Installation comprising an ice-box for a hotel room

• US 4,358,171 A
• Filed: 05/27/1980
• Issued: 11/09/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Societe Pour L'Exploitation de L'Hotel Du Rhone
• Original Assignee: Societe Pour L'Exploitation de L'Hotel Du Rhone
• Inventors: Christen, Jean-Louis
• Primary Examiner(s): Sakran, Victor N.
• Application Number:
  US06/153,499
• Time in Patent Office: 896 Days
• Field of Search: 312/286, 312/287, 312/289, 312/305, 232/43.3, 109/19
• US Class Current: 312/286
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 3/02 Hotels; Motels; Coffee-houses; Restaurants; Shops; Department stores
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 23/10 Arrangements for mounting in particular locations, e.g. for built-in type, for corner type

Abstract

An installation for an hotel room has a frame carrying two ice-boxes which are disposed one above the other, in a head-to-foot arrangement. The frame is slidably supported for movement to a drawn out position in which it is located in a corridor giving access to two adjoining hotel rooms, thus allowing the responsible hotel staff to check the contents of the ice-boxes and, if necessary, to restock them. The frame can be moved away from the corridor into a chest situated at the wall separating the two adjoining rooms and which is provided with apertures situated at the levels of the doors of the two ice-boxes. These apertures allow the occupants of each of the two rooms to gain access, respectively, to the two ice-boxes.

Claims

1. An installation for a hotel room with a wall separating the room from an adjoining management space, said room being one of two adjoining rooms and there being a separating wall between the two adjoining rooms, said installation comprising:

a movable frame disposed at an opening provided in said wall separating the room from an adjoining management space and in line with said separating wall, the frame carrying two ice-boxes which are disposed in head-to-foot arrangement, said ice-boxes having doors which respectively open on the two opposite sides of the frame, said frame being slidably arranged so that it can be located, at least partially, on either side of said wall separating the room from an adjoining management space so that when the frame is situated inwardly with respect to the rooms, one of said ice-boxes is accessible from one of the rooms and the other of said ice-boxes is accessible from the other of the rooms and when said frame is located on the other side of said wall separating the room from a management space, both of the ice-boxes are accessible from the management space.

2. An installation according to claim 1, further including a chest situated in the room and within which said frame moves, said chest having a side aperture and one of said ice-boxes having a door which is situated opposite said chest side aperture when said frame is fully engaged in the chest.

3. An installation according to claim 2, wherein said side aperture of said chest is provided with a door which can be locked, in the room, to control access to said ice-box.

4. An installation according to claim 1, wherein a stationary rail extends perpendicularly to said wall separating the room from the adjoining management space, and said frame is suspended from said rail.

5. An installation according to claim 4, including an intermediate element by which said frame is suspended from said stationary rail, said intermediate element providing for the frame, by telescopic relative displacement of the engaged suspension elements, to move to an overhanging position with respect to said stationary rail when it occupies either one of its two extreme positions, either in the room or in the adjoining management space.

6. An installation according to claim 1, wherein said two ice-boxes are situated one above the other.

7. An installation according to claim 1, wherein said management space is a corridor serving for access to both of said two rooms.