Patent ID: 7748228
Filing Date: 2010-07-06
Classification: F25B,F25D

Abstract:
1. A storage system that has variable temperature, the system comprising: a plurality of drawers, wherein each drawer is capable of operating in any mode selected from the group consisting of refrigerator mode, freezer mode, thaw cabinet mode, and blast chiller mode, at any time when the storage system is in use, independently of one another; and a heating and cooling system in thermal communication with said plurality of drawers, said heating and cooling system generating even air-flow around all sides of said plurality of drawers for heating and/or cooling thereof, wherein each of said plurality of drawers is disposed within an associated housing assembly when in a closed position, such that each of said plurality of drawers is exposed to the interior atmosphere of said associated housing assembly, wherein each said associated housing assembly for each of said plurality of drawers is separate and apart from other associated housing assemblies for others of said plurality of drawers disposed within said storage system, and wherein each of said associated housing assemblies further comprises an evaporator compartment separate and apart from evaporator compartments of all other associated housing assemblies in said storage system.