WO2011006765A2

WO2011006765A2 - Support for refrigerated products in a refrigeration appliance

Info

Publication number: WO2011006765A2
Application number: PCT/EP2010/059373
Authority: WO
Inventors: Benjamin Glaser; Claudia Rupp
Original assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
Priority date: 2009-07-13
Filing date: 2010-07-01
Publication date: 2011-01-20
Also published as: EP2454542B1; DE102009027654A1; ES2439283T3; EP2454542A2; WO2011006765A3

Abstract

A support for refrigerated products in a refrigeration appliance, in particular a domestic refrigeration appliance, comprises a plate (1), strips (3) that extend in the direction of the depth of the plate and border lateral edges of the plate, and at least one bow that is pivotably retained below the plate, within bearings (11) arranged on the strips.

Description

Refrigerated goods carrier for a refrigeration device

The present invention relates to a refrigerated goods for a refrigeration appliance, in particular a household refrigerator, with a horizontally mounted in the refrigerator plate on which various items to be chilled can be placed in the depth direction, lateral walls of the plate enclosing strips and at least one bow below the Plate is arranged pivotally. In a projecting position from the plate, such a bracket can serve for the horizontal storage of bottles or other similar shaped refrigerated goods; when not in use, it can be pivoted in a position parallel to the plate to take up as little space in the refrigerator.

Such a refrigerated goods carrier is known for example from WO 98/05 910. The strips enclosing the lateral edges of the plate are here part of a frame which surrounds the plate on four sides. At the front and rear strips of this frame is a U-shaped structure in plan view with two clamped in the depth direction below the plate forth legs clamped, wherein two hinged arms are suspended from each other on the legs. When not in use, these legs reduce the height of a compartment delimited upwards by the refrigerated goods carrier and thus make it more difficult to use. It would therefore be desirable to be able to remove the structure with the swivel brackets when not in use for a long time. However, this is only possible by being pushed in the lateral direction of the refrigerated goods, and for this purpose, the refrigerated goods must be cleared empty and removed from the refrigerator, which in turn is associated with the user with inconvenience. Outside the refrigerator, the structure is difficult to store, on the one hand due to their

On the other hand, due to the risk that one of the hooks used for clamping to the frame of the plate will be damaged and thus render the entire structure unusable.

Object of the present invention is to provide a refrigerated goods with a suspended bottle cage, in which the bottle holder only minimally affects the use of a compartment below the refrigerated goods when not in use. The object is achieved by arranged at a refrigerated goods for a refrigeration device, in particular a household refrigeration device, with a storage level, extending in the depth direction of the storage plane, lateral edges of the storage level forming strips and at least one pivotally mounted under the shelf bracket, bearings on the strips in which the bracket is pivotally held. A conventional, suspended under the shelf level structure thus completely eliminated, and there is no off the lateral edges of the storage level extending below the shelf levels, which complicate the use of the underlying space. Under the

At least one support bracket extends when not in use in a direction parallel to the storage plane orientation. In this orientation, however, the bracket does not reach down as far as a strip in which a bearing for the bracket is housed. Although extending along the lateral edges of the plate strips must extend far enough down to order it bearings for the bracket can, but these strips affect the usability of the space below the storage level little, as they are when the refrigerated goods in a

Refrigeration unit is installed, located in the immediate vicinity of the side walls.

Preferably, the storage level is formed as a plate, which are bordered in the depth direction extending lateral edges with strips.

The bearings may in particular comprise recesses in mutually facing flanks of the strips, in each of which a journal of the bracket engages.

In order to prevent an axle journal from escaping from its bearing when the bracket is loaded by bottles mounted on it, it is expedient to provide an element protruding in the radial direction over the axle journal at a distal end of each axle journal.

The journal may be hook-shaped angled at its distal end to form the protruding element; Alternatively, the protruding element can also be mounted axially immovably on the journal, for example in the form of a bracket or a snap ring, which engages in a circumferential groove of the axle journal, or a pin inserted into a diametrical bore of the axle journal. The bracket can be easily and inexpensively bent in one piece from a wire.

