EP3865015A1 - Temperaturgesteuertes gehäuse - Google Patents

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EP3865015A1
EP3865015A1 EP21154890.4A EP21154890A EP3865015A1 EP 3865015 A1 EP3865015 A1 EP 3865015A1 EP 21154890 A EP21154890 A EP 21154890A EP 3865015 A1 EP3865015 A1 EP 3865015A1
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cabinet
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sliding doors
controlled cabinet
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Kimmo Heinävaara
Ilkka MÄKINEN
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Viessmann Refrigeration Systems Oy
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
    • A47F3/00—Show cases or show cabinets
    • A47F3/04—Show cases or show cabinets air-conditioned, refrigerated
    • A47F3/0404—Cases or cabinets of the closed type
    • A47F3/0426—Details
    • A47F3/043—Doors, covers
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
    • A47F3/00—Show cases or show cabinets
    • A47F3/04—Show cases or show cabinets air-conditioned, refrigerated
    • A47F3/0404—Cases or cabinets of the closed type
    • A47F3/0426—Details
    • A47F3/0434—Glass or transparent panels
    • 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
    • F25D23/021—Sliding doors
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
    • A47F3/00—Show cases or show cabinets
    • A47F3/04—Show cases or show cabinets air-conditioned, refrigerated
    • A47F3/0404—Cases or cabinets of the closed type

