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
• • 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
  • A47B57/00—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions
  • A47B57/06—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of the shelves
  • A47B57/08—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of the shelves consisting of grooved or notched ledges, uprights or side walls
  • A47B57/10—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of the shelves consisting of grooved or notched ledges, uprights or side walls the grooved or notched parts being the side walls or uprights themselves
• • 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
  • A47B57/00—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions
  • A47B57/06—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of the shelves
  • A47B57/20—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of the shelves consisting of tongues, pins or similar projecting means coacting with openings
• • 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
  • A47B57/00—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions
  • A47B57/30—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of detachable shelf supports
  • A47B57/32—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of detachable shelf supports consisting of grooved or notched ledges, uprights or side walls
  • A47B57/34—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of detachable shelf supports consisting of grooved or notched ledges, uprights or side walls the grooved or notched parts being the side walls or uprights themselves
• • 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
  • F25D2500/00—Problems to be solved
  • F25D2500/02—Geometry problems

Definitions

• the invention relates to a refrigerator door with an outer cladding and a heat insulation layer, which is introduced between the outer cladding and a spaced-apart inner cladding, on which door storage compartments are arranged for storing refrigerated goods.
• the inner lining is equipped with vertical bars, the facing cheeks of which are equipped with retaining cams for holding container-like door storage compartments, the height of the bars essentially corresponding to the depth of the door storage compartments. Since such deeply designed spars not only cause a jagged appearance of the interior cladding but also make it much more difficult to clean, it has recently started to replace these spars with so-called lower spars. Although the lower spars require a significantly more favorable appearance for the interior trim, these have the disadvantage, like the original spars, that the width of the storage compartments, due to the holding principle for door storage compartments that is common for spars, must be reduced by the spar thickness of the spars used for holding , which results in a not inconsiderable loss of storage space.
• the invention is based, to propose a holder for door storage compartments for a refrigerator door according to the preamble of claim 1, by which the disadvantages of the prior art are avoided.
• a holding grate is arranged on the inner lining, on which door storage compartments provided with holding means are detachably held.
• the solution according to the invention creates a holding measure for door storage compartments, which has a tie-bar-less construction of the inner lining and thus a not inconsiderable increase in the storage space volume on the door, with the simultaneous use of simplified manufacturing means in the form of a deep or supporting tool in the manufacture of the inner lining or causes the door to foam out.
• a measure enables product differentiation between simple and higher-quality devices to be achieved in a particularly simple manner by using appropriate materials for producing the holding grate.
• a different distribution and arrangement of the grate bars of the holding grate possible in a cost-effective manner a different arrangement of the door storage compartments when using one and the same interior lining.
• a particularly favorable use of the available space on the inner lining for attaching door storage compartments with simultaneous storage possibility of goods filled in high containers as well as bottles, milk cartons or the like results if, according to an advantageous embodiment of the object of the invention, it is provided that the holding grate in is aligned substantially centrally to the width of the inner lining and is arranged in the upper half.
• the space available under the grate can be used to store the bottle-like goods.
• a holding grate is particularly easy to produce if, according to a next advantageous embodiment of the object of the invention, it is provided that the holding grate is formed from at least one vertical and a plurality of horizontal grate bars which branch off at right angles to one another and at a distance from one another, on which the door storage compartments are held and are supported.
• the holding grate comprises a frame which has horizontal grate bars arranged one above the other at approximately equal intervals and on which the door storage compartments with their holding means are supported and supported.
• the holding grate is arranged in an at least largely flat and tie-bar-less section of the inner lining.
• the holding grate is releasably attached to the inner lining.
• the holding grate Due to the detachable arrangement of the holding grate on the inner lining, it can be removed in a simple manner during cleaning operations of the inner lining, as a result of which not only the holding grate but also the inner lining can be cleaned particularly quickly and thoroughly.
• the holding grate can be replaced particularly easily by a non-specialist in the event of damage.
• the holder grate can be easily replaced by a holder grate that meets these requirements if the requirement profile for the storage option changes.
• the door storage compartments have an elongated floor plan and are provided with at least one holding tab which serves as holding means and is angled towards the storage compartment are which can overlap one of the horizontal grate bars for holding the door storage compartments supported on the holding grate.
• a particularly favorable use of the area available for attaching storage compartments to the inner lining is obtained if, according to a further advantageous embodiment of the subject of the invention it is provided that the retaining tab is arranged on one of the longer sides of the door storage compartments provided with an elongated plan, which are supported on the grating on the side provided with the retaining tab.
• the support of the door storage compartments on the grating provided in accordance with this solution requires a particularly secure mounting on the grating.
• the door storage compartments for their positioning on the holding grate are equipped with at least one positioning aid which can be brought into engagement with the vertical grate bar or with one of the vertical grate bars.
• this solution permits the mutual arrangement and simultaneous positioning of the door storage compartments on the holding grate, one of the positioning aids on the door storage compartments in each case being in engagement with one of the vertical grate bars of the holding grate.
