Patent ID: 8387403

Claim:
A refrigerator configured for presenting refrigerated or frozen goods, comprising: an internal goods chamber having a vertical access opening closed by a door, said goods chamber subdivided into vertically stacked shelf compartments; a head part disposed within said goods chamber above said shelf compartments, a cooling unit within said goods chamber below said shelf components, and a conduit within said goods chamber that transports a flow of cooling air from said cooling unit to said head part; said head part further comprising an air-permeable separating wall adjacent the uppermost said shelf compartment; each of said shelf compartments further comprising an air permeable bottom defining a plurality of perforations; wherein a recirculating cooling air flow is directed from said head part, through said air-permeable separating wall, successively downward through said air permeable bottom of each said shelf compartment, to said cooling unit, and into said conduit; and wherein a lowest one of said shelf compartment bottoms that is disposed closest to said cooling unit extends to said doors and has a portion set back a distance “A′” from said doors that is not air permeable, with the remaining portion defining perforations over substantially the entire surface thereof, wherein each end of said perforation that is nearest said doors of each other said shelf compartment other than said lowest one of said shelf compartment bottoms is set back a distance A from said doors and said set back distance A′ for said lowest said shelf compartment is greater than said set back distance A for said other shelf compartments.