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
  • F25D25/00—Charging, supporting, and discharging the articles to be cooled
  • F25D25/04—Charging, supporting, and discharging the articles to be cooled by conveyors

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a refrigerator, comprising a body which defines an interior space, a door, on the inner side facing the inside latching means are arranged, a door rack with counter-latching means, a Raststoffan extract in a corresponding formation of latching means and counter-latching means for gradually height adjustment of the door compartment in several Detent positions, as well as an unlocking means for releasing a current detent position of the door compartment.
• a generic refrigerator is described in DE 85 17 976 U1.
• the refrigerator door described therein has on the inside of height-adjustable arranged storage container, which are arranged removably between protruding from the inside of the door vertical bars on rack-like notches.
• the in their rear area with laterally projecting claws hooked into a groove in the flanks of the spars storage container can be adjusted in height according to stepwise on its rear side locking lugs of the pitch of the notches.
• the refrigerator door should be easy to produce on the one hand and on the other hand, a slight adjustment of the altitude of the storage container arranged on its inside are possible.
• To move up and down to move the latched storage container must always be solved by lateral pressing two opposing push buttons of the jaws; i.e. for height adjustment of the storage container are always both hands of a user necessary to operate this release can.
• the resilient arms are formed in DE 92 04 742 U1, which are latched into recesses and must be solved by means of a button.
• resilient or spring-mounted arms are mounted on the side parts of the Abstell anyer, which are provided with latchable in locking recesses or latched on knob-like elevations counter-locking parts.
• the refrigerator door is provided with recesses or elevations on which can then snap at any height, the side parts of the storage container. By pressing the buttons they can be disengaged from the current position and locked at desired locations other height. Again, however, always pressing the button is required.
• the object of the invention is to provide a refrigeration device whose door racks can be set in a mere one-handed operation in a higher position, it being ensured that an undesirable slipping of the door compartment down is reliably prevented.
• the refrigeration device a body which limits in particular an interior, a door, in particular at the interior facing the interior latching means, a door rack, which is in particular equipped with counter-locking means, a Rastschan extract for gradually height adjustment of the door compartment in a plurality of detent positions, in particular in a corresponding design of latching means and counter-latching means, as well as an unlocking means for releasing a momentary latching position of the door compartment, wherein the latching means arrangement is designed for upward adjustment of the door compartment when the unlocking means are unactuated.
• the latching means arrangement is formed for upward adjustment of the door compartment with inactivated unlocking means, eliminates the need to actuate the unlocking means when the door rack is moved upwards to create, for example, more space in a arranged underneath door racks. So far, door racks are predominantly hung on a few, firmly specified brackets on the inside of the refrigerator door. In order to fix the door racks in a different height, in general, all goods must be removed from the door racks. Then the empty door rack can be removed with both hands of a user by hanging from a first bracket and a second brackets are hung at different heights again. There are also solutions in which stepwise height-adjustable door racks are provided.
• a user can position the door rack with a single hand up without having to take the product from the other hand.
• the user can hold the goods in an area between the two door racks in order to recognize immediately whether the upper door rack has already been moved sufficiently up to adjust the new goods in the lower door racks can.
• a core of the invention is the realization that it is only necessary for a secure mounting of the door compartment in a height position on the door, to provide a lock that unwanted sagging of the door compartment in the direction of gravity down is prevented. Because an unintentional movement of the door compartment upwards due to gravity is not to be feared, therefore, an effective locking with respect to a movement of the door compartment in an upward direction can be dispensed with. This results in the advantage that no lock must be released for an upward movement of the door compartment.
• the door racks can be moved upward by a simple pressing of the door compartment upwards, for example with a user's hand along the latching means arrangement, so that the door control unit reaches a higher position.
• a fall in the door compartment is still reliably prevented due to the effective locking in the downward direction. hinders, leaving the door racks in its higher position.
• a stepless height adjustment of storage containers ie door closets in the inner door is possible, so that when desired storage of high objects, ie goods such as, for example, large bottles, a flexible storage option is quickly obtained.
• the invention is constructed so that a single-handed operation is possible with an upward movement of the door compartment by a suitable structural design. Only in a downward movement, the unlocking means, such as, for example, two opposing push buttons must continue to be pressed simultaneously.
• the locking lever engages in a latching niche of the body-side locking means.
• the locking lever is pivotally mounted such that the locking lever can be pivoted out of the latching niche in one direction only, which is opposite to the said supporting force. This reliably prevents the supporting force from pressing the detent nose out of the detent niche. Rather, with the described solution, the latching lever is additionally pressed into the latching niche by the supporting force, so that the supporting force further increases the latching action and thus counteracts a release of the latching connection.