• the inner lining is similar to a flat shell is formed with a largely flat shell bottom on which the holding grate is detachably fixed.
• the tie-bar-less construction of an inner panel in combination with a detachably attached holding grate, which serves to hold door storage compartments, opens up the possibility of being able to use the inner cladding for both refrigerator and freezer doors, with the fastening means provided for releasably fixing the holding grate on the inner cladding in the case of a freezer door are covered by appropriately adapted covers. Due to the flat design of the wall surface of the inner cladding, this can be produced both with a particularly simple deep-drawing tool and can also be supported with a simply constructed support tool during the foaming process of the refrigerator or freezer door. In addition, the structure of the interior lining offers hardly any possibilities of dirt accumulation, which, if necessary, would be quickly and thoroughly removable due to the flat structure.
• Fig. 1 is a refrigerator door with in the upper half of its inner lining arranged grate, on which door storage compartments are held at different heights, in a spatial view from the front and
• Fig. 2 shows the refrigerator door with the grate dismantled from its inner lining and the door storage compartments removed therefrom.
• FIG. 1 shows a refrigerator door 10 which has an outer cladding 11 which is produced by cutting a corrosion-protected sheet metal plate without cutting and an interior which is also formed without cutting by deep-drawing a plastic plate.
• NEN trim panel 12 which is connected to the former by an adhesive between the two in liquid starting components, acting adhesive heat insulation material after it has hardened to a dimensionally stable door body.
• the inner lining 12 is provided in the vicinity of the edge with a circumferentially arranged magnetic seal 13, the bar magnets of which, when the refrigerator door 10 is closed, are attracted to an edge of the door opening of a refrigerator housing, not shown, which serves as an anchor.
• the inner lining 12 is provided with a circumferentially arranged, bead-like border 14, which encloses a tie bar-free flat surface serving as the inside of the door 15.
• the inside of the door 15 is provided near the higher-lying section of the surround 14 with two rivet-like holding elements 16 arranged at the same height and with an imaginary vertical line of symmetry of the inside of the door 15, which are detachably fixed to the inside of the door 15 with their rivet shank and which are spaced apart from it their rivet head are arranged.
• a threaded bush 17 flush with the inside of the door (see FIG.
• the threaded bushing 17 serves to receive a threaded shank arranged on a toggle-shaped fastening screw 18, the shaft length of which is essentially matched to the length of the threaded bushing 17.
• the fastening screw 18, which can be released without an auxiliary tool due to its control knob, is used in combination with the holding elements 16 for the releasable fastening of a holding grate 20 to the inside of the door 15.
• the holding grate 20 is provided on the horizontal sections of its holding frame 21 with triangular-like shapes with their triangular tips facing away from one another 22 provided, of which those on the higher frame section of the holding frame 21 are arranged symmetrically to its center line and at a distance from the two holding elements 16, while the formation provided on the lower frame section is arranged centrally to the line of symmetry of the inside 15 of the door and that of the holding grate 20.
• the formations 22 introduced on the upper frame section of the holding grate 20 rest in the fastening state of the holding grate 20 with their triangular tip the rivet shafts of the rivet-like holding elements 16, as a result of which the holding grate 20 is centered by the prism-like effect of the triangular formations 22 even before it is finally attached to the inside 15 of the door.
• the threaded shaft of the fastening screw 18 penetrates the shape 22 provided in the lower horizontal frame section of the holding frame 21, the fastening screw 18 clamping the holding grate 20 against the inside of the door 15 on its lower horizontal frame section in its fastening state.
• the holding grate 20 is held on its higher horizontal frame section substantially free of play between the inside 15 of the door and the inside of the rivet heads of the rivet-like holding elements 16 facing it, so that the holding grate 20 is held on the inside 15 of the door in a positive and non-positive manner by these fastening measures, the Formations 22 are covered by the rivet heads of the holding elements 16 and the screw head of the fastening screw 18.
• the holding grate 20 has horizontally extending locking bars 23, which are integrally formed on the holding frame 21 in a holding grate 20 made of plastic injection molding, and which, as in the present case, in a holding grate 20 made of round steel material, are welded onto the visible surfaces of the vertical frame sections of the holding frame 21 .
• the grate bars 23 have a continuous straight course and are arranged one above the other at uniform height intervals, their ends being flush with the vertical frame sections of the holding frame 21.
• the locking bars 23 are used for detachable mounting of an elongated floor plan door storage compartments 25, on the rectangular container bottom 26 a circumferentially arranged container wall 27 is provided, at the free end bordering the container opening a flange-shaped container edge 28 is provided, directed away from the container space.
• an angled holding tab 29 serving as a holding means, which together with the section of the container wall 27 on this side delimits a channel with a U-shaped cross section, the clear channel width of which is essentially matched to the diameter of the grate bars 23.
• che positioning aids 30 which have a contour adapted to the outer contour of the vertical frame sections of the holding frame 21 and which are matched to the diameter of the vertical frame sections with regard to their clear width.
• the container-like door storage compartments 25 can be attached to their holding device on the holding grate 23 with their holding tab 29 on a grate bar 23 corresponding to the desired height position, which, in the suspended state, attaches each of the door storage compartments 25 to its section of the container wall 27 facing the holding tab 29, at least to that immediately below supports the grate bar 23 overlapped by the holding tab 29.
• the door storage compartments 25 are held substantially free of play perpendicular to the holding grate 20 by the dimensional adjustment of the grate bars 23 and the channel formed by the holding tab 29 together with the section of the container wall 27 facing it.
• the horizontal positioning of the door storage compartments 25 is brought about by the play-free interaction of the positioning aids 30 which are on the outside in the hanging state of the door storage compartments 25 with the vertical frame sections of the holding frame 21.
• the door storage compartments 25 are dimensioned with respect to their length such that two door storage compartments 25 are held horizontally next to one another on the holding grate 25.

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