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
  • F25D23/02—Doors; Covers
  • F25D23/028—Details

Definitions

• the invention relates to a household refrigeration appliance comprising a heat-insulating inner container which is designed to limit at least one coolable storage space for refrigerated goods, a refrigeration device for cooling the storage space, a door panel movably mounted for opening and closing the storage space relative to the inner container, which has an inner wall with several has latching steps arranged one above the other, and at least one on the inner wall of the door leaf at the locking steps vertically adjustable mounted door racks, which has two opposing end portions each having a counter-locking means, the spring-moved in a locking direction in a locking position, positively engages in one of the latching steps.
• WO 2008/077742 A2 describes a refrigeration device with a refrigerator door on which at least one height-adjustable arranged door racks is provided, which is releasably secured to the inside of the door by means of a locking device for height adjustment, the door racks having a first operable locking means, with a second locking means the locking device is formed.
• DE 10 2009 046 612 A1 describes a refrigeration appliance, in particular domestic refrigeration appliance, having a door with a door inside, which has latching means which cooperate for holding a door compartment on the inside of the door with corresponding counter-latching means at least one latching device which is arranged as a separate component on the door rack , wherein the locking device is floatingly mounted on the door rack.
• the object of the invention is to provide a household refrigeration appliance with at least one height adjustable on an inner wall of a door panel of the household refrigeration door racks in which a latching counter-locking means connection is able to reliably hold the door racks in the desired height on the inner wall of a door panel.
• a household refrigerator comprising a heat-insulating inner container, which is formed, at least one coolable Limiting storage space for items to be refrigerated, a refrigeration device for cooling the storage space, a door opening for opening and closing the storage space with respect to the inner container movably mounted door having an inner wall with a plurality of superimposed latching steps, and at least one height-adjustable mounted on the inner wall of the door leaf at the latching levels
• Door racks each having a counter-latching means on two opposite end portions, the spring-moved in a locking direction in a locking position, positively engages in one of the latching steps, wherein the latching steps and the counter-latching means have corresponding upper wall portions, at least substantially in a horizontal plane extend and corresponding lower wall portions which extend at least substantially in a sloping plane in the locking direction.
• the movably mounted door leaf can, for example, be mounted pivotably on the household refrigerating appliance about a vertical axis.
• the door leaf for example, at an upper and lower front end of hinge fittings, which are known in the art as such, be pivotally mounted.
• the door leaf can be hinged either left or right.
• the door leaf may be mounted on hinge fittings, which are posted, for example, on a body of the household refrigerator or on the inner container.
• the door leaf and / or the hinge fittings can be designed for an optionally left hinged or hinged right hinged storage.
• the storage space may be that of a cold room, which is generally used for frost-free cooling of refrigerated goods, preferably at temperatures between plus 4 and plus 8 degrees Celsius.
• the cold room can, at least partially, also be designed as a zero-degree compartment, in particular for keeping fruit or vegetables fresh.
• the storage space can also be that of a freezer compartment, which generally serves to freeze frozen food at about minus 18 degrees Celsius.
• the refrigerating apparatus for cooling the storage room may include a refrigerant cycle system configured to supply refrigerant compressed by a compressor to a condenser in which the refrigerant is at least partially transferred from a gaseous to a liquid state while heat is extracted therefrom. Downstream of the condenser in the flow direction, the refrigerant can be fed to an expansion valve. An output port of the expansion valve is then connected to an input of the evaporator, in which the cooled down refrigerant is relaxed again, in particular an at least liquefied portion of the refrigerant passes back into the gas phase and thereby absorbs heat from the storage room. An outlet of the evaporator is in turn connected to the compressor, whereby the refrigerant cycle system of the refrigeration device is closed.
• the door leaf may have an inner skin made of deep-drawn plastic as an inner wall. On the inner wall or on the inner skin, for example, two adjacent spars can be attached or integrally formed therewith, between which the at least one door trestle is mounted vertically adjustable. For optional storage of the door compartment at different altitudes arranged latching steps can be provided at different heights, where the door racks can lock.
• the door rack itself can be formed by a substantially cuboidal shell with four side walls and a bottom. Alternatively, the door rack can also be formed only by a glass plate, which may be provided, for example, with a circumferential bracket, which prevents falling down on the glass plate set up refrigerated goods.
