CN103542652A - Connection assembly for a base and a cabinet assembly of an ice maker - Google Patents
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A connection assembly is disclosed for an ice maker that includes a base having a rail and a cabinet assembly having a glide. The glide slides onto the rail to removably connect the base and the cabinet assembly while aligning the cabinet assembly vertically and horizontally relative to the base. Preferably, the rail and glide have complementary geometries wherein the base and rail fit together such that the complementary geometries limit the relative vertical and horizontal movement of the rail and the glide to each other. In alternative configurations, the base may have a glide and the cabinet may have a rail. The connection assembly may also include a stop limiting the relative linear movement between the rail and the glide, further assuring proper alignment of the cabinet and the base. The connection assembly may also include a locking mechanism limiting relative linear movement of the base and the cabinet.
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The application requires the U.S. Provisional Application sequence No.61/670 submitting on July 11st, 2012,327 priority, and the full content of this provisional application is incorporated to herein by reference.
Technical field
The disclosure relates to a kind of coupling assembling for the base portion of ice machine and box assembly are assembled.The disclosure also relates to a kind of coupling assembling for ice machine and container assemblies are assembled, and this coupling assembling has the parts that permission directly touches the be easy to dismounting of available unit.The disclosure also provides a kind of modular assembly of manufacturing the box assembly of flexibility that improved.In addition, the disclosure relates to a kind of coupling assembling for the base portion of ice machine and box assembly are assembled, and this coupling assembling provides suitable vertical alignment and the horizontal aligument of base portion and casing.
Background technology
Conventionally, ice machine has refrigeration system and water distribution system, and this water distribution system is fitted on by moisture the ice that is connected to refrigeration system, and to form surface upper to form ice.As is known in the art, refrigeration system execution steam compression cycle is carried out cooling and at ice, collects cycle period and heat so that making ice form surface from ice departs to form cycle period at ice, and ice is stored in ice container.Refrigeration system, ice container and water distribution system are arranged in the housing of conventional isolation.
The housing of ice machine does not have at present and allows to be easy to detachable block that refrigeration system, ice container and water distribution system are maintained and safeguarded.And, the misalignment that may become when maintenance and maintenance re-assembly after completing of the detachable block of housing.And the parts of conventional ice machine have the fixed configuration that cannot realize in the flexibility of manufacture view.
Therefore, the disclosure it has been determined that needs a kind of coupling assembling for the base portion of ice machine and box assembly are assembled as described below: this coupling assembling allows directly to touch available unit, the suitable aligning of base portion and box assembly is provided, and the modular assembly of box assembly and base portion is provided, improves and manufacture flexibility.
Summary of the invention
The disclosure provides a kind of coupling assembling for ice machine, and this coupling assembling comprises the base portion with guide rail and the box assembly with sliding part.Sliding part slides to allow being connected and movement of base portion and box assembly on guide rail, makes box assembly with respect to base portion aligning vertically and flatly.
The disclosure provides a kind of coupling assembling for ice machine, and in one embodiment, this coupling assembling comprises: for the guide rail of base portion, this guide rail has geometry; Sliding part for casing, this sliding part has geometry, wherein, the geometry of guide rail and the geometry of sliding part are complementary, make the geometry of guide rail and the geometry matched together of sliding part so that the aiming at of vertical and level of vertical and stability level of base portion and casing and base portion and casing to be provided.
In one embodiment, the geometry of guide rail is that the geometry of solid geometric configuration and sliding part is open geometric configuration, and the solid geometric configuration of guide rail is received within the geometric configuration of opening of sliding part.The geometric configuration of the solid geometric configuration of guide rail and the opening of sliding part is arranged to the fully complementation of geometric configuration of the solid geometric configuration of guide rail and the opening of sliding part, thereby restriction guide rail is with respect to relative vertical motion and the horizontal movement of sliding part, vertical and stability level of base portion and casing is provided thus and aims at.
The exemplary solid geometry of guide rail especially comprises: shape, " ball and post (ball and post) " shape, square shape, rectangular shape, triangular shaped, " X " shape shape, "T"-shaped shape etc., and to those skilled in the art when reading following detailed description by the shape becoming apparent.The geometry of the exemplary opening of sliding part comprises and the solid geometry of guide rail as described above complementary geometry mutually.
Alternately, the geometry of guide rail can be that open geometry and the geometry of sliding part can be solid geometries, these geometries as described above geometry or to those skilled in the art when reading the disclosure by the geometry becoming apparent.Similarly, in the situation that the geometry of guide rail is that the geometry of opening and the geometry of sliding part are solid geometries, thereby the geometry of guide rail and sliding part preferably fully complementary restriction guide rail with respect to the relative vertical motion and relative horizontal movement of sliding part, thereby vertical and stability level of base portion and casing is provided and aims at.
