Refrigerator with storage compartments and dispensing means

• US 5,570,587 A
• Filed: 11/04/1994
• Issued: 11/05/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Goldstar Jewellery LLC
• Original Assignee: Goldstar Jewellery LLC
• Inventors: Kim, Kyeong-Taek
• Primary Examiner(s): DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES
• Application Number:
  US08/336,100
• Time in Patent Office: 732 Days
• Field of Search: 62/285-290, 62/272, 62/274, 62/441, 62/91, 62/92, 62/331, 221/97-98, 221/150 R, 222/130-146.1, 222/146.6
• US Class Current: 62/331
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 17/065 with compartments at different temperatures
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 21/14 Collecting or removing condensed and defrost water; Drip trays
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 23/006 for mounting refrigerating machinery components
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 23/12 Arrangements of compartments additional to cooling compartments; Combinations of refrigerators with other equipment, e.g. stove
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 2321/145 characterised by multiple collecting pans
• CPC Class Codes: F25D 31/005 Combined cooling and heating devices

Abstract

This invention relates to a multifunction refrigerator for transmitting cool air into a cereal storage room and kimchi storage room, comprising an evaporator 700 for generating cool air from a wall face of the refrigerator and a first partition 400 for conducting the cool air generated from said evaporator 700 into a cold storage room 100 and cereal storage room 200, and dividing the refrigerator into two parts of the cold storage room 100 and the cereals custody room 200. And, this refrigerator also comprises an evaporator 700 for generating cool air from a wall face of a refrigerator and a second partition 500 for transmitting compulsorily cool air generated from the evaporator 700 and thereby maintaining kimchi storage room 300 at low temperature, and inhalation fan for inhaling cool air.

Claims

1. A multifunction refrigerator comprising:

(a) a cold storage room;

(b) cereals storage room;

(c) a generating means for generating cool air from a wall face of the refrigerator; and

(d) a conducting means for inducting the cool air generated from the generating means into the cold storage room and the cereals storage room;

wherein the cereals storage room comprises a rice storage room for storing rice, a discharging means for discharging the rice.

2. The refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein the generating means is an evaporator located on an upper plate of the cold storage room.

3. The refrigerator according to claim 2, wherein the conducting means includes a first partition for dividing the cold storage room and the cereals storage room and a second partition adjacent the first partition and connected to said evaporator for dividing the cold storage room from another storage room, having a good thermal conductivity, wherein the cool air generated from said evaporator is conducted into the cereals storage room through the first and second partition.

4. The refrigerator according to claim 3, wherein the conducting means includes a transmitting hole formed at a position of a second partition separating the refrigerator into two parts the cold storage room and a kimchi storage room, and an inhalation fan for inhaling cool air through the transmitting hole and transmitting the inhaled cool air into the kimchi storage room.

5. The refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein the discharging means comprises an outlet formed at the rice storage room and a miscellaneous cereal storage room respectively, a horizontal moving plate for dropping selectively the rice or the miscellaneous cereals being discharged from said outlet, a moving member for moving the rice or the miscellaneous cereals being dropped and a outlet for dropping the rice or the miscellaneous cereals moved from the moving member into a container.

6. The refrigerator according to claim 1, wherein the refrigerator includes a withdrawal means for withdrawing the cereal storage room from the refrigerator.

7. The refrigerator according to claim 6, wherein the withdrawal means comprises a guiding means comprising a guiding rollers formed at the cereals storage room and a supporter.

8. A multifunction refrigerator comprising:

a cold storage room;

a cereals storage room;

a generating means for generating cool air from a wall face of the refrigerator;

a conducting means for inducting the cool air generated from the generating means into the cold storage room and the cereals storage room;

wherein the cereals storage room comprises a rice storage room for storing rice, a discharging means for discharging the rice and a container for containing the rice being discharged from the discharging means;

wherein the refrigerator includes a humidity control part for maintaining constant humidity;

wherein the humidity control part comprises a water outlet pipe for removing atmospheric condensate from the generating means, a first means for evaporating which supplies the evaporated moisture into the cereals storage room when the water collected through the outlet pipe is evaporated, and a second means for evaporating which evaporates any condensate which exceeds the capacity of the first means for evaporating, the second means for evaporating discharging evaporated water outside of the refrigerator.

9. The refrigerator according to claim 8, wherein said the first evaporator part comprises a first evaporator dish for containing the defrosted water being collected along the water outlet pipe, a permeating membrane for permeating the moisture being evaporated from said the first evaporation dish and a cover for inducing the moisture passing the permeating membrane into the cereals custody room.