CN1777783A - Cabinet spacer - Google Patents
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- CN1777783A CN1777783A CNA2004800105370A CN200480010537A CN1777783A CN 1777783 A CN1777783 A CN 1777783A CN A2004800105370 A CNA2004800105370 A CN A2004800105370A CN 200480010537 A CN200480010537 A CN 200480010537A CN 1777783 A CN1777783 A CN 1777783A
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
- F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- F25D23/00—General constructional features
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
- A47B77/00—Kitchen cabinets
- A47B77/04—Provision for particular uses of compartments or other parts ; Compartments moving up and down, revolving parts
- A47B77/08—Provision for particular uses of compartments or other parts ; Compartments moving up and down, revolving parts for incorporating apparatus operated by power, including water power; for incorporating apparatus for cooking, cooling, or laundry purposes
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
- A47B97/00—Furniture or accessories for furniture, not provided for in other groups of this subclass
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
- F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- F25D23/00—General constructional features
- F25D23/003—General constructional features for cooling refrigerating machinery
Abstract
The present invention provides a cabinet spacer to be applied to cabinets of the type used in refrigerators or freezers, having a rear face to be maintained at a certain minimum distance from an adjacent wall (P). The cabinet spacer comprises an elongated body (10) having a free end (11) and a mounting end (12), coupled to the cabinet (1) and which is automatically displaced from an inoperative position, retracted close to the cabinet (1) by actuation of a package portion (E), to an operative position in which the mounting end (12) is seated on the cabinet (1) and the free end (11) projects beyond the rear face of the cabinet (1).
Description
Technical field
Generally speaking, the present invention relates to a kind of spacer device, always, usually be applied to box back surface, more specifically, be applied to the casing of household electrical appliance,, certain minimum range arranged so that guarantee the back side of described casing and place between the adjacent wall of environment space of casing such as refrigerator-freezer and refrigerator.
Background technology
The casing of household electrical appliance is placed on the floor, near a sidewalls of building inner room, is usual way.Be under the situation of casing of big part home appliances (such as refrigerator-freezer and refrigerator) at casing, need between the back side of casing (place of condenser is installed usually) and adjacent room wall (casing is placed by its), keep a minimum range, so that guarantee the circulation of air that condenser needs.
Ground known in the art has the distance piece of the type that this paper considers, these distance pieces be included in the structure of casing with fixing duty or predetermined fixed on the structure of casing, do not need the user to do the preparation of any installation casing.
Just can not use their function though do not need the user to do any fitting operation, but these have been included in the casing with duty or there is serious inconvenience in the distance piece of predetermined fixed on casing, they protrude outside the appearance profile of casing, make that packing processing and storage transport are very difficult.
Also known to be designed to, after casing is taken out, be installed in distance piece on the back side of casing by user oneself or sales force immediately from its packing.According to such structure, distance piece can not influence packing, storage and the transportation of casing, because only when taking out, just distance piece is mounted in running order casing from packing in the infield.
But, according to such solution, the user of casing or sales force have to distance piece is installed on the back side of casing carefully according to the appended specification of product.But, under many circumstances, distance piece is ignored fully, box back surface not with the abundant isolated situation of adjacent room wall under, just casing has been placed on the operating position.
Summary of the invention
Because these shortcomings of known cabinet spacer, overall purpose of the present invention provides the distance piece of the sort of type that a kind of this paper considers, this distance piece is attached in the casing with off working state in advance, do not influence profile or the storage and the transportation of casing, in the packing of having removed at least a portion casing, this distance piece is automatically moved to duty, and does not need the user to carry out any installation or adjusting operation.
To achieve these goals, distance piece of the present invention comprises elongate body, this elongate body has free end and installation end, installation end and casing link, thereby and this elongate body generally the off-position that the effect that automatically is applied to the packaged unit on the casing under the effect of gravity from utilization is packed up near casing move to keep installation end to be on the casing and the outstanding box back surface of free end outside be in the locational operating position that abuts against adjacent wall, with respect to this adjacent wall, casing should keep the minimum interval.
