WO2017121486A1 - Method for installing up a built-in kitchen appliance, kitchen furniture assembly and supplying assembly of such kitchen appliance - Google Patents

Method for installing up a built-in kitchen appliance, kitchen furniture assembly and supplying assembly of such kitchen appliance Download PDF

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WO2017121486A1
WO2017121486A1 PCT/EP2016/050714 EP2016050714W WO2017121486A1 WO 2017121486 A1 WO2017121486 A1 WO 2017121486A1 EP 2016050714 W EP2016050714 W EP 2016050714W WO 2017121486 A1 WO2017121486 A1 WO 2017121486A1
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Rene BRUDER
Danilo ARMELLIN
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Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B77/00—Kitchen cabinets
    • A47B77/04—Provision for particular uses of compartments or other parts ; Compartments moving up and down, revolving parts
    • A47B77/08—Provision for particular uses of compartments or other parts ; Compartments moving up and down, revolving parts for incorporating apparatus operated by power, including water power; for incorporating apparatus for cooking, cooling, or laundry purposes
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B96/00—Details of cabinets, racks or shelf units not covered by a single one of groups A47B43/00 - A47B95/00; General details of furniture
    • A47B96/20—Furniture panels or like furniture elements
    • A47B2096/208—Decorative panels for household appliances
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L15/00—Washing or rinsing machines for crockery or tableware
    • A47L15/42—Details
    • A47L15/4251—Details of the casing
    • A47L15/4257—Details of the loading door
    • A47L15/4265—Arrangements of door covering/decoration panels or plinths, e.g. for integrated dishwashers

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  • the present invention relates to a method for installing a built-in kitchen appliance, to a kitchen furniture assembly and a supplying assembly.
  • Such kitchen appliance can be for example a built-in refrigerator, freezer, dishwasher, etc.
  • the built-in household appliances are designed to be installed within a piece of furniture (typically a cupboard), while the free-standing household appliances are designed in such a way to be installed independently (i.e. without being inserted in a piece of furniture) in their working place (e.g. a kitchen).
  • Pieces of furniture in which built-in household appliances are installed comprise a box-shaped casing, within which the appliance is installed, and a leaf door allowing the access to the appliance; when the door is closed it conceals the household appliance within the piece of furniture.
  • the leaf door of the piece of furniture faces and is connected to the door of the household appliance in such a way that by opening/closing the furniture door, also the appliance door is opened/closed.
  • the door of the piece of furniture is provided with its own hinges connecting it to the cabinet of the piece of furniture.
  • the door of the kitchen appliance is concealed behind the furniture door and rotates on its own hinges fixed to the cabinet of the built-in appliance.
  • the two doors are typically connected one another by a sliding rail, so that by pivoting the piece of furniture door, also the appliance door is pivoted accordingly.
  • the door of the piece of furniture is not individually hinged to the cabinet of the piece of furniture, but it is screwed directly to the door of the kitchen appliance, so that the two doors constitute a single element;this single element is typically hinged to the cabinet of the built-in appliance.
  • the door-on door system is therefore much simpler in kinematics and construction than the sliding system, but its assembly is currently quite cumbersome, since, in order to obtain a suitable aesthetic of the piece of furniture, it requires perfectly aligning the door furniture with the cabinet of the latter before fixing the furniture door to the appliance door.
  • the object of the present invention is overcoming the drawbacks of the prior art, providing a door-on-door system for built-in home appliances which is easy to be installed.
  • Applicant has found that by providing the furniture door of a piece of furniture in which a built-in kitchen appliance has to be installed, of one or more magnetic elements adapted to magnetically interact with one or more magnetic portions of an appliance door, such that the furniture door can be provisionally fixed by magnetic attraction to the appliance door before fixing them through a further mechanical fixing system, the installation of the appliance into the piece of furniture, and in particular the coupling of the furniture and appliance doors, is very easy and does not require complex pre-aligning tools; in fact, once the furniture door is provisionally fixed to appliance door, its position can be easily adjusted or regulated, if needed before a further fixation by the further mechanical fixing system, by a simple manual action, since the furniture door is kept anyway fixed to the appliance door by the magnetic action.
  • a method for installing a built-in kitchen appliance into a piece of furniture said appliance comprising a casing and an appliance door, associated to said casing, having at least one magnetic portion, said piece of furniture comprising a cabinet having a recess for housing said appliance, and a furniture door for closing/opening said recess, the method comprising the following steps:
  • the method comprises adjusting (or regulating) the alignment of the furniture door relative to the appliance door, in such a way that during the adjustment (or regulation) the furniture door is kept fixed to the appliance door by the magnetic attraction between the one or more magnetic elements and the at least one magnetic portion of the appliance door.
  • the appliance the door can be pivotably associated to the cabinet, for example by dedicated hinges; anyway other kind of connections are advantageously possible between the appliance door and the cabinet.
  • the appliance door can be fixed to a sliding drawer that can be inserted into and extracted from an operational chamber provided in the casing of the kitchen appliance.
  • the magnetic portion of the appliance door is the frontal surface of the appliance door, or a portion thereof.
  • the one or more magnetic elements comprise one or more permanent magnets generating a magnetic field adapted to interact with the magnetic portion of the appliance door in such a way to provisionally fix the furniture door to the appliance door.
  • the magnetic portion of the appliance door is made of a ferromagnetic material.
  • the one or more magnetic elements have the shape of strips or sheets.
  • step S.1.2 comprises fixing the one or more magnetic elements to the furniture door by one or more of the following processes: gluing, fitting, interlocking, screwing, threading, nailing, stapling, sewing, positively fastening.
