EP3230667B1 - Door for a domestic refrigeration appliance with supporting brackets for door shelves, and domestic refrigeration appliance - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to a door for a domestic refrigerator, which has a plate-like or wall-like door body, which comprises a door compartment device. The door compartment device has two vertically oriented and arranged on an inner side of the door body door beams and further comprises at least one extending between the door beams door racks. At least one door spar has a height adjustment device for height adjustment of the door compartment in discrete elevation levels on an inner wall facing the door rack. Furthermore, the invention also relates to a household refrigerator with such a door.

Domestic refrigerators for storing and preserving food are known as refrigerators or freezers or combined refrigerators / freezers. It is customary for such domestic refrigerators to have a door pivotably arranged on a housing, by means of which at least one receiving space in which the foodstuffs are stored can be closed. This door has an inner side, which then faces the receiving space in the closed state. It is common and well known that the door racks are arranged on this inside. In this case, embodiments of the prior art are known in which the door racks are positioned in a fixed position and can not be adjusted in height. In addition, designs are known in which these door racks can be continuously and thus continuously adjusted in height.

These are different than other versions height adjustment known, in which the door racks can be adjusted in discrete height levels. In the context is from the DE 20 2010 018 075 U1 a corresponding door with height adjustable discreetly adjustable door cabinets. In this known embodiment locking devices are formed on facing inner walls of projecting door beams, which form the respective individual altitude and thus the discrete altitude levels. For this purpose, indentations are formed on these inner walls of the door spars, in which trained for a door rack and raised protruding locking elements can engage for locking. This in the inner wall of a door rail trained locking receptacles are designed like a cork in shape and are deeper from an upper end to a lower end, so that at the lower end of this notch, a support for the locking element of the door compartment is formed.

The EP 2 267 385 A2 describes a refrigerator with a door on which a door rack can be arranged in different discrete height levels.

The EP 2 265 874 A1 describes a refrigeration device with a door in which a door rack can be moved along locking strips in discrete height levels, which are fixed to facing inner sides of bars of the door.

In addition, also from the DE 10 2009 046 612 A1 a door for a refrigeration device is known, on which the door racks can be positioned in discrete height levels, in which case a corresponding locking device is formed as in the above-mentioned prior art.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a door for a household refrigerator and such a household refrigeration appliance and a method in which or with which the positioning of the door compartment at a discrete height level is on the one hand more stable and on the other hand can be achieved easily.

This object is achieved by a door, a household refrigerator and a method according to the independent claims.

A door according to the invention for household refrigerating appliance comprises a door body, which is designed plate-like or wall-like. The door further comprises a door compartment device having two vertically oriented door bars disposed on an inner side of the door body and at least one door rack extending between the door beams. The inside of the door body defines itself to the effect that in the installed state of the door on a housing of the household refrigerating appliance, this inside in the closed state of the door a receiving space in which food can be stored, facing. The door cabinet device also includes at least one door rack, which extends in the assembled state between the door beams. At least one Door spar has a height adjustment device for height adjustment of the door compartment in discrete height levels on an inner wall facing the door rack.

An essential idea of the invention is to be seen in that the height adjustment device has a plurality of height-wise formed one above the other and spaced apart in the height direction to each other support sheets for supporting a door compartment. These support arches also extend from the inner wall, starting raised towards the opposite door spar. By the support arches the discrete height levels are formed.

Such a configuration of a door with a specific height adjustment device for a door rack, the positioning of the door compartment on such a discrete height level can be simplified and yet mechanically stable this height level are taken. This specific shape and arrangement of support sheets also favors the handling of the door compartment when inserting and removing as well as a secure and fixed position arrangement of the door compartment in a discrete height level. Even in a very extensive laden condition of the door compartment with objects then the position security of the door compartment is given. Also changing the door compartment from one level to another altitude level is facilitated.

