EP2295903B1 - Cooled goods holder for a cooler - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a refrigerated goods carrier for a refrigeration appliance, in particular for a household refrigeration appliance. Such a refrigerated goods carrier generally has a plate, in particular a glass plate or a wire mesh, can be placed on the refrigerated goods. If this chilled goods with a cooled rear wall of the refrigerator, in which the refrigerated goods is mounted, comes into contact, there is a possibility that it freezes on the back wall. To avoid this, it is known to provide the plate with a railing that prevents such contact.
A known embodiment of such a railing is a cross-sectionally approximately S-shaped plastic rail in which a lower half of the S forms a forwardly open groove into which a trailing edge of the plate is inserted, an upper half of the S to the rear wall open , forms over the trailing edge of the plate elevating web, and projecting ends of the rail over the side edges of the plate to support them in grooves in side walls of the refrigerator housing. Careless handling may cause the plate to disengage from the groove, thereby losing its grip along its trailing edge and crashing. Because of the possibility that solves the connector, the bar is not suitable to hold the refrigerated goods carrier with one hand. For safe handling outside the refrigerator, the refrigerated goods must be kept substantially horizontal, which usually requires the use of both hands.
From the EP 2 454 542 A2 a Kühlgutträger for a refrigeration device is known, which has a shelf with at least two opposite sides arranged strips and extending at a first edge railing. The railing is designed as a wire hanger, the ends of which are anchored in the strips in a form-fitting manner.
In addition, from the DE 20 2005 016 883 U1 a refrigerator and / or freezer with a specific shelf known.

document EP 1 906 121 A2 discloses a refrigerated goods according to the preamble of claim 1. The object of the present invention is to provide a refrigerated goods, on the one hand placed refrigerated goods safe from falling down and / or front wall contact protects and on the other hand outside the refrigerator is comfortable and safe to handle.

The object is achieved by a refrigerated goods according to claim 1.

Preferably, the shelf is formed as a plate, in particular as a glass plate, which is bordered at least on two opposite edges with strips.

The strips may be part of a frame surrounding the plate; Preferably, they extend only at two opposite edges of the plate, on either side of said first edge.

For anchoring the wire bracket can engage in particular in an end face of each bar.

The positive connection can in particular be produced by forming at least one grain at each end of the wire bow.

It is envisaged to use a metallic profile for the strips, in particular to ensure a sufficiently tight clamping fit of the strips at the edges of the plate. In order to produce the positive connection with the wire bracket, in addition, a hollow profile at least partially filling plastic body is provided, in which the ends of the wire bracket are anchored.

To anchor one of these plastic body securely on its hollow profile, an elastically deflectable latching projection is formed on the plastic body, which engages in a latching recess of the hollow profile.

The strips may have at least two downwardly and outwardly open recesses, which are provided to receive carrier cams projecting from the side walls of the refrigeration device housing into the storage chamber thereof.

In order to keep the refrigerated goods carrier tilt-proof on the carrier cam, at least one first of the recesses preferably has an undercut on a first side facing an end face of the bar, into which one of the carrier sockets can engage.

An inclined surface tapering towards this first side on a second side of the recess opposite the first side is helpful for engaging the carrier cam in the undercut.

A parallel to the inclined surface of the second end face inclined surface of the undercut allows a low-backlash guidance of the refrigerated goods carrier to its final position.

Preferably, the first recess adjacent to the front edge and the second recess to the rear edge of the footprint. This facilitates the placement of the refrigerated goods carrier in the refrigerator, since it is sufficient to place the carrier cam in the undercut to push the refrigerated goods in the direction of a rear wall of the storage compartment or to let him, guided by the inclined surface on the second end face, easy to slide on this back wall ,

It also contributes to simplifying the placement of the refrigerated goods carrier when the second recess is open at a side remote from the first recess side.

Preferably, the plastic body is shaped so that it engages beyond edges of the hollow profile in the recesses. So he can prevent direct contact of the possibly sharp-edged edges of the hollow profile with the carrier carrier supporting the Kühlgutträger and avoid scratching the carrier cam.

The latching recess into which engages the elastically deflectable latching projection of the plastic body is preferably formed in a surface of the hollow profile, which faces one of the downwardly and outwardly open recesses. Thus, with the aid of a tool which is inserted through the recess, the locking recess can be realized so that it is not visible on the finished assembled bar.

It is particularly useful to form the locking recess in a wall of the hollow profile, which has an edge of the support plate receiving groove of one of the down and separates outwardly open recesses. Here, the locking recess is not visible from the outside even if it completely pierces the wall.

