Classifications

• • 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
  • 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
  • F25D2400/08—Refrigerator tables

Definitions

• the invention relates to a storage compartment for mounting on an inner lining of a refrigerator door with a receiving body defining a storage space.
• Storage compartments for attachment to the inside of refrigerator doors are currently equipped with a receptacle body for storing items to be refrigerated, which is usually made in one piece from plastic injection molding. These stress-resistant receptacles are usually produced in large quantities in parallel in similar injection molding tools. With the concept, which is very cost-effective per se, only refrigerator doors with a uniform width and a uniform design of the interior cladding can be equipped with such storage compartments.
• the refrigerator range includes different types of refrigerators with a different width and thus also a different door width, which also vary in the design and distribution of their interior cladding.
• the object of the invention is to improve a storage compartment according to the preamble of claim 1 with simple design measures such that the disadvantages of the prior art are avoided.
• the compartment is detachably assembled from individual elements.
• different materials that influence the appearance of the interior lining can not only be used for the compartment of the storage compartment, but can also produce compartments of different lengths inexpensively, so that there is the possibility of using a minimized number of parts and thus possibly the whole Equip the refrigerator range with storage compartments for attachment to the refrigerator door, taking into account their different design variants.
• the storage compartments can be separated into sorted materials in the event of disposal. In order to make a significantly more valuable impression appear on the inside of a refrigerator door, all that is required is the use of valuable individual elements.
• the compartment body is formed from at least three individual elements.
• a specialist body composed of only three individual elements can also be assembled in large-scale production with a reasonable amount of work and thus at low cost.
• the three individual elements of the compartment body are formed by a central section and in each case an end piece connected thereto.
• the middle section is particularly simple and inexpensive to manufacture if, according to a next advantageous embodiment of the object of the invention, it is provided that the middle section has at least essentially a U-profile-like cross section.
• the sections forming the storage compartment are particularly easy to recycle and connect to one another if, according to a next advantageous embodiment of the object of the invention, it is provided that the central section and the end sections connected to it are formed from the same material.
• the central section and the end sections attached to it are formed from different materials.
• a particularly simple and precisely fitting assembly of the two end sections with the central section is obtained if, according to a further preferred embodiment of the object of the invention, it is provided that the central section on its two end sections and the two end pieces are each provided with receptacles which serve as joining aids and can work together when they are joined.
• the middle section of the compartment can be provided particularly cost-effectively in different lengths if, according to a next advantageous embodiment of the invention, it is provided that the middle section consists of a semi-finished aluminum profile.
• the use of a middle section made of aluminum means that, despite its high mechanical strength, its torsional rigidity and its impact resistance, this middle section only has a relatively low weight.
• a central section is not only particularly intensively cleanable, but is also particularly easy to handle in production, since no special precautions need to be taken to protect the surface of this central section.
• the middle section of aluminum which is usually predominantly loaded with refrigerated goods, is largely insensitive to aggressive liquid refrigerated goods such as lemon juice, vinegar or alcohol or the like if these refrigerated goods are spilled carelessly within the compartment of the compartment.
• the middle section can be produced particularly simply and inexpensively with different cross-sectional dimensions if, according to a further preferred embodiment of the object of the invention, it is provided that the semi-finished aluminum profile is designed as an extruded profile.
• the aluminum profile has an anodized surface.
• the middle section By anodizing the middle section, it can be made available in different colors, making product differentiation within the refrigerator range easy and inexpensive.
• the end sections can be made particularly stiff if, according to a next preferred embodiment of the object of the invention, it is provided that the end sections are designed like a cap.
• the end sections can be produced with the same properties as a middle section made of aluminum if, according to a further preferred embodiment of the object of the invention, it is provided that the end sections are made of die-cast aluminum.