Preferably, at least one bearing of each strip is formed in an adapter latched to the strip. By providing provisions for locking the adapter to the strip in different positions, the refrigerated goods carrier can be easily adapted to the storage of bottles of different dimensions. Such an adjustment may be made by the user if there are multiple discrete attachment points for the adapter to choose from on a bar.

Alternatively, a single attachment point, in particular in the form of an opening in the strip, can only be created in each case where an adapter is actually to be mounted. This allows a manufacturer to manufacture refrigerated goods carriers adapted to the storage of different bottle formats in a large number of variants with minimal tooling and cost.

For a quick and easy installation of the adapter to the strips, it is advantageous if each adapter has a fixed and an elastic hook, which engage at opposite edges of one of the openings. Thus, the fixed hook can form an axis of rotation about which the bracket is pivoted into the opening upon engagement of the elastic hook. To preclude mounting of an adapter in the wrong orientation, one of the hooks of each adapter may be wider than the one edge of one of the openings on which the other hook of the adapter engages.

As locking contours for fixing the bracket in the parallel or projecting from the plate position expediently two recesses are formed on the adapter, in which the bracket engages in one of these two positions.

The two recesses are preferably bounded on their sides facing each other by sloping flanks, so that in each case during pivoting of the bracket from one of its locking positions out a deformation resistance must be overcome, which fixes the bracket, as long as no external force acts in the locked position. At its side remote from the first recess, the second recess is expediently delimited by an edge parallel to the pivot axis, in order to pivot the bracket beyond the position protruding from the plate

prevent. So it can be ruled out that when inserting a bottle, a hanger is accidentally pushed back away and a bottle already lying on it loses its support and crashes.

Further features and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following description of embodiments with reference to the accompanying figures. Show it:

1 is a perspective view of a refrigerated goods according to the invention;

2 shows an enlarged detail of the refrigerated goods carrier. Fig. 3 is a rear view of an adapter;

Fig. 4 is a section through a bar, an adapter and a thereto

suspended hangers; and FIG. 5 shows a section analogous to FIG. 4 according to a modified section

Design.

1 shows a perspective view of a refrigerated goods carrier, which is provided in a manner known per se to the person skilled in the art and as described, for example, in DE 20 304 564 U1 for installation in a refrigeration appliance. The refrigerated goods carrier comprises an in

Installation position horizontal, serving as a storage level, rectangular glass plate 1, which could alternatively be replaced by a plate made of another material, a grid or the like. In the direction of the depth of the refrigerated goods receiving refrigeration device housing extending side edges 2 of the glass plate 1 two strips are attached, here in the form of attached extruded profiles 3 made of aluminum. The extruded profiles 3 have a cross section similar to the letter "a", with a hollow lower portion 5 and a hook-shaped over the lower portion 5 extending and with this a side edge 2 of the glass plate 1 receiving groove On an upper side facing away from the glass plate 2, the outer edge of the lower portion 5 downwardly open recesses 4 are formed, which are provided, not shown, supporting the refrigerated goods

To accommodate support projections, which protrude from an inner wall of the refrigerator housing.

The inner cavity of the lower portion 5 is filled at least at its front and rear ends by a plastic body 7. At the rear ends of the profiles 3 7 ends of a wire clip 8 are inserted into the plastic body, of which extends a central portion along the rear edge of the glass plate 1 above it, thus forming a railing, which prevents placed on the glass plate 1 Refrigerated material is pushed up to the rear wall of the refrigerator housing and it freezes.

On two mutually facing vertical edges of the lower portions 5 of

Extruded profiles 3 are each mounted two adapters 9 made of plastic. The two mounted on a same extruded profile 3 adapter 9 are equal to each other and mirror images of the adapters 9 on the other extruded profile 3. Each two adapters 9 together hold a one-piece molded from a stiff wire

Bottle Tray Brackets 12. The bottle carrier brackets each include one or more sheets 24 sized to seat a bottle therein and axle journals 25 angled outwardly from the outer sheets 24.

