WO1999024351A1 - Ameliorations concernant des appareils refrigerateurs de type appareils frigorifiques, glacieres portatives ou similaires - Google Patents

Ameliorations concernant des appareils refrigerateurs de type appareils frigorifiques, glacieres portatives ou similaires Download PDF

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WO1999024351A1
WO1999024351A1 PCT/ES1998/000298 ES9800298W WO9924351A1 WO 1999024351 A1 WO1999024351 A1 WO 1999024351A1 ES 9800298 W ES9800298 W ES 9800298W WO 9924351 A1 WO9924351 A1 WO 9924351A1
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refrigerator
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Juan Carlos Gonzalez Salazar
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67D—DISPENSING, DELIVERING OR TRANSFERRING LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B67D1/00—Apparatus or devices for dispensing beverages on draught
    • B67D1/04—Apparatus utilising compressed air or other gas acting directly or indirectly on beverages in storage containers
    • B67D1/0406—Apparatus utilising compressed air or other gas acting directly or indirectly on beverages in storage containers with means for carbonating the beverage, or for maintaining its carbonation
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67D—DISPENSING, DELIVERING OR TRANSFERRING LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B67D1/00—Apparatus or devices for dispensing beverages on draught
    • B67D1/08—Details
    • B67D1/0857—Cooling arrangements
    • 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
    • F25D23/12—Arrangements of compartments additional to cooling compartments; Combinations of refrigerators with other equipment, e.g. stove
    • F25D23/126—Water cooler
    • 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
    • F25D2400/00—General features of, or devices for refrigerators, cold rooms, ice-boxes, or for cooling or freezing apparatus not covered by any other subclass
    • F25D2400/04—Refrigerators with a horizontal mullion

