Patent ID: 8398184

Claim:
A thermal barrier and item retaining apparatus for preventing ejection or items from a horizontal shelf within a compartment, the compartment having spaced apart walls and comprising: (a) mounting devices for mounting to the inside of the compartment in a spaced apart relationship and including respective fastener devices to fasten the mounting devices to a sheet configured to be deployed; (b) a sheet configured to be deployed and attached to the mounting devices by use of the corresponding respective fastener devices; the sheet configured to form a blocking structure in front of the front edge of the shelf; the sheet including sealable, downward opening, transparent panels for access to the items and including a parametrical border around the panels; (c) additional fasteners attached to the back side of the sheet at two or more sheet locations not on openeable panel; the additional fasteners comprising tethers configured to be attachable to a horizontal shelf to retain the sheet securingly in position against the front edge of the shelf; (d) a strings attached at a top corner of at least one panel opening to allow the easy separation of the top of a panel from the surrounding sheet portion by gripping said strings and applying a downward pulling action to cause an opening in the sheet to be formed.