EP0903094B2 - Tiefkühlgerät, insbesondere für Tiefkühlprodukte - Google Patents

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EP0903094B2
EP0903094B2 EP98117477A EP98117477A EP0903094B2 EP 0903094 B2 EP0903094 B2 EP 0903094B2 EP 98117477 A EP98117477 A EP 98117477A EP 98117477 A EP98117477 A EP 98117477A EP 0903094 B2 EP0903094 B2 EP 0903094B2
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Richard Beer
Thomas Göttfert
Richard Schopper
Thomas Vorndran
Peter Faisst
Frank Ocker
Andrea Maul
Claudia Kohlhoff
Hansjürgen Prof. Dr.-Ing. Linde
Uwe Neumann
Stauch Rüdiger
Andreas Rehklau
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
    • A47F3/00—Show cases or show cabinets
    • A47F3/04—Show cases or show cabinets air-conditioned, refrigerated
    • A47F3/0404—Cases or cabinets of the closed type
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
    • A47F3/00—Show cases or show cabinets
    • A47F3/04—Show cases or show cabinets air-conditioned, refrigerated
    • A47F3/0404—Cases or cabinets of the closed type
    • A47F3/0426—Details
    • A47F3/043—Doors, covers
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
    • A47F3/00—Show cases or show cabinets
    • A47F3/04—Show cases or show cabinets air-conditioned, refrigerated
    • A47F3/0404—Cases or cabinets of the closed type
    • A47F3/0426—Details
    • A47F3/0434—Glass or transparent panels

