JP2015215097A - Storage auxiliary tool - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a storage auxiliary tool enabling telescopic motion even in plural frozen goods or a single frozen goods according to the thickness thereof, and suitably storing even a single or plural frozen goods in a refrigeration chamber with high space efficiency.SOLUTION: A storage auxiliary tool 20 for storing a frozen goods 30 in a refrigeration chamber 11 of a refrigerator or refrigeration box, has right and left side surfaces 23 formed into a bellows shape, enables telescopic motion according to the thickness of the frozen goods 30, and can store frozen goods 30 having various thicknesses.

Description

  The present invention relates to a storage aid used by being incorporated in a refrigerator or freezer of a refrigerator or freezer.

  In general, in a freezer compartment provided in a household refrigerator, when a freezer compartment door provided on the front is pulled out from the user's side, the freezer compartment is a box whose upper surface is open. Moreover, the freezer of the freezer for selling frozen goods in a store is also a box with an open top.

  On the other hand, most frozen products, particularly frozen products such as retort foods, are in flat square packs. For this reason, the thin side surface cannot be made to stand on its lower side. For this reason, when storing a large number of frozen products in the freezer as described above, the product can be stacked in layers from the bottom of the freezer with the wide surface on which the product logo, photographs of the contents, etc. are printed facing up. It is stored in. For this reason, the logo or label of the frozen product stored at the bottom of the freezer cannot be seen directly from above, and in order to confirm the type of frozen product at the bottom, the number of steps above However, it took time and effort to shift or lift the stacked frozen products. In addition, there is a problem that it takes time and effort to extract the frozen product located below in the frozen product stacked in many stages.

  On the other hand, in order to store frozen products that are thin and unable to stand independently in the freezer compartment and store them side by side, a number of partition plates are passed to the left and right in the freezer compartment and the front and rear spaces are narrowly partitioned. Another possible method is to store frozen products. However, when storing by such a method, if the thickness of the frozen product is smaller than the front-rear width of the partitioned space, the frozen product may fall obliquely between the front and rear partition plates, resulting in poor fit. In addition, if you try to store a number of frozen products in a single partitioned space in the thickness direction, the total thickness of multiple frozen products fits within the width of the partition space. In other words, there is a wasteful space where there is no frozen product, and the frozen product may be inclined or fall down.

Special table 2008-525282 gazette JP 2005-104567 A

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and can be expanded or contracted according to the thickness of a plurality of frozen products or a single frozen product. Another object of the present invention is to provide a storage aid that can be stored in a space-efficient manner.

  The present invention is a container for storing refrigerated items or refrigerated items in a refrigerator or freezer in a refrigerator or freezer, each of the left and right side surfaces is bellows, and can be expanded and contracted according to the thickness of the frozen product. It features a storage aid.

The perspective view of the storage auxiliary tool of the 1st Embodiment of this invention. The perspective view of the state which arranged the storage auxiliary tool of the said embodiment in the left-right direction 2 rows. The perspective view of the state which uses the storage auxiliary tool of the said embodiment side by side in the freezer compartment drawer of a refrigerator. The top view of the state which is using the storage auxiliary tool of the said embodiment side by side in the freezer compartment drawer of a refrigerator. The perspective view seen from the bottom face side of the state which arranged the storage auxiliary tool of the said embodiment sideways. The perspective view seen from the bottom face side of the state which arranged the storage auxiliary tool of the 2nd Embodiment of this invention on either side.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

[First Embodiment]
As shown in FIGS. 1 and 5, the storage aid 20 according to the first embodiment is configured with a rectangular frame of front, back, left, right and left without a lid. The storage aid 20 includes a flat front wall portion 21, a rear wall portion 22, and bellows-shaped side wall portions 23 that connect the left and right ends of the front wall portion 21 and the rear wall portion 22. ing. As the material of the storage aid 20, polypropylene (PP), polyethylene terephthalate (PET) sheets, waterproof paper, etc. that are not damaged even at freezing temperatures can be used. The bellows-shaped side wall portion 23 can be folded and unfolded, and each fold portion has a wide width or a narrow width independent of other fold portions depending on the thickness of the frozen product 30 inserted therein. Can be deployed. When not in use, the bellows-like side wall portion 23 can be folded and stored as a thin flat plate as a whole.

  A usage example of the storage aid 20 having the above configuration will be described with reference to FIGS. A freezer compartment drawer 11 is provided in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator 1. Reference numeral 12 denotes a freezer compartment drawer door. Although the number of storage aids 20 that can be used varies depending on the volume and size of the freezer compartment drawer 11, in this embodiment, the two storage aids 20 are arranged in the left and right directions. There is also a method of storing one storage aid 20 only on one of the left and right sides. Furthermore, according to the capacity | capacitance of the container 20, the usage aspect which arranges and uses several bodies before and behind, and the usage aspect which arranges and uses a plurality of bodies before and after and right and left are also possible.

  2 and 5, when the two storage aids 20 are accommodated in the freezer compartment drawer 11 so as to be arranged side by side, as shown in FIG. 3 and FIG. The thick frozen product 30 is inserted with the side surface having a small width in the thickness direction as the bottom surface. In the storage state of FIG. 4, the frozen product 30-5 has the largest thickness, the frozen product 30-1 has the next largest thickness, and the frozen products 30-2 and 30-3 have the next largest thickness, The frozen product 30-4 is the thinnest. Thus, according to the thickness of the frozen product, the opening angle of each fold of the bellows-like side wall portion 23 is individually increased or decreased, so that the plurality of types of frozen products 30 can be reduced. Regardless of the thickness, these left and right end portions are supported in contact with the fold portion of the side wall portion 23, and the frozen products 30 can be stored side by side in the thickness direction. If the frozen product 30 is used up, the empty storage aid 20 can be taken out from the freezer drawer 11 and stored in a place outside the refrigerator 1.

