ES2782024T3 - Refrigeration and / or freezing appliance - Google Patents

Abstract

Refrigerating and / or freezing appliance with an appliance body, a cooled internal space located in the appliance body, a drawer (30) located in the refrigerated internal space and removable from the refrigerated internal space and A guide (22) can be inserted therein, by means of which the drawer (30) is guided during extraction and during insertion, where the guide (22) is designed so that it, in the direction of extraction of the drawer (30), rises from the back to the front, the drawer (30) has a base which, in the inserted state of the drawer (30), has a smaller distance with respect to the guide (22) in the rear area of the drawer (30) that in the front area of the drawer (30), a support is provided on which the drawer (30) rests in the extracted state, where a projection (34) is provided which is housed in the guide ( 22), and that it is arranged so that it moves relatively with relative to the guide (22) when the drawer (30) is removed or inserted, where the guide (22) is arranged in the drawer (30) and the boss (34) is fixedly arranged in place on a base storage (10) or the projection (34) is located on the drawer (30) and the guide (22) is fixedly arranged in place on a storage base (10), characterized in that the drawer base (30 ), in its inserted state, rises backwards, starting from the front of the drawer.

Description

DESCRIPTION

Refrigeration and / or freezing appliance

The present invention refers to a refrigeration and / or freezing apparatus with at least one body of the apparatus and with at least one internal refrigerated space located in the body of the apparatus, where in the internal refrigerated space there is at least one drawer that can be removed from the internal refrigerated space and that can be inserted into it.

In particular in the case of tall refrigerators or freezers, especially for short people it is difficult to grasp the drawers above or to look inside them. To extract the products, it is necessary to extend over the edge of the drawer and into it.

To facilitate access to a product stored upstairs in a refrigeration or freezing apparatus, it is known from the state of the art to replace the drawer with a lid. It is opened and the product can be removed, as well as placed on a glass plate or on a rack.

In the case of such a conformation of a compartment, with a lid, although there is the advantage that the product to be refrigerated or frozen, positioned in front, can be reached well, the product in the rear area, however, does not it can be reached, or it can only be reached with difficulty. Beyond this, in the case of shaping the housing area in the form of a drawer, there is the advantage of a possibility of extraction, extending the drawer as a whole, which does not happen in the case of a mere lid as a closing element. . The object of the present invention is to improve a refrigeration and / or freezing apparatus of the kind mentioned in the introduction, so that good accessibility of a drawer arranged comparatively higher is guaranteed.

In the application JP 2010038499 A an apparatus according to the preamble of claim 1 is described.

This object is solved by a refrigeration and / or freezing apparatus with the characteristics of claim 1.

Accordingly, it is envisaged that the refrigeration and / or freezing apparatus has at least one guide, by means of which the drawer is guided during extraction from the internal cooled space and during insertion therein, where the guide is designed accordingly. so that it rises from the back to the front in the direction of extraction of the drawer, that is, in the direction of depth of the apparatus. Furthermore, at least one support is provided, on which the drawer rests in the extracted state.

By shaping the guide, it is achieved that the drawer, during the extraction process, in its posterior area, rises relatively with respect to the anterior area when the drawer is extracted from the internal refrigerated space. Due to this, an oblique position of the drawer occurs, that is to say that the drawer tilts down with its anterior area, which offers the advantage that the accessibility of the drawer is improved compared to an embodiment in which the drawer remains in position. a horizontal position.

At least one support prevents the drawer from tipping too far downwards in the extracted state and thus eventually a product to be refrigerated or frozen from falling out of the drawer.

The drawer of the refrigeration and / or freezing appliance according to the invention also has a base, where the base is designed so that the base, in the inserted state of the drawer, has a shorter distance from the guide in the area behind the drawer than in the front area of the drawer. Furthermore, a support is provided, on which the drawer rests in the extracted state.

The base of the drawer, in its inserted state, does not extend horizontally, but rises rearward, starting from the front of the drawer. The drawer, in the extended state, is tilted forward obliquely, so that a user can easily access its internal space.

Preferably, the support is formed by a storage base that is located in the internal refrigerated space and that rests on the drawer, or is arranged below the drawer.