  • the kitchen appliance is one of the following appliances: a refrigerator, a freezer, a combined refrigerator-freezer, a dishwasher.
  • the mechanical fixing system comprises one or more of the following elements fixing the furniture door to the appliance door: a screw, nail, rivet.
  • the invention relates to a kitchen furniture assembly comprising a piece of furniture and a built-in kitchen appliance installed into the piece of furniture by a method having the features described above.
  • the invention relates to a supplying assembly comprising:
  • the recorded instructions are chosen from one or more of the following items: written instructions, video- or audio- instructions.
  • Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a kitchen appliance and a furniture door for carrying out a method according to a first particular embodiment of the present invention
  • the appliance door is depicted with continuous lines in open position, and with broken lines in a partially closed position;
  • Figure 2 shows a perspective view of a piece of furniture for carrying out the method of the invention
  • FIG 3 shows a perspective view of a kitchen assembly comprising the kitchen appliance of Figure 1 fitted in the piece of furniture of Figure 2;
  • Figure 4 shows the kitchen assembly of Figure 3 during the alignment of the furniture door with respect to the cabinet of the piece of furniture
  • Figure 5 shows a perspective view of the rear side of the furniture door of Figure 4
  • Figure 6 shows a perspective view of the appliance door and of the furniture door during their further fixation by a mechanical fixing system
  • Figure 7 shows a perspective view of a kitchen appliance and of a piece of furniture for carrying out the method according to a second advantageous embodiment of the present invention
  • Figure 8 shows schematically an installation manual explaining the instructions for installing a kitchen appliance in a piece of furniture according to the present invention.
  • number 1 indicates a built-in kitchen appliance, which can be for example a built-in refrigerator (like the one shown in Figures 1 to 3, a freezer, a combination thereof (like the one shown in Figure 7), a dishwasher, etc.
  • a built-in kitchen appliance which can be for example a built-in refrigerator (like the one shown in Figures 1 to 3, a freezer, a combination thereof (like the one shown in Figure 7), a dishwasher, etc.
  • Such kitchen appliance 1 is provided with an outer casing (or simply casing) 3, preferably parallelepiped-shaped, having one or more internal operational chambers 5 (e.g. a refrigerating chamber, a freezing chamber, a washing chamber, etc.), and one or more appliance doors 7 for selectively opening, closing said one or more internal operational chambers 5.
  • one or more internal operational chambers 5 e.g. a refrigerating chamber, a freezing chamber, a washing chamber, etc.
  • appliance doors 7 for selectively opening, closing said one or more internal operational chambers 5.
  • kitchen appliance 1 advantageously consists of a refrigerator having a single internal operational chamber 5, and a single appliance door 7.
  • the appliance door 7 is pivotably associated to the cabinet 3 by dedicated hinges 12; anyway other kind of connections are possible between the appliance door 7 and the cabinet 3; for example, in an advantageous embodiment, not illustrated, the door can be fixed to a sliding drawer that can be inserted into and extracted from the operational chamber 5.
  • the appliance door 7 comprises at least one magnetic portion 7a, made of a magnetic material such as iron steel, or other ferromagnetic metals, or magnetized polymeric or composite materials.
  • magnetic has to be understood as capable of producing a magnetic field (e.g. a permanent magnet) and/or to interact with a magnetic field (e.g. a ferromagnetic material).
  • the magnetic portion 7a of the appliance door 7 is the frontal surface 7b of the latter, which is advantageously made of iron or steel, and which faces the furniture door 11.
  • the magnetic portion 7a is an additional part of the appliance door 7, which can be fixed to the latter, for example after the production of the appliance door 7; for example magnetic portion 7a can comprise one or more magnetic strips or inserts, not illustrated, that can be fixed to the frontal surface of the appliance door , for example by glue or screws, or other suitable fixation means.
  • This second advantageous embodiments is preferred in case the appliance door 6 is not made of a magnetic material, so that the magnetic portion 7a must be separately fixed to it.
  • Figures 2 and 3 show an example of a piece of furniture 9 comprising a recess 16 for housing the appliance 1, and furniture door 11 (shown also in Figure 1) for closing the recess 16.
  • the appliance 1 Since the appliance 1 is designed for being built in the piece of furniture 9, so that the external surfaces of the cabinet 3 and of the appliance door 7, once appliance 1 has been installed, are not visible from the external, these external surfaces can have a poor aesthetic appearance.
  • the furniture door 11 can be made for example of wood panels, other panels of material derived from wood, such as particle board, plywood, fiberboard, hardboard, multilayered wood panels, metal-, glass, ceramic or synthetic resin panels.
  • the method according to the present invention comprises arranging the kitchen appliance 1 into recess 16, and, preferably, fixing it into position by suitable mechanical fixing elements, such as, for example, a plurality of screws, not illustrated.
  • the method according to the invention comprises also providing the furniture door 11 with one or more magnetic elements 23 adapted to magnetically interact with the at least one magnetic portion 7a of the appliance door 7.
  • the arranging of the kitchen appliance 1 into recess 16 can be performed before or after providing the furniture door 11 with the one or more magnetic elements 23.
  • the magnetic elements 23 and the magnetic portion 7a of the appliance door can be (or comprise) both a permanent magnet, or one can be (or comprise) a permanent magnet and the other a magnetic material, e.g. a ferromagnetic material, adapted to magnetically interact with a permanent magnet.