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  • the present invention relates to a series of improvements introduced in refrigerating devices, such as refrigerators used in domestic kitchens, portable refrigerators and the like, improvements aimed at allowing the automatic supply of different types of beverages, through corresponding faucets, in any of the cases cited.
  • these drinks are usually consumed in containers of considerable capacity, usually bottles of 1.5 or 2 liters, whose consumption and as is obvious, is carried out at intervals with greater or lesser distance in time.
  • refrigerators provided with dispensing devices, specifically a cold water tap
  • these are not based on the arrangement of an inner container, but a connection of the refrigerator to the general water supply network, with the consequent complexity that this it is from the installation point of view, and in addition this solution is only valid when using water from the network, not being viable for bottled water and for any other type of drink.
  • these improvements consist in establishing, preferably on the door of the refrigerator, especially on the refrigerator door, in the case of two-door refrigerators, of a recess in which an alignment of taps is established , in coincidence with that of different types of beverages provided, this recess being located immediately above the inner shelf provided for the location of the corresponding bottles, each tap being provided with the corresponding valve and also relating to the corresponding bottle through of a tube that crosses the wall of the door and that ends in a special stopper of coupling to the bottle, replacing the commercial cap of the latter.
  • the aforementioned special plug is it materializes in a cap, whose thread is in line with that of the bottle to which it is intended, cap with its strangulated outer mouth, to retain and press against the mouth of the bottle to a discoidal body that is tightly pierced by the aforementioned tube , which is of adequate length to reach the bottom of the bottle.
  • said tube materializes in a flexible plastic macaroon that allows to vary at will the distance between the neck of the bottle and the corresponding tap, depending on the different sizes of existing bottles in the market, and which in turn allows to reach the bottom of the bottle, whatever the size of the latter.
  • a unidirectional valve that pressurizes the inside of the bottle is established laterally with respect to the said tube, with the help of an air cylinder, anhydrous carbonic or any other appropriate gas, according to the procedure of the invention patent 9701595 to which the applicant himself owns.
  • the said recess of the refrigerator door in which the faucets are established is closed by a tilting cover that normally conceals them and that, hinged by its lower edge and provided with tilting limiting means, configures a kind of tray that allows to support the glasses during the filling of the same.
  • a series of faucets are provided on one or both of the major side walls of the refrigerator, equipped with their corresponding valve control, which are connected to respective bottles through a tube, so that the consumption of the content of each of them is done through the corresponding tap, without the need to open the refrigerator and without the need to carry out any type of manipulation on the bottle.
  • said tube extends to the bottom of the corresponding bottle and the exit to the outside thereof is produced by the effect of a previous pressurization of the different bottles, with the system object of the invention patent 9701595, of the that the applicant himself is the owner.
  • the commercial bottle cap is replaced by a special cap provided with a threaded cap corresponding to the bottle neck and its external mouthpiece strangled to retain and securely secure against the mouthpiece of said bottle to a discoidal body that is crossed by said communication tube with the corresponding faucet, as well as by a second tube, considerably shorter and that is interrupted at a higher level of the bottle, in which the unidirectional valve of pressurization of the same is established, based on an appropriate gas, such as air, carbon dioxide, etc.
  • an appropriate gas such as air, carbon dioxide, etc.
  • the tube that relates the bottle to the tap will preferably be flexible, of an elastically deformable nature, such as a plastic macaroni, in order to facilitate the adaptation of the special cap to the bottle, especially taking into account the different sizes of existing bottles in the market.
  • the taps will be located in a recess of the side wall of the refrigerator protected by a lid that hides them in an inoperative situation, especially during the handling of the refrigerator.
  • the bottles will be kept conveniently stabilized inside the body of the refrigerator, for example by means of clamps conveniently joined to their side walls, so that they include the proper interstices to locate the ice cubes, but optionally such bottles may be unnecessary, compartments destined to receive the corresponding beverages being established in the body of the refrigerator, in which case the commercial bottles must be previously emptied into these compartments and, after closing them, such properly pressurized compartments. In any case it is achieved, as previously stated, that for each drink taking it is enough to act on the corresponding tap without opening the refrigerator and without seeing the ice cubes or the cooling elements established inside.
  • Figure 1 shows, according to a schematic perspective representation, a refrigerator integrated in a line of kitchen furniture and equipped with the improvements object of the present invention.
  • Figure 2. Shows a partial and enlarged detail of the assembly represented in the previous figure.
  • Figure 3. Shows a detail in vertical section of the refrigerator door, according to the A-B cut line of Figure 1.
  • Figure 4. It shows an enlarged detail and in diametral section of the special cap that replaces the commercial bottle cap, conveniently coupled to the latter's neck.
  • Figure 5. Shows a schematic perspective representation of a portable refrigerator equipped with the improvements object of the present invention.
  • Figure 6. It shows an enlarged and sectional detail of the refrigerator of the previous figure, at the level of one of the bottles established in it.
  • Figure 7. It shows a plan view of the refrigerator, devoid of its cover, in which the fixing means for the different bottles are observed.
  • Figure 8. Shows an enlarged and sectional detail of the special cap intended to replace the commercial cap of each of the bottles, duly coupled to the corresponding bottle.
  • a refrigerator according to the improvements of the invention incorporates in its door (1) (although it could also be incorporated in the upper area of one of its side walls), a recess (2 ), preferably elongated horizontally, in which a plurality of taps (3) are established superiorly for the supply of respective beverages, such as water, soda, fruit juice, cola, etc., it being obvious that if either in the example of practical embodiment represented in figure 1 four taps appear, this number may vary in a positive or negative direction, without affecting the essence of the invention at all.
  • Each tap (3) provided with its corresponding valve control (4), is connected to a conventional bottle (5) of the beverage in question, such as a two-liter bottle, through a tube (6) that crosses the double wall of the door
  • the tube (6) being intended to pass through the bottle cap and reach with its free end (8) the bottom of it.
  • the tube (6) collaborates a special cap, intended to replace the commercial cap of the bottle, cap materialized in a cap (9), with an internal thread (10) according to the thread (11) of the bottle neck (11).
  • bushing (9) provided at its outer end with a throttle (12) suitable for retaining and pressing against the mouth of the bottle (5) to a discoidal body (13) which is sealed tightly by said tube (6) , which adopts an offset or lateral arrangement, as observed especially in the detail of Figure 4, to make room for a second tube (14), which is interrupted in the upper end zone of the bottle and which externally has a unidirectional valve (15) intended to supply a pressurized gas inside the bottle, such as air, carbon dioxide, etc., from the corresponding cylinder.
  • a throttle (12) suitable for retaining and pressing against the mouth of the bottle (5) to a discoidal body (13) which is sealed tightly by said tube (6) , which adopts an offset or lateral arrangement, as observed especially in the detail of Figure 4, to make room for a second tube (14), which is interrupted in the upper end zone of the bottle and which externally has a unidirectional valve (15) intended to supply a pressurized gas inside the bottle, such as air, carbon dioxide, etc., from the corresponding
  • the tube (6) is elastically deformable, such as based on a plastic macaroni, a loop (16) being defined therein, preferably housed in the hollow interior of the door (1), which allows sufficient elongation or shortening thereof so that the special cap (9) is located at the height required by the bottle (5) used in each case.
  • the recess (2) can remain permanently open in the frontal direction, the existence of a cover (17), hinged by its lower edge (18), is provided, which in the operating situation of the taps (3) seals said recess (2) ) coupling to its mouth, as well as that said hinge is provided with tilt-limiting means that establish a horizontal boundary situation for said lid (17), the one shown in figures 1 and 2, in which said lid becomes a tray that allows the glasses to be arranged on it for filling.
  • the bottles (5) of the market, but which could optionally also be special bottles provided for this purpose and even deposits configured in the wall of the refrigerator door itself, in which case they should be filled with the corresponding drinks in question, in any case they will be duly connected by means of the auxiliary plug (7) to the corresponding taps (3) and then pressurized with appropriate gas through their respective valves (15), so that the pressure in each bottle (5) will force the liquid contained in it to go outside through the tube (6) and more specifically the tap (3), when acting on the control (4) thereof.
  • auxiliary chamber which can be materialized in one of the bottles themselves ( 5) housed inside the refrigerator, directly communicated with the gas intakes (15) of each of the bottles containing the drinks, this auxiliary bottle being the one that is pressurized conveniently to transmit the pressure to the remaining ones, along of the consumption of their content.
  • said refrigerator will be constituted, like any conventional refrigerator, from a body (21), conveniently heat insulated, provided with an upper opening (22) that is closed by a lid (23), also heat insulated, and assisted by a handle (24) that facilitates Your portable character.
  • the improvements of the invention consist in establishing, on at least one of the side walls of the body (21) of the refrigerator, a plurality of taps
  • each of these taps (25) being provided with their corresponding valve control (27) and connected, by means of a tube (28) that crosses the wall (29) of the body (21) ), with the bottle (26) and so that the free end (30) of said tube (28) reaches the bottom of the bottle (26), to ensure a total emptying of its contents.
  • the tube (28) accesses the inside of the bottle (26) through a special cap (31), intended to replace the commercial bottle cap
  • the tube (28) will be flexible in nature to allow a perfect adaptation of it to bottles (26) of different height, having also provided that the side walls of the body (21) of the refrigerator in which the faucets (25) are established, they are provided with a kind of cornice (37), transversely elongated, under which the aforementioned taps emerge and to which a lid (38) is articulated to protect them, which is especially visible in Figure 6, these cornices (37) can be used to identify the type of drink to which each of the faucets (25) corresponds.
  • the lid, or lids, (38) will establish superficial continuity with the body (21) of the refrigerator, to improve the aesthetics of the refrigerator, and in any case protect the taps (25) from fouling during normal transport manipulations for the fridge.
  • auxiliary tap 40
  • auxiliary tap 40
  • the provision of an auxiliary tap (40), at the level of the internal base of the refrigerator, is also provided for the evacuation of waste water produced by the defrosting of the ice cubes.
  • the corresponding tubes (35) of gas inlets constitute branches of a single conduit or macaroni, common to all of them, which conveniently established in the wall of the body (21) of the refrigerator, it is externally sealed in a single valve, common for all bottles, in which case simultaneous pressurization of the bottles can be carried out, but the existence of counter-caps or small manually operated valves must be provided, which cancel out the gas inlets (35) of the caps (31) devoid of bottles (26), when not all the possibilities of the refrigerator shown in Figure 7 are used, that is, when the maximum capacity of the refrigerator materialized in this is not used example of practical realization in eight bottles.