• the holding measures used to hold the storage compartment on the door can be introduced into the end sections in a particularly precise shape.
• end sections are made of injection molded plastic.
• FIG. 1 shows a household table refrigerator with an open door, on the inside of which a central section and two end sections are joined together. storage compartments of different widths are held, in a spatial view from the front,
• FIG. 3 shows a section of the storage compartment according to FIG. 2 in the area of the end section shown in FIG. 2, in a sectional view from the front.
• FIG. 1 shows a household table-top refrigerator 10 with a heat-insulating housing 11, within which a cooling space 12 for storing refrigerated goods is arranged.
• This can be closed by a heat-insulating door 13 shown in the open state, which has an outer cladding 14, a heat insulation layer (not shown) and an inner cladding 15 produced by non-cutting shaping of a plastic board.
• this has a frame-like border 16, the vertically running sections of which serve as spars 17 and are provided on their mutually facing inner sides with retaining cams (not shown).
• the spars 17 serve to hold a storage compartment 19 which is arranged in the vicinity of the lower edge of the door and is intended for storing bottle-like storage goods and which is detachably held on the spars 17 by means of the retaining cams.
• a storage compartment 19 which is arranged in the vicinity of the lower edge of the door and is intended for storing bottle-like storage goods and which is detachably held on the spars 17 by means of the retaining cams.
• the storage compartments 19 and 20 have a retaining bracket 21 which is essentially identical in construction to one another and a compartment body 22 which is likewise essentially identical in construction, which is explained in more detail below using the example of the storage compartments 20.
• the compartment body 22 has a storage space 23 that holds refrigerated goods and is composed of three individual elements.
• the individual elements comprise a central section 24, which consists of a U-profile-like extruded aluminum profile, the legs 25 and 26 of which are designed as lateral serve boundary walls of the storage space 23 in the region of the central portion 24, the leg 25 facing away from the inner lining 15 being additionally equipped at its free end with a receiving groove 27.
• the bottom of the storage space 23 in the region of the central section 24 is produced by a base 28 connecting the two legs 25 and 26.
• the middle section 24 is provided on its end faces to delimit the storage space 23, each with an end piece 30, each of which is connected to the middle section 24 in a positive and non-positive manner.
• the end pieces 30 are mirror images of one another, but are otherwise constructed identically to one another. Both end pieces 30, which are made, for example, in one piece from plastic injection molding or die-cast aluminum, have, together with the central section 24, a floor section 31 forming the floor for the storage space 23, which is preceded by a cuboidal joining element 32 at its free end facing the central section 24. This jumps back on its two narrower end faces compared to the narrower sections of the bottom section 31 by the material thickness of the legs 25 and 26 and is offset in steps from the storage space-side outer surface of the bottom section 31 by the material thickness of the base 28.
• a substantially U-shaped wall 33 is integrally formed on the bottom section 31, the end wall of which is formed by the base of the U-profile and has an indentation 34 directed towards the joining element 32 and thus projecting into the storage space 23 for receiving the cam-like holding elements, which are not explained in greater detail is provided on the spars 17 and 18.
• Adjoining the end wall of the U-shaped wall 33 are the legs forming the side wall sections of the compartment body 22, which at their free ends each have a cuboid-shaped joining parts 35 which spring back by the material thickness of the legs 25 and 26 with respect to the outside of the legs and 36 are equipped, of which the joining part 35 is assigned to the leg 25 and the joining part 36 to the leg 26.
• the latter is additionally provided with a joining cam 37 facing away from the storage space 28 at its free end directed away from the base section 31, in the vicinity of the upper end of the joining part 36.
• the end pieces 30 When the end pieces 30 are connected, the latter can engage with the central section 24 in its receiving groove 27, the height of the joining cam 37 being matched to the inside width of the receiving groove 27 in order to achieve a largely accurate fit (see FIG. 3).
• the central section 24 together with the end pieces 30 attached to its end faces form the compartment body 22, its storage space 23 on the one hand through the walls 33 and the bottom sections 31 of the end pieces 30 and on the other hand through the legs 25 and 26 and is enclosed by the base 28 on the central section 24.
• the end pieces 30 In the joining state, the end pieces 30 are non-positively connected with their joining parts 35 and 36 engaging the legs 25 and 26, the joining part 32 additionally engaging under the base 28 and interacting non-positively with the latter.

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