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
  • F25D23/00—General constructional features
  • F25D23/02—Doors; Covers
  • F25D23/04—Doors; Covers with special compartments, e.g. butter conditioners
• • 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

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a storage compartment for attachment to a door of a refrigerator.
• Storage compartments of this type in particular those which are mounted in the lower region of the inside of the door, are essentially used for storing beverage bottles and other vertical format refrigerated goods containers.
• a sufficient wall height of the generally box-shaped storage compartments can prevent the containers from falling out, but the danger remains that a container that has once tumbled tilts to the side and turns over within the storage compartment.
• a storage compartment for a door of a cooling device which according to the preamble of claim 1 has a fastener which can be fastened to a longitudinal wall of the storage compartment and which extends in the depth direction of the body.
• a compartment divider cannot prevent a container in the storage compartment from tipping over if the refrigerator door is opened carelessly, but if it is suitably placed near the container, it can prevent the container from turning inside the storage compartment.
• the object of the present invention is to provide a storage compartment for a door of a refrigeration device which at the same time allows good stability of high-format containers of different sizes and a highly efficient use of space.
• the task is solved in that the compartment divider itself is used to accommodate a chamber for holding small parts.
• the compartment divider preferably extends essentially over the entire depth of the storage compartment, so that the small parts compartment can also extend essentially over this depth.
• the extension of the compartment divider is preferably greater in the depth direction of the storage compartment than in its width direction, because refrigerated goods with a footprint that is equal to or greater than the depth of the storage compartment do not have to be accommodated in a separate small parts compartment to increase their stability.
• the small parts compartment preferably has an open bottom so that no contaminants can collect therein. Parts placed in the small parts compartment are either carried only by its walls or by its walls and the bottom of the storage compartment.
• its height is preferably less than that of the storage compartment.
• the compartment divider can be provided with a tab that can be slipped over the longitudinal wall.
• a tab In order to guarantee a firm fit of the compartment divider on the longitudinal wall, is preferably on an inner surface of the tab formed at least one vertical rib. This can firmly clamp the side wall when it is level, which means that the position of the compartment divider in the storage compartment can be infinitely varied.
• the side wall of the storage compartment can also be provided with a plurality of grooves which are complementary to the at least one rib and into which the rib can engage.
• Figure 1 is a perspective interior view of a door of a refrigerator with a storage compartment according to the invention
• Figure 2 is a plan view of the storage compartment
• Figure 3 is a plan view of a second embodiment of a compartment divider for the storage compartment
• Figure 4 is a vertical section through the compartment divider of Figure 3;
• FIG. 5 shows an enlarged detail from FIG. 4
• FIG. 6 shows a further enlarged detail of the compartment divider from FIG. 3;
• Figure 7 is a plan view of a storage compartment with a compartment divider according to a third embodiment of the invention.
• a refrigerator door shown in simplified form in FIG. 1 and designated as 1, which, as usual, is equipped with a magnetic seal 2 arranged on its inner edge, has vertical bars 4 protruding on its inner side 3 near the edge.
• a box-like door storage compartment 5 the width of which corresponds to the distance between the two bars 4, is arranged between the two bars 4 at the edge area of the refrigerator door 1.
• narrower door storage compartments 6 are each suspended in the upper area of door 1 between one of the spars 4 and an additional, shorter spar 7, which extends over the center of the inside 3.
• the door storage compartment 5 is primarily used for storing bottles and other vertical refrigerated goods containers.
• a compartment divider 8 is suspended from a side wall of the compartment 5, the arrangement of which can be seen better in FIG. 2, which shows a plan view of the door storage compartment 5.
• the compartment divider 8 is essentially constructed from a four-sided frame with two short side walls 9, 10 and two long side walls 11 which surround a chamber 17.
• the short side walls 9 each face longitudinal walls 12, 13 of the door storage compartment 5, and the long side walls 11 extend over the major part of the depth, here approximately 80%, of the door storage compartment 5.
• a rider 14 is formed on the side wall 9, which in a longitudinal slot 15 of the side wall 12 engages and is held on this frictionally.
• the shape of the tab 14 is shown in more detail in connection with a second embodiment in Figures 4, 5.
• Figure 3 shows a plan view of a compartment divider 8 according to this second embodiment.
• the frame of this compartment divider 8 formed from the side walls 9, 10, 11 is almost, but not exactly, square.
• the two longer side walls 11 carry on their outer sides a plurality of flat ribs 16 which are provided in order to increase the friction between a container (not shown) set up outside the compartment divider 8 in the door storage compartment and clamped by the compartment divider 8 and the side wall 11 and thus the Secure containers additionally against tipping.
• FIG. 4 shows a vertical section through the compartment divider of FIG. 3 along the line IV-IV from FIG. 3.
• the rider 14 essentially has the shape of an elongated hook with a short distance from the side wall 9 parallel to this extending tongue.
• On the side wall 9 facing surface of the tongue extends over its entire length a rib 19.
• the chamber 17 is open at the bottom.
• the height of the compartment divider 8 corresponds to approximately half to two thirds of the height of the door storage compartment 5.
• FIG. 6 shows an enlarged horizontal section through the region of FIG. 3 marked with VI, which shows the side wall 9, the tongue and the rib 19.
• a second rib 19 is provided on the tongue symmetrically to the plane IV-IV.
• the purpose of the two ribs 19 is, on the one hand, to ensure a firm fit of the compartment divider 8, which cannot be displaced in the width direction of the door storage compartment 5 by objects stored therein, but on the other hand to allow the compartment divider 8 to be removed and plugged onto the side wall 12 in the vertical direction.
• the side wall 12 can, as shown in FIG. 2, be provided with grooves or be grooved to complement the ribs.
• the slot 15 can also be omitted; then the tongue on the outer surface of the wall 12, e.g. B. engage in a gap between this outer wall and the inner door surface 3.
• FIG. 7 shows a third exemplary embodiment of a door storage compartment according to the invention, which differs from that shown in FIG. 2 by the shape of the long side walls 11 of the compartment divider 8.
• these are in the form of a circular arc with a diameter which corresponds approximately to the depth of the door storage compartment 5.
• This configuration takes up little space between two large round objects, such as bottles, placed in the compartment, and at the same time enables the space-saving because vertical storage of a single narrow object or two objects of a rather round cross-section, e.g. of two tubes, each of which can be inserted into the chamber 17 in the depth direction in front of or behind the central constriction 18.

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