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WO1997003593A1 - Comptoir refrigerant pour bouteilles, boites et recipients similaires - Google Patents

Comptoir refrigerant pour bouteilles, boites et recipients similaires Download PDF

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WO1997003593A1
WO1997003593A1 PCT/NO1996/000173 NO9600173W WO9703593A1 WO 1997003593 A1 WO1997003593 A1 WO 1997003593A1 NO 9600173 W NO9600173 W NO 9600173W WO 9703593 A1 WO9703593 A1 WO 9703593A1
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Jan Egil FLØYSVIK
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Electrolux AB
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Priority to JP9506572A priority patent/JPH11509445A/ja
Priority to AU66332/96A priority patent/AU6633296A/en
Publication of WO1997003593A1 publication Critical patent/WO1997003593A1/fr
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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
    • F25D31/00—Other cooling or freezing apparatus
    • F25D31/006—Other cooling or freezing apparatus specially adapted for cooling receptacles, e.g. tanks
    • F25D31/007—Bottles or cans
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
    • A47F3/00—Show cases or show cabinets
    • A47F3/04—Show cases or show cabinets air-conditioned, refrigerated
    • A47F3/0439—Cases or cabinets of the open type
    • A47F3/0443—Cases or cabinets of the open type with forced air circulation

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  • the present invention relates to a refrigerating counter for bottles, cans and similar containers, preferably containing beverages - a socalled bottle cooler - wherein the bottles, etc. are offered for sale while they are continuously cooled by means of cold air which, in a forced circulation circuit, is brought to pass a refrigerator and to circulate around the bottles, etc.
  • the refrigerating counter comprises an annulus e.g. defined between an upright pipe and a jacket/hood surrrounding said pipe partly and forming the refrigerating counter's filling member and storage for the bottles, etc., and where it immediately below the annulus is a bottle outlet which below is defined by a bottle support shelf, on which the bottles, etc. are resting, offered for sale.
  • a refrigerating counter/bottle cooler of the kind defined introductorily is shown and described in NO patent application No. 940486.
  • a great advantage of this refrigerating counter/ bottle cooler is that the bottles are available from all directions, as the support shelf and, thus, the outlet extends across 360° about a central, vertical axis.
  • a refrigerating counter/bottle cooler of this kind suffers from two basic disadvantages: (1) Bottles, especially bottles having a somewhat wedge-like design, are liable to bunch together within the annulus 1 filling member and storage of the annulus, in which they get wedged between adjacent bottles, forming interlocked bottle heaps; (2) the cooling of the bottles, cans, etc. is unsatisfactory.
  • First disadvantage has been eliminated through a later provided refrigerating counter/bottle cooler (the subject matter of a NO patent application, not published at the filing date of the present priority application) through the provision of at least one partition within at least said annulus, said partition, possibly, extending down into the underlying outlet for bottles, etc.
  • said support shelf is assigned a radially inwardly situated, hollow frustum of a cone similar lateral support body formed with perforations, which ensure that cold air supplied to the bottles in storage and outlet and which has dropped down over said bottles and absorbed heat therefrom, has the opportunity of flowing into the refrigerator once more.
  • the refrigerator is usually disposed in the lower portion of the counter.
  • An object of the present invention has been to provide an improved circulation system for cold air to cool bottles, cans and similar containers containing beverages, wherein is achieved - by means of a refrigerator having the same capacity and energy efficiency as the described known refrigerating counter designs - a substantially better cooling of the bottles, cans, etc., which for the goods in question - "cold drinks" - obviously represents a quality improvement.
  • this object is realized through shaping and designing a refrigerating counter/ bottle cooler of the kind concerned, in accordance with the characterizing clause of claim 1.
  • a first fan blows air cooled by the refrigerator directly out through perforations in the support shelf for bottles, cans, etc. From the bottle outlet, first fan, the suction side thereof facing towards the support shelf, sucks cooling air which has accommodated some heat from the bottles at said outlet, in again into the interior of the refrigerating counter/bottle cooler, in order to "feed" the refrigerator again.
  • the pressure side of first fan is, thus, of course facing towards the refrigerator which may comprise an evaporator, a condenser and a compressor.
  • the bottles in the outlet but also the bottles within the storage of the refrigerating counter will, thus, be supplied with cooled air from the refrigerator over a substantially shorter circulation path.
  • cooling air for bottles within the outlet place has a very short circulation circuit, the loss of cooling air, therefore being small.
  • cooling air from the bottles within the annulus will be supplied to the refrigerator again, substantially in non-reduced quantities, because the fan assigned to the outlet carries out a sucking effect directed into the interior of the refrigerating counter in the area of the support shelf, i.e. in an area located immediately beneath the annulus and the downwardly sinking cooling air which has accommodated heat from the bottles within the bottle storage/annulus.
