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
  • F25D25/00—Charging, supporting, and discharging the articles to be cooled
  • F25D25/02—Charging, supporting, and discharging the articles to be cooled by shelves
  • F25D25/021—Charging, supporting, and discharging the articles to be cooled by shelves combined with trays
• • 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
  • F25D2331/00—Details or arrangements of other cooling or freezing apparatus not provided for in other groups of this subclass
  • F25D2331/80—Type of cooled receptacles
  • F25D2331/803—Bottles
• • 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
  • F25D2331/00—Details or arrangements of other cooling or freezing apparatus not provided for in other groups of this subclass
  • F25D2331/80—Type of cooled receptacles
  • F25D2331/809—Holders
• • 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
  • F25D2400/00—General features of, or devices for refrigerators, cold rooms, ice-boxes, or for cooling or freezing apparatus not covered by any other subclass
  • F25D2400/08—Refrigerator tables

Definitions

• the subject matter of the invention is a device for receiving elongated refrigerated goods in a refrigeration device, which comprises a frame or refrigerated goods carrier that can be installed in the refrigeration device in a horizontal orientation, at least one first bracket and at least one second bracket with support surfaces for placing the refrigerated goods, of which the first bracket between one horizontal position and a vertical position is foldable.
• the device is suitable for largely lying storage for bottle-like chilled goods such as mineral water, beer and wine bottles or the like.
• Such a device is known from WO 98/05910. It is a device with a horizontal frame and two foldable brackets, the frame being able to be hooked onto a refrigerated goods carrier in a refrigerator.
• the two brackets are connected to each other by a coupling element so that they can perform synchronous folding movements. Due to the large number of moving parts, this device is quite complex to manufacture and expensive.
• the rigid design of the second bracket makes it possible to dispense with the coupling elements. This translates into reduced costs and also considerably simplifies the assembly of the device.
• the refrigerated goods carrier can be, for example, a plate-shaped intermediate floor made of glass or a storage rack.
• the device according to the invention does not include a refrigerated goods carrier as defined in claim 4, its frame should expediently be equipped with a device for attaching this device to a refrigerated goods carrier.
• the refrigerated goods carrier can be a plate-shaped intermediate floor made of glass or a storage rack.
• the device for attaching the device to the refrigerated goods carrier can be, for example, hooks or hook-shaped elements which grip around the front and rear edges of the refrigerated goods carrier.
• the device can be displaceable on the refrigerated goods carrier along its front and rear edge in different positions. This results in increased flexibility in accommodating refrigerated goods in the refrigeration device.
• the device is preferably attached under the refrigerated goods carrier. In this way, the device does not take up any space on the upper side of the refrigerated goods carrier to be used for storing refrigerated goods and leaves it free to place further refrigerated goods.
• the device thus enables the use of space directly under the refrigerated goods carrier, which often remains unused without such a device.
• a device with the features of claim 4 can also have a frame, which, however, encloses the refrigerated goods carrier and on which the first and the second bracket are arranged.
• the frame or at least part of it can be formed in one piece with the second bracket.
• the plastic frame attached to the refrigerated goods carrier or enclosing the refrigerated goods carrier is particularly advantageous, since such a frame together with the second bracket can be produced in one piece in a particularly simple manner in a single work step.
• the first bracket is preferably made of metal.
• the second bracket can comprise a first and a second support surface for placing the refrigerated goods at different heights. If the refrigerated goods are bottle-shaped, one of these contact surfaces can be used to hold a bottle body and the other to hold a bottle neck.
• At least one of the support surfaces has arcuate sections.
• a support surface of one of the brackets can have such an arcuate section, regardless of the shape of other support surfaces of the same or of the other bracket.
• the second bracket can have a vertically oriented stop for the refrigerated goods. Such a stop prevents the refrigerated goods from falling off the device.
• the stop is particularly preferably a vertical wall, the upper edge of which forms the other contact surface.
• the first bracket can advantageously be locked in the horizontal and / or the vertical position in order to fix it in the desired position in this way.
• the first bracket can be constructed in one piece; but it can also consist of several parts which can be pivoted independently of one another and are each dimensioned to accommodate one or more bottles.
• the device is particularly preferably installed in a refrigeration device in such a way that the second bracket is adjacent to a rear wall of the refrigeration device. This ensures that when the device is not in use, it does not significantly impede the use of the storage space of the refrigerator.
• FIG. 1 shows a refrigerator in a spatial representation.
• FIG. 2 shows a device according to the invention in side view
• 3 shows the device according to the invention from FIG. 2 in plan view
