FR2633037A3 - HOUSEHOLD REFRIGERATING APPLIANCE - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to household appliances. To facilitate the installation and cleaning of the shelves in a refrigerator tank or equivalent, guides 11 are provided on the side walls of the tank and have housings to receive front and rear half-shelves 12, 13, for example. glass, fitted with a reversible border. Main application: household refrigerators.

Description

The present invention relates to a fri-

  giorifique household cabinet type, equipped with a compartment

  conservation and horizontal shelves

  born to bear the food to keep.

  In this type of refrigeration apparatus, generally used grids or shelves made of wire and that can be slid on horizontal guides provided at different heights on

  the side walls of the tank of the refrigerating

  than. These shelves require a long manufacturing process, which is complicated by many operations of

  welding and anti-corrosion treatment of metallic wire

  that which leg constitutes. The shelves also present

  disadvantages of obstructing the visibility of the compartment

  refrigerators, especially shelves farthest from the light source, to be difficult to clean, and to offer rather unstable support for objects with a small base dimension (for example,

  glasses, cups, cans and the like).

  Other disadvantages of traditional shelves

  come from decorative plastic borders which are strung or embroidered elastically,

  superimposed on the front side of the shelf.

  Indeed, these borders form new

  dirt accumulation and are not easy to dismantle and do not climb on the shelf during

  periodic cleaning of the refrigerating appliance

pacity.

  For the reasons already described, the present invention

  The aim is to create a compartment for

  refrigerator and a shelf to support food

  to be preserved, which eliminates or at least minimizes the disadvantages described

  above, and at the same time make more rational

  and more convenient both the manufacture and the use of

of the refrigerating appliance.

  These goals as well as others are achieved by

  refrigerating equipment, in particular refrigeration equipment

  domestic appliance, comprising a refrigerating tank

  plastic material on the side walls of the

  at different heights, pairs of horizontal guides for receiving shelves are provided

  made of transparent material and equipped with a

  multifunctional yarn set at least along their

  edges which are respectively adjacent to the rear wall

  at the front opening of the refrigerating

  characterized in that, on each support guide,

  port, at least two spa-

  from each other and from the back wall and from

  the front opening of the tank by projections of the guiding

  of and intended to support the sides of half-shelves

  connected in the transverse direction, said multi-section

  functional comprising a horizontal portion adapted to be mounted on the edge of its respective half-shelf and a

  vertical portion of the retainer, portions that are

  relative to each other to form an "L" cross section, so that the profile can

  be mounted on the edge of the half-shelves in two posi-

  functional requirements that have returned substantially from

  one with respect to the other.

  Figures in the attached drawing, given only

  by way of example, make it clear how

  vention can be realized. In these drawings, Figure 1 is a front perspective view of a refrigerating apparatus according to the invention;

  FIG. 2 is a view from above of the compartment

  refrigeration unit of Figure 1;

  FIG. 3 shows a cross-sectional view of

  a shelf of the refrigerating appliance of the

gure 1. -

  The figures of the drawing illustrate a traditional refrigerating appliance of the household type 5 comprising

  an outer furniture 6 in which are housed, with

  an insulating material, a freezing tank 7 and a storage tank 8. The two tanks 7, 8 are obtained by molding a thermoplastic material

  and they are equipped with closing doors each

9, 10.

  On the side walls of the storage tank 8, there are provided horizontal guides 11 intended to support half-shelves 12 and 13 made of transparent material (for example glass). two support housing 14, each of which supports a side of a

half-shelf 12 or 13.

  The bearing housings 14 are spaced from each other and from the front end as well as from the end

  rear of the tank 8 by profiled projections 15, ve-

  naked material on each guide 11. These projections allow

  try to delimit between the half-shelves before 12 and

  the half-shelves rear 13, and between the half

  rear shelves 13 and bottom 16 of the storage tank

  8, free spaces 17 (Figure 2) that leave

  cold air circulates inside the tank of

  vation. Along the front edge of the front half-shelves 12 and along the rear edge of the rear half-shelves

  13, is pressure-mounted a multifunctional border-

  the 18. The cross section of the border 18, which is

  preferably made of plastic material, comprises es-

  sensually a horizontal portion-19 and a portion

vertical 20, arranged in "L".

  The horizontal portion 19 comprises two lips 21, 22 intended to attack the edge of the respective half-shelf, while the vertical portion 20 has a semicircular profile which corresponds approximately to the profile of the outer end of the support guides 11. Said semicircular portion 20 is adapted to

  act as a restraining rim of foods to be refrigerated

  handle if it is mounted so as to protrude upward, as shown on the back edge of

  the inner half-shelf 13 of FIG.

  The same portion 20 is instead able to exert

  cer a protective and decorative function if it is mounted to protrude downwards, as shown on the front edge of the outer half-shelf

12 of Figure 3.

  In this second use position, the profile of the multifunctional border 18 corresponds

  almost exactly to the semicircular profile of the

  outside the support guide 11, so as not to

  provide areas of accumulation of dirt, and

  surfaces as continuous as possible to facilitate

clean up the cleaning operations.

  It should be noted that each half-shelf can be conveniently superimposed on the adjacent half-shelf,

  in order to offer the possibility of storing

  particularly high and cumbersome on the plane

  underlying support (for example, cooking pots and

Teilles).

  The refrigerated compartment and the shelves stand-

  Thus, the invention achieves the goals of

  avoid the complicated processes of making clay-

in wire.

  In addition, the invention improves the possibility

  cleaning, brightness and visibility of the

  in the refrigeration compartment.

  It goes without saying that modifications and variants

  may be made by those skilled in the art to the

  tif that has just been described, in particular by substituting the equivalent technical means, without

of the field of the invention.

R E V E N D ICATION S

  1. Refrigerating apparatus, in particular refrigerating

  household cabinet, including a refrigerated tank

  ration of plastic on the side walls of

  which are provided at different heights for

  horizontal guides intended to receive shelves made of a transparent material, and provided with a multifunctional profile fixed at least along their edges which are respectively adjacent to the wall;

  rear opening and the front opening of the refrigerating

  ration, characterized in that, on each support guide,

  port (Il), at least two support

  (14) spaced apart from one another and from the wall

  (16) and the front opening of the tank (8) by

  protrusions (15) of the guides (11) and intended to sup-

  carrying the paired half-shelf sides (12, 13) in the transverse direction, said multifunctional section (18) comprising a horizontal portion (19) adapted to be mounted on the edge of its respective half-shelf (12, 13) and a vertical retaining portion (20), which portions are arranged relative to one another to form an "L" cross section, so that the

  section (18) can be mounted on the edge of the half

  shelves (12, 13> in two functional positions which are returned substantially 180 to one relative to

the other.

  2. Refrigerating device according to claim 1, characterized in that said horizontal portion (19) of the profile (18) comprises two lips (21, 22) intended to cooperate with the peripheral edge of the half-shelves.

  (12, 13) and in that said vertical portion (20)

  feels a semicircular profile that corresponds to little

  close to the profile of the protrusion (15) on the end

  outer side of the support guides (11).

  3. Refrigerating appliance according to claim

  1, in which the multifunctional profile is preferably

  attached to the rear side of the half-shelves

  and the front side of the front half-shelves, characterized in that the profile (18) is mounted on the

  edge of the front half-shelf (12) with its vertical portion

  wedge (20) protruding downward while, on the edge of the rear half-shelf (13), it is mounted with its

  vertical portion (20) projecting upwardly.