Freezer cabinet
AssigneeAHT Cooling Systems GmbH
InventorReinhold Resch
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Abstract
A freezer cabinet in which foods are stored frozen for sale in a shop. The freezer cabinet includes a freezer space surrounded by solid walls at the front, the rear, the sides and at the bottom. The freezer space, at its upper end, is accessible via a housing opening from a user-side front edge, such opening, in the closed state, is covered by a cover unit with a cover part, adjoining the use-side edge and movable in a forwards/backwards direction, and a stationary rear cover part is located away from the user-side edge. In order to open the freezer cabinet, the front cover part is arranged in front of the rear cover part in the closed state or the central cover part can be pushed at least partially over the rear cover part.
Claims8
A freezer cabinet for cold storage and showcasing of foods in a sales room, comprising a cooling chamber surrounded by stationary housing walls including a front wall, a rear wall, sidewalls, and a bottom wall, the chamber being accessible from a user-side front edge via a housing opening at a top side thereof, which, in the closed state, is covered by a cover unit having a lid part that adjoins the user-side edge and can be moved in a forward/backward direction and a stationary rear lid part that is positioned away from the user-side edge, wherein, to open up, the front lid part, arranged in front of the rear lid part in the closed state, and/or a middle lid part can be pushed at least partially over the rear lid part, characterized in that the front lid part is provided, in the front and rear regions thereof, laterally on both sides, with front and rear guide pins that protrude laterally over the edges, which guide pins engage with upper guide rails provided on both sides, and the upper guide rails are curved and have an upper retaining bar that has at least one respective gap through which the guide pins can be inserted and guided out when the front lid part is in a corresponding sliding position, wherein at least the front lid part is curved so as to be upwardly convex in cross-section extending from front to back so that the front lid part protrudes above the middle lid part when the front lid part is slid over the middle lid part and wherein in the closed state the upwardly convex curvature of the front lid part and the curvature of side guide rails contact each other so that the cover unit rests in a sealed position on a side which is against an edge of the housing opening.
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