KR20080059921A - Food storehouse and moisturizing plate for the same - Google Patents

Abstract

A food storage apparatus and its water retaining plate are provided to maintain the optimum freshness of vegetables stored in an inner case by equipping the water retaining plate with a plurality of holes capable of storing water. In a food storage apparatus equipped with an inner case(302) and a door, a water retaining plate(330) is installed in the inner case and has a plurality of holes capable of storing water by viscous force. The door is opened/shut in a drawer type, and the water retaining plate is separably arranged at the upper end part of the inner case. If the amount of water stored in the water retaining plate is reduced, the humidity in the inner case is constantly kept optimum by separating the water retaining plate from the inner case and filling the holes with water.

Description

FOOD STOREHOUSE AND MOISTURIZING PLATE FOR THE SAME}

1 is a perspective view showing a kimchi refrigerator according to the prior art.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the combined food reservoir according to the present invention.

Figure 3 is a side view showing the internal structure of the left drawer storage of Figure 2;

4 is a plan view showing a detailed structure of the moisturizing plate of Figure 3;

5 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line A-A of FIG.

<Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

100: left side open storage 200: right side open storage

110: left upper surface door 120: deodorant

130: lamp 140,250,320,430: operation panel

210: front door 220: right upper door

230,420: Wine Rack 232: Wine

240: accessory storage unit 300: left side drawer storage

302: case 303: evaporation tube

304: defrost heater 305: drain pipe

306: machine room 307: compressor

310: lower left door 312: basket

330: moisture retention plate 332: hall

400: right side drawer 410: lower right door

The present invention relates to a food storage and a moisturizing holding plate applied to the food storage to maintain a constant level of humidity in the in-case of the food storage at all times to always maintain the optimal freshness of the vegetables stored in the in-case will be.

In general, kimchi refrigerator is a maturing means for aging kimchi inside using a aging heater, and a refrigeration cycle components for maintaining the kimchi matured using the principle of the refrigerator at a low temperature, the taste and taste of kimchi It is a device to maintain freshness for a long time.

Unlike kimchi refrigerators, kimchi refrigerators have the advantage of maintaining freshness even after long-term storage after ripening kimchi. In recent years, kimchi refrigerators are becoming a common necessity in households.

Attached Figure 1 is a perspective view of a conventional kimchi refrigerator, as shown in the figure, the conventional structure of such a kimchi refrigerator has a main body 10 and a storage chamber 30 and a machine room (not shown) formed therein, and It has the door 40 which is provided in one side of the main body 10, and opens and closes a storage compartment.

In the storage chamber 30, a plurality of storage containers for storing kimchi and the like are accommodated, and a compressor, a condenser and a cooling fan (not shown) are provided in the machine chamber.

In addition, a control panel including a key input unit for selecting and ripening and storing conditions according to the type of kimchi accommodated in the storage compartment 30 and a display unit for displaying a selected signal on the upper front surface of the main body 10. 50 is provided.

Such a kimchi refrigerator has one storage compartment 30 provided therein, but in the case of recently manufactured kimchi refrigerators, a plurality of storage compartments (30) can be separately stored in order to store vegetables, fruits, meat, etc. in addition to kimchi. It is most to adopt).

On the other hand, as the standard of living gradually improves, the family often enjoys wine (wine). Of course, wine enthusiasts will use a wine cellar that can store and store only wine separately for a higher quality, taste, and aroma. However, in general, most people will be economically burdened to purchase a wine cellar separately. There was a problem.

In order to overcome these problems, the present applicant has a multi-purpose storage room that can store not only kimchi, vegetables, fruits, but also liquor such as wine, and a complex that can enhance the productability of the product by forming a layout of each storage room in a user-friendly structure. Has already applied for a type food storage room (Patent Application No. 10-2006-80760)

In the above-described complex food storage room, a vegetable storage room having a drawer-type opening and closing structure for storing and storing vegetables such as vegetables is provided. An evaporation tube is installed on an outer surface of the incase of the vegetable storage room, and an inner case inner wall It is composed of a direct cooling system equipped with a defrost heater to remove icing every certain time to prevent icing.