According to the invention, it is provided that the height adjustment device is designed in such a way that a door rack arranged in a mounted end position on a height level can only be released by tilting about a tilt axis oriented in the depth direction of the door. This allows a simple and easy-to-carry movement pattern releasing the door compartment in a discrete height level and the door rack can then be removed, in order to then attach it again, for example, on a different discrete height level of the height adjustment. For this purpose, the door racks is then first introduced with one end side in the guide recess and placed on a support sheet on a door spar, to then be pivoted in its related about the tilt axis oriented inclination downwards, and then also placed on the opposite support sheet of the other door spar become.

It is preferably provided that the support sheets are integrated into the door spar. By this embodiment, a very component-reduced height adjustment device is created. In addition, the support sheets are arranged mechanically stable and thus also very precise position and permanently arranged in this position respectively.

Preferably, it is provided that support sheets each have curved support edges, by which the altitude or the height level of a height level is defined and on which the door racks is seated in a set height position. This is a particularly advantageous embodiment in that, as a result of this curved support edge, in particular with regard to the extent of the support sheets in the width direction of the door and thus in the direction of the opposite door pillar, an increase in area for the placement of a door compartment is effected. A support sheet can thus be realized in this width direction shorter than a support sheet without such a curved support surface or a curved support edge and still has an equal or equal length of the support surface on. Through these curved support edges, the insertion and placement of the door compartment on such a support sheet is simplified and thereby takes place continuously. Jamming or spreading or jerky moving the door compartment on the support sheet is thereby prevented. In addition, not only a seating and thus support from below in the vertical direction is achieved by this curved configuration of the support edge, but also accomplished a lateral support, so that the door racks can be positioned particularly secure position on the support sheet. By means of these curved support edges, a particularly accurately fitting and thus also positive mechanical contacting with the door racks is made possible.

It is preferably provided that the curved support edges are continuously curved and thus formed completely free of corners over its entire length. In particular, they are also designed so that they are formed betweenminimumlos or zwischenmaximumlos and are thus continuously sloping from a first, closer to the inner wall end to a second, the inner wall of the door pillar further end lying.

It is preferably provided that the curved support edges are oriented perpendicular to the plane of the inner wall. The support edges thus extend with respect to their longitudinal extent completely in a plane which is perpendicular to the plane in which the inner wall of the door spar, on which they are formed, extends. These curved support edges thus extend with respect to their longitudinal extension in a plane which is oriented parallel to the door body or parallel to the plane in which the door body extends.

It is advantageously provided that a support edge is concavely curved, in particular concavely curved over its entire length. The advantages mentioned above are favored again, the laying on or receiving the door compartment is improved on it.

Advantageously, a support edge, in particular a concavely curved support edge, extends over the entire length of an upper side of a support sheet. The entire top of a support sheet is thus formed by the support edge.

Preferably, all support sheets that are formed on a door spar, designed the same.

It is preferably provided that a guide recess of the height adjustment device for the door rack is formed on the inner wall of a door spar and the support sheets are formed in the guide recess.

As a result, a compact design and arrangement of the support sheets is favored, since they then do not undesirably far beyond the inner wall of a door spar in the direction of the other door handle. The support sheets are thus at least partially sunk or embedded on the inner wall, by extending in the guide groove formed in the inner wall. Preferably, the support sheets are formed starting from a bottom of a guide recess in the direction of the opposite other door pillar, which then also results in the raised arrangement of the support sheets. Through the guide recess itself a particularly favorable positioning and position change of a door compartment is achieved because on the one hand a purposeful motion control of the door compartment for Position change is specified, on the other hand by the guide recess and a particularly stable and fixed position arrangement of a door compartment is formed in a desired discrete height level.

Preferably, it is provided that the support sheets viewed in the depth direction of the door extend over the entire depth of the guide recess. As a result, they are mechanically robust embedded in the guide recess and close to the front and the rear, which limit the guide recess accordingly. This configuration also prevents a door racks in the guide recess can slide past the side of a support sheet.

