Specialty Equipment Companies, Inc.

Specialty Equipment Company, Inc.

Carrier Commercial Refrigeration, Inc.

Tannetics, Inc.

Robert A Johnson

Phillip A Smith

Paul H Corden

Michael A Branz

Dan G Hopkins

Richard A Seiss

Jay E Eichman

Joseph G Correia

A forced air cooler ( ) includes a cabinet ( ) defining a lower chamber ( ) wherein product is stored and an upper chamber ( ) housing a pair of fans ( ) and ( ) positioned intermediate spaced evaporators ( ) and ( ). A wire rack ( ) disposed on the floor of the cabinet ( ) supports the product off the floor and includes integral side fences ( ) and ( ) which serve to space the product away from the side walls ( ) and ( ) of the cabinet. The fans ( ) and ( ) draw air through the evaporators ( ) and ( ), respectively, and direct the cooing air through the openings provided by the slots ( ) in the diffuser plate ( ) to provide a uniformly distributed flow of cooling air, at its coolest condition, downwardly into the lower chamber ( ) to pass over the product stored therein. Upon reaching the floor of the lower chamber, the cooling airflow passes along the surface of the floor and is drawn into the lower return air duct ( ) and thence into side air ducts ( ) and ( ) to return to the upper chamber ( ) and be again drawn through the evaporators ( ) and ( ).

Refrigerated cooler

Refrigerated cabinet

A cooler cabinet having a refrigeration system, and particularly devised to maintain articles to-be-cooled, such as milk cartons and the like, and permit the continuous entry into the cabinet enclosure for the removal of the articles is disclosed as having a main chamber for the articles, an upper, separated chamber for enclosing the evaporator for the refrigeration system and a lower, separated chamber for enclosing condenser and compressor. Air distribution fans are positioned in the upper chamber and are arranged to produce circulatory air movement across the evaporator to be cooled thereby in the upper chamber, then downwardly along the front wall of the main chamber then across the floor of the main chamber, then upwardly along the back wall of the chamber in an air return path and back to the vicinity of the evaporator for continued recirculation. Wire grates are positioned on the floor and the front wall along which air is moved downwardly.

Forced air cooler

Advertising display unit for merchandising cooler

A commerical merchandising unit for displaying products offered for sale is integrally provided with a device displaying moving merchandising message indicia. Fixed merchandising message indicia may further be integrally combined in the general vicinity of the moving indicia. The integral appearance of either the moving indicia, or the fixed and moving indicia, combined with a merchandising unit, such as a refrigerated display case, significantly enhances the merchandising affect of the merchandising indicia.

Integral moving message device for merchandising display case

A unitary refrigeration system for a vertical refrigeration cooler which may be installed and removed as a unit from a front of the cooler without a need to unload the articles in the cooler or move the cabinet. Another important feature of the present invention is to provide a unitary refrigeration system for a vertical cooler in which the compressor and evaporator may be removed as a unit without disconnection of the refrigerant tubing in a convenient and expedient manner from a front of the cabinet. Still another important feature of the present invention is to provide a unitary refrigeration system which may be easily removed from a vertical cooler as a unit for servicing and replaced by a like unit so that the cooler is not rendered inoperable during servicing.

Unitary removable refrigeration system and cooler

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Spartanburg, SC, United States of America

Robert A Johnson