• the door racks may each have at least one counter-latching means on its opposite lateral side walls, which is designed to lock into a respective latching step of the door leaf depending on the desired height position.
• a height-adjustable door racks can therefore be held on an inner wall of the door leaf of the household refrigerating appliance by a spring element or latching element fixed on the door racks.
• the spring element or latching element for example, by means of a latching nose with an obliquely lower wall portion are supported in a mounted on the inner wall of the door leaf retaining strip, which has the latching steps.
• An adjustability of the door compartment in a downward direction can only take place when the fixed on both opposite lateral sides of the door compartment spring elements or locking element are pressed simultaneously by fingers of a user's hand to release the spring elements or locking element from the latch.
• a height adjustment is designed upwards so that a pressing of both spring elements or locking elements is not necessary by an oblique wall on an upper wall portion of the spring element or locking element.
• a one-hand operation of the height-adjustable door compartment is given when moving up. The user can therefore position with a single hand in the middle of the door compartment and thus perform the movement upwards.
• the counter-locking means and / or the corresponding latching step have corresponding lower wall portions which extend at least substantially in a sloping plane in the locking direction, a reliable seat of the door compartment is secured to the door leaf. Due to the at least substantially in a sloping in the locking direction extending plane of the lower wall portions of the counter-locking means is pressed into the latching stage due to the gravity of the door compartment and the stored therein refrigerated goods and thereby reinforces the remaining connection between counter-locking means and detent stage.
• the latching steps may be formed on two locking strips, which are connected to the inner wall of the door leaf or integrally formed therewith and between which locking strips of the door rack is mounted vertically adjustable.
• Each locking strip can have several at intervals, in particular constant distances from each other superimposed latching steps.
• Each latching step can be designed as a latching niche or a latching projection.
• the two locking strips can be arranged in each case left and right side of the door compartment.
• the locking strips or the niches of suits i. Moldings in an inner skin, in particular be made of a plastic sheet thermoformed inner skin of the door panel.
• the locking strips may be as a separate components, in particular plastic injection molded plastic components, which may be connected for example by means of fasteners, such as screws, or by gluing with the door rack, in particular an inner skin of the door panel.
• the locking strips can be integrally formed or connected as separate components with bars of the inner wall of the door panel.
• the latching steps can be formed by latching niches and the counter-latching means of latching projections, which are designed to be movable by a manual actuating means against the force of a spring device and against the locking direction into an unlocking position.
• the latching projections can be movably mounted on the side walls of the door rack.
• the locking projections may be movably mounted on separate locking devices which are connected to the door racks.
• the latching projections may be connected to actuating means or coupled thereto.
• the locking projections between a latching niche engaging in the locking position and the latching niches releasing unlocking position can be reciprocated.
• the door racks on the door panel In the locked position, the door racks on the door panel is held in its current height.
• the door rack In the unlocked position, the door rack can be manually adjusted in height with respect to the door leaf, if necessary even removed from the door leaf.
• the latching projections can by elastic biasing means, such as springs in their Be biased locking positions, ie the elastic biasing means, or the springs press automatically the locking projections in the locking position, ie in the respective latching niche inside.
• Each latching niche may have an inner, the upper wall portion of the latching step forming ceiling wall and the latching projection may have an outer, the upper wall portion of the counter-locking means forming upper side.
• each latching niche in this case has a wall portion which extends at least substantially in a horizontal plane.
• the top of each locking projection in this case has a wall portion which extends at least substantially in a horizontal plane.
• each latching niche may have an inner bottom wall forming the lower wall section of the latching step, and the latching projection may comprise an outer underside forming the lower wall section of the counter-latching means.
• each latching niche in this case has a wall portion which extends at least substantially in a sloping in the locking direction level.
• the underside of each latching projection has a wall section which extends at least substantially in a plane sloping down in the locking direction.
• the latching projection can be formed by an in particular substantially cube-shaped or block-shaped block which has the outer upper side forming the upper wall section of the counter-latching means and the outer underside forming the lower wall section of the counter-latching device.
• the locking projection in particular the block can be provided on a resilient portion which is connected to the door rack.
• the resilient portion can form the elastic biasing device.
• the counter-locking means may be connected as a separate component with the door racks.
• the separate component of the counter-locking means can together be mounted with an actuating means and the elastic biasing means in a common base support or housing, which is attached to the door racks as a completely pre-assembled locking unit on the door racks.
