EP0565900A1 - Scharnier für Kühlgeräte, insbesonders Kühlschränke und dergleichen - Google Patents

Scharnier für Kühlgeräte, insbesonders Kühlschränke und dergleichen Download PDF

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EP0565900A1
EP0565900A1 EP93104511A EP93104511A EP0565900A1 EP 0565900 A1 EP0565900 A1 EP 0565900A1 EP 93104511 A EP93104511 A EP 93104511A EP 93104511 A EP93104511 A EP 93104511A EP 0565900 A1 EP0565900 A1 EP 0565900A1
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Duilio Besson
Oscar Patron
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05D—HINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
    • E05D3/00—Hinges with pins
    • E05D3/06—Hinges with pins with two or more pins
    • E05D3/16—Hinges with pins with two or more pins with seven parallel pins and four arms
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05D—HINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
    • E05D3/00—Hinges with pins
    • E05D3/02—Hinges with pins with one pin
    • E05D3/04—Hinges with pins with one pin engaging three or more parts, e.g. sleeves, movable relatively to one another for connecting two or more wings to another member
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05D—HINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
    • E05D3/00—Hinges with pins
    • E05D3/06—Hinges with pins with two or more pins
    • E05D3/16—Hinges with pins with two or more pins with seven parallel pins and four arms
    • E05D2003/166—Vertical pivot-axis
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05Y—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES E05D AND E05F, RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION ELEMENTS, ELECTRIC CONTROL, POWER SUPPLY, POWER SIGNAL OR TRANSMISSION, USER INTERFACES, MOUNTING OR COUPLING, DETAILS, ACCESSORIES, AUXILIARY OPERATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, APPLICATION THEREOF
    • E05Y2900/00—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof
    • E05Y2900/30—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof for domestic appliances
    • E05Y2900/302—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof for domestic appliances for built-in appliances

