JPS623664Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] The present invention consists of a frame that stands upright at the front opening of the refrigerator body so as to partition the opening into left and right sides, and a space between the frame and the back wall inside the refrigerator body. This invention relates to a refrigerator equipped with a support member that is horizontally suspended in the front-rear direction, and its purpose is to prevent the support member from being installed because conventional refrigerators of this type use relatively narrow frames. In view of the problem that the stability of the support member is lowered when the support member is configured to be detachable, it is an object of the present invention to provide a refrigerator that can stably support the support member and also allows the support member to be easily attached and detached.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below based on the drawings.

Reference numeral 1 denotes a refrigerator main body consisting of a horizontally long rectangular heat-insulating box with an open front, and a horizontally long cooler 3 is disposed in the upper part of a refrigerating chamber 2 inside the refrigerator body. A frame body 4 is installed upright in the front opening of the refrigerator body 1 so as to partition it into left and right sides.
Doors 5 and 6 are provided in each opening partitioned by double doors. Further, an operation panel 7 is provided on the front right side of the refrigerator body 1 adjacent to the door 6 thereof. Now, reference numeral 8 denotes a support member that is horizontally suspended in the front-rear direction between the back side of the frame 4 and the back wall 1a inside the refrigerator main body 1 by means described later. As shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, it has a short bar-shaped hook portion 8a extending linearly in the left-right direction at its front end, and can protrude rearward at its rear end. A pair of shaft portions 8b serving as holding members,
8c are spaced apart from each other with a relatively wide width on the left and right, and the hook portion 8a and the shaft portions 8b, 8c
There are receiving portions 8d and 8e spaced apart from each other in the left and right directions and extending in the front-back direction. Further, the support member 8 is provided with guide plate supports 8f and 8g which project upward in a chevron shape and are spaced apart in the front and rear direction, and these guide plate supports 8f and 8g have rectangular plates bent into a chevron shape. A guide plate 9 is mounted and fixed in a mounted manner. On the other hand, reference numerals 10 and 10 denote engaging members made of plastic, for example, which are attached by a snap-in method or the like in a spaced-apart manner to the left and right on the upper part of the back surface of the frame body 4, and these have an arcuate cross section as shown in FIG. Elastic tongue piece 10a and this elastic tongue piece 10
Each of the grooves 10b has a groove 10b defined by a and open at the top. Therefore, in order to horizontally suspend the support member 8 in the above-described state, first, a hole 11 which is a holding means formed in the upper part of the back wall 1a of the refrigerator main body 1 must be opened.
(Actually, there are two spaced apart on the left and right, but only one is shown in the figure).
c is removably and rotatably supported on the back wall 1a, and in this state, the entire support member 8 is attached to the shaft portion 8.
b, 8c as fulcrums, and then rotated upward and then downward to connect the hook portion 8a to the engaging member 10,
10 into the groove portions 10b, 10b from above, and thereby the hook portion 8a is fitted into the engaging members 10, 10.
The work is to detachably support the device. After this, the receiving parts 8d and 8e of the supporting member 8 are
and the receiving portions 1d and 1e formed on the left and right inner walls 1b and 1c of the refrigerator main body 1, respectively. are positioned so as to face the cooler 3 from below and to correspond to the respective openings partitioned by the frame 4 so as to receive defrosting water from the cooler 3. The guide plate 9 serves to guide the defrosting water to the dew pans 12 and 13.

By the way, in a conventional refrigerator of the same type as the refrigerator to which this embodiment is applied, only the rear end of the support member is supported on the inner wall of the refrigerator body, temporarily held in a horizontal structure, and then the frame is The frame body was erected, and the front end of the support member was supported by a pin provided on the back surface of the frame body, thereby horizontally suspending the support member. However, this configuration has the disadvantage that when installing the supporting member in the assembly process, the supporting member must be temporarily held in a horizontal frame shape, which makes the installation work cumbersome. If it becomes necessary to remove the support member for reasons such as cleaning, the frame also has to be removed, which has the drawback that the work of removing the support member becomes extremely troublesome. In particular, since a well-known anti-dew pipe may be buried in the frame, great care must be taken when removing the frame, making the removal process even more troublesome.

In order to deal with the above-mentioned problems, it would be better to have a structure in which the support member can be easily attached and detached, but since the frame is relatively narrow, it is not possible to simply attach and detach the support member. If only a possible configuration is adopted, a new problem arises in that the stability of the support member is reduced.

On the other hand, according to the present embodiment described above, the rear end of the support member 8 is configured to be attached and removed by insertion and removal from the back wall 1a of the refrigerator main body 1, and the front end of the support member 8 is attached to the back wall 1a of the refrigerator body 1. Since the engaging members 10, 10 attached to the body 4 are configured to be detachably supported, the attachment work for horizontally suspending the supporting member 8 in the front-rear direction during the assembly process is extremely simple. When the support member 8 is removed when replacing the cooler 3, etc., the removal operation becomes extremely easy.

The support member 8 has a hook portion 8a at its front end and a pair of shaft portions 8b, 8c provided at its rear end with a relatively wide width in the left and right directions and spaced apart from each other.
Since it is supported through the frame body 4, it is as if it were supported at three points at the apex of the triangle, and even though the frame body 4 is narrow, its supported state is It becomes stable.

According to the present invention, as is clear from the above description, there is a frame provided upright in the front opening of the refrigerator main body so as to partition the opening into left and right sides, and a frame provided in the upper part of the refrigerator main body. a cooler, a dew tray arranged to face the cooler from below and receive defrosting water from the cooler, and horizontally installed in the front-rear direction between the frame and the inner wall of the refrigerator main body; In a refrigerator equipped with a support member that supports the dew tray, the practical effect is that the installation work for horizontally suspending the support member and the removal work thereof can be performed extremely easily.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings relate to one implementation of the present invention; Fig. 1 is an overall perspective view, Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the refrigerator body,
Figure 3 is a vertical front view, Figure 4 is a vertical side view, and Figure 5 is a vertical front view.
7 and 6 are respectively a plan view and a front view of the support member, FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the main part, and FIG. 8 is a vertical sectional side view of the main part different from FIG. 7. In the figure, 1 is the refrigerator body, 1a is the back wall, 3 is the cooler, 4 is the frame, 8 is the support member, 8a is the hook part,
8b and 8c are shaft parts (holding members), 10 is an engaging member, 11 is a hole (holding means), and 12 and 13 are dew pans.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A frame body stands upright in the front opening of the refrigerator main body so as to partition the opening into left and right sides, a cooler disposed in the upper part of the refrigerator main body, and a frame body arranged in the upper part of the refrigerator main body, and a frame body arranged in the upper part of the refrigerator main body; two dew pans facing from above and arranged corresponding to respective openings partitioned into the frame to receive defrost water from the cooler, and on the back side of the frame and inside the refrigerator main body. A refrigerator comprising: a support member that is horizontally suspended in the front-rear direction between the rear wall of the refrigerator and the support member that supports each of the dew trays;
An engaging member having an upwardly opened groove is provided protruding from the back side of the frame, and a holding means is provided on the back wall of the refrigerator main body, and the supporting member is formed by bending a wire. It has a short rod-shaped hook portion extending in the left-right direction at the front end, and a pair of holding members having a relatively wide left-right width and spaced apart from each other at the rear end. A refrigerator characterized in that the member is removably and rotatably supported with respect to the holding means, and the hook portion is removably press-fitted into the groove portion of the engaging member. .