EP1529188B1 - Refrigerating device with a sub-divided interior - Google Patents

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EP1529188B1
EP1529188B1 EP03784068A EP03784068A EP1529188B1 EP 1529188 B1 EP1529188 B1 EP 1529188B1 EP 03784068 A EP03784068 A EP 03784068A EP 03784068 A EP03784068 A EP 03784068A EP 1529188 B1 EP1529188 B1 EP 1529188B1
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Wolfgang Kentner
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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
    • E05D7/00—Hinges or pivots of special construction
    • E05D7/10—Hinges or pivots of special construction to allow easy separation or connection of the parts at the hinge axis
    • E05D7/1061—Hinges or pivots of special construction to allow easy separation or connection of the parts at the hinge axis in a radial direction
    • E05D7/1066—Hinges or pivots of special construction to allow easy separation or connection of the parts at the hinge axis in a radial direction requiring a specific angular position
    • 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
    • F25D23/025—Secondary closures
    • 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
    • F25D23/065—Details
    • F25D23/067—Supporting elements
    • 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
    • E05Y2800/00—Details, accessories and auxiliary operations not otherwise provided for
    • E05Y2800/71—Secondary wings, e.g. pass doors
    • 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
    • E05Y2900/31—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof for domestic appliances for refrigerators

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  • the present invention relates to a refrigerator with a divided into several compartments interior, especially a fridge-freezer combination device, in which a freezer compartment is equipped with a hinged flap, which allows the freezer compartment largely airtight from the rest of the interior to separate according to the preamble of Claim 1.
  • a fridge-freezer combination device in which a freezer compartment is equipped with a hinged flap, which allows the freezer compartment largely airtight from the rest of the interior to separate according to the preamble of Claim 1.
  • a device is from document EP-A-0 952 413 already known.
  • a refrigeration device is also off DE 36 13 439 A1 known.
  • a heat-insulating partition wall extends between the freezer and the normal cooling compartment, which occupies the rest of the interior of the refrigerator, and the flap is pivotally mounted on bearing journals, which are mounted on the front edge of this partition.
  • These journals can be exposed to considerable tensile forces, especially when the door is open, which require a robust anchoring to the partition wall.
  • the partition itself is not strong in general, since it is just like the housing of the refrigerator designed as a filled with insulating foam material, rather thin-walled hollow body.
  • a reinforcing plate must be provided in the interior of the partition wall, which has threaded holes into which the screws can engage. Appropriate to these holes holes must be created in the outer shell of the partition, which coincide exactly with those of the reinforcing plate, and care must be taken that when filling the partition with the insulating foam material this can not escape through the holes.
  • document FR-A-2 613 467 also discloses a refrigerator with a flap with recesses.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a refrigeration device with a compartment divided into several compartments, in which at least one compartment with a flap can be closed, which allows a simple yet reliable installation of the flap.
  • the journals are each inserted in a recess of the wall in the direction of the axis. So it is possible to make the journals of a material and with a thickness that can be chosen independently of the properties of the wall. This is particularly useful when the wall that receives the journals is a deep-drawn inner container of a refrigerator.
  • the journals are each provided with a circumferential brim which defines a stop to which the trunnions are insertable into the recesses of the wall.
  • the flap has on the two sides of the bearing bearing the bearing journal walls facing each have a recess into which the pins engage to form a hinge connection.
  • the recesses are each formed integrally with a groove open to the edge of the side edge. In order to hold the tips of the pins in the recesses, these are more deeply recessed in the side flank than the grooves, or they are slightly wider than the grooves.
  • the grooves are each open to a narrow side of the side edges.
  • the narrow side is the lower side flank of the flap. This ensures that the flap can be dismantled substantially only in its open position and the flap when closing can not be pushed out of its anchoring by projecting from the underlying compartment stored goods.
  • each groove is closer to an outer side of the flap than the gichen groove associated, forming the hinge Deepening.
  • the groove runs downwards from the depression towards its open end, so that a horizontal pull on the flap is not sufficient to release it from the joint, but an upward force must be added.
  • the in Fig. 1 shown in a perspective front view two-temperature refrigerator 10 comprises a heat-insulating body 12, on which an outer door 11 is hinged about a vertical axis pivotally.
  • the interior of the carcass 12 is through a thermally insulating horizontal partition wall 14 divided into a normal cooling compartment 13 and a freezer compartment 15.
  • the body 12 is constructed of an outer casing and an inner container deep-drawn from plastic sheet material defining a space filled with insulating foam material.
  • a flap 16 is pivoted about a horizontal axis at the level of the intermediate wall 14.
  • the flap 16 is shown in the figure in an open, horizontal position; in the closed position, it closes the front of the opening of the freezer compartment 15 substantially airtight.
  • Fig. 2 shows in an exploded perspective view of a small piece of the inner container 17 of the body 12, a bearing pin 18 and a part of the flap 16, seen from its side facing the freezer compartment 15 inside.
  • the bearing pin 18 is a substantially cylindrical, cup-shaped hollow body with a flap 16 facing the closed end face and an open end face, which is provided to positively and non-positively engage in a depression deepened on the inner container 17 recess 19.
  • a circumferential brim 20 of the journal 18 is in the assembled state of the journal on the inner container 17 and sets so the depth of penetration of the pin in the recess 19 fixed.
  • the bearing pin 18 facing the lateral edge 21 of the flap 16 carries at its outer door 11 facing the outer edge of a web 22, which also extends along the lower edge of the edge 21 and there has an S-shaped curved course.
  • This course delimits a circular depression 24 and a groove 23 running obliquely downwards from the depression 24 and opening onto the lower edge of the flank 21, which in FIG Fig. 3 is shown enlarged.
  • the diameter of the head portion 24 is slightly larger than the width of the groove 23.
  • the diameter of the head portion is adapted to that of the trunnion 18 so that the head portion 24 is freely rotatable about the trunnion 18, but the trunnion 18 is too wide to without escape through the groove 23 through an elastic deformation.
  • a blind hole 25 is formed on the opposite lateral flanks 21 of the flap 16 to receive an end portion of a tension band (not shown), the other end portion of which is fixed to the inner wall of the freezer compartment 15, and whose length is dimensioned so that it is taut in the open, horizontal position of the flap 16.

