Patent ID: 7703301
Filing Date: 2010-04-27
Classification: F25D,F28F,Y02A

Abstract:
1. Apparatus for rapidly cooling a liquid in a container in a freezer, comprising: a housing having a bottom and side walls defining an interior volume adapted to receive a container of liquid and a housing outlet; a rotating mechanism disposed in said housing adapted to rotate the container about the container's longitudinal axis; a source of a liquid cooling medium to cool the container; and at least one ice tray for chilling the liquid cooling medium, said at least one ice tray having an inlet receiving the cooling medium, a substantially planar chilling surface in thermal communication with the freezer compartment and receiving the cooling medium from said inlet, and an outlet allowing the cooling medium to exit said ice tray; a reservoir, adapted to collect said liquid cooling medium, having a reservoir inlet and a reservoir outlet, said reservoir inlet in communication with one of said housing outlet and said ice tray outlet; and at least one fin having a first end in contact with said reservoir and a second end in contact with the freezer compartment, said fin passing through a wall of the freezer compartment and conducting heat from said liquid cooling medium in said reservoir to the freezer compartment, wherein said liquid cooling medium flows over said chilling surface and is cooled thereby, and wherein when the container is placed within said interior volume, the liquid cooling medium thermally communicates with the container while said rotating mechanism rotates the container.