• the unlocking means can be formed by a lever for actuating a spring section connected to the detent nose and an actuating means projecting from a second opening of the housing.
• the housing of the counter-locking means may have a second opening, in particular a lower second opening, protrudes by an actuating means of Entriegelungsstoffs.
• the actuating means forms a button for releasing the locking latch.
• the counter-locking means may comprise a stop on which the pivotable locking lever is supported in a blocking position against the supporting force.
• the stopper is thus positioned so that the supporting force, which acts on the detent lever, pivots the detent lever against the stop.
• the stop defines with its position the maximum locking position of the locking lever with respect to the detent niche.
• the stop may be designed such that it bears flat against an end face of the locking lever.
• the counter-locking means may comprise a base plate on which the stopper is formed and on which both the locking lever and the unlocking means are pivotally mounted. Due to the common formation of stop and storage for the locking lever and the unlocking an exact spatial allocation is created. This one-part assignment is largely independent of manufacturing tolerances, so that a precise position assignment of locking lever and stop is guaranteed.
• the unlocking means may be formed by an actuating means and a lever which acts to pivot away the locking lever from the stop on an actuating element of the pivotable locking lever.
• the actuating means and the lever can form a two-armed, in particular one-piece lever with different lever lengths.
• the actuating means may have a longer lever length than the lever.
• the actuating means and the lever may form a two-armed angle lever.
• a first, the actuating means exhibiting angle lever portion may extend to an angle out of the plane of a second lever lever having the angle lever portion.
• the first angle lever section may in particular extend at right angles out of the plane of the second angle lever section.
• the unlocking means may be pivotally mounted in the housing.
• the actuating means forms a control knob.
• the control knob may be integrally formed with the lever.
• the lever acts upon actuation of the control knob on the actuating element, so that the latching nose is pivoted out of the latching niche of the latching means and into the housing.
• the arrangement of actuating means and lever cause a pivoting of the locking lever in an opposite direction to the actuating direction of the actuating means and the control knob.
• the latching niches can be provided on a latching means arrangement which have at least one strip-like latching means with a plurality of latching niches arranged one above the other.
• the locking lever may be biased against the stop by means of a spring.
• the spring can be formed by a spring portion provided on the locking lever.
• the Rashebel thus has a spring or a spring portion.
• the lawn lever should assume a home position in which it engages the ratchet niche, i. is pivoted outwards and thus is in the locked position.
• the latching lever can be biased by the spring portion in the locking position. In this preloaded locking position of the locking lever is preferably on the stop of the base plate.
• the locking lever and the spring portion may form a two-armed lever, which may be rotatably mounted in particular on the base plate.
• the locking lever may have a greater lever length than the spring portion. This also ensures that after releasing the unlocking the counter-locking means always automatically moves back into the locked position.
• the spring portion may be formed by an elastic finger whose free end is, for example, supported on an inner wall of the housing.
• the locking lever together with the actuating element, the spring portion and a latching nose as a one-piece component, in particular as Kunststoffspritzguß- be partially trained.
• Kunststoffspritzguß- a one-piece component
• the forces occurring, such as holding forces on the locking lug, actuating forces on the counter push piece or spring tension forces in the spring portion can be transmitted reliably over the component of the locking lever.
• the actuating element between the locking lever and the spring portion may preferably protrude at the pivot point of the two-armed lever.
• the actuating element can be designed as a lever neck.
• the base plate for limiting a maximum pivot angle for the unlocking means comprise a web.
• the web thereby limits the maximum bending that can occur on the spring section and thus causes a limitation of the internal stresses in the spring section.
• the spring section can not be bent beyond its load limit. This measure prevents unwanted violent breakage of the locking lever, so that the life of the counter-locking means remains guaranteed.
• the actuating means may have a tilting nose for tilting a pressure surface of the actuating means about a support point at which the tilting lug rests against an underside of the door compartment.
• the pressure surface via a connecting web, which extends parallel to the axis of rotation of the unlocking means connected to the pivotable locking lever.
• the tilting nose is provided on the back of the printing surface.
• the tilting nose comes to lie against the bottom of the door compartment.
• This contact point of the tilting nose forms a fulcrum for the printing surface.
• the pressure surface is tilted and that about a tilt axis which is parallel to the axis of rotation of the Rashebels.
• the torque generated by the tilting of the pressure surface is transmitted via the connecting web and can provide a contribution to the rotation of the locking lever due to its parallel alignment with the axis of rotation.
• the tilting nose thus reinforces a Rotary movement, which acts on the locking lever. As a result, thereby unlocking the locking means arrangement is improved.
• the locking lever may have a latching nose with arcuate, in particular circular arc-shaped contour.
