EP3199896B1 - Kühlschranktablar mit federelement - Google Patents

Kühlschranktablar mit federelement Download PDF

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EP3199896B1
EP3199896B1 EP17000001.2A EP17000001A EP3199896B1 EP 3199896 B1 EP3199896 B1 EP 3199896B1 EP 17000001 A EP17000001 A EP 17000001A EP 3199896 B1 EP3199896 B1 EP 3199896B1
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Adrian Hermann Bachmann
Hans-Peter Oechsle
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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
    • F25D11/00—Self-contained movable devices, e.g. domestic refrigerators
    • F25D11/02—Self-contained movable devices, e.g. domestic refrigerators with cooling compartments at different temperatures
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • F25D25/024—Slidable shelves

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  • the invention relates to a refrigeration device, in particular a refrigerator, with at least one cooling space with side walls and at least one shelf.
  • a wall mounting means for mounting the at least one shelf is arranged on at least one of the side walls.
  • WO2010 / 127946 shows a chilled goods depository with fastening devices with latching elements arranged on the side edges of the deposit area. These hit trapezoidal when the chilled goods shelf is moved designed, arranged on the side walls of the cooling space supports.
  • EP 0 685 695 shows a tray with a stop element which is designed as a tongue-like leaf spring.
  • the guide arranged on the refrigerator wall has a counter stop. In order to be able to remove the tray from the guides, an actuation button must be pressed.
  • KR 2009 0006373 shows a tray with elastic elements, which come to lie between large and small support surfaces arranged on the inside wall of the refrigerator.
  • DE 195 24 255 also show a tray with a snap-in mechanism.
  • the cooling device comprises at least one cooling space with side walls and at least one shelf.
  • At least one wall mounting means on which the at least one tray can be mounted is arranged on at least one of the side walls.
  • the tray has at least one shelf with side edges.
  • a tray storage means is arranged on at least one of the side edges of the storage plate, which is used to mount the tray on the wall storage means.
  • a spring element is arranged on the at least one shelf support means. The spring element presses the tray in the inserted state against a stop surface of the at least one wall mounting means, which counteracts any displacements of the tray.
  • a cold room is to be understood as a room which can be cooled to any temperature, in particular also a freezer room.
  • the tray storage means and the storage plate can be different components or together a single component.
  • the storage plate and the tray storage means can be a one-piece molded part which is laterally designed in such a way that it can be stored on the wall storage means without additional components.
  • a spring element is a component that yields under load and returns to its original shape after relief, i.e. it shows an elastic behavior.
  • the object according to the invention has the advantage that the spring element, which is arranged on the at least one shelf support means, presses the shelf in the inserted state against a stop surface of the at least one wall support means, which counteracts any displacements of the shelf.
  • the spring element is advantageously arranged in the rear half of the tray when the tray is inserted, i.e. when it is arranged in the cold room as intended.
  • the spring element presses the tray upwards against an upper stop surface of the wall mounting means.
  • the "rear half" of the shelf means that half which, when the shelf is in place, is closer to a rear wall of the cooling space.
  • the rear wall is arranged on the opposite side of a door to the cold room, which is opened in order to remove objects stored on trays from the cold room or place them in the cold room. The door thus forms the front of the cold room.
  • This arrangement of the spring element has the advantage that, for example, in the embodiment described the tray is supported downwards on the wall mounting means in the front area and is pressed against an upper stop surface in the rear area.
  • a movement of the shelf due to the additional weight of the object in the vertical direction is prevented.
  • the tray is already on the bottom, and in the rear area, in which the tray could be pushed upwards due to a leverage exerted by the weight of the object, the tray is already in contact with an upper stop surface.
  • a possible embodiment of a spring element which presses the tray up against an upper stop surface of the wall mounting means, can consist in that the spring element abuts against a lower stop surface of the wall mounting means and presses down there so that the shelf of the spring element against the mentioned upper stop surface is pressed.
  • the spring element when the tray is inserted, the spring element is arranged in the cooling space in the front half of the tray.
  • the spring element presses the tray against a lower stop surface of the wall mounting means.
  • This embodiment also prevents the tray from moving in the vertical direction when placing objects on the front half of the tray.
  • the spring element strikes an upper stop surface and presses the tray downwards. In this way, the shelf lies at the bottom in the front area right from the start, so that it does not move when it is subjected to additional weight from an object placed on the shelf.
  • the spring element is preferably arranged and designed in such a way that, when the tray is inserted in the cooling space, it presses it backwards in the cooling space.
  • Press “back” means that the tray is pushed away from the door towards the rear wall of the refrigerator and therefore strikes against the rear wall itself, against a rear stop surface of the wall mounting means or against another element, preferably arranged in the rear region of the refrigerator.
