FR2626968A3 - REFRIGERATING APPARATUS WITH FRONT LOADING DOOR - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to refrigeration devices. To better press the door 5 in the closed position and avoid rebounds, the bush 8 integral with the door and which rotates on the articulation pin 9 which is carried by a bracket 10 is integral with a flexible tab 12, made integral with the door by a lug 14 and which has a concave part 12 which locks elastically on a bump which is integral with the square. Main applications: refrigerators, freezers, etc., especially household.

Description

The present invention relates to a refrigerating apparatus, in

  particular to a household refrigerator,

  of the type provided with at least one front loading door.

  As is known, in a refrigerator of this type, the loading door is usually provided with a peripheral seal capable of abutting against the edge

  opening of access to the device to ensure the

  sealing of this opening when said door

is pushed.

  The door is also equipped with permanent magnets

  nents, usually housed inside the trim,

  able to guarantee the tightness of said door in its po-

  closing position. This measure proved to be insufficient

  reliably, in the sense that it does not prevent the

  you bounce when you close it violently, no more

  that it does not provide sufficient attraction

  in the closed position when it has not been pushed enough. To reduce these disadvantages, it has been proposed

  refrigerators in which a rigid leg of

  eccentric is attached to an edge of the door

  to protrude into the device.

  When the door is in the pushed position, the tab engages with an elastic lever fixed to the furniture of the refrigerator by a bracket and

  form suitable for co-operating with the eccentric surface

  than the rigid leg, to exercise an action of attrac-

  door to its closed position.

  This solution, although satisfactory, is

  complicated because it requires a series of auxiliary elements (rigid tab, elastic lever, bracket and their screws or equivalents), which also require additional mounting phases

  which undesirably complicates the manufacture of the

cooler.

  The object of the invention is to provide a

  refrigerator with a front loading door

  which is able to be placed safely in the good closing position without it being necessary to

  provide additional components.

  According to the invention, this object is achieved in a

  such refrigerator having at least one door of

  frontal arrangement with at least one socket by which

  it is articulated on a bracket fixed to the furniture of the apparatus to rotate between an open position

and a closed position.

  The apparatus is characterized in that with said bushing, there is a lug which protrudes from the door and is integral with the latter, at least the projecting portion of the lug being flexible and provided with a centering surface adapted to cooperate, when the door is pushed into its closed position, with a portion of said bracket that has a surface

substantially complementary.

  The profiled surface is able to focus on the-

  said complementary surface to exert on the door a force of attraction directed towards said closed position. The figures of the annexed drawing, given by way of example, will make it clear how the invention

can be realized.

On this drawing,

  Figure 1 represents partially and schematically

  tically a perspective view of the apparatus according to the invention, with the access door in the open position;

  Figure 2 represents partially and schematically

  tically, a side cut of the apparatus of the figure

  1, with the access door in the closed position.

  As can be seen with reference to the figures, the refrigerating apparatus according to the invention comprises an insulated piece of furniture 3 provided on the front with at least one opening

  access 4 through which access to a compartment of

  frigération. The access opening 4 can be closed by means of a loading door 5, which substantially comprises a shaped frame 6 in which is foamed a mass of thermal insulating material 7 (not shown in FIG.

figure 1).

  On one side of the lower edge (and similarly on one side of the upper edge) of the door 5 is inserted in a manner known per se, a sleeve 8, preferably of plastic material and embedded in the insulating material 7, by means of of which the door is hinged to a corresponding bracket 10 fixed to the front of the cabinet 3 by means of screws 11 or the like. In particular,

  in the bushing 8 is inserted a corresponding spigot 9

  vertically on the square 10 and around the

  which the door 5 can turn between the open position

  FIG. 1 and the closed position of FIG.

  2. It should be noted, referring to the

  2, that the slot between the peripheral edge of the door 5 and the edge of the access opening 4 should be considered as occupied by a sealing gasket

  conventional door-to-door, which has been omitted from

to simplify.

