KR20020071527A - Refrigerator - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A refrigerator is provided to efficiently use a door rack by minutely adjust height of the door rack without separating from a door. CONSTITUTION: A refrigerator includes a door opening and closing a storage compartment of a cabinet; a plurality of door racks(50) assembled on a rear surface of the door; and position varying devices varying assembled position of the door racks and including vertical moving devices placed between side walls(42L,42R) of the door and the door racks to vertically move the door racks and locking devices fixing the positions of the door racks movable along the vertical moving devices.

Description

Refrigerator {Refrigerator}

The present invention relates to a refrigerator, and more particularly to a refrigerator having a door shelf that is assembled to the back of the door to accommodate bottled drinks and the like.

In general, the refrigerator is configured to supply the cold air generated from the evaporator of the refrigeration cycle to the storage compartment to maintain the freshness of various foods for a long time.

The conventional refrigerator includes a cabinet formed by partitioning a freezer compartment for storing frozen food and a refrigerating compartment for storing refrigerated food, and a freezing chamber door and a refrigerating chamber door that are hinged to the front of the cabinet to open and close the freezer compartment and the refrigerating compartment.

The freezer compartment and the refrigerating compartment are each equipped with multiple shelves for storing and storing food. In addition, a storage box (aka, vegetable box) in which vegetables and the like are separately stored is arranged in the lower portion of the refrigerating chamber having a larger internal space than the freezer compartment so as to be slidable forward and backward.

And the back of the freezer door and the refrigerating chamber door is configured with a door shelf for storing small food. In particular, since the refrigerator door is relatively larger than the freezer door, the door shelf is provided in multiple stages.

The door shelf installed in the refrigerating chamber door is stored and stored, such as bottled beverages, eggs, will be described in detail the assembly structure of the conventional door shelf with reference to FIG.

First, the rear side of the refrigerating chamber door 1 has a pair of side walls 2L and 2R side by side to support both ends of the door shelf 4. The side walls 2L and 2R are provided at the same height so that the locking projections 3 correspond to each other.

And the locking groove (4a) is formed on both sides of the door shelf (4) so that the locking jaw (3) is inserted and combined with a margin.

Therefore, when the door shelf 4 is pushed from the upper side to the lower side between the pair of side walls 2L and 2R, the locking jaw 3 is inserted into the locking groove 4a, whereby the door shelf 4 is opened. It is mounted on the rear surface of the refrigerating chamber door 1 to prevent sagging down.

However, in the conventional door shelf 4 assembly structure, the height can be adjusted only through the locking step 3 formed on the side walls 2L and 2R. Accordingly, in order to adjust the height of the door shelf (4), a series of processes that need to put down the stored food, completely disassemble the door shelf (4) and then assembled on the latching jaw (3) located at the desired height By going through, it is not possible to facilitate its height adjustment.

In addition, the height of the door shelf (4) can not be finely adjusted, and thus the large container has a disadvantage in that the door shelf (4) can not be used efficiently.

The present invention is to solve this problem, an object of the present invention is to improve the assembly structure of the door shelf to provide a refrigerator that can effectively use the door shelf by adjusting its height more precisely without separating from the door will be.

1 is a schematic view showing an assembly structure of a door shelf of a conventional refrigerator.

2 is a perspective view showing the overall structure of a parallel refrigerator according to the present invention.

3 is a perspective view showing the assembly structure of the door shelf according to the present invention.

Figure 4 is an exploded perspective view showing an extract of the locking means of the door shelf according to the present invention.

5 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line V-V of Figure 3, showing an assembled state of the door shelf according to the present invention.

6 and 7 show the height adjustment state of the door shelf according to the present invention.

* Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings *

40.door 50.door shelf

60. Position changer 61. Vertical movement means

61a..Elevating rail 61b..Rail groove

65. Locking means 66. Locking groove

67..Support plate 68..Locker

The present invention for achieving this object is;

A refrigerator having a door for opening and closing a storage compartment of a cabinet, a plurality of door shelves assembled on a rear surface of the door, and a position changer for changing the assembly position of the door shelves,

The position variable device includes a vertical movement means provided between the side wall of the door and the door shelf so as to move the door shelf in the up and down direction, and a locking means for fixing the door shelf that is movable along the vertical movement means. do.

In addition, the vertical movement means is characterized in that it comprises a lifting rail provided in the longitudinal direction on the side wall of the door, and rail grooves formed on both sides of the door shelf to be coupled to the lifting rail.

In addition, the locking means includes a plurality of locking grooves formed in multiple stages on the rear surface of the door, a supporting plate which is supported by the end of the locking groove to support the door shelf, and a locker for maintaining the supporting plate in the locked groove. It is characterized by.

In addition, the locking groove is characterized by consisting of the inclined guide surface for guiding the support plate to move in the upward direction is made to be inclined so as to be connected to the support surface on which the tip of the base plate is seated, and the top of the locking groove located on the upper side from the inside of the base. .

In addition, the bottom of the door shelf is characterized in that the supporting jaw is provided for supporting the both sides of the support plate to move forward and backward.

In addition, the rear end of the supporting plate is characterized in that the handle is bent downward.

In addition, the locker is a case mounted on the bottom of the door shelf adjacent to the rear end of the support plate, installed in the case so as to move forward and backward, the tip is protruded to the outside and the support pin and the support pin by elastically supporting the support pin It characterized in that it comprises an elastic spring for advancing.

Hereinafter, one preferred embodiment according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to FIG. 2, the parallel refrigerator according to the present invention includes a cabinet including a freezer compartment for storing frozen food (not shown) and a refrigerating compartment 20 for storing refrigerated food, the compartment being partitioned. 10 and left and right doors 30 and 40 which open and close the openings of the freezer compartment and the refrigerating compartment 20.

The freezer compartment and the refrigerating compartment 20 are provided to be partitioned left and right by the intermediate partition 11, and a plurality of shelves 21 and a storage box 22 for storing and storing food are arranged to be pulled out.

In addition, the left and right doors 30 and 40 are coupled to one side of the upper and lower parts through the hinge of the front part of the cabinet 10 so as to be opened and closed, and a gasket 41 is provided along the rear edge thereof. Accordingly, when the left and right doors 30 and 40 are closed, the gasket 41 comes into close contact with the front surface of the cabinet 10, thereby closing the freezing compartment and the refrigerating compartment 20.

In addition, a pair of side walls 42L and 42R protruding to the rear side are installed on both sides of the rear surface of the left and right doors 30 and 40 so that a plurality of door shelves 50 are disposed up and down. Assembled in multiple stages over. The door shelf 50 is made of an open upper body, so that the egg rack for storing the eggs and bottled beverage products and the like.

The door shelf 50 is assembled to finely adjust the height without disassembling from the door 40 through the position variable device 60, the position variable device 60 with reference to Figs. The structure of the in detail is as follows.

First, the position change device 60 is perpendicular to the vertical movement means 61 provided between each side wall 42L and 42R and both sides of the door shelf 50 so as to move the door shelf 50 in the vertical direction. A locking means 65 is provided for fixing the door shelf 50 moved through the moving means 61 at a predetermined height.

The vertical movement means 61 has a lifting rail 61a provided to extend in the longitudinal direction on each side wall 42L and 42R, and rail grooves formed at both sides of the door shelf 50 so that the lifting rail 61a is inserted. 61b. The lifting and lowering rail 61a is provided to protrude so as to correspond to each of the side walls 42L and 42R. The rail groove 61B is also provided in the same direction as the moving direction of the door shelf 50 and corresponds to both sides of the door shelf 50. Accordingly, when the door shelf 50 is assembled such that the lifting rails 61a are accommodated in the rail grooves 61b, it can be freely moved up and down along the lifting rails 61a.

