WO2007090713A2

WO2007090713A2 - Refrigeration device comprising shelves

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Publication number: WO2007090713A2
Application number: PCT/EP2007/050389
Authority: WO
Inventors: Christoph Becke
Original assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
Priority date: 2006-02-06
Filing date: 2007-01-16
Publication date: 2007-08-16
Also published as: EP1984687A2; DE202006001832U1; WO2007090713A3

Abstract

The invention relates to a refrigeration device comprising a body (1) and a door (4) which defines a heat-insulated inner chamber, and at least one shelf (3, 26) which can be mounted in the inner chamber optionally in a horizontal position and in an inclined position.

Description

Refrigerating appliance with shelf

The present invention relates to a refrigerator with a body and a door defining a heat-insulated interior, and at least one shelf mounted in the interior. Such refrigerators are well known.

Conventionally, the shelf of such a refrigerator is aligned horizontally, so that any refrigerated goods can be stably and safely placed on it. However, there are applications for which such horizontal orientation of the shelves is not optimal. If e.g. the refrigeration device for the horizontal storage of bottles, especially wine bottles, is used, so either the distance between the shelves must be made large so that a user can read the labels of lying on the shelves bottles, resulting in poor space utilization, or he You must remove the bottles one at a time to be able to read the labels, making the search for a desired bottle tedious and time-consuming.

There is therefore a need for a refrigerator that allows a more flexible interior layout that allows bottles or other items to be stored in a space-saving arrangement without unduly compromising the readability of the labels of such items.

The object is achieved in that in a refrigeration device of the type specified in the shelf in the interior either in a horizontal and a sloping position can be mounted. The sloping position allows a scaly arrangement of objects placed on the shelves, through which they remain clearly visible even with comparatively dense packing and the labels remain legible.

Such a selectively horizontal or sloping position is achieved according to a first embodiment in that on a wall of the interior each first front, the door adjacent and rear, remote from the door support points for supporting the same shelf are formed, wherein the shelf on the first support points is placeable in the horizontal position and on the first front and a second rear support point or on the first rear and a second front support point in the downhill position can be placed.

In this case, preferably the heights of the first front and rear support points are the same, whereas the heights of the first and second support points are different.

The attachment of the shelf is facilitated when each of a front and a rear support point are connected by a continuous surface. Thus, a portion of the shelf, which comes to lie in the mounted position near a rear wall of the body, first placed on the easily accessible front support point and then pushed through to the rear support point.

In particular, the support points may be in grooves recessed in the inner wall, and the shelf has front and rear pins which are selectively engageable in a same groove or grooves located at different levels.

According to a second embodiment, on a wall of the interior, each front, the door adjacent and rear, remote from the door support points for supporting the shelf are formed at different heights, and the shelf takes the horizontal position when it is placed on the support points so in that an end face of the shelf faces the door, and assumes the sloping position when placed on the support points so that the same end face faces away from the door.

According to a further embodiment, on a wall of the interior, respectively front, adjacent and rear, remote from the door support points for supporting the shelf are formed, and a spacer is insertable and removable between one of the support points and the shelf to the shelf in the horizontal or sloping position.

For the placement of the shelf, it is helpful if the interior has mutually parallel side walls. A railing of the shelf prevents the slipping of objects stored thereon in the downhill position.

In order to prevent uncontrolled rolling away of lying bottles, preferably at least a first of the shelves has at least one elongate shell.

Such a shelf may additionally have a strip-shaped footprint, the width of which is sufficient to put a bottle upright. Although such an upright bottle largely conceals a bottle stored in a tray located behind, this does not hinder the findability of the bottles if they are so conceded that the upright bottle and the one behind it are each of the same type.

A second shelf, which has a smaller depth than said first shelf, can be placed in a space-saving manner behind a bottle standing on the first shelf and above a bottle lying thereon, in particular for receiving further bottles of the same type.

Such a shelf can be assembled from two cross members and at least one longitudinal beam connecting the cross member. At least one of the cross members, in particular the door facing in the mounted position, may be made of metal, on the one hand, in order to achieve a high load capacity with a small material cross section, on the other hand, to give the device a high-quality appearance. The generally less visible and less loaded side member, however, can be made cost-saving plastic.

The cross member made of metal is inexpensive realized from an extruded profile.

An at least partially transparent door allows a user to view items stored in the refrigeration appliance and to identify any to be removed without opening the door. This shortens the time of the door being open and reduces the input of heat and moisture into the refrigeration appliance, which in turn enables energy-saving operation. Further features and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following description of embodiments with reference to the accompanying figures. Show it:

Fig. 1 is a schematic view of a refrigerator with shelves according to the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a tray equipped with shells for the prone intake of bottles;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the shelf of Figure 2, in which the shells are omitted except for one.

