for cooler
AssigneeTrue Manufacturing Co., Inc.
InventorArthur W. Trulaske
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Abstract
Conversion apparatus (1) for a multiple door cooler (C). A seal (3) for forming a seal between a door and the cooler housing (H), when the door is closed, has a base element (5) which is affixed to the inner face (1F) of the door and extends around its periphery. A latch (27) attaches to the base element of one door and the base element of an adjoining door to form a rigid connection between the doors so they open and close in unison.
Claims8
In a cooler having two or more doors mounted to a housing of the cooler, the doors being vertically arranged and separately openable and closable and each having an inner face, an improvement comprising conversion apparatus for converting the multiple doors to a single door, the conversion apparatus including a sealing means comprising a multiple channel base element affixed to the inner face of each door and extending around the periphery thereof to form a seal between the door and the housing when the door is closed;
- and, latch means attachable to the sealing means of one door and the sealing means of an adjacent door to form a rigid connection therebetween whereby the doors operate in unison.
In a multiple door cooler wherein the doors, which are separately openable and closable and includes an inner face, are mounted on a cooler housing adjacent each other, the improvement comprising conversion apparatus for converting the doors into a single door, the conversion apparatus including:
- sealing means affixed to the inner face of each door and extending around the periphery thereof to form a seal between the door and the housing when the door is closed, the sealing means comprising a multiple channel base element affixed to the inner face of each door;
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- latch means attachable to the sealing means of one door and the sealing means of a vertically adjacent door to form a rigid connection therebetween whereby the doors open and close in unison.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.