Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
  • A47F3/00—Show cases or show cabinets
  • A47F3/04—Show cases or show cabinets air-conditioned, refrigerated
  • A47F3/0404—Cases or cabinets of the closed type
  • A47F3/0426—Details
  • A47F3/043—Doors, covers
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47F—SPECIAL FURNITURE, FITTINGS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR SHOPS, STOREHOUSES, BARS, RESTAURANTS OR THE LIKE; PAYING COUNTERS
  • A47F3/00—Show cases or show cabinets
  • A47F3/04—Show cases or show cabinets air-conditioned, refrigerated
  • A47F3/0404—Cases or cabinets of the closed type
  • A47F3/0426—Details
  • A47F3/0434—Glass or transparent panels
• • 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
  • F25D23/026—Doors; Covers for open-top cabinets

Definitions

• the invention relates to a freezer for refrigerated storing and presenting food in a sales room with a solid housing walls front, rear, side and bottom side surrounded refrigerator, which is accessible on its upper side via a housing opening from a user-side front edge, which in the closed Condition of a cover unit is covered with a bordering on the user-side edge, movable in the forward-backward direction part cover and a remote from the user-side edge immovable rear part cover.
• a freezer of this type is disclosed in EP 1 332 698 B3.
• a cooling space is accessible from two longitudinal sides and covered on the upper side by means of a cover which has cover plates displaceable along the two longitudinal sides at right angles to the longitudinal sides and a stationary cover plate in the central region between the longitudinal sides.
• the cover may be convexly curved.
• Side guide rails have three tracks and the fixed cover plate is in one arranged separate track, which is preferably the top of the three tracks. Shown is also a freezer with a firmly attached along the back cover plate. A corresponding freezer is also shown in EP 1 391 171 A.
• EP 2 347 680 A1 a further freezer with a cover is disclosed, which has a plurality of transversely displaceable in the transverse direction lid. These are also coupled together via a driver system.
• the present invention has for its object to provide a freezer with a different shaped cover that is user-friendly.
• the front part of the cover is provided in its front and rear laterally on both sides with laterally over the edges projecting front and rear guide pins which engage in both sides associated upper guide rails, so a particularly simple displaceability is given, wherein the Curvature of the front part cover largely freely selectable and advantageous to different functional and / or operating requirements is customizable.
• the guideways in the guide rails need not be adapted to the curvature of the front part of the cover and the curved part cover must, for. B. not be formed of flexible material, which offer improved design options.
• the convex curvature of the front part cover essentially corresponds to the curvature of the front region of the lateral guide rails in order to laterally obtain a reliable sealing of the cooling space by the cover unit.
• the upper guide rails have an upper holding web, which in each case has at least one gap, through which the guide pins can be inserted and brought out with a corresponding sliding position of the front part cover.
• An advantageous for the function and operation embodiment is that a front, a middle and a rear part of the cover are present and that only the front part of the cover is convexly curved upward, whereas the middle and the rear part cover are flat. This contributes to a good displaceability, in particular also of the front part cover, since it lies with its rear region above the flat central part cover already at the beginning of the displacement upon opening and only small displacement forces are required.
• the measures advantageously contribute to the function and operation that the front part cover is provided near its front edge with an upwardly projecting handle and that the front and the middle part cover are mounted displaceably in the lateral frame sections formed side guide rails in that, when opening, the middle part cover is slipped over the rear part and the front part cover over the middle part cover.
• a driver device which is designed in such a way that when moving the front part of the cover and the middle part of the cover is moved in the corresponding direction back or forth.
• the driver device is formed in such a way that when opening the first part of the cover is first pushed over the middle part of the lid and on further opening the front part Cover is pushed together with the middle part cover over the rear part cover.
• the Mit Conversevor- direction is formed in such a way that when closing from the fully open state, first the front part cover is pushed forward from the area above the middle part cover and then the middle part cover together is moved with the front part lid in the closed position.
• the entrainment device has a front entrainment element projecting downwards in the front region of the front part cover and a rear entrainment element projecting downwards in the rear region of the front part cover, such that the front entrainment element is fully opened a stop in the front edge region of the middle part of the lid in abutment occurs to push the middle part of the cover to the rear, and that when closing the front part cover from the fully open state is first pushed forward alone and then with its rear entrainment with another Stop in the front edge region of the middle part of the lid in abutment steps to take this forward to the closed position.
• FIG. 1A shows the upper area of a freezer with a cover unit and a guide unit in a side view in the closed position
• Fig. 1B the cover unit of FIG. 1A in the open position
• FIG. 1C shows three details A, B and C shown in FIG. 1A.
• FIG. 1C shows three details A, B and C shown in FIG. 1A.
• Fig. 1A shows the upper portion of a (not shown in detail) freezer 1 with a cover unit 2.
• Such cabinets 1 are used in particular in sales rooms for refrigerated storage and filing of food.
• the generally essentially cuboid-shaped freezer has a front, a rear, two lateral and a bottom housing wall, which form a housing body and enclose a cooling space with an overhead housing opening, which is covered by the cover unit 2 and can be opened, to fill the refrigerator with food or to allow a buyer to remove food.
• the cover unit 2 is designed to present the goods or food completely or largely transparent and has a plurality of sliding in a guide unit 30 part lid, which can be moved at least partially into an open position and from this again in the closed position.
• a guide unit 30 part lid which can be moved at least partially into an open position and from this again in the closed position.
