Classifications

• • 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
  • F25D25/00—Charging, supporting, and discharging the articles to be cooled
  • F25D25/02—Charging, supporting, and discharging the articles to be cooled by shelves
  • F25D25/024—Slidable shelves
  • F25D25/025—Drawers
• • 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
  • A47B88/00—Drawers for tables, cabinets or like furniture; Guides for drawers
  • A47B88/90—Constructional details of drawers
  • A47B88/969—Drawers having means for organising or sorting the content
  • A47B88/988—Drawers having means for organising or sorting the content in the form of holders for positioning specific articles
• • 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
  • F25D23/02—Doors; Covers
  • F25D23/04—Doors; Covers with special compartments, e.g. butter conditioners
• • 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
  • A47B88/00—Drawers for tables, cabinets or like furniture; Guides for drawers
  • A47B88/90—Constructional details of drawers
  • A47B88/969—Drawers having means for organising or sorting the content
  • A47B88/975—Drawers having means for organising or sorting the content in the form of repositionable partition walls
• • 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
  • F25D2331/00—Details or arrangements of other cooling or freezing apparatus not provided for in other groups of this subclass
  • F25D2331/80—Type of cooled receptacles
  • F25D2331/803—Bottles
• • 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
  • F25D2331/00—Details or arrangements of other cooling or freezing apparatus not provided for in other groups of this subclass
  • F25D2331/80—Type of cooled receptacles
  • F25D2331/809—Holders
• • 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
  • F25D2500/00—Problems to be solved
  • F25D2500/02—Geometry problems

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a compartment divider and its applications. More specifically, it relates to a compartment divider with a divider plate and a tab fastened to a side edge of the divider plate, which is suitable for dividing pull-out boxes or door storage compartments in a refrigerator, as well as a pull-out box and a door storage compartment that are equipped with such a compartment divider.
• Such a divider is known from DE 2437550A1.
• compartment dividers only have an order function, their presence does not lead to a more effective use of space in the sense that more refrigerated goods could be accommodated in a refrigerator due to their presence.
• the capacity of a door storage compartment in a refrigerator is generally greater if there is no compartment divider in it, because it is then possible to place bottles whose diameter does not reach the width of the storage compartment in a zigzag arrangement in which they partially extend in the width direction overlap.
• a compartment divider rules out such an overlap.
• the soft drinks industry has increasingly been offering drinks in very large bottle formats of typically 1, 5 or 2 liters, the storage of which is difficult in household refrigerators.
• the dimensions of the door storage compartments are conventionally adapted to accommodate bottles with a volume of up to 1.0 liters. If a bottle of larger volume is to be able to be stored in a door storage compartment, it must not be wider than the conventional bottles for which the compartment is designed, so it can only be taller.
• Beverage bottles made of PET with such a diameter and a volume of 1.5 liters are on the market.
• 2I-PET bottles are generally of such a diameter that they no longer fit in a door storage compartment. Consumers are therefore forced to store such bottles lying on a shelf inside the refrigerator. There is a risk that a opened, incompletely closed bottle will leak and the contents will be distributed in the refrigerator.
• the object of the present invention is to provide a compartment divider which, in particular when storing large beverage bottles in a refrigerator, enables economical use of space and safe storage of the bottles.
• a compartment divider with the feature of claim 1.
• Such a compartment divider permits the inclined storage of a bottle, which is secured against lateral rolling away by lying in the cutout of the upper edge of the divider plate.
• the inclination of the bottle with a variable inclination angle that can be determined by the placement of the compartment divider allows a bottle to be accommodated in a door storage compartment or in a pull-out drawer of a refrigerator, without the distance between the door storage compartment holding the bottle and one above it being greater than the height of the bottle must be or without the height of the pull-out box having to match the height of the bottle.
• the tab of the compartment divider according to the invention preferably has a first U-shaped section which extends transversely to the plane of the divider plate and a gripping section which facilitates the placement of the compartment divider and which extends from a side of the first U-shaped section facing away from the divider plate extends in the plane of the divider plate.
• This gripping section is preferably designed as a second U-section section. With the help of this second U-profile section, it is possible to insert a plurality of divider plates To connect the longitudinal direction with each other and to form subdivisions that are longer than the length of a single divider plate.