However, in the conventional combined food storage having the vegetable storage room of the direct cooling method as described above, the water (water) generated inside the incase during operation of the defrost heater is discharged to the outside through the drain pipe. There was a problem that the freshness of the vegetables stored in the storage room is lowered by the humidity inside the case.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to always maintain the humidity inside the in-case of the food storage at a certain level to always maintain the freshness of the vegetables stored in the in-case to the optimal state The present invention provides a food storage and a moisturizing plate applied to the food storage.

Moisturizing holding plate for food storage in accordance with the present invention for achieving the above object, is provided in the inside of the in-case of the food storage, it characterized in that a plurality of holes are formed that can store water by using a viscous force.

On the other hand, the food reservoir according to the present invention for achieving the above object, in the food reservoir provided with an incase in which the vegetables are stored, the door opening and closing the incase, the inside of the incase water using a viscous force Characterized in that the moisturizing retaining plate is formed a plurality of holes that can be stored.

Here, the door is a drawer-type door that is opened and closed in a drawer type on the front of the incase, the moisturizing retaining plate is disposed detachably to the upper end of the incase.

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

Figure 2 is a perspective view of a combined food reservoir according to the present invention.

Referring to Figure 2, the composite food storage according to the present invention is equipped with a multi-purpose room for storing kimchi, vegetables, fruits, wine, etc., which is disposed at the upper left and right sides of the food storage, and is opened and closed by opening and closing. , The right opening and closing storage 100, 200, and the left and right of the food storage, and the left and right drawer storage 300, 400 is opened and closed in a drawer type.

The left opening and closing storage 100 is an upper opening and closing type that is opened and closed by the upper left door 110 located in the upper, kimchi or vegetables and fruits can be stored, but as a kimchi storage room mainly stored kimchi Used.

At this time, the left-opening storage 100 is installed so that the evaporation tube and the heater not shown to the outside of the in-case (storage) where the kimchi is stored.

In addition, a deodorant 120 is provided at the center of the inner side of the left upper surface door 110 to perform a deodorizing action of the contents stored in the left-opening storage 100.

On the other hand, the right opening and closing reservoir 200 is used as a wine reservoir that can store the wine (232).

At this time, the right opening and closing reservoir 200 has a structure in which the evaporator and the heater not shown in the rear portion is installed.

The right opening and closing storage 200 is formed in a structure in which the doors 210 and 220 are respectively installed in the front portion and the upper surface portion, the wine 232 is to be accommodated through the front portion door 210. It may be.

At this time, the wine rack 230 is installed in the interior of the right opening and closing storage 200 to put a plurality of wines 232, the wine rack 230 is a plurality of multi-stage in the vertical direction of the storage. The installed structure is achieved.

In addition, an upper portion of the right opening / closing cellar 200 in which the wine is stored is opened and closed through the upper door 220 at the right side, and an accessory accommodating part 240 in which various accessories such as a wine opener are stored is installed.

On the other hand, the left drawer storage 300 is a place where the fruit or vegetable is stored, such that the lower left door 310 located on the front side slides forward and backward and is opened and closed in a drawer type.

In addition, the right drawer storage 400 is used as a storage for storing wine together with the right-opening storage 200 described above, the lower right door 410 located in the front portion like the left drawer storage 300 Is opened and closed while sliding in the front-rear direction.

And, the inside of the right drawer storage 400, the wine rack 420 is installed in a two-stage structure to mount a plurality of wines 232, the top wine rack 420 is the bottom wine rack 420 It can be tilted about 45 degrees with respect to the user so that the wine can be easily taken out or put into storage.

At this time, the right drawer storage 400 has a structure in which an evaporation tube and a heater, not shown, are installed at the rear portion thereof.