And, as described above, the locking means 65 is for fixing the position of the door shelf 50 which is moved through the vertical movement means 61, for this purpose, the locking groove 66 formed in multiple stages on the back of the door 40 ), And the support plate 67 holding the door shelf 50 and the support plate 67 and the support plate 67 are elastically supported by the front end portion 67a in the locking groove 66, and the front end thereof is caught in the locking groove 66. Locker 68 for holding.

Each locking groove 66 is formed to extend in the horizontal direction so that the front end portion (67a) of the support plate 67 is inserted in a relaxed manner, these are configured in plurality in a step in the movement direction, that is, the vertical direction of the door shelf 50. The locking groove 66 has a support surface 66a which the front end portion 67a of the support plate 67 is seated on and in contact with, and the support plate 67 is moved upward from the inside of the support surface 66a so that the support plate 67 can be easily moved upward. It consists of a predetermined angle (θ, in the present invention θ was about 60 degrees) inclined upwardly inclined guide surface 66b so as to be associated with the front end of the locking groove 66 located at. Therefore, when the user forcibly lifts the door shelf 50, the tip portion 67a of the support plate 67 slides along the inclined guide surface 66b to be easily seated in the next locking groove 66 provided on the upper side. do.

And the support plate 67 is made of a rectangular plate shape and is slidably installed in the transverse direction on the bottom of the door shelf 50, the front end portion 67a is to be inserted into the locking groove (66). To this end, the bottom of the door shelf 50 is formed with support jaws 69, which are slidably coupled to both side ends 67b and 67c of the support plate 67, at regular intervals. In addition, the rear end portion of the support plate 67 is provided with a handle 67d that the user can hold by hand. The handle 67d is for artificially reversing the backing plate 67. The handle 67d is integrally formed to be bent downward at the rear end of the backing plate 67, and the elastic support force of the locker 68 is transmitted thereto.

On the other hand, the locker 68 is arranged in pairs to elastically support both sides of the handle (67d) of the support plate 67, which is mounted on the bottom of the door shelf 50 and the case through which the through hole (68b) is perforated ( 68a), a tangy pin 68e in contact with the handle 67d of the base plate 67, which is built in the case 68a and protrudes outward through the through hole 68b, and is installed in the case 68a. It consists of an elastic spring (68d) for holding the finger pin 68e outward.

The case 68a is formed in a box shape having an upper side open to accommodate the elastic spring 68d and the finger pin 68e, and both sides thereof have a boss for coupling through a screw 68g to the bottom of the door shelf 50. 68c is integrally formed.

And the separation prevention jaw 68f of which the diameter was expanded is integrally provided on the center part of the finger pin 68e provided in rod shape. In addition, the elastic spring 68d is a kind of compression spring, whereby the finger pin 68e is always supported in the outward direction. At this time, the finger pin 68e is prevented from escaping from the case 68a by the separation prevention jaw 68f.

Therefore, after the support plate 67 is installed on the support jaw 69, the case 68a in which the elastic spring 68d and the finger pin 68e are built is assembled to the bottom of the door shelf 50, whereby Since the tip of the zip pin 68e elastically supports the handle 67d portion of the support plate 67, the support plate 67 is normally kept in the state of being advanced from the bottom of the door shelf 50.

Next, the installation process of the door shelf according to the present invention configured as described above and the effects thereof will be described.

First, when the user grabs the handle 67d and engages the door shelf 50 with the lifting rail 61a while the support plate 67 is retracted, both sides of the door shelf 50 raise and lower the lifting rail 61a. Therefore, the height can be adjusted in the vertical direction. When the handle 67d is released in this state, the support plate 67 is advanced by the elastic support force of the locker 68, and the front end portion 67a of the support plate 67 is inserted into the locking groove 66 to support the support surface ( It rests at 66a).

Accordingly, the bottom surface of the door shelf 50 is supported by the support plate 67, and both sides thereof are coupled to the lifting rail 61a, so that the door shelf 50 is solid as shown in FIG. To be assembled.