  • the method according to the invention comprises provisionally fixing the furniture door 11 to the appliance door 7 by magnetic attraction between the one or more magnetic elements 23 and the at least one magnetic portion 7a of the appliance door 7.
  • provisionally fixing indicates a way of fixing which is not permanent, and it is only aimed to obtain a suitable reciprocal positioning of the furniture door 7 and appliance door 11, but that requires a further fixation, by further mechanical fixing system 25, for ensuring a stable coupling of the two doors, which allows, for example, opening the appliance door 7 by pulling the furniture door 11. If the position of furniture door 11 with respect to the appliance door 6 is already the correct one, which can correspond to a position in which the furniture door 11 is correctly aligned with respect to the cabinet 15 of the piece of furniture 9, or to doors 111 of adjacent pieces of furniture, the furniture door llcan be fixed to the appliance door 7 by a further mechanical fixing system 25.
  • the mechanical fixing system 25 can comprise one or more screws 25, and/or nails, and/or rivet.
  • the method according to the invention provides adjusting (or regulating) the alignment of the furniture door 11 relative to the appliance door 7 in such a way that during the adjustment (or regulation) the furniture door 11 is kept fixed to the appliance door 7 by the magnetic attraction between the one or more magnetic elements 23 and the at least one magnetic portion 7a of the appliance door.
  • the one or more magnetic elements 23 comprise one or more permanent magnets generating a magnetic field adapted to interact with the magnetic portion 7a of the appliance door 7 in such a way to provisionally fix the furniture door 11 to the appliance door 7.
  • one or more permanent magnets 23 can be fixed to the furniture door 11, for example glued, welded, fitted, positively retained, stapled or sewed.
  • the material of the furniture door 11 can be suitably magnetized or magnetic particles or inserts can be embedded into it.
  • the magnet or magnets 23 are fixed on the rear surface 11a of the furniture door 11, which will face the frontal surface 7b of the appliance door 7.
  • the permanent magnets 23 are adhesive stripes, for example made of ferrite, or NdFeB, suitable to be glued or however stuck onto the rear surface 11a of the furniture door 11 ( Figure 5).
  • the permanent magnets 23 can be supplied by manufacturers as a kit of parts together with the kitchen appliance and/or with the piece of furniture, leaving to the installer or to the kitchen end user the task of sticking or fixing them onto the furniture door 11.
  • the furniture-maker produces the piece of furniture 9, and usually purchases the refrigerator or another kitchen appliance 1 from an external manufacturer.
  • the furniture door 11 is provided disassembled from the cabinet 15 of the piece of furniture 9, while the appliance door 7is advantageously provided already hinged
  • the installer After the cabinet 15 of the piece of furniture 9 is mounted and set up at the client's premises, for example in a family house, the installer simply fits the kitchen appliance 1 in the recess 16 of the piece of furniture 9 (Figure 3), and preferably fixes it in position by suitable mechanical fixing elements, for example screws, not illustrated. This operation needs no particular training and skills of the installer.
  • the installer also stuck the magnetic stripes 23 onto the rear face 11a of the furniture door 11 ( Figure 5) and then provisionally fixes the furniture door 11 to the frontal surface 7a of appliance door 7 in a rough position, exploiting the magnetic attraction force between the permanent magnets 23 and the magnetic portion 7a of the appliance door 7.
  • Such magnetic attraction allows to reposition the furniture door 11 quite easily and quickly by hand for example for aligning it with the other adjacent furniture doors 111 of further adjacent pieces of furniture ( Figure 4) causing the furniture door 11 to slide on the frontal surface 7b of the appliance 1 while being held by and stuck onto the frontal face 7b itself.
  • the furniture door 11 can be screwed directly to the appliance door 7.
  • the magnetic stripes 23 can be left interposed and concealed between the furniture door 11 and the appliance door 7.
  • the furniture door 11 and the appliance door 7 can now rotate integral one another around the hinges 12, with no need of additional hinges fastening the furniture door
  • the present invention allows the furniture door 11 to be installed in a very easy and quick way.
  • An installer without particular skills and manual abilities can carry out a perfect alignment, and with no need of aligning tools like, brackets, jigs and other auxiliary mounting components.
  • This advantage is particularly relevant for installing furniture doors covering large appliance doors, such as a refrigerator doors.
  • FIG. 7 shows a further kitchen appliance 1' which is, in this case, a combined refrigerant- freezer comprising a casing 3' having two separated internal operational chambers, not illustrated, each one provided with a dedicated appliance door 7' and 7".
  • a further kitchen appliance 1' which is, in this case, a combined refrigerant- freezer comprising a casing 3' having two separated internal operational chambers, not illustrated, each one provided with a dedicated appliance door 7' and 7".
  • the piece of furniture 9' advantageously comprises a cabinet 15' having a recess 16', for housing appliance 1', and two distinct furniture doors 11', 11", each corresponding to one of the appliance doors 7', 7".
  • Each appliance door 7', 7" has a respective magnetic portion 7a', 7a".
  • the inventive method provides arranging the kitchen appliance 1' into the recess 16', providing each furniture door 11', 11" with one or more magnetic elements 23', 23" adapted to magnetically interact with a respective magnetic portions 7a', 7a" of the appliance doors 7', 7", provisionally fixing each furniture door 11', 11" to the respective appliance door 7', 7" by magnetic attraction between the one or more magnetic elements 23', 23" and the at least one magnetic portion 7a', 7a" of the respective appliance door 7', 7", and fixing each furniture door 11', 11” to the respective appliance door 7', 7"through a further mechanical fixing system 25', 25", which can be for example of the same kind as of the mechanical fixing system 25 of the embodiment of Figures 1-6..
