EP1481612B1 - Strukturierte Oberfläche für Haushalt- und Kältegeräte - Google Patents
Strukturierte Oberfläche für Haushalt- und Kältegeräte Download PDFInfo
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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
- A47B96/00—Details of cabinets, racks or shelf units not covered by a single one of groups A47B43/00 - A47B95/00; General details of furniture
- A47B96/20—Furniture panels or like furniture elements
- A47B96/201—Edge features
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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
- F25D23/02—Doors; Covers
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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
- F25D23/06—Walls
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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
- F25D2400/00—General features of, or devices for refrigerators, cold rooms, ice-boxes, or for cooling or freezing apparatus not covered by any other subclass
- F25D2400/18—Aesthetic features
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- the present invention relates to a surface structure for household appliances and refrigeration equipment.
- the colour of household appliances i.e. washing machines, dishwashers and tumble driers
- refrigeration equipment i.e. refrigerators, freezers and upright freezers
- the colours of handles, different gratings and the like may vary to some extent, although even these are typically white nowadays.
- Kitchen fittings or different product fittings are typically of one colour, usually white. At some stage, also such kitchen fittings have been sold whose surfaces were painted with different paints to provide sparkle. Also such solutions have been known where the front surface of a dishwasher or refrigerator, for example, has been a sheet of a given colour which has then been fitted by its edges with different angle sections and screws.
- Document FR-A-1300022 discloses a known refrigerator door.
- An object of the present invention is to provide such a surface structure for kitchen fittings or the like with which it is easy to change the appearance of the fittings and which is reasonably inexpensive.
- the surface structure according to the invention is characterized in that it comprises a thin sheet to be mounted upon a door or wall of a household appliance or refrigeration equipment, the sheet forming a visible surface; and that two opposite edges of the sheet are bent at both edges at two bending points at a distance from each other substantially in parallel with each other relative to the sheet, and at the same edge in the same bending direction in such a way that both edges of the sheet are provided with a groove-like space, into which the edges of the door or wall of the household appliance or refrigeration equipment fit when the sheet is mounted in place upon the door or wall of the household appliance or refrigeration equipment, whereby the edges of the sheet become positioned in the space behind the edge of the door or wall of the household appliance or refrigeration equipment and fix the sheet in place.
- An essential idea of the invention is that loose surface structures are manufactured for a household appliance or refrigeration equipment, which structures can be easily mounted and detached, thus changing the appearance or colour of the household appliance or refrigeration equipment. This has been achieved in such a way that a surface that becomes tightly positioned upon the door or wall of the household appliance or refrigeration equipment is formed of a thin sheet by bending opposite edges of the sheet, the surface, when being mounted or detached, yielding in such a way that it can be "clicked” in place such that the remotest narrow edge parts of the sheet edge become positioned in the space behind the part to be coated, such as the door or wall, of the household appliance or refrigeration equipment, locking the sheet firmly in place.
- An essential idea of a preferred embodiment of the invention is that the bends are made such that the angles formed in the bending are sharper on the side of the door or wall to be coated than the angle of the door or the wall, whereby this presses both sheet edges tightly against the door or wall, keeping the sheet firmly in place.
- An advantage of the invention is that when the appearance of the household appliance or refrigeration equipment is to be changed, the sheet forming its surface structure can be removed and a new one supplied to replace it. Likewise, if there has earlier been no loose sheet that would form a surface structure, such a sheet can be mounted.
- Figure 1 shows schematically a perspective view of a cold store that represents, by way of example, a household appliance and/or refrigeration equipment in which the surface structure according to the invention can be implemented.
- the surfaces of doors 2 and 3 and side walls 4 and 5 of a cold store 1 can be covered with a surface structure according to the invention by clicking onto them a thin sheet, the edges of which become positioned around the edges of the doors 2 and 3 and the walls 4 and 5.
- Figure 2a shows schematically a perspective view of a sheet intended for forming a surface structure according to the invention.
- a sheet 6 is bent at two opposite edges thereof at two bending points 7 and 8 in parallel.
- the bending is carried out in the same direction at both bending points in such a way that the edge of the sheet 6 is provided with a groove 9 towards the opposite edge of the sheet.
- the bending is naturally carried out in the opposite direction in such a way that both edges of the sheet are provided with grooves 9 on the same side of the sheet 6.
- Figure 2b shows an end view of a sheet according to Figure 2a.
- Figure 2c shows the edge of the sheet in more detail, and it can be seen how the sheet is bent at bending points 7 and 8 so as to form the groove 9.
- the internal bending radius of the bending points 7 and 8 is dimensioned in such a way that it is at the corresponding point substantially equal to the bending radius of the outer surface of the part upon which the sheet 6 is intended to be mounted.
- the sheet can be bent in such a way that the angle between the sheet surfaces relative to the bending points is less than 90°. In this way, the edges of the sheets are pressed tightly against the edges of the part to be coated, which keeps the sheet firmly in place.
- the angles may also be different, depending on the corresponding angles in the household appliance or refrigeration equipment.
- Figure 3 shows schematically a sheet mounted upon a door 10 of a cold store, where it forms a visible surface in its proper place. Between the door and the actual cold store, there is a sealing 11, due to which there remains a space behind the door edges. The narrow bends at the edges of the sheet 6 become positioned in this space behind the edges of the door 10, fixing the sheet 6 firmly against the door. Correspondingly, a space must be formed adjacent the wall edges of the household appliance or refrigeration equipment, into which space the edges of the sheet 6 fit if a sheet forming a visible surface is to be positioned upon the walls.