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A refrigerating device having a heat-insulating housing surrounding an interior sub-divided into several compartments (13, 15). At least one of the compartments (15) can be closed by means of a flap valve (16) which is maintained on bearing journals (18,28) of the housing such that it is pivotable about an axis. The bearing journals (18, 28) are maintained on a wall of the housing (17) extending cross-wise in relation to said axis.

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Die vorliegende Erfindung betrifft ein Kältegerät mit einem in mehrere Fächer unterteilten Innenraum, insbesondere ein Kühl-Gefrier-Kombinationsgerät, bei dem ein Gefrierfach mit einer schwenkbaren Klappe ausgestattet ist, die es ermöglicht, das Gefrierfach weitgehend luftdicht vom Rest des Innenraums abzutrennen nach dem Oberbegriff des Anspruchs 1. Ein solches gerät ist aus Dokument EP-A-0 952 413 schon bekannt.The present invention relates to a refrigerator with a divided into several compartments interior, especially a fridge-freezer combination device, in which a freezer compartment is equipped with a hinged flap, which allows the freezer compartment largely airtight from the rest of the interior to separate according to the preamble of Claim 1. Such a device is from document EP-A-0 952 413 already known.

Ein Kältegerät ist auch aus DE 36 13 439 A1 bekannt. Bei diesem bekannten Kältegerät erstreckt sich eine wärmeisolierende Trennwand zwischen dem Gefrierfach und dem Normalkühlfach, das den Rest des Innenraums des Kältegeräts einnimmt, und die Klappe ist an Lagerzapfen schwenkbar gelagert, die an der Vorderkante dieser Trennwand montiert sind. Diese Lagerzapfen können insbesondere bei geöffneter Klappe beträchtlichen Zugkräften ausgesetzt sein, die eine robuste Verankerung an der Trennwand erforderlich machen. Die Trennwand selbst ist aber im allgemeinen nicht stark belastbar, da sie genauso wie das Gehäuse des Kältegeräts als ein mit isolierendem Schaummaterial gefüllter, eher dünnwandiger Hohlkörper ausgebildet ist. Um die Lagerzapfen sicher und ausreißfest zu verankern, muss im Innern der Trennwand eine Verstärkungsplatte vorgesehen w erden, die Gewindebohrungen aufweist, in welche die Schrauben eingreifen können. Passend zu diesen Bohrungen müssen Bohrungen in der äußeren Hülle der Trennwand geschaffen werden, die exakt mit denen der Verstärkungsplatte zusammenfallen, und es muss Sorge getragen werden, dass beim Ausfüllen der Trennwand mit dem isolierenden Schaummaterial dieses nicht durch die Bohrungen austreten kann.A refrigeration device is also off DE 36 13 439 A1 known. In this known refrigeration device, a heat-insulating partition wall extends between the freezer and the normal cooling compartment, which occupies the rest of the interior of the refrigerator, and the flap is pivotally mounted on bearing journals, which are mounted on the front edge of this partition. These journals can be exposed to considerable tensile forces, especially when the door is open, which require a robust anchoring to the partition wall. However, the partition itself is not strong in general, since it is just like the housing of the refrigerator designed as a filled with insulating foam material, rather