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  • the present invention relates to a temperature-controlled cabinet and especially the invention relates to a temperature-controlled cabinet according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Temperature-controlled cabinets for cool temperatures i.e. temperatures +8 °C or below are employed for products, such as food products, beverages and like that must be kept in cooled, refrigerated temperatures and to allow users or customers to access groceries and other refrigerated or frozen items from the cabinet.
  • the temperature-controlled display cabinet comprises typically shelves for the products and at least partially transparent wall structure in order to provide direct view to the products inside for the customers. Often, they also include a light source that illuminates the product display area for better marketing of the food product and for higher visibility to the customers.
  • the temperature-controlled cabinets typically comprise a frame structure; supporting, top, bottom and wall structures with at least one door or without the doors with at least one partially open wall for customers to access the products.
  • the doors may be doors provided with hinges of slidable doors.
  • the frame structure surrounds at least one product space, which comprises shelves and/or other structures for the refrigerated or frozen products.
  • the temperature-controlled cabinets may be of plug-in type or remote type cabinets.
  • the plug-in type temperature-controlled cabinets comprise the controlled temperature providing means and the temperature controlling means.
  • the temperature providing means is typically common to several temperature-controlled cabinets and the temperature controlling means are typically comprised by each temperature-controlled cabinet.
  • the temperature-controlled cabinet As a line cabinet, which is formed as a longitudinally extending cabinet with several doors openable to the longitudinally extending side of the cabinet. It is also known from prior art to configure the temperature-controlled cabinet as a line of cabinets , which is formed as a longitudinally extending temperature-controlled cabinets that are installed back to back, typically a narrow gap between them, with several doors openable to the both longitudinally extending sides of the island-type temperature-controlled line consisting of back-to-back installed cabinet. Further, it is known to locate at an end or at each end of such a line of formed by line cabinets, independent temperature-controlled cabinet with a door or two doors openable to the front of this separate, independent temperature-controlled cabinet. In this kind of configuration, the products inside the line cabinets are accessible only through the doors of the line cabinet and the products inside the at the ends located separate, independent cabinet only through the doors of the separate independent cabinet.
  • An object of the present invention is to create a temperature-controlled cabinet in which the disadvantages of prior art arrangements described above are eliminated or at least minimized.
  • An object of the invention is to create a temperature-controlled cabinet, in which the problems relating to the accessibility of the products inside the temperature-controlled cabinets.
  • the temperature-controlled cabinet comprises two line cabinet parts located back sides towards each other and one or two crown end cabinet part/-s located at one end or both ends of the line cabinet part, the temperature-controlled cabinet comprises sliding doors on longitudinally extending front sides of the line cabinet part and at longitudinal sides of the crown end cabinet parts and each sliding door is slidable past the next to it located sliding door to at least partially overlapping position.
  • the temperature-controlled cabinet is substantially rectangular.
  • the sliding doors on the front sides of the line cabinet parts extend to transversal sides of the crown cabinet part/parts such, that the sliding doors of the line cabinet parts extend to respective corners of the temperature-controlled cabinet and the sliding doors of the crown end cabinet parts extend to respective corners of the temperature-controlled cabinet or such, that the temperature-controlled cabinet comprises corner walls at each corner and the corner walls extend from the corner to towards and to the sliding doors of the line cabinet parts and to towards and to the sliding doors of the crown end cabinet part.
  • the sliding doors are made of transparent material.
  • corner walls are made of transparent material.
  • inside of the temperature-controlled cabinet is configured to an inner, temperature-controlled space and that the space is continuous and united.
  • the temperature-controlled cabinet comprises support structures for shelves and of the temperature-controlled cabinet.
  • the sliding doors are supported by and slidable in guides such, that upper ends of the sliding doors are supported in upper guides and lower ends of the sliding doors are supported in lower guides.
  • the guides are configured as guide grooves, which are wide enough to hold two sliding doors.
  • the guide comprises two parallel guide grooves.
  • the guides are provided with guide pins to position the sliding doors and to guide the sliding doors to the overlapping position.
  • temperature-controlled cabinets in which temperature of the product space, i.e. the space, in which the products are located, is + 8 °C or below + 8 °C.
  • the temperature-controlled cabinet forms functionally one unit in view of providing controlled temperature and controlling it.
  • the temperature-controlled cabinet according to the invention and its advantageous aspects provides many advantages:
  • the line cabinet parts and the crown end cabinet part/-s of the temperature-controlled cabined form a continuous, united inner space.
  • the overlapping structure of the sliding doors provides that any product position on the shelves of the temperature-controlled cabinet is easily reachable by the customers.
  • product positions on the shelves of the crown end cabinet part are reachable also from the side of the line cabinet part and vice versa.
  • the centrally located support structure provides that no intermediate walls or support structures are needs and it also provides support for the shelves of the line cabinet part and the shelves of the crown end cabinet part.
  • the temperature-controlled cabinet is in configuration an island-type cabinet, which is provides accessibility to the products inside all around the temperature-controlled cabinet.
  • FIG. 1 - 5 is shown a schematical example of a temperature-controlled cabinet 10 (in the following cabinet) comprising two line cabinet parts 11 located back sides towards each other and crown end cabinet parts 12.
  • a crown end cabinet part 12 is located but the cabinet 10 can comprise also only one crown end cabinet part 12 located at either end of the cabinet 10.
  • the cabinet 10 comprises a top structure 14 forming a roof of the cabinet and a foundation structure 15 supporting the cabinet 10 on a floor or a corresponding base.
  • the cabinet 10 also comprises sliding doors 20.
  • the cabinet 10 in the example of the figures also comprises corner walls 21 but the sliding doors 20 may also extend to respective corners of the cabinet 10 and thus, in this configuration no corner walls are needed.
  • the sliding doors 20 and the corner walls 21 are advantageously made of transparent material such, that visibility to products inside the cabinet 10 is provided all around the cabinet 10.
  • the inside of the cabinet 10 is configured to an inner, temperature-controlled space, a product space.
  • the cabinet 10 is comprises support structures 30 for shelves 31, onto which the products can be located, and of the cabinet 10.
  • the inner space is limited by the top structure 14, the foundation structure 15, the sliding doors 20 and the corner walls 21 such that a continuous, united space is formed and can be kept in controlled temperature by one temperature controlling means.
  • the line cabinet parts 11 of the cabinet 10 are substantially rectangular and have sliding doors 20 on longitudinal front sides, as well as longitudinally located shelves 30 are provided on longitudinal sides inside the cabinet 10.
  • the crown end cabinet parts 12 are located at each end of the longitudinally extending line cabinet parts 11.
  • the crown end cabinet parts 12 are also substantially rectangular and have sliding doors 20 on longitudinal outer side.
  • the line cabinet parts 11 and the crown end cabinet parts 12 form together one functional configuration.
  • the sliding doors 20 are provided on both longitudinally extending sides of the cabinet 10 i.e. on front sides of the line cabinet parts 11 and at ends of the cabinet 10 i.e. on the outer sides of the crown end cabinet parts 12. At corners of the cabinet corner walls 21 are located in the example of the figures but the sliding doors 20 may also extend to respective corners of the cabinet 10.
  • the corner walls 21 extend form each corner of the cabinet 10 towards and to the endmost sliding doors 20 of the line cabinet parts 11 and the crown end cabinet part 12 such, that by the sliding doors 20 and the corner walls 21 a uniform, transparent outer structure is provided.
  • the uniform, transparent outer structure may also be provided by the sliding doors 20 extending to corners of the cabinet 10.
  • the sliding doors 20 are supported by and slidable in guides 22, 23. Upper ends of the sliding doors 20 are supported in the upper guides 22 and lower ends of the sliding doors 20 are supported in the lower guides 23.
  • the guides 22, 23 can be configured as guide grooves 26, 27, which for example wide enough to hold two sliding doors or as two parallel guide grooves.
  • the sliding doors 20 are for example alternatingly located in the wide guide groove or in the two parallel guide grooves such, that each sliding door 20 is slidable past the next to it located sliding door 20 to at least partially overlapping position to open the sliding door 20 and to reach a product/products located inside the cabinet 10.
  • the guide grooves 26, 27 of the guides 22, 23 are advantageously provided with guide pins 24, 25 to position the sliding doors 20 and to guide the sliding doors past each other to the overlapping position.
  • the each of the guides 22, 23 can be constructed of one continuous profile or of several profile parts connected to each other.
  • the guides 22, 23 are configured such, that the sliding doors 20 can be slid to at least partially overlapping position.
  • the customers and like can reach any location on the shelves easily and especially also to the shelves of the crown end cabinet part 12 form the side of the line cabinet part 11s and vice versa.
  • the sliding direction S of the sliding doors is denoted in the figures 1-4 by an arrow S.
  • the sliding doors 20 have advantageously a curved configuration such, that the outer surface of the sliding door 20 is outwards curved, i.e. convex, from upper part to lower part i.e. in vertical direction, as can be seen for example from figure 3 .
  • the outer surface of the sliding doors 20 can also be straight or concave or formed as a break-line configuration.