Structure proposed by the invention makes casing to be at distance piece with keeping its basic size under the situation on the off-position of packing up and is wrapped up, and make distance piece can be automatically moved to the operating position, as long as remove the corresponding package part of casing, except the requisite operation of removing packaged unit, do not need the user to carry out any special operation.
Description of drawings
Below with reference to as the example of embodiments of the present invention and the accompanying drawing that provides the present invention is introduced, wherein:
Accompanying drawing 1 is the stereogram of distance piece of the present invention;
Accompanying drawing 2 is stereograms of the distance piece of the present invention in the window of location and installation on the rear wall section of the casing that is arranged on refrigerator-freezer or refrigerator;
Accompanying drawing 3 is back basifacial stereograms of casing, and expression is in the distance piece on the off-position;
Accompanying drawing 4 is the figure that are similar to accompanying drawing 3, represents that just distance piece is in the operating position;
Accompanying drawing 5 is the vertical cross-section diagrams that are in the distance piece of off-position, and this distance piece longitudinally is on the position of the rear wall section of casing; With
Accompanying drawing 6 is the sectional views that are similar to accompanying drawing 5, represents that just distance piece is in the operating position.
The specific embodiment
As shown in the figure, distance piece of the present invention can be applicable to the casing 1 of refrigerator-freezer for example or refrigerator, and rear wall section 2 (only showing) is all arranged on its each side.
Each rear wall section 2 is furnished with window 3, shown in structure in, this window 3 presents rectangular profile, wherein width greater than the height.Only to need not to carry out the possible structure embodiment of the known body structure that any structure transforms relevant with use for the shape that should be appreciated that the existence of window 3 and profile thereof, is used for holding a pair of distance piece.
According to shown in structure, each distance piece comprises elongate body 10, it with the molded formation of plastic material and have free end 11 and with casing 1 joining installation end 12, so that can be (on this position at off-position, distance piece remains close to the state that casing is packed up) and the operating position (on this position, the state that it keeps installation end 12 to be on the casing 1 and free end 11 is given prominence to towards the back side of casing 1, so that seating adjacent wall P, guarantee the minimum interval of casing 1 with respect to described adjacent wall P) between in a vertical plane, move angledly.
With the structure of elongate body 10 and be made into like this connecting of rear wall section 2 of casing 1: by the effect of packaged unit E, elongate body 10 is remained on the off-position, seating corresponding rear wall section 2, packaged unit E can be by limiting round the casing 1 fixing wrappage of being made by plastics, cardboard or other suitable material, perhaps only limit by the belt that twines casing 1 and elongate body 10, maintenance elongate body 10 seating along its length adjacent rear wall section 2, and its free end 11 remains on the top of installation end 12 simultaneously.
After having removed the packaged unit E that elongate body 10 is remained on the off-position, elongate body 10 moves from the trend operating position under the effect of gravity, moves down angularly, is on the adjacent rear wall section 2 up to its installation end 12.
Though do not illustrate here, but should be appreciated that and by any elastic component elongate body 10 to be installed on the casing 1, so that force elongate body 10 stably to be in the operating position, and also can under the promotion of described elastic component, make displacement carry out in the mode of substantial linear.
Shown in structure in, wherein elongate body 10 carries out moving angularly to the operating position, installation end 12 and 1 eccentric connection of casing, thus make gravity can act on the elongate body 10, make it when having removed packaged unit E, take place to move down angularly.
According to shown in version, elongate body 10 makes its installation end 12 include little L shaped projection 13, this projection 13 has to one of basic main body 10 side-prominent basic leg 13a and the free leg 13b that protrudes in outside the installation end 12, and has the terminal edge that is retained in the casing 1, specifically, this terminal edge is when elongate body 10 moves to the operating position, is retained in the casing 1.
The terminal edge of the basic leg 13a of little L shaped projection 13 includes bar 14, and the width of this bar 14 is greater than the width of kick 13.
Kick 13 is installed loosely by window 3, so that make bar 14 on two kinds of operating positions of elongate body 10, to be on the position of the inner surface that abuts against rear wall section 2, in accompanying drawing 5 and 6, show this situation well, thereby keep elongate body 10 and casing 1 to link.