thin-walled hollow body. In order to anchor the journals safely and tear-resistant, a reinforcing plate must be provided in the interior of the partition wall, which has threaded holes into which the screws can engage. Appropriate to these holes holes must be created in the outer shell of the partition, which coincide exactly with those of the reinforcing plate, and care must be taken that when filling the partition with the insulating foam material this can not escape through the holes.

Dokument FR-A-2 613 467 offenbart auch ein Kältegerät mit einer Klappe mit Aussparungen.document FR-A-2 613 467 also discloses a refrigerator with a flap with recesses.

Aufgabe der Erfindung ist, ein Kältegerät mit einem in mehrere Fächer unterteilten Innenraum, bei dem wenigstens ein Fach mit einer Klappe verschließbar ist, zu schaffen, das eine einfache und dennoch belastbare Montage der Klappe ermöglicht.The object of the invention is to provide a refrigeration device with a compartment divided into several compartments, in which at least one compartment with a flap can be closed, which allows a simple yet reliable installation of the flap.

Die Aufgabe wird gelöst durch ein Kältegerät mit den Merkmalen des Anspruchs 1. Durch die Aufnahme der Lagerzapfen in einer quer zur Achse verlaufenden Wand werden auf der Klappe wirkende Kräfte in diese Wand parallel zu ihrer Oberfläche eingeleitet, d.h. in einer Richtung, in der auch eine vergleichsweise dünne Wand eine beträchtliche Tragfähigkeit aufweist.The task is solved by a refrigerator with the features of claim 1. By the inclusion of the journals in a transverse axis to the wall forces acting on the flap are introduced into this wall parallel to its surface, ie in a direction in which a comparatively thin wall has a considerable carrying capacity.

Die Lagerzapfen sind jeweils in eine Vertiefung der Wand in Richtung der Achse eingeführt. So ist es möglich, die Lagerzapfen aus einem Material und mit einer Stärke zu fertigen, die unabhängig von den Eigenschaften der Wand gewählt werden können. Dies ist insbesondere zweckmäßig, wenn die Wand, die die Lagerzapfen aufnimmt, ein tiefgezogener Innenbehälter eines Kältegeräts ist.The journals are each inserted in a recess of the wall in the direction of the axis. So it is possible to make the journals of a material and with a thickness that can be chosen independently of the properties of the wall. This is particularly useful when the wall that receives the journals is a deep-drawn inner container of a refrigerator.

Die aus Gründen der Materialersparnis hohl, insbesondere becherartig ausgeführten Lagerzapfen sind, um das Eindringen von Schmutz zu vermeiden, vorzugsweise mit einer offenen Seite des Bechers voran in die Vertiefungen eingeführt.The reasons of material savings hollow, in particular cup-shaped bearing journals, in order to avoid the ingress of dirt, preferably with an open side of the cup first inserted into the recesses.

Die Lagerzapfen sind jeweils mit einer umlaufenden Krempe versehen, die einen Anschlag definiert, bis zu dem die Lagerzapfen in die Vertiefungen der Wand einführbar sind.The journals are each provided with a circumferential brim which defines a stop to which the trunnions are insertable into the recesses of the wall.