Preferably, guide rail and sliding part are provided with " retainer ", thereby restriction guide rail is the linear movement with respect to guide rail with respect to the linear movement of sliding part and/or sliding part, and then limiting casing with respect to the linear movement of base portion, the linear alignment of guaranteeing thus casing and base portion is also correct and prevents the linear misalignment relative to each other of casing and base portion.
Equally preferably, casing and/or base portion are provided with locking mechanism, once make locking mechanism be positioned at appropriate location, have prevented that casing and base portion from relative to each other moving along linear direction substantially.This has guaranteed the suitable unexpected misalignment of aiming at and having prevented casing and base portion during use or when ice machine may be moved of casing with base portion, such as for to ice machine around and/or ice maker below clean or the mobile ice machine for the object in the environment using at ice machine as required, the orientation of ice machine being changed.
Those skilled in the art will understand and understand feature and advantage as described above of the present disclosure and other feature and advantage according to following detailed description, accompanying drawing and claims.
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Fig. 1 is the front perspective view of ice machine, and this ice machine has the embodiment of the coupling assembling for the base portion of ice machine and box assembly are assembled, and wherein, base portion is connected and is connected into closure state with box assembly.
Fig. 2 is the front perspective view of the base portion being connected with supporting structure of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is the front perspective view of the sliding part of Fig. 1.
The forward sight partial section that Fig. 4 is the base portion that is connected with the box assembly of Fig. 1, wherein, has removed the isolation part of box assembly.
Fig. 5 is the side isometric view of the ice machine of Fig. 1, wherein, has removed front grid and base portion and has been connected with box assembly box assembly can be moved with respect to base portion.
Fig. 6 is the forward sight partial perspective view of the sliding part of Fig. 4, and wherein, sliding part is connected sliding part can be moved on base portion with the base portion of Fig. 1.
The forward sight partial perspective view that Fig. 7 is the box assembly that is connected with the base portion of Fig. 1, wherein, the isolation part that base portion is connected and is connected into closure state and has removed box assembly with box assembly.
Fig. 8 is the forward sight partial perspective view of the ice machine of Fig. 1, wherein, has removed front grid, and at locking mechanism in appropriate location in the situation that, base portion is connected and is connected into closure state with box assembly.
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With reference to accompanying drawing and particularly with reference to Fig. 1, show the ice machine 10 under use state, this ice machine 10 is manufactured ice and has the coupling assembling according to illustrative embodiments of the present disclosure, and coupling assembling is represented by Reference numeral 12 generally.Coupling assembling 12 is connected base portion 14 to be connected into closure state with box assembly 16.Coupling assembling 12 has two sliding parts 100 and two guide rails 200 (as shown in Figure 2) that are formed at the relative both sides of base portion 14 of the relative both sides that are connected to box assembly 16.Ice container, refrigeration system and the water distribution system of base portion 14 and the accommodating ice machine 10 of box assembly 16.Thereby water distribution system is fitted on by moisture the ice being connected with refrigeration system and forms the upper ice that forms in surface, and ice is collected in ice container.Refrigeration system is carried out steam compression cycle known in the art and is carried out cooling and at ice, collect cycle period and heat to form cycle period at ice.
Still, with reference to Fig. 1, box assembly 16 has: roof 18; The first side wall 20, the first side wall 20 is mirror images of the second sidewall 22; Antetheca 24 and door wall 28.Roof 18, the first side wall 20, the second sidewall 22 and antetheca 24 are the metal on inner side with foam isolation part.Door wall 28 has the door opening 30 being covered by door 32.Door 32 is connected to a wall 28, makes the door 32 can be from be switched to the open position that does not cover door opening 30 in the closed position shown in Fig. 1, thereby the entrance of the inside of leading to ice machine 10 is provided.Door wall 28 is connected to allow user input to be conveyed to the controller (not shown) of ice machine 10 with user interface 34.
With reference to Fig. 2, base portion 14 has the sidewall 42,43 being connected with diapire 44. Sidewall 42,43 is connected with evaporimeter supporting structure 46.Each in sidewall 42,43 forms guide rail 200 on the top of sidewall 42,43.Compressor 48 and the condenser 50 of the refrigeration system of base portion 14 supporting ice machines 10.The evaporimeter 52 that forms the refrigeration system that surperficial (not shown) is connected with ice of 46 pairs of ice machines 10 of evaporimeter supporting structure supports.