• the first U-profile section can also be firmly plugged onto the divider plate of another compartment divider according to the invention, in order to form compartment subdivisions that extend in several mutually orthogonal directions.
• the divider plate preferably also has at least one cutout on a lower edge, in particular the number of cutouts on the upper edge and the lower edge of the divider plate should be different and e.g. 1 or 2.
• Such a compartment divider can, depending on which of the two edges is mounted upwards in a compartment, carry one large or two small bottles in an inclined or lying orientation secured against lateral rolling away.
• the first U-profile section has roughening or corrugation at least on an inner surface. This roughening or corrugation is pressed by the weight of a bottle resting on the upper edge of the divider plate against a wall or other support onto which the first U-profile section is attached, thereby preventing the support from evading laterally under the pressure of the bottle ,
• the invention also relates to a pull-out box for a refrigerator, which is subdivided by at least one compartment divider of the type defined above.
• a compartment divider is expediently attachable to at least one side wall of the pull-out box. Its height can correspond to that of the side wall, so that the lower edge of a loaded compartment divider is able to support itself on the bottom of the pull-out box.
• the height of the divider plate is smaller than the height of the side wall, so that even large objects can be stored lying down in the pull-out box below the lower edge of the divider plate.
• Such a pull-out box is preferably divided into at least one high-wall compartment and one low-wall compartment, and the at least one compartment divider can be mounted on at least one wall of the low compartment in order to subdivide it.
• the low-walled compartment should be dimensioned such that it is able to hold a bottle, in particular a 1, 5 I or 2 I beverage bottle in an inclined position supported on the compartment divider. More precisely, the compartment should be dimensioned such that such a bottle nowhere protrudes from the alignment of the side walls of the pull-out box, so that the pull-out box can be inserted without difficulty into a compartment of the refrigerator provided for this purpose.
• the dimensions of the pull-out box can be chosen such that a bottle of the type mentioned above can also be accommodated lying on two compartment dividers.
• FIGS. 1A, 1B show the principle of the invention on the basis of a schematic section through a refrigerator, once with a large bottle accommodated in a conventional manner in a lower compartment, once with a bottle inclined by a compartment divider according to the invention;
• FIG. 5 shows a perspective view of a pull-out box with a high-walled and a low-walled compartment and a compartment divider mounted on a side wall of the low-walled compartment;
• FIG. 6 shows a perspective partial view of the pull-out box from FIG. 5 with a bottle mounted in an inclined position
• FIG. 7 shows a partially sectioned view of the pull-out box from FIG. 5 with a bottle stored horizontally
• Figure 8 is a bottom view of a compartment divider according to the invention.
• FIG. 9 shows a plan view of a compartment subdivided with a plurality of compartment dividers according to the invention.
• Figure 1A shows in a highly schematic section and with the door omitted, the housing 1 of a refrigerator with a plurality of shelves 2, 3 for storing refrigerated goods.
• the shelf 3 is formed by the bottom of a pull-out box 4.
• a large bottle 5 which, in the upright position, requires a large distance between the storage surface 3 and the storage surface 2 lying above it.
• the pull-out box 4 is subdivided by a compartment divider 6 according to the invention, which allows the bottle 5 to be stored in an inclined position secured against lateral rolling away. In this position, the distance between the storage surfaces 2, 3 required for storing the bottle is reduced, so that the storage surface 2 can accommodate larger objects than in the case of FIG. 1A. This allows a better use of the available storage space in the refrigerator.
• FIG. 2 shows a side view of a compartment divider according to the invention according to a first embodiment.
• the compartment divider 6 is essentially constructed from a divider plate 7 of essentially rectangular shape and a tab 8 integrally formed on one corner of the divider plate 7 in the form of a U-section section which is open at the bottom and extends perpendicular to the plane of the figure.
• a segment-shaped cutouts 9 are formed, the position of which is selected such that two circles with the same radius and center point, shown in broken lines in the figure, do not overlap one another.
• This divider plate 7 is able to support two bottles, each supported in the incisions 9, in an inclined position when the rider 8 is attached to the upper edge of a side wall of a pull-out box, a side wall of a door storage compartment or a suitable other stationary object.
• the compartment divider 6 'of FIG. 3 differs from that shown in FIG. 2 in that only a single circular segment-shaped cutout 9' of large diameter is provided on the upper edge of the divider plate T.
