Cold Room With Roof Top Support Platform

Cold Room With Roof-Top Support Platform

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The present invention relates generally to prefabricated auxiliary buildings and, more

particularly, to an independently supported prefabricated cold room structure for installation

adjoining to an air-conditioned main building wherein the air conditioning systems for the main

building are supported on a platform atop the cold room structure.

Establishments that serve or sell perishable foods, for example restaurants, quick-serve

restaurants, convenience stores, delis, and other food establishments, require one or more

refrigerated rooms for storing perishable foods items. Often, these refrigerated storage areas are

formed by a walk-in auxiliary structure attached to the main building of the establishment, but

structurally independent from the main building. For example, in a fast food restaurant, the main

building generally houses the food preparation area, the service area and the dining area, while a

separate structure, commonly known as a cold room, adjoining to the main building serves as

storage for perishable food items. As a further example, in convenience stores, the main building

often houses a grocery area and a food service area, while a structurally separate cold room is

provided for storing perishable food items.

The food preparation areas, service areas, and customer accessed areas of such establishments are

typically air conditioned for the comfort of both employees and customers. Commonly, the

conditioned air is provided by means of one or more roof-top air conditioning units mounted atop

the roof of the main building. In some installations, a single roof-top air conditioning unit

centrally located on the roof of the main building will, through a system of ducts, serve all

customer access and employee areas within the main building. In other instances, one air

conditioning unit may be mounted on the roof of the main building over the kitchen area for

providing conditioned air to the kitchen work area, while a second air conditioning unit is

mounted on the roof of the main building over the dining area or other customer access area to

provide conditioned air to the customer access area of the main building.

A walk-in cold room typically comprises a prefabricated unit that is manufactured at the

supplier’s factory and shipped to the job site for attachment to the main building. The

refrigeration unit or units necessary for providing cold refrigeration air to the cold room are

generally installed in the factory into the prefabricated structure with the condensing unit

portion of the refrigeration system mounted atop the roof of the prefabricated cold room and the

evaporator unit mounted within the interior of the cold room.

Thus, in conventional practice, the condensing units of the air conditioning units associated with

the main building are mounted atop the roof of the main building of the establishment and the

condensing units associated with the refrigeration units of the cold room structure are mounted

atop the roof of the cold room. Therefore, both the roof of the main building and the roof of the

cold room structure must be designed to support the added load of the roof-top air conditioning

equipment and the roof-top refrigeration equipment, respectively. Of course, the cost of each roof

structure is increased due to the requirement of structurally supporting the respective added load

associated with each roof structure. As the roof of the main building generally covers a

relatively large area, the increased cost associated with designing that roof to support the

associated air conditioning equipment is significantly higher than required design modifications

to the cold room.

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cold room

,The company has many year’s production experience and strong technical power.

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