With reference to Fig. 3, sliding part 100 has interior vertical member 102, and interior vertical member 102 is connected with lower horizontal member 106 with upper horizontal member 104.Upper horizontal member 104 is connected with outer vertical member 108.Lower horizontal member 106 and interior vertical member 102 have the length 110 shorter than the length 112 of upper horizontal member 104 and outer vertical member 108.Upper horizontal member 104 has aperture 116, makes the securing member can be through the part of a sidewall in upper horizontal member 104 and sidewall 20,22 to sliding part 100 is connected to box assembly 16.Lower horizontal member 106 has breach 118.When base portion 14 is connected with box assembly 16, breach 118 allows to touch guide rail 200 through lower horizontal member 106.Interior vertical member 102, upper horizontal member 104, lower horizontal member 106 and outer vertical member 108 form the chamber (or " open geometry ") 120 with inverted shape.This chamber 120 has horizontal part 122 and vertical portion 124.
Sliding part 100 can be plastic products, metallic article aluminum products and/or have the metallic article of polymer coating for example.Inventor of the present disclosure has been found that with the sliding part 100 of metal and the sidewall of metal 42,43 and compares, and the sliding part 100 of plastics and the sidewall of metal 42,43 have reduced friction.Inventor of the present disclosure also finds, the sliding part 100 of plastics and the sidewall of metal 42,43 place, composition surface between sliding part 100 and sidewall 42,43 does not need to lubricate to realize required relative sliding motion.
With reference to Fig. 4, the screw 302 that the sidewall 20 of box assembly 16 can be by the aperture 116 through sidewall 20 and upper horizontal member 104 and maintain screw 302 and be connected with sliding part 100 so that being connected between sliding part 100 and box assembly 16 carried out to fastening extrusion cavities 304.Sliding part 100 can have depression or countersunk, makes head on screw 302, that be positioned on the other end relative with one end that extends through sidewall 20 of screw 302 can not stretch out sliding part 100.
The second sidewall 22 of box assembly 16 is connected with another sliding part 100 with the identical structure of structure being connected with sliding part 100 with the first side wall 20, and another sliding part 100 being connected with the second sidewall 22 is mirror images of the sliding part 100 that is connected with the first side wall 20.The guide rail 200 of the sidewall 42 of base portion 14 is mirror images of the guide rail 200 of sidewall 43.The guide rail 200 of sidewall 42 is the mirror image being connected of the guide rail 200 of sidewall 42 and the sliding part 100 of the first side wall 20 with being connected of another sliding part 100 that is connected to the second sidewall 22.
With reference to Fig. 5, when the sliding part that each guide rail in guide rail 200 is arranged in sliding part 100 separately slides respectively each sliding part 100 along each guide rail 200, box assembly 16 can move along the forward direction as shown in arrow 400 and the backward directions as shown in arrow 402 on base portion 14.
With reference to Fig. 6, each sidewall in the sidewall 42,43 of base portion 14 has retainer 56.Retainer 56 each sidewall from sidewall 42,43 extends, thereby makes interior vertical member 102 and lower horizontal member 106 prevent moving along the backward directions as shown in the arrow 402 as in Fig. 5 against retainer 56.Refer again to Fig. 6, retainer 56 comprises from the horizontal part 202 of guide rail 200 vertically to the stopper element 58 of downward-extension.Stopper element 58 is positioned on the rear portion of sidewall 43 and the little length 60 of length 62 of ratio of elongation sidewall 43.Retainer 56 on sidewall 42 is mirror images of the retainer 56 on sidewall 43.
With reference to Fig. 7, box assembly 16 can be on base portion 14 along the backward directions as shown in the arrow 402 as in Fig. 5 slide until lower horizontal member 106 and interior vertical member 102 against retainer 56.When horizontal member 106 and interior vertical member 102 are against retainer 56 instantly, upper horizontal member 104 and outer vertical member 108 prolong and the whole length 62 of sidewall 43.Lower horizontal member 106 and interior vertical member 102 have length 110 (referring to Fig. 3) and retainer 58 has length 60, while making that horizontal member 106 and interior vertical member 102 are against retainer 56 instantly, box assembly 16 is laterally aligned to closure state on base portion 14, as shown in Figure 1.
With reference to Fig. 8, box assembly 16 keeps on base portion 14 by flange 64 or is locked as closure state.Flange 64 is connected to the antetheca 66 being connected with the sidewall 43 of base portion 14 by securing member 68.Flange 64 can take up firmware 68 rotations, make flange 64 that sliding part 100 is blocked and closing position, as shown in Figure 8, and flange 64 rotates to open position to remove the blocking of sliding part 100 from closing position along direction 70, thereby allows box assembly 16 to move on base portion 14.Another flange can be connected to the antetheca being connected with the sidewall 42 of base portion 14 with the structure of 68 one-tenth mirror images of flange by securing member.This way of restraint can be carried out by pad and securing member or other similar structures.
