JPS5916783Y2 - refrigerator shelving device - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] This invention relates to an improvement of a shelf for placing food in a refrigerator.

Generally, refrigerator shelf systems have multiple shelf rails on both sides of the inner box, and shelves are inserted into these rails from the front of the opening. In order to change the position, you have to pull the shelf toward you and remove it, then relocate the removed shelf to another shelf support rail.
This process takes a long time and has the drawback that cold air leaks outside while the refrigerator is in operation.

The purpose of this invention is to eliminate such drawbacks, and to provide a shelf device with foldable shelves and a hinge that connects a plurality of shelves in a foldable manner.

This invention will be explained in detail below with reference to the illustrated embodiments.
2 is a refrigerator main body, 2 is an inner box constituting this main body, and a plurality of shelf support rails 4 are integrally provided on both side walls 3.

5 is a flat shelf placed on this shelf support rail, and 6 is a glass shelf that covers the top surface of a vegetable case 7 disposed at the inner bottom of the inner box 2.

Reference numeral 8 denotes shelf supports attached to both side walls 3 of the inner box 2 and below the shelf support rails 4. On the inside surface thereof, there is a guide rail 9 for sliding the shelf, and on the back side of the lower part of this guide rail there is a shaft. It has 10 branches.

11 is a folding shelf with two shelves connected by a hinge 12;
These shelves consist of a front shelf 13 and a rear shelf 14, and the outer frame is made of thick wire rods 15 to form a liquid gap in the shape of a mouth, and a plurality of thin wire rods 16 are arranged in parallel on this outer frame, and both ends are welded to hold food. It makes up the surface.

Further, this hinge has an engaging portion 17 that engages with the thick wire rod 15.
A notch 19 that engages with the thin wire 16 on both sides of the side plate 18 of this engaging portion and both of the retaining portions 17 are connected by an extremely thin band 20, which is integrally molded from a synthetic resin such as polypropylene. .

Reference numeral 21 denotes pivot shafts protruding from both sides of the lower part of the rear shelf 14, which are pivotally connected to the shaft supports 10 of the shelf support 8.

Next, we will explain the function of the shelf device according to this invention. In normal use, it has the same form as other flat shelves 5, but it does not store food items that are larger than the distance A dimension from the lower shelf, such as fruits such as watermelons. When placing and storing the folding shelf 11, the front side of the folding shelf 11 is pushed backward as shown by the arrow in the figure, so that the hinge 13 is positioned above the line connecting the side muscle surface, which is the point of action, and the pivot support 10. As a result, the hinge portion gradually moves upward and the side reinforcement surface also retreats, and when the hinge portion 12 exceeds the pivot support 10, the folding shelf 11 collapses into the inner box 2 due to its own weight.
Place it on the back of the machine to stop it.

At this time, the front shelf 13 and the rear shelf 14 are folded and the operation is completed, so that the space between the shelves becomes wide, and tall bottles and fruits such as squids can be stored.

Further, the front shelf 13 and the rear shelf 14 are connected as follows.

That is, by engaging the notches 19 of the hinges 12 with adjacent thin wire rods 16 and engaging the engaging portions 17 with the thick wire rods 15 of the outer frame, the shelves are foldably connected.

Since this invention is constructed as described above, the work of connecting the front shelf and the rear shelf with a hinge can be done by simply fitting the hinge into the wire of the shelf, and tightening the screws like conventional hinge installation. No additional work is required.

In addition, since the engaging part and notch part of the hinge are respectively engaged and fixed to the thick wire material of the outer frame and the thin wire material perpendicular to this, the hinge can rotate around the thick wire material of the outer frame, and the outer frame This eliminates the risk of the shelf falling off, and provides a folding shelf with good performance.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings all show one embodiment of this invention, and the first
The figure is a side sectional view of the refrigerator, Figure 2 is an enlarged view of the main parts of Figure 1 showing the operating state of the shelf device, and Figure 3 is an exploded perspective view of the shelf device.
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the hinge. In the figure, 2 is an inner box, 3 is a side wall, 9 is a guide rail, 10 is a shaft support, 12 is a hinge, 13 is a front shelf, 14 is a rear shelf, 15 is a thick wire material, 16 is a thin wire material, and 17 is an engaging part , 18 is the side plate, 1
9 is a notch, 20 is an extremely thin band, and 21 is a support shaft.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A guide rail arranged on both side walls of the inner box, a shaft support provided at the rear of the guide rail, a rear shelf having a support shaft that fits with the shaft support, a front shelf, this front shelf and the above-mentioned rear. In a refrigerator shelf device in which a folding shelf is constructed by connecting shelves with hinges, the front shelf and the rear shelf include a plurality of shelves each having an outer frame bent from thick wire material and having both ends welded to the outer frame. The hinge has a retaining portion on both sides that engages with the thick wire, and a cutout that engages with the thin wire on both sides of the side plate of the retainer. A shelf device for a refrigerator, characterized in that it has an integral structure in which an extremely thin band is formed and connects the retaining portions.