  • This embodiment has the advantage that the shelf does not move in the depth direction of the cooling space, i.e. from front to back or vice versa, even if objects are placed on the shelf by a user or removed from the shelf. If a user places objects on the shelf from the front, this can, for example, generate a force on the shelf that pushes it backwards. However, since the shelf is already being pushed backwards due to the spring element, for example against the rear wall of the cooling space, the shelf does not move any further when the object is put down because it is already striking. In the opposite case, when an object is removed from the shelf, a force can act on the shelf that pulls it forward. However, this force is counteracted by the force acting backwards by the spring element, so that the tray does not slip in this case either.
  • the wall mounting means has a trough-shaped recess for receiving the spring element.
  • the wall mounting means can be designed as a linear guide rail.
  • the spring element in particular is arranged in the recess when the tray is in the inserted state.
  • This has the advantage that when the tray is pulled out, be it intentionally to clean the tray or unintentionally during removal an object from the tray, an increased force must be applied so that the tray moves at all, because the spring element must be compressed or additionally loaded so that it can be guided out of the recess.
  • the guide rail can be designed in such a way that it has a lower level and in particular the lower level forms the lower stop surface.
  • the tray rests on the lower level due to the weight of the tray or due to a force exerted by the spring element.
  • the guide rail can be designed in such a way that it has an upper plane which limits vertical movements of the tray upwards and in particular forms the upper stop surface. In particular, the tray is pressed against the upper level due to a force exerted by the spring element.
  • the recess of the wall mounting means advantageously has at least one inclined side wall delimiting in the longitudinal direction and is positioned in such a way that the spring element pushes off the at least one inclined side wall when the tray is inserted in the cooling space.
  • the spring element Due to the inclined design of the inclined side wall delimiting the recess in the longitudinal direction, the spring element, which is pressed onto the inclined side wall by the weight of the tray and / or by an upper stop surface, is loaded, so that a force emanates from the spring element which the tray both after pushes back and in the vertical direction depending on the arrangement of the recess up or down.
  • the spring element is preferably arranged within the trough-shaped recess and can only be released from this state by elastic deformation.
  • the tray storage means is designed as a bar.
  • the tray storage means can be injection-molded or glued onto the storage plate or designed as a one-piece component with the storage plate.
  • a "bar” is to be understood as a narrow slat made of any material, which can serve here as the edge strip of the shelf.
  • the shelf support means can have a shelf recess, the spring element being firmly connected to two recess side walls delimiting the shelf recess in the longitudinal direction.
  • This embodiment has the advantage that the spring element can be arranged as compactly as possible on the shelf due to the shelf recess without significantly losing storage space over a width of the shelf. Since the spring element is connected to two recess side walls, it is extremely robust and can withstand a large number of loads.
  • the storage plate advantageously has a plate recess for receiving the spring element.
  • the spring element can be arranged on the recess side walls of the shelf recess and the shelf recess can be arranged in the panel recess.
  • the tray storage means and the spring element can be arranged compactly on the side edges of the storage plate, and an unnecessary widening of the tray by the tray storage means is not necessary.
  • the tray support means and the spring element can be designed together in one piece. This is possible in particular with an injection-molded part.
  • the tray storage means and / or the wall storage means extend only over a rear part of a total length of the side edge of the storage plate.
  • the front part of the shelf is made wider than the rear part of the shelf.
  • a rear part it is meant that a larger part of the tray storage means and / or the wall storage means is arranged in the rear half than in the front half of the total length of the side edge of the shelf.
  • a tray mounting means is preferably arranged on each of two side edges of the storage plate, both tray mounting means having a spring element.
  • a single spring element By arranging two spring elements, a single spring element can be made narrower.
  • front relate to the normal operating position of the refrigerator, in which the closed user door is arranged vertically and in front.
  • the terms are also to be applied to the trays arranged in the refrigerator, always assuming the intended arrangement in the cold room.
  • refrigerator includes in particular (but not only) refrigerators, freezers and combined refrigerators and freezers.
  • Fig. 1 shows schematically a cooling device with a cooling space 1, which has two side walls 1a, a rear side wall 1b, an upper side wall 1c and a lower side wall 1d.
  • a user door 2 with which the cooling chamber 1 can be opened and closed is arranged on the front of the cooling device.
  • trays 3 are arranged on which objects 4 to be cooled can be stored.
  • Fig. 2 shows a tray 3 from above.
  • the tray 3 has a storage plate 5, which can in particular be made of glass or plastic, on which objects 4 to be cooled can be stored.
  • tray storage means 6 are arranged with which the tray 3 can be stored in the cold room.
  • the tray storage means 6 are designed as strips, which are only part of the total Length of the side edges 5a of the shelf 3 extend.
