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.

Description

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

[0004]In view of the above-mentioned shortcoming, it becomes an object of the present invention to provide a mobile shelf, that can resemble to a drawer, to be mounted inside refrigerators and freezers of the type herein considered, and that can be easy and quickly displaced from a retracted position to a forward position, making it easier products loading and unloading, without requiring a manual tensile force actuation by the user.

[0005]It is still a further object of the present invention to provide a mobile shelf or drawer as above-mentioned and that has a simple and robust construction and that still allows accomplish, during the mobile shelf or drawer displacement from retracted position to forward position, the displacement of a front lid between a closed position, blocking the anterior access to shelf or drawer top region, and an open position, in which the shelf or drawer access is released.

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 displacement operation to the forward position, in which the user can place the product to be refrigerated on the shelf, with greater easiness, or inside the drawer, that if held in the retracted position, usually makes it unfeasible products load and unload operations relative to inside.

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