It is preferably provided that the door rack has a lateral contact area with a recess, in which a engaging in a guide recess of the height adjustment and therein executable gate element is formed. In a specific height level representing end position of the door compartment is a front wall of the indentation on a front side of the door pillar. By this configuration, therefore, a mechanical contact between the door racks and the door spar is designed on different surfaces. On the one hand, this contact is given by the gate element with the wedge elements or a support edge and a support sheet, on the other hand, an additional mechanical contact through the front wall of the indentation, which is spaced from the gate element in the indentation, and a front side adjacent to the inner wall of the door spar. Preferably, the inner wall and the front side of the door spar are oriented at a right angle to each other. The mechanical support and displacement safety and thus achieved position assurance is favored again.

Preferably, it is provided that the link element is a laterally projecting semicircular segment, which is then seated in a mounted end position at a discrete height level with a side edge on an investment sheet, in particular on a concavely curved support edge of the support sheet. As a result, a very accurately fitting and over the largest possible line surface mechanical contact between the link element and the support sheet is achieved, so that the advantages mentioned above are favored again.

Preferably, it is provided that the link element dimensioned in the depth direction of the door has a thickness, so that the link element is inserted in the mounted end position on a height level exactly fitting in the guide recess. An undesirable tilting about an oriented in the width direction of the door horizontal axis is thereby prevented.

Furthermore, the invention also relates to a household refrigerator with a door according to the invention or an advantageous embodiment thereof. The household appliance comprises a body or a housing, on which the door is pivotally mounted. In the housing at least one receiving space for storing and preserving food is formed, which can be closed by the door.

Further features of the invention will become apparent from the claims, the figures and the description of the figures. The features and feature combinations mentioned above in the description, as well as the features and combinations of features mentioned below in the description of the figures and / or shown alone in the figures, can be used not only in the respectively specified combination but also in other combinations or in isolation, without the frame to leave the invention. Thus, embodiments of the invention are to be regarded as encompassed and disclosed, which are not explicitly shown and explained in the figures, however, emerge and can be produced by separated combinations of features from the embodiments explained. Embodiments and combinations of features are also to be regarded as disclosed, which thus do not have all the features of an originally formulated independent claim.

Fig. 1

eine perspektivische Darstellung eines Ausführungsbeispiels eines erfindungsgemäßen Haushaltskältegeräts;

Fig. 2

eine perspektivische Darstellung eines Teilausschnitts eines Ausführungsbeispiels einer erfindungsgemäßen Tür eines Haushaltskältegeräts;

Fig. 3

eine Draufsicht auf ein Ausführungsbeispiel eines Türabstellers, wie er an der Tür gemäß Fig. 2 angeordnet ist;

Fig. 4

eine perspektivische Darstellung des Türabstellers gemäß Fig. 3; und

Fig. 5

eine weitere perspektivische Darstellung der Tür gemäß Fig. 2 mit einem Türabsteller, der auf einer diskreten Höhenstufe in seiner montierten Endposition gezeigt ist, und mit einem weiteren Türabsteller, der noch nicht in einer weiteren montierten Endposition angeordnet ist.

Embodiments of the invention are explained in more detail below with reference to schematic drawings. Show it:

Fig. 1

a perspective view of an embodiment of a household refrigerator according to the invention;

Fig. 2

a perspective view of a partial section of an embodiment of a door according to the invention of a household refrigerator;

Fig. 3

a plan view of an embodiment of a door compartment, as shown in the door according to Fig. 2 is arranged;

Fig. 4

a perspective view of the door compartment according to Fig. 3 ; and

Fig. 5

another perspective view of the door according to Fig. 2 with a door rack, which is shown at a discrete height level in its mounted end position, and with a further door rack, which is not yet arranged in another mounted end position.

In the figures, identical or functionally identical elements are provided with the same reference numerals.

In Fig. 1 is shown in an exemplary representation of a household refrigerator 1, which may for example be a refrigerator or a freezer or a combined refrigerated-freezer and which is designed for storing and preserving food. This domestic refrigerator 1 comprises a housing or a body 2 with an inner container 3. The inner container 3 defines with its walls a first interior or receiving space 4, which is a cold room and arranged thereunder, separated therefrom second interior or receiving space 5 for food, a Freezer is. The first receiving space 4 is generally used for frost-free cooling of refrigerated goods, preferably at temperatures between + 4 ° C and + 8 ° C. However, the first receiving space 4 can also be designed as a 0 ° C compartment, in particular for keeping fruit or vegetables fresh. The first receiving space 4 is at an open door 6, which closes the front of this receiving space 4, accessible. The second receiving space 5 is generally used for freezing frozen food, for example, at -18 ° C. The second receiving space 5 is accessible when the second door 7 is open.

