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
  • F25D23/00—General constructional features
  • F25D23/06—Walls
  • F25D23/065—Details
  • F25D23/067—Supporting elements
• • 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 storage compartment, in particular a door rack for a refrigerator, in particular for a household refrigerator.
• a storage compartment in particular a door rack for a refrigerator, in particular for a household refrigerator.
• On the inside of the door of such a refrigerator usually several door racks are usually mounted to accommodate upright bottles and small-sized refrigerated goods.
• the surfaces of the storage room are the only surfaces of the device that the user can see in day-to-day operation, but also for floor-standing devices with visible external surfaces. Also have an impact on the appearance of the device
• Refrigerator of a household refrigerator such as a refrigerator or freezer or a fridge freezer arranged drawer-like storage compartments.
• Device housing largely uniform to manufacture and mounting parts, in particular door racks and drawers model or series to vary. If e.g. Although the door racks are essentially injection-molded in one piece, there is great creative freedom, but since expensive injection molds are required for each individual model of door racks, this approach is relatively expensive. In the search for a cheaper solution has already been considered a modular approach in which components of a door compartment such as bottom plate, front wall and side walls are manufactured separately and then to a
• both the front wall and the side walls of the door compartment must be made in different variants. That is, there are no cross-shared common
• Object of the present invention is to provide a storage compartment, in particular a door rack for a refrigerator, based on a single platform makes it possible to radically vary the appearance with simple and inexpensive means.
• a storage compartment such. drawer-like container or the like, in particular a door rack for a refrigeration device, with a bottom plate, a front wall and side walls, wherein at least one fixing element for a decorative part on an inner side of the front wall is accessible.
• the fastener forms a point of attack for anchoring different types of decorative parts, but even, since it is located on the inside of the wall, visually hardly apparent, so that already the door rack without added decorative part is practically applicable and as such in a simply equipped refrigeration device can be installed.
• a handle to be expected which is provided on the front wall, in particular one-piece mitangeformt to this, and which serves to move the drawer-like container from the refrigerator of a refrigerator.
• the decorative part is fixed to the inside of the handle.
• the front wall extends between serving as side walls sidewalls of the storage compartment or door compartment.
• the fastening element is arranged adjacent to an upper edge of the front wall.
• the decorative part is formed areally and occupies a partial area or substantially the entire area of the front wall or the handle.
• the fastening element is at least one projection, such as a pin or the like, on which the decorative part can be plugged.
• a fastener in the form of a horizontal web on the one hand, because it allows an inexpensive production of the front wall as extruded profile, on the other hand because the web causes a stiffening of the front wall, which makes it possible to achieve a predetermined load capacity with low material usage ,
• the web can be continuous or divided into individual, spaced-apart sections.
• the fastening element can also be designed as at least one opening or at least one depression of the front wall.
• a configuration as a horizontal continuous groove is preferred.
• individual mutually spaced groove sections are conceivable. If the groove is limited by two webs, a predetermined load capacity with low material usage is also achievable.
• a decorative part can already be attached to the front wall by the manufacturer,
• the decorative part is positive and / or non-positive on the inside of the front
• the front wall is transparent, in particular crystal clear, so that the decorative part can be placed on an inner side of the front wall and is visible through the front wall. Since the decorative part is protected by the wall, the requirements for the durability of its surface are low, and it suffices, for example, a thin superficial metallization on a substantially Plastic shaped decorative part to give the front wall the appearance of a metal surface. In particular, if the front wall itself has a glossy outer surface, the impression of a shiny metal surface, even if the decorative part behind it has a matte surface.
• a decorative part preferably comprises a plug-connected to the fastening element U-profile.
• An upper flank of the U-profile is preferably flush with the upper edge of the wall, so that a viewer is not aware that the decorative part is a different component from the front wall.
• the side cheeks on each of the rear side facing the door through which the filler body can be inserted and optionally replaced. So here too a user can be given the opportunity between
• the inventive concept supports a further variant in which a decorative part is clamped on the outside of the front wall and covers it partially or completely. If the outside of the wall behind the front of the
• the wall thickness of the decorative part can be chosen so that an outer surface of the decorative part is flush with the front sides of the side walls.
