Portable refrigeration delivery system
OwnerGreg Donnellinventor
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Abstract
A refrigeration delivery system for use with portable food storage systems having an L-shaped body with a hollow vertical tower portion and a hollow horizontal flat lower portion. The internal volume of the body is suitable for the storage of ice and a combination of ice and melt water. In one embodiment, a hand-powered pump and spout is provide through a top of the tower portion to pump chilled water for drinking or to remove it from the delivery system. A second embodiment incorporates a flexible straw arrangement through a top of the tower portion. A third embodiment incorporates both a hand-powered pump and spout as well as a flexible straw arrangement through a top of the tower portion.
Claims16
An improved portable refrigeration delivery system, comprising:
- a main body formed of a hollow vertical tower portion and a hollow lower horizontal flat portion adapted to contain a liquid refrigerant, the lower horizontal flat portion includes an array of protrusions integral therewith and extending upward therefrom to form a surface adapted to situate materials being refrigerated directly above the lower horizontal flat portion adapted to contain a liquid refrigerant such that air can circulate between the flat portion containing a liquid refrigerant and the situate materials for the purpose of maintaining a uniform temperature of the materials being refrigerated;
- an access portal having a snap-on lid disposed through the top of the vertical tower portion;
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- a hand actuated pump disposed through the top of the vertical tower portion comprising,
- a plunger portion extending into the vertical tower portion, and
- a spout portion.
An improved portable refrigeration delivery system, comprising:
- a main body formed of a hollow vertical tower portion and a hollow lower horizontal flat portion adapted to contain a liquid refrigerant, the lower horizontal flat portion includes an array of protrusions integral therewith and extending upward therefrom to form a surface adapted to situate materials being refrigerated directly above the lower horizontal flat portion adapted to contain a liquid refrigerant such that air can circulate between the flat portion containing a liquid refrigerant and the situate materials for the purpose of maintaining a uniform temperature of the materials being refrigerated;
- an access portal having a snap-on lid with a lift tab disposed in the top of the vertical tower portion;
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- a receptacle disposed within the snap-on lid to accommodate a straw.
An improved portable refrigeration delivery system, comprising:
- a main body formed of a hollow vertical tower portion and a hollow lower horizontal flat portion adapted to contain a liquid refrigerant, the lower horizontal flat portion includes an array of protrusions integral therewith and extending upward therefrom to form a surface adapted to situate materials being refrigerated directly above the lower horizontal flat portion adapted to contain a liquid refrigerant such that air can circulate between the flat portion containing a liquid refrigerant and the situate materials for the purpose of maintaining a uniform temperature of the materials being refrigerated;
- an access portal having a snap-on lid with a lift tab disposed upon the top of the vertical tower portion;
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- a hand actuated pump comprising,
- a plunger portion extending through the top of the vertical tower portion, and
- a spout portion, and
- a receptacle disposed within the snap-on lid to accommodate a straw.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.