US2380005A

US2380005A - Revolving shelving for refrigerators and the like

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Publication number: US2380005A
Application number: US536189A
Authority: US
Inventors: William E Wilson
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1944-05-18
Filing date: 1944-05-18
Publication date: 1945-07-10
Anticipated expiration: 1962-07-10

Description

July 10, 1945. w; E. WILSON 2,380,005

REVOLVING SHELVING FOR REFRIGERATQRS AND THE LIKE Filed May 18, 1944 L INVENTOR. l8 William E. Wa'lson 24 v g I 1 ATTD RN EYS I Patented July 10, 1945 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,380,005 REVOLVING SHELVING FOB REFRIGER- A'IOBS AND THE LIKE William E. Wilson, Los Angeles, Calif. Application May 18, 1944, Serial No. 536,189 3 Claims. (Cl. 312-183) moval of the several helving sections or units enables the easy cleaning of the interior of a refrigerator or the like, as well as the shelving, with ease and dispatch.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which shows the preferredembodiment of the invention, and pointed out in the claims hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a horizontal sectional view through the refrigerator constructed in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Figure 1 looking in the direction of the arrows.

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken on the line arrows.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary side view, partly broken away, of one shelving unit.

Figure 5 is an enlarged horizontal sectional view through the rotary axis of the assembled shelving units when set up within the refrigerator.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawing.

Referring to the drawing in detail, A designates generally a portion of a refrigerator constructed in accordance with the invention, and comprises a casing. a portion thereof being denoted at It, having an inner lining wall I I provided with a circulatory cooling space i2, intersected by an entrance l3 at the front of the casing. This entrance matches a doorway normally closed by a horizontally swinging door It, hingedly supported, and latched in a closed position by a hand released latch I.

At opposite sides of the entrance I: and accessible therethrough are shelved compartments II for the storage of bottled goods or other merchandisc.

so 3-3 of Figure 2 looking in the direction of the Within the cooling space it is a sectional rcvolving shelving set-up, which involves a pin- .rality of sector-shaped removable shelf units il, each formed with spaced superposed shelves l0, supported upon a shaft "section it of sectorshape in cross section which tapers upwardly, and which at its upper end is provided with a breakjoint is adapted to break in only one direction, as shown in Figure 4. This segment I8 is adapted to interfit with the remaining segments of the other units, as is clearly shown in Figure 5 of the drawing, for the rotatable sockcting at 20 and 2|,

respectively, in the top and bottom of the casing of the refrigerator A, so that the shelving units i1 may be turned in mass, to have any area of their shelves l8 accessible through the entrance I I for the placement or removal of articles inand from the refrigerator A.

Each shelf section or unit i1 is readily and easily removable from the space II, by first lifting a selected shelf section or unit suflicicntly to free the lower end of its shaft segment it from the lower socket 20, then pulling the lower part of the shaft segment forward to break the joint i9, and thereafter lowering the shelf section or unit to free the upper part Of the shaft segment from the upper socket. A shelf section or unit I1 is of a size to permit its removal through the entrance i3, when the door it has been swimg to full open position. The removal of the several shelf sections or units i1 permits of easy cleaning of the interior cfa refrigerator A. The individual shelves l8 are braced and reinforced at 22 and 23, and the lower end of each shaft sesment II is preferably equipped with anti-friction bearings 24, of any suitable kind.

It is, of course, understood that such changes, variations and modification may be made in the invention, as fall properly within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit of the, invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

What is claimed is:

1. A cabinet of the character described, comprising a casing having upper and lower sockets, a series of sector-shaped shelf sections having sector-shaped shaft sections at their inner ends forming a shaft rotatably mounted in said sockets.

2. A cabinet of the character described, comprising a casing having upper and lower sockets, a series of sector-shaped shelf sections havin sector-shaped shaft sections at their inner ends forming a shaft rotatably mounted in said sockets, and each shaft section having a break joint whereby either end of the assembled-sections is adapted to swing outwardly.

3. A cabinet of the character described. comrlsinsav closeducasing having a, socket in its top --wallanda socket in the bottom directly below tate in said sockets, and each shaft section be mg, a break joint adjacent its upper end whereby the lower end of any shaft section is adapted to be swung outwardly after they shaft section has been lifted 'to withdraw its lower end from the bottom socket;

WILLIAM E. WILSON.