  • each furniture door 11', 11" to the respective appliance door 7', 7" and fixing each furniture door 11', 11" to the respective appliance door 7', 7"through a further mechanical fixing system
  • the magnetic portion 7a', 7a" of each appliance door 7', 7" is the frontal surface 7b', 7b" of the latter, which is advantageously made of iron or steel, and which faces the respective furniture door 11', 11".
  • a method according to the invention can be carried out though a supplying assembly comprising for example a built-in kitchen appliance 1, 1' and recorded instructions 26, for example an installation manual, for installing the kitchen appliance 1, 1' according to the previous teachings.
  • the supplying assembly can comprise part of or the whole piece of furniture 9, 9' and the recorded instructions 26, and/or the magnetic elements 23, 23', 23" and the recorded instructions 26.
  • the recorded instructions can be enclosed to the packaging to be delivered to the end user and containing any of the kitchen appliance 1, 1', the piece of furniture 9, 9' or part of it or the magnetic elements 23, 23', 23", or alternatively stored in a logic unit (not shown), such as a server, remote or however separate from the packaging to be delivered to the end user and accessible for example through the internet or other communication media.
  • a logic unit such as a server, remote or however separate from the packaging to be delivered to the end user and accessible for example through the internet or other communication media.
  • the recorded instructions can be in the form of instructions printed -or however written- on a paper medium such as a leaflet, brochure, book or booklet, recorded on a computer readable medium such as a Compact Disk, a Digital Video Disk (DVD), a floppy disk, a memory card or a hard-disk, a magnetic tape, a video and/or audio recording.
  • a paper medium such as a leaflet, brochure, book or booklet
  • a computer readable medium such as a Compact Disk, a Digital Video Disk (DVD), a floppy disk, a memory card or a hard-disk, a magnetic tape, a video and/or audio recording.
  • a method according to the present invention can be used for setting furniture door not only onto an appliance door of the leaf type, but also onto the front face of a drawer or onto a sliding door.
  • the magnetic elements 23, 23', 23" can have not only the shape of relatively thin and flexible stripes, but for example also of square, round, rectangular or polygonal sheets, substantially rigid inserts, discs or plates.
  • the magnetic elements 23, 23', 23" can contact directly the appliance door, or possible sheets and layers of paint, protective coating or other materials can be interposed between the magnet and the surface of appliance door when the furniture door is provisionally fixed to the kitchen appliance.

Abstract

The invention is related to a method for installing a built-in kitchen appliance (1,1') into a piece of furniture (9,9'), said appliance (1, 1') comprising a casing (3, 3') and an appliance door (7, 7', 7"), associated to said casing (3, 3'), having at least one magnetic portion (7a, 7a', 7a"), said piece of furniture (9, 9') comprising a cabinet (15, 15') having recess (16, 16') for housing said appliance (1, 1'), and furniture door (11, 11', 11") for closing/opening said recess (16, 16'), said method comprising the following steps: S.l.l) arranging said kitchen appliance (1, 1') into said recess (16, 16'); S.1.2) providing said furniture door (11, 11', 11") with one or more magnetic elements (23, 23 ', 23 ") adapted to magnetically interact with said at least one magnetic portion (7a, 7a', 7a") of said appliance door (7, 7', 7"); S.1.3) provisionally fixing said furniture door (11, 11', 11") to said appliance door (7, 7', 7") by magnetic attraction between said one or more magnetic elements (23, 23', 23") and said at least one magnetic portion (7a, 7a', 7a") of said appliance door (7, 7', 7"); S.1.4) fixing the furniture door (11, 11', 11") to the appliance door (7, 7', 7") through a further mechanical fixing system (25, 25', 25").

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METHOD FOR INSTALLING UP A BUILT-IN KITCHEN APPLIANCE, KITCHEN FURNITURE ASSEMBLY AND SUPPLYING ASSEMBLY OF SUCH KITCHEN APPLIANCE Field of the invention
The present invention relates to a method for installing a built-in kitchen appliance, to a kitchen furniture assembly and a supplying assembly.
Such kitchen appliance can be for example a built-in refrigerator, freezer, dishwasher, etc.
Background art
Currently, in the market two kind of household appliances are known, the so-called "built-in" household appliances, and the so-called "free-standing" household appliances.
The built-in household appliances are designed to be installed within a piece of furniture (typically a cupboard), while the free-standing household appliances are designed in such a way to be installed independently (i.e. without being inserted in a piece of furniture) in their working place (e.g. a kitchen).
Pieces of furniture in which built-in household appliances are installed comprise a box-shaped casing, within which the appliance is installed, and a leaf door allowing the access to the appliance; when the door is closed it conceals the household appliance within the piece of furniture.
Typically the leaf door of the piece of furniture faces and is connected to the door of the household appliance in such a way that by opening/closing the furniture door, also the appliance door is opened/closed.
There are mainly two known ways in which the door of the household appliance can be connected to the door of the furniture; the so-called "sliding system" and the so-called "door-on-door" system.
In the "sliding" system the door of the piece of furniture is provided with its own hinges connecting it to the cabinet of the piece of furniture. The door of the kitchen appliance is concealed behind the furniture door and rotates on its own hinges fixed to the cabinet of the built-in appliance. In the sliding system the two doors are typically connected one another by a sliding rail, so that by pivoting the piece of furniture door, also the appliance door is pivoted accordingly.
This system is however quite complex to be assembled, and it is subjected to wear with usage.