When the height of the door shelf 50 is to be adjusted, the support plate 67 is held back by holding the handle 67d. In this state, as shown in FIG. 6, since the tip portion 67a of the backing plate 67 completely exits from the locking groove 66, the door shelf 50 is moved upward or downward along the elevating rail 61a. You can move it. Therefore, when the door 67 is moved to a suitable position for easy food storage and the handle 67d is released, the support plate 67 is advanced by the elastic support force of the locker 68 so that the tip portion 67a is locked. ) Is seated on the insertion support surface 66a.

Therefore, of course, the height of the door shelf 50 can be easily adjusted without removing the food from the door 40. In addition, since the locking groove 66 is formed in multiple stages on the rear surface of the door 40, the height adjustment of the door shelf 50 can be made more precise.

In addition, by forcibly pushing up the door shelf 50 containing the food from the bottom upward, the door shelf 50 can be easily increased. That is, when the door shelf 50 is forcibly lifted up, as shown in FIG. 7, the supporting plate 67 retreats while compressing the elastic spring 68d of the locker 68, and its tip portion 67a is inclined. It goes up along the guide surface 66b (arrow A direction). And at the moment of reaching the locking groove 66 located on the upper side, the support plate 67 is advanced by the elastic support force of the locker 68 to support the door shelf 50 again. By repeating this process, the door shelf 50 is gradually raised, so that the door shelf 50 can be easily raised without having to artificially back up the support plate 67.

On the other hand, the technical idea has been described with an embodiment that is attached to any one of the plurality of door shelves installed on the back of the door of the parallel refrigerator, the freezer compartment and the refrigerator compartment is applied to the door of the upright refrigerator partitioned up and down the present invention Of course, the desired purpose can be achieved.

As described above in detail, according to the refrigerator according to the present invention, it is possible to easily adjust the height of the door shelf through the vertical moving means and the locking means without disassembling from the door.

In addition, since the plurality of locking grooves on which the support plate is caught is formed in multiple stages on the back of the door, the height of the door shelf can be adjusted more precisely. Thereby, the food of a large container can also be accommodated easily, and there exists an effect which can use a door shelf more efficiently.

Claims (7)

A refrigerator having a door for opening and closing a storage compartment of a cabinet, a plurality of door shelves assembled on a rear surface of the door, and a position changer for changing the assembly position of the door shelves, The position variable device includes a vertical movement means provided between the side wall of the door and the door shelf so as to move the door shelf in the up and down direction, and a locking means for fixing the door shelf movable along the vertical movement means. Refrigerator, characterized in that provided. The method of claim 1, The vertical movement means comprises a lifting rail provided in the longitudinal direction on the side wall of the door and a rail groove formed on both sides of the door shelf to be coupled to the lifting rail. The method of claim 1, The locking means includes a plurality of locking grooves formed in a plurality of stages on the rear surface of the door, a support plate having a front end caught in the locking groove to support the door shelf, and maintaining the support plate in the locked groove. A refrigerator comprising a locker. The method of claim 3, wherein The locking groove is made of an inclined guide surface for guiding the support plate to move in the upward direction by being inclined so as to be connected to the support surface on which the tip of the support plate is seated, and the engaging groove front end located on the upper side from the inside of the support surface. Refrigerator. The method of claim 3, wherein Refrigerator, characterized in that the supporting jaw is provided on the bottom surface of the door shelf to support the both sides of the support plate to move forward and backward. The method of claim 3, wherein Refrigerator, characterized in that the handle is bent downward in the rear end of the support plate. The method of claim 3, wherein The locker is a case mounted on the bottom surface of the door shelf adjacent to the rear end of the support plate, and installed in the case so as to move forward and backward, the front end protrudes to the outside of the support pin and the tangy pin, and the finger pin And an elastic spring for elastically supporting and advancing the support plate.