Door for a refrigerated cabinet
View Patent ↗The door is made with a multi-lite insulated glass unit and a frame of aluminum rails. The insulated glass unit has a stepped cross-section with the outer glass lite being larger than the inner glass lites. An opaque non-conductive ceramic frit forms a rectangularly shaped border to mask the mounting of the inner glass lite(s). An electrically conductive coating on the outer glass lite is insulated from the aluminum rails of the frame by a plastic strip disposed between the outer glass lite and each rail.
1. A door comprising
an insulating glass unit having an outer glass lite of predetermined rectangular shape and an inner glass lite of smaller rectangular shape than said outer glass lite;
a pair of horizontally disposed aluminum rails, each said rail having a base, a pair of parallel walls extending perpendicularly of said base and a flange extending from said base in parallel to said pair of walls and defining a recess with one of said walls receiving an edge of said outer glass lite in sealed relation therein;
a pair of vertically disposed rails connected to and across said pair of horizontally disposed rails to define a frame, each said vertically disposed rail having a base, a pair of parallel walls extending perpendicularly of said base and a flange extending from said base in parallel to said pair of walls and defining a recess with one of said walls receiving an edge of said outer glass lite in sealed relation therein; and
a plurality of breakers, each said breaker being snap-fitted onto a respective one of said pair of horizontally disposed rails and a respective one of said pair of vertically disposed rails, each said breaker having an end disposed in abutment with said inner glass lite.
2. A door as set forth in claim 1 wherein said inner glass lite is sealingly secured to said outer glass lite in spaced parallel relation to define a space therebetween.
3. A door as set forth in claim 2 wherein each horizontally disposed rail has a third wall transverse to one of said pair of parallel walls and extending into the plane of said inner glass lite and an abutment extending from said third wall and abutting said inner glass lite and each vertically disposed rail has a third wall transverse to one of said pair of parallel walls and extending into the plane of said inner glass lite and an abutment extending from said third wall and abutting said inner glass lite.
4. A door as set forth in claim 3 wherein said third wall of each of said pair of vertically disposed rails extends between and is secured to each wall of said pair of parallel walls thereof to define a closed space of rectangular cross-section.
5. A door as set forth in claim 3 wherein said third wall of each of said pair of horizontally disposed rails is spaced from the other of said pair of horizontally disposed rails.
6. A door as set forth in claim 1 further comprising a plurality of gaskets, each said gasket having a dart thereon and wherein each said breaker is of skeletal structure including a C-shaped recess having a constricted mouth receiving said dart of a respective gasket in press-fit relation.
7. A door as set forth in claim 1 further comprising an opaque rectangularly shaped border on said outer glass lite, said border extending inwardly of said inner glass lite.
8. A door as set forth in claim 7 wherein said border is a ceramic frit.
9. A door comprising
an insulating glass unit having an outer glass lite of predetermined rectangular shape and an inner glass lite of smaller rectangular shape than said outer glass lite sealing secured to said outer glass lite in spaced parallel relation to define a space therebetween;
a pair of horizontally disposed rails, each said rail having a base, a pair of parallel walls extending perpendicularly of said base, a third wall transverse to one of said pair of parallel walls and extending into the plane of said inner glass lite, an abutment extending from said third wall and abutting said inner glass lite, a flange extending from said base in parallel to said pair of walls and defining a recess with one of said walls receiving an edge of said outer glass lite in sealed relation therein; and
a pair of vertically disposed rails connected to and across said pair of horizontally disposed rails to define a frame, each said vertically disposed rail having a base, a pair of parallel walls extending perpendicularly of said base, a third wall transverse to one of said pair of parallel walls thereof, an abutment extending from said third wall and abutting said inner glass lite, a flange extending from said base in parallel to said pair of walls and defining a recess with one of said walls receiving an edge of said outer glass lite in sealed relation therein.
10. A door as set forth in claim 9 further comprising a plurality of breakers, each said breaker being snap-fitted onto said abutment of a respective one of said pair of horizontally disposed rails and a respective one of said pair of vertically disposed rails, and a plurality of gaskets, each said gasket being snap-fitted into a respective one of said breakers on a side of said insulated glass unit opposite said outer glass lite.
11. A door as set forth in claim 10 wherein each said breaker is of skeletal structure including a C-shaped recess having a constricted mouth and each said gasket has a dart on one side press-fitted into said recess of a respective breaker.
12. A door as set forth in claim 10 wherein one of said breakers fitted into one of said pair of vertically disposed rails has a bifurcated end defining a vertically disposed slot and wherein said door further comprises a gasket slidably mounted in and projecting from said slot.
13. A door as set forth in claim 10 further comprising a heater wire mounted on said abutment of each of a respective one of said pair of horizontally disposed rails and a respective one of said pair of vertically disposed rails on an opposite side from said inner glass lite.
14. A door as set forth in claim 9 wherein said third wall of each of said pair of vertically disposed rails extends between and Is secured to each wall of said pair of parallel walls thereof to define a closed space of rectangular cross-section.