In the door-on-door system the door of the piece of furniture is not individually hinged to the cabinet of the piece of furniture, but it is screwed directly to the door of the kitchen appliance, so that the two doors constitute a single element;this single element is typically hinged to the cabinet of the built-in appliance. The door-on door system is therefore much simpler in kinematics and construction than the sliding system, but its assembly is currently quite cumbersome, since, in order to obtain a suitable aesthetic of the piece of furniture, it requires perfectly aligning the door furniture with the cabinet of the latter before fixing the furniture door to the appliance door.
The object of the present invention is overcoming the drawbacks of the prior art, providing a door-on-door system for built-in home appliances which is easy to be installed.
Summary of the invention
Applicant has found that by providing the furniture door of a piece of furniture in which a built-in kitchen appliance has to be installed, of one or more magnetic elements adapted to magnetically interact with one or more magnetic portions of an appliance door, such that the furniture door can be provisionally fixed by magnetic attraction to the appliance door before fixing them through a further mechanical fixing system, the installation of the appliance into the piece of furniture, and in particular the coupling of the furniture and appliance doors, is very easy and does not require complex pre-aligning tools; in fact, once the furniture door is provisionally fixed to appliance door, its position can be easily adjusted or regulated, if needed before a further fixation by the further mechanical fixing system, by a simple manual action, since the furniture door is kept anyway fixed to the appliance door by the magnetic action.
In particular above object is reached by a method for installing a built-in kitchen appliance into a piece of furniture, said appliance comprising a casing and an appliance door, associated to said casing, having at least one magnetic portion, said piece of furniture comprising a cabinet having a recess for housing said appliance, and a furniture door for closing/opening said recess, the method comprising the following steps:
5.1.1) arranging the kitchen appliance into the recess;
5.1.2) providing the furniture door with one or more magnetic elements adapted to magnetically interact with the at least one magnetic portion of the appliance door;
5.1.3) provisionally fixing the furniture door to the appliance door by magnetic attraction between the one or more magnetic elements and the at least one magnetic portion of the appliance door;
5.1.4) fixing the furniture door to the appliance door through a further mechanical fixing system.
Advantageously, between performing steps S.1.3) and S.1.4), the method comprises adjusting (or regulating) the alignment of the furniture door relative to the appliance door, in such a way that during the adjustment (or regulation) the furniture door is kept fixed to the appliance door by the magnetic attraction between the one or more magnetic elements and the at least one magnetic portion of the appliance door. In an advantageous embodiment, the appliance the door can be pivotably associated to the cabinet, for example by dedicated hinges; anyway other kind of connections are advantageously possible between the appliance door and the cabinet. For example, in a further advantageous embodiment, the appliance door can be fixed to a sliding drawer that can be inserted into and extracted from an operational chamber provided in the casing of the kitchen appliance.
Preferably the magnetic portion of the appliance door is the frontal surface of the appliance door, or a portion thereof.
Preferably, the one or more magnetic elements comprise one or more permanent magnets generating a magnetic field adapted to interact with the magnetic portion of the appliance door in such a way to provisionally fix the furniture door to the appliance door.
Preferably, the magnetic portion of the appliance door is made of a ferromagnetic material.
Advantageously, the one or more magnetic elements have the shape of strips or sheets.
Advantageously, step S.1.2) comprises fixing the one or more magnetic elements to the furniture door by one or more of the following processes: gluing, fitting, interlocking, screwing, threading, nailing, stapling, sewing, positively fastening. Preferably, the kitchen appliance is one of the following appliances: a refrigerator, a freezer, a combined refrigerator-freezer, a dishwasher.
Advantageously, in step S.1.4) the mechanical fixing system comprises one or more of the following elements fixing the furniture door to the appliance door: a screw, nail, rivet.
In a further aspect thereof, the invention relates to a kitchen furniture assembly comprising a piece of furniture and a built-in kitchen appliance installed into the piece of furniture by a method having the features described above.
In a further aspect thereof, the invention relates to a supplying assembly comprising:
-a built-in kitchen appliance; and/or
-a piece of furniture; and
recorded instructions for installing the kitchen appliance according to a method having the features of described above.
Advantageously, in the supplying assembly the recorded instructions are chosen from one or more of the following items: written instructions, video- or audio- instructions.
List of Figures
Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a kitchen appliance and a furniture door for carrying out a method according to a first particular embodiment of the present invention; the appliance door is depicted with continuous lines in open position, and with broken lines in a partially closed position;
Figure 2 shows a perspective view of a piece of furniture for carrying out the method of the invention;
Figure 3 shows a perspective view of a kitchen assembly comprising the kitchen appliance of Figure 1 fitted in the piece of furniture of Figure 2;
Figure 4 shows the kitchen assembly of Figure 3 during the alignment of the furniture door with respect to the cabinet of the piece of furniture;
Figure 5 shows a perspective view of the rear side of the furniture door of Figure 4; Figure 6 shows a perspective view of the appliance door and of the furniture door during their further fixation by a mechanical fixing system;
Figure 7 shows a perspective view of a kitchen appliance and of a piece of furniture for carrying out the method according to a second advantageous embodiment of the present invention,
Figure 8 shows schematically an installation manual explaining the instructions for installing a kitchen appliance in a piece of furniture according to the present invention.
Detailed description
With reference to attached Figures 1 to 6, number 1 indicates a built-in kitchen appliance, which can be for example a built-in refrigerator (like the one shown in Figures 1 to 3, a freezer, a combination thereof (like the one shown in Figure 7), a dishwasher, etc.
