US 12,252,880 B2
System and method for insulating an intermodal container
Edward G. Scherrer, Mitchell, SD (US); and Andrew Robert Scherrer, Mitchell, SD (US)
Assigned to InSoFast, LLC, Mitchell, SD (US)
Appl. No. 17/311,607
Filed by Edward G. Scherrer, Mitchell, SD (US); and Andrew Robert Scherrer, Mitchell, SD (US)
PCT Filed Dec. 6, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/064860
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 7, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/118147, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 11, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/776,971, filed on Dec. 7, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0018118 A1, Jan. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. E04B 1/76 (2006.01); B65D 88/12 (2006.01); B65D 90/06 (2006.01); E04B 1/348 (2006.01)
CPC E04B 1/7629 (2013.01) [B65D 88/121 (2013.01); B65D 90/06 (2013.01); E04B 1/3483 (2013.01); E04B 1/7675 (2013.01); B65D 2590/02 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
8. An intermodal container comprising:
a base;
a roof;
walls extending between the base and the roof, at least one of the walls having a corrugated surface;
a door;
a plurality of insulation units, each of the insulation units having a corrugated surface complementary to the corrugated surface of the intermodal container;
wherein the plurality of insulation units comprises a plurality of first insulation units, each of the first insulation units defining a longitudinal axis and comprising:
insulating material having a cross-section with a first face and an opposite second face, the first face including a longitudinally extending planar first central section and first and second longitudinally extending planar slanted surfaces on opposite sides of the first central section, the first and second slanted surfaces extending obliquely from the first central section toward the second face; the second face having a longitudinally extending planar second central section and first and second opposite recessed surfaces on opposite sides of the second central section and extending parallel to the second central section; the slanted surfaces forming an edge with corresponding ones of the recessed surfaces;
a plurality of planar insulation elements configured to fit against the recessed surfaces and sides of the second central sections of corresponding spaced apart ones of the first insulation units.