Dispatch Chiller Rail
US Patent Application 17/893,958 — Notice of Allowance, August 2024
A final holding cooler without building one. Fit it into the space you already have, cool only the flights you are dispatching, and take it with you if you move.
Based on a medium-sized flight-kitchen final holding cooler at $0.09 per amp: 0.09 × 100 amps × 3 phases × 24 hours.
Cool the cart, not the room
A traditional final holding cooler chills a whole panelled room so that the carts inside it stay cold. You pay to refrigerate the air, the walls, the floor and the doorway — and every time the doors open, you pay again.
Dispatch Chiller Rail applies the same principle as the vehicle system: filtered refrigerated air is forced directly into each cart through cart-operated dampers. The room around it can stay at ambient.
That removes the chiller walls, the ceiling, and the floor-space sizing constraint that dictates how big a dispatch cooler has to be.
Advantages
- Reduces operating cost by more than 85%
- Cool each flight only as required, cutting wasted energy further
- Retrofits into an existing cooler, or stands alone where there is no cold room at all
- Removes the floor-space sizing constraint of a traditional dispatch cooler
- Position an entire flight together
- Easily removed and re-installed when relocating a facility
- Temperature records captured by flight, without user interaction
- Enables preloading, increasing effective dispatch cooler capacity
Also installed in
The same principle has been extended beyond the dispatch cooler:
- Loading docks
- Extensions to existing dispatch chillers
- Pre-chilling in bar-pack areas
Book a 30-day paired trial
Fit ChillRail to one truck, leave an identical truck unmodified, and run both on live routes for 30 days. Fuel, service calls, pull-out temperatures and cold-chain compliance all become your own audited data before you commit to anything.
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