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  • the invention relates to a freezer according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • a freezer of this type is known as a freezer and z. B. used in shopping for the provision of pre-packaged foods, eg. For ice cream.
  • a well-known freezer has a z. B. box-shaped, the upper side open housing, the removal opening by a lid or more juxtaposed cover parts of transparent material to close and open.
  • these are arranged in directly superimposed planes and in horizontal sliding guides either so displaceable that a portion of the opening of the freezer container is free and the underlying part of the receiving space of the housing is accessible by pushing over two cover parts.
  • a cover part is to be moved horizontally over another cover part and moved back to its closed position after removal.
  • the invention has the object of providing a freezer of the type described in such a way that a better provision or presentation of frozen products and better accessibility to the frozen products is achieved and at the same time the energy consumption is reduced.
  • the dependent claims further form the idea of the invention particularly advantageous.
  • several freezer containers are provided, which are arranged in steps and therefore not only allow a differentiated provision of frozen products, but also ensure better accessibility to the freezer containers or the frozen products.
  • the frozen products can be presented better, with a good and direct accessibility is achieved both for filling the freezer container and for removing the products.
  • Another advantage of the embodiment of the invention is the fact that when using the freezer less cooling energy is lost, because cooling energy when opening only the respective freezing container respectively associated Dekkels can escape to only a small extent. The remaining freezer containers remain closed. Taking into account the achievable capacity, the design according to the invention also leads to a space-saving design, since step-like increased container spaces are used.
  • the subclaims contain features which further improve the provision and accessibility, provide insight into the deep-freeze containers, improve the opening of the deep-freeze containers, lead to a simple and economically producible design and enable information surfaces and direct customer information about the products provided. If the bottom wall of an upper freezer container forms at least part of the top wall of the lower freezer container, a particularly energy-saving construction results.
  • the freezer generally designated 1 has a plurality of freezer 2, which are arranged with respect to the operating side 3 of the freezer 1 to the rear stepwise or step-shaped rising.
  • Each freezer container 2 is assigned its own lid 4 for selectively opening and closing its top opening 4a.
  • the lid 4 is preferably made of transparent material such as glass or plastic.
  • the freezer is preferably assigned a freezer unit 5 in the bottom area and rear.
  • deep-frozen bodies are arranged in the freezer containers, which are connected by cooling lines, also not shown, to the freezer unit 5, as is known per se in freezer units.
  • the walls of the freezer 2 are thermally insulated by a heat insulation 6.
  • a single freezing unit 5 can be used for the common supply of the plurality of each one deep-freezing container associated deep-freezing body.
  • the rearward offset v1, v2 of freezer 2 to freezer 2 and the height H of the uppermost freezer 3 are dimensioned taking into account the size of an operator so that the freezer containers are manually accessible from the operating page 3 ago and can be viewed.
  • the individual offset dimensions v1, v2 can be the same or different. This also applies to the individual heights h1, h2, h3 of the freezer container 2.
  • the freezer containers 2 preferably close off from one another in the vertical direction, so that the rear walls of the freezer containers 2 are arranged one above the other or formed by a common rear wall 7.
  • the front walls of the freezer 2 are denoted by 8, the side walls 9 and the bottom walls 11.
  • the upper freezer 2 overlap the respective lower freezer 2 about half.
  • the volumes of the freezing container 2 decrease with their arrangement from bottom to top, so that the respective lower freezer container 2 has a larger volume than the respective upper freezer container 2. Accordingly, the individual heights h1, h2, h3 can be dimensioned accordingly.
  • the height h1 of the lowermost deep-freeze container 2 is sized larger than the individual heights h2, h3 of the deep-freeze container 2 located above. According to the reduction of the volumes, the widths b1, b2, b3 of the deep-freeze container 2 can also be reduced from bottom to top.
  • the offset dimensions v1, v2 decrease from front to back.
  • the lengths L of the freezer 2 may be different or the same, as shown in the embodiment.
  • not only a plurality of freezing containers 2 are arranged one above the other but also along the operating side 3 side by side, so that there are horizontally extending rows R1, R2, R3 or stages and upright rows R4, R5.
  • the side walls 9 located therebetween can each be formed by a common side wall 9.
  • an additional side wall 12 is arranged on each side, the width of which is approximately matched to the base width b1 of the lowermost freezing container 2 and whose front end side obliquely or convexly rounded inclined backwards, preferably pointed above or expires at a small upper-side end face.
  • the side walls 12 can be concave-shaped on the back and / or bottom side, in particular circular-arc-section-shaped. In this case, the side walls 12 can be dimensioned larger with a height h4, as the one or more top freezer 2.
  • the common inner side walls may be formed by an upright corresponding to the side walls 12 continuous middle wall 13, said middle wall 13 may form a common middle side wall for the associated freezer 2 or the freezer 2 respectively can be attached to the central wall 13 with its own inner side walls.
  • the middle wall 13 may terminate with the top of the topmost or the deep-freezing container 2 or this project beyond the side walls 12.
  • the uppermost freezer container 2 has behind its opening 4a on a ceiling wall part 4b.
  • One or more juxtaposed advertising surface carrier 14 can be detachably or permanently arranged between the uppermost freezer container 2 or the uppermost freezer container 2, the front surface 15 of which can preferably terminate with the front face profile of the side walls 12 and serve as an advertising surface 16.
  • advertising surfaces 17, 18 also offer the outer surfaces of the front walls 8 and the outer side surfaces of the side walls 9 or 12 at.
  • the front wall 8 of the lowermost freezer or 2 or the other front walls 8 is or are preferably inclined at an acute angle W with the vertical forward.
  • a free space for the feet of the operator created and created on the tops of the respective freezer 2 larger openings 4a.
  • the bottom walls 11 are preferably arranged inclined forward.
  • a common, longitudinally continuous front wall 8 may be provided.
  • the lids 4 may each be a sliding cover which is freely displaceable in a sliding guide 21 extending transversely to the operating side 3 at the top of the associated or at the bottom of the deep-freeze container 2 located above. It may also be a hinged lid, which can be folded up and down about a hinge axis 22 of a joint (not further shown) extending preferably parallel to the operating side 3 in the region of the rear edge of the quadrangular opening 4a.
  • a hinged lid has the advantage that it closes automatically by gravity. For this purpose, the opening movement of the lid 4 may be limited by a stop before the top dead center.
  • the front wall 8 each form such a stop, and in particular the inclined front wall 8.
  • an automatically effective closing drive This can z. B. may be formed by a spring which is tensioned when opening the lid and this automatically closes after use, or it may be provided for closing the lid 4, a weight which is connected by a band-shaped connecting member with the lid 4 and this automatically in shifts its closed position.
  • a window 23 with a pane 23a of transparent material in the upper edge area of the front wall.
  • the window 23 may extend over the entire length L of the or the freezer 2.
  • a side window 24 can be arranged in each case, for. B. adjacent to the front window 23, preferably in the form of a half elongated ellipse. In the case of the presence of an additional side wall 12, this has in the region of the side windows 24 recesses 25 in a corresponding shape.
  • the heights h5, h6, h7 of the front and side windows 23, 24 may be the same or different, decreasing upwardly in the latter case.
  • the window panes 23a, 24a can also be made of glass or plastic and can be insulating panes, in particular those with a cavity.
  • the lid 4 is formed at its front end with a downwardly projecting locking leg, which may consist of transparent material such as glass or plastic and forms the disc 23a for the window 23.
  • a downwardly projecting locking leg which may consist of transparent material such as glass or plastic and forms the disc 23a for the window 23.
  • the opening 4a is enlarged and the front opening edge offset downward, which facilitates handling, especially for children.
  • the cover 4 with a lateral, downwardly projecting locking leg, which also consist of transparent material such as glass or plastic and can form the window pane 24a of the side window 24.
  • a lid 4, which has both the front and the side closure legs, would be hood-shaped. As a result, the space enclosed by the lid of the associated freezer container 2 can be increased.
  • the freezer 1 it is also advantageous for the freezer 1 to provide a so-called "touch-screen” or information device 26 with one or more actuators for retrieving information and a screen 27 on the front for visual presentation of the information.
  • This embodiment allows the customer to read on the screen 27 of this information device 26 information about the product, the manufacturer, etc.
  • the information device 27 in the form of an angle with a horizontal and a vertical device leg with which it z. B. can be placed on the front corner areas of the freezer 2.
  • the screen 27 is located in this position on the operating side 3 facing outer surface of the downwardly projecting device leg.
  • the information device 26 may also be permanently connected to the freezer 1, z. B. in the field of or the advertising space carrier 14th
  • the cover 4 is associated with a handle element 28 in each case in the front region, one of which is indicated in Fig. 3.
  • the freezer 1 is also advantageously to be provided with a second same freezer 1 according to FIG. 7 with the backs together, resulting in a space-saving block arrangement large recording or storage capacity, which is accessible from two sides and a Has increased number of freezer 2.

