Storage container

• US 3,108,840 A
• Filed: 12/05/1960
• Issued: 10/29/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Edwin O. Conrad, John B. Peterson
• Original Assignee: Edwin O. Conrad, John B. Peterson
• Inventors: Conrad, Edwin O., Peterson, John B.
• Application Number:
  US04/073,563
• Time in Patent Office: 1,058 Days
• US Class Current: 312/400
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 1/02 Preservation of living parts
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 1/0257 Stationary or portable vessels generating cryogenic temperatures
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 1/0268 Carriers for immersion in cryogenic fluid, both for slow-freezing and vitrification, e.g. open or closed "straws" for embryos, oocytes or semen
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 3/02 with provision for thermal insulation thermal insulation in general F16L59/00 ; refrigerators F25D; insulation specially adapted for cryogenic vessels F17C13/001; tank vehicles B60P3/22; railway tank wagons B61D5/00
• CPC Class Codes: F17C 3/08 by vacuum spaces, e.g. Dewar flask for household use A47J41/02
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 25/00 Charging, supporting, and discharging the articles to be cooled
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 3/10 using liquefied gases, e.g. liquid air for cooling semiconductor devices H01L23/445
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 220/901 Liquified gas content, cryogenic

Claims

1. IN A NORMALLY UPRIGHT INSULATED CONTAINER HAVING AN INTERNAL COMPARTMENT ADAPTED FOR PRODUCT AND VOLATILE REFRIGERANT STORAGE AND A SINGLE ACCESS OPENING COMMUNICATING WITH SAID COMPARTMENT FOR INSERTION AND RETRIEVAL OF PRODUCTS TO BE REFRIGERATED THEREIN, THE ACCESS OPENING BEING AT THE TOP OF SAID CONTAINER AND BEING SUBSTANTIALLY SMALLER THAN THE HORIZONTAL CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA OF THE COMPARTMENT, THE IMPROVEMENT COMPRISING A FIXED FRAMEWORK WITHIN SAID COMPARTMENT ADAPTED TO RECEIVE AND SUPPORT ELONGATED ARTICLES PLACED THEREIN, SAID FRAMEWORK DEFINING A PLURALITY OF STORAGE SLOTS ACCESSIBLE THROUGH SAID ACCESS OPENING FOR INSERTION OF SUCH ARTICLES, SAID SLOTS EXTENDING HORIZONTALLY OUTWARD ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE AREA DIRECTLY BENEATH SAID OPENING TO OUTER END PORTIONS LATERALLY SPACED FROM THE AREA BENEATH SAID ACCESS OPENING, SAID FRAMEWORK INCLUDING MEANS FOR SUPPORTING SUCH ARTICLES IN VERTICALLY UPRIGHT POSITION IN SAID SLOTS, WHEREBY SUCH ARTICLES MAY BE PLACED IN SAID CONTAINER THROUGH SAID ACCESS OPENING, MOVED OUTWARD IN SAID COMPARTMENT RELATIVE TO SAID ACCESS OPENING ALONG SAID SLOTS FOR STORAGE THEREIN AND SUBSEQUENTLY RETRIEVED FROM SAID SLOTS THROUGH SAID ACCESS OPENING.