CN1376039A - Cooler with transparent door and cold appearance - Google Patents

Abstract

A cooler (100) having a tinted light source and a door (120). The door has a frame (150) and a transparent panel (160). The tinted light (210) source may produce a blue colored light. The panel includes a frost indicator (190) thereon. The frame includes frame lights (200) positioned therein. The tinted light source (210), the frost indicator (190), and the frame lights (200) provide the appearance of coldness to the cooler.

Description

Be provided with the refrigerator-freezer of transparent doors and cold conditions outward appearance

Technical field

Relate generally to refrigerator of the present invention more specifically relates to refrigerator, refrigerator-freezer or the glass door merchandiser that the outward appearance of cold conditions and printing and dessert beverage can be offered client.

Background of the present invention

The product for sale that the refrigerator-freezer that the hand of various types can stretch into, refrigerator and glass door merchandiser are commonly used to show different types.The inlet port that refrigerator-freezer generally has transparent doors, lid or other patterns makes client can see the product that it is interior.Product generally is placed on the interior shelf of refrigerator-freezer.People know that client can open the door of refrigerator-freezer, take out required product.This refrigerator-freezer is commonly used to products such as marketing beverages bottle, jar.Beverage can comprise coffee; Tea; Water; The concentrate of fruit, vegetables and juice and beverage; Isobaric and anisobaric beverage; Milk and milk by-product; Carbonated soft drink; With the soft drink concentrate.The consumer goods that in product, also can comprise one or more brand food or other patterns.

Market sale research showed once that client can be had the outward appearance of cold conditions or the product of printing attracts.Product looks cold more just can move client more.As a result, refrigerator-freezer manufacturer once made every effort to make refrigerator-freezer and interior product thereof have cold conditions outward appearance and no matter the actual temperature of product how.No. 4,449,761, the United States Patent (USP) of for example owning together, be entitled as " have hang white product flag transparency ice chamber door thereon, " explanation once film, window screening, Waxpaper template, decal paper or analog can be laid in refrigerator-freezer glass door or cover.On this film, be printed on the outward appearance of product flag and cold " hanging frost ".Hanging white flag can promote the printing or the sensation of cold conditions, hope can associate the beverage that is placed in the refrigerator-freezer thus.

Though use on the refrigerator-freezer window and hang sensation and the printing that white product flag can promote cold conditions, the product flag can hinder the sight line of client to product in the refrigerator-freezer.Therefore, the refrigerator-freezer that people need should provide the sensation or the printing of cold conditions, also wants simultaneously suitably to show the product of putting within it.Refrigerator-freezer should be able to promote the sensation or the printing of cold conditions in uncrossed mode.In addition, promote that the sensation of cold conditions or the facility of printing should be more inexpensive, installation and maintenances easily.

Summary of the present invention

Refrigerator-freezer provided by the invention has painted light source and door.Painted light source can produce Lan Shiguang.A this Men Youyi framework and a transparent panel.Comprise a frosting sign on the door-plate.Doorframe comprises location framework lamp within it.The outward appearance that painted light source, frosting sign and framework lamp combine cold conditions offers refrigerator-freezer.

Specific embodiments of the invention comprise the refrigerator-freezer of vertical orientated (vertical) or horizontal alignment (horizontal).But the door turn-off or slip off on the refrigerator-freezer.This can also be the form of lid or the inlet port of other patterns.Door-plate comprises a periphery around central portion.The frosting sign generally is positioned on the periphery.The frosting sign can be that film, window screening, Waxpaper template, decal paper or other lay article onboard.Perhaps, the frosting sign also can comprise etching, carves quarter, sandblast or similarly make the method for glass plate delustring.The frosting sign can comprise blueness, colour or other colors.Glass plate can have a plurality of grid and the frosting sign is laid on one or more grid.The brightness of gate light can be about 20 to about 100 watts.In order to produce blueness, the wavelength of color light source can be about 380 to about 500 nanometers.Color light source can use semitransparent thin film or gel to produce suitable band coloured light.

The present invention also provides the interior product of refrigerator-freezer of a plurality of location, and these products can be carbonated soft drinks.The general position of color light source after product and impinge upon on the product.Color light source, frosting sign and framework lamp provides the outward appearance of cold conditions for product.

Brief description of drawings

The perspective view that Fig. 1 opens for refrigerator-freezer cabinet door of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is the perspective view of refrigerator-freezer of the present invention when product places that the cabinet door is closed within it.