The invention also provides a refrigeration device with a refrigerated goods according to the invention, with projecting from the side walls of a storage chamber in the storage chamber, engaging in the recesses of the refrigerated goods carrier of the type described above carrier cam.
The depth of the undercut of a first of these recesses should be greater here than the play in the depth direction of the bearing chamber with which a second of the carrier cam engages in a second recess: This can be ensured that despite the game of the second carrier cam in this second recess of the first carrier cam can not disengage from the first undercut by a simple horizontal displacement of the refrigerated goods carrier.
The carrier cams are preferably attached to the side walls of the refrigerator molded parts. In this case, near the rear wall and close to the door carrier cam can differ in the length of its projection on the side walls to compensate for the Entformungsschräge the side walls; but it is also conceivable that the carrier cams are all identical and the Entformungsschräge is compensated by the dimensions of the recesses in the width direction of the housing so that the game of refrigerated goods in the width direction between the front carrier cam is substantially the same size as between the rear carrier cam.
In order to ensure a secure and accurate guidance of the refrigerated goods carrier, the carrier cam advantageously to the inclined surfaces of the recesses parallel oblique facets.
The distance between mutually parallel oblique facets of a carrier cam preferably corresponds to the distance between mutually parallel inclined surfaces of a recess, so that the refrigerated goods in the fully assembled state is kept substantially free of play.

Fig. 1

eine perspektivische Ansicht eines Kühlgutträgers gemäß der vorliegenden Erfindung;

Fig. 2

eine perspektivische Ansicht eines Trägernockens, der zur Unterstützung des Kühlgutträgers an einer Seitenwand eines Kältegeräts montierbar ist;

Fig. 3

eine Seitenansicht des Kühlgutträgers, die die Relativbewegung des Kühlgutträgers und der Trägernocken bei der Montage des Kühlgutträgers im Kältegerät veranschaulicht;

Fig. 4

eine perspektivische Ansicht eines Kunststoffkörpers, der vorgesehen ist, um einen Hohlraum eines Metallprofils des Kühlgutträgers auszufüllen;

Fig. 5

einen Querschnitt durch das Hohlprofil und den darin verankerten Kunststoffkörper; und

Fig. 6

ein Detail eines Geländers des Kühlgutträgers.

Further features and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following description of embodiments with reference to the accompanying figures. Show it:

Fig. 1

a perspective view of a Kühlgutträgers according to the present invention;

Fig. 2

a perspective view of a carrier cam, which is mountable to support the Kühlgutträgers on a side wall of a refrigerator;

Fig. 3

a side view of the refrigerated goods carrier, which illustrates the relative movement of the Kühlgutträgers and the carrier cam during assembly of the refrigerated goods in the refrigerator;

Fig. 4

a perspective view of a plastic body, which is provided to fill a cavity of a metal profile of the refrigerated goods carrier;

Fig. 5

a cross section through the hollow profile and the plastic body anchored therein; and

Fig. 6

a detail of a railing of the refrigerated goods carrier.

Fig. 1 shows a perspective view of a refrigerated goods according to the invention for installation in a storage chamber of a (not shown) household refrigerating appliance. The refrigerated goods carrier comprises a horizontal rectangular glass plate 1 in the installed position, which alternatively could also be replaced by a plate made of another material, a grid or the like. On two side strips 2 of the glass plate 1 extending in the depth direction of the refrigeration device housing receiving refrigerated goods, two strips 3 are mounted, each comprising an extruded profile 4 made of aluminum and a plastic body 5 accommodated in a cavity of the extruded profile 4. The extruded profiles 4 have a cross section similar to the letter "a", with a hollow lower portion 6, in the cavity of the plastic body 5 is inserted, and an upper section 7 extending over the lower section 6 in a hook-shaped manner and with this one of the lateral edges 2 of the glass plate 1 receiving groove. Downwardly open recesses 8 are formed on an outer flank of the lower section 5 of each strip 3 facing away from the glass plate 2, which are provided in each case to receive a carrier cam 9 fastened to a side wall of a storage chamber receiving the refrigerated goods carrier. This in Fig. 1 not shown carrier cam 9 will be described later with reference to Fig. 2 described in more detail.

The plastic body 5 extend in the interior of the strips 3 to the rear end, where they each receive an end of a wire bracket 10. A central portion of this wire bracket 10 extends along the rear edge of the glass plate 1 above it, thus forming a railing that prevents refrigerated goods placed on the glass plate 1 from being pushed up to the rear wall of the storage chamber and freezing therefrom. The distance in which the wire hanger 10 extends above the glass plate 1 is large enough for a user to grasp the wire hanger 10 with his fingers and thus use it as a handle for handling the chilled goods carrier outside the refrigerator.