On the other hand, Figure 3 is a side view showing the internal structure of the left drawer storage 300, as shown in Figure 3, the left drawer storage 300, the evaporation tube 303 is in close contact with the back of the case 302 The defrost heater 304 is installed at a lower end of the incase 302 to remove freezing by heating at a predetermined time to prevent freezing on the inner wall of the incase 302. A drain pipe 305 is installed to allow moisture (water) inside the incase 302 generated by the operation of 304 to escape to the outside. In addition, the inside of the incase 302 has a basket 312 is stored in the form of a combination with the lower left door 310. In the rear side of the incase 302, a machine room 306 having a compressor 307 is disposed therein.

An inner upper end of the incase 302 is provided with a moisture retaining plate 330 to supply humidity to the vegetables stored in the basket 312 to maintain the best freshness.

The moisturizing retaining plate 330 slides in the front and rear direction similarly to the lower left door 310 at the upper end of the incase 302 and is detachably installed so as to be detachable from the incase 302 when necessary.

To this end, a support bracket for slidably supporting the left and right edges of the moisturizing plate 330 may be installed on the left and right sides of the upper case of the incase 302.

4 is a plan view showing a detailed structure of the moisture retaining plate 330, Figure 5 is a cross-sectional view A-A section of FIG.

As shown in Figure 4 and 5, the moisturizing plate 330 of the present invention is formed in the form of a rectangular plate having a predetermined thickness, a plurality of holes 332 concave in one side of the plate lattice pattern It is formed in the form.

The moisturizing retaining plate 330 is installed so that the surface formed with the hole 332 faces downward direction when the basket 312 is installed when installed in the incase 302.

A certain amount of water (water) is stored in the hole 332, and the water stored in the hole 332 is stored in the stored state without falling downward through the viscous force of the water due to the friction force between the water molecules and the solid interface. maintain.

Compound food storage of the present invention made of the above-described moisturizing is formed with a plurality of holes 332 that can store water using the viscous force inside the in-case 302 of the left drawer storage 300, the vegetables are stored As the holding plate 330 is installed, when a large number of vegetables are initially stored in the incase 302, water vapor generated by the transpiration of the plant may be concave in the plurality of holes 332 of the moisturizing plate 330. Absorbed in the water stored therein, the humidity inside the case 302 is lowered after a certain time, the moisture stored in the hole 332 is discharged to automatically control the humidity inside the case (302) It will be adjustable.

In addition, since the moisture retaining plate 330 is configured to be detachable to the upper end of the case 302, when the amount of moisture stored in the moisture retaining plate 330 afterwards the moisture retaining plate ( By separating the 330 from the incase 302 and replenishing the holes 332 with water, the internal humidity of the incase 302 may be maintained at an optimal state at all times.

In addition, the composite food storage of the above-described configuration is equipped with a multi-purpose room for storing wine as well as kimchi and vegetable fruit, so that the function of the Kimchi refrigerator and the function of the wine storage can be performed together, so that the wine storage is separate. There is no need to put a wine cellar, so the economic burden can be reduced, and the opening structure of each of the open or drawer cellar where Kimchi, vegetables, fruits and wines are stored is a user-friendly layout. There is an advantage to upgrade the product's marketability.

On the other hand, the composite food storage according to another embodiment of the present invention, the kimchi storage dedicated storage room 100 having an upper opening and closing door 110, and the front drawer-type door 310 is located below the kimchi storage dedicated storage room 100 Vegetable storage dedicated storage room having a 300, and the side of the kimchi storage dedicated storage room 100, the first mainstream dedicated storage compartment 200 having a front opening and closing door 210, and the first liquor storage compartment 200 It may be configured to include a second liquor storage compartment 400 is located at the bottom of the having a front pull-out door 410 (specified using the reference numerals of Figs. 2 to 5).

At this time, the inside of the in-case 302 of the vegetable storage only storage room 300, such as the left drawer storage 300 of the above-described embodiment moisturizing a plurality of holes 332 that can store water using viscous force The holding plate 330 is installed.

In addition, heat transfer means may be provided at the outer sides of the reservoirs of the storage compartments 100, 200, 300, and 400, respectively.

