Patent ID: 6845631

Claim:
Absorption refrigerator ( 1 ) comprising: a cabinet having outer walls ( 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ) and at least one door ( 7 , 8 ), said cabinet enclosing a low temperature storage compartment ( 9 ) and a higher temperature storage compartment ( 10 ), said compartments being essentially sealed from each other and separated by a partition wall ( 11 ), said partition wall being arranged inside the cabinet and generally perpendicular to a first wall ( 2 ) of said outer walls, and an absorption refrigerating system including an evaporator tube ( 20 ) comprising a first evaporator tube section ( 21 ) for cooling the low temperature compartment and a second evaporator tube section ( 22 ) for cooling the higher temperature compartment, said second evaporator tube section being arranged downstream of said first evaporator tube section with respect to a direction of flow of a coolant, wherein a substantial portion of said first evaporator tube section ( 21 ) is arranged generally in parallel with said partition wall ( 11 ), and wherein said substantial portion of the first tube section ( 21 ) includes two non-coaxial tube portions ( 21 a ) the axes of said tube portions together defining a general extension plane of said substantial portion of the first evaporator section said general extension plane being arranged generally in parallel with said partition wall ( 11 ).