At two mutually facing vertical edges of the lower portions 6 of the extruded profiles 4 two mutually paired opposite openings are formed, in which adapters 11 are locked in plastic. The two mounted on a same extruded profile 4 adapter 11 are equal to each other and mirror images of corresponding adapters 11 on each other extruded profile 4. Each two adapters 11 hold together like the railing of a rigid wire integrally molded bottle carrier bracket 12. In Fig. 1 invisible, outwardly angled journals of the bottle carrier bracket 12 engage in bearings of the adapter 11 a. By elastically bending the bracket 12, it is possible to extract these journals from their camp and to solve the bottle carrier bracket 12 from refrigerated goods to store outside the refrigerator or attach to another refrigerated goods with identically shaped strips 3, in the storage chamber on another level is mounted.

In order to enable a displacement of the bottle carrier bracket 12 between different refrigerated goods carriers, expediently, all or at least more of the in the Storage compartment of a refrigerator according to the invention refrigerated goods provided with the adapters 11. In a refrigerated goods, which is not provided to mount the bottle carrier bracket 12 thereto, the adapter 11 or even provided for locking the adapter 11 openings may be missing in the extruded profiles 4 of the refrigerated goods.

Fig. 2 shows in a perspective view of a support cam 9, of which four are each provided to be mounted on opposite side walls of a storage chamber of the refrigerator in pairs opposite to each other and the in Fig. 1 to support refrigerated goods shown. The carrier cam 9 each comprises a flat plate 13, which bears against the side wall of the storage chamber, a in Fig. 2 non-visible projection which engages in a complementary shaped recess of the side wall of the refrigerator, and a pin 14 which is provided to engage in one of the recesses 8 of the refrigerated goods carrier. The pin 14 is octagonal in cross-section, with oblique facets 15, 18 at the top and bottom. The carrier cam 9 is mirror-symmetrical with respect to a vertical plane, so that a same type of carrier cam 9 can be mounted on the right and left side walls of the storage chamber.

Fig. 3 shows a side view of the refrigerated goods, at which the relative movement of one of the strips 3 and the pin 14 is illustrated during assembly of the refrigerated goods in the refrigerator. A rear recess, denoted by 8a, is open to the rear, the front, denoted by 8b, is significantly wider than the pin 14 which it is intended to receive. This makes it easy, when placing the refrigerated goods carrier to bring the pins 14 for engagement in the recesses 8a, 8b.

After engagement, one of the oblique facets 15 at the top of the carrier cam 9 comes into contact with an obliquely upward and forward (to the right in the perspective of Fig. 3 ) extending inclined surface 16 of the front recess 8b. The contact between the facet 15 and the inclined surface 16 drives the refrigerated goods to the rear (or to the left in the Fig. 3 ), whereby both pins 14 engage in undercuts 17 at the front end sides of the recesses 8a, 8b. In this case, a parallel to the facet 15 facet 18 at the bottom of each pin 14 in contact with an oblique lower edge 19 of the undercut 17 is the inclined surface 16 and the oblique lower edge 19 of the recess 8b lead the front pin 14 substantially free of play. In the end position of the refrigerated goods carrier, in each of which a horizontal underside of the recesses 8a, 8b rests on horizontal upper sides of the pins 14, the refrigerated goods carrier is stable and substantially free of play in the depth direction. The pins 14 can therefore not disengage from the undercuts 17 without a simultaneous increase in the refrigerated goods carrier. An overload of a front or rear edge region of the glass plate 1, in front of and behind the front / rear support cam 9, can not lead to a tilting of the refrigerated goods carrier, since the engagement of the pins 14 in both undercuts 17 and in particular the contact of the facet 18 with the lower edge 19 of the undercuts 17 prevents this. A removal of the refrigerated goods by a user, however, is not difficult, since the predetermined by the shape of the recesses 8 removal movement of the tendency of a user to raise and to prefer to pick up a refrigerated goods simultaneously comes.
Fig. 4 shows in a perspective view the already mentioned plastic body 5, which fills a cavity in the lower portion 6 of the extruded profile 4. At the viewer facing longitudinal edge of the plastic body 5, the two recesses 8a, 8b can be seen; on an opposite flank there are two recesses 20, which leave space in the cavity of the extruded profile for snap hooks of the adapter 11. A further recess 21 is formed on the upper edge of the viewer facing flank above the inclined surface 16. In this recess 21 engages in the longitudinal direction of the plastic body 5 extending elastic tongue 22 a. A latching projection 23 at the free end of the tongue 22 is provided to, as in the cross section of Fig. 5 illustrated to lock the plastic body 5 in a bore 30 of the extruded profile 4 and so to fix the plastic body 5 in the extruded profile 4. The bore 30 is driven from below through the opening of the recess 8b in the upper portion 7 of the profile 4 in and therefore no longer visible from the outside, as soon as the plastic body 5 is inserted into the extruded profile 4.
From the cross section of Fig. 5 Furthermore, it is clear that the edges 8b bounding edges 24, 25 of the extruded profile 4 slightly behind corresponding surfaces 26, 27 of the plastic body 5 spring back, so that the weight of Refrigerated goods carrier is not initiated by the edge 24, but on the surface 26 in the carrier cam 9. Thus, the carrier cam 9 is largely protected from scratching and grinding marks, which could otherwise arise during installation and removal of the refrigerated goods carrier.