A projection is provided which is received in the guide and which is displaced therein as the drawer is moved. The guide is arranged in the drawer or also in a part of the apparatus that does not move with the drawer. If the guide is arranged in the drawer, the protrusion on which the guide moves is fixedly arranged in place at a storage base. If the projection is in the drawer, the guide is fixedly arranged in place, that is, it does not move with the drawer.

Furthermore, it is possible that the part of the apparatus not displaced with the drawer is a storage base in which the guide or the projection is detachably or non-detachably attached.

The guide, as well as the boss, can represent an integral component of the storage base or can also, suitably, be attached to the storage base.

As a possible joining technique the fact that the guide or the projection is fixed in the storage base by means of an assembly connection is considered.

Thus, for example, it is possible that on both sides of the storage base, that is to say on the right side and the left side of the storage base, guides are respectively positioned on the storage base.

This means that in that case the guides are arranged in fixing parts that are fixed laterally on the storage base.

In a preferred variant of the invention, it is provided that the guide is fixedly arranged in place and that in the drawer, preferably on both sides, there is at least one projection that moves in the respective guide. Preferably, that projection is located in the rear area of the drawer, preferably in the rear third, in the depth direction of the drawer, and preferably well back in the drawer. Preferably, the projections are spaced outwards and in particular are arranged on the side walls of the drawer.

If the guide is in the drawer and the projection in the storage base, the projection is preferably arranged in an anterior area of the inner container or other part fixed in place relative to the drawer, and preferably in the third front of the inner container, in the depth direction, of the storage base, etc.

In this case, the guide is preferably located on the outside, on the two walls of the drawer, located opposite each other.

As explained above, a preferred conformation of the invention consists in that the projection or the guide is fixed in the storage base by means of an assembly connection. Thus, for example, it is possible to fix respectively a clamping piece on the two opposite sides, that is to say to the right and to the left, on which the guide or the projection is located.

In another embodiment of the invention, it is envisaged that the aforementioned storage base forms the support that prevents too great a tipping of the drawer, in the extended state. It is also possible that the support is formed by another part, for example by a part which is arranged on the storage base and which for example is fixed therein.

Also a part of the inner container is considered as support.

The guide may have a stop which is designed in such a way that it prevents movement of the drawer in the extraction direction, beyond the stop. In this way, this stop prevents a complete extraction of the drawer, accidentally, from the internal refrigerated space.

The guide may be designed as a slot and the stopper may be formed by a closed end of the slot. A projection that moves relatively relative to the guide hits against that end of the slot, when the drawer is pulled out or inserted.

In another embodiment of the invention it is envisaged that the guide and / or the stop are designed in such a way that the drawer can be completely extracted from the internal refrigerated space. This can be done because the guide is open in a subarea, so that the protrusion that can move relatively relative to the guide can be removed from the guide and thus also the entire drawer can be removed from the cooled internal space. .

By means of the present invention it is possible to take advantage of the advantages of a drawer and, at the same time, avoid major disadvantages in relation to the intervention or observation of the contents of the drawer.

Preferably, by means of a defined lateral guide, the drawer is slowly lowered during extraction with its end moving forward, that is, with its front side end, and at the same time raised with its rear end.

As explained, a preferred variant of the invention consists in using fixing pieces, in which the guide is arranged and which are mounted, for example, on a glass plate. To optimize sliding behavior, in this embodiment an optimal pairing of the material can be selected between the guide and the drawer.

The guide can also represent an integral component of the storage base.

If the guide or the projection that travels in the guide does not represent an integral component of the storage base, they, for example, are fixed in the storage base by a positive or negative engagement or by material adhesion.

Other features and advantages of the invention are explained in detail by means of an exemplary embodiment represented in the drawing. They show:

Figure 1: a perspective view of a storage base with attached guides,

Figure 2: a perspective view of the drawer with protrusions that protrude laterally,

Figure 3: a perspective view of the drawer with guides, in the state of support on the storage base,

Figure 4: a perspective view of the drawer in the extracted state,

Figure 5: a side view of the drawer in the extracted state, with the internal container that fixes the guide, Figure 6: a perspective view of the drawer in the separated state from the guide,

Figure 7: Another perspective view of a storage base with fastened guides,

Figure 8: a schematic side view of the drawer with base that is raised backwards, and

Figure 9: Another perspective view of a storage base with fastened guides and rollers arranged on the front side.