By securing member 68 is rotated remove to sliding part 100 block and make box assembly 16 on sliding part 100 to front slide, isolation and pulling down from base portion 14 and evaporimeter supporting structure 46 through the box assembly 16 of assembling completely.Than having for making box assembly 16 slide off the design of contact of the metal to metal of base portion 14, the friction that sliding part 100 provides is less.Thereby the alignment characteristics on sliding part 100 engages aiming between the sidewall 42,43 of guaranteeing box assembly 16 and base portion 14 with guide rail 200 on base portion 14.Bells and whistles on sliding part 100 is as front backstop (positive stop) when box assembly 16 slides on base portion 14, and it guarantees suitable aligning the between box assembly 16 and evaporimeter supporting structure 46.In the situation that having pulled down box assembly 16, no matter product is self-supporting is installed or is fixed in sealing cover, and all available units all easily touch.
The modular construction of coupling assembling 100 has formed the ability that is easy to utilize half detachable or parts detachable manufacture method, thereby the localization at place, point of sale is maximized.Parts dismounting/half dismounting is for describing the term of following ability:, mode transport section/unit with part assembling, making to take up room minimizes (eliminating untapped space), to reduce the cost of transportation based on square feet or allow parts to be nested in together, to reduce, takes up room.This contributes to assemble content to meet the need of market to enter the market with the trade barrier relevant to localization by adjustment.This is that this design by the modular nature by evaporimeter supporting structure 46, base portion 14 and box assembly 16 realizes, and that this design makes to reach and/or the dismounting that critical component is installed and the amount re-assemblying minimize.
It should also be noted that term " first ", " second ", " the 3rd ", " on ", D score etc. in the text can be in order to modify Various Components.Unless specifically note, otherwise these modifiers are not to modified element hint space, order order or level.
Although the disclosure is described with reference to one or more illustrative embodiments, will be appreciated that to those skilled in the art and can carry out without departing from the scope of the disclosure various changes and can replace its element by equivalent.In addition, can to teaching of the present disclosure, make many modifications to adapt to special situation or material without departing from the scope of the disclosure.Therefore, the disclosure is intended to be not limited to the disclosed special embodiment of best mode as expection, but the disclosure will comprise all embodiments that fall in the scope of the present disclosure.
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1. for a coupling assembling for ice machine, comprising:
Base portion, described base portion has guide rail; And
Box assembly, described box assembly has sliding part, and described sliding part slides on described guide rail, thereby connects removably described base portion and described box assembly, and described box assembly vertically and is flatly aimed at respect to described base portion.
2. for a coupling assembling for ice machine, comprising:
Base portion, described base portion has guide rail, and described guide rail has the first geometry; And
Casing, described casing has sliding part, and described sliding part has the second geometry, and wherein, the geometry of described guide rail and the geometry of described sliding part are complementary.
3. coupling assembling according to claim 2, wherein, described first geometry of described guide rail is solid geometric configuration, and described second geometry of described sliding part is open geometric configuration.
4. coupling assembling according to claim 3, wherein, the described solid geometric configuration of described guide rail is received within the geometric configuration of described opening of described sliding part.
5. coupling assembling according to claim 4, wherein, the geometric configuration of the described solid geometric configuration of described guide rail and the described opening of described sliding part is configured to described guide rail to limit with relative vertical motion and horizontal movement between described sliding part.
6. coupling assembling according to claim 5, wherein, the confined described vertical motion between described guide rail and described sliding part and horizontal movement provide the aiming at of vertical and level of vertical and stability level of described base portion and described casing and described base portion and described casing.
7. coupling assembling according to claim 1, wherein, described guide rail and described sliding part are provided with retainer, and described retainer limits the linear movement between described guide rail and described sliding part, thereby limit described casing with respect to the linear movement of described base portion.
8. coupling assembling according to claim 2, wherein, described guide rail and described sliding part are provided with retainer, and described retainer limits the linear movement between described guide rail and described sliding part, thereby limit described casing with respect to the linear movement of described base portion.
9. coupling assembling according to claim 1, wherein, described casing and/or described base portion are provided with locking mechanism, and described locking mechanism prevents that described casing and described base portion from relative to each other moving substantially on linear direction.
10. coupling assembling according to claim 2, wherein, described casing and/or described base portion are provided with locking mechanism, and described locking mechanism prevents that described casing and described base portion from relative to each other moving substantially on linear direction.
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