JP2582626Y2 - Door devices for storage, etc. - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a door device suitable for an ice machine, a refrigerator, a storage, and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional small ice maker, as shown schematically in FIG. 4, the inside of a main body 1 is partitioned into an upper ice making mechanism 2, a central ice storage 3 and a lower machine room 4. ,
The drain tray 5 in the ice making mechanism 2 is fixed to the front frame 7 of the main body 1 by screws 6, and the upper front cover 9 is hooked on the screw collars 8 attached to the left and right of the front of the main body 1, respectively. The cover 9 covers the front of the ice making mechanism 2 and the lower front cover 10 is
It is attached so as to cover the front. On the other hand, hinges 13 fixed to the left and right of the front surface of the main body 1 by bolts 12 with the spacer 11 interposed therebetween, and hinges 15 fixed to the left and right ends of the lower end of the pivoting door 14 are pivoted by lateral support shafts (not shown). The pivoting door 1 is supported by the urging force of a latch 16 and a spring 17 locked by a hinge 15.
4 covers the front of the ice storage 3. 18 is a top plate of the main body 1, 19 is an opening / closing handle attached to the upper end of the rotating door 14, 20 is a rotating door 14 whose left and right lower ends are pivotally supported by the main body 1.
It is a slope for taking out ice that is linked to the opening and closing of the ice.

That is, in the ice making machine described above, when the handle 19 is pulled toward the front against the urging force of the spring 17, the rotating door 14 is rotated forward about the lower horizontal axis and opened. Many restaurants and the like that use the machine have a small work place such as a kitchen so that the inside of the store can be used as widely as possible.
In many cases, it is necessary to take care that opening of the rotating door 14 does not hinder surrounding equipment and facilities when the ice maker is installed. In some cases, it was difficult to select the location of the ice machine. Furthermore, when installing the ice machine, the spring 1
7 requires a skilled operator to adjust the opening and closing of the pivoting door 14, and the installation work inevitably requires a relatively long time .

[0004]

The present invention It is an object of the present invention, the ice-making mechanism
And ice storage, which are located vertically above and below
Thus, a door device is provided in which the front space of the ice storage is not narrowed when the door of the storage or the like is opened, and the conventional front pivoting door can be easily changed to a horizontal sliding door. What you want to do.

[0005]

For this reason, in the door device such as the storage according to the present invention, the ice making mechanism and the ice storage are provided separately.
The ice making mechanism
A wall portion and an opening is detachably secured over the front of the ice bin is formed, is composed of a door for opening and closing the opening by sliding transversely to the opening of the wall, the manufactured < The drain tray is fixed to a bracket attached to the back surface of the wall without protruding in the width direction from a drain tray installed below the ice mechanism.

[0006]

Therefore, the front of the storage or the like is opened and closed by sliding the door in the horizontal direction with respect to the opening. At this time, the front of the storage or the like does not protrude at all, so the front space of the storage or the like is always free. And the door is attached to the opening of the wall and is unitized with the wall, so that the wall can be assembled in advance, and this wall can be fixed to the front of the storage room and shipped. And the bracket attached to the back surface of the wall does not protrude from the drain plate of the ice making mechanism in the width direction, as compared with the conventional device in which the drain tray is fixed to the front frame crossing the front of the main body. because it is considerably miniaturized than in the portion not facing the discharging tray can be formed of surplus spaces the upper portion of the front side of the ice bin, was also unitized on the front of such existing rotating door type reservoir By incorporating a part, it is also easy to alter the times Dotobira reservoirs such as the slide door.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below by assigning the same reference numerals to the same parts as those of the conventional device. In FIGS. 1 to 3, the front of the upper ice making mechanism 2 and the center ice storage 3 of the ice making machine main body 1 is covered with a wall 21, and the front of the lower machine room is covered with a lower front cover 10.
The wall portion 21 is formed by filling a heat insulating foamed resin 24 between a front panel 22 made of a stainless steel plate and a back panel 23 made of a resin, and a horizontally long rectangular opening 25 is formed at a substantially central portion thereof.

At the top and bottom of the opening 25, resin-molded rails 26 are fixed by screws (not shown). At the same time, at the left and right of the opening 25, resin-molded rails 27 are fixed by screws (not shown). Rails 26, 27
Two transparent or colored doors 28, 28 made of resin are fitted in the inside so as to overlap with each other, and the door 25, 28 slides along the rail 26 in the lateral direction to open the opening 25.
Are closed or opened. Reference numeral 29 denotes a handle formed on the slide door 28. Hooks 31 are attached to the left and right upper portions of the wall portion 21 by caulking pins 30, respectively. The hooks 31 are hooked on the screw collars 8 on the front surface of the main body 1, and the lower right and left lower ends of the wall portion 21 are respectively bolted to the main body 1. A drain tray 36 of the ice making mechanism 2 is fixed by screws 35 to a bracket 34 fixed to the front surface and attached to the back side of the wall 21 by screws 33.

