US20040182727A1 - Storage compartment for a refrigerator door - Google Patents

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US20040182727A1
US20040182727A1 US10/816,374 US81637404A US2004182727A1 US 20040182727 A1 US20040182727 A1 US 20040182727A1 US 81637404 A US81637404 A US 81637404A US 2004182727 A1 US2004182727 A1 US 2004182727A1
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Christoph Becke
Silvia Gerstner
Siegfried Grasy
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D23/00—General constructional features
    • F25D23/02—Doors; Covers
    • F25D23/04—Doors; Covers with special compartments, e.g. butter conditioners
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D2331/00—Details or arrangements of other cooling or freezing apparatus not provided for in other groups of this subclass
    • F25D2331/80—Type of cooled receptacles
    • F25D2331/803—Bottles
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D2331/00—Details or arrangements of other cooling or freezing apparatus not provided for in other groups of this subclass
    • F25D2331/80—Type of cooled receptacles
    • F25D2331/809—Holders

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  • the present invention relates to a storage compartment for fitting to a door of a refrigerator.
  • Storage compartments such as these, in particular those which are mounted in the lower area of the inside of the door, are used essentially for storage of drinks bottles and other containers for refrigerated items that are taller than they are broad.
  • German Utility Model 86 32 853 discloses different numbers of hollow bodies being fitted to one sidewall of the storage compartment, which extend into the interior of the compartment and thus reduce its depth. By matching the compartment depth to the diameter of a container that is stored in it, it is possible to prevent the container from tilting.
  • the use of these hollow bodies is inconvenient for the user and is thus in any case of interest for refrigerators which are subject to severe vibration, for example because they are carried on board a vehicle.
  • German Utility Model 90 14 463 and German Utility Model 85 11 568 each disclose a storage compartment for a door of a refrigerator which have a compartment divider which can be attached to a longitudinal wall of the storage compartment and extends in the depth direction of the body.
  • a compartment divider such as this admittedly cannot prevent a container in the storage compartment from tilting if the refrigerator door is opened carelessly, but, provided that it is placed in a suitable manner in the vicinity of the container, it can prevent the container from falling over within the storage compartment.
  • German Utility Model 90 14 463 recommends the use of insert boxes, which are suspended on a sidewall of the door storage compartment and extend over a small proportion of its depth.
  • the insert boxes lead to inefficient use of the space in the storage compartment since the remaining depth of the storage compartment, which remains between a suspended container and the opposite side wall of the storage compartment, is too small for most container formats, and thus remains unused.
  • a storage compartment for a refrigerator door contains a box-shaped body having a longitudinal wall and a given depth, and a compartment divider attached to the longitudinal wall and extends over more than half of the given depth.
  • the compartment divider defines a chamber for holding small items.
  • compartment divider is itself used to accommodate on it a chamber for holding small items.
  • the compartment divider preferably extends essentially over the entire depth of the storage compartment, so that the small item compartment can also extend essentially over this depth.
  • the extent of the compartment divider in the depth direction of the storage compartment is preferably greater than in its width direction, because refrigerated items with a base area which is equal to or larger than the depth of the storage compartment need not be accommodated in a separate small parts compartment in order to increase their stability.
  • the small items compartment preferably has an open base so that no dirt can gather in it. Items that are placed in the small items compartment are supported only by its walls or by its walls and the base of the storage compartment.
  • compartment divider In order to allow the compartment divider to be stored in a space-saving manner when it is not being used, its height is preferably less than that of the storage compartment.
  • the compartment divider may be provided with a rider that can be placed over the longitudinal wall in order to attach it to the longitudinal wall of the storage compartment.
  • at least one vertical rib is preferably formed on one inner surface of the rider. This can firmly clamp in the sidewall, if it is flat, so that the position of the compartment divider in the storage compartment is infinitely variable.
  • the sidewall of the storage compartment may, however, also be provided with two or more grooves which are complementary to the at least one rib and in which the rib can engage.
  • two or more vertical ribs may be provided on the outer walls of the compartment divider.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective internal view of a door of a refrigerator with a storage compartment according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a plan view of the storage compartment