Die Klappe weist an den zwei die Lagerzapfen tragenden Wänden des Gehäuses zugewandten Seitenflanken jeweils eine Aussparung auf, in welche die Zapfen eingreifen, um eine Gelenkverbindung zu bilden.The flap has on the two sides of the bearing bearing the bearing journal walls facing each have a recess into which the pins engage to form a hinge connection.

Um eine Demontage der Klappe zu ermöglichen, sind die Aussparungen jeweils mit einer zum Rand der Seitenflanke hin offenen Nut zusammenhängend ausgebildet. Um die Spitzen der Zapfen in den Aussparungen zu halten, sind diese jeweils stärker in die Seitenflanke eingetieft als die Nuten, oder sie sind geringfügig breiter als die Nuten.In order to enable disassembly of the flap, the recesses are each formed integrally with a groove open to the edge of the side edge. In order to hold the tips of the pins in the recesses, these are more deeply recessed in the side flank than the grooves, or they are slightly wider than the grooves.

Vorzugsweise sind die Nuten jeweils zu einer Schmalseite der Seitenflanken hin offen. Insbesondere ist bei einer um eine horizontale Achse schwenkbaren Klappe die Schmalseite die untere Seitenflanke der Klappe. Dadurch ist gewährleistet, dass die Klappe im wesentlichen nur in ihrer offenen Stellung demontiert werden kann und die Klappe beim Schließen nicht durch aus dem dahinterliegenden Fach vorstehendes Lagergut aus ihrer Verankerung gedrückt werden kann.Preferably, the grooves are each open to a narrow side of the side edges. In particular, in the case of a flap pivotable about a horizontal axis, the narrow side is the lower side flank of the flap. This ensures that the flap can be dismantled substantially only in its open position and the flap when closing can not be pushed out of its anchoring by projecting from the underlying compartment stored goods.

Ferner ist bevorzugt, dass die Randöffnung jeder Nut näher an einer Außenseite der Klappe liegt als die mit der g leichen Nut zusammenhängende, das Scharnier bildende Vertiefung. So verläuft die Nut auch in offener Stellung der Klappe von der Vertiefung zu ihrem offenen Ende hin abwärts geneigt, so dass ein horizontaler Zug an der Klappe nicht reicht, um diese aus dem Gelenk zu lösen, sondern eine aufwärtswirkende Kraft hinzu kommen muss.Furthermore, it is preferred that the edge opening of each groove is closer to an outer side of the flap than the gichen groove associated, forming the hinge Deepening. Thus, even in the open position of the flap, the groove runs downwards from the depression towards its open end, so that a horizontal pull on the flap is not sufficient to release it from the joint, but an upward force must be added.

Weitere Merkmale und Vorteile der Erfindung ergeben sich aus der nachfolgenden Beschreibung von Ausführungsbeispielen mit Bezug auf die beigefügten Figuren. Es zeigen:

Fig. 1
eine Ansicht eines Kältegeräts mit abgesetztem Gefrierfach, an dem die vorliegende Erfindung anwendbar ist;
Fig. 2
eine perspektivische Ansicht eines Gelenkaufbaus für die Gefrierfachklappe d es Kältegeräts aus Fig. 1;
Fig. 3
eine vergrößerte Seitenansicht des unteren Bereichs einer Seitenflanke der Klappe; und
Further features and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following description of exemplary embodiments with reference to the accompanying figures. Show it:
Fig. 1
a view of a refrigerator with remote freezer, to which the present invention is applicable;
Fig. 2
a perspective view of a hinge assembly for the freezer compartment door d of the refrigerator Fig. 1 ;
Fig. 3
an enlarged side view of the lower portion of a side edge of the flap; and

