Mobile shelf for refrigerators and freezers

Abstract

A mobile shelf is horizontal and displaceably mounted in rails fixed to the cabinet of refrigerator or freezer, inwardly to a refrigerator chamber. The shelf comprises an actuator device operatively associated to the shelf and cabinet. The actuator device is driven to an inoperative armed position, achieved when the shelf is displaced backwards, to a retracted position, and an operative distended position, in which the shelf is displaced forward, to a forward position. The actuator device is actuated, from the inoperative armed position to an operative distended position, when applying a manual instantaneous axial force backwards, against the shelf.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention refers to a new construction applied to mobile shelf for refrigerators and freezers of the type that comprises a cabinet defining inwardly at least a refrigeration chamber provided with a access anterior opening closed by respective door, wherein said shelf is displaceable horizontally between a retracted position and a forward position, and back to the retracted position, by user specific actuation without requiring the latter to exert, on the shelf, a continuous tensile force to produce its displacement between the retracted position and the forward position. The invention is particularly useful when applied to mobile shelves, built as usual drawers provided inside the refrigeration chamber of a refrigerator or freezer, to define a subchamber, someway apart from the rest of the refrigeration chamber and which access is only achieved with a linear displacement of said shelf from a retracted position to a forward position.BACKGROUND ...

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Benefits of technology

[0008]The proposed construction of present invention allows that the actuator device displaces the shelf or drawer from retracted position to forward position when user applies, against the still in retracted position shelf, a backwards instantaneous axial force, which force is capable of triggering the actuator device, that, once distended, causes desired displacement of mobile shelf or drawer to...

Problems solved by technology

It occurs that, in many occasions, mainly in those of products loading inside the refrigeration chamber, the user has his/her two hands busy to hold the product or vessel that contains the product to be stored, which makes it notably difficult to do the shelf or drawer displa...

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