  According to one aspect of the invention, with the socket

  8 is a leg 12 that protrudes horizontally.

  towards the inside of the appliance, starting from the edge

articulation of the door 5.

  At least the protruding part of the leg 12 is

  flexible and provided with a centering surface 13, preferably

  in the shape of a spherical cap.

  The tab 12 is secured to the door 5, for example, thanks to at least one vertical fixing lug

  14 who, too, is preferably one with the

  te and is able to fit into a corresponding hole

  arranged in the hinge edge.

  When the door 5 is closed, the tab 12 is substantially on the horizontal portion of the bracket 10, a portion 15 has a surface

  complementary to the centering surface 13 and is

  in a position coinciding with it.

  The profiled portion 15 is preferably formed

  in one piece with the square 10, for example, by

  but, of course, it can also be

  scope. When the door 5 is pushed towards the closed position, as indicated by the arrow in FIG. 1, just before the door stops the furnace 3, the elastic tab 12 straddles the profiled portion 15 (convex in FIG. the example described) of the square

  , until this contoured portion comes

der with the profiled surface 13.

  Thanks also to the elasticity of the tab 12, the

  surface 13 tends to self-center with respect to the surface

  this complement 15 of the square 10, by exerting

  way on the door 5 a force of attraction that

  pulls towards the final closed position. Thanks to the spherical cap configuration of surfaces 13 and

  this "self-centering" operation is advantageous

  in addition to being effective, it also tends to

  if to avoid the possible "rebound" of the door when

: - this last violently.

  In any case, it is obvious that the goals of the

  are reached without it being necessary to provide the refrigerating appliance with additional parts,

  in that both the tab 12 and the surface pro-

  spun 15 are integral with the corresponding components (sleeve 8 and square 10) which must anyway

be mounted on the device.

  Assembly operations do not therefore suffer

  they no longer increase complication.

  Naturally, the refrigerating apparatus described

  can undergo many modifications without departing from

of the invention.

  For example, the centering surface 13 may be convex instead of concave while in

  this case, the corresponding complementary surface 15 se-

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  would be concave. In any case, it is not excluded that the

  two surfaces 13 and 15 may be of different shape.

  rent, for example, in the form of an inclined plane.

  In addition, in the example described, the flexible tab

  12 and the complementary surfaces 13 and 15 are preferably arranged at the bottom of the door 5, but they

  could be provided at the level of the upper part of

  re of the door (not shown), or these elements

  could be provided in both positions.

  Naturally, it is understood that the apparatus according to the invention can be used as a refrigerator, as a freezer or as a combined apparatus and that it can comprise a number of different access doors 5

of one.

  It goes without saying that various modifications

  will be made by those skilled in the art to the device which has just been described as a non-exemplary example.

  limiting, in particular by substituting the technical means

  equivalent, without departing from the scope of the

vention.

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Claims (4)

  1 - Refrigerating device comprising at least one front loading door, provided with at least one socket by means of which it is journalled on a bracket fixed to the furniture of the apparatus to rotate between an open position and a closed position - ture, characterized in that with said sleeve (8) is a body member (12) which protrudes from the door (5)   and is attached to it, at least the salient part   the leg (12) being flexible and provided with a surface   this profiled centering (13) adapted to cooperate, when the door (5) is pushed into its closed position, with a portion of said bracket (10) which has a substantially complementary surface (15), with respect to which the surface profile (13) is able to center to exert on the door (5) a force of attraction   directed to said closed position.   2 - Refrigerating appliance according to the claim   1, characterized in that said centering surface   (13) is shaped like a spherical cap.   3 - Refrigerating appliance according to the claim   1, characterized in that the portion of the bracket (10) carrying said complementary surface (15) body with the square.   4 - Refrigerating appliance according to the claim   1, characterized in that, on said lug (12) is integrally formed a lug (14) inserted   in a corresponding hole in the door (5).