Classifications

• • 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
  • A47B57/00—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions
  • A47B57/30—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of detachable shelf supports
  • A47B57/40—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of detachable shelf supports consisting of hooks coacting with openings
  • A47B57/42—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of detachable shelf supports consisting of hooks coacting with openings the shelf supports being cantilever brackets
  • A47B57/425—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of detachable shelf supports consisting of hooks coacting with openings the shelf supports being cantilever brackets introduced by a vertical pivoting movement
• • 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

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a support assembly having at least one vertical support having a vertical guide groove and a plurality of vertically staggered latching steps, as well as with a horizontal support having an engaging in the guide groove pin and a latching step, the by pivoting the horizontal support to a defined by the pin axis with the latching steps of the vertical support in or out of engagement can be brought.
• a carrier arrangement or a refrigeration device in which it is used is known from DE101 45 141A1.
• This known carrier arrangement makes it possible to release by pivoting the latching engagement between the horizontal and vertical support, so that the horizontal support in the guide groove can be moved vertically.
• the guide has two side edges, one of which is provided with latching steps and the other is smooth. If the horizontal carrier when tilting not at the same time of the
• Retracted latching edge having, it can happen that the locking engagement is lost only at a tilt angle, slip off the located on the horizontal support objects.
• Object of the present invention is now to provide a carrier assembly or provided with a carrier assembly refrigeration device in which the height adjustment of the horizontal support is made easier and safer.
• the object is achieved in that the latching steps of the vertical support are arranged outside of the journal receiving guide groove and the guide has stepless side walls. These stepless sidewalls allow the horizontal support to be guided evenly and vibration-free during its vertical movement; when the horizontal carrier is in a direction suitable for vertical displacement, contact between the pin and a side wall of the guide groove prevents even if the horizontal carrier accidentally in
• the vertical support In order to secure the horizontal support against accidental displacement in the axial direction of the pin, on the vertical support is preferably provided a mirror-image to the first guide groove second guide groove for receiving a second pin of the same or another horizontal support.
• the horizontal support comprises an elongated support arm which carries at one of the longitudinal ends of a cooperating with the latching steps of the vertical support latching step, and the pin is laterally from the support arm.
• the pin is cylindrical, so that its play in the width direction of the groove leading to it is independent of the tilt angle of the horizontal beam.
• the pin may also have a non-circular cross-section, which makes its game depending on the tilt angle, and preferably such that the game is smaller with increasing tilt angle and tilting of the support arm from the horizontal out in an orientation that is tilted much stronger, as required to release the latching engagement blocked.
• the latching steps of the vertical support preferably have an upwardly open recess into which the latching step of the horizontal support can engage in the latched state. This engagement prevents pivoting of the horizontal beam about the pin without simultaneous lifting of the horizontal beam and thus prevents accidental loss of the locking engagement between the horizontal and vertical beams.
• a support arrangement of the type described above can be used in particular in a refrigeration device as a holder for storage shelves in the interior of the refrigerator.
• At least one of the guide grooves and, as well as this guide groove, adjacent latching steps of the vertical support are formed in one piece from metal.
• FIG. 1 shows a schematic vertical section through a refrigerator with a carrier assembly according to the present invention along the plane I - I in Fig. 2.
• FIG. 2 shows a horizontal section through the refrigerator along the plane II - II of FIG. 1;
• FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a carrier and its surroundings in the refrigerator of FIGS. 1 and 2;
• FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a carrier and its surroundings in the refrigerator of FIGS. 1 and 2;
• FIG. 5 shows a section analogous to FIG. 4 in accordance with a second embodiment
• FIG. 6 shows a section analogous to FIG. 4 in accordance with a third embodiment
• FIG. 7 is a perspective view of a modified embodiment of the carrier
• Fig. 8 is a perspective view of a second modified embodiment of the carrier and its surroundings.
• the refrigerator shown in Fig. 1 in vertical section comprises in a conventional manner a body 1, in which a gap between a multi-part composite outer skin 2 and an integrally molded plastic deep-drawn inner container 3 is filled with insulating foam material, and a hinged to the body 1
• two vertical grooves 6 are formed on the rear side of the container 3 in each case as an extension of the side walls 5, which extend essentially over the entire height of the inner container and in which even intervals latching steps 7 are arranged.
• the latching steps 7 may be formed from the material of the inner container 3 during deep drawing, but it can also be inserted into the grooves 6 of the inner container in each case a reinforcing U-profile, for example made of metal, on which the latching steps 7 are formed.
• two U-profiles 8 Adjacent to the grooves 6, two U-profiles 8 are arranged on the back of the inner container 3, each having a guide groove 9 with the adjacent side wall 5 facing opening.
• the profiles 8 end shortly before the bottom of the inner container.