• FIG. 4 shows the device according to the invention from FIG. 2 in a front view
• FIG. 5 shows the device according to the invention from FIG. 2 in a lateral section with the bottle inserted
• FIG. 6 shows the device according to the invention from FIG. 2 in a lateral section with a bottle inserted in the opposite direction to that in FIG. 5;
• Fig. 7 shows a modified embodiment of the first bracket of the device according to the invention.
• FIG. 1 shows a refrigerator 1 with an open door 3 and with a device 2 according to the invention in a spatial representation as an example of a refrigeration device.
• the opened door 3 provides a view into an inner storage space 6 of the refrigerator 1.
• the storage space 6 is divided by four horizontally arranged refrigerated goods carriers 4, here in the form of glass plates.
• refrigerated goods carriers 4 can also be used as refrigerated goods carriers 4.
• a device 2 according to the invention is suspended from the uppermost refrigerated goods carrier 4.
• a bottle 5 is inserted into the device 2 as refrigerated goods and is held by the device 2 on an underside of the refrigerated goods carrier 4.
• the device 2 can be displaced in any direction along the refrigerated goods carrier 4 in a transverse direction.
• the bottle 5 Since the bottle 5 is held by the device 2 immediately below the refrigerated goods carrier 4 in an area of the storage space 6 that would remain mostly unused without the device 2, the bottle 5 does not take up any space on the storage surfaces of the refrigerated goods carriers 4. Rather, this remains free for the storage of further refrigerated goods.
• the displaceability of the device 2 also increases the flexibility when loading the storage space 6.
• the device 2 essentially comprises a rectangular frame 7 with a front bar 12 and a rear bar 11 parallel to it and two mutually parallel side bars 13, a first bracket 8 and a second bracket 9.
• the second bracket 9 is vertical from the rear bar 11 of the horizontal Frame 7 arranged vertically downward on the frame 7.
• the bracket 9 extends from one end of the rear bar 11 of the frame 7 to the other end.
• the bracket 9 can be made in one piece with the frame 7 or at least with its rear bar 11 made of plastic or permanently attached thereto, for example by latching.
• the frame 7 has upwardly projecting rail-shaped hooks 10 which extend over an entire length of the bars 11 and 12.
• the hooks 10 are oriented towards each other.
• one or more ordinary hooks could also be provided instead of the rail-shaped hooks 10.
• the bracket 8 is in each case suspended at the same height on the two side strips 13.
• the bracket 8 is made of a strong painted metal wire. It can optionally be folded from a vertically hanging position into a horizontal position lying against the frame 7 and locked there in each case. This is indicated in Fig. 2 by the dashed bracket and provided with a double arrow.
• the bracket 8 has three arcuate sections 14, each of which is used to insert a bottle. Congruent to the sections 14, the bracket 9 also has three arcuate sections 17 (see FIG. 5) which extend horizontally over a depth of a few cm. They are stiffened by a vertical wall 16 formed in one piece with them. Arc-shaped cutouts 15 are formed on the upper edge of the wall 16.
• Fig. 5 shows the device according to the invention in cross section in a state installed in the refrigerator 1 with an inserted bottle 5 as refrigerated goods.
• the device 2 is hooked with the rail-shaped hooks 10 on a refrigerated goods carrier 4, so that the brackets 8 and 9 are arranged below the refrigerated goods carrier 4.
• the bracket 8 hangs vertically downwards in the unfolded state.
• Bottle 5 with its bottle body is placed on it. You can see the L-shaped cross section of the bracket 9 with the each serving as a support surface for the bottom of a bottle 5 arcuate sections 17 and the wall 16 which forms a stop which keeps the bottom of the bottle from contact with the rear wall of the storage space.
• a bottle 5 can also be introduced into the device 2 in the upside-down orientation, as shown in FIG. 6.
• the bottle 5 lies with a lower part of its bottle body on the bracket 8, while the narrower neck of the bottle 5 is supported on one of the arcuate cutouts 15 of the vertical wall 16.
• This type of placement is particularly suitable for small bottles, while the orientation of FIG. 5 will be used for large bottles.
• the end of the neck is thickened. By pushing this thickened end beyond the wall 16 when the bottles are inserted, the bottles can be locked in the device.
• Fig. 7 shows an alternative embodiment of the pivotable bracket.
• a multi-part construction is shown here, with a shaft 18 which engages in bores 19 of the side strips 13 (only one of which is shown in the figure) and on the single bracket 20, 21 can be pivoted and locked with the aid of pins 22 in the vertical and horizontal position.
• the two single brackets 20, 21 can be pivoted independently of one another, so that depending on the number of bottles to be stored, only the single bracket 20 with a single arcuate section 14, the single bracket 21 with two such sections or both can be folded up or pivoted into the vertical at the same time can.
• the brackets 8 and 9 can be attached directly to the refrigerated goods carrier 4, so that the frame 7 detachably attached to the refrigerated goods carrier 4 can be omitted.
• a refrigerated goods carrier can e.g. be formed by a glass plate encircled in a fixed frame connected to a fixed frame, the rigid bracket 9 attached to a rear profile element or be integrally formed with this and the pivotable bracket 8 can be suspended from side profile elements.

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