• the wall thickness of the decorative part is preferably dimensioned such that an outer surface of the decorative part is flush with a wall of a decorative shell covering the front side of a side wall.
• Fig. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a door compartment according to a first embodiment of the invention
• Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the finished assembled
• Fig. 3 shows a section through the front wall and the decorative part of the refrigerated goods carrier mounted thereon;
• Fig. 4 is a vertical section through a side cheek of the refrigerated goods carrier
• Fig. 6 is an exploded view of the refrigerated goods with a
• FIG. 7 shows the ready-assembled refrigerated goods carrier from FIG. 6;
• FIG. 8 shows a section through the front wall and the decorative part of
• FIG. 9 shows an exploded view of a refrigerated goods carrier according to a third embodiment of the invention.
• FIG. 10 shows the refrigerated goods carrier of FIG. 9 in the assembled state
• FIG. 12 shows a cross section of the side cheek of the refrigerated goods carrier from FIG. 10;
• FIG. 13 is an exploded view of a refrigerated goods carrier according to a fourth embodiment of the invention.
• FIG. 14 shows a section analogous to FIG. 8 according to a fifth embodiment of FIG
• FIG. 15 shows a section analogous to FIG. 8 according to a sixth embodiment of the invention.
• FIG. 16 shows a section analogous to FIG. 8 according to a seventh embodiment of FIG
• FIG. 1 shows a door rack according to a first embodiment of the invention in an exploded perspective view.
• a base body 1 of the door compartment has substantially the shape of an elongated, upwardly open box with a bottom plate 2 and extending on the longitudinal sides of the bottom plate 2 front and rear walls 3 and 4, wherein in the present
• a refrigerator door to which the door rack is more familiarly mounted in the art and "rear" means the direction toward the door.
• the rear wall 4 when assembled, abuts or is spaced from an interior surface of the refrigerator door at most by a small gap Therefore, it serves only to stiffen or stabilize the base body 1, but not as the front wall 3 as a railing for securing refrigerated goods placed in the door compartment.
• 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, as can be seen in particular in the section of Fig. 5, substantially the shape of a hollow, to a rear Entformö réelle 7 towards open cuboid or more precisely one
• the convergence of the walls 8, 9 facilitates in the one-piece production of the base body 1 by plastic injection molding removal via the opening. 7
• a rear portion 13 is formed solely by an extension of the inner wall 8 and engages in a manner familiar to those skilled in the art between two vertical spars, which on the inside of the door, not shown on both sides of the above-mentioned
• the rear section is stiffened by protruding ribs. From the ribs limited downwardly open recesses 14 of the rear portion 13 of the two side cheeks 5 are provided to be plugged onto support projections on facing flanks of the vertical spars and so the
• a web 15 is formed on an inner side of the front wall 3, which is parallel to an upper edge of the wall. 3 extends horizontally between the side walls 5.
• the web 15 serves on the one hand the stiffening of the front wall 3, on the other hand it allows the anchoring of a decorative part 16 which is formed as an extruded profile of metal or plastic.
• Decor part 16 essentially comprises a flat plate 17, which fills the inside of the wall 3 of the bottom plate 2 to the bottom of the web 15, and formed on the upper edge of the plate 17 U-profile 18 which engages around the web 11 by clamping.
• the base body 1 is made of a crystal clear plastic material such as a polystyrene or polymethyl methacrylate, so that in the assembled state shown in Fig. 2, the decorative part 16 is visible through the wall 3 therethrough.
• the decorative part 16 may be a simple, inexpensive extruded profile of colored
• the impression of a colored, glossy surface can also with a directly obtained by the extrusion matte surface of the decorative part 16, without a
• the wall 3 can also do the
• Appearance of a shiny metal surface can be awarded if the decorative part 16 made of metal, in particular aluminum, or if the decorative part 16 is metallized only superficially. Since the surface of the decorative part 16 is protected by the wall 3, there is no danger that the metallization is removed during the use of the door compartment. Also, the front flank 10 of the side walls 5 projects slightly over the outer surface of the front wall 3, as shown in Fig. 3 can be seen. This measure is primarily useful due to the ability to combine the body 1 with the later described alternative decorative parts. Fillers 21 are provided to be inserted via the Entformötechnischen 7 from behind into the hollow side walls 5.