One of these adapters 9 and a piece of the extruded profile 3 to which the adapter 9 is to be mounted can be seen in FIG. 2 in an exploded perspective view. The adapter 9 has a base plate 10, which is mounted in a vertical orientation on the outside of a flank 26 of the lower portion 5 of the profile 3. A in the width direction of the glass plate 1 extending groove 1 1 at the upper edge of the base plate 10 is provided to serve as a bearing for a journal 25 of a bottle carrier bracket 12. The groove 1 1 extends on the one hand to a root portion 13 of the adapter 9, which engages in the assembled state in an opening 14 of the profile 3, and on the other hand passes continuously over into a downwardly directed groove 15 on the outside of the base plate 10. The groove 15th is provided to receive a leg of the bottle carrier bracket 12 in its shown in Fig. 1, protruding from the glass plate 1 position. The openings 14 on the mutually facing flanks 26 of the two extruded profiles 3 overlap with the recesses 4, which in each case to the flanks 26th

opposite, opposite flanks of the profiles are formed. Thus, tools for producing the openings 14, for example by milling or punching, can be brought to the flanks 26 from both sides, which facilitates the production of the openings. Since the recesses 4 are significantly larger than the openings 14, the openings 14 can be variably placed on the profiles 3 in adaptation to different bottle formats, without the overlap between them and the

Recesses 4 is lost. If necessary, openings 14 can also be produced, in particular by milling, which do not overlap with the recesses 4.

A recess 16 extends at the upper edge of the base plate 10 along the groove 11 forward; it takes up the leg of the bracket 12 when it is pivoted forward relative to the perspective of Fig. 1 in a position parallel to the glass plate 1 position. The groove 15 and the recess 16 have adjacent inclined flanks 17, 18, which the bracket 12 can easily pass under a slight elastic deformation. A flank 19 at the back of the groove 15 is oriented parallel to the pivot axis of the bracket 12 defined by the groove 11, so that when in the protruding position of FIG. 1, a rearward force acts on the bracket 12, the flank 19th pivoting of the bracket 12 is blocked to the rear, instead of like the flanks 17, 18 to elastically deform the bracket 12 and let it pass in the deformed state.

The opening 14 of the extruded profile 3 has the shape of two intersecting rectangles, a larger, which receives the root portion 13, and a smaller, in which a fixed hook 20 of the adapter 9 engages.

As can be seen in the rear view of the adapter 9 shown in FIG. 3, an elastic latching hook 21 is formed on a side remote from the fixed hook 20 of the root portion 13, which engages in the mounted state at an edge 22 of the opening 14, which the the fixed hook 20 behind the engaged edge 23 is opposite. The openings 14 in the two opposing extruded profiles 3 are arranged in mirror image to each other, that is, in both of the narrower edge 23 is directed forward and the wider edge 22 to the rear. So it is impossible to mistake one for to assemble the extruded profile 3 on the right side of the glass plate 1 provided adapter 9 in an opening 14 of the left extruded profile 3 and vice versa.

4 shows a section through an extruded profile 3, an adapter 9 latched in an opening of the extruded profile 3 and a part of the bracket 12 mounted in the adapter 9 in section along a vertical plane extending along the grooves 11 and 15 of the adapter 9 , The bracket 12 is located in the

protruding position and extends in the groove 15. The journal 25 is in the groove

11 recorded. In the simplest case, the rigidity of the bracket 12 can be chosen so large that even in the fully loaded state, the deformation of the bracket 12 remains so small that the axle pin 25 can not be pulled out of the groove 11 out. A disadvantage of this solution, however, is that it also requires a large amount of force on the part of the user if he wants to remove the bracket 12 during prolonged disuse from the refrigerator and tries to extract the journal 25 from the groove 11.

In the embodiment shown in Fig. 4, a circumferential groove is formed at a distal end of the axle journal 25, on which a snap ring 27 is pushed. The snap ring 27 secures the journal 25 against withdrawal from the groove 11, even if the bracket

12 is easily deformable in itself.