  • First fan which has been assigned to the bottle outlet place for circulating cooling air, is disposed in the interior of the refrigerating counter/bottle cooler, and second fan for supplying cooling air to the bottle storage is disposed in the lower portion of an upright pipe which, preferably, is included as a component of the refrigerating counter/bottle cooler, and which is provided with inlet holes in a lower portion, beneath second fan, and outlet holes, above second fan, and directed into said annulus of the refrigerating counter/bottle cooler, defined by the pipe and a hood.
  • reference numeral 10 denotes a base through which an upright refrigerating counter for bottles, cans and similar containers containing beverages rests on the floor.
  • the refrigerating counter is of the type called bottle cooler and comprises, above the base 10, a double walled underframe 12 which is insulated (14) in an upper portion. Just beneath the insulation 14, a horizontal plate 16 with a central hole 18 has been placed.
  • an in per se known cooling aggregate (refrigerator) has been disposed, comprising an evaporator 20, a compressor 22 and a condenser 24.
  • To the hole 18 in the horizontal plate 16 is joined a vertically downwardly directed pipe 26, the lower mouth thereof being located just above a heating plate 28.
  • First fan 32 pressure side is facing towards the cooling aggregate 20,22,24, the suction side facing in a direction towards a perforated bottle support shelf 34 having an annular course corresponding to 360° and a channel-shaped cross-section.
  • the channel-shaped, annularly extending support shelf 34 surrounds an upright, central pipe 36 carrying a divided hood 38a and 38b, of which the lower hood part 38b is stationary, serving as an filling member and a "storage of readiness" for bottles, cans, etc., the upper hood part 38a being displaceable in the axial direction of the pipe 36, in order to - in an elevated position - provide access to the filling opening (at 40) of the lower hood part 38b.
  • First fan 32 blows air towards the evaporator 20 of the cooling aggregate, and the thusly cooled air is, thereafter, brought to circulate such that it first passes downwardly until it reaches the lower edge of the jacket 30, then upwardly within the annulus between the jacket 30 and the inner face of the insulation 14 of the underframe 12, said annulus uppermost being defined by the perforated bottle support shelf 34, such that the cooled air penetrates through the perforations 34' of the shelf 34 and in between the bottles, cans or the like (not shown) supported by the shelf 34.
  • tubular stack of bottles, cans and the like there will be a tubular stack of bottles, cans and the like, said tubular bottle/can stack exhibiting a vertical axis and extending partly into the annulus between the pipe 36 and the lower hood part 38b and down to the support shelf 34.
  • bottles, cans or the like are removed from the outlet place of the refrigerating counter/bottle cooler at the shelf 34, said outlet place is supplied with bottles, cans or the like from the "storage" within the lower hood part 38b.
  • flexible damping means 42, 44 In order to brake and damp the falling movement of the bottles, flexible damping means 42, 44 have been disposed, said means extending from the pipe 36 into the falling path of the bottles within the annulus between pipe 36 and lower hood part 38b.
  • the cooling air supplied to the bottles resting on the support shelf 34 will, due to the suction effect of first fan 32, be sucked into the interior of the refrigerating counter again subsequently to having received heat from the bottles on the shelf 34.
  • This cooling air becomes sucked into the interior of the jacket 30, through the perforations 34", where first fan 32 let it pass the cooling aggregate 20,22,24 for, thereafter, to let it flow upwardly through the annulus between the outside of the jacket 30 and the inside of the insulation 14 and so forth in the thusly established circulation circuit.
  • the bottles, cans or the like in the storage of readiness 38b are not cooled worth mentioning through this cooling air circulation and they are, therefore, assigned their own cooling air circulation circuit, derived from the first one.
  • a second fan 46 has been disposed, the pressure side thereof facing upwardly.
  • the suction side of second fan 46 occupies a somewhat higher level than the upper level of the support shelf 34 and, below the same, the pipe 36 has been formed with through-going holes 36', through which cooling air is drawn from the area immediately above the shelf 34, into the pipe 36, from where the cooling air drawn in is blown out through holes 36" at a higher level within the pipe 36, namely in the area of the storage of readiness for the bottles, cans, etc. within the lower hood part 38b.
  • Cooling air used in the storage 38b drops gradually downwardly and is received by the support shelf 34 as well as being sucked through the perforations 34" thereof into the interior of the jacket 30 surrounding first fan 32.
  • the cool air providing the cooling of the bottles within the outlet place which, downwardly is restricted by the support shelf 34, may cause the formation of condensate on the bottles externally, exposing the cooling effect.
  • This condensate is drained through the perforations 34' and lands, possibly together with other condensate, within the central, vertical pipe 26 extending through the horizontal plate 16, and drips from there down onto the heating plate 28 which evaporates condensate supplied thereto.
  • the double walled underframe 12 is, in outer, or inner and outer wall thereof, respectively, formed with holes 12' and 12• ' , 12"', respectively.
  • a third fan (not shown) has been arranged, sucking ambient air inwards through upper holes 12' in the outer wall of the double walled underframe, blowing the ambient air, together with moist air from the interior of the refrigerating counter, out through the lower holes 12" and 12' ' ' formed in the inner and outer wall of the double walled underframe 12.