• the fillers 21 are secured in the side walls 5 by the vertical bars of the refrigerator door, which close the Entformötechnischen 7.
• the filler 21 are visible as the decorative part 16 through the crystal clear material of the body 1 through and therefore determine in a similar manner as the decorative part 16 the
• the filler 21 are realized as a hollow plastic body, which consist of the same material as the decorative part 16 or are provided with the same type of surface coating as the decorative part 16.
• the glass clear door racks formed solely by the base body 1 can be converted into, for example, a wholly white or all-over glossy refrigerated goods carrier.
• FIG. 6 shows a perspective view of a second embodiment of the refrigerated goods carrier.
• the main body 1 and the packing 21 are the same as described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 5 and will not be explained again.
• a decorative part 22 is as
• Extruded aluminum profile realized with a cross section similar to an inverted letter L or J.
• a plate 23 of the decorative part 22 is provided to abut on the outside of the front wall 3 as shown in Fig. 7 and to conceal its upper portion.
• An integrally formed on the plate 23, angled at its free edge web 24 extends beyond the upper edge of the wall 3 and the inner edge of the web 15, wherein a shallow groove 25 of the web 24 surrounds the tip of the web 15, as in Fig. 8 shown.
• the wall thicknesses of the decorative part 22 are matched to the dimensions of the main body 1 so that the latched position of FIG. 7, the outer surfaces of the decorative part 22nd flush with the upper flank 1 1 or the front flank 10 of the side walls 5 connect.
• the packing 21 may also be omitted in this embodiment. If they are present, the appearance of their surface is preferably significantly different from that of the decorative part 22, since the shiny surfaces of the side cheeks 5 do not allow an appearance identical to the decorative part 22 anyway. That is, for example, if the decorative part 22 is an extruded metal profile, the filler 21 may consist in particular of white plastic.
• Figures 9 and 10 show in exploded or assembled
• the first aspect is the shape of the vorgeblendeten decorative part 22, the plate 23 here completely covers the front wall 3 of the body 1.
• the web 15 surrounding the web 15 of the front wall 3 is omitted here, and their function, for a
• each shell 27 has an outer wall 28 which is bent slightly inwardly at its lower edge to lock the shell 27 to the side wall 5.
• An inner wall 29 of the shell 27 covers the inner wall 8 of the
• the front wall 3 of the body 1 extends through a slot 30 between the inner wall 29 and a front wall 31 of the shell 27. Since the front wall 31 on the leading edge 10 of
• the decorative part 22 and the shells 27 are made of the same metal, the user gets the impression of a possibly to the bottom plate 2 and the rear wall 4 completely metallic door compartment.
• FIG. 13 shows, in a view analogous to FIG. 9, a fourth embodiment of the invention
• FIG. 14 shows a section similar to FIG. 8 through the front wall 3 according to a fifth embodiment of the invention.
• the decorative part 16 here has the form of an elastically flexible plate, at the upper edge of a rib 36 projects obliquely upwards.
• the rib 36 is received in a groove 37 at the upper edge of the wall 3.
• the decorative part 16 is anchored in a form-fitting manner to the base body 1.
• two webs 15, 38 are formed at the upper edge of the wall 3, between which a rib 36 of the decorative part 16 is clamped.
• the rib 36 is also part of a U-profile 18, which surrounds the web 15 as in the embodiment of FIG.
• the decorative part 16 shows an embodiment in which fastening elements in the form of openings 39 of the wall 3, distributed along a line parallel to the upper edge of the wall 3 and perpendicular to the cutting plane, both from the inside of the wall 3 and from the outside are accessible.
• the decorative part 16 comprises a plate 17 to be placed on the inside of the wall 3 and two webs 40, 41, which are connected to one another and to the plate 17 by film hinges 42, 43.
• the web 43 carries a plurality of projections 44 arranged in a row.
• the film hinges 42, 43 are kinked, so that the webs 40, 41 put around the top edge of the wall 3 and the upper portion of its outer side.
• the projections 44 of the web 41 engage in the openings 39 of the wall 3 and engage in the slots 45 of the plate 17th

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