Figures 1-8 show an embodiment corresponding to the state of the art.

FIG. 1, with the reference symbol 10, shows a storage base which can be made for example in the form of a glass plate, but which can also have another material. The storage base, for example, can be designed as a continuous plate or also as a rack.

As can also be seen in figure 1, to the side of the storage base 10 are attached parts 20 that respectively have a groove, in which the right and left edge area, as well as the storage base 10 are housed.

As can also be seen in FIG. 1, in these parts 20 there is respectively an ascending groove 22, which forms the guides for accommodating a projection of the drawer. The open sides of the grooves 22 on both sides face each other.

In figure 1 it can also be seen that the guide 22, made as a groove, is arranged so that it rises over an essential section of its length. In the most anterior area of the end, indicated by the reference symbol 24, the slot 22 is open downwards, so that the drawer can be completely removed. Reference symbol 26 indicates a stop in the form of the end of the groove or the guide. It prevents the drawer from being completely extracted from the guide, accidentally, falling off.

Reference symbol 25 indicates an insert bevel that is raised back and used to position drawer 30.

Figure 2, in a perspective view, shows the drawer 30. The drawer 30 presents an accommodation space that is delimited by a base, a front, a rear wall and two side walls 32. From these walls 32, respectively towards the outside, that is to say, moving away from the inside of the drawer, respectively extends a projection 34 that preferably represents an integral component of the drawer, as well as the side wall of the drawer 32.

As can be seen in figure 3, in the inserted state of the drawer, the projection 34 is housed in the guide 22.

As can be seen in Figure 2, the projection 24 is located rearward, that is, in the rearmost area of the side walls 32 of the drawer 30.

Figure 3 shows the state in which the drawer 30 is fully inserted. In that fully inserted state of the drawer 30, the protrusion 34 is positioned against the rear end of the slot or guide 22 fixed in place.

The drawer 30 is otherwise located on the storage base 10, which is preferably made as a glass plate.

If now the drawer 30, starting from the state represented in figure 3, moves to the right, that is to say that it is extracted from the cooled internal space, due to the ascending groove or guide 22, the rear area of the drawer is raised and at the same time it lowers the front area, that is, the area on the front side of the drawer. Since the drawer 30 rests forward on the glass plate 10 or on another receiving base or support, a tilting movement thus occurs, by means of which the drawer is lowered on its front side. The magnitude of this drop can be individually dimensioned depending on the height of the appliance. At the same time, due to this, there are no variants as regards the drawer.

Figure 4 shows the state in which the drawer 30 is completely extracted. As can be seen in Figure 4, in this state, the stop 34 is in the area of the front end 26 of the slot or guide 22, due to which another movement of the projection 34 forward is prevented, so that the drawer 30 cannot be dropped from the internal cooled space.

The front end area 10 ', ie the front edge of the housing base 10 forms the support on which the drawer 30 rests at least in the extracted state, so that it does not tip too far downward.

As explained above, the guide may represent an integral component of the inner container. In this case no special fixation of the guide is required.

However, if the guide does not represent an integral component of the internal container, it must be ensured that the guide, including the glass plate or the storage base, does not tip over as a whole when the drawer 30 is in the extracted state according to the figure 4. It is possible that by means of the inner container, a rib of the inner container 100 or the like, the guide is secured against tipping.

As can be seen in FIG. 5, a rib on the container 100 can secure from above, that is, prevent upward movement. In that case, the guide, including the glass plate or the other storage base, is secured in a recess 110 of the inner container. This is shown, for example, in FIG. 5. This prevents an upward movement as well as an overturning of the guide and the base.

If the drawer 30 is to be removed, the drawer moves forward, upward, starting from the state shown in Figure 4 or 5. This results in the protrusion 34 moving outward from the end of the slot 26 made in the shape of a U, as well as from the stop 26, and then, by means of the downwardly open area 24, the projections 34 can be extracted from the guide.