Fig. 4 is an analogous to Fig. 3 view of a second shelf, wherein also only a single shell is shown;

5 shows an example of the arrangement of the shelves of Figures 3 and 4 with reference to a schematic section through a refrigerator.

Fig. 6 is a similar to Figure 5 section showing a modified arrangement of the shelves.

Fig. 7 is a schematic section similar to Fig. 5, which is modified again

Arrangement of the shelves shows;

FIG. 8 shows a perspective view, analogous to FIG. 3, of a shelf; FIG.

9 is a perspective view analogous to FIG. 3 of a shelf according to a second embodiment of the invention;

10 shows an example of the arrangement of shelves according to the second embodiment with reference to a schematic section through a refrigeration device. and Fig. 1 1 a to Fig. 4 analog perspective view of a shelf according to a third embodiment of the invention.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a refrigerator according to a first embodiment of the invention. A body 1 of the device is constructed in a manner known per se from an outer skin joined together from metal plates and an inner container 2 deep-drawn from plastic, on the side walls of which shelves 3 are supported. A hinged to the body 1 door 4 is substantially composed of an insulating glass pane 5 with an inner and an outer glass plate and an enclosed Isoliergasfüllung, wherein the inner glass plate provided in its edge region with a frame-shaped opaque coating 6 and a magnetic seal 7 attached thereto is. A transparent central region of the insulating glass pane 5 ensures even with the door closed 4 insight into the interior of the device.

One of the shelves 3 is shown in Fig. 2 in a plan view and in Fig. 3 in a perspective view. The shelf is assembled from a front and a rear cross member 8, 9, each extending in the width direction of the body 1 and the facing away from the viewer in Fig. 3 front cross member 8 of the door 4 of the refrigerator faces, two side rails 10 and a A plurality of elongate shells 1 1, six each in the case shown here.

The cross members 8, 9 are extruded profiles made of aluminum, stainless steel or the like, in which case the rear cross member 9 has an approximately C-shaped cross-section and the front cross member 8 has a cross section in the form of a lying T. The crossbar 12 of the T forms one of the door 4 facing end side of the shelf 3 and the foot is a horizontal shelf 13, whose extension in the depth direction of the body 1 in about the width of the shells 1 1 or the diameter of a lying in the shell 1 1 or standing on the shelf 13 to be placed bottle, in particular a commercial wine bottle from 0.7 to 1, 0 I capacity corresponds.

An upper portion of the crossbar 12 may serve as a railing 23, which protects bottles on the shelf 13 from falling down, in particular, when a user accesses these bottles on a lying bottle in one of the shells 1 1 passes. Alternatively, such a railing can also be releasably clamped to the cross member 8, wherein such railing can be higher than the upper portion of the crossbar 12 and can provide a correspondingly more effective protection.

The longitudinal members 10, which connect the cross member 8, 9 together, are injection molded from plastic. Their rear ends each engage positively in the groove

14 of the rear cross member 9 and are inside this groove 14 by a bar

15 integrally connected to each other, which fills the groove 14 along its entire length and forms together with the cross member 9 in the lateral direction on the side members 10 projecting rear pin 16. Also below the storage area 13 of the front cross member 8, the side members 10 are integrally connected by a beam 17. Front pins 18 are on the one hand by the front cross member 8 and on the other hand formed by one piece with the longitudinal members 10 projections.

The molded from a transparent plastic or safety glass shells 1 1 are channel-shaped with a circular arc-shaped cross-section and closed

End walls 19 at the front and rear end of the gutter. A projecting from an upper edge of the end wall 19 horizontal web 20 and adjacent thereto

End portions 21 of the channel are supported on the cross members 8, 9. It can be one in the

Figures not shown latching be provided to secure the shells 1 1 in the frame 22 surrounded by the transverse and longitudinal members 8, 9, 10 opening 22 and / or determine their position in the width direction of the shelf 3.

FIG. 4 shows a second shelf 26 in a view analogous to FIG. 3. This shelf 26 has front and rear cross members 27, 28 in the form of extruded profiles of metal, which face each other in mirror image and have the same cross-section as the rear cross member 9 of the shelf 3. Here are longitudinal beams 29 through in the grooves of the cross member 27, the 28th received transverse beams 30 integrally connected, extending over the entire length of the cross member into laterally beyond the side members 29 projecting front and rear pins 31, 32.

Fig. 5 shows an example of the placement of the shelves 3, 26 and bottles 33 on these shelves in the body 1. The height of the inner container 2 in the figure corresponds approximately to the height of two bottles 33, it being understood that the Height of Inner container can be any multiple of the height of the bottles. Halfway up the inner container 2 is the shelf 3 with lying and standing on the shelf 13 of the front cross member 8 bottles 33. About the lying bottles and behind the standing (left of these in the illustration of FIG. 5) are two shelves 26th arranged, in turn, carry the bottle 33. Thus, behind each standing bottle 33 three lying can be accommodated, which are expediently all of the same type, so that a user can immediately recognize the type of the underlying lying on the label of the standing bottle.