In order to attach the snap ring 27 on the journal 25 or remove again, it must be accessed on this one of the recesses 4 on the outside of the extruded profile 3, which is only possible if the refrigerated goods as a whole is removed. It is also conceivable, however, to use a clip in the form of a flat plate, for example of spring steel, instead of a snap ring 27, which can be inserted from below into the recess 4 when the refrigerated goods carrier is mounted and has two fingers flanking a slot at its upper end. which engage from two sides in the groove of the axle journal 25.

Fig. 5 shows an alternative embodiment in which at the distal end of the journal 25, a short hook 29 is bent. On an outside of the adapter 9 is inside the Extrusions a cavity kept clear in which the hook 29 extends downward when the bracket 12 is in the protruding from the plate 1 position. The distance between the hook 29 and the outside of the adapter 9 is large enough so that the hook 29 does not block a pivoting of the bracket 12 in the position parallel to the plate 1 position. The groove 1 1 is here significantly higher than wide, so that the hook 29, the groove 11 can happen when the bracket 12 is raised in the protruding orientation, as illustrated in the figure with reference to a dashed outline of the bracket 12.

The recess 16 is here higher than the bottom of the groove 1 1, so that when the bracket 12 is in the direction parallel to the plate 1 orientation, the journal 25 of the bracket 12 is lifted from the bottom of the groove 11 and at the bottom of a plate 1 enclosing leg 30 of the extruded profile 3 is applied. Thus, the distance of the bracket 12 to the panel 1 in the parallel orientation is minimized, and almost unlimited usability of the space under the panel 1 is ensured even when the bracket 12 remains mounted in the parallel orientation.

Claims

1. refrigerated goods for a refrigeration appliance, in particular household refrigeration appliance, with a

Storage level (1), in particular plate, extending in the depth direction of the storage plane (1), lateral edges of the storage plane (1) forming strips (3) and at least one pivotally mounted under the storage level bracket, characterized in that bearing (11), in which the bracket (12) is pivotally mounted on the strips (3) are arranged.

2. refrigerated goods carrier according to claim 1, characterized in that the bearings (11)

Include recesses in mutually facing flanks of the strips (3), in each of which a journal (25) of the bracket (12) engages.

3. refrigerated goods carrier according to claim 2, characterized in that at a distal end of each axle journal (25) in the radial direction over the journal protruding element (27, 29) is provided.

4. refrigerated goods carrier according to claim 3, characterized in that the journal is angled at its distal end to form the projecting element (29).

5. refrigerated goods according to claim 3, characterized in that the protruding element (27) is mounted axially immovably on the axle journal (25).

6. refrigerated goods according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the bracket (12) is bent in one piece from a wire.

7. refrigerated goods according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that at least one bearing (11) of each bar (3) in a on the bar (3) latched adapter (9) is formed.

8. refrigerated goods according to claim 7, characterized in that the adapter (9) in

Openings (14) are latched, which are formed in mutually facing flanks (26) of the strips (3).

9. refrigerated goods carrier according to claim 8, characterized in that each adapter (9) has a fixed (20) and an elastic hook (21) which engage at opposite edges (22, 23) of one of the openings (14).

10. refrigerated goods carrier according to claim 9, characterized in that one (21) of the hooks (10, 21) of each adapter (9) is wider than the one edge (23) of one of the openings (14) on which the other hook (20). of the adapter (9) attacks.

11. refrigerated goods carrier according to one of claims 8 to 10, characterized in that the adapter (9) has a first recess (16), in which the bracket (12) engages in a position parallel to the plate (1), and a second recess (15), in which the bracket (12) engages in a protruding from the plate (1) position.

12. refrigerated goods according to claim 1 1, characterized in that the two

Recesses (15, 16) on their sides facing each other by oblique edges (17, 18) are limited.

13. refrigerated goods according to claim 11 or 12, characterized in that the second recess (15) on its side facing away from the first recess (16) side is limited by a parallel to the pivot axis flank (19).

14. refrigerated goods according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that in a direction parallel to the plate (1) position of the bracket (12) has a achsferner region of the bracket (12) to a front edge of the plate (1).

15. refrigerated goods according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a railing at a rear edge of the plate (1) by a to the strips

(3) anchored bracket (8) is formed.