CASCADING SERIES OF THERMALLY INSULATED PASSIVE TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED CONTAINERS
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1. A cascading series of thermally insulated containers, comprising:
- (a) a first container having a first payload retention chamber defined and surrounded by separately deployable first nestable sleeves of thermal insulation and phase change material, and(b) a second container having a second payload retention chamber defined and surrounded by separately deployable second nestable sleeves of thermal insulation and phase change material,(c) wherein the second container is nestable within the first container.
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Abstract
A modular collection of components from which a variety of thermally insulated and thermal controlled containers can be assembled. The collection includes at least two differently sized sleeves of thermal insulation, and at least two differently sized sleeves of phase change material that are nestable with one another to form various thermally insulated and thermally controlled containers with various combinations of available payload, target temperature, guaranteed duration of thermal control, size of container and weight of container.
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1. A cascading series of thermally insulated containers, comprising:
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(a) a first container having a first payload retention chamber defined and surrounded by separately deployable first nestable sleeves of thermal insulation and phase change material, and (b) a second container having a second payload retention chamber defined and surrounded by separately deployable second nestable sleeves of thermal insulation and phase change material, (c) wherein the second container is nestable within the first container. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A cascading series of thermally insulated containers, comprising:
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(a) a first container having a first payload retention chamber defined and surrounded by separately deployable first nestable sleeves of thermal insulation and phase change material, and (b) a second container having a second payload retention chamber defined and surrounded by separately deployable second nestable sleeves of thermal insulation and phase change material, (c) wherein the second container is nestable within the first sleeve of thermal insulation. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8)
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9. A cascading series of thermally insulated containers, comprising:
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(a) a first container having a first payload retention chamber defined and surrounded by separately deployable first sleeves of thermal insulation and phase change material, (b) an intermediate container having an intermediate payload retention chamber defined and surrounded by separately deployable intermediate sleeves of thermal insulation and phase change material, wherein the intermediate sleeve of thermal insulation is nestable within the first sleeve of thermal insulation, and (c) a second container having a second payload retention chamber defined and surrounded by separately deployable second sleeves of thermal insulation and phase change material, wherein the entire second container is nestable within the intermediate sleeve of thermal insulation. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A modular collection of components comprising at least:
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(a) three differently sized sleeves of thermal insulation including a smaller, a larger and an intermediate sized sleeve, and (b) three differently sized sleeves of phase change material including a smaller, a larger and an intermediate sized sleeve, (c) from which at least the following thermally insulated containers can be assembled; (1) a smaller payload single insulated container formed by nesting together the smaller sleeve of thermal insulation and the smaller sleeve of a phase change material, (2) an intermediate sized payload single insulated container formed by nesting together the intermediate sized sleeve of thermal insulation and the intermediate sized sleeve of phase change material, (3) a larger payload single insulated container formed by nesting together the larger sleeve of thermal insulation and the larger sleeve of phase change material, and (4) at least one of; (A) a smaller payload double insulated container formed by nesting together the intermediate sized sleeve of thermal insulation, the smaller sleeve of thermal insulation and the smaller sleeve of phase change material, (B) an intermediate sized payload double insulated container formed by nesting together the larger sleeve of thermal insulation, the intermediate sized sleeve of thermal insulation and the intermediate sized sleeve of phase change material, and (C) a smaller payload triple insulated container formed by nesting together the larger sleeve of thermal insulation, the intermediate sized sleeve of thermal insulation, the smaller sleeve of thermal insulation, and the smaller sleeve of phase change material. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18)
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