Adopt the structure that is proposed, as shown in Figure 5, when elongate body 10 is in its off-position, the basic leg 13a of kick 13 is on the lower limb of window 3, thereby the weight of elongate body 10 outwards has been applied on the above-mentioned supporting zone, produced and tended to make elongate body 10 to be displaced to the power of the operating position shown in the accompanying drawing 6 angularly downwards, on this operating position, the free leg 13b of kick 13 is on the lower limb of window 3, and installation end 12 seatings of elongate body 10 adjacent rear wall section 2.
According to shown in structure, there is a pair of transverse projections 17 in elongate body 10 in the zone of its installation end 12, given elongate body 10 width bigger than the width of window 3.
The assembling of each elongate body 10 is preferably passed respective window 3 and is from inside to outside carried out, so that projection 17 is passed window 3, up to occupying in elongate body 10 under the situation of operating position, bar 14 touches till the inner surface of corresponding rear wall section 2.
Down, there is a pair of locational transverse projections 17 that abuts against rear wall section 2 that is in elongate body 10 in working order, has guaranteed that the stability of distance piece is better.
After on being installed to casing 1; with distance piece (generally is two; and be arranged to one of side near casing 1 separately) move on the off-position shown in accompanying drawing 3 and 5; thereby and maintain by packaged unit E; as schematically showing in the accompanying drawing 5; and this packaged unit E can adopt the belt that twines casing 1 or the form of the wrappage made by plastics or cardboard, and this packaged unit is being protected product, up to it being transported to the user there.
When casing is come into operation, must remove packaged unit E, distance piece is lost hold them in the unit of off-position.By removing packaged unit E, elongate body 10 is automatically moved to the operating position under the effect of gravity.Though only illustrate one embodiment of the present invention, should be appreciated that under the situation of the structuring concept that in not exceeding the appended claim of the application, defines, can carry out the change on pro forma and the part arrangement mode.
Claims (8)
1. cabinet spacer, be applied to the employed casing of refrigerator-freezer or refrigerator, this casing has the back side that keeps certain minimum range with adjacent wall (P), it is characterized in that, this distance piece comprises elongate body (10), this elongate body has free end (11) and installation end (12), this installation end and casing (1) link, and this elongate body is applied to the effect of the packaged unit (E) on the casing and is moved to by the off-position packed up near casing (1) and to keep installation end (12) to be in that casing (1) is gone up and free end (11) is projected into casing (1) thereby the operating position that seating adjacent wall (P) outside the back side from utilization automatically, has guaranteed the minimum range of casing (1) with respect to described wall (P).
2. according to the described cabinet spacer of claim 1, it is characterized in that, elongate body (10) mobile from the off-position to the operating position be from packaged unit stop to the effect of elongate body (10) that constantly, under the effect of gravity, realize.
3. according to the described cabinet spacer of claim 2, it is characterized in that, elongate body (10) when being in off-position longitudinally seating casing (1) and remain the top that its free end (11) is in installation end (12).
4. according to the described cabinet spacer of claim 3, it is characterized in that elongate body (10) is connected on the casing (1) its installation end (12) prejudicially, so that be moved down into the operating position angularly from off-position.
5. according to the described cabinet spacer of claim 4, it is characterized in that, installation end (12) comprises little L shaped projection (13), this projection has to the outstanding basic leg (13a) in one of side of elongate body (10) with from basic leg (13a) and is projected into free leg (13b) outside the installation end, and has the terminal edge that remains in the casing (1).
6. according to the described cabinet spacer of claim 5, it is characterized in that, the terminal edge of the basic leg (13a) of little L shaped projection (13) includes the bar (14) of width greater than the width of kick (13), the window (3) that described kick (13) is passed on the rear wall section (2) that is arranged on casing (1) is installed loosely, and described bar (14) has than the big width of the width of window (3) and all be held the inner surface that seating the described rear wall section (2) of casing (1) on two kinds of operating positions of elongate body (10).
7. according to the cabinet spacer described in the claim 6, it is characterized in that, when elongate body (10) is on the off-position, the basic leg (13a) of kick (13) is positioned on the lower limb of window (3), and when elongate body moved on the operating position, free leg (13b) seating of kick (13) the lower limb of window (3).