Further standing bottles 33 are placed directly on the bottom of the inner container 2; also they each cover two shelves 26 of the type shown in Fig. 4 and trays 1 1, which may be placed directly on the bottom of the inner container.

Fig. 6 is a second schematic section through a refrigerator, analogous to the section of Fig. 5, which shows a possible arrangement of the shelves 3, 26. Horizontal grooves 34, 35, 36 formed on the side walls of the inner container 2, which are omitted in FIG. 5 for the sake of clarity, are shown in FIG. Front and rear pins 18 and 16 of the shelf 3 each engage in the same groove 36 a. That is, a lower wall of the groove 36 forms both in a near-door area a front support point for the pin 18 and in a rear wall of the body 1 adjacent area a rear support point for the pin 16, and both support points are at the same height, so that the shelf 3 is horizontal. The shelves 26, however, are each assigned two grooves, an upper 34 and a lower 35, wherein the rear pins 32 are inserted into the upper groove 34 and the front pin 31 in the lower groove 35. This results in a forward sloping position of the shelves 26. This position makes it easier for a user to recognize the label of a lying on one of the shelves 26 bottle when no bottle of the same type is in front of it.

FIG. 7 shows a further section, analogous to FIGS. 5 and 6, showing another arrangement of shelves 3, 26 in the body 1. As in the embodiment of FIG. 6, two shelves 26 are inclined in the upper region of the inner container 2. The underlying shelf 3 is in turned orientation, with the front Cross member 8 to the rear wall of the body 1 out, inserted into the inner container 2, wherein the pins 18 of the cross member 8 engage in the groove 36 and those 16 of the cross member 9 in an underlying groove 37. A bottle 33 carried by the shelf 3 thus comes closer to the door in the inner container 2 than bottles 33 on the shelves 26 above, and a label on the belly of the bottle 33 on the shelf 3 is conveniently visible to a user. This allows the user, if the bottles are sorted sorted by the label of the visible on the shelf 3 bottle on the type and the type of bottles in overlying shells of the shelves 26 to close without an upright bottle access to the hindered lying bottles.

The shelves 26 are due to their symmetrical structure and the rectangular outline of the inner container 2 indifferent with the cross member 27 or the cross member 28 first inserted into the inner container.

Fig. 8 shows a further embodiment of a shelf 39, which is intended to be placed horizontally in the inner container and to form a carrier for refrigerated goods of any kind. The shelf 39 comprises cross members 8, 9 and longitudinal members 10 which are integrally connected to one another by cross beams and which are identical to those of the shelf 3 from FIG. It differs from the shelf 3 in that, instead of the channel-shaped shells 1 1, a flat glass pane 40 fills the opening 22 surrounded by the transverse and longitudinal members.

Also, the shelf 39 can be made obliquely if necessary by inserting its front and rear pins in different high-lying grooves of the inner container 2, expediently here in the oblique position of the cross member 8 of the door remains facing, so that its railing 23 the sliding down from prevents objects placed on the shelf 39.

9 shows a perspective view of a shelf 41 according to a second embodiment of the invention. Like the shelf 3 of FIG. 3, the shelf 41 from cross members 42, 43 and longitudinal members, here with 42, 43 and 44, constructed, which surround a cupped with 1 1 central opening 22 like a frame. On an outer flank of each longitudinal member 44 is in each case a first pin 45 and a second Spigot 46 formed, wherein in horizontal orientation of the shelf 13 and the shells 1 1 of the cross member 42 first pin 45 is lower than the cross member 43 adjacent the second pin 46th

Fig. 10 illustrates a schematic section through a refrigerator possibilities of placing the shelf 41 of FIG. 9 and shelves 47, which are like the shelf 41 with pins 45, 46 provided at different heights, but in which as in the shelf 26th Fig. 4, the shelf 13 is omitted.

Grooves 48, 49, 50, 51, which are formed parallel to each other in the side walls of the refrigerator, each have a portion 54 which rises from the front of the body 1 (right in FIG. 12) gently up to a vertex 53, the not far from the

Rear wall of the body 1 is located, and beyond the vertex 53 a short, steeply sloping portion 55th

The groove 48 is equipped with a shelf 41 of the type shown in Fig. 1 1. The first pin 45 engages in the rising portion 54 of the groove 48, the second

Pin 46 in the sloping section 55. The second pin 46 causes such a

Lock, which prevents the shelf 41 slides out of the body 1 under its own weight. As you can see, the slope is rising

Section 54 of the grooves chosen so that the height difference between the pins 45, 46 is balanced and the top of the shelf 41 is horizontal. In a corresponding manner, a short shelf 47 is held horizontally in the groove 49.

