Patent ID: 8317280
Filing Date: 2012-11-27
Classification: F25D,Y02B

Abstract:
1. A storage compartment comprising a container defining an access aperture closable by a closure that can be sealed to the container around the aperture and that can be opened by relative movement between the container and the closure in a lateral direction with respect to the aperture, the container having a first sealing loop around the aperture and the closure having a second sealing loop co-operable by alignment with the first sealing loop to maintain a seal when the closure closes the aperture, the sealing loops being moved into and out of mutual alignment by said relative movement between the container and the closure and comprising sections transverse to the direction of movement and sections aligned with the direction of movement wherein: at least one of the sealing loops comprises a resiliently flexible seal that houses a magnetic or magnetically attractive strip extending along the sealing loop for attraction to the other sealing loop; and mutual alignment of the sealing loops effects a seal in use by increasing aggregate magnetic attraction between the sealing loops to overcome said bias of the resiliently flexible material.