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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2000
Gary Lester Chastine, Louisville, KY (US);
Edgardo Torres, Louisville, KY (US);
Michael Saba, Louisville, KY (US);
Ronald Gary Foster, Louisville, KY (US);
Gary Lester Chastine, Louisville, KY (US);
Edgardo Torres, Louisville, KY (US);
Michael Saba, Louisville, KY (US);
Ronald Gary Foster, Louisville, KY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A quick chill and thaw system includes an air handler mounted in a fresh food compartment of a refrigerator and drawing air from a freezer compartment for rapid chilling of items inside a slide-out pan. The air handler produces convective airflow at temperatures within the pan at temperatures above and below a temperature of the fresh food compartment to achieve both chilling and thawing of items in the pan.