Refrigerator with meat storage receptacle

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION WITH A REFRIGERATOR CABINET HAVING A FOOD STORAGE CHAMBER FURNISHED WITH A FRONT ACCESS OPENING NORMALLY CLOSED BY A DOOR, A REFRIGERATING SYSTEM ASSOCIATED WITH SAID CABINET INCLUDING A REFRIGERANT EVAPORATOR DISPOSED IN A FLUE AT THE REAR OF SAID CHAMBER PROVIDED WITH AN OUTLET EXTENDING THEREACROSS AND WHEREIN THE COOLING EFFECT PRODUCED BY SAID EVAPORATE CREATES CIRCULATION OF AIR FROM THE CHAMBER INTO SAID FLUE AND OUTWARDLY OF ITS OUTLET BACK INTO SAID CHAMBER FOR CHILLING THE INTERIOR THEREOF COMPRISING; (A) A SHELF MOUNTED WITHIN THE CHAMBER ADJACENT SAID FLUE OUTLET AND EXTENDING ENTIRELY ACROSS A HORIZONTAL AREA OF SAID CHAMBER INTERMEDIATE UPRIGHT SIDES THEREOF, (B) SAID SELF BEING RETICULATED FOR CIRCULATION OF AIR THERETHROUGH AND HAVING ITS REAR EDGE SPACED FROM THE CHAMBER BACK WALL AND DISPOSED SUBSTANTIALLY IN VERTICAL ALIGNMENT WITH THE FRONT WALL OF SAID FLUE, (C) A PLATE MEMBER BENEATH AND SUPPORTED BY SAID SHELF FOR SLIDING MOVEMENT THEREALONG, (D) SAID PLATE MEMBER HAVING A LIP-LIKE EXTENSION THEREON PROJECTING REARWARDLY THEREOF BEYOND THE REAR EDGE OF SAID SHELF BELOW SAID FLUE OUTLET AND PROVIDING AN AIR SCOOP ON THE PLATE MEMBER, (E) A PAN MEMBER SUSPENDED FROM SAID PLATE MEMBER AND FORMING THEREWITH COMPONENTS OF A COVERED RECEPTACLE DEPENDING FROM SAID RETICULATED SHELF PROVIDING A SINGLE UNIT WITHIN A HORIZONTAL PLANE THEREBELOW BETWEEN SIDES OF THE CHAMBER, (F) MEANS FOR CAUSING FLOW OF AIR FROM SAID FLUE INTO AND OUT OF SAID COVERED RECEPTACLE WHEREBY TO COOL FOOD PRODUCTS PLACED THEREIN TO A TEMPERATURE BELOW THE TEMPERATURE AMBIENT THERETO IN SAID CHAMBER, (G) SAID MEANS INCLUDING IN ADDITION TO SAID AIR SCOOP A VERTICALLY DISPOSED HORIZONTALLY ELONGATED AIR INLET PASSAGE PROVIDED IN THE BACK OF SAID PLATE MEMBER EXPOSED TO AIR EGRESSING FROM THE FLUE AND AN AIR DISCHARGE PASSAGE PROVIDED IN THE FORWARD PORTION OF THE PLATE MEMBER ABOVE WALLS OF SAID PAN MEMBER, (H) THE PAN MEMBER OF SAID COVERED RECEPTACLE BEING WHILE SUPPORTED FROM SAID PLATE MEMBER GLIDABLE OUTWARDLY OF SAID CHAMBER THROUGH ITS ACCESS OPENING WHEN SAID DOOR IS OPENED, (I) SAID PLATE AND PAN MEMBER COMPONENTS OF THE COVERED RECEPTACLE BOTH BEING OF LESS WIDTH THAN SAID SHELF AND WHEREBY THE SINGLE UNIT SLIDABLE THEREALONG TOWARD AND AWAY FROM AN UPRIGHT SIDE OF THE CHAMBER TO ADJUST THE POSITION OF SAID UNIT TRANSVERSELY WITHIN SAID CHAMBER, AND (J) SAID AIR SCOOPING LIP-LIKE EXTENSION ON SAID PLATE MEMBER REMAINING BELOW SAID FLUE OUTLET IN THE PATH OF AIR EGRESSING THEREFROM AT ALL POSITIONS OF TRANSVERSE ADJUSTMENT OF SAID SINGLE COVERED RECEPTACLE UNIT IN THE CHAMBER.