In this way, the drawer 30 can be detached from the guide and removed from the apparatus. During assembly, the drawer is inserted again by means of the chamfer indicated by the reference symbol 25 in figure 1. In this way, the stops 34 are pushed upwards, along the chamfer 25, and then inserted down again. , towards the guide 22, so that the drawer is again housed in the guide.

In the way already explained above, it is also possible not to arrange the stops in the drawer, but the guide.

For this, a guide can be placed for example on the side wall 32 or can form an integral component of those side walls 32 of the drawer 30.

The projection or projections are thus fixedly arranged in place, and may for example form an integral component of the inner container, a storage base, or another part of the apparatus. Also in that case the guide extends by rising from the back to the front. Also in this embodiment, this arrangement of the guide leads to the fact that when the drawer is removed, its rear area is raised, while the front area is tipped down.

Preferably, in this case, the projection is in a front area of the storage base, the internal container or the like. In this case, in this way, in the inserted state, the stop is housed in the area of the guide that faces the front side of the drawer.

Figure 7 shows another perspective view of the storage base according to figure 1, where the same elements are provided with the same reference symbols as in figure 1.

Figure 8 shows an embodiment in which not the guide 22, but the base of the drawer B, is inclined relatively with respect to the horizontal.

Guide 22 extends horizontally. In the state shown in figure 8, the distance between the base B and the guide 22, in the rear area of the drawer 30, that is to say in the left area according to figure 8, is smaller than in the area of the side drawer frontal, represented on the right.

In the guide 22 a projection 34 disposed on the outside, on the two sides of the drawer, moves respectively.

If the drawer, starting from its shown inserted position, is pulled out to the right, this leads to a progressively inclined position of the drawer 30.

Finally, in FIG. 9 an improvement according to the invention of the embodiment according to FIG. 1 can be observed. In addition to the guides, a bar L is attached to the front side, which is provided with rollers R. These rollers are arranged on both sides. sides, that is, in front of the two guides 22. The rollers R are in the area of the front side of the storage base 10 and, from the perspective of the user facing the apparatus, in front of the clamped guides 20. When the drawer is pulled out, it slides on the rollers R. Several rollers can also be provided on one side. The rollers can be incorporated in the bar L, as can be seen in the figure. However, they can also be arranged independently of such a bar.

Claims (6)

1. Refrigeration and / or freezing appliance with an appliance body, a refrigerated internal space located in the appliance body, a drawer (30) located in the refrigerated internal space and that can be removed from the internal space cooled and can be inserted into it, a guide (22), by means of which the drawer (30) is guided during extraction and during insertion, where the guide (22) is designed so that it, in the direction of extraction of the drawer (30), it is raised from the back to the front, the drawer (30) has a base which, in the inserted state of the drawer (30), has a smaller distance with respect to the guide (22) in the rear area of the drawer (30) than in the front area of the drawer (30), a support is provided on which the drawer (30) rests in the extracted state, where a projection (34) is provided which is housed in the guide (22), and which is arranged so that it travels relatively c on relative to the guide (22) when the drawer (30) is removed or inserted, where the guide (22) is arranged in the drawer (30) and the boss (34) is fixedly arranged in place at a Storage base (10) or projection (34) is located on the drawer (30) and the guide (22) is fixedly arranged in place on a storage base (10), characterized in that the drawer base ( 30), in its inserted state, rises backwards, starting from the front of the drawer. Refrigerating and / or freezing appliance according to claim 1, characterized in that the guide (22) or the projection (34) is fixed to the storage base (10) by means of an assembly connection. Refrigerating and / or freezing appliance according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the storage base (10) forms the support, that the support is arranged on the storage base (10) and / or that the guide ( 22), by means of a positive coupling, is held in the internal container that defines the internal refrigerated space. Refrigerating and / or freezing appliance according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the guide (22) has a stop (26) which is designed in such a way that it prevents a movement of the drawer (30) beyond the stop. (26), and / or because a roller (R) is arranged in the front area of the extraction path of the drawer (30). Refrigerating and / or freezing appliance according to claim 4, characterized in that the guide (22) is designed as a groove (22), and in that the stop (26) is formed by the end of the groove (26). Refrigerating and / or freezing appliance according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the guide (22) and / or the stop (26) are designed so that the drawer (30) can be completely removed from the internal refrigerated space .