As described above, the horizontal sliding door 28,
28 are fitted into the opening 25 of the wall portion 21 and are unitized, so that the entire wall portion 21 has a relatively small number of parts and is simple in structure, and the wall portion 21 on the front surface of the main body 1 is simple.
Since the assembly and adjustment work can be simplified, the cost can be easily reduced, and the maintenance work of the ice making mechanism 2 can be performed by removing only the unitized wall 21. The working efficiency can be improved as compared with the device. Further, the doors 28, 28 are configured to slide laterally within the opening 25 of the wall portion 21 to open and close the opening 25, and the doors 28, 28 never project to the front of the ice making machine. Even if the ice machine is installed in a small kitchen, the work space in the kitchen can always be used effectively, which is very convenient.

Further, since the machine room is arranged below the ice storage 3, the width of the ice making machine body 1 can be made relatively small, which is convenient for installation in a small kitchen or the like, while the front frame is convenient. Drain tray 36 on bracket 34 shorter than width 7
When fixed, an extra space is created on the upper right side of the ice storage 3
Because the outlet is higher, it can be reached deep inside the ice storage 3
Through the sliding doors 28, 28 from the ice storage 3.
Flip and taken out of ice is a very easy, it is possible to enhance the marketability of the ice making machine.

Further, since the sliding doors 28, 28 are fitted into the openings 25 and the wall 21 is unitized, a conventional machine such as a conventional ice making machine having a machine room arranged below and having a forward turning door is provided. By replacing the wall portion 21, the ice making machine or the like can be easily changed to a sliding door type as required. That is, in the conventional apparatus shown in FIG.
The pivot door 14 is removed from the main body 1 by removing the bolts 12 and the spacers 11 and the hinges 13 are separated from the front surface of the main body 1, and the slope 20 is removed from the main body 1. The upper front cover 9 is removed by disengagement of the upper front cover 9 from the screw collar 8, and a sliding door 28 to be attached later is provided.
When the front frame 7 hinders the removal of the ice from 28, the screw 6 fixing the drain tray 5 is removed, and then the front frame 7 is removed from the main body 1.

Then, the hook 31 of the unitized wall 21 is hooked on the screw collar 8 on the front surface of the main body 1, the lower front cover 10 is opened, and the bolts 12 are used as the bolts 32, whereby the left and right lower ends of the wall 21 are When the front frame 7 is removed from the main body 1 as described above, the sliding door 28 is opened, a hand is inserted from the front, and the drain pan 5 is If it is fixed to the bracket 34 on the back side of the part 21, the previous rotating door can be
Therefore, the modified ice maker can exhibit the same operation and effects as described above.

Incidentally, the sliding door type ice maker of FIG. 1 can be easily changed to a rotating door type ice maker by performing the reverse procedure as required, if necessary.
It goes without saying that the above-mentioned wall portion in which the sliding door is unitized can be applied to a refrigerator, a showcase, a storage, and the like. If the opening formed in the front wall portion of the storage or the like may be relatively small, the opening may be biased to one of the right and left sides of the front wall portion, and a single sliding door closing the opening may be formed. Etc. can be further improved.

[0014]

According to the present invention, in the door device for a storage or the like, the door for opening and closing the front wall opening of the storage or the like is of a sliding type in the horizontal direction, and the door protrudes from the front of the storage or the like. Because there is no storage, even if the storage is installed in a narrow place, the front space of the storage is not narrowed by opening and closing the door, so it is very convenient.
There is little need to be restricted by the installation location of the storage, etc., and the sliding door is attached to the opening of the wall and unitized with the wall, so this pre-assembled wall can be installed on the front of the storage, etc. Not only can it be shipped fixed, but also because the drain plate of the ice making mechanism is fixed to the bracket attached to the back of the wall, even if the front of the storage is covered by the wall, the interior of the storage has the advantage of supporting the discharging tray is very easily in and savings in part not facing the discharging tray by using a small bracket
An excess space can be formed in the upper front of the ice storage ,
Unlike the conventional device in which the front frame is present over the entire width of the main body, the ice take-out port is formed high in the above-mentioned portion, so that there is an advantage that the ice can be taken out easily through the sliding door. The incorporation of the wall portion into the front surface of the revolving door type storage or the like makes it possible to easily change the revolving door type storage or the like into a sliding door type, and the practical effect is extremely large.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view showing an embodiment of the present invention with a part thereof broken away.

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view showing an enlarged main part of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of a section III in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view of a conventional device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Ice-making machine main body 2 Ice-making mechanism part 3 Ice storage 8 Screw collar 10 Front cover for lower machine room 18 Top plate 21 Wall part 28 Slide door 32 Bolt

Claims (1)

(57) [Scope of request for utility model registration] 1. An ice making mechanism and an ice storage are vertically arranged, respectively.
The ice making mechanism and the ice storage
The ice making mechanism comprises a wall portion which is detachably fixed over the front of the refrigerator and has an opening formed therein, and a door which slides laterally with respect to the opening of the wall portion to open and close the opening. A door device such as a storage device in which the drainage dish is fixed to a bracket attached to the back surface of the wall portion without protruding in the width direction from a drainage dish installed at a lower portion.