Refrigerator

• US 4,288,993 A
• Filed: 09/24/1979
• Issued: 09/15/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
• Original Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: van Mensvoort, Adrianus J., Asselman, George A. A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Tapolcai, Jr., William E.
• Application Number:
  US06/077,956
• Time in Patent Office: 722 Days
• Field of Search: 62/292, 62/294, 62/175, 62/333, 165/96, 165/32
• US Class Current: 62/333
• CPC Class Codes: F25B 25/005 using primary and secondary systems
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 11/025 using primary and secondary refrigeration systems
• CPC Class Codes: F28D 15/06 Control arrangements therefor

Abstract

A refrigerator comprises a primary refrigerating system and a secondary refrigerating system in heat-exchanging contact with each other. The secondary refrigerating system is connected to a reservoir containing a control gas getter which can be heated to vary the amount of free control gas in the secondary refrigerating system and thereby to control the temperature of the secondary refrigerating system. The reservoir includes an initially breakable seal for aiding in assembling the reservoir to the secondary refrigerating system.

Claims

1. A refrigerator comprising a freezing compartment;

a refrigerating compartment;

a primary refrigerating system containing a primary refrigerant and including a primary evaporator disposed in the freezing compartment;

a secondary refrigerating system containing a secondary refrigerant and a control gas and including a secondary evaporator disposed in the refrigerating compartment and a secondary condensor disposed in the freezing compartment in heat-exchange contact with the primary evaporator, said secondary refrigerating system being constituted as a tube closed off at the outer end of the secondary evaporator portion thereof;

a reservoir containing a reversible control gas getter and having a supply duct connected to the outer end of the secondary condensor portion of the secondary refrigerating system tube; and

a breakable seal arranged in the supply duct of the reservoir to enable the reservoir to be connected to said secondary condensor portion without contamination of the control gas getter.

2. A refrigerator according to claim 1, in which the breakable seal is formed of copper foil.