Cylindrical Spinnable Fridge

Large families require large refrigerators and it gets to be a pain when the item you need is all the way in the back of the fridge/freezer. You have to excavate until you get it and then shovel everything back in, then repeat the process when returning the item. Stuff gets knocked over and disarranged.

There was a similar idea in the HB in 2000 from [rayfo] where a lazy susan sat inside [link]. A spinnable cylindrical fridge would provide near-360 degree access. Mount it in a corner on a sturdy pad on the floor attached via ball bearings to the underside of the box with a small motor to spin the thing. Power would come in through the bottom. The coils could be arrayed on the bottom with the bearings or on the top under a dust mesh.

This fridge would have a door on either side with storage on each door. Each door would have a button to rotate the appliance 180. Shelves would attach to the walls between the doors and have lips to keep stuff from working back against a door. The freezer could be top or bottom. A vertical clear tube running up the axis would house a string of LED lights.

Now everything is accessible. Your food doesn’t get shoved into your roomie’s food and you can always access the ice cream without unloading the entire box.