• the latching means arrangement can have at least one strip-like, in particular door-side latching means with a plurality of latching niches of arcuate, in particular circular arc-shaped, contour arranged one above the other.
• Figure 1 is a perspective view of a refrigeration appliance for household purposes with
• FIGS. 2a, 2b are enlarged views of a door compartment according to FIG. 1 with a latching means arrangement in two different latching positions;
• Figure 3 is a partial view of the door compartment of Figure 2 in a view of a locking means arrangement according to the invention from behind ..;
• Figure 4 is a partial view of the door compartment of Figure 3 with bottom-side view of an actuating means with pressure surface and Kippnase ..;
• Figure 5 is an exploded view of the counter-locking means according to Figures 3 and 4 in isolation with the housing cover.
• Figure 6 shows the counter-latching means of Fig. 5 in the assembly when removed
• Figure 7 shows the counter-locking means according to Fig. 5 in the assembly when removed
• Housing cover in its unlocked position with pressed actuator.
• a refrigerator 1 for household purposes has a cabinet-shaped body 2, whose walls 3 define an interior 4 of the refrigeration device 1.
• a front opening 5 of the body 2 can be closed by means of a door 6.
• the door 6 is pivotably mounted on the body 2 via hinge assemblies 7 about a vertical axis.
• the door 6 has an inner side 8 facing the inner space 4 in the closed position.
• two supporting beams 9a and 9b are arranged on opposite lateral edge portions.
• the support beams 9a and 9b may be formed integrally with the inside 8. They extend in the vertical direction and have a strip-like shape.
• the supporting beams 9a and 9b are used for fastening door racks 10a, 10b and 10c.
• the door rack 10c consists of a tub-like box part with a rectangular shape and an upper open ceiling side. On the open side of the ceiling, goods to be cooled, in particular bottles and beverage cartons, can be adjusted.
• Each door rack 10a, 10b and 10c may be detachably mounted on the bars 9a and 9b.
• the door racks 10a, 10b and 10c can be fastened to the uprights 9a and 9b at various altitudes.
• FIG. 2a shows an enlarged view of a door compartment 10c in an upper detent position on the inside of the door 6, and FIG. 2b shows the door compartment 10c in a lower detent position.
• the door rack 10c is mounted in a height-adjustable manner between the two bars 9a and 9b.
• a locking strip 1 1a and 11b as a locking means 1 1 are attached to the facing each other inner sides of the bars 9a and 9b.
• a locking bar 11 a is explained in more detail in Fig. 3.
• the two locking strips 1 1a and 1 1 b are rigidly connected rigidly to the bars 9a and 9b respectively to the door 6.
• the door racks 10c have two opposing counter-locking means 12.
• the counter-latching means 12 with the latching means 1 1 form a latching means arrangement 13.
• the door rack 10c is mounted displaceably in the two arrow directions in a vertical direction upwards or downwards. A displacement is possible in each case by a latching step or by further latching steps along the latching strips 1 1a and 11b.
• the left side and right side of the door rack 10c mounted counter-locking means 12 are identical or mirror-symmetrical.
• the locking means 11 shown is formed by a locking bar 39.
• the locking bar 39 is designed rod-shaped and has a strip-like basic shape.
• Two identical or at least mirror-symmetrical detent strips 39 are fastened to opposite inner sides of bars of the door 6.
• the latching strip 39 carries a plurality of latching niches 41 arranged one above the other. Each latching niche 41 forms a receptacle for the latching lug 24 of the latching means 12.
• the latching slots 41 are preferably arranged at regular intervals from one another and in particular immediately following one another on the latching strip 39.
• a very close succession of the notches 41 causes a very fine Rastaufogue to set the door racks 10 in many different locking positions can.
• the detent niches 41 can be separated only by narrow locking webs 42.
• the locking lugs 24 of the counter-locking means 12 can be supported.
• the catches 41 have, as shown, a circular arc-shaped contour.
• the latch also has a circular arc-shaped contour.
• the counter-locking means 12 is attached to a rear side 60 of the door rack 10.
• Fig. 4 shows the arrangement of Figure 3 in a front view obliquely from above.
• a connecting web 61 extends along the bottom 62 of the door compartment 10 to a pressure surface 57.
• the plane of the pressure surface extends substantially parallel to the plane of the bottom 62.
• the pressure surface 57 is located at a significant distance from the bottom 62.
• the pressure surface 57 is moved to the bottom 62 to.
• the tip of a tilting nose 56 abuts the support 62 at the bottom 62.
• the plane of the pressure surface 57 tilts around the bearing point 58 in the direction of the arrow.
• a torque is generated about a tilting axis K, which runs parallel to the axis of rotation D of the Rashebels.