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Abstract

Les améliorations selon l'invention consistent, par exemple, dans le cas d'un appareil frigorifique, à placer plusieurs bouteilles (5) sur une des claies (7) de la face intérieure de sa porte (1). Ces améliorations consistent ensuite à remplacer le bouchon de la bouteille commercialisée (5) par un bouchon spécial (9) pourvu d'une soupape de pressurisation (15) pour maintenir la pression à l'intérieur de la bouteille (5) au fur et à mesure que le contenu de cette dernière est consommé. Ce bouchon est traversé par un conduit (6) qui s'étend jusqu'au fond (8) de la bouteille, traverse la paroi de la porte du réfrigérateur et se termine par un robinet (3) avec un organe de commande correspondant (4). Ainsi, le contenu des bouteilles placées dans le réfrigérateur peut être consommé depuis l'extérieur de ce dernier, sans qu'il soit nécessaire d'ouvrir la porte, et en maintenant un état gazéifié optimal.
PCT/ES1998/000298 1997-11-07 1998-11-06 Ameliorations concernant des appareils refrigerateurs de type appareils frigorifiques, glacieres portatives ou similaires WO1999024351A1 (fr)

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ES9702884U ES1038705Y (es) 1997-11-07 1997-11-07 Nevera portatil perfeccionada.
ES9702883U ES1038704Y (es) 1997-11-07 1997-11-07 Frigorifico mejorado.
ESU9702883 1997-11-07

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US7628032B2 (en) 2003-09-17 2009-12-08 Lg Electronics Inc. Dispenser of icemaker in refrigerator
US7757732B2 (en) 2004-06-04 2010-07-20 Whirlpool Corporation Water dispenser for refrigerator freezers
WO2014133284A1 (fr) * 2013-02-28 2014-09-04 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Réfrigérateur pourvu d'un appareil de production d'eau gazéifiée
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WO1996019406A1 (fr) * 1994-12-21 1996-06-27 The Coca-Cola Company Distributeur de boissons dorsal
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US7757732B2 (en) 2004-06-04 2010-07-20 Whirlpool Corporation Water dispenser for refrigerator freezers
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US9862589B2 (en) 2016-05-31 2018-01-09 Starbucks Corporation Chilled beverage dispenser

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