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  • the present invention refers to a hinge for refrigeration appliances, in particular built-in refrigerators for installation within cabinets and similar appliances, said hinge being capable of ensuring the installation of decorating panels over the doors of the same appliances so as to enable them to be opened and closed without any mutual interference.
  • Refrigeration appliances such as built-in refrigerators and the like, are known from the prior art to comprise four doors used to close the storage compartment that have the same width and are constituted by two pairs of doors adjacent to each other and hinged to the outer casing of said appliances in mutually superimposed positions.
  • the doors in each one of said pairs of doors are provided in the usual way with a respective magnetic sealing gasket running all along the periphery of said doors and applied against the surface of the door facing the inner side of the storage compartment so as to interact with the opposite peripheral metal front edge of the same storage compartment, whereas an air-tight sealing effect of the storage compartment is further ensured, when said doors are brought into a mutually closed position, by the provision of a respective magnetic sealing gasket also along the mutually facing vertical edges of the doors themselves, said sealing gaskets being perfectly adhering one against the other when both doors are brought into their closed position.
  • each hinge is of the articulated parallelogram type, provided with two arms that are respectively fixed against the corresponding front edge delimiting the cold storage compartment and against the opposite peripheral rear edge of the corresponding metal door closing said cold storage compartment.
  • each door is covered by a respective external decorating panel which is aesthetically compatible with the kitchen cabinet in which the appliance is built-in and is sized so as to adapt to said door over its full length and width, said panel being fixed with per sè known means on the front side of the corresponding appliance door, to which it is therefore tied up rigidly.
  • Said hinge furthermore, keeps the sealing gaskets on the opposing edges of the doors pressed against each other when said doors are in their closed position, and it tends to keep them still against each other even when the doors are in their first opening stage, ie. start to be opened, thereby determining a slight interference by said doors that tends to indesirably constrain also the opposite doors into opening, and furthermore causes also a rubbing action to occur against the opposite decorating panel with a resulting risk of damages and/or breakdown of the sealing gaskets, and as a consequence of imperfect shutting up of the same doors, during the reverse movement of said doors, ie. when they are being closed.
  • Figure 1 illustrates a refrigeration appliance, in particular a household refrigerator 5 built into a wooden furniture cabinet 6 and provided with an outer thermally insulated metal casing 7 extending vertically and provided with two separate storage compartments 8 and 9 to accomodate the food to be preserved by refrigeration, said compartments being arranged in a superimposed arrangement and separated from each other by means of a thermally insulated partition wall 10 extending horizontally, said compartments being further adapted to be closed on their front side by means of respective pairs of doors 11, 12, 13 and 14 having either the same or a different size, jointed with their vertical edge running along the side of said cabinet 6 by means of hinges 15 made according to the present invention, said doors being furthermore provided with respective handles (not shown) on their front side to enable them to be opened and closed through a motion along the arc of a circle in either opposite directions A and B on the front side of said cabinet.
  • a refrigeration appliance in particular a household refrigerator 5 built into a wooden furniture cabinet 6 and provided with an outer thermally insulated metal casing 7 extending vertically and provided
  • the latter ones are further provided with a respective magnetic sealing gasket 16 of a traditional type, which is applied against the inner surface of each door along the periphery thereof so as to be facing the inner side of the corresponding food storage compartment of the appliance, said sealing gasket being adapted to abut and stay attracted against the opposite front metal edge of the appliance.
  • the doors are also provided with a further magnetic sealing gasket 17 applied all along the vertical side edge 18 of each door situated in the opposite position with respect to the corresponding vertical side edge 19 of the adjacent door which is also provided with a similar magnetic sealing gasket 20 of its own, so that said magnetic sealing gaskets 17 and 20 will mutually attract each other when both doors are in their closed position, thereby sealing the food storage compartments in the desired air-tight way.
  • the magnetic sealing gaskets are substantially of the same type as described in the Italian utility model application no. PN91U000013, filed on the 3rd May 1991 by the same Applicant, to which reference is therefore made for a better understanding of and a deeper insight into the constructional characteristics of said magnetic sealing gaskets.
  • each hinge 15 is of the traditional articulated-parallelogram type and, in this particular case, it is constituted by two rectilinear arms 21 and 22 formed by respective metal channel sections and provided with respective end portions 23 and 24 that are bent almost orthogonally so as to form corresponding plane surfaces 25 and 26, and by an articulated parallelogram 27, the free ends of which are restrained by pins 28 supported in the respective plane surfaces 25 and 26, so as to enable said arms to be displaced into different positions along the same sliding plane.
  • the hinge according to the present invention is further provided with at least a relatively short pin 29, which is formed in the lower or upper plane surface 25 of the arm 21 so as to project downwards or upwards from the same surface for the functional purpose that will be further described later on, as well as through-eyelets 30, in this case two through-eyelets, pierced in the side surface of the channel sections of said arms and appropriately spaced from each other along the respective side surface.
  • At least one of said arms of the hinge in this case the arm 22, is further provided, in correspondence of its side surface, with an indentation 31 which is cut in a position close to said eyelet 30 and is rectangular in its shape in the example being described here, but can of course be cut or formed also into any other desired shape, to perform the function that will be described later on.
  • FIGS 3 and 4 illustrate the assembly of a decorating panel 32 over one of the doors of the refrigeration appliance, in this case the door 11, through the use of hinges 15 according to the present invention, said decorating panel being matched and compatible in its size and aesthetics with the wooden furniture cabinet 6 in which said appliance is built-in.
  • the attachment of the arms is performed by means of screws or similar fastening means (not shown) inserted through the eyelets 30 of said arms, whereas this enables said fastening means to be fitted and set in the most appropriate way with respect to the corresponding eyelets and, therefore, the hinge 15 to be adjusted accurately in its position.
  • the presence of the indentation 31 also enables the hinge 15 to be correctly placed in position on an appropriate fastening screw or the like (not shown) which is previously screwed into the rear surface 34 of said decorating panel, by letting said screw into said indentation and then using it to fasten the arm 22 in such a position.
  • a pulling system which, in the example given here, is constituted by a bracket 36 installed in a per sè known manner against the rear surface 34 of the panel, as well as by a corresponding sliding means 37 having an extended shape and attached to the door of the refrigeration appliance, in which said bracket 36 is caused to engage so as to freely slide therein during the opening and closing motions of the door.

