Patent ID: 8266923

Claim:
A refrigerating appliance comprising: at least two storage compartments thermally insulated from each other and from a surrounding area and installed in a cabinet; a compressor is installed in a socket unit; an evaporator, which can be cooled independently from an evaporator of at least one other storage compartment, being provided with each storage compartment, wherein the evaporator from one of the compartments comprises two evaporators connected in series, and wherein the evaporators are mounted at least at a top of a top one of the storage compartments and at a bottom of a bottom one of the storage compartments such that the refrigerating appliance is operable in a first orientation where the cabinet is mounted on the socket unit and a second orientation where the cabinet is inverted from the first orientation mounted on the socket unit; and means for switching the mode of operation of at least one of the compartments between a freezing mode and a non-freezing mode.