JPH07120136A - Structure for mounting partition of refrigerator - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a mounting structure wherein partition members for dividing a front opening of a body of a refrigerator into a plurality of openings can be easily mounted and dismounted. CONSTITUTION:Flanges 53, 54, 61 are provided on the front surfaces of the opposite ends of vertical and horizontal partition members 4A, 5A including antisweat heaters 31a, 31b and comprised mainly of insulating material, and screws 56, 57, 63, 64 are inserted into screw holes of each of the flanges 53, 54, 61 from the front side thereof so as to be fixed therein, whereby the partition members can be fixed to the front opening 3 of a body 1. The screws 56, 57, 63, 64 can be tightened and removed from the front side, and the partition member 5A can be easily mounted.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a refrigerator having a plurality of freely-pullable product storage cases, and more particularly to a structure for mounting a partition member which divides a front opening to form a storage port for the product storage case.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there is known a refrigerator in which a front partition of a product storage compartment is provided with a partition to define a plurality of openings, and an openable / closable door is provided corresponding to each opening. In this case, the partition is formed of a heat insulating member, and is assembled and fixed to the front opening with screws, screws or the like.

As an example of the above, Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 57-17238.
According to the technique disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 9, the partition with a dew-proof heater is fitted into fixing fittings arranged at the upper and lower ends of the front opening of the storage chamber and screwed. In addition, 62
In the one disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 16603, a cooling unit is installed at a position behind a partition, and the partition is assembled and fixed at a position in front of the cooling unit, and the cooling unit separates a storage chamber into a freezing chamber and a refrigerating chamber from left to right. It has a structure that doubles as a partitioning member.

Here, in any refrigerator, it is preferable that the partition can be easily attached, assembled and fixed, and can be easily removed as necessary.

By the way, as shown in FIG. 7, there is also proposed a refrigerator of the type in which a product storage case is freely drawn out at each opening on the front surface of the storage chamber defined by the partition member.

Even in the case of this refrigerator, it takes a lot of effort to attach the partition member at the time of assembly. Now, the conventional attachment structure of the partition member will be described with reference to FIGS.

Reference numeral 1 denotes a main body of the refrigerator 1A, which is formed by a heat insulating wall 2, and a front opening 3 thereof is defined by a vertical partition member 4 and horizontal partition members 5 and 5 into a plurality of openings 7. A compartment 8 is defined and formed in which the product storage case 6 can be freely drawn out.

A machine room 9 is formed on one side of the main body 1,
A compressor, a condenser, and the like, which constitute a refrigeration cycle together with a cooler described later, are housed therein, and the front surface of the machine room 9 has a vent portion 11a and a control portion 11b arranged above it and is removable. It is covered with a grill plate 11.

By the way, the product storage case 6 has a drawer door 10 on the front, a container holder 12 attached to the rear of the drawer door 10, and a container detachably held upward by the container holder 12. It is composed of 13.
Here, rail portions 14 extending in the front-rear direction are provided on the lower portions of the outer surfaces of both sides of the container holding portion 12. By inserting the rail portions 14 into the pair of left and right main body rails 15 assembled in each of the chambers 8, 12 is slidably held by the main body rail 15. The left and right body rails 15, 15 are frame-shaped by a front rail connecting plate 16 (see FIG. 10 and the like) and a rear rail connecting plate (not shown) provided so as to bridge the front and rear thereof. Integrated together. And provided at the rear end of the container holding portion 12,
The container holding portion 12 is provided with a drawer door 1 by a first roller 17a fitted to the main body rail 15 and a second roller 17b provided at the front end of the main body rail 15 and receiving the rail portion 14.
With a pulling operation of 0, the container 13 is smoothly pulled out to the front.
Are taken in and out. The main body rail 15 has a fixing projection 15b formed at its rear end inserted and locked in a mounting hole formed in the rear wall 8b of each room 8, and then a mounting metal fitting 18 provided at the front end of the main body rail 15 is fixed with a screw 19. It is attached by being fixed to the side wall of each room 8 by, for example. 20 is a container holding part 12 so that it does not come out when the container 13 is pulled out.
Each opening 7 is a contact member that engages with the retaining piece 21 at the rear end.
The front rail coupling plate 16 disposed in contact with the lower rim of the vehicle.
It is formed by bending the rear part downward at a right angle.

Immediately behind the vertical partition member 4, a slit-like suction port 21 is formed in the lower part, and two side plates 22 provided with a blow-out port (not shown) in the upper part are provided on the partition member 4.
And a cooler 23 and a cool air circulation fan 24 are arranged in a cool air passage formed between them.

As shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, the upper and lower ends of the vertical partition member 4, which mainly comprises a heat insulating member and has the dew-proof heater 31a built therein, are horizontally projected to the side. Four mounting flanges 25 and 26 are provided, and when mounting the partition member 4 to the front opening 3 of the main body 1, these flanges 25 and 26 are attached to the upper edge portion 3a of the front opening 3 and the lower part. The screw 27, 28 is passed through the screw hole 29, 30 and fixed to the edge portion 3b.

Similarly, the horizontal partition members 5 and 5, which are provided with the dew-proof heater 31b and mainly consist of a heat insulating material, are attached to both longitudinal end portions of the lateral partition members 5 and 5 so as to project at right angles upward and downward. Flanges 32, 33 for use are provided, the outer flanges 32, 33 are applied to the left and right side edges 34, 34 of the front opening 3, and the inner flanges 32, 33 are applied to the side surfaces of the vertical partition member 4, Screws 35 and 36 are screw holes 37 and 38 (see FIG. 1).
The partition members 5 and 5 are attached and fixed by tightening and fixing the partition members 5 and 5.

The detailed structure of the vertical partition member 4 is shown in FIG.
, The partition member front plate 41 and the partition member rear plate 42.
And a heat insulating material 43 made of foamed polyethylene and provided with a dew-proof heater 31a inside, and a heat insulating material 44 made of glass wool, sandwiching the side plates 45, 46 from the left and right.
And the partition member 4 is assembled. The flanges 2 are respectively provided on the upper and lower ends of the partition member front plate 41 and the partition member rear plate 42.
5 and 26 are fixed. Further, the lateral partition members 5 and 5 have the same structure.

[0014]

As described above, the vertical partition member 4 and the horizontal partition members 5 and 5 each have eight screws 2.
7, 28 and screws 35, 36 are screwed, but screws 27, 28 are inserted in the opening 3 from above and below, or screws 35, 36 are also inserted in the opening 3 in the lateral direction. It has to be attached, and workability is poor.

When it is necessary to remove the partition members 4, 5, 5, a lower screw 28 for fixing the vertical partition member 4 is installed above it, as shown in FIGS. 10 and 11. The four screws 3 are fixed to the partition members 5 and 5 on one side, which cannot be removed by being hindered by the front rail connecting plate 16.
Of the screws 5, 36, the upper screw 35 is hampered by the front rail connecting plate 16 which is also located above it and cannot be removed.
Therefore, when removing these screws 28 and 35, there is a problem that the rail connecting plate 16 must be removed, and the maintainability is poor.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and it is an object of the present invention to provide an improved mounting structure so that the partition member can be easily mounted and dismounted.

[0017]

According to the present invention, a front opening of a storage chamber constituted by a heat insulating wall is divided into a plurality of openings by partition members provided vertically and horizontally, and each of these openings is a drawer type product. While the storage case is mounted, in the refrigerator having a structure in which a cooler is present behind the vertical partition member, a flange for mounting having a mounting hole is formed at the front end of each longitudinal end of each partition member. A refrigerator characterized in that it is provided so as to project forward by a certain amount, the flange is brought into contact with the front end face of the opening and the front end face of a vertical partition member to be screwed, and each partition member is mounted from the front. It has a partition mounting structure.

[0018]

The flanges for attaching the partition member to the front opening of the refrigerator body are provided at the front portions of both ends of the partition member. Therefore, the vertical and horizontal partition members can be easily attached and fixed by fastening the flanges with screws from the front. Also,
The partition member can be easily removed by simply removing the front screws.

[0019]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. It should be noted that the same or corresponding parts as the respective constituent elements in the conventional mounting shown in FIGS. 7 to 11 are indicated by the same reference numerals.

The vertical partition member 4A according to the present invention has an overall structure as shown in FIG. 1 and an assembled structure as shown in FIG.

Here, 41A is a front plate of a partition member made of a steel plate,
42A is a partition member rear plate made of a steel plate. A dew-proof heater 31a is mounted on the insulating substrate 48. 43A is a heat insulating material made of expanded polyethylene, and 44B is a heat insulating material made of glass wool. And the partition member front plate 4
After sandwiching the dew-proof heater 31a and the two heat insulating materials 43A and 44B between 1A and the partition member rear plate 42A, the synthetic resin coupling side plates 45A and 46A are applied from the left and right, and assembled with screws and screws. Fix it. 49a, 49b, and 49c show the mounting holes.

Here, mounting flanges 53 and 54, which project upward and downward and have two screw holes 51 and 52, are provided at the front surface positions of the upper and lower ends of the partition member 4A.

