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
  • F25D2400/18—Aesthetic features

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a refrigerator, in particular a household refrigerator with a door, on the inside of a built-in part is arranged.
• a refrigerator in particular a household refrigerator with a door
• On the inside of such a door usually several fixtures such as refrigerated goods, a butter compartment or the like are usually mounted.
• These built-in parts have a significant
• Influence on the appearance of the device perceived by a user not just in a built-in device where the internal surfaces of the storage space are the only surfaces of the device that the user normally perceives during operation, but also in outdoor units with visible external surfaces.
• Device housing largely uniform to manufacture and vary mounting parts model or series-specific. If the built-in parts are substantially injection-molded in one piece, there is a great freedom of design, but there consuming
• Bottom plate and side walls are manufactured separately and joined together to form the finished fixture. This allows the production of built-in parts with
• the object of the present invention is therefore to provide a door component for a refrigeration appliance, whose external appearance is fundamentally changeable with little effort.
• the object is achieved by the case of a refrigeration appliance, in particular household refrigeration appliance with a door component, with a bottom plate and through the bottom plate
• the connected side cheeks is equipped, at least one of the side cheeks and preferably both is covered by a plugged decorative element. Since the attached decorative element does not have to perform static functions, it can be realized thin-walled and therefore inexpensive. Since the decorative element also does not contribute to the anchoring of the fixture to the door, its shape can be kept simple, so that simple and inexpensive tools for his
• the side cheeks can be used for the side cheeks.
• the side cheeks are preferably further connected by a railing to provide an open top commonly referred to as a door shelf, particularly for standing storage of bottles.
• a decorative part can be plugged to vary its appearance.
• a flap may be pivotally suspended between the side cheeks of the door component to provide, for example, a butter compartment.
• the decorative part of the side cheek should expediently cover their most conspicuous surfaces, namely a front side, an upper side and an outer side.
• the decorative element also covers an inner side of the side cheek.
• Such a decorative element is generally from above the
• the attached to the side wall decorative elements can be used to secure a plugged onto the railing decorative element. Run for this
• the inner flanks of plugged on both side panels decor parts forward together, and the plugged onto the railing decorative part has a dovetailed web which engages positively between the inner edges.
• the decorative element covers in addition to
• Such a decorative element is best plugged from the front on the side wall.
• a web extending onto the inside of the side cheek is preferably formed on a lower and / or an upper flank of the decorative element.
• This second embodiment is particularly suitable for the realization of a butter compartment, in which a closed ceiling can make attaching the decorative part from above af the side cheek impossible.
• Anchoring contours provided for a positive engagement of the door assembly part in a refrigerator door. This rear area is expediently recessed in the decorative element.
• a control element may be provided, which may be depressible, for example, to release an engagement between a support projection of the door assembly and a complementary recess of the door, thus enabling the release of the fitting from the door.
• Such an operating element can be completely hidden under the decorative part; then, when the control is operated is to be removed, first the decorative element.
• Fig. 1 is an exploded view of an inventive
• FIG. 2 shows the mounting part of Figure 1 in the assembled state.
• FIG. 3 shows a section through a side wall of the installation part of FIG. 1;
• FIG. 4 shows a partial plan view of the installation part with a front wall hidden by a decorative element
• Fig. 5 shows a section through the hidden from the decorative element front
• Wall; 6 is an exploded view of a door assembly according to a second embodiment
• FIG. 7 shows the built-in part of FIG. 6 in the assembled state
• FIG. and FIG. 8 is an exploded view of a door component according to a third embodiment of the invention.
• FIG. 1 shows a door rack according to a first embodiment of the invention in an exploded perspective view.
• a main body 1 of the door compartment has substantially the shape of an elongated, upwardly open box with a bottom plate 2, on the longitudinal sides of the bottom plate 2 extending front and rear walls 3 and 4 (in the context of the present specification "forward” the Direction away from a refrigerator door, not shown, at the door rack or another fitting part is mounted, and “rear” denotes the direction towards the door.)
• the rear wall 4 is in the mounted state on an inner surface of the refrigerator door or is at most spaced therefrom by a narrow gap and therefore serves only for stiffening or stabilization of the body 1, but not to secure refrigerated goods placed therein.
• the bottom plate 2 and the walls 3, 4 extend between two side cheeks 5.
• the side cheeks 5 each comprise a front portion 6, which has substantially the shape of a hollow, downwardly open cuboid, and a rear portion 7, which is shaped to intervene between itself on an inside of the refrigerator door extending, known per se vertical struts and the downwardly open recesses 8, which are provided to be plugged onto support projections on mutually facing flanks of the vertical uprights and so support the door racks on the spars ,
• the rear portion 7 is formed here as a thin, solid plate, projecting from the outside of ribs 9, which define the recess 8.