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JPH08126557A (ja) * 1994-11-01 1996-05-21 Daiwa Reiki Kogyo Kk 冷蔵ショーケース
EP0769262A2 (de) 1995-10-20 1997-04-23 REMIS Gesellschaft für Entwicklung und Vertrieb von technischen Elementen mbH Gefriertruhe
EP0962729A1 (de) * 1998-06-03 1999-12-08 Bonnet Névé Horizontales Kühlmöbel mit Schiebedeckeln für gefrorene oder gekühlte Waren
US6128911A (en) * 1998-01-09 2000-10-10 Delaware Captial Formation, Inc. Modular refrigerated structures for displaying, storing and preparing refrigerated products
EP2382896A1 (de) 2010-04-30 2011-11-02 Hussmann Koxka S.L. Merchandisingplattform und Handhabungsvorrichtung für einen Merchandiser
WO2019102252A1 (en) * 2017-11-22 2019-05-31 Uab "Freor Lt" Autonomous refrigerated island of semi-vertical cabinets and refrigeration method

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
JPH08126557A (ja) * 1994-11-01 1996-05-21 Daiwa Reiki Kogyo Kk 冷蔵ショーケース
EP0769262A2 (de) 1995-10-20 1997-04-23 REMIS Gesellschaft für Entwicklung und Vertrieb von technischen Elementen mbH Gefriertruhe
US6128911A (en) * 1998-01-09 2000-10-10 Delaware Captial Formation, Inc. Modular refrigerated structures for displaying, storing and preparing refrigerated products
EP0962729A1 (de) * 1998-06-03 1999-12-08 Bonnet Névé Horizontales Kühlmöbel mit Schiebedeckeln für gefrorene oder gekühlte Waren
EP2382896A1 (de) 2010-04-30 2011-11-02 Hussmann Koxka S.L. Merchandisingplattform und Handhabungsvorrichtung für einen Merchandiser
WO2019102252A1 (en) * 2017-11-22 2019-05-31 Uab "Freor Lt" Autonomous refrigerated island of semi-vertical cabinets and refrigeration method

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