  • the tray storage means 6 are arranged essentially in the rear half 3b of the tray 3, so that objects 4 to be cooled can be stored over the entire width of a large part of the front half 3a of the tray 3 and the tray storage means 6 does not unnecessarily cover the storage plate 5 .
  • Fig. 3 shows the tray from below and Fig. 4 shows an enlarged detailed view of the spring element 7 arranged in the tray bearing means 6, the course of the side edge 5a of the storage plate 5 being shown in dashed lines.
  • Fig. 5 shows the tray in side view and Fig. 6 shows an enlarged detailed view of the spring element 7.
  • the tray mounting means 6 has a tray recess 8 in which the spring element 7 is arranged.
  • the tray recess 8 is delimited in the longitudinal direction by two recess side walls 9 to which the spring element 7 is connected. Due to the two-sided connection of the spring element 7 to the two recess side walls 9, the spring element 7 is stably positioned in the tray recess 8 and thus withstands a large number of tray movements without being damaged. Furthermore, with a two-sided connection, a greater spring force can be generated than with a one-sided connection of the spring element 7 to the recess side walls 9 of the tray recess 8.
  • the tray mounting means 6 and the spring element 7 are one-piece injection-molded parts.
  • the spring element 7 can be arranged in the tray recess 8 as described, a plate recess 5b in the storage plate 5, in which the tray recess 8 and the spring element 7 are arranged, is advantageous.
  • the spring element 7 is arranged close to the rear end of the tray 3 and presses the tray upwards in the inserted state.
  • Fig. 7 shows wall mounting means 9 which are arranged on the side walls of the cooling space 1. Trays 3 can be accommodated in the wall mounting means 9.
  • the wall mounting means 9 are designed as guide rails, with several guide rails being arranged one above the other so that the user can choose the height of the shelf 3 in the cooling space 1 himself.
  • the wall mounting means 9 are arranged on the side walls 1a of the cooling space 1 and have recesses 12 in which the spring elements 7 can be arranged in the inserted state.
  • Fig. 8 shows a section through the housing of the refrigerator with shelves in side view, the user door 2 forming the front of the refrigerator and the rear wall 1b of the cooling space 1 forming the rear.
  • the trays 3 are arranged in such a way that they are in contact with a rear stop surface 9a of the wall mounting means 9.
  • Fig. 9 shows a close-up view of a shelf 3 arranged as intended in the cooling space 1, viewed from the front.
  • the height of the tray storage means 6 is designed to be slightly less than the height of a wall mounting means 9 designed as a guide rail.
  • FIG Fig. 10 This configuration is also shown schematically in FIG Fig. 10 illustrated.
  • the tray 3 rests on the lower stop surface 11 at point 11a of the wall mounting means 9 due to its own weight.
  • the tray 3 In the rear area, however, the tray 3 is due to the spring element 7, which as in Fig. 5 shown is arranged in the rear area of the tray 3, pressed up against the upper stop surface 10.
  • the tray 3 is thus in relation to the guide rails designed wall mounting means 9 slightly inclined. Either the incline is so slight that the user does not notice it and no liquids can flow forward on the tray, or the wall mounting means 9 are designed to be slightly inclined in the depth direction so that the tray 3 in the cooling space 1 is completely horizontal in the depth direction to lie down.
  • the tray 3 rests in the front area on the lower stop surface 11 at point 11a and in the rear area on the upper stop surface 10, vertical movement of the tray 3 is no longer possible when an object is placed in the front area of the tray 3. Because if there is additional weight in the front area, the tray 3 is pushed downwards at the front and upwards at the rear due to the leverage effect with support at point 11a. Because the tray 3 is already in contact with the lower stop surface 11 and against the upper stop surface 10, movement is prevented.
  • the leverage effect on the tray 3 arises because the tray is supported by the wall mounting means 9 only in the rear area of the cooling space 1. This is particularly advantageous because, due to the lack of wall mounting means 9 in the front half of the cooling space 1 on the trays 3, there is more storage space available in width.
  • Fig. 11 a detailed view of the spring element 7 arranged in the recess 12 is shown.
  • the recess 12 has two inclined side walls 13 which delimit the recess in the longitudinal direction, ie on the left and right in the figure.
  • the front inclined side wall 13 and the spring element 7 are designed in such a way that the spring element 7 comes to rest on the front inclined side wall 13 when the tray 3 is inserted and a correspondingly inclined force (arrow direction in Fig. 11 ) exercises. Due to this inclined position, the spring element presses the tray 3 on the one hand upwards against the upper stop surface 10 and, on the other hand, towards the rear against the rear stop surface 9a of the wall mounting means 9.
  • the arrangement of the spring element 7 is only shown in principle and can be arranged at any location with any direction of force.
  • the spring it is also possible for the spring to push off the side of the wall mounting means 9, thereby preventing the tray from moving horizontally.

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