  The storage aid 20 of the present embodiment is a rectangular frame with no lid and no bottom only by the front wall portion 21, the rear wall portion 22, and the left and right side wall portions 23, but on the freezer compartment drawer 11 side. Since there is always a bottom, if the frozen product 30 can be supported so as not to fall in a state where the thin side surface in the thickness direction is faced down, there is no problem even if there is no bottom on the storage aid 20 side. It can be used without.

  As described above, according to the storage aid 20 of the present embodiment, it is suitable for storing a frozen product in the freezer compartment with the side surface having a small width in the thickness direction standing on the bottom surface. Even if the thickness of the product is large or small, by adjusting the opening angle of the bellows part individually, it is possible to correspond to each frozen product with different thickness, and arrange the frozen products of various thicknesses in order in the thickness direction Can be stored in a freezer. Also, because of the bellows shape, the empty part can be bent deeply to reduce the size in the expansion / contraction direction, and the free space outside the storage aid in the freezer can be widened. There is also an advantage that the room is not occupied. In addition, in the case of the present embodiment, since it is constituted by a rectangular frame with no lid and no bottom, the structure is extremely simple, and the manufacturing cost can be reduced correspondingly, and the structure can be provided at low cost.

[Second Embodiment]
FIG. 6 shows a storage aid 20 according to the second embodiment. The feature of the present embodiment is that the storage aid 20 is a non-covered, bottomed square container as compared to the first embodiment. That is, as shown in FIG. 6, the storage aid 20 has a flat front wall portion 21, a rear wall portion 22, and a bellows-like shape that connects the front wall portion 21 and the left and right end portions of the rear wall portion 22. Side wall portion 23 and a bellows-like bottom surface portion 24.

  The material of the storage aid 20 is the same as that of the first embodiment. The bellows-like side wall portion 23 and the bottom surface portion 24 can be expanded and contracted simultaneously, and can be expanded at a wide angle or a narrow angle depending on the thickness of the frozen product 30 into which each fold portion is inserted. And when not in use, the bellows-like side wall 23 and bottom 24 can be folded at the same time to be kept thin and flat as a whole. Although FIG. 6 shows a state in which the two storage aids 20 are arranged side by side, it can naturally be used alone in the freezer drawer 11.

  Even in the storage aid 20 of the present embodiment, as in the first embodiment, it is inserted into the freezer compartment drawer 11 of the refrigerator 1 in the form shown in FIGS. The frozen product 30 can be stored upright. In addition, in the case of the present embodiment, the frozen product 30 does not fall out of the bottom because it has a bottom. Therefore, the storage auxiliary tool 20 is taken out from the freezer drawer 11 and the necessary number of frozen products 30 are inserted in a standing state, and then the containers are stored in the freezer drawer 11 together. It can be used and is convenient.

  In the above embodiment, the case where the frozen product 30 is stored by being inserted into the freezer drawer 11 of the freezer of the refrigerator has been described. However, the storage aid of the present invention has no drawer, and the freezer itself stores the frozen product. For store freezers in space, they can be inserted directly into the freezer compartment. Moreover, the size of the storage aid to be used can be changed to an appropriate size according to the size and volume of the freezer compartment to be used. The number used can also be adjusted.

  Moreover, although the description so far described in detail the case where frozen goods (refrigeration required articles | goods) are stored in a freezer compartment, a refrigeration required article | item can be applied also to a drawer-type refrigerator compartment. That is, the article to be stored is not limited to the article requiring refrigeration, and the storage aid of the present application can also be applied to the case where the article requiring refrigeration stored in the refrigerator compartment is stored in the refrigerator compartment.

  Furthermore, a frozen product does not always use up all the contents at once, and a part of the frozen product may be used and the rest may be stored again in the freezer. In such a case, the opening may be transferred to a bag-like ready-made product that can be sealed and stored. In the case of the storage aid 20 of the present invention, even when such a storage object is transferred to a ready-made bag-like one, the bag-like one is stored in the same manner as the frozen product 30. be able to. That is, the refrigerated article or the refrigerated article is not limited to a commercially available packaged product, but also includes an article transferred from the package. It can also be used when meat and vegetables are chopped and stored in a pack and frozen, or cooked food is stored in a pack and frozen.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Refrigerator 11 Drawer compartment drawer 20 Storage aid 21 Front wall part 22 Rear wall part 23 Side wall part 24 Bottom part 30 Frozen goods

Claims (3)

  A container for storing refrigerated goods or refrigerated goods in a refrigerator or freezer in a refrigerator or freezer, and the left and right side surfaces are bellows, and can be expanded and contracted according to the thickness of the refrigerated goods or refrigerated goods A storage aid.   2. The storage aid according to claim 1, wherein the storage aid is formed of a bellows-like, square, lidless, and bottomless container having both an upper surface and a bottom surface opened. The storage aid according to claim 1, wherein the storage aid is a square, non-covered container having an open top surface and a bellows surface that can expand and contract along with both side surfaces.