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Abstract

La présente invention concerne un comptoir réfrigérant pour bouteilles ou armoire froide à bouteilles. Les bouteilles qui sont présentées à la vente sont constamment refroidies par de l'air froid. L'armoire froide à bouteilles comporte une zone annulaire définie par un intervalle entre un tuyau vertical (36) et une enveloppe concentrique (38a, 38b) entourant le tuyau (36) le long d'une certaine longueur verticale. La zone annulaire constitue la partie à remplir de bouteilles c'est-à-dire le stockage disponible de bouteilles de l'armoire froide. En dessous de la zone annulaire se trouve un emplacement de sortie des bouteilles, cet emplacement inférieur étant défini par une étagère de support perforée (34) destinée aux bouteilles. On obtient un meilleur refroidissement des bouteilles grâce à un premier ventilateur (32) entouré d'une enveloppe (30), en communication avec une zone annulaire entourant l'extérieur de cette enveloppe et dont la partie supérieure est définie par l'étagère de support perforée (34), le volume dans lequel se trouve le premier ventilateur (32) étant défini par l'enveloppe (30) et une partie de l'étagère de support perforée (34).
PCT/NO1996/000173 1995-07-18 1996-07-11 Comptoir refrigerant pour bouteilles, boites et recipients similaires Ceased WO1997003593A1 (fr)

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EP96926029A EP0839012A1 (fr) 1995-07-18 1996-07-11 Comptoir refrigerant pour bouteilles, boites et recipients similaires
JP9506572A JPH11509445A (ja) 1995-07-18 1996-07-11 瓶、缶、および類似容器用冷蔵カウンター
AU66332/96A AU6633296A (en) 1995-07-18 1996-07-11 Refrigerating counter for bottles, cans and similar containers

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NO952842 1995-07-18
NO952842A NO300155B1 (no) 1995-07-18 1995-07-18 Kjöledisk

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WO2021090079A1 (fr) * 2020-06-30 2021-05-14 Юрий ХАРЧЕНКО Vitrine réfrigérée

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FR1271194A (fr) * 1960-07-28 1961-09-08 Vitrine réfrigérante mobile et démontable
US3306068A (en) * 1965-12-02 1967-02-28 Universal Match Corp Refrigerated open front merchandiser
US3365907A (en) * 1966-07-05 1968-01-30 Louis F. Barroero Upright refrigerated cabinet with 360 deg. unimpeded access
WO1995021560A1 (fr) * 1994-02-14 1995-08-17 Floeysvik Jan Egil Distributeur refrigerant de bouteilles, canettes et autres conteneurs

Patent Citations (4)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR1271194A (fr) * 1960-07-28 1961-09-08 Vitrine réfrigérante mobile et démontable
US3306068A (en) * 1965-12-02 1967-02-28 Universal Match Corp Refrigerated open front merchandiser
US3365907A (en) * 1966-07-05 1968-01-30 Louis F. Barroero Upright refrigerated cabinet with 360 deg. unimpeded access
WO1995021560A1 (fr) * 1994-02-14 1995-08-17 Floeysvik Jan Egil Distributeur refrigerant de bouteilles, canettes et autres conteneurs

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2021090079A1 (fr) * 2020-06-30 2021-05-14 Юрий ХАРЧЕНКО Vitrine réfrigérée

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JPH11509445A (ja) 1999-08-24
AU6633296A (en) 1997-02-18
EP0839012A1 (fr) 1998-05-06
NO952842D0 (no) 1995-07-18
NO952842L (no) 1997-01-20

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