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  • Devices That Are Associated With Refrigeration Equipment (AREA)
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EP98117477A 1997-09-17 1998-09-15 Tiefkühlgerät, insbesondere für Tiefkühlprodukte Expired - Lifetime EP0903094B2 (de)

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EP04003077A EP1417911B1 (de) 1997-09-17 1998-09-15 Mehrstufiges Tiefkühlgerät
DE29824996U DE29824996U1 (de) 1997-09-17 1998-09-15 Tiefkühlgerät, insbesondere für Tiefkühlprodukte
EP05013709A EP1586255A1 (de) 1997-09-17 1998-09-15 Mehrstufiges Tiefkühlgerät

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DE19740900A DE19740900C2 (de) 1997-09-17 1997-09-17 Tiefkühlgerät für Tiefkühlprodukte
DE19740900 1997-09-17

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DK1417911T3 (da) 2005-09-19
EP0903094A3 (de) 2000-10-25
ES2226045T5 (es) 2008-02-16
ES2243912T3 (es) 2005-12-01
EP1417911B1 (de) 2005-06-29
DE29824996U1 (de) 2004-01-15
DE59812903D1 (de) 2005-08-04
DE19740900C2 (de) 1999-07-22
EP0903094A2 (de) 1999-03-24
EP1417911A1 (de) 2004-05-12
ES2226045T3 (es) 2005-03-16
ATE298517T1 (de) 2005-07-15
ATE271817T1 (de) 2004-08-15
DE29825172U1 (de) 2005-08-25
EP0903094B1 (de) 2004-07-28
DE19740900A1 (de) 1999-04-22

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