REFRIGERATING DEVICE WITH TELESCOPIC EXTENSION

• US 20100019641A1
• Filed: 01/21/2008
• Published: 01/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH (Robert Bosch GmbH), Miele & CIE KG (The Miele Group)
• Original Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerã¤Te GmbH (Robert Bosch GmbH), Miele & CIE KG (The Miele Group)
• Inventors: Stahl, Matthias, Rupp, Claudia, Steichele, Helmut, Laible, Karl-Friedrich, van Pels, Ulrich, Placke, Frank
• Granted Patent: US 9,534,835 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 312/404
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 88/427 at drawer side
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 25/024 Slidable shelves
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 25/025 Drawers

Abstract

A refrigerating device is provided that includes a body, a door and a carrier for refrigerated products, the carrier being supported on adapters anchored on movable rails of telescopic extensions and displaceable between an inserted and a pulled-out position. The movable rails of the telescopic extensions are hidden under a tray and the tray of each telescopic extension is clamped between the movable rail thereof and the adapter anchored thereon.

Claims

1-8. -8. (canceled)

9. A refrigerating device comprising:

a body;

a door;

a pair of telescopic extension elements, each telescopic extension element being secured to the body and having a movable rail;

a carrier for refrigerated products;

a plurality of adapters, the adapters securing the carrier to the movable rails of the telescopic extensions elements and the pair of telescopic extension elements being operable to permit the carrier to move outwardly relative to the body and to retract inwardly relative to the body; and

a pair of covers, each cover substantially concealing at least a portion of a respective telescopic extension element and each cover being secured between the movable rail of the respective telescopic extension element and an adapter securing the carrier to the movable rail of the respective telescopic extension element.

10. The refrigerating device as claimed in claim 9, wherein each cover is a tray.

11. The refrigerating device as claimed in claim 10, wherein one of the adapters includes a toggle that engages in a latching opening of the movable rail of the respective telescopic extension element to which the adapter is secured and the toggle passes through an opening in a tray secured to the movable rail of the respective telescopic extension element.

12. The refrigerating device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the adapter is displaceable between a first position in which the toggle can pass through the latching opening and a second position in which an arm of the toggle projects over an edge of the latching opening.

13. The refrigerating device as claimed in claim 12, wherein, in the second position, a spring-loaded projection of the adapter engages in a recess in the movable rail.

14. The refrigerating device as claimed in claim 12, wherein another one of the adapters includes a toggle that engages in a latching opening of the movable rail of the respective telescopic extension element to which the adapter is secured and the toggle passes through an opening in a tray secured to the movable rail of the respective telescopic extension element, the another adapter is displaceable between a first position in which the toggle can pass through the latching opening and a second position in which an arm of the toggle projects over an edge of the latching opening, and the two adapters with toggles are secured on the same movable rail and are displaceable in opposite directions between their first and second positions.

15. The refrigerating device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the adapter has a plate covering the opening of the tray.

16. The refrigerating device as claimed in claim 11, wherein a cap piece of the adapter is arranged above one top side of the tray and a projection of the adapter engages through an opening of the tray between the top side thereof and the movable rail.