ITMC20080217A1 - FAN-ASSISTED THERMAL ACCUMULATOR ACTING TO REFRIGERATE QUICKLY - Google Patents

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In support of a patent application for industrial invention entitled:

VENTILATED THERMAL ACCUMULATOR SUITABLE FOR REFRIGERATING QUICKLY

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The present patent application for industrial invention relates to a device suitable for:

• cool a bottle to the desired temperature in a few minutes;

• concentrate in a smaller number of hours the use of all the refrigerators produced by a refrigerator in the 24 hours and therefore allows to cool many bottles in a short time, with a small installed power.

Some drinks, especially white wines, should be tasted at temperatures below room temperature.

Wine tasting rooms require the availability of many types of wine ready for sale at the right temperature and it is not possible to keep them all chilled:

1. the need arises to refrigerate the bottle at the time of the request, quickly.

In some moments, customer requests can be very close in time to each other:

2. the need arises to supply, in a short time, many refrigerated bottles to satisfy peak demands.

Devices suitable for satisfying the needs indicated in points (1) and (2) are available on the market. Generally, these are ventilated freezers that easily meet the need (1) but which for the need (2) must have a high power Usually, in these devices, the evaporator consists of an "exposed" coil to make it acceptable the efficiency of the ventilation: construction difficulties ensue (high price) and

Hygienic.

The characteristics of the VENTILATED THERMAL ACCUMU LATOR SUITABLE FOR QUICK REFRIGERATION, for which the patent for industrial invention is requested, allow a beverage sales room, for example wine, to offer customers refrigerated bottles quickly, refrigerated even remotely. a short time from each other, with a low-power chiller.

The ventilated thermal accumulator (fig. 1) consists of:

• a low temperature freezing liquid heat accumulator (fig.l: ref.2);

• an aluminum finned radiator integrated in the thermal accumulator, forming part of the freezing liquid storage tank (fig.l: ref.3);

• a base (fig.l: ref.4) finned in aluminum to support the bottles;

• a ventilation unit (fig.l: ref.5);

On the base there are the bottles (fig.l: ref.l) which can be cooled at the same time.

The fans of the ventilation unit are connected to the electrical system of the freezer in which the VENTILATED THERMAL ACCUM U LATOR SUITABLE FOR QUICKLY REFRIGERATING is inserted, by means of quick-fit connectors. The freezer will be equipped with detectors and devices to make the cooling operation safe.

Fig. 1, of the VENTILATED THERMAL ACCUMULATOR SUITABLE FOR REFRIGERATING RAPIDLY, is an example and not a limitation, as regards the spatial arrangement of the various constituent elements, the number of constituent elements and the number of bottles cooled at the same time.

By way of example and not of limitation:

• fig.3 represents the VENTILATED THERMAL ACCUMULATOR SUITABLE FOR QUICK REFRIGERATION inserted in a small freezer with front access;

• fig.4 represents Γ VENTILATED THERMAL ACCUMULATOR SUITABLE FOR QUICK REFRIGERATION inserted in a small chest freezer.

THE VENTILATED THERMAL ACCUMULATOR SUITABLE FOR REFRIGERATING QUICKLY must be inserted stably, but with the possibility of easy removal for maintenance and cleaning, in a freezer of suitable dimensions, which has an operating temperature equal to or lower than the solidification temperature of the liquid which serves as thermal accumulator.

At this temperature the freezing liquid at low temperature solidifies and accumulates the frigories corresponding to the subtracted heat of fusion.

In the phase of cooling the bottles, the liquid freezes or makes the fridge available at the freezing temperature: this fact, combined with the large surface of the radiator and the fact that the frozen liquid is contained in the radiator itself, gives the system a great ease of transferring frigories to the surrounding air to the bottles to be refrigerated and therefore to the bottles themselves.

The ability to quickly release the accumulated frigories remains constant as long as the accumulator liquid remains frozen.

Fig. 2 (a) represents the freezing capacity of a small freezer: 7Kg of product in 24 hours, corresponding, in refrigerators, to the quantity required to refrigerate about 60 bottles with a temperature difference of about 15 degrees;

Fig. 2 (b) represents a possible work cycle of a VENTILATED THERMAL ACCUMULATOR SUITABLE TO REFRIGERATE RAPIDLY: in this case frigories are sold in the first 12 hours and they are accumulated in the second 12 hours.

Fig. 2 (c) represents an example of consumption of the availability of refrigerators: thanks to the transfer of refrigeration units from the accumulator, it is possible to use all the daily freezing capacity of the small freezer, in the first 12 hours.

In 12 hours, 60 bottles can therefore be quickly refrigerated. Alternatively, 30 bottles can be cooled one after the other with a small freezer equipped with a VENTILATED THERMAL ACCUMULATOR FOR REFRIGERATING.

Claims (1)

CLAIMS THE VENTILATED THERMAL ACCUMULATOR SUITABLE FOR RAPID REFRIGERATION consists of: 1- A freezing liquid thermal accumulator a low temperature (fig.l: ref.2); 2- An aluminum finned radiator integrated in the thermal accumulator, forming part of the low temperature freezing liquid storage tank (fig.l: ref.3); 3- An aluminum finned base for supporting the product to be refrigerated (fig.l: ref.4); 4- A ventilation unit (fig.l: ref.5). Furthermore: 5- THE VENTILATED THERMAL ACCUMULATOR SUITABLE FOR QUICK REFRIGERATION is inserted in a stable but easily removable way in a freezer unit operating at a temperature below the freezing temperature of the thermal accumulator liquid; 6 THE VENTILATED THERMAL ACCUMULATOR SUITABLE FOR QUICK REFRIGERATION is electrically connected to the freezer by means of quick fit connectors. 7- The operating conditions detectors and safety devices are inserted in the freezer for a good functioning of the assembly: VENTILATED THERMAL ACCUMULATOR SUITABLE FOR QUICKLY REFRIGERATING the freezer.