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US 5,284,023 AGranted
Reach-in cooler with window
AssigneeThe Manitowoc Company, Inc.
InventorsRobert K. Silva, Kenneth L. Kaiser
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Abstract
A cabinet for a reach-in cooler includes at least one door and a window located within the at least one door. The window is sized to be no larger than one third the surface area of the door.
Claims9
A combination of three members, two of which can be fit together to form a reach-in cooler that can be used as a refrigerator and two of which can be fit together to form a reach-in cooler that can be used as a freezer, the three members comprising:
- a) an insulated cabinet member with walls having at least one door opening and a floor completing the cabinet body, but with an open roof area, the cabinet member constructed to be useable as both a refrigerator cabinet and a freezer cabinet;
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- b) two insulated roof members configured to close the open roof area of the cabinet, the first roof member comprising a refrigeration system sized to maintain refrigeration temperatures in the cabinet during normal commercial use and the second roof member comprising a refrigeration system sized to maintain freezing temperatures in the cabinet during normal commercial use, the first roof member used to close the one roof area of the cabinet when the reach-in cooler is to be used as a refrigerator and the second roof member used to close the open roof area of the cabinet when the reach-in cooler is to be used as a freezer.
A method of assembling a reach-in cooler that can be used as both a refrigerant and a freezer, comprising the following steps:
- a) providing an insulated cabinet member with walls having at least one door opening and a floor completing the cabinet body, but with an open roof area, the cabinet member constructed to be useable as both a refrigerator cabinet and a freezer cabinet;
- b) providing two insulated roof members configured to close the open roof area of the cabinet, the first roof member comprising a refrigeration system sized to maintain refrigeration temperatures in the insulated cabinet during normal commercial use and the second roof member comprising a refrigeration system sized to maintain freezing temperatures in the insulated cabinet during normal commercial use;
- c) selecting one of the two insulated roof members to close off the open roof area of the cabinet to form a refrigerator or a freezer reach-in cooler;
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- d) positioning roof member selected in step c) to close off the open roof area of the cabinet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.