In the groove 50, a shelf 41 is held in an opposite orientation, with engaging in the sloping portion 55 of the groove pin 45 and in the front, rising portion 54 engaging pin 46. The shelf 41 is sloping down to the door. The same applies to a supported by the groove 51 short shelf 47, the orientation of which is opposite to that of the groove 49 carried by the shelf. That is, each shelf, 41 or 47, can be moved from the horizontal to the inclined position by removing it from the interior, rotating it through 180 ° and pushing it in again, and vice versa.

Fig. 1 1 shows a perspective view of a short shelf 56, similar to the shelves 26 of Fig. 4 and 47 of FIG. 10, according to a third embodiment. Also Here transverse and longitudinal members form a frame around a with shells 1 1 equipped central opening, and first pin 57 are in extension of one of the cross member of the shelf 56 from. Second pins 58 are formed at the free ends of two pivot arms 59 which are hinged to the frame and adjustable between a pivoted position shown in solid lines and a swung-out position shown in dashed lines.

In the pivoted position, the second pins 58 lie in the plane of the frame, so that the shelf 56 is horizontal when the pins 57, 58 engage in the same horizontal groove. In the pivoted position, the pivot arms 59 form spacers which establish a vertical distance between the shelf 56 and the pin 58 and thus allow an inclination of the shelf 56 in a horizontal groove.

Of course, the shelf 56 could also be combined with oblique grooves, in which case the pivot arms 59 compensate in their swung-out position, the slope of the grooves and hold the shelf 56 horizontally, and the shelf 56 with pivoted pivot arms 59 assumes a sloping position.

Claims

claims

1 . Refrigerating appliance having a body (1) and a door (4) delimiting a heat-insulated interior, and at least one shelf (3, 26, 41, 47, 56) which can be mounted in the interior, characterized in that the shelf (3,

26, 41, 47, 56) is mountable in the interior in either a horizontal and a downhill position.

2. Refrigerating appliance according to claim 1, characterized in that on a wall (2) of the interior respectively first front, the door adjacent support points and first rear, remote from the door support points for supporting the shelf (3, 26, 41, 47, 56 ) are formed, that the shelf (3, 26, 41, 47, 56) on the first support points in the horizontal position can be placed and that the shelf on the first front and a second rear support point or on the first rear and a second front Support point can be placed in the downhill position.

3. Refrigerating appliance according to claim 2, characterized in that the first front and rear support points are at the same height.

4. Refrigerating appliance according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that in each case a front and a rear support point by a continuous surface (36; 48 - 51) are interconnected.

5. Refrigerating appliance according to one of claims 2 to 4, characterized in that the

Support points are located in grooves (34-37; 48-51) recessed in the inner wall and in that the shelf (3, 26, 41, 47, 56) engages in the grooves (34-37; 48-51) engaging front and rear pins (18, 16, 31, 32, 45, 46, 57, 58).

6. Refrigerating appliance according to claim 1, characterized in that on a wall (2) of the interior of each front, the door (4) adjacent and rear, of the Door (4) facing away from support points for supporting the shelf are formed at different heights and that the shelf (41, 47) occupies the horizontal position when it is placed on the support points so that a front side (42) of the shelf of the door (4 ) and that the shelf occupies the downhill position when placed on the support points so that the end face (42) faces away from the door (4).

7. Refrigerating appliance according to claim 1, characterized in that on a wall of the interior of each front, the door adjacent and rear, remote from the door support points for supporting the shelf (56) are formed, and that a spacer (59) between one of Support points and the shelf

(56) is insertable and removable.

8. Refrigerating appliance according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the interior has mutually parallel side walls.

9. Refrigerating appliance according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the shelf (3, 26, 39, 41, 47) has a railing (23).

10. Refrigerating appliance according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that at least one first of the shelves (3, 26, 41, 47, 56) has at least one elongated shell (1 1).

1 1. Refrigerating appliance according to claim 10, characterized in that the first shelf (3, 41) a strip-shaped footprint (13) from the upright

Turning off a bottle (33) has sufficient width.

12. Refrigerating appliance according to claim 1 1, characterized in that at least a second of the shelves (26, 47) has a smaller depth than the first shelf (3, 41).

13. Refrigerating appliance according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the shelf (3, 26, 39, 41, 47, 56) has two cross members (8, 9; 27, 28; 42, 43) and at least one connecting the cross member

The longitudinal beam (10, 29, 44) comprises at least one of the transverse beams (8, 9, 27, 28, 42, 43) made of metal and the longitudinal beam (10, 29, 44) made of plastic.

14. Refrigerating appliance according to claim 13, characterized in that the cross member (8, 9, 27, 28, 42, 43) made of metal is an extruded profile.

15. Refrigerating appliance according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the door (4) is at least partially transparent.