As from the illustration in Fig. 1 can be seen, in the receiving space 4 in number and with respect to the height position (y-direction) compartment dividers 8, 9 and 10 are arranged. As can also be seen, the door 6 has an inner side 11, which faces the receiving space 4 in the closed state of the door 6. This inside 11 is in the context then also a boundary wall of a door body 12 which is plate-like or wall-like.

In addition, in the schematic representation in Fig. 1 Again, in terms of the number, the design and the individual dimensioned in y-direction height direction to understand by way of example, door racks 13, 14 and 15 arranged.

This door 6 comprises a height adjustment device 16, which is part of a door storage device 17.

For further explanation, see the illustration in Fig. 2 to Fig. 5 directed. This is in Fig. 2 a perspective view of the door 6 is shown, wherein here in contrast to the embodiment in Fig. 1 the shape and number of door racks is varied. In this regard, another door rack 18 is installed.

The height adjustment device 16 is designed for height adjustment and thus changing an altitude in the y-direction, in which case the door racks 13 to 18 can not be continuously adjusted in height, but only in discretely predetermined by the Höhenverstellervorrichtung 16 height levels.

As can be seen, the door compartment device 17 comprises two vertically oriented and arranged on the inner side 11 of the door body 12 door beams 19 and 20. The door beams 19 and 20 are formed in a vertical direction and thus in the y-direction rectilinear and spaced from each other or extend parallel to each other.

The door racks 13, 14, 15 and 18 extend in the width direction and thus in the x direction between the door beams 19 and 20. The height adjustment device 16 is formed both on an inner wall 21 of the door spar 19 and on an inner wall 22 of the door spar 20. The inner walls 19 and 22 denote those walls which are in the in Fig. 2 shown state facing each other or are oriented to the respective opposite door handle 19, 20 are arranged.

In Fig. 2 In addition, the arrangement and design of a plurality of support sheets 23 is shown. The support sheets 23 are spaced apart in the vertical direction and thus in the height direction of the door 6. They thereby define the discrete height levels, with pairs in the same height position and thus at the same position in the y-direction respectively opposite and on the door beams 19 and 20 trained support sheets 23 are arranged. The support sheets 23 are integrally formed in the door beams 19 and 20, respectively. As can be seen, the support sheets 23 are arranged in a groove-like guide recess 24. The guide recess 24 is integrally formed in the door spar 19 and also in the door spar 20, whereby the inner wall 21 is partially recessed. The guide recess 24 extends in a straight line in the height direction and is formed on the inner side 11 facing rear or in the rear end of the door spar 19.

With regard to the explanations to the door spar 19 and its configuration is to mention that the door spar 20 is formed accordingly.

The support sheets 23 extend in the exemplary embodiment, starting from a bottom 25 of the guide recess 24 in the horizontal width direction and thus in the x direction. The support sheets 23 are thus oriented so that they extend with their longitudinal extent in the direction of the opposite door beams and thus in this respect extend in a plane which is spanned by the x-y directions. The support sheets 23 thus extend in their longitudinal direction, so to speak, in a plane which is perpendicular to the plane in which the inner wall 21 or the door spar 19 is formed.

The support sheets 23 each comprise a curved support edge 23a, through which an individual height position of a discrete height level is defined in each case, and on which a door racks 13 to 15, 18 are seated in a set height position.