• Threedegutabsteller 10 are suspended at different heights on the locking steps 7 and the U-profiles 8. They each comprise two elongate support arms 11 which extend along the side walls 5 without touching them and which support a horizontal storage tray 12. Of the support arms 11 is in each case a cylindrical pin 13, which engages in the guide grooves 9 of the U-profiles 8 with a small clearance relative to the depth direction of the body 1.
• the recess 15 at the top of the latching steps 7 can also be omitted, so that a pivoting of it supporteddegutabstellers 10 without simultaneous lifting is possible, as shown in the figure by a dotted outline of the lowestdegutabstellers 10.
• the elimination of the recess 15 facilitates the pivoting, as a drawer 16, which completely fills the space below the lowermostdegutabstellers 10, makes it difficult for a user to grab under thedegutabsteller 10 to lift it without swinging ,
• adegutabsteller 10 Once adegutabsteller 10 is in a sufficiently widely pivoted orientation in which there is no latching engagement between its support arms 11 and the locking steps 7, it can be moved freely in the U-profiles 8. As long as thedegutabsteller 10 is pivoted sufficiently far, prevents contact between the pin 13 and one of the rear wall facing leg 17 of the U-profile 8, that the support arm 11 inadvertently gets stuck on one of the latching steps 7.
• Additionaldegutabsteller can be easily mounted by the extract boxes 16 is temporarily removed and the pins 13 of the additionaldegutabsteller 10 are inserted into the open lower ends of the grooves 8.
• the grooves 8 terminate at a distance from the ceiling of the inner container 3, so that additionaldegutabsteller can be inserted from above into the grooves 8.
• FIG. 3 shows a perspective detail enlargement of the carrier arrangement according to the invention in a configuration slightly modified with respect to FIGS. 1 and 2.
• the support arm 11 with pin 13 and locking projection 14 is the same as in the previously considered embodiment.
• a side edge of the storage tray 12 is adhered, clamped or otherwise secured to the support arm 11; the opposite lateral edge is fastened in the same way to a support arm, not shown, to the support arm 11 shown in the figure.
• the rigid connection of the support arms on the storage tray 12 prevents the support arms of the load of the storage shelf 12 by a pivoting movement towards each other and dodge down.
• the pin 13 leading U-profile 8 is integrally extended at its the rear wall of the inner container 3 facing leg 17 by a portion 18 with an L-shaped cross section, on which the latching steps 7 are formed.
• the exerted by the support arm 11 Forces, namely a force exerted by the pin 13 on the front leg 19 of the U-profile horizontally forward force F1, a force exerted by the locking projection 14 on the section 18 horizontally rearward force F2 and the latching projection 14 on the latching step.
• 7 applied weight G ofmégutabstellers 10 are taken from a single contiguous profile, so that the load on the rear wall of the inner container 3 remains low and thus no higher wall thickness of the inner container 3 than in conventional refrigeration equipment is required.
• Fig. 4 shows a section through the U-profile 8 and the pin 13 along the in Fig. 3 with IV-IV designated plane.
• the play of the pin 13 in the groove 9 of the U-profile 8 is small and due to the cylindrical cross-section of the pin regardless of its pivot angle.
• the pin 13 can slide along the front leg 19 or the rear leg 17, without the risk of accidental locking ,
• FIG. 5 shows a section analogous to FIG. 4 according to a modified embodiment.
• the pin 13 has an elongated cross section, more precisely in the form of a rectangle with rounded corners, which, when the refrigerated goods is locked 10, flat against the front leg 19.
• the pin 13 is increasingly inclined in the groove leading him, and his game is with increasing tilt angle always lower until finally shown in the figure as a dash-dotted outline position of the pin 13 no further pivoting more is possible because the pin 13 both legs 17, 19 touched simultaneously.
• the pivoting angle, at which this happens, is determined so that in this position, the locking projection 14 is separated from the latching steps 7 and consequently the refrigerated goods 10 can be raised or lowered freely.
• the pin 13 is here formed by two rotatably suspended on the support arm 11 rollers 21 which rest in the locked position of the refrigerated goods 10 both on the leg 19 and of which rest in the pivoted stop position, the lower leg 19 and the upper leg 17.
• Thedegutabsteller 10 can therefore be kept pressed up and down in the pivoted stop position without excessive friction on the legs 17, 19 makes it difficult to move.
• Fig. 7 shows in a perspective view, analogous to that of Fig. 4, a further modification of the carrier assembly according to the invention.
• the adjacent leg to the rear wall 17 of the U-section 8 is here flush over the front edge of the
• Intervals openings 22 are punched. Behind the openings 22 are each
• each individual opening 22 may be associated with its own recess 23;
• all depressions 23 can also be connected to a groove extending in the vertical direction, such as the groove 6 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
• the locking projection 14 of the support arm 11 engages through one of the openings 22 into the associated recess 23 of the inner container 3 and thus secures thedegutabsteller 10 against unintentional pivoting.
• the latching projection 14 and a second downwardly directed projection 24 of the latching arm 11 engage around the lower edge of the opening 22, wherein the projection 24 is supported on the front side of the extended leg 17.
• FIG. 8 shows an embodiment in which on a support arm 11 in two opposite directions coaxially projecting pins 13 are formed.
• the pins 13 are guided in mutually facing guide grooves 9a, 9b of mirror-inverted U-profiles ⁇ a, ⁇ b.
• the legs 17a, 17b adjacent to the rear wall are connected in one piece by a section 25 which, as in the embodiment of FIG. 7, is provided with openings 22 in uniform sections.
• the support arm 11 Since the support arm 11 is guided in this embodiment on two sides by the pins 13, it can not yield to a force acting on it by simultaneously pivoting down and to the side. It is therefore suitable for carrying alone a storage tray (not shown in the figure). To secure the storage tray against tipping, the support arm 11 is here provided with laterally projecting branches 26.

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