Der in Fig. 1 in perspektivischer Vorderansicht gezeigte Zwei-Temperaturen-Kühlschrank 10 umfasst einen wärmeisolierenden Korpus 12, an dem eine Außentür 11 um eine vertikale Achse schwenkbar angeschlagen ist. Der Innenraum des Korpus 12 ist durch eine thermisch isolierende horizontale Zwischenwand 14 unterteilt in ein Normalkühlfach 13 und ein Gefrierfach 15. Der Korpus 12 ist aufgebaut aus einem äußeren Gehäuse und einem aus Kunstoff-Flachmaterial tiefgezogenem Innenbehälter, die einen mit isolierendem Schaummaterial ausgefüllten Zwischenraum begrenzen. Am Innenbehälter 17 des Korpus 12 ist in Höhe der Zwischenwand 14 eine Klappe 16 um eine horizontale Achse schwenkbar angelenkt. Die Klappe 16 ist in der Fig. in offener, horizontaler Stellung gezeigt; in geschlossener Stellung verschließt sie die Vorderseite der Öffnung des Gefrierfachs 15 im wesentlichen luftdicht.The in Fig. 1 shown in a perspective front view two-temperature refrigerator 10 comprises a heat-insulating body 12, on which an outer door 11 is hinged about a vertical axis pivotally. The interior of the carcass 12 is through a thermally insulating horizontal partition wall 14 divided into a normal cooling compartment 13 and a freezer compartment 15. The body 12 is constructed of an outer casing and an inner container deep-drawn from plastic sheet material defining a space filled with insulating foam material. On the inner container 17 of the body 12, a flap 16 is pivoted about a horizontal axis at the level of the intermediate wall 14. The flap 16 is shown in the figure in an open, horizontal position; in the closed position, it closes the front of the opening of the freezer compartment 15 substantially airtight.

Fig. 2 zeigt in einer auseinandergezogenen perspektivischen Ansicht ein kleines Stück des Innenbehälters 17 des Korpus 12, einen Lagerzapfen 18 sowie einen Teil der Klappe 16, gesehen von ihrer dem Gefrierfach 15 zugewandten Innenseite her. Fig. 2 shows in an exploded perspective view of a small piece of the inner container 17 of the body 12, a bearing pin 18 and a part of the flap 16, seen from its side facing the freezer compartment 15 inside.

Der Lagerzapfen 18 ist ein im wesentlichen zylindrischer, becherförmiger Hohlkörper mit einer der Klappe 16 zugewandten geschlossenen Stirnseite und einer offenen Stirnseite, die vorgesehen ist, um form- und kraftschlüssig in eine am Innenbehälter 17 tiefgezogene Vertiefung 19 einzugreifen. Eine umlaufende Krempe 20 des Lagerzapfens 18 liegt im montierten Zustand des Lagerzapfens am Innenbehälter 17 an und legt so die Eindringtiefe des Zapfens in die Vertiefung 19 fest.The bearing pin 18 is a substantially cylindrical, cup-shaped hollow body with a flap 16 facing the closed end face and an open end face, which is provided to positively and non-positively engage in a depression deepened on the inner container 17 recess 19. A circumferential brim 20 of the journal 18 is in the assembled state of the journal on the inner container 17 and sets so the depth of penetration of the pin in the recess 19 fixed.

Die dem Lagerzapfen 18 zugewandte seitliche Flanke 21 der Klappe 16 trägt an ihrem der Außentür 11 zugewandten äußeren Rand einen Steg 22, der sich auch entlang der unteren Kante der Flanke 21 erstreckt und dort einen S-förmig geschwungenen Verlauf aufweist. Dieser Verlauf begrenzt eine kreisrunde Vertiefung 24 und eine von der Vertiefung 24 aus schräg abwärts verlaufende, auf den unteren Rand der Flanke 21 mündende Nut 23, die in Fig. 3 vergrößert gezeigt ist. Der Durchmesser des Kopfabschnitts 24 ist geringfügig größer ist als die Breite der Nut 23. Der Durchmesser des Kopfabschnitts ist an den des Lagerzapfens 18 so angepasst, dass der Kopfabschnitt 24 um den Lagerzapfen 18 frei drehbar ist, der Lagerzapfen 18 aber zu breit ist, um ohne eine elastische Verformung durch die Nut 23 hindurch zu entweichen.The bearing pin 18 facing the lateral edge 21 of the flap 16 carries at its outer door 11 facing the outer edge of a web 22, which also extends along the lower edge of the edge 21 and there has an S-shaped curved course. This course delimits a circular depression 24 and a groove 23 running obliquely downwards from the depression 24 and opening onto the lower edge of the flank 21, which in FIG Fig. 3 is shown enlarged. The diameter of the head portion 24 is slightly larger than the width of the groove 23. The diameter of the head portion is adapted to that of the trunnion 18 so that the head portion 24 is freely rotatable about the trunnion 18, but the trunnion 18 is too wide to without escape through the groove 23 through an elastic deformation.