• the side cheeks 5 can be injection molded integrally with the bottom plate and the walls 3, 4 of plastic, or they can be injection molded separately from the bottom plate 2 and the walls 3, 4 and then joined together with the latter,
• the bottom plate 2 and the walls 3, 4 may be designed in the latter case as a single contiguous extruded profile or be formed as each individual extruded profiles which are connected to each other directly or indirectly via the side walls 5.
• the latter, multi-part design makes it possible to use a material for the side walls 5, which alone static or processing technology
• the decorative elements 10 are thin-walled hollow body made of colored or metallized plastic or metal, in particular aluminum, from the top of the side cheeks 5 are attached and in each case an outer side of the front portion 6 overlapping outer edge 11, an engaging in the base body 1 and the
• Base body extends. On this front wall, another, not shown decorative element may be plugged to cover the front of the wall 3 completely or at least partially.
• the material or at least the surface of this second decorative element is expediently identical to that of the decorative element 10.
• Fig. 2 shows the door rack in the assembled state. There remain only the voltage applied to the vertical door pillars outer sides of the rear portion 7 of
• Fig. 3 shows a schematic section through the downwardly open side cheek 5 and the decorative element placed over it 10.
• a narrow web 16 is bent inwardly, which abuts against the lower edge of the outer wall of the side cheek 5.
• the web 16 secures the decorative element 10 positively on the side cheek 5. at the same time the thin outer edge 11 but so flexible that the web evades with a moderate train upwards to the outside and the decorative element 10 releases.
• Fig. 4 shows a plan view of a front corner of the door compartment according to a modified embodiment
• Fig. 5 shows a section along the line V-V of Fig. 4.
• the front wall 3 of the main body 1 is behind a plugged
• the decorative element is made of the same material or has the same surface coating as that
• Decorative element 10 It is in cross-section, as shown in Fig. 5, substantially C-shaped with a center piece 38 covering the outside of the wall 3 and webs 39, 40 bent backwards from its upper and lower edges.
• the side cheeks 5 and the decor body 10 placed thereon are formed in mirror image to one another and, as is apparent from FIG. 4, have mutually facing sides facing each other in front.
• the webs 39, 40 are widened in the dovetail shape in plan view to the rear, so that they engage positively between the decorative parts 10.
• Fig. 6 shows an analogous to Fig. 1 exploded view of a door compartment according to a second embodiment of the invention.
• the basic body 1 can be completely identical to that shown in FIG. 1 here.
• Decorative elements 17 are provided to be pushed in the depth direction on the side walls 5. They lack the inner edge 12 of the decorative elements 10, instead, they have a bottom 18, the underside of the side cheeks 5 completely covered in the attached state, and at inner edges of the top 13 and the bottom 18 narrow webs 19 are formed, the attack on the inner surfaces of the side walls 5.
• the webs 19 do not extend to the front edge 14 of the decorative elements 17 in order to leave room for the front wall. 3
• This second embodiment is particularly useful in the case of a refrigerated goods carrier, which is mounted approximately at eye level of a medium-sized user, so that the
• FIG. 8 shows a perspective view of a butter compartment according to the invention with a body 20 and a flap 21 pivotally hinged to the body 20 about a horizontal axis.
• the flap 21 is shown in a partly open position; in the closed position, it is flush with the front sides of side cheeks 5 of the Carcass 20, and in the open position, it extends in a substantially horizontal orientation close to a ceiling 22 of the body 20th
• Decorative elements 23 are similar to those of the second embodiment, with an outer edge 11, a front edge 14, a top 13 and a
• Tab 24 is elastically movable in the width direction of the butter compartment by pressing on a front panel 6 of the side cheeks 5 exposed control panel 25.
• Control panel 25 and projection 24 may be parts of a one-piece spring tongue extending in the interior of the side cheek 5 in the depth direction.
• Fig. 8 Shown in Fig. 8 is a different embodiment, in which in the outer edge 1 1 of the decorative elements 23, a resilient tongue 26 is cut free. If the
• Decor elements 23 are attached to the side walls 5, the tongue 26 is completely on the control panel 25, and by pressing the tongue 26, the control panel 25 can be pressed and the projection 24 from the corresponding locking recess of
• a control panel 25 and optionally an overlapping with the control panel tongue of the decorative element can also be provided in a door rack of the types shown in Fig. 1 to 7.

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