ITMI20020574U1 - MULTIFUNCTIONAL DRAWER FOR FRONT FREEZERS - Google Patents

Description

Description of a utility model to name:

WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION - BENTON HARBOR MI49022 U.S.A.

B6463

This utility model concerns a drawer for upright freezers.

Upright freezers mean gui

even refrigerators with a "freezer" compartment

which have one or more drawers.

The freezer drawers contain

frozen products (or products to be frozen) generally with random distribution, conditioned not only by the size of the product but also by its shape

which can be irregular (for example in the case of

pieces of meat). In such drawers they are placed

also frequently used products, such as small containers (boxes) of flavoring food herbs such as basil, parsley, onion in frozen form. Other food products of frequent use, of modest size, such as ice cream, ice lollies or the like are

also placed in bulk in these drawers, to which sealed containers containing eutectic mixtures (used as cold accumulators) or flexible shaped containers suitable for forming spheres or bodies of

ice from the introduced water.

The random distribution, it would be better to say disorderly, of the products specifically listed, which are frequently used, involves, for the purpose of their retrieval, the partial extraction of even more drawers with considerable annoyance and inconvenience for the user.

The purpose of this utility model is to create a drawer for upright freezers in which the aforementioned products, frequently used, find an orderly location that facilitates their removal without having to resort to the extraction, even if partial, of the drawer.

This object, in addition to others which will better emerge from the detailed description which follows, is achieved by a drawer conforming to the technical teachings of the appended claims.

The innovation will be better understood by the following detailed description, provided purely as an indication and made in relation to the attached drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a broken perspective view of a version of the innovative drawer;

Figure 2 shows a perspective view

front of a different version of the drawer,

which front can contain already formed icicles and be used to form icicles;

Figure 3 is a perspective view of a variant of the drawer according to the invention, in which front seats are provided for housing containers for the formation of ice cubes or spheres.

With reference to Figure 1, the innovative drawer is indicated as a whole with 1. It is of conventional thermopolymer, has a bottom, three side walls and a front wall 2. The front wall has at the top a conventional hook-shaped section 3 for gripping, by the user, at the end of the drawer extraction. This front wall also has, bilaterally, on each of its vertical sides, a jutting flap or cheek 4, as well as a longitudinal window or opening 5 and, on each vertical side, two eyelets 6 facing the inside of the drawer.

In these eyelets, exploiting the elasticity of the thermopolymer, hinging pins 7 are inserted, protruding laterally from a front container body, as a whole

indicated with 8, also of thermopolymer.

front container body 8 has a front wall 9 adapted to mate with the front wall 2 of drawer 1, in one of its end-of-stroke position. This container body 8 identifies, on the back of its front wall 9, a containment groove 10 with closed ends, judiciously sized to accommodate in an orderly, easily accessible manner, for example small boxes (indicated with 11) containing more frequently used flavoring herbs. , cold accumulators or ice cream bags. The removal of such boxes or other requires the simple rotation of the container body 8 towards the outside (see arrows) around the hinge constituted by pins 7 and eyelets 6.

The front container body can assume a shape or shape different from the one described above, for example that of figure 2, where the front container body is indicated with 8A. This front container body 8A has a series of separate compartments 12, substantially contiguous, aligned and shaped so as to receive already formed icicles 13 or, alternatively, to produce icicles starting from suitable, conventional aqueous solutions poured into these compartments. The body

front container 8A, for the purpose of its

rotation, has hinging pins

side 7A which will mate with eyelets, not

represented, but formed for example by holes

present in the cheeks 4 already described in the report

to figure 1. The front container 8A can also

be without side hinge pins,

and in this case it is shaped to fit

easily in the opening 5.

According to the variant described in Figure 3, the

front container body consists of two

16 ice trays, of material

flexible polymer shaped in such a way as to

be able to be inserted vertically and held in

correspondence of front seats 18 of drawer 1.

Claims (7)

1. Drawer (1) for front freezers, characterized in that on its front side (2) has a distinct front container body (8, 8A). Drawer according to claim 1, wherein the front container body (8, 8A) is hinged (6, 7, 7A) in correspondence with this front side (2). 3. Drawer according to the claims previous, in which the front container body (8, 8A) has at least one housing for contain products, not only food, of reduced size. Drawer according to claim 3, wherein the housing is a longitudinal groove (10) ad substantially closed ends thereof length of the front container body (8). Drawer according to claim 3, wherein the housing consists of a series of compartments shaped (12) separated from each other. 6. Drawer according to claim 1, wherein the front container body (8A) is adapted to be inserted / removed in a front seat of the drawer, this front container body (8A) presenting a plurality of shaped compartments (12) adapted to act from ice lolly molds. Drawer according to claim 1, wherein the front container body consists of at least one ice cube tray (16) removable from the drawer (1).