EP0758207B1 - Vorrichtung zum kalthalten von speisen - Google Patents

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EP0758207B1
EP0758207B1 EP95918238A EP95918238A EP0758207B1 EP 0758207 B1 EP0758207 B1 EP 0758207B1 EP 95918238 A EP95918238 A EP 95918238A EP 95918238 A EP95918238 A EP 95918238A EP 0758207 B1 EP0758207 B1 EP 0758207B1
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Birgitta Folcker-Sundell
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D3/00—Devices using other cold materials; Devices using cold-storage bodies
    • F25D3/02—Devices using other cold materials; Devices using cold-storage bodies using ice, e.g. ice-boxes
    • F25D3/06—Movable containers
    • F25D3/08—Movable containers portable, i.e. adapted to be carried personally
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47G—HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
    • A47G19/00—Table service
    • A47G19/26—Butter or cheese dishes or covers, with or without cooling or heating devices; Protective covers for food containers
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47G—HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
    • A47G23/00—Other table equipment
    • A47G23/08—Food-conveying devices for tables; Movable or rotary food-serving devices
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D2303/00—Details of devices using other cold materials; Details of devices using cold-storage bodies
    • F25D2303/08—Devices using cold storage material, i.e. ice or other freezable liquid
    • F25D2303/082—Devices using cold storage material, i.e. ice or other freezable liquid disposed in a cold storage element not forming part of a container for products to be cooled, e.g. ice pack or gel accumulator
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D2331/00—Details or arrangements of other cooling or freezing apparatus not provided for in other groups of this subclass
    • F25D2331/80—Type of cooled receptacles
    • F25D2331/805—Cans
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D2331/00—Details or arrangements of other cooling or freezing apparatus not provided for in other groups of this subclass
    • F25D2331/80—Type of cooled receptacles
    • F25D2331/812—Trays

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  • the present invention relates to a device for keeping food and beverages cool by means of an openable container containing a removable freeze pack or similar cooling member attached to the inside of the ceiling of the container by an attachment means.
  • Devices of this kind are most useful when serving food and beverages outdoors, saving the user the trouble of carrying it back and forth between a patio and an indoor refrigerator in order to prevent the food and beverages from becoming heated by a warm environment and/or by solar radiation.
  • a salad bowl of this type is known from the US patent specification 3 605 433 having a circular bottom bowl portion covered by a circular lid, the lid of the howl having a refrigerant containing compartment detachably suspended from the inner ceiling portion of said bowl.
  • the bottom bowl is very deep and the goods is difficult to attain and to grasp and, accordingly, the goods has to be lifted out and back such that it easily becomes heated.
  • the bowl must be made of untransparent material to prevent the goods from being heated by solar radiation which makes it difficult to inspect the content of the bowl.
  • This patent specification discloses a cylindrical outer container having a central, cylindrical ice container with a lid in the upper part of the container, and a ring shaped space with an open top around the ice container, in which inner containers in the shape of sector shaped bowls are freely placed side-by-side and removable one-by-one through a sector shaped opening in a rotatable lid covering the space.
  • the drawback of this and similar devices is mainly that the goods is difficult to attain and difficult to grasp.
  • the coolant occupies an essential part of the space in the outer container.
  • DE 1 920 119 discloses double-walled containers with closed spaces, in which a cold storage medium is enclosed for cooling a specific object with a shape to which the inner walls of the containers are adapted. It is also shown, that it is possible to place a separate freeze pack in a compartment in the bottom portion of the container, which permits chilling of the freeze pack separately. Hence, in this case it is not necessary to place all the container in a refrigerator or home-freezer to be cooled. This position on the bottom of the container, however, has proved to be completely ineffective because the upper portion of the object does not become cooled but on the contrary is heated by the lid portion of the container being heated by a warm environment or by sun radiation hitting the lid.
  • EP 0 329 844 disclosing a pile of containers provided with freeze packs positioned in lid compartments and bottom compartments.
  • This solution gives rise to a comparatively good cooling effect, but only the freeze pack of the uppermost container of the pile of containers is acting directly. From practical point of view each container considered separately, for example the uppermost, is difficult to handle as well as energy consuming. To reach an object, which is invisible in the container, the user has to lift off the lid from the container and to lift the object up from the cup-shaped base bowl of the container.
  • the object of the invention is to achieve a device of the kind mentioned by way of introduction, that is extremely uncomplicated to use and that avoids the above-mentioned drawbacks. This is achieved, according to the invention, in that the device has obtained the characterizing features stated in the attached claim 1.
  • the device according to the invention is characterized mainly in that the container comprises an essentially plane base part and a cup-shaped hood with the owning facing-downward and with side walls, reaching all the way down to the plane base part of the container which hood is separate from the base and intended to be placed on it.
  • This design has the obvious advantage that the objects - the food - becomes totally exposed when the hood is removed and placed beside the container, and also the important advantage that the freeze pack attached to the ceiling still is protected by the hood against unnecessary loss of cooling effect even if it should take some time till the hood is put back on the base part.
  • the hood is provided with a ceiling portion and an integral main portion of the side walls all made of transparent, and preferably light reflecting material, and the rest of the side walls made of a transparent material.
  • the base part is suitably provided with a foot plate, in relation to which the base part of the container is rotatably journalled.
  • Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device
  • Figure 2 is a cross sectional view of the same device
  • Figure 3 i a partial view of the freeze pack shown in Fig.2 seen from below
  • Figure 4 is a perspective view of a freeze pack provided with a means of attachment.
  • the device shown in Fig.1 and Fig.2 comprises an essentially plain base part 1 in the shape of a circular tray with a low edge directed upward, and an upper part 2 in the shape of a semi- spherical hood with the opening facing downward.
  • the top portion 3 or ceiling of the hood 2 and the major part of its side walls 4 consist of a nontransparent material with a surface reflecting solar radiation 5. Only a minor part 6 of the side walls consists of a transparent material.
  • the inner side of the ceiling 3 of the hood is provided with a freeze pack 7 of a standard type that is removably attached to the ceiling.
  • the purpose of dividing the side walls of the hood in a large untransparent portion 4 and a small transparent portion 6 is partly to prevent solar radiation from penetrating the walls and warming the objects 8 in the device, partly to enable looking into the device, making it unnecessary to lift the hood from the base portion for that purpose.
  • the transparent part 6 always should be positioned on the shady side of the hood, and, hence, the base part 1 is for practical reasons rotatably mounted on a foot tray 10 by means of a centre pivot 11 and balls 12, that are arranged to roll in a circular path 13.
  • the freeze pack 7 is placed resting on two shelf edges 14 shaped at the under side of the ceiling 3 of the hood.
  • the freeze pack 7 is rectangular, as shown in Fig.3, with the end portions resting on the shelf edges 14.
  • the width of the freeze pack is smaller than the distance between shelf edges 14, and by turning the freeze pack by 90° the freeze pack can be lifted down between the shelf edges and possibly be replaced by a fresh, frozen freeze pack when the first one has lost its cooling effect.
  • freeze pack 7 may be provided with a VELCRO® type hook and loop fastening tape 15, as shown in Fig.4, and attached to a corresponding VELCRO-type tape 16, that is fixed by cement and/or riveted to the under side of the ceiling 3 of the hood.
  • the freeze pack is attached by being slightly pushed against the Velcro tape 16, as indicated by an arrow 17 in Fig.4.
  • the shape of the hood 2 can be varied in many ways, for example have a plane ceiling and possibly plane side walls.
  • the freeze pack 7 can of course have another shape and possibly be attached in another way. In some cases it may be suitable to have more freeze packs attached to the inside of parts of the ceiling adjoining the side walls of the hood.
  • Freeze packs in any shapes are available in provision shops and are intended for being cooled in a freezer, which can be found in almost every home and makes the device according to the invention easy to handle.