• the door racks can be made of an at least substantially inelastic plastic and the counter-locking means of a resilient plastic.
• a suitable inelastic plastic for the door racks and / or the selection of a suitable spring-elastic plastic for the counter-locking means can be done in a manner known to those skilled in the art.
• a plastic can be selected which has good sliding properties and / or good spring properties.
• the counter-locking means can be made, for example, from thermoplastic material, in particular from acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS), polyoxymethylene (POM), polyamide (PA) or polypropylene (PP).
• ABS acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene
• POM polyoxymethylene
• PA polyamide
• PP polypropylene
• FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of an exemplary domestic refrigerator with a plurality of door racks mounted height-adjustable on the inner wall of a door leaf
• Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a single door compartment with two
• FIG. 3 is a partial sectional view through the door rack according to the invention and one of the locking bars of FIG. 2 with a latching step and a counter-locking means in the locked position.
• a household refrigerating appliance 1 shown by way of example in FIG. 1 has a body 2 with an inner container 3.
• the inner container 3 is divided in the illustrated embodiment in a top arranged as a refrigerator 4a storage space 4 and a lower arranged as a freezer compartment 4b storage space 4 divided.
• the cooling space 4a is generally used for frost-free cooling of refrigerated goods, preferably at temperatures between plus 4 and plus 8 degrees Celsius.
• the refrigerator 4a may also be designed as a zero-degree compartment, in particular for keeping fresh fruit or vegetables.
• the cooling space 4a is accessible when the door leaf 5 is open, which is designed as a refrigerator door 5a.
• the freezer compartment 4b is generally used for freezing frozen food at about minus 18 degrees Celsius.
• the freezer compartment 4b is accessible when the door leaf 5 is open, which is designed as a freezer compartment door 5b.
• the door leaf 5, or the refrigerator door 5a has an inner wall 6. On the inner wall 6, two spaced apart spars 7a, 7b are formed, which carry the latching steps 8 (FIG. 2). Between the bars 7a, 7b, three door racks 9 are mounted vertically adjustable in the illustrated embodiment.
• FIG. 2 shows an exemplary embodiment of a door compartment 9 according to the invention.
• the latching steps 8 are provided on two latching strips 8a, 8b arranged opposite the door rack 9.
• the door racks 9 has at two opposite end portions in each case one of the latching steps 8 corresponding counter-locking means 10a, 10b.
• the counter-latching means 10a, 10b is spring-biased in a locking direction into a locking position, in which the counter-latching means 10a, 10b respectively engage positively in one of the left and right latching steps.
• the counter-locking means 10a, 10b are movably mounted on the side walls 1 1, 12 of the door rack 9.
• the counter-locking means 10a, 10b may have the latching projections 13 shown in FIG. 3, which may be provided on separate latching devices 14 are movably mounted, which are connected to the door rack 9.
• the latching projections 13 are connected to actuating means 15 and coupled thereto. By manual actuation of the actuating means 15, the latching projections 13 can be moved back and forth between a latching niche 16 engaging in the locking position and the latching niche 16 releasing unlocking position.
• FIG. 3 it is clearly shown enlarged that the latching steps 8 and the counter-latching means 10a, 10b have corresponding upper wall sections 17, 18 which extend at least substantially in a horizontal plane and have corresponding lower wall sections 19, 20, at least extend substantially in a direction in the locking direction V sloping plane.
• the locking steps 8 are formed by latching niches 16 and the counter-locking means 10a, 10b of locking projections 13 which are formed by the manual actuating means 15 against the force of a spring means and against the locking direction V in an unlocked position movable.
• Each latching niche 16 has an inner, the upper wall portion 17 of the latching step 8 forming ceiling wall and the latching projection 13 has an outer, the upper wall portion of the counter-locking means 18 forming the upper side.
• Each latching niche 16 has an inner, the lower wall portion 20 of the latching step 8 forming the bottom wall and the locking projection 13 has an outer, the lower wall portion 19 of the counter-locking means 18 forming bottom.
• the latching projection 13 is essentially formed, as shown, by a cube-shaped or block-shaped block which has the outer upper side forming the upper wall section 18 of the counter-latching means and the outer underside forming the lower wall section 19 of the counter-latching means.

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