Such kitchen appliance 1 is provided with an outer casing (or simply casing) 3, preferably parallelepiped-shaped, having one or more internal operational chambers 5 (e.g. a refrigerating chamber, a freezing chamber, a washing chamber, etc.), and one or more appliance doors 7 for selectively opening, closing said one or more internal operational chambers 5.
In Figure 1 to 6, kitchen appliance 1 according to invention advantageously consists of a refrigerator having a single internal operational chamber 5, and a single appliance door 7.
Preferably the appliance door 7 is pivotably associated to the cabinet 3 by dedicated hinges 12; anyway other kind of connections are possible between the appliance door 7 and the cabinet 3; for example, in an advantageous embodiment, not illustrated, the door can be fixed to a sliding drawer that can be inserted into and extracted from the operational chamber 5.
Advantageously the appliance door 7 comprises at least one magnetic portion 7a, made of a magnetic material such as iron steel, or other ferromagnetic metals, or magnetized polymeric or composite materials.
It is underlined that "magnetic" has to be understood as capable of producing a magnetic field (e.g. a permanent magnet) and/or to interact with a magnetic field (e.g. a ferromagnetic material).
Preferably, the magnetic portion 7a of the appliance door 7 is the frontal surface 7b of the latter, which is advantageously made of iron or steel, and which faces the furniture door 11.
In another advantageous embodiment, not illustrated, the magnetic portion 7a is an additional part of the appliance door 7, which can be fixed to the latter, for example after the production of the appliance door 7; for example magnetic portion 7a can comprise one or more magnetic strips or inserts, not illustrated, that can be fixed to the frontal surface of the appliance door , for example by glue or screws, or other suitable fixation means. This second advantageous embodiments is preferred in case the appliance door 6 is not made of a magnetic material, so that the magnetic portion 7a must be separately fixed to it.
Figures 2 and 3 show an example of a piece of furniture 9 comprising a recess 16 for housing the appliance 1, and furniture door 11 (shown also in Figure 1) for closing the recess 16.
Since the appliance 1 is designed for being built in the piece of furniture 9, so that the external surfaces of the cabinet 3 and of the appliance door 7, once appliance 1 has been installed, are not visible from the external, these external surfaces can have a poor aesthetic appearance.
The furniture door 11 can be made for example of wood panels, other panels of material derived from wood, such as particle board, plywood, fiberboard, hardboard, multilayered wood panels, metal-, glass, ceramic or synthetic resin panels.
The method according to the present invention comprises arranging the kitchen appliance 1 into recess 16, and, preferably, fixing it into position by suitable mechanical fixing elements, such as, for example, a plurality of screws, not illustrated. The method according to the invention comprises also providing the furniture door 11 with one or more magnetic elements 23 adapted to magnetically interact with the at least one magnetic portion 7a of the appliance door 7.
Clearly, the arranging of the kitchen appliance 1 into recess 16 can be performed before or after providing the furniture door 11 with the one or more magnetic elements 23.
The magnetic elements 23 and the magnetic portion 7a of the appliance door can be (or comprise) both a permanent magnet, or one can be (or comprise) a permanent magnet and the other a magnetic material, e.g. a ferromagnetic material, adapted to magnetically interact with a permanent magnet.
Once provided the furniture door 11 with such one or more the magnetic elements 23, the method according to the invention comprises provisionally fixing the furniture door 11 to the appliance door 7 by magnetic attraction between the one or more magnetic elements 23 and the at least one magnetic portion 7a of the appliance door 7.
The wording "provisionally fixing" indicates a way of fixing which is not permanent, and it is only aimed to obtain a suitable reciprocal positioning of the furniture door 7 and appliance door 11, but that requires a further fixation, by further mechanical fixing system 25, for ensuring a stable coupling of the two doors, which allows, for example, opening the appliance door 7 by pulling the furniture door 11. If the position of furniture door 11 with respect to the appliance door 6 is already the correct one, which can correspond to a position in which the furniture door 11 is correctly aligned with respect to the cabinet 15 of the piece of furniture 9, or to doors 111 of adjacent pieces of furniture, the furniture door llcan be fixed to the appliance door 7 by a further mechanical fixing system 25.
Advantageously, the mechanical fixing system 25 can comprise one or more screws 25, and/or nails, and/or rivet.
If, after provisionally fixing the furniture door 11 to the appliance door 7 by magnetic attraction the position of the furniture door 11 is not the correct one (e.g. the furniture door 11 is not correctly aligned to doors 111 of adjacent pieces of furniture, as in the example shown in Figure 4, the method according to the invention provides adjusting (or regulating) the alignment of the furniture door 11 relative to the appliance door 7 in such a way that during the adjustment (or regulation) the furniture door 11 is kept fixed to the appliance door 7 by the magnetic attraction between the one or more magnetic elements 23 and the at least one magnetic portion 7a of the appliance door.
In a preferred embodiment, the one or more magnetic elements 23 comprise one or more permanent magnets generating a magnetic field adapted to interact with the magnetic portion 7a of the appliance door 7 in such a way to provisionally fix the furniture door 11 to the appliance door 7.
In order to produce such magnetic attraction, one or more permanent magnets 23 can be fixed to the furniture door 11, for example glued, welded, fitted, positively retained, stapled or sewed. In a further advantageous embodiment, the material of the furniture door 11 can be suitably magnetized or magnetic particles or inserts can be embedded into it.
Preferably the magnet or magnets 23 are fixed on the rear surface 11a of the furniture door 11, which will face the frontal surface 7b of the appliance door 7. Preferably the permanent magnets 23 are adhesive stripes, for example made of ferrite, or NdFeB, suitable to be glued or however stuck onto the rear surface 11a of the furniture door 11 (Figure 5).
