Domestic refrigeration appliance with specific front-side lowering segment of a compartment floor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11454441-B2
Application number	US-201816129048-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 12, 2018
Priority date	Sep 13, 2017
Publication date	Sep 27, 2022
Grant date	Sep 27, 2022

Abstract

A domestic refrigeration appliance includes a receiving space for food, a drawer in the form of a food container being movable in the receiving space and a compartment floor disposed in the receiving space and forming a cover for the drawer. An elastically deformable stop element which faces a front wall of the drawer is disposed on a front edge of the compartment floor. The compartment floor has a lowering segment on its foremost region which faces the front wall and a foremost rim on which the elastically deformable stop element is disposed. The foremost rim is lowered downward relative to a sheet region of the compartment floor.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A domestic refrigeration appliance, comprising:
a receiving space for food;
a drawer movably disposed in said receiving space as a food container, said drawer having a front wall with a rear side and an upper edge;
a compartment floor disposed in said receiving space and forming a cover for said drawer, said compartment floor having a front edge, said compartment floor having a foremost region facing said front wall of said drawer, and said compartment floor having a sheet region;
said compartment floor having a lowering segment on said foremost region, said lowering segment having a foremost rim being lowered downward relative to said sheet region;
said lowering segment and said front wall of said drawer forming a handle recess configured to be engaged from above when said drawer is in a closed state;
an elastically deformable stop element of said lowering segment facing said front wall of said drawer and being disposed at said front edge of said compartment floor, said elastically deformable stop element being disposed on said foremost rim;
said stop element abutting against said rear side of said front wall of said drawer and being offset downward relative said upper edge of said front wall in a height direction of the domestic refrigeration appliance when said drawer is in said closed state; and
said lowering segment being a strip implemented as a part that is separate from said sheet region, and said lowering segment including an obliquely inclined portion directly adjacent said sheet region, wherein said obliquely inclined portion at least partially forms said handle recess.

2. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said stop element is a seal.

3. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said stop element has a longitudinal axis and a U-shaped cross-section perpendicular to said longitudinal axis.

4. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said sheet region has a foremost edge, and said compartment floor has said separate strip disposed on said foremost edge of said sheet region, said lowering segment being integrated in said separate strip.

5. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 4 , wherein said separate strip has a slot into which said foremost edge of said sheet region is inserted.

6. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 5 , wherein:
said separate strip has a wall delimiting said slot, said wall has inner sides; and
an elastic retaining element is disposed on at least one of said inner sides providing an anti-slip element for safeguarding against slipping between said separate strip and said sheet region.

7. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 4 , wherein said separate strip and at least said elastically deformable stop element form a one-piece part.

8. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 4 , wherein said separate strip and at least said elastically deformable stop element form a two-component extruded part.

9. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 4 , wherein said separate strip has a foremost edge facing away from said sheet region, and said elastically deformable stop element is disposed on said foremost edge of said separate strip.

10. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said sheet region is made of genuine glass.

11. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said front wall of said drawer has an upper edge, and said sheet region and said upper edge of said front wall of said drawer are disposed at an identical height in a height direction of the domestic refrigeration appliance.

12. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said rear side of said front wall of said drawer is disposed obliquely causing said front wall to taper toward said upper edge of said front wall.

13. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said lowering segment is chute-shaped.

14. The domestic refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 , wherein said elastically deformable stop element is a seal having a thickness that is not greater than a thickness of said sheet region of said compartment floor.

Assignees

• Bsh Hausgeraete Gmbh

Inventors

• Staud Ralph
• Tischer Thomas
• Reitwiessner Marco
• Kessler Andreas
• Korte Andreas

Classifications

• F25D25/025 Primary

  Drawers · CPC title

• F25D2323/02

  Details of doors or covers not otherwise covered · CPC title

• F25D23/021

  Sliding doors · CPC title

• F25D11/00 Primary

  Self-contained movable devices, e.g. domestic refrigerators · CPC title

• F25D11/02

  with cooling compartments at different temperatures · CPC title