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Claims (5)

  1. Vorrichtung zum Kühlhalten von Essen und Getränken (8) mittels eines öffenbaren Behältnisses, das einen an der Innenseite der Decke des Behältnisses mit Hilfe von Befestigungsmitteln (14) angebrachten, entfernbaren Gefrierpack (7) oder ein ähnliches Kühlelement enthält, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das Behältnis einen im wesentlichen flachen Bodenteil (1) und eine tassenförmige Haube (2) mit nach unten weisender Öffnung und mit Seitenwänden (4, 6) aufweist, die vollständig bis zu dem Bodenteil (1) des Behältnisses reichen, wobei die Haube (2) getrennt von dem Boden auf diesen aufsetzbar ist und einen Deckenabschnitt (3) und einen angeformten Hauptabschnitt (4) der Seitenwände aufweist, die beide aus undurchsichtigem Material, vorzugsweise lichtreflektierendem Material hergestellt sind, und der Rest der Seitenwände (6) aus einem transparenten Material gefertigt ist.
  2. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der obere Bereich (3) der Haube einen Raum aufweist, der durch zwei gegenüberliegende, mit Zwischenabstand angeordnete Platten (14) begrenzt ist, die das Einführen des Gefrierpacks (7) in den Raum oberhalb der Platten (14) erlauben und den mit zwei entgegensetzt liegenden Kantenbereichen auf den Platten ruhenden Gefrierpack halten.
  3. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Gefrierpack (7) eine wesentlich größere Länge als der Zwischenraum zwischen den Platten (14) besitzt und so dimensioniert ist, daß er nach dem Einfügen in den Raum über den Platten zum Einhaken des mit den Endbereichen durch die Platte (14) gehaltenen Gefrierpacks um 90° drehbar ist.
  4. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Befestigungsmittel ein Befestigungsband (16) mit Haken und Schlaufen aufweisen, das an der Decke (3) der Haube befestigt ist und mit einem entsprechenden Band (15) zusammenwirkt, das an dem Gefrierpack (7) angebracht ist.
  5. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das Bodenteil (1) mit einer Fußplatte (10) versehen ist, auf welcher es drehbar gelagert ist.
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SE9401438 1994-04-27
SE9401438A SE506746C2 (sv) 1994-04-27 1994-04-27 Anordning för svalhållning av matvaror
PCT/SE1995/000466 WO1995028863A1 (en) 1994-04-27 1995-04-27 A device for keeping foodstuffs cool

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