• the cover unit 2 has three part covers, namely a front part cover 10 arranged in the front, a user facing area of the housing opening in the closed state, a middle part cover 20 adjoining the latter at the rear and one At least the front and the middle part of the lid 10, 20 are inserted into a cover guide 3, which is arranged at lateral edges of the housing opening in the rear region of the housing opening.
• the cover unit 2 of the rear part of the cover 40 is immovably inserted into two side frame sections and a rear frame section and removed, for example, taken up removable, so that the refrigerator, if necessary, in the rear area, z. B. for loading or for cleaning purposes, can be released easily accessible.
• the front part of the lid 10 is slidable over the middle part of the lid 20 and opening, if an even further opening is desired, with the middle part of the cover 20 on the rear part cover 40 pushed.
• the cover guide 3 has a guide unit 30 with upper guide rails 31 and middle guide rails 32 arranged on both sides of the housing opening, the front part cover 10 being displaceably mounted in the upper guide rails 31 and the middle part cover 20 in the middle guide rails 32.
• the side rear frame sections, in which the rear part cover 40 is received, may be embodied as lower guide rails 33 of the guide unit 30.
• the front part cover 10 is advantageously provided with front guide pins 11 projecting laterally in its two front lateral areas and laterally projecting rear guide pins 12 in its two rear lateral areas, which are formed, for example, on lateral or front or rear frame-like enclosures of the front part cover 10 or separately.
• the front and rear guide pins 1 1, 12 are shown enlarged in the details A and B of Fig. 1C. You can be provided for easy movement of the front part of the lid 10 with roller-like elements.
• this embodiment of the front part cover 10 with the front and rear lateral guide pins 11, 12 makes it possible for the front part cover 10 to be convexly curved upward at will, since it passes over the middle part. Partial cover 20 protrudes when it is pushed over this.
• the front part of the cover 10 is made of flexible or flexible material, so that a variety of design options in material choice and design are possible.
• the front part of the lid 10 may have a relatively narrow radius of curvature, so that on the one hand, a lower front upper edge may be present at relatively high lateral edges and rear edge, and so the goods designed in the refrigerator well from the front through the transparent front part cover 10 are visible and accessible.
• the size of the cooling space is practically not limited by the convex curvature upward through the low front edge of the housing opening.
• the front part of the lid 10 is convexly curved in its front-to-back cross-section
• the middle part of the cover 20 and the rear part cover 40 are flat and are preferably (with respect to the direction of gravity) horizontally, whereby the structure and the Functioning of the freezer are favored.
• In the closed position correspond to the upward convex curvature of the front part of the cover 10 and the curvature of the lateral guide rails, so that the cover unit 30 also bears laterally close to the edge of the housing opening.
• the curvature of the guide rails and the convex curvature are coordinated with one another in such a way that the front part cover 10 is not below the curvature path of the guide rails in a lateral view over the entire displacement path, so that an unimpeded displacement is always ensured.
• the front part of the lid 10 is provided in its front region (preferably in the front quarter) on its upper side with a handle 13, which allows easy operation when pushing back into the open position and advancing in the closed position.
• a driver device is present.
• This is preferably designed so that when opening first the front part of the cover 10 is pushed over the middle part of the lid 20 and then, on further opening, the front part of the lid 10 entrains the middle part cover 20, wherein the middle part cover 20 together with the front part cover 10 via the rear part cover 40 is pushed.
• the middle part of the lid 20 When closing the front part of the cover 10 is first pushed forward from the region of the middle part of the lid 20 and then pushed forward when moving the front part of the cover 10 forward, the middle part of the lid 20 from the region of the rear part cover 10 until the closed position is reached.
• the entrainment device has, for example, a front entrainment element 14 protruding downward on the underside in the front region of the front part cover 10 and a rear entrainment element 15 projecting downward on the underside in the rear region of the front part cover 10, while the middle part cover 20 engages one its front edge upwards over its surface projecting projection, such as. B. has an elevated front frame portion 21 which is engaged behind by the rear driver element 15 of the front part of the lid 10 on its back.
• the front part of the cover 10 is pushed back to open, it is initially alone moves over the middle part of the cover 20 until it comes into abutment with the front driver element 14 with the front edge, for example, the front frame portion 21, the middle part of the lid 20 and then the middle partial cover 20, with the further pushing back to the rear mitschiebt until the rear end position is reached, in which the middle part of the cover 20 and the front part of the cover 10 are positioned at least substantially over the rear part cover 40.
• the middle section of the cover 10 is first pushed forward until it comes with its rear driver 15 with the projection or the upwardly projecting front frame portion 21 of the middle part of the lid 20 in abutment and then, further pushing forward, the middle Operade - ckel20 takes until the closed position is reached.
• the rear portion of the front part of the lid 10 overlaps the front portion of the middle part of the lid 20 a little and correspondingly also the rear portion of the middle part of the lid 20, the front portion of the rear part cover 40, so that the housing opening is securely closed.
• a front frame portion 21 of the rear part cover 40 may be attached.
• the guide unit 30 is in the region of the two upper guide rails 31, in an upper, laterally inwardly facing holding web, which serves to secure the front part of the cover 10 in the region of the guide pins 11, 12, with a Slit 34 is provided so that the guide pins 11, 12 out at a corresponding sliding position for removal out or inserted for insertion down into the upper guide rail 31, whereby the front part cover 10 through the gap 34 from the guide unit 10th removable or can be used in this.
• the freezer may be divided into a plurality of compartments by means of partition walls inserted from the rear (in the transverse direction), wherein each compartment may be covered with a cover unit 2 according to the structure described above.
• the respective guide units 30 advantageously on the upper edge of the intermediate walls arranged guideways with an upper, middle and lower guide rail 31, 32, 33, as described above.

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