Ein Sackloch 25 ist an den sich gegenüberliegenden seitlichen Flanken 21 der Klappe 16 gebildet, um einen Endabschnitt eines (nicht dargestellten) Spannbandes aufzunehmen, dessen jeweils anderer Endabschnitt an der Innenwand des Gefrierfachs 15 befestigt ist, und dessen Länge so bemessen ist, dass es in geöffneter, horizontaler Stellung der Klappe 16 straff gespannt ist.A blind hole 25 is formed on the opposite lateral flanks 21 of the flap 16 to receive an end portion of a tension band (not shown), the other end portion of which is fixed to the inner wall of the freezer compartment 15, and whose length is dimensioned so that it is taut in the open, horizontal position of the flap 16.

Wie aus der Zusammenschau der Figs. 1 und 2 leicht vorstellbar ist, kann die Klappe 16 in ihrer vertikalen Stellung, in der sie das Gefrierfach 15 verschließt, nicht von den Lagerzapfen 18 gelöst werden, da eine entsprechende Bewegung der Klappe 16 einerseits von der Decke des Innenbehälters, andererseits von einem vorderen Rahmen des Gefrierfachs 15 blockiert würde. Lediglich im aufgeklappten Zustand der Fig. 1 ist eine Demontage der Klappe 16 durch Ziehen nach oben und nach außen möglich.As from the synopsis of Figs. 1 and 2 can be easily imagined, the flap 16 in its vertical position in which it closes the freezer compartment 15, not be solved by the bearing pin 18, as a corresponding movement of the flap 16 on the one hand from the ceiling of the inner container, on the other hand from a front frame of the freezer compartment 15 would be blocked. Only in the unfolded state of Fig. 1 is a disassembly of the flap 16 by pulling upwards and outwards possible.

Um die Lagerzapfen 1 8 fest in den Vertiefungen 24 der Klappe 1 6 zu h alten, könnten diese selbstverständlich auch etwas weiter in den Körper der Klappe 16 eingetieft sein als die benachbarte Nut 23. In diesem Fall könnte der Durchmesser der Vertiefung gleich der Breite der Nut 23 sein.To the trunnions 1 8 firmly in the recesses 24 of the flap 1 to 6 old, these could of course be recessed somewhat further into the body of the flap 16 as the adjacent groove 23. In this case, the diameter of the recess could equal the width of the Be groove 23.

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  1. Refrigerating appliance with a thermally insulating housing, which encloses an interior space subdivided into several compartments (13, 15), wherein at least one of the compartments (13) is closable by means of a flap (16) which is mounted at bearing pins (18, 28) of the housing to be pivotable about an axis, wherein the bearing pins (18, 28) are mounted at a wall (17) of the housing extending transversely to the axis and the flap (16) has at two side flanks (21), which face the walls (17) of the housing carrying the bearing pins (18), a cut-out (24) in which the bearing pins (18) engage, characterised in that the cut-outs (24) are each connected with a groove (23) open towards the edge of the side flank, wherein the cut-outs (24) are each deeper in the side flank (21) than the grooves (23), or the cut-outs (24) are wider than the grooves (23).
  2. Refrigerating appliance according to claim 1, characterised in that the bearing pins (18, 28) are each inserted in a respective depression (19) of the wall (17) in the direction of the axis.
  3. Refrigerating appliance according to claim 2, characterised in that the bearing pins (18) are of beaker-like construction and introduced into the depressions (19) with an open side of the beaker foremost.
  4. Refrigerating appliance according to claim 2 or 3, characterised in that the bearing pins (18, 28) have a raised edge (20) bearing against the wall (17) of the housing.
  5. Refrigerating appliance according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterised in that the grooves (23) are each open towards a narrow side of the side flanks (21).
  6. Refrigerating appliance according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterised in that the edge opening of each groove (23) is closer to an outer side of the flap (16) than the depression (24) of the groove (23).
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