JPH0526466Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] (a) Industrial application field The present invention relates to an improved structure of a refrigerator built into furniture, which is installed in a guest room of a hotel or the like.

(b) Conventional technology Conventionally, in this type of accommodation facility, a small refrigerator is built into the clothes storage furniture installed in the guest room, and the installation space is reduced, and the front of the refrigerator is hidden and closed with a door of the furniture. More and more people are trying to improve the indoor landscape. However, in order to use the refrigerator, the user must first open the furniture door and then open the refrigerator's insulation door, which creates a problem. In order to solve this problem, it is possible to connect the two doors and make them interlock, but the misalignment of the rotation axes of both doors makes it difficult to operate.
In Japanese Patent No. 1707, a guide member and a support member are provided between both doors, and the above problem is solved by rotatable and slidable engagement between the groove of the guide member and the support pin of the support member.

(c) Problems to be solved by the invention If the structure is as in the above publication, the inoperability caused by the misalignment of the rotation axes of both doors will be resolved, but it will not be possible to install the refrigerator on the furniture installed in the guest room. At the site of assembly, it is necessary to connect both doors using special connectors such as guide members and support members, and there was a problem that variations in work efficiency and rotational movement occurred due to differences in the skill level of the assembly workers. .

(d) Means for solving the problem In order to solve the problem, the present invention provides an insulating door that is fixed to the inner surface of the furniture door and closes the opening of the refrigerator, and a hinge formed on one side of the refrigerator. Furniture is incorporated into the furniture by a long rotating arm whose one end is rotatably supported by a hinge, and a holding member which is rotatably provided on the heat insulating door and into which the rotating arm is slidably inserted and engaged. It consists of a refrigerator.

(E) Effect According to the present invention, if the refrigerator is assembled in advance, the insulating door of the refrigerator can be simply fixed to the door of the furniture at the installation site, and special fixing devices are also required at this time. I don't. Moreover, the insulating door is separated from the refrigerator as a whole by opening the furniture door.

(F) Embodiments Next, embodiments will be explained with reference to the drawings. In Figure 1, 1 is a piece of furniture that is installed in guest rooms of hotels, etc., and is equipped with a plurality of drawers 2, 3, and 4 for storing clothes, and next to the drawers 2, 3, and 4 is a storage room that opens toward the front. 5 is formed, and can be opened and closed by a door 7 rotatably supported by hinges 6 at the top and bottom of one side. Reference numeral 8 denotes a refrigerator, and a hinge 9 attached to the top and bottom of one side has a rotating arm 10 and a holding member 1.
1, a heat insulating door 12 is rotatably supported, and the front opening can be opened and closed. Furthermore, a gasket 13 made of soft resin is attached to the periphery of the inner surface of the heat insulating door 12 to seal between the opening edge of the refrigerator 8 and the door 12.

FIG. 2 shows an enlarged exploded view of the upper hinge 9 portion. The rotating arm 10 is in the shape of a long square rod, and has an engagement hole 14 penetrating it vertically at one end, and stepped portions 15, 15 at the corners of the upper surface in the longitudinal direction. There is. A hinge pin 17 that protrudes downward from the hinge 9 (in the case of a lower hinge, it protrudes upward) is inserted into the engagement hole 14 as shown by the broken line arrow in the figure, and the rotating arm 10 is rotatably engaged with the hinge pin 17. will be combined. The holding member 11 has a substantially U-shaped cross section with both ends and the top open, and has a groove 19 whose top opening is narrowed by inward flanges 18, 18 formed at the open ends of the top. There is. The inner surface shape of this groove 19 substantially matches the cross-sectional shape of the rotating arm 10. This holding member 11 is positioned on the upper and lower end faces of the heat insulating door 12 on the hinge 9 side, and is insulated as shown by the broken line arrow in the figure using a countersunk screw 22 in a through hole 21 bored at the bottom of the end opposite to the hinge 9. It is fixed to the door 12. A flat surface portion 22a with no threads is formed at the base of the countersunk screw 22, whereby the holding member 11 is rotatably supported by the heat insulating door 12. By slidably inserting the rotating arm 10 into the groove 19 of the holding member 11 as shown by the broken line arrow in the figure, and by engaging the flanges 18, 18 with the step portions 15, 15, the heat insulating door 12 can be attached to the refrigerator 8. can be attached to. Incidentally, a similar structure is also constructed on the lower hinge.

The refrigerator 8 configured in this manner is housed and installed at a predetermined position within the housing chamber 5, and the heat insulating door 12 is fixed to the inner surface of the door 7 with a fixture 24.

Next, the operation will be explained with reference to FIGS. 3 to 5. Each figure shows a plan view of the furniture 1 with the top wall removed. In FIG. 3, the door 7 is closed, and in this state, the heat insulation door 12 is located between the refrigerator 8 and the door 7, and the gasket 13 is in close contact with the opening edge of the refrigerator 8.
Further, the rotating arm 10 is entirely housed within a holding member 11, and the holding member 11 itself extends along the end surface of the heat insulating door 12.

From this state, when the door 7 is slightly opened as shown in FIG.
The rotating arm 10 also rotates and is pulled out from the small-capacity holding member 11. When the door 7 is further opened, the heat insulating door 12 is further pulled away from the refrigerator 8, and at the same time, the rotating arm 10 is further pulled out from the holding member 11. This absorbs the positional deviation of the rotation axes of the hinges 6 and 9. Moreover, the opening operation of the door 7 also opens the insulation door 12, and in particular, the insulation door 12 as a whole is separated from the refrigerator 8. There is no risk that the gasket 13 on the 9 side will be soaked by the rotation of the heat insulating door 12, and the durability of the gasket 13 can be improved.
Further, the closing operation of the door 7 is performed in the opposite manner to that described above.

(g) Effects of the invention Since the furniture built-in refrigerator of the invention is constructed as described above, the insulating door of the refrigerator is also opened when the door of the furniture is opened, which saves the trouble of opening two doors separately. Improves usability. In particular, at the installation site, it is only necessary to fix the insulation door of the refrigerator to the door of the furniture, and there is no need for any specially shaped parts for this fixing, so the work of assembling the refrigerator into the furniture on site is extremely simple. This improves work efficiency and reduces the possibility of variations in operation.

Furthermore, since the entire insulating door of the refrigerator is separated from the refrigerator when the furniture door is opened, this has great practical effects, such as improving the durability of the gasket normally provided on the inner surface of the insulating door.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Each figure shows an embodiment of the present invention. Figure 1 is a perspective view of furniture and a refrigerator, Figure 2 is an exploded perspective view of the hinge part of the refrigerator, and Figures 3 to 5 are insulation of the furniture door and refrigerator. FIG. 3 is a partially cutaway plan view of the furniture for explaining the rotational movement of the door. 1... Furniture, 6, 9... Hinge, 7... Door, 8
... Refrigerator, 10 ... Rotating arm, 11 ... Covering member, 12 ... Heat insulation door, 22 ... Screw, 24 ... Fixing tool.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] In a refrigerator built into furniture that has a door rotatably supported on one side, an insulating door that is fixed to the inner surface of the door of the furniture and closes the opening of the refrigerator, and a space between the insulating door and the edge of the opening of the refrigerator. a hinge formed on one side of the refrigerator; a rotating arm rotatably supported at one end by the hinge;
A refrigerator built into furniture, comprising a holding member movably engaged with the rotary arm and rotatably provided on the heat insulating door outside the sealing material.