• This variant is particularly intended for the storage of 2I large diameter beverage bottles.
• a large cutout 9 ' is formed on an upper edge and two small cutouts 9" on a lower edge of the divider plate 7 ".
• the divider plate 7 is provided with tabs 8 at two diagonally opposite corners, one of which is placed on a suitable fixed support at the user's choice can be.
• compartment divider arrangement of the type which will be explained in more detail later with reference to FIG. 9, such a compartment divider can be used in different orientations, either with the edge having the cutouts 9 or the edge with the cutout 9 'upwards.
• a divider plate of the divider plate 7 "type, with cutouts 9, 9 'on the upper and lower edge, is detachably connected to a tab, which is optionally on the edge with the cutouts 9 or Cutout 9 'is mountable.
• FIG. 5 shows a perspective view of a pull-out box 4 for a refrigerator which is equipped with a compartment divider 6 according to the invention.
• the pull-out box 4 is divided into two compartments 10, 11, each of which has side walls 12, 13, 14 at different heights.
• the low side wall 14 of the compartment 10 extends parallel to the pull-out direction in which the pull-out box 4 is movably provided in a refrigeration device.
• the compartment divider 6 with its rider 8 is attached to an upper edge 15 of the side wall 14.
• the compartment divider 6 is used in a conventional manner to divide the compartment 10 into a front region and a rear region, in which, in the example shown here, two beverage containers, which do not protrude beyond the upper edge of the high side walls 12, are placed upright are.
• FIG. 6 shows a perspective partial view of the pull-out box 4 from FIG. 5 with a bottle 5 held in an inclined position by the compartment divider 6.
• the compartment divider 6 does not extend to the bottom of the compartment 10, so that it is possible despite the division of the compartment by the compartment divider 6 remains, long objects on the bottom of the compartment 10 to accommodate, which can be pushed under the compartment divider 6 through to the vicinity of the base of the bottle 5.
• the side wall 14 is constructed in two layers on a predominant part of its surface, one layer, here the outer layer 16, being molded in one piece with the rest of the pull-out box 4 by plastic injection molding and a separate inner layer 17, which forms the upper edge 15 and which is made of a material with high strength and breaking strength such as a fiber-reinforced plastic or a metal, to the inside of the outer layer 16 by gluing, ultrasonic welding or the like is attached.
• the upper edge 15 of the side wall 14 carries two compartment dividers 6, the cutouts of which form a firm support for a horizontally lying bottle 5, which is secured against lateral rolling away and are covered by the bottle 5 in the figure.
• the entire bottom of the compartment 10 is available for the storage of other refrigerated goods.
• FIG. 8 shows a view from below of a compartment divider 6 ′′ ′, which has been further developed in several respects compared to the compartment divider 6 of FIG Compartment divider 6 "'along the upper edge 15 facilitated.
• a roughening in the form of a sawtooth profile is formed on the bottom of the groove 19, to which a complementary sawtooth profile can be provided on the upper edge 15 of the side wall or the side walls, which are intended to carry the compartment divider 6 ′′
• sawtooth profile prevents the compartment divider 6 "'from being laterally displaced by the weight of the bottle and thereby tipping it further than originally intended by the user.
• a latching division can be provided on the inner surface of the wall 14, into which the divider plate of the compartment divider can engage with one edge in order to prevent the compartment divider from slipping along the wall 14.
• a second groove 20 extends perpendicular to the groove 19 through the gripping section 18.
• the widths of the grooves 19, 20 are selected in accordance with the thickness of the divider plate 7 so that one edge of a divider plate of another compartment divider is inserted into the groove 19 or 20 can and is clamped firmly in it.
• Other compartment dividers which are no longer shown and described, could be attached to the mentioned compartment dividers or to the side walls of the compartment at other points. In this way, the compartment can be divided very flexibly, partial compartments with an edge length that is smaller than the length of the divider plates can also be formed.
• the compartment divider according to the invention can also be used to be plugged onto an upper edge of an interior door compartment of a refrigerator, and thus to enable bottles to be slanted in such a compartment.
• the compartment divider according to the invention can also be used to be plugged onto an upper edge of an interior door compartment of a refrigerator, and thus to enable bottles to be slanted in such a compartment.

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