8. according to the described cabinet spacer of claim 6, it is characterized in that, elongate body (10) has a pair of transverse projections (17) at least on its installation end (12), this gives the width of elongate body (10) greater than the width of window (3) to transverse projections, and the transverse projections seating rear wall section (2).
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| BRPI03007936 | 2003-03-13 | ||
| BR0300793-6A BR0300793A (en) | 2003-03-13 | 2003-03-13 | Cabinet Spacer |
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| CN1777783A true CN1777783A (en) | 2006-05-24 |
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| CNA2004800105370A Pending CN1777783A (en) | 2003-03-13 | 2004-03-03 | Cabinet spacer |
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| US (1) | US20060273702A1 (en) |
| EP (1) | EP1608921A1 (en) |
| KR (1) | KR20060028671A (en) |
| CN (1) | CN1777783A (en) |
| AU (1) | AU2004219992A1 (en) |
| BR (1) | BR0300793A (en) |
| MX (1) | MXPA05009783A (en) |
| PL (1) | PL377255A1 (en) |
| WO (1) | WO2004081472A1 (en) |
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| US8146873B2 (en) * | 2009-04-27 | 2012-04-03 | Johnson Paul L | Cabinet installation assembly |
| US8262046B1 (en) | 2009-12-07 | 2012-09-11 | Elrod Derek M | Collapsible workpiece support apparatus |
| TR201009588A1 (en) * | 2010-11-23 | 2012-06-21 | Bsh Ev Aletleri̇ San. Ve Ti̇c. A.Ş. | Household refrigerating appliance with spacer. |
| DE102021204144A1 (en) | 2021-04-27 | 2022-10-27 | BSH Hausgeräte GmbH | Household appliance with specially shaped wall spacer and assembly method |
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| US1158350A (en) * | 1913-06-16 | 1915-10-26 | Anna Ruth White | Buffer. |
| US1445726A (en) * | 1922-08-18 | 1923-02-20 | Soros George | Wall-protecting chair attachment |
| US2502912A (en) * | 1948-09-14 | 1950-04-04 | Andrew James Madison | Furniture buffer |
| US2499230A (en) * | 1948-11-19 | 1950-02-28 | Robert F Sharrow | Furniture spacer |
| US3137090A (en) * | 1962-07-11 | 1964-06-16 | Orlin W Stouth | Device for spacing furniture from walls |
| US3304032A (en) * | 1965-01-13 | 1967-02-14 | Gen Electric | Self-balancing support mechanism |
| IT220054Z2 (en) * | 1990-07-24 | 1993-06-09 | Eurodomestici Ind Riunite | DEVICE SUITABLE FOR SPACING REFRIGERATORS OR HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES IN GENERAL, FROM A WALL IN CORRESPONDENCE OF WHICH, LAST THESE, ARE PLACED |
| US5799921A (en) * | 1996-07-08 | 1998-09-01 | Stattel; Gregory W. | Device for preventing the unintentional contact between furniture and a wall |
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- 2003-03-13 BR BR0300793-6A patent/BR0300793A/en not_active IP Right Cessation
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- 2004-03-03 CN CNA2004800105370A patent/CN1777783A/en active Pending
- 2004-03-03 MX MXPA05009783A patent/MXPA05009783A/en not_active Application Discontinuation
- 2004-03-03 WO PCT/BR2004/000024 patent/WO2004081472A1/en not_active Application Discontinuation
- 2004-03-03 PL PL377255A patent/PL377255A1/en unknown
- 2004-03-03 EP EP04716521A patent/EP1608921A1/en not_active Withdrawn
- 2004-03-03 US US10/549,405 patent/US20060273702A1/en not_active Abandoned
- 2004-03-03 KR KR1020057017142A patent/KR20060028671A/en not_active Application Discontinuation
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| PL377255A1 (en) | 2006-01-23 |
| EP1608921A1 (en) | 2005-12-28 |
| BR0300793A (en) | 2004-11-16 |
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| AU2004219992A1 (en) | 2004-09-23 |
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