KR0122418Y1 - Refrigerator - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a refrigerator.

The present invention is provided in the refrigerator body 1 having an enclosure shape, an intermediate wall 3 partitioning the inside of the main body 1 into a freezer compartment 4 and a refrigerating compartment 5, and a rear side of the freezer compartment 4. Evaporator (6) for producing a cold air duct (7), which is installed at the rear of the refrigerating chamber (5) and having a cold air inlet (7a) into which a portion of the cold air generated in the evaporator (6) flows, the refrigerating chamber (6) Is provided at the rear of the shelf is provided with a shelf support means (8) for supporting one side of the shelf (9) on which the food container is placed under height adjustment.

The present invention can facilitate the height adjustment of the shelf on which the food container is stored in the refrigerator can be given convenience in use and thereby improve the reliability of the product.

Description

Refrigerator

1 is a side cross-sectional view of a typical refrigerator.

Figure 2 is a side cross-sectional view of the refrigerator according to the present invention.

Figure 3 is an exploded perspective view showing the shelf support means of the refrigerator according to the present invention.

Figure 4 is a cross-sectional view showing a state of use of the shelf support means of the refrigerator according to the present invention.

* Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings

1: Body 2: Doa

3: middle wall 4: freezer

5: Refrigerator 6: Evaporator

7: Cold air duct 7a: Cold air inlet

8: Shelf support means 9: Shelves

80: support portion 80a: support member

80b: Hole 80c: Notch groove

81: lifting portion 81a: plate

81b: support hole 81c: support plate

81d: support groove 90: support rod

91: support protrusion

The present invention relates to a refrigerator, and more particularly to a refrigerator that can easily adjust the height of the shelf on which the food storage container is placed in the refrigerator.

In general, as shown in FIG. 1, the refrigerator includes a main body 10 that forms a food storage chamber and a door 20 that opens and closes the food storage chamber.

The main body 10 includes a cabinet 11 forming an overall frame, an inner box 12 disposed inside the cabinet 11, and a foam 13 filled and foamed between the cabinet 11 and the inner box 12. It is provided.

The food storage compartment is separated by the intermediate wall 30 and is divided into a freezing compartment 31 and a refrigerating compartment 32.

The evaporator is installed at the rear of the freezing chamber 31 (or the middle partition wall), and a blower 50 including the cooling fan 51 and the fan motor 52 is installed above the evaporator 40.

In addition, a cold air duct 60 is formed on the rear walls of the freezing chamber 31 and the refrigerating chamber 32 to guide cold air flow by the blower 50, and a plurality of cold air discharge holes 61 are formed in the cold air duct 60. Thus, the cool air is properly supplied to each chamber.

And both side walls of the refrigerating chamber 32 is provided with a plurality of guide rails 71 having a concave-convex shape integrally formed on the inner wall forming the inner wall of the refrigerating chamber 32, the shelf for mounting the refrigerated food (where appropriate) There are several 70) detachably provided.

In the refrigerator configured as described above, cold air is generated by the evaporation of the evaporator 40, and the generated cold air is forcedly circulated through the freezing chamber 31 or the refrigerating chamber 32 by the blower 50.

That is, as shown by the one-point arrow in FIG. 1, the cold air generated in the evaporator 40 passes through the cold air duct 60 by the blower 50. The cold air discharge hole 61 formed in the cold air duct 60 is opened. It is supplied to the freezing compartment 31 and the refrigerating compartment 32 through. In addition, the cold air after the heat exchange is sucked and circulated toward the evaporator 40 through the front side of the intermediate wall 30 again as an advantage arrow.

Therefore, frozen foods in the freezer compartment can be stored and stored in the refrigerator at an appropriate temperature.

However, in such a general refrigerator, especially the shelf has the following problems.

That is, a plurality of guide rails 71 are integrally provided with the inner wounds on both inner walls forming the inner wounds of the refrigerating chamber 32, and several shelves are slidably coupled to the guide rails 71 and stored in the refrigerating chamber 32. In the case of storing a plurality of relatively large height and size of the food container to be separated, the shelf 70 is separated from the guide rail 71 according to the height and size thereof, and then the height of the shelf 70 is adjusted again. There was a cumbersome problem of storing containers.

In addition, the guide rail supporting the shelf has to be provided in an uneven shape integrally on the inner wall forming both inner walls of the refrigerating chamber, and thus, the manufacturing of the guide rail is complicated and the storage space of the refrigerating chamber is unnecessarily reduced.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and an object thereof is to provide a shelf of a refrigerator that can easily adjust the height of a shelf on which a food storage container is placed in the refrigerator.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a refrigerator that is easy to manufacture the inner image forming the inner wall of both sides of the refrigerating compartment, as well as to expand the storage space of the refrigerating compartment.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a refrigerator main body having an enclosure shape, an intermediate wall for vertically dividing the inside of the main body into a freezer compartment and a refrigerating compartment, an evaporator provided at the rear of the freezer compartment and generating cold air, and installed at the rear of the refrigerating compartment. And a cold air duct having a cold air inflow portion into which a part of the cold air generated in the evaporator is introduced, and a shelf supporting means provided at the rear of the refrigerating chamber and supporting one side of the shelf on which the food container is placed under height adjustment. to provide.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, a preferred embodiment of the present invention for achieving this object will be described in detail.

2 is a side cross-sectional view of a refrigerator to which the present invention is applied, and FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing the shelf supporting means according to the present invention in detail.

As shown therein, the main body 1 of the refrigerator has a rectangular box shape in which the front side is opened, and the front side thereof is sealed by the door 2.