The permanent magnets 23 can be supplied by manufacturers as a kit of parts together with the kitchen appliance and/or with the piece of furniture, leaving to the installer or to the kitchen end user the task of sticking or fixing them onto the furniture door 11.
A possible use of such permanent magnets 23 according to an advantageous embodiment of the invention is herein described, with reference to attached figures.
The furniture-maker produces the piece of furniture 9, and usually purchases the refrigerator or another kitchen appliance 1 from an external manufacturer.
At the time of installing the kitchen appliance 1 in the piece of furniture 9 the furniture door 11 is provided disassembled from the cabinet 15 of the piece of furniture 9, while the appliance door 7is advantageously provided already hinged
(or associated in another way) to the cabinet 3 of the appliance 1, preferably through one or more hinges 12.
After the cabinet 15 of the piece of furniture 9 is mounted and set up at the client's premises, for example in a family house, the installer simply fits the kitchen appliance 1 in the recess 16 of the piece of furniture 9 (Figure 3), and preferably fixes it in position by suitable mechanical fixing elements, for example screws, not illustrated. This operation needs no particular training and skills of the installer. The installer also stuck the magnetic stripes 23 onto the rear face 11a of the furniture door 11 (Figure 5) and then provisionally fixes the furniture door 11 to the frontal surface 7a of appliance door 7 in a rough position, exploiting the magnetic attraction force between the permanent magnets 23 and the magnetic portion 7a of the appliance door 7.
Such magnetic attraction allows to reposition the furniture door 11 quite easily and quickly by hand for example for aligning it with the other adjacent furniture doors 111 of further adjacent pieces of furniture (Figure 4) causing the furniture door 11 to slide on the frontal surface 7b of the appliance 1 while being held by and stuck onto the frontal face 7b itself.
A proper intensity of the magnetic field produced by the magnets 23, and a proper number and size of the magnets, prevents furniture door 11 from sliding downwards along the appliance door 7.
When the furniture door 11 is in the proper position and correctly aligned, the installer fixes it in its definitive position, preferably by screws 25 (Figure 6).
In particular the furniture door 11 can be screwed directly to the appliance door 7.
The magnetic stripes 23 can be left interposed and concealed between the furniture door 11 and the appliance door 7.
The furniture door 11 and the appliance door 7 can now rotate integral one another around the hinges 12, with no need of additional hinges fastening the furniture door
11 directly to the cabinet 15 of the piece of furniture 9.
The present invention allows the furniture door 11 to be installed in a very easy and quick way. An installer without particular skills and manual abilities can carry out a perfect alignment, and with no need of aligning tools like, brackets, jigs and other auxiliary mounting components. This advantage is particularly relevant for installing furniture doors covering large appliance doors, such as a refrigerator doors.
Above description has been made with reference to the embodiment of Figures 1 to 6.
A further advantageous embodiment of the invention can be carried out with the reference of Figure 7, which shows a further kitchen appliance 1' which is, in this case, a combined refrigerant- freezer comprising a casing 3' having two separated internal operational chambers, not illustrated, each one provided with a dedicated appliance door 7' and 7".
In this case, the piece of furniture 9' advantageously comprises a cabinet 15' having a recess 16', for housing appliance 1', and two distinct furniture doors 11', 11", each corresponding to one of the appliance doors 7', 7".
Each appliance door 7', 7" has a respective magnetic portion 7a', 7a".
The inventive method provides arranging the kitchen appliance 1' into the recess 16', providing each furniture door 11', 11" with one or more magnetic elements 23', 23" adapted to magnetically interact with a respective magnetic portions 7a', 7a" of the appliance doors 7', 7", provisionally fixing each furniture door 11', 11" to the respective appliance door 7', 7" by magnetic attraction between the one or more magnetic elements 23', 23" and the at least one magnetic portion 7a', 7a" of the respective appliance door 7', 7", and fixing each furniture door 11', 11" to the respective appliance door 7', 7"through a further mechanical fixing system 25', 25", which can be for example of the same kind as of the mechanical fixing system 25 of the embodiment of Figures 1-6..
Also in this case between provisionally fixing each furniture door 11', 11" to the respective appliance door 7', 7" and fixing each furniture door 11', 11" to the respective appliance door 7', 7"through a further mechanical fixing system, it is possible adjusting the alignment of each furniture door 11', 11" relative to the respective appliance door 7', 7", in such a way that during the adjustment each furniture door 11', 11" is kept fixed to the respective appliance door 7', 7" by the magnetic attraction between the one or more magnetic elements and the magnetic portion 7a', 7a" of the respective appliance door. Preferably, the magnetic portion 7a', 7a" of each appliance door 7', 7" is the frontal surface 7b', 7b" of the latter, which is advantageously made of iron or steel, and which faces the respective furniture door 11', 11".
A method according to the invention can be carried out though a supplying assembly comprising for example a built-in kitchen appliance 1, 1' and recorded instructions 26, for example an installation manual, for installing the kitchen appliance 1, 1' according to the previous teachings.
Alternatively, the supplying assembly can comprise part of or the whole piece of furniture 9, 9' and the recorded instructions 26, and/or the magnetic elements 23, 23', 23" and the recorded instructions 26.
The recorded instructions can be enclosed to the packaging to be delivered to the end user and containing any of the kitchen appliance 1, 1', the piece of furniture 9, 9' or part of it or the magnetic elements 23, 23', 23", or alternatively stored in a logic unit (not shown), such as a server, remote or however separate from the packaging to be delivered to the end user and accessible for example through the internet or other communication media.