As from the illustration in Fig. 2 As can be seen, the curved support edges 23a are extending over their entire length in a plane which is perpendicular to the plane of the inner wall 21. In particular, these curved support edges 23a extend in their longitudinal extent in the xy plane and thus extend in a plane which is parallel to the plane in which the door body 12 extends. As can be seen, the support edges 23a are corner-free and continuously curved over their entire length and have a concave curvature. In addition, they form over their entire length the complete top of a respective support sheet 23. The concave curvature is such that a opening to the bottom 25 first end of a support edge 23a is higher in the vertical direction and thus in the y-direction, as a remote from the bottom 25, free second end of the support edge 23 a. The curvature of the support edges 23a is also designed so that it is formed between minimal or even between maximum, so that the concave curvature of a support edge 23a is steadily sloping from the bottom first end to the free second end.

As can also be seen, in the depth direction and thus in the z-direction, the guide device 24 is bounded on the front by a front side 26, which represents a front boundary wall, and a rear side 27, which represents a rear boundary wall. The rear boundary wall 27 may also be formed by the inner side 11. Preferably, the support sheets 23 extend in this depth direction and thus in the z direction over the entire width or the entire extent of the guide recess 24, so that the support sheets 23 preferably lead to the front 26 and the rear side 27.

As already mentioned, it is provided in the embodiment that the support sheets 23 extend from the bottom 25 of the guide recess 24 in the width direction and thus in the x direction and preferably also partially extend out of the guide recess 24, so that they also in the width direction extend beyond the region of the inner wall 21 outside the guide recess 24 in the direction of the opposite door spar 20.

In Fig. 3 is a top view of the door rack 18, as in Fig. 2 is arranged in a mounted end position and thus at a discrete altitude level in this regard. The door rack 18 has on its opposite sides in each case a bulge 28, at the lower end in each case a link element 29 is formed. The link element 29 is formed in the embodiment as a semicircular segment and thus has a semicircular edge 30 in this regard. As can be seen, the link element 30 is in each case oriented rectilinearly to the side and thus formed parallel to a rear side 32 of the door compartment 18. The indentation 28 also includes a front wall 31 which limits the indentation 28 towards the front. As in the illustration in Fig. 2 can be seen sitting in a mounted final state at a discrete height level then the edge 30 on the curved support edge 23a.

The link element 29 thus extends laterally into the guide recess 24. In addition, the front wall 31 rests against a front side or front side 33 of the door spar 19. In a corresponding manner, the door racks 18 is arranged on the opposite side of the door spar 20 fitting. This embodiment of the door compartment 18 is achieved in the mounted end state or in the mounted end position at a discrete height level by surrounding the door beams 19 and 20 and thus at least by the intervention in the guide recess 24, sitting on a concave in this regard concave edge 23 a, the preferred concerns of the indentation 28 on the other inner wall 21 and the concerns of the front wall 31 on the front side 33 reaches a certain clasp or clamping.

In Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the door compartment 18 according to Fig. 3 shown.

In Fig. 5 is the door 6 according to the embodiment in Fig. 2 shown, unlike Fig. 2 In addition, the door racks 15 is also shown in a not yet mounted end position on a discrete height level. Rather, it can be seen here that for a disassembly or assembly in the discrete height stage of the door racks 15 in the width direction and thus viewed in the x direction, first on one side, here on the side of the door spar 19, in the guide recess 24 above the desired and the height level defining support sheet 23 is threaded and in this regard is still tilted. By then on the opposite side of a corresponding threading on the door spar 20 takes place and about a tilt axis, which is oriented in the depth direction and thus in the z-direction, a pivoting movement is made downward, then the door rack 15 is moved to its full horizontal position and then reached in this regard mounted end position at this discrete altitude level. The mounting and dismounting is achieved in this regard by a very simple movement pattern, since quasi the release from a mounted final state is achieved in a discrete height level or only by a corresponding tilting movement about this tilt axis or the Spill of the door is placed in the desired discrete height level.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

1

Household refrigerator

2

corpus

3

inner container

4

accommodation space

5

accommodation space

6

door

7

door

8th

dividers

9

dividers

10

dividers

11

inside

12

door body

13

door racks

14

door racks

15

door racks

16

height adjustment

17

Türabstellervorrichtung

18

door racks

19

door post

20

door post

21

inner wall

22

inner wall

23

overlay sheets

23a

supporting edge

24

guide recess

25

ground

26

front

27

back

28

installation Chung

29

link element

30

edge

31

front wall

32

back

33

front

Claims (12)

