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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7161120 | Garment warming system There is disclosed a garment warming device providing a portable electrically-heated insulated water resistant and weather resistant clothing warmer having a clamshell design that warms clothing, robes, slippers, towels, blankets or other cloth-like materials placed... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7040494 | Stock shelving system A shelf overlay for mounting to a shelving system having at least one horizontal shelf mounted at opposite ends of the shelf to a pair of parallel and vertical spaced apart shelving standards. At least one such shelf overlay is mountable onto corresponding shelves. ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7029078 | Latch mechanism for locker A storage unit providing a storage space is disclosed. The storage unit comprises a base and a panel moveable relative to the base to expose and conceal a storage space a handle configured for at least vertical movement, at least one connector configured for at leas... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7001005 | Domestic refrigerator with improved thermal insulation A domestic refrigerator or freezer has a food storage compartment delimited by insulated walls and by one or more access doors to the compartment. One or more walls or doors are provided with a metallic film, preferably a metallised polymeric film, capable of enhanc... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6929149 | Frozen product vending machine A frozen product, upright-style vending machine having a pick and place mechanism moveable in three dimensions (X, Y, Z) with a fourth, rotational, degree of freedom (W) effected using the Z axis drive. The mechanism moves along tracks in the X-Y directions and is p... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6918341 | Support for securing cantilevered shelving to an insulated unit A support adapted for use between first and second panels at a joint includes a distal end including a flange, an anchoring end including a flange and an anchor, and an intermediate section connecting the distal end and the anchoring end. The intermediate section is... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6485122 | Heat-insulating wall A heat-insulating wall, such as a refrigerator door or housing, includes a substantially vacuum-tight outer paneling, an inner paneling, a substantially vacuum-tight connecting diaphragm formed from material having low heat conduction, a diaphragm cover f... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6460952 | Storage cabinet and assembly A molded unitary storage cabinet and cabinet assembly for storage of supplies or retail stock, the cabinet assembly including at least two cabinet units; where the cabinet units are a butted or adjoined side by side; where each cabinet unit includes: inne... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6393798 | Heat-insulating wall A heat-insulating wall has two spaced-apart, at least essentially vacuum-tight cover layers, between which an evacuable heat-insulation material is provided and which are connected to one another by a vacuum-tight connecting profile which runs along the f... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6350002 | Food storage apparatus with partition frame partitioning front opening into a plurality of access openings A storage apparatus such as a refrigerator includes a heat-insulated housing having a storage compartment defined by a ceiling, a bottom, two side walls, and a rear wall and a front opening, and a partition frame including a horizontal frame and a vertica... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6336693 | Full vacuum heat insulation box body and method for producing and disassembling the same A heat insulation box body includes inner and outer boxes forming a shell of the heat insulation box body and triangular structural materials inserted in the shell held by close-contact by means of a vacuum. Further, at the time of disassembling the heat ... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6335074 | Low warpage insulated panel design A thermal insulation panel exhibits little or no warping due to temperature differences between different portions of the panel. The panel comprises insulation material and an envelope for encapsulating the insulation material. The envelope comprises a ba... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6224179 | Heat-insulating housing as well as a household oven and a household refrigerator having the housing A heat-insulating housing, such as for an oven chamber of a household oven or a refrigeration chamber of a household refrigerating appliance, includes at least one working space which is surrounded by housing walls and can be closed by a door. The housing... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6109712 | Integrated vacuum panel insulation for thermal cabinet structures A cabinet structure is thermally insulated by placing a first insulation material directly upon a surface of the cabinet structure and then covering the insulation material with a barrier sheet that is affixed along an annular edge portion thereof to the ... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6053594 | Heat insulation wall The heat insulation wall is a sandwich formed by two outer, at least substantially vacuum-tight, spaced-apart surface layers and a thermal insulation in between. The outer surface layers are connected to one another in vacuum-tight fashion by a connecting... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6039418 | Folding wardrobe A folding wardrobe having a bottom wall, top wall and left and right side walls which are each constructed of front and rear panels. The rear panels of each wall are fixed to a back panel and extend forwardly from a front face of a back panel. The front p... | 03/21/2000 |
| 5983647 | Foamed thermal insulating material and insulated structure An insulated structure is formed by injection of a foamed thermal-insulating material created by foaming into a space between a plastic board and metal plate with a disposition of copper pipes. A non-halogenated organophosphorus compound having a molecula... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5971511 | Control box with a frame structure A switchgear cabinet having a rack assembled from a plurality of frame legs bent at the side walls. The rack has open, vertical sides which are closed off by side walls and a rear wall fastened to facing frame legs of the rack. A cabinet door is hingedly ... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5951133 | Drawer head A drawer head which is readily removable and replaceable from the front of a conventional drawer body is disclosed. The drawer head generally takes the form of a rectangular cover panel sized to cover the front panel of a drawer body. An arcuate handle ex... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5941622 | End member for food display case An end member or "patch end" of a supermarket food display case includes a pair of substantially parallel panels and an insert extending around the periphery of the panels that interconnects the panels. A foamed insulation material is installed in the cav... