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.
-- whatrock, Jan 21 2016

Similar idea A_20round_20fridge_2e
here we spin the inside [whatrock, Jan 21 2016]

Kind of baked - in 1948 http://www.gadgetsp...f-refrigerator.html
[hippo, Jan 21 2016]

"I have too much fresh, immediately available food and I can't reach it all easily"... I wonder how far back you would have to go to see people shocked at this problem. For the idea, [+]
-- Voice, Jan 21 2016


//via ball bearings to the underside of the box with a small motor to spin the thing.

Hmm, yet another effort to do centrifugal enrichment on the sly. You are the Iranian government and I claim my 5 Rials.

On the other hand, if you were to put smallish metal plates on each food item, and two fishing poles with magnets on the line, you have a passable game to keep children entertained.
-- not_morrison_rm, Jan 21 2016


[hippo], your link looks like a baking of the other idea that [whatrock] linked to, not this one.
-- notexactly, Jan 21 2016



random, halfbakery