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Equator Corporation

James J Costello

Ninh G Pham

Jonathan H Godshall

Stephen L Coffee

Eve Heim-Grubb

Winthrop A Eastman

Laurence R Giles

William A Prindle

Lawrence Pleet

Udo Fritsch

Control panel

Knob

Appliance

Lint filter

A concrete column forming tube stored and displayed for sale in the flat, and under the urging of a pivotal traverse of an internal ring is projected into the much larger three dimensional shape necessary for forming the concrete column, this reshaping occurring at a site of use having no space limitations.

Concrete column forming tube

A container useful for keeping food or beverages warm or cold includes a combination lid and tray door assembly. The lid and tray are both coupled to the container and to each other. The tray may be pivoted independently of the lid into a table top position and it may be separated from the container and used as a separate tray. The tray and lid are also pivotable together as an integral door assembly, and the lid is pivotable independently of the tray when the tray is removed or deployed as a table top. The overall height of the container is less than the overall length and the overall width so that the container has a low, stable center of gravity which permits it to be used on an unstable surface, such as an automobile seat, and so that the container does not obstruct movement or view of occupants of an automobile when it is used in an automobile. A handle of the container includes a holder for wrapping a power cord thereon, and, when disposed in a downward stowed position, provides a clearance between the bottom of the door and a supporting surface when the container is turned on its side to be used as a front opening cooler or warmer. The thermoelectric engine of the cooler/warmer is constructed as an integral cassette which can be installed or removed from the main body of the container in one piece. Finally, a finned heat sink used in the thermoelectric engine in conjunction with a centrifugal fan is formed as an oblique parallelogram to produce uniform air flow velocity across the width of the heat sink.

Thermoelectric cooler and warmer for food with table top tray

Thermoelectric cooler and warmer for food

The present invention is directed to a device for retaining ice in a drinking glass while permitting the beverage therein to be enjoyed. The device comprises a shield shaped to conform generally to at least a portion of an interior cross-section of the glass at a chosen distance below the lip thereof. The device further includes a stem attached at one end to the shield and at the other end to a clip. The stem is of a length so that the shield will be positioned at the chosen distance below the lip of the glass when the clip is engaged on the lip thereof. In the preferred embodiments, the shield is substantially the same size as the interior cross-section of the glass at the chosen distance and includes a plurality of holes sized to retain the ice in the glass while permitting the beverage to flow freely therethrough. In the most preferred embodiments, the clip is pivotally attached to the opposite end of the stem and spring biassed to firmly engage the lip of the drinking glass. Finally, the present invention includes the combination of an ice retainer together with a drinking glass or other beverage container especially designed so that the ice retainer is completely disposed below the lip of the cooperating glass or container.

Ice retainer

A door having an appearance of being entirely made of wood which is provided by panels of wood veneer adhesively secured to a core of thin gauge sheet metal panels. The sheet metal panels are adapted for this purpose by being imparted with horizontal and vertical fold lines which enable the panels to resist flexing and bending out of plane, to thereby contribute to anti-warping and other noteworthy features.

Wood-surfaced door

Thermoelectric heater and cooler unit for food

Ice chest

A thermoelectric cooler and warmer which has a unique ventilation system to distribute cool or warm air throughout the unit so that there are no hot or cool spots, a door which is mounted so that it can be easily opened whether the door is facing up or facing front, a lid or door latch which can be easily and reliably operated, and/or a handle configuration which does not unbalance the unit so that it can be advantageously placed with the door up or on an end with the lid or door facing front so that it can be advantageously used as a conventional chest or as a portable mini-refrigerator or warming unit.

Thermoelectric cooler and warmer

Door

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Houston, TX, United States of America

James J Costello