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5909937 | Refrigerator door assembly A refrigerator door has an outer member formed from a folded sheet of steel, with a front panel and a perpendicularly projecting flange forming a cavity. A reinforcing member of thin sheet steel has a front panel, smaller than the outer member front panel... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5794299 | Containment apparatus A semiconductor processing system, such as a system for scrubbing both sides of a wafer at the same time, that includes a brush box containment apparatus for use with highly-acidic or other volatile chemical solutions, a roller positioning apparatus and a... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5725294 | Antisweat refrigerator cabinet A refrigerator includes a front face surrounding the front openings of the storage compartments. Operation of the refrigerator tends to cause some portions of the face to be colder than the dew point temperature of the surrounding air. Moisture in the sur... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5671991 | Cabinet A temperature-controlled cabinets, particularly, refrigerators, freezers, fridge-freezers and drinks coolers (chillers) which, in order to overcome the problem of inferior insulative properties of alternative polyurethane foams used to reduce the emission... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5660018 | Floor for cooler and method of installation A refrigerated cooler having a moisture proof, fungus proof floor disposed over an existing metal subfloor. The floor includes a plurality of rigid panels each coated to provide moisture resistance. The plurality of panels are precut and butted together t... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5638693 | Room air conditioner A room air conditioner designed to provide convenience in assembly and improve productivity by improving the structure of a wall portion for guiding and expelling conditioned air to a room. In the air conditioner, the wall portion includes a lower isolati... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5588724 | Camp kitchen cabinet The camp kitchen cabinet structure of the invention is arranged to employ a housing, having a first row of shelves, each shelf having an abutment plate, with an intermediate row of shelves, each having an abutment plate, wherein the intermediate row inclu... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5573322 | Storage system with protective shelving A storage system (10) incorporates protective shelving (24) of improved construction. The protective shelving (24) includes a semi-rigid overlay (50) covering the top surface and front edges of a rigid undercore (48). The overlay (50) includes a rounded f... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5348778 | Sandwich elements in the form of slabs, shells and the like Sandwich elements in the form of slabs, shells and the like, consisting of facings and a rigid polyurethane foam core can be joined together in an airtight and watertight manner when they are provided with edge profiles which are cast from casting materia... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5227245 | Barrier films for preventing solvent attack on plastic resins This invention relates to the use of a barrier film consisting essentially of thermoplastic homo- or copolymer polyester resin to protect a styrenic resin sheet which constitutes the inner liner wall of an insulative cabinet wall of, for example, a refrig... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5219665 | Fabricated articles with improved resistance to hydrohalocarbons A multiple layer article of a thermoformable structural polymeric layer which is susceptible to damage upon exposure to hydrohalocarbon blowing agents and a polymeric layer which is a barrier to such hydrohalocarbon blowing agents provides a useful refrig... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5184879 | Air conditioning or cooling device for a control cabinet An air conditioning or cooling device for a control cabinet with a spacer frame constructed of horizontal and vertical frames sections, each having fastening bores closed by wall panels and a door of the cabinet and being in the shape of a box. The air co... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5171079 | Fire extinguisher cabinet An improved fire-extinguisher cabinet for insertion into a vertical wall surface consisting of double fire wall cabinets creating an internal cavity which hold a fire-retardant material. The improved double-walled fire extinguisher cabinet satisfies all t... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5061019 | Heat insulating box structure and manufacturing method therefor A heat insulating structure having a lower case whose top surface is arranged to be an opening through which goods are inserted and withdrawn and an upper case whose front surface is arranged to be an opening through which goods are inserted and withdrawn... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5044705 | Insulation structure for appliances An insulation panel for an appliance for reducing one or more undesirable side effects due to the operation of the appliance such as noise, vibration and heat includes a first layer of enclosing material such as polyethylene or polypropylene which has gre... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4786121 | Computer protective enclosure A protective enclosure for computers is disclosed which includes a base panel, a roof panel and sidewall right and left panels interconnecting the base and roof panels. The front of the enclosure is unobstructed to permit easy insertion of the computer in... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4626048 | Computer printer housing A supporting and sound-proofing housing for use with computer output printers and the like particularly adapted for mounting in a modular wall system to provide access thereto from either side. The housing comprises a box having a pair of vertical spaced ... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4515421 | Multiple use shelf for cooler A shelf and a cooler are constructed so that the shelf can be supported in vertical or horizontal positions within the cooler, in a horizontal position on one of the handle assemblies of the cooler, or on top of the lid of the cooler.... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4441766 | Protective equipment cabinet A protective cabinet has four upright and hollow polygonal-section posts formed of a fiber-reinforced polyester and spaced at corners of a rectangle. Four respective upright walls between the posts each have a rigid and rectangular inner panel, a rigid ou... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4107833 | Structural support for a refrigerator A refrigerator structural support is provided by permitting polyurethane foam reactant material to impregnate a body of fibrous material and to subsequently harden. The result is a third material having desirable stiffening and support characteristics. Va... | 08/22/1978 |
