ITMI20010476U1 - EXTENDABLE SHELF FOR REFRIGERATORS AND SIMILAR - Google Patents

Description

This .utility model? refers to a shelf for refrigerators and the like.

In the sector to which the innovation refers, does the necessity often arise? to arrange on the shelves containers of relatively considerable height, such as for example bottles, not enough, especially in summer, the capacity dedicated to such containers in the porch of the refrigerator. It is true that some types of containers can be placed on zz mind on the shelves of the refrigerator compartment, but what about us? In practice, it is possible for closed and not previously opened containers as there is no guarantee that once opened and then closed again, after a partial consumption of the relative contents, they can prevent leakage of the contents. Often, moreover, the containers have such a capacity, for example dae or even more? liters, which cannot be accommodated in the refrigerator door. In any case, open or semi-open containers, such as jugs, cannot be placed in the perzh door? the handling of the same pu? be sure of leaking liquid product.

The exempt innovation therefore has as its presipuo purpose that of realizing a shelf with a reducible depth which, due to the effect of this reducibility t? allows the use in the underlying shelf of large containers and open containers, while allowing in such cases, a partial use of its depth

These? an object, in addition to others which are better understood from the detailed description which follows, is achieved by a shelf for refrigerators and the like conforming to the teachings of the appended claims.

The innc vation will be? better understood by reading the following detailed description, provided by mere way of indication and made with reference to: o to the attached drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the shelf of the innovation before the coupling of its two components;

Figure 2 shows in partial perspective view one of the components of the shelf of the action;

figure 3 shows in partial perspective view: a detail of the other component, and figure 4 shows a partial plan view of the shelter, in its two positions of maximum and minimum depth;

Figures 5 and 6, having a purely general explanatory function of the invention, respectively reproduced in a very schematic perspective view in its two positions.

With initial reference to figures 5 and 6, the depth shelf? variable has two substantially flat and comb-shaped components 2, 3 with teeth (2a and 3a) of one offset with respect to the teeth of the other so that the teeth of one penetrate and slide in the interdental intervals (2b, 3b) of the other. Teeth and interdental intervals preferably have the same width. The position of minimum depth? of the ripiar, or? reproduced in fig. 6 in which the teeth are interpenetrated in the interdental intervals, and this figure shows how it is possible to place (in a refrigerator) bottles, containers of (relatively) considerable height on a shelf below, leaving space to support other containers on the retracted shelf.

Going down to the construction details and then to Figures 1 to 4, the component 2, made of plastic, provides rectilinear guides 5 along the herm facing sides of its interdental intervals. The guides have an opening 5a to allow pins or protruding laterally protruding pins 3c from the teeth 3a of the other component to enter them; 3 cos? allowing the relative sliding coupling between the two components.

The teeth of component 3 are joined, at one of their outer edges (the front one), to a crosspiece 6 for moving the component 3 with respect to the

The sizing of the parts? such that the supporting face or side of the teeth is contained in the same plane regardless of the relative position of its two components 2, 3.

Component 2 has at its extremity? inside (referring to the compartment 10 fig. 4 of the refrigerator in which the shelf is placed) a pair of opposite pins or projections 11 destined to settle: in niches or concavities? 12 present in conventional ribs 13 of the compartment 10 projecting from the parts 14 of the compartment. Furthermore, in the most position? advanced component 2 has projections or protrusions 16 for its further support on the aforementioned ribs 13

For its support on the ribs, the mobile component 3 has 13 terminal projections 3d parallel to the teeth.

In figure 4, component 3? reproduced, with broken lines, in the position of maximum depth of the shelf and with a continuous line in the position of minimum depth? of the shelf.

Claims (5)

CLAIMS ONI 1. Shelf (1) for refrigerators or the like, characterized in that it comprises two substantially flat components (2, 3), movable relative to each other and mutually engaging in a comb-like manner. 2. Shelf according to claim 1, wherein its support plane remains such regardless of the relative position between the two components (2, 3). 3. Shelf according to the preceding claims, in which the components have laterally projecting means (11, 16, 3d) for resting on parts (13) of the refrigerator. 4. Shelf according to one or more? of the preceding claims, in which the comb teaching? obtained from teeth and interdental spaces of the two components (2, 3) which in one are arranged distorted with respect to those of the other. 5. Shelf according to one or more? of the preceding claims, in which a component (2) has on the sides of its teeth rectilinear guides (5) for formations (3c) laterally projecting from the teeth of the other component (3), the teeth of the component equipped with the guides (5) presenting inlets 5a) to them guides for these projecting lateral formations.