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GB2274677A (en) * 1993-01-13 1994-08-03 Oreste Lanzani Hinge for built-in electrical appliances, refrigerators in particular
EP0657609A1 (de) * 1993-12-13 1995-06-14 Whirlpool Europe B.V. Vorrichtung zur gelenkigen Verbindung einer Tür eines zum Einbau in einen Möbelelement bestimmten elektrischen Einbaugerätes an einem Türpaneel des Gerätes, sa dass der Raum des Möbelelementes optimal benutzt wird
EP0728890A1 (de) * 1995-02-21 1996-08-28 AEG Hausgeräte GmbH Kühl- und/oder Gefriergerät
WO1997024500A1 (fr) * 1995-12-28 1997-07-10 Leonid Fiodorovich Zaitsev Charniere et variantes
EP1293153A1 (de) * 2001-09-17 2003-03-19 N.E.M. Nord Est Meccanica S.n.c. Mit einer drehbaren Translationsbewegung arbeitendes Öffnungssystem für Scheiben von Verkaufstheken und Präsentationseinheiten
US6748626B2 (en) * 2002-08-14 2004-06-15 Scott D. Maurer Articulated swing away hinge
US6842944B2 (en) * 2002-08-14 2005-01-18 Scott D. Maurer Four pivot swing away hinge
DE202008013991U1 (de) * 2008-10-20 2010-04-01 Liebherr-Hausgeräte Ochsenhausen GmbH Kühl- und/oder Gefriergerät
US7698785B2 (en) * 2004-02-28 2010-04-20 Southco, Inc. Articulating hinge
US7766436B1 (en) 2006-06-06 2010-08-03 Whirlpool Corporation Appliance panel with overlay panel and a method for mounting an overlay panel to an appliance panel
DE102012103629A1 (de) 2012-04-25 2013-10-31 Hettich-Oni Gmbh & Co. Kg Schlepptürbeschlag
US8572808B2 (en) * 2012-02-23 2013-11-05 Sub-Zero, Inc. Controlled closure system for a hinge
WO2015110514A1 (de) 2014-01-24 2015-07-30 Hettich-Oni Gmbh & Co. Kg Verfahren und montagehilfswerkzeug zum montieren eines schlepptürbeschlags
DE102015120565A1 (de) * 2015-11-26 2017-06-01 Hettich-Oni Gmbh & Co. Kg Möbel oder Haushaltsgerät und Mehrgelenkscharnier
US9841223B2 (en) 2014-12-01 2017-12-12 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Refrigerator
US20190285335A1 (en) * 2016-10-17 2019-09-19 Whirlpool Corporation Hinge assembly
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DE8403014U1 (de) * 1984-02-02 1985-05-30 Bosch-Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH, 7000 Stuttgart Scharnier für zum Einbau in Möbelumbauten bestimmte Einbaugeräte, wie Kühl- oder Gefrierschränke

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DE7339379U (de) * 1973-11-03 1974-02-07 Franz J Kg Schranktür
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GB2274677A (en) * 1993-01-13 1994-08-03 Oreste Lanzani Hinge for built-in electrical appliances, refrigerators in particular
GB2274677B (en) * 1993-01-13 1996-09-04 Oreste Lanzani Hinge for built-in electrical appliances,refrigerators in particular
ES2089960A2 (es) * 1993-01-13 1996-10-01 Oreste Lanzani Bisagra para electrodomesticos empotrados, en particular, frigorificos.
EP0657609A1 (de) * 1993-12-13 1995-06-14 Whirlpool Europe B.V. Vorrichtung zur gelenkigen Verbindung einer Tür eines zum Einbau in einen Möbelelement bestimmten elektrischen Einbaugerätes an einem Türpaneel des Gerätes, sa dass der Raum des Möbelelementes optimal benutzt wird
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US6842944B2 (en) * 2002-08-14 2005-01-18 Scott D. Maurer Four pivot swing away hinge
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DE102015120565A1 (de) * 2015-11-26 2017-06-01 Hettich-Oni Gmbh & Co. Kg Möbel oder Haushaltsgerät und Mehrgelenkscharnier
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