Fig. 3 for many lattice doors plate of the present invention wherein lattice be provided with etched sectional view.

Fig. 4 which is provided with the refrigerator-freezer of a plurality of lids for another embodiment of the present invention illustrates.

Detailed description of the present invention

Consult accompanying drawing now, wherein identical label refers to identical part.Fig. 1 and 2 illustrates one and uses refrigerator-freezer 100 of the present invention, and it can major part be traditional design, also can make the form of traditional refrigerator or glass door merchandiser.Refrigerator-freezer 100 generally has the mechanical refrigerating system (not shown) of traditional design.MM-14, MM-27, MT-27 and RAD-15 model that the beverage of more excellent refrigerator-freezer such as American South Carolina state Spartanburg-air company makes, and RAD-27, ARE-300, ARV-400, ARE-450 and the ARV-650 model of the manufacturing of the Hussmann company of Missouri state St.Louis.

Refrigerator-freezer 100 generally comprises an insulation shell 110 and an external door 120.Some aspect of the present invention also can be used in the refrigerator-freezer that does not at all have door 120.When using, external door the 120 best all or part of transparent clients of making can see in it.But external door 120 turn-ofves or slip off or open with any traditional design.In addition, refrigerator-freezer 100 can have a plurality of doors 120.The frame 130 that has a plurality of traditional design in the refrigerator-freezer generally has a plurality of products 140 as carbonated soft drink to be placed on it so that be sold to client on the frame.

External door 120 generally has an external frame 150 of surrounding transparent panel 160.Plate 160 can be made by single lattice or many lattice glass or other transparent material such as Merlon, ABS or other suitable materials with good insulation ability.Plate 160 generally has a periphery 170 around central part 180.

One or more frosting signs (symbol) 190 can be arranged on periphery 170.The frosting sign can be that film, window screening, Waxpaper template, decal paper or analog are laid on the periphery 170 of plate 160, also useful etch, carve quarter, sandblast or similarly method make, these methods are used to make " ice shape " or " cloud form " or frosting outward appearance on plate 160.Frosting sign itself does not provide " frost " like this, only provides a kind of outward appearance, a kind of engraving tool carved or a kind of application of chemistry looks as frost or ice.As shown in Figure 3, frosting sign 190 can be laid on the lattice or many lattice 165 of many lattice plate 160.

The frosting sign is laid in can provide three-dimensional outward appearance on many lattice 165.Frosting sign 190 preferably is placed on and makes client watch refrigerator-freezer inside by central part 180 on the periphery 170.Frosting sign 190 of the present invention like this provides the sensation or the printing of cold conditions just can for the product 140 of refrigerator-freezer 100 and Qi Nei.

The present invention also uses one or more gate lights 200.The inside light of refrigerator-freezer 100 is the side along refrigerator-freezer 100 traditionally.Gate light 200 best external frame settings of the present invention along door 120.The inboard that gate light generally is located at framework 150 makes it towards product 140 and according to thereon.Gate light 200 the most handy traditional fluorescent lamps or traditional light-emitting device of other patterns, its brightness can be about 20 to about 100 watts or the size that depends on door 120 and refrigerator-freezer 100 more.Gate light 200 preferably stashes when cabinet door 120 is closed and does not allow client directly see.

The gate light 200 a plurality of products 140 in the refrigerator-freezer 100 that are used for throwing light on, the frosting sign of position on door-plate 160 that also be used for throwing light on can further strengthen cold conditions sensation or printing that frosting sign 190 is provided like this.

The present invention also provides one or more interior lamp 210.It is blue that interior lamp 210 is preferably, and this look can further provide the sensation or the printing of cold conditions to client.Specifically, the wavelength that has on visible spectrum when watching directly or by door-plate 160 can be about 380 to about 500 nanometers.But other colors and wavelength or combination also can be used.Interior lamp can for example can comprise electrodeless light source of traditional fluorescence light source such as small fluorescent and black light lamp with the conventional light source or the combination of any pattern; White heat/halogen light source; HID (helium ion detector) high density light-emitting device such as metal halide lamp, mercury vapor lamp; High-pressure mercury lamp and low-pressure sodium lamp; Or traditional light-emitting device of other patterns includes, but are not limited to neon light; Cold-cathode lamp; Optical fiber; L.E.D (light emitting diode); Electroluminescent band; With microwave sulphur light-emitting device.The glass of interior lamp 210 or skin can be dyed blueness, perhaps are attached on the interior lamp 210 with the blue film that covers, gel or other.More excellent gel is supplied to sell to #385 with numbering #60 by the Rosco of Connecticut state Stanford.