• the position of the axis of rotation D is shown more clearly in FIG.
• the tilting axis K passes through the support point 58 in a direction parallel to the rotation axis D direction.
• FIG. 5 the two-part counter-locking means 12, consisting of locking lever 51 and unlocking means 19 together with a housing 14 and a housing cover 22 in one exploded view shown.
• the housing 14 has a flat rectangular base plate 52.
• the base plate 52 is bounded by a circumferential frame web 63.
• the frame web 63 carries Schnapprastiata 64 which cooperate with corresponding Jacobschnapprastemia 65 of the housing cover 22.
• snap-action elements 64 the housing cover 22 is fastened to the housing 14.
• the base plate 52 carries a first journal 66, on which the latching lever 51 is pivotally mounted. At a second journal 67, the unlocking means 19 is pivotally mounted.
• a web 54 is provided on the base plate 52, which serves to limit a maximum pivot angle for the unlocking means 19. From a first opening 23 protrudes the locking lug 24 of the locking lever 51. From a second opening 27 projects the actuating means 18 of the unlocking means 19. The first opening 23 and the second opening 27 interrupt insofar the peripheral frame web 63 to the locking lug 24 and the actuating means 18th lead out of the housing 14. Above the locking lug 24, on the first opening 23 to the web 54 so far opposite a stop 50 is provided, on which the pivotable locking lever 51 is supported in its blocking position. For stiffening the stopper 50 is formed as a square frame. In the center of the base plate 52 is a preferably triangular frame web 68 is provided, on which the latching lever 51 can invest in a sliding contact surface and is guided in the housing 14.
• the latching lever 51 consists of the latching lug 24, a holding section 69, an actuation element 55 and a spring section 53. At the junction of holding section 69, actuating element 55 and spring section 53, a bearing eye 70 is introduced, in which the first axle journal 66 in the assembly position penetrates. The locking lever 51 thus pivots about the center of the bearing eye 70.
• the unlocking means 19 consists of the actuating means 18, the connecting web 61 and a lever 34.
• the lever 34 is L-shaped, wherein in the region of the corner bend of the lever 34, a second bearing eye 71st is introduced, in which the second journal 67 penetrates in the mounting position. As a result, the unlocking means 19 can be given away around the axis of rotation D.
• the connecting web 61 extends to the rear.
• the free end of the connecting web 61 terminates in the actuating means 18.
• the actuating means 18 has a pressure surface 57, on whose upper side at the far rear corner the tilting nose 56 projects upwards.
• the housing 14 of the counter-latching means 12 is closed by the housing cover 22, in which the latching latching elements 64 of the housing 14 engage behind the corresponding counter-latching latching elements 65 of the housing cover 22.
• Hinge fingers 72 of the housing cover 22 engage behind hinge webs 73 of the housing 14.
• Fig. 6 the counter-locking means 12 of FIG. 3 is shown in isolation.
• the lawn nose 24 is in the locking position, i. when installed, the locking lug 24 engages in one of the latching niches 41 of the locking means 11.
• a downward movement of the door compartment 10c can not be done because the latched into the latching niche 41 locking lug 24 is forced under load of the door compartment 10c to the first journal 66 clockwise up where the latch 24 is present at the stop 50, not from the latching niche 41st can be driven out and so movement of the door compartment 10c is prevented down.
• the bias generated by the spring portion 53 prevents the latch 24 can fall into the housing 14 by the locking lug 24 continues to press the locking lug 24 against the stop 50 against the force of gravity.
• the pressure surface 57 of the actuating means 18 In order to move the door rack 10c down, the pressure surface 57 of the actuating means 18 must be pushed upwards, ie by pressing the pressure surface 57 from bottom to top, the actuating means 18, as shown in Fig. 7, to the second journal 67 in Turned clockwise so that the L-shaped lever 34 pivots clockwise in Fig. 7 to the right.
• the pressure surface 57 can be pushed up until the tipping nose 56 at the bottom 62 of the door compartment 10c, as shown in Fig. 4, is present.
• By pivoting the L-shaped lever 34 presses a free end portion of the long leg of the L-shaped lever 34 against the actuating element 55 of the locking lever 51.
• the locking lug 24 can only partially disappear in the housing 14, so that a small part of the Rasnase 24 continues to protrude from the housing 14. In this position of the locking lug 24, the door racks 10c can be moved upwards or downwards until the desired target position for the door racks 10c has been reached. By a slight protrusion of the locking lug 24 an audible clicking sound is generated by the Ü skip over the protruding part of the latch 24 from a latching niche 41 to the other. By clacking the height adjustment of the door compartment 10c is acoustically displayed from locking position to locking position.

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