1. Door (6, 7) for a household refrigeration appliance (1), with a plate-like door body (12), which has a door rack apparatus (17), which has two vertically oriented door pillars (19, 20) which are arranged on an inner side (11) of the door body (12) and at least one door rack (13, 14, 15, 18) extending in the width direction (x) between the door pillars (19, 20), wherein at least one door pillar (19, 20) has on an inner wall (21, 22) facing towards the door rack (13, 14, 15, 18) a height adjustment apparatus (16) for adjusting the height of the door rack (13, 14, 15, 18) in discrete height levels, wherein the height adjustment apparatus (16) has a multiplicity of placement arcs (23) which are embodied one above the other in the height direction, are arranged at a distance from one another in the height direction and extend in the direction towards the opposing door pillar (19, 20) raised from the inner wall (21, 22), for the placement of a door rack (13, 14, 15, 18), wherein the height levels are formed by the placement arcs (23), characterised in that the height adjustment apparatus (16) is embodied such that a door rack (13, 14, 15, 18) arranged at a height level in an installed end position can only be released by a tilting about a tilt axis oriented in the depth direction (z) of the door (6, 7).
2. Door (6, 7) according to claim 1, characterised in that placement arcs (23) are integrated into the door pillar (19, 20).
3. Door (6, 7) according to claim 1 or 2, characterised in that placement arcs (23) each have curved placement edges (23a), by way of which the height position of a height level is defined and on which the door rack (13, 14, 15, 18) is mounted at a set height position.
4. Door (6, 7) according to claim 3, characterised in that the curved placement edges (23a) extend over their entire length in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the inner wall (21,22).
5. Door (6, 7) according to claim 3 or 4, characterised in that a placement edge (23a) is curved concavely, in particular over its entire length, and extends over the entire length of an upper side of a placement arc (23).
6. Door (6, 7) according to claim 5, characterised in that a placement edge (23a) opens with a first end at a base (25) of a guide recess (24) embodied in the inner wall (21, 22), wherein the first end is arranged at a higher height position than a free second end of the placement edge (23a) facing away from the bottom (25), and the placement edge (23a) is embodied as steadily sloping towards the second end starting from the first end.
7. Door (6, 7) according to one of the preceding claims, characterised in that embodied on the inner wall (21, 22) of a door pillar (19, 20) is a guide recess (24) of the height adjustment apparatus (16) for the door rack (13, 14, 15, 18) and the placement arcs (23) are embodied in the guide recess (24), at least in regions.
8. Door (6, 7) according to claim 7, characterised in that the placement arcs (23) extend over the entire extent of the guide recess (24), when viewed in the depth direction of the door (6, 7).
9. Door (6, 7) according to one of the preceding claims, characterised in that the door rack (13, 14, 15, 18) has a lateral contact region with an inwardly protruding section (28), in which a decor element (29) is embodied which engages into a guide recess (24) of the height adjustment apparatus (16) and can be guided therein, and, in an installed end position of the door rack (13, 14, 15, 18) representing a specific height level, a front wall (31) of the inwardly protruding section (28) rests against a front side (33) of the door pillar (19, 20).
10. Door (6, 7) according to one of the preceding claims, characterised in that the door rack (13, 14, 15, 18) has a lateral contact region with an inwardly protruding section (28), in which a decor element (29) is embodied which engages into a guide recess (24) of the height adjustment apparatus (16) and can be guided therein, and the decor element (29) is a semicircle segment standing apart from the contact region laterally, which in an installed end position at a height level is mounted on a placement arc (23a) with an edge (30).
11. Door (6, 7) according to claim 9 or 10, characterised in that the decor element (29) has a thickness, when measured in the depth direction of the door (6, 7), such that the décor element (29) in the installed end position is inserted into the guide recess (24) with a precise fit at a height level in said depth direction.
12. Household refrigeration appliance (1) with a door (6, 7) according to one of the preceding claims.

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