Here, the heat transfer means is composed of an evaporator and a heater (not shown), the evaporator is installed on the outer wall of the reservoir of each storage compartment, the heater is on the bottom of the reservoir of each storage compartment 100, 200, 300, 400 It can be configured to be installed.

In addition, the evaporator is installed while surrounding the outer wall of the storage of the kimchi storage dedicated storage chamber 100, and at the same time the storage of the vegetable storage dedicated storage chamber 300 and the first and second liquor storage chambers 200, 400 It can be configured to be installed on the side wall.

In this case, an accessory accommodating part 240 and an upper opening / closing door 220 may be further provided on the first liquor storage compartment 200 to accommodate various accessories such as a liquor opener.

On the other hand, the composite food storage room according to another embodiment of the present invention is provided with an evaporator and a heater (not shown) on the outer side of the storage and the kimchi storage dedicated storage room 100 having an upper opening and closing door 110, and the kimchi storage dedicated Located in the lower part of the storage compartment 100, an evaporator and a heater (not shown) are provided outside the storage compartment and have a vegetable storage compartment 300 having a front drawer door 310, and a side of the kimchi storage compartment 100. Located at the outer side of the reservoir while being positioned below the first liquor storage chamber 200 and the first liquor storage chamber 200 having an evaporator and a heater (not shown) on the outer side of the reservoir and having a front opening / closing door 210. It may be configured to include a second liquor storage compartment 400 having an evaporator and a heater (not shown) and having a front drawer door 410.

At this time, inside the in-case 302 of the vegetable storage dedicated storage room 300, the moisturizing retention formed with a plurality of holes 332 that can store water using a viscous force, such as the left drawer storage 300 of the above-described embodiment Plate 330 is installed.

In addition, an accessory accommodating part 240 and an upper opening / closing door 220 may be further provided at an upper portion of the first liquor storage compartment 200 to accommodate various accessories such as a liquor opener.

The operation and effect according to the second and third embodiments having the above-described configuration is the same as the operation and effect provided with the above-described moisturizing retaining plate 330 of the first embodiment, and thus a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

As described above, although described with reference to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, those skilled in the art various modifications of the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention described in the claims below. Or it may be modified.

The present invention having the configuration as described above is installed in the in-case of the direct-cooling drawer-type food storage in which the vegetables are stored, by installing a moisturizing retaining plate formed with a plurality of holes that can store water using viscous force, When the vegetable is stored in the incase a lot of water vapor generated by the transpiration of the plant is kept in the state absorbed by the water stored in the concave plurality of holes of the moisturizing holding plate, the incase after a certain time When the humidity inside is lowered, the moisture stored in the hole may be exported to automatically adjust the humidity inside the case. Therefore, there is an effect of maintaining the freshness of the vegetables stored inside the case in an optimal state at all times.

In addition, since the moisture retaining plate is configured to be detachable at the upper end of the incase, when the amount of moisture stored in the moisture retaining plate is reduced later, the moisture retaining plate is separated from the incase to replenish water in the hole. This ensures that the internal humidity of the incase is always optimal.

On the other hand, the composite food storage of the present invention is equipped with a versatile room for storing wine as well as kimchi and vegetable fruit, so that it can perform the function of the Kimchi refrigerator and the function of the wine cellar, a separate storage for wine There is no need to put a wine cellar, reducing the economic burden of purchasing a wine cellar, the layout structure of each opening or drawer cellar where kimchi, vegetables, fruits and wine are stored, the user-friendly layout structure As a result, there is an effect that can contribute to the improvement of the productability of the product.

Claims (3)

It is provided inside the case of the food storage, the moisture storage plate for food storage, characterized in that a plurality of holes formed to store water by using a viscous force. In the food storage having a case for storing vegetables and a door for opening and closing the incase, The inside of the in-case food storage, characterized in that the moisture holding plate is formed with a plurality of holes that can store the water using the viscous force. The food storage of claim 2, wherein the door is a drawer-type door that is opened and closed by a drawer on a front surface of the incase, and the moisture retaining plate is detachably disposed at an upper end of the incase.

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