Especially when enclosed to the delivery packaging, the recorded instructions can be in the form of instructions printed -or however written- on a paper medium such as a leaflet, brochure, book or booklet, recorded on a computer readable medium such as a Compact Disk, a Digital Video Disk (DVD), a floppy disk, a memory card or a hard-disk, a magnetic tape, a video and/or audio recording.
The embodiments previously described can undergo several changes and variations yet without departing from the scope of the present invention.
For example a method according to the present invention can be used for setting furniture door not only onto an appliance door of the leaf type, but also onto the front face of a drawer or onto a sliding door.
The magnetic elements 23, 23', 23" can have not only the shape of relatively thin and flexible stripes, but for example also of square, round, rectangular or polygonal sheets, substantially rigid inserts, discs or plates. The magnetic elements 23, 23', 23" can contact directly the appliance door, or possible sheets and layers of paint, protective coating or other materials can be interposed between the magnet and the surface of appliance door when the furniture door is provisionally fixed to the kitchen appliance.
Furthermore all details are replaceable with technically equivalent elements. For example the used materials, as well as their dimensions, can be any according to the technical needs. It is to be intended that an expression such as "A comprises B, C, D" also comprises and describes the particular case in which "A consists of B, C, D" . The wording "device comprising an entity F" or "device comprising the entity F" are to be understood that the device comprises one or more entities F. An expression such as "an item X" indicates "one or more items X". The examples and lists of the possible variations of the present application are to be intended as non exhaustive.

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1) Method for installing a built-in kitchen appliance (1,1') into a piece of furniture (9,9'), said appliance (1, 1') comprising a casing (3, 3') and an appliance door (7, 7', 7"), associated to said casing (3, 3'), having at least one magnetic portion (7a, 7a', 7a"), said piece of furniture (9, 9') comprising a cabinet (15, 15') having a recess (16, 16') for housing said appliance (1, 1'), and a furniture door (11, 11', 11") for closing/opening said recess (16, 16'), said method comprising the following steps:
S.l.l) arranging said kitchen appliance (1, 1') into said recess (16, 16');
S.1.2) providing said furniture door (11, 11', 11") with one or more magnetic elements (23, 23', 23") adapted to magnetically interact with said at least one magnetic portion (7a, 7a', 7a") of said appliance door (7, 7', 7");
5.1.3) provisionally fixing said furniture door (11, 11', 11") to said appliance door (7, 7', 7' ') by magnetic attraction between said one or more magnetic elements (23, 23', 23") and said at least one magnetic portion (7a, 7a', 7a") of said appliance door (7, 7', 7");
5.1.4) fixing the furniture door (11, 11 ', 11") to the appliance door (7, 7', 7") through a further mechanical fixing system (25, 25', 25"). 2) Method according to claim 1, comprising, between performing steps S.1.3) and S.1.4), adjusting the alignment of the furniture door (11, 11', 11") relative to the appliance door (7, 7', 7"), in such a way that during the adjustment the furniture door (11, 11', 11") is kept fixed to the appliance door (7, 7', 7") by the magnetic attraction between said one or more magnetic elements (23, 23', 23") and said at least one magnetic portion (7a, 7a', 7a") of said appliance door (7, 7', 7").
3) Method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said magnetic portion (7a, 7a', 7a") of said appliance door (7, 7', 7") is the frontal surface (7b, 7b', 7b") of said appliance door (7, 7', 7"), or a portion thereof.
4) Method according to one or more of the previous claims, wherein said one or more magnetic elements (23, 23', 23") comprise one or more permanent magnets generating a magnetic field adapted to interact with said magnetic portion (7a, 7a', 7a") of said appliance door (7, 7', 7") in such a way to provisionally fix said furniture door (11, 11', 11") to said appliance door (7, 7', 7").
5) Method according to claim 4, wherein said magnetic portion (7a, 7a', 7a") of said appliance door (7, 7', 7") is made of a ferromagnetic material.
6) Method according to claim 4 or 5, wherein said one or more magnetic elements (23, 23', 23") have the shape of strips or sheets.
7) Method according to claim 1, wherein step S.1.2) comprises fixing said one or more magnetic elements (23, 23', 23") to said furniture door (11, 11', 11") by one or more of the following processes: gluing, fitting, interlocking, screwing, threading, nailing, stapling, sewing, positively fastening.
8) Method according to one or more of the previous claims, wherein the kitchen appliance (1, 1', 1") is one of the following appliances: a refrigerator, a freezer, a combined refrigerator-freezer, a dishwasher.
9) Method according to one or more of the previous claims, wherein in step S.1.4) said further mechanical fixing system (25, 25', 25") comprises one or more of the following elements fixing the furniture door (11, 11', 11") to the appliance door (7, 7', 7"): a screw, a nail, a rivet.
10) Kitchen furniture assembly comprising a piece of furniture (9, 9') and a built- in kitchen appliance (1, 1') installed into said piece of furniture (9, 9') by a method having the features of one or more claims 1 to 9. 11) Supplying assembly comprising:
-a built-in kitchen appliance (1, 1'); and/or -a piece of furniture (9, 9'); and
- recorded instructions (26) for installing the kitchen appliance (1, 1') according to a method having the features of one or more claims 1-9. 12) Supplying assembly according to claim 11, wherein said recorded instructions (26) are chosen from one or more of the following items: written instructions, video- or audio- instructions.
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