Interior lamp 210 preferably the position at the back side of refrigerator-freezer 100 after a plurality of products 140.There is an interior lamp 210 can be located at after the shelf or on the top.Available interior lamp more than in refrigerator 100.Preferably about interior lamp of per two to four shelf 130 usefulness.A plurality of products 140 of interior lamp 210 usefulness blue illumination and frosting sign 190 provide the sensation and the printing of cold conditions like this.Particularly when product 140 during for a plurality of bottle that contains carbonated soft drinks or other pattern beverages, interior lamp 210 can offer client with ice-cold and pure and fresh intension significantly.In other words, the blue light that impinges upon on the beverage bottle can strengthen client to ice-cold and pure and fresh sensation and printing.

The combination of frosting sign 190, gate light 200 and interior lamp 210 causes improved refrigerator-freezer of the present invention.Because improved the ice-cold intension of product 140, product 140 becomes and more makes client like, therefore just selling to increase.

As an alternative embodiment, above-mentioned blue light also can add on the frosting sign, can further strengthen the outward appearance of the cold conditions of refrigerator-freezer 100 and product within it 140 like this.Frosting sign 190 also can comprise colored and other colors.

As another alternative embodiment, Fig. 4 illustrates orientation and a plurality of lid of establishing thereon 230 that a kind of refrigerator-freezer 220 has level.Will be appreciated that the present invention is equally applicable to have the refrigerator-freezer 220 of transparency cover 230 or any other pattern inlet port.Equally, frosting sign 190, gate light 200 and interior lamp 210 are equally applicable to the refrigerator-freezer 220 of horizontal alignment.

Claims (22)

1. a refrigerator (cooler) has:

Location within it color light source; With

A location door thereon;

Said door has a framework and a transparent panel;

Said plate has frosting sign (frost indicator) thereon;

Said framework has location framework lamp within it;

Said color light source, said frosting sign and said framework lamp provide the outward appearance of cold conditions jointly.

2. the refrigerator-freezer of claim 1, wherein said door is a turn-off.

3. the refrigerator-freezer of claim 1, wherein said door slips off.

4. the refrigerator-freezer of claim 1, wherein said plate have a periphery that surrounds central part.

5. the refrigerator-freezer of claim 4, wherein said periphery has said frosting sign.

6. the refrigerator-freezer of claim 1, wherein said frosting sign comprises film, window screening, Waxpaper template or the decal paper on the said plate that is laid in.

7. the refrigerator-freezer of claim 1, wherein said frosting sign comprise etching, carve and carve or sandblast.

8. the refrigerator-freezer of claim 1, wherein said plate has a plurality of lattice.

9. the refrigerator-freezer of claim 8, wherein said a plurality of lattice have said frosting sign.

10. the refrigerator-freezer of claim 1, the brightness that wherein said gate light has are about 20 to about 100 watts.

11. the refrigerator-freezer of claim 1, wherein the wavelength that has of color light source be about 380 to about 500 millimicrons.

12. the refrigerator-freezer of claim 1, wherein said painted light source comprises blue light.

13. the refrigerator-freezer of claim 1, wherein said painted light source comprises semitransparent thin film or gel.

14. the refrigerator-freezer of claim 1 wherein also has a plurality of location product within it.

15. the refrigerator-freezer of claim 14, wherein said color light source, said frosting sign and said framework lamp provide the outward appearance of cold conditions for said a plurality of products.

16. the refrigerator-freezer of claim 14, wherein said color light source is positioned at after a plurality of products.

17. the refrigerator-freezer of claim 14, wherein said a plurality of products comprise carbonated soft drink.

18. the refrigerator-freezer of claim 1, wherein said door comprises a lid.

19. the refrigerator-freezer of claim 1, wherein said frosting sign comprises blueness.

20. the refrigerator-freezer of claim 1, wherein said frosting sign comprises a plurality of frosting signs.

21. the refrigerator-freezer of claim 1, wherein said refrigerator-freezer has vertical orientated.

22. the refrigerator-freezer of claim 1, wherein said refrigerator-freezer has horizontal alignment.

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