Fig. 6 shows in a greatly enlarged perspective view of an anchoring pin 28 at a free end of the wire bracket 10. The anchoring pin 28 is provided adjacent to its tip with a plurality of grains 29, that is, by hitting or pressing with a pointed tool are depressions in the peripheral surface of the anchoring pin 28th pressed, and the displaced material forms a crater-like ring around the depression. By the plastic body 5 is molded onto the anchoring pin 28 and thereby positively surrounds the grain 29, a secure anchoring of the wire bracket 10 is ensured on the strips 3, which allows to use the wire bracket 10 as a handle for handling the entire refrigerated goods carrier as needed ,

Claims (19)

1. Cooled goods holder for a refrigeration appliance, in particular domestic refrigeration appliance, having a shelf (1) which has strips (3) at least on two opposing sides and a rail extending along a first edge, characterised in that the rail is embodied as a wire bracket (10), the ends (28) of which are anchored in a form-fit manner into the strips (3), wherein the strips (3) grip the shelf (1), comprise a metallic hollow profile (4) and a plastic element (5) at least partially filling the hollow profile (4), and the ends of the wire bracket (10) are anchored in the plastic element (5), wherein an elastically deflectable latching projection (23) is formed on the plastic element (5) and engages in a latching cut-out (30) of the hollow profile (4).
2. Cooled goods holder according to claim 1, characterised in that the strips (3) extend on two opposing lateral edges (2) of the shelf (1) on both sides of the first edge.
3. Cooled goods holder according to claim 1 or 2, characterised in that the wire bracket (10) engages in a front face of each strip (3).
4. Cooled goods holder according to one of the preceding claims, characterised in that each end (28) of the wire bracket (10) has at least one grain size (29).
5. Cooled goods holder according to one of the preceding claims, characterised in that the strips (3) each have at least two cut-outs (8a, 8b) which are open downwards and outwards.
6. Cooled goods holder according to claim 5, characterised in that on a first side facing a front face of the strip (3) at least one first of the cut-outs (8a, 8b) has an undercut (17).
7. Cooled goods holder according to claim 6, characterised in that on a second side opposing the first side, the cut-out (8b) has an oblique surface (16) running on the first side.
8. Cooled goods holder according to claim 7, characterised in that the undercut (17) has an oblique surface (19) which runs parallel to the oblique surface (16) of the second side.
9. Cooled goods holder according to one of claims 5 to 8, characterised in that the first cut-out (8b) is adjacent to the front edge and the second cut-out (8a) is adjacent to the rear edge of the storage space.
10. Cooled goods holder according to one of claims 5 to 9, characterised in that the second cut-out (8a) is open on a side facing away from the first cut-out (8b).
11. Cooled goods holder according to one of claims 5 to 10, characterised in that the plastic element (5) engages into the cut-outs (8a, 8b) beyond edges (24, 25) of the hollow profile (4).
12. Cooled goods holder according to one of claims 5 to 11, characterised in that the latching cut-out (30) is formed in a surface of the hollow profile (4), which faces one of the cut-outs (8b) which is open downwards and outwards.
13. Cooled goods holder according to claim 12, characterised in that the latching cut-out (30) is formed in a wall of the hollow profile (4), which separates a groove receiving an edge (2) of the support plate (1) from one of the cut-outs (8b) which is open downwards and outwards.
14. Refrigeration appliance with a cooled goods holder according to one of the preceding claims, having holder tappets (9) supporting the cooled goods holder and projecting from side walls of a storage chamber into the storage chamber.
15. Refrigeration appliance according to claim 14, characterised in that the cooled goods holder is a cooled goods holder according to one of claims 5 to 13 and the holder tappets (9) engage into the cut-outs (8a, 8b).
16. Refrigeration appliance according to claim 15, characterised in that the depth of the undercut (17) of one of the cut-outs (8a) is larger than the play in the depth direction, with which one of the holder tappets (9) engages in another cut-out (8b).
17. Refrigeration appliance according to claim 16, characterised in that the holder tappets (9) are moulded parts, in particular identical, and are attached to the side walls.
18. Refrigeration appliance according to claim 16 or 17, characterised in that the holder tappets (9) have oblique bevels (15, 18) which are parallel to the oblique surfaces (16, 17) of the cut-outs (8a, 8b).
19. Refrigeration appliance according to claim 18, characterised in that the distance between oblique bevels (15, 18) of a holder tappet (9), which are parallel to one another, corresponds to the distance between oblique surfaces (16, 17) of a cut-out (8b) which are parallel to one another.

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