- the end part of the door 10 is provided with a small protrusion extending outside the actual surface sheet of the door, against which protrusion the lower edge of the sheet 6 becomes positioned and which protrusion functions as a locking member, locking the sheet in its place downwards.
- a sheet may be manufactured of different transparent or non-transparent plastics or metals.
- Transparent plastic may be coloured translucently or it may be colourless.
- different patterns may be formed upon or on the inner surface of a sheet of transparent material, and different loose patterns may also be positioned between the sheet and the surface of the household appliance or refrigeration equipment.
- the sheet may be patterned with various impression techniques, such as serigraphy. Either the whole outer surface of the sheet or part of it may be painted or otherwise coated or treated.
- the sheet surface may also be mechanically treated, for instance by grinding or sand or the like blasting, or otherwise treated with machining or chemical treatment in such a way that the surface is provided with a symmetric or an asymmetric pattern, which is preferably at least somewhat three-dimensional.
- the sheet itself may have locking members to lock it immovably in the direction of the bent sides.
- the sheet yields sufficiently owing to its thinness, so that it is possible to mount it in place by one edge and to press the other edge such that the sheet eventually clicks in place and becomes locked.
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Claims (12)
- Oberflächenstruktur zum Erzeugen einer sichtbaren Oberfläche für Haushaltsgeräte und Kühleinrichtungen, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie eine dünne Platte (6) umfasst, die an einer Tür oder Wand eines Haushaltsgerätes oder einer Kühleinrichtung angebracht wird, wobei die Platte (6) eine sichtbare Fläche bildet, und dadurch, dass zwei einander gegenüberliegende Kanten der Platte (6) an beiden Kanten an zwei Biegepunkten (7, 8) in einem Abstand zueinander im Wesentlichen parallel zueinander relativ zu der Platte (6) und an der gleichen Kante in der gleichen Biegerichtung so gebogen sind, dass beide Kanten der Platte (3) mit einem rinnenartigen Raum (9) versehen sind, in den die Kanten der Tür oder Wand des Haushaltsgerätes oder der Kühleinrichtung passen, wenn die Platte (6) an der Tür oder Wand des Haushaltsgerätes oder der Kühleinrichtung angebracht wird, so dass die Kanten der Platte (6) in dem Raum hinter der Kante der Tür oder Wand des Haushaltsgerätes oder der Kühleinrichtung positioniert werden und die Platte (6) fixieren.
- Oberflächenstruktur nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Winkel, die durch die Biegungen an der Seite der Rinnen gebildet werden, weniger als 90° betragen.
- Oberflächenstruktur nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Biegeradius der Biegungen an der Seite der Rinnen dem entsprechenden Biegeradius der Außenfläche der Tür oder Wand gleich ist, die mit der Platte (6) bedeckt werden soll.
- Oberflächenstruktur nach einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass, wenn die gebogenen Kanten der Platte (6) vertikal sind, wenn sie angebracht ist, das Haushaltsgerät oder die Kühleinrichtung und/oder die Platte (6) Arretierelemente umfasst/umfassen, die verhindern, dass die Platte (6) in der Höhenrichtung nach unten gleitet.
- Oberflächenstruktur nach Anspruch 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Arretierelemente einen Vorsprung, wie beispielsweise eine Kante, umfassen, der an der unteren Kante der Platte (6) in dem Haushaltsgerät oder der Kühleinrichtung positioniert werden soll.
- Oberflächenstruktur nach einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Platte (6) aus Kunststoff besteht.
- Oberflächenstruktur nach Anspruch 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Platte (6) transparent ist.
- Oberflächenstruktur nach Anspruch 6 oder 7, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Platte (6) transluzent gefärbt ist.
- Oberflächenstruktur nach den Ansprüchen 6 bis 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass ein Muster an der Innenfläche der Platte (6) vorhanden ist.
- Oberflächenstruktur nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Platte (5) aus Metall besteht.
- Oberflächenstruktur nach einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die sichtbare Fläche der Platte (6) wenigstens teilweise lackiert oder beschichtet ist.
- Oberflächenstruktur nach einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die sichtbare Fläche der Platte (6) wenigstens teilweise so behandelt ist, dass ein symmetrisches oder ein asymmetrisches, vorzugsweise dreidimensionales, Muster darauf ausgebildet ist.
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FI20030213U | 2003-05-28 | ||
FI20030213U FI6003U1 (fi) | 2003-05-28 | 2003-05-28 | Pintarakenne kodinkoneita ja kylmäkalusteita varten |
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US (1) | US20040245900A1 (de) |
EP (1) | EP1481612B1 (de) |
AT (1) | ATE366066T1 (de) |
DE (1) | DE602004007324T2 (de) |
DK (1) | DK1481612T3 (de) |
FI (1) | FI6003U1 (de) |
HK (1) | HK1073985A1 (de) |
NO (1) | NO20042215L (de) |
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US8668291B2 (en) * | 2007-11-21 | 2014-03-11 | Whirlpool Corporation | Method and apparatus for providing metal clad facade |
DE102008021345A1 (de) * | 2008-04-29 | 2009-11-05 | BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH | Tür für ein Haushaltsgerät |
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DK1481612T3 (da) | 2007-08-06 |
FIU20030213U0 (fi) | 2003-05-28 |
NO20042215L (no) | 2004-11-29 |
ATE366066T1 (de) | 2007-07-15 |
HK1073985A1 (en) | 2005-10-28 |
US20040245900A1 (en) | 2004-12-09 |
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