The interior of the main body 1 is divided into a freezing compartment 4 and a refrigerating compartment 5 by an intermediate wall 3.

In addition, an evaporator 6 is provided at a rear side (or an intermediate wall) of the freezing chamber 4, and cold air generated at the rear of the freezing chamber 4 and the refrigerating chamber 5 supplies the cool air generated by the evaporator 6 to each chamber. A cold air duct 7 having an inlet 7a is provided, which is similar to that of a general refrigerator.

However, a feature of the present invention is that the rear of the refrigerating chamber is provided with a shelf supporting means 8 for supporting a shelf on which a food container is placed, and adjusting its height.

The shelf supporting means 8 is provided vertically on both front sides of the cold air duct 7 and has a support portion 80 having an upper surface and a rear surface opened so that a predetermined space portion is formed at the rear, and the upper and lower sides of the support portion 80. It is supported to be elevated and provided with a lifting unit 81 is supported on one side of the shelf (9).

The support part 80 is a support member 80a having one or both sides of the upper and lower sides thereof open, a hole 80b which communicates a plurality at regular intervals in front of the support member 80a, and the hole 80b and the hole. It is provided with a notch groove (80c) for connecting between (80b).

The lifting unit 81 is provided with a plate body 81a supported inside the support member 80a, a lower side of the plate body 81a, a support hole 81b corresponding to the hole 80b, and the plate body ( It is provided on the upper side of the 81a) and the support plate 81c which is supported on the outer side of the support member 80a, and the support groove 81d provided on the upper side of the support plate 81c.

The shelf 9 coupled thereto is integrally extended to the lower side of the rear both ends and integrally on the upper side of the rear both ends of the support rod 90 and the shelf 9 which are fitted to the support hole 81b through the holes 80b. It is provided with a support protrusion 91 that extends and one end is bent downward to fit in the support groove (81d).

The operation and effects of the present invention configured as described above will be described.

First, before the height adjustment of the shelf according to the present invention, as shown in Figure 2, using the fastening member or the like on both sides of the front of the cold air duct (7) to support the support portion 80 to perform the function of the shelf support means (8) To combine. Of course, at this time, it can be said that the lifting unit 81 is installed inside the support 80. When the cold air duct 7 and the support unit 80 is completed as described above, the shelf 9 is coupled thereto. That is, the first state in which the shelf 9 is supported is that the support protrusion 91 provided on the rear upper side of the shelf 9 is in the support groove 81d provided in the support plate 81c of the lifting unit 81. The supporting rod 90 which is fitted and opposed to the lower side thereof is in a state of being fitted into and supported by the supporting hole 81b of the plate body 81a through the hole 80b of the supporting portion 80. That is, the support rod 90 provided below the shelf 9 is fitted into the hole 80b of the support 80, and the cutout groove 80c provided below the hole 80b is the shelf 9. Since the width thereof is smaller than the diameter of the supporting rod 90 provided at the rear of the), the supporting rod 90 is supported by the hole 80b of the supporting portion 80.

The shelf 9 is thus supported at a constant height (see also third and fourth).

In this state, when it is necessary to adjust the height of the shelf 9 according to the height and size of the food container placed on the shelf 9, the plate body through the hole 80b of the support 80 as shown in FIG. Only a portion of the support bar 90 of the shelf 9 fitted into the support hole 81b of the 81a is separated upward from the support hole 81b, and then the support protrusion 91 of the shelf 9 is removed from the plate body. The predetermined height is adjusted by raising or lowering the plate body 81a in a state of being fitted (or separated) into the support groove 81d of 81a). When the height adjustment of the shelf is completed in this way, the support bar 91 of the plate 81a is provided through the hole 80b of the support part 80 by lowering the support bar 91 provided at the rear of the shelf 9 in the reverse order. The height adjustment of the shelf 9 is completed by fitting in 81b.

Therefore, it is easy to adjust the height of the refrigerator shelf.

The present invention solves the troublesome problem of adjusting the height by completely removing the shelf of the refrigerator and reinserting it to a desired height as in the related art. In addition, since the inner wounds forming the inner walls of both sides of the refrigerating chamber are not formed in an uneven shape in order to support the shelves of the refrigerating chamber, the manufacturing is easy and the storage area of the refrigerator compartment is increased.

As described in detail above, the present invention can easily adjust the height of the shelf on which the food container is stored in the refrigerator, thereby providing convenience in use and improving the reliability of the product.

Claims (2)

A refrigerator main body having an enclosure shape, an evaporator provided at the rear of the freezer compartment for partitioning the inside of the main body into a freezer compartment and a refrigerating compartment and generating cold air, and installed at the rear of the refrigerating compartment and having a portion of cold air generated from the evaporator flowed in A refrigerator having a cold air duct having an inlet, wherein the front side of the cold air duct is provided with a support member having a plurality of holes spaced apart from the cold air duct by a predetermined interval and having a plurality of holes formed therein and a cutout groove communicating the holes. The support member includes a support plate having one end protruding outwardly of the cutout groove and a plate body having a support hole formed on an inner surface thereof, and a support bar bent to be inserted into the support hole of the plate body and a support protrusion bent to be coupled to the support plate at a coupling end of the shelf. Simultaneously with the shank of the shelf to remove the support rod from the support hole And a shelf is movable up and down as the plate body is moved up and down along the notched groove. The refrigerator of claim 1, wherein a support groove is formed on an upper surface of the support plate so that an end portion of the support protrusion is fitted from an upper side thereof.