  • FIG. 3 is a plan view of a second refinement of a compartment divider for the storage compartment
  • FIG. 4 is a vertical sectional view through the compartment divider shown in FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 5 is an enlarged, sectional view showing a detail from FIG. 4;
  • FIG. 6 is a sectional view showing a further enlarged detail of the compartment divider from FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 7 is a plan view of a storage compartment with a compartment divider according to a third refinement of the invention.
  • FIG. 1 a refrigerator door 1 which is illustrated in simplified form in FIG. 1.
  • the door 1 is normally equipped with a magnetic seal 2 disposed on its inner wall and has vertical bars 4 , which project close to the edge, on its inner face 3 .
  • a box-shaped door storage compartment 5 whose width corresponds to the distance between the two bars 4 , is disposed between the two bars 4 on a lower edge area of the refrigerator door 1 .
  • narrower door storage compartments 6 are each suspended in an upper area of the door 1 between one of the bars 4 and an additional, shorter bar 7 , which extends over the center of the inner face 3 .
  • the door storage compartment 5 is used primarily for storing bottles and other refrigerated item containers that are taller than they are broad. In order to secure them in the standing position and also to make it possible to use the compartment 5 for space-saving storage of relatively small objects, in particular tubes, a compartment divider 8 is suspended on one side wall of the compartment 5 , and its configuration can be seen better in FIG. 2, which shows a plan view of the door storage compartment 5 .
  • the compartment divider 8 is formed essentially from a four-sided frame with two short sidewalls 9 , 10 and two long sidewalls 11 , which surround a chamber 17 .
  • the short side walls 9 each face longitudinal walls 12 , 13 of the door storage compartment 5
  • the long side walls 11 extend over the majority of the depth, in this case about 80%, of the door storage compartment 5 .
  • a rider 14 is integrally formed on the sidewall 9 , engages in a longitudinal slot 15 in the side wall 12 , and is held on the sidewall 12 by a friction lock.
  • the shape of the rider 14 is illustrated in more detail in conjunction with a second exemplary embodiment in FIGS. 4 and 5.
  • FIG. 3 shows a plan view of a compartment divider 8 ′ based on a second exemplary embodiment.
  • the frame of the compartment divider 8 ′ which is formed from the sidewalls 9 , 10 , 11 , is virtually, but not exactly, square.
  • the two longer side walls 11 are fitted on their outer faces with two or more flat ribs 16 , which are provided in order to increase the friction between a non-illustrated container, which is placed in the door storage compartment 5 outside the compartment divider 8 ′ and is clamped in by the compartment divider 8 ′, and the side wall 11 , and in order thus additionally to secure the container against tilting.
  • FIG. 4 shows a vertical section through the compartment divider shown in FIG. 3 taken along the line IV-IV in FIG. 3.
  • FIG. 4 shows that the rider 14 is essentially in the form of an elongated hook with a tongue that extends parallel to the sidewall 9 , and at a short distance from it.
  • a rib 19 extends over the entire length of the tongue on its surface facing the sidewall 9 .
  • the chamber 17 is open at the bottom.
  • the height of the compartment divider 8 corresponds approximately to half to two-thirds of the height of the door storage compartment 5 .
  • FIG. 6 shows an enlarged horizontal section through the area marked VI in FIG. 3, showing the sidewall 9 , the tongue and the rib 19 .
  • a second rib 19 is provided symmetrically with respect to the plane IV-IV on the tongue.
  • the purpose of the two ribs 19 is on the one hand to ensure that the compartment divider 8 , 8 ′ is firmly seated such that it cannot be moved in the width direction of the door storage compartment S by objects stored in it, but on the other hand to allow the compartment divider 8 , 8 ′ to be easily fitted to and removed from the sidewall 12 in the vertical direction.
  • the sidewall 12 may for this purpose be flat or may be provided with grooves or ripples that are complementary to the ribs.
  • the slot 15 may also be omitted; in this case, the tongue must, for example, engage in a gap provided between the outer wall and the door inner surface 3 on the outer surface of the wall 12 .
  • FIG. 7 shows a third exemplary embodiment of the door storage compartment according to the invention, which differs from that shown in FIG. 2 by the shape of the long side walls 11 of a compartment divider 8 ′′.
  • the long sidewalls 11 are in the form of circular arcs with a diameter that corresponds approximately to the depth of the door storage compartment 5 .
  • This refinement occupies only a small amount of space between two large round objects which are placed in the compartment, such as bottles, and at the same time allows one individual narrow object or two objects with a predominantly round cross section, for example two tubes, to be stored at the same time in a space-saving manner, because they are stored vertically, which objects may each be inserted into the chamber 17 in front of or behind a central constriction 18 in the depth direction.

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