Therefore, when the partitioning member 4A is attached to the front opening 3 of the main body 1, the flanges 53 and 54 are applied to the upper and lower front edge portions 3d and 3d of the front opening 3, respectively, so that the upper and lower portions 2 and 2 are arranged from the front as shown in FIG. Screws 56 and 57 can be used to fix the screws. Reference numerals 58 and 59 denote fixing holes for the screws 56 and 57.

According to such a mounting method of the partition member 4A, the flanges 53 and 54 are mounted without engaging with the front rail connecting plate 16 existing in the width direction of the opening 3. There is. Therefore, the partition member 4A can be removed by removing the front screws 56 and 57 without removing the front rail connecting plate 16 as in the conventional case, and the number of screws is 8 to 4, which is conventionally required. Can be reduced to Furthermore,
If fixing with a flange with one mounting hole is also possible,
The number of screws can be further reduced to 2.

Further, as shown in FIG. 3, the flanges 53, 5
4 has horizontal mounting pieces 53b and 54b.
3b and 54b are joined and fixed to the partition member front plate 41A by welding or the like. Then, in order to make the front surface of the partition member 4A attached to the main body 1 flush with the surface of the main body 1 at this time, the flanges 53 and 54 are moved forward by the plate thickness × dimensions as shown in FIG. It is put out and combined. As a result, when the drawer door 10 is closed, the gasket provided on the drawer door 10 comes into contact with the partition member 4A, and the partition member 4A and the front end of the opening are formed in the same plane, so that good airtightness is maintained. Be drunk

On the other hand, the horizontal partition members 5A and 5A also have the same structure as that of the vertical partition member 4A described above, and as shown in FIG. 6, the front positions of both end portions in the longitudinal direction of the partition members 5A and 5A. Mounting flange 6 with screw holes 70 and 71 in the
1, 62 are provided so as to project laterally. Further, in the figure, 41B and 42B are respectively a partition member front plate and a partition member rear plate formed of steel plates, and 43B and 44B are heat insulating materials made of expanded polyethylene and glass wool. Further, 45B is a joint side plate made of synthetic resin, and 31b is a dew-proof heater. The flanges 61 and 62 are also divided by the thickness of the partition member 5A,
It is attached by welding etc. protruding from both sides of 5A,
The flanges 61 and 62 are attached to both front end faces 34b of the main body 1,
34b and the front end face of the vertical partition member 4A, and screw 6
From the front of the main body 1 from 3, 64, the partition members 5A, 5
A can be easily screwed. Reference numerals 65 and 66 denote fixing holes for the screws 63 and 64.

The lateral partition members 5A, 5A can be easily removed by simply removing the screws 63, 64 on the front side.

[0028]

As described above, according to the present invention, the vertical and horizontal partitioning members for partitioning the front opening of the refrigerator can be attached and fixed to the main body by screwing from the front side, and the assembly work is simple. Can be In addition, when the mechanical parts such as the cooler are repaired or replaced, the partition member can be easily removed and the maintainability is improved. Further, the number of mounting screws of the partition member can be reduced and fixed, the number of parts can be reduced, and the cost can be reduced.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external structural perspective view of a vertical partition member according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of constituent elements of the partition member.

FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of a partition member front plate and a mounting flange that is mounted and fixed thereto by welding or the like.

FIG. 4 is a side sectional view showing a structure of a main part of the partition member front plate.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing an assembly configuration of a refrigerator main body and vertical and horizontal partition members that are assembled to the main body.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a lateral partition member.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of a refrigerator including a drawer-type product storage case.

FIG. 8 is a structural exploded perspective view illustrating a method of assembling a conventional partition member to the refrigerator body.

FIG. 9 is a structural perspective view of a conventional vertical partition member.

FIG. 10 is a vertical sectional side view of the refrigerator.

FIG. 11 is an enlarged structural diagram of a main part in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Main body 3 Front opening 4, 4A Vertical partition member 5, 5A Horizontal partition member 51, 52, 70, 71 Screw hole 53, 54, 61, 62 Mounting flange 56, 57, 63, 64 Screw

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A front opening of a storage chamber constituted by a heat insulating wall is divided into a plurality of openings by partition members provided in vertical and horizontal directions, and a drawer-type product storage case is attached to each of the openings, while In a refrigerator having a structure in which a cooler is present behind a vertical partition member, a mounting flange having mounting holes at front ends of both longitudinal ends of each partition member is projected forward by a thickness thereof. A partition mounting structure for a refrigerator, characterized in that the flange is brought into contact with a front end surface of the opening and a front end surface of a vertical partition member to be screwed, and the partition members are mounted from the front.