Refrigerated display case
AssigneeAHT Cooling Systems GmbH
InventorReinhold Resch
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Abstract
A refrigerated display case comprising framework having four sides, each side including a C-shaped frame with a rear vertical side strut, a top side strut, and a bottom side strut; the C-shaped side frames are constructed separately and support cover panels of a bottom assembly, a rear wall assembly, and a top assembly, the cover panels being fastened by mounting elements and delimit a cooling chamber, the cooling chamber including at least one C-shaped intermediate frame between the C-shaped side frames, the at least one C-shaped intermediate frame is spaced laterally apart from the C-shaped side frames, the C-shaped intermediate frames each include a horizontal bottom intermediate strut, a vertical intermediate strut and a top intermediate strut.
Claims10
A refrigerated display case comprising framework having two sides, each side including a C-shaped frame with a single-piece rear vertical side strut, a top side strut attached to a top end section of the vertical side strut, and a bottom side strut attached to a bottom end section of the vertical side strut;
- the C-shaped side frames are constructed separately and support cover panels of a bottom assembly, a rear wall assembly, and a top assembly, the cover panels being fastened by mounting elements and delimit a cooling chamber, the cooling chamber including at least one C-shaped intermediate frame between the C-shaped side frames, the at least one C-shaped intermediate frame is spaced laterally apart from the C-shaped side frames, the C-shaped intermediate frames each include a single-piece, vertical intermediate strut, a top intermediate strut, attached to a top end section of the vertical intermediate strut and a horizontal bottom intermediate strut attached to a bottom end section of the vertical intermediate strut, the at least one top intermediate strut and the top side strut having a hat-shaped cross-section and the top intermediate strut has a cavity which is open toward the bottom and the top side strut having a cavity which is open toward the top, the vertical side struts are clamped against a rear end face of the top side struts and bottom side struts and each vertical intermediate strut is clamped against a rear end face of the top intermediate strut and the bottom intermediate strut;
- the vertical side struts are clamped against the rear ends of the top side struts and bottom side struts with an intermediate piece, and the vertical intermediate struts are clamped against the rear ends of the top intermediate struts and bottom intermediate struts with an intermediate piece, and wherein in order to clamp the vertical side struts to the associated top side struts and the associated bottom side struts and in order to clamp the vertical intermediate struts to the associated top and bottom intermediate struts, fastening pieces are inserted into rear fastening sections of the top side struts and bottom side struts oriented toward the vertical side struts and into rear fastening sections of the top and bottom intermediate struts oriented toward the vertical intermediate struts, such fastening pieces having threaded bores and extend perpendicular to the longitudinal axes of the top and bottom struts, clamping screws are guided through the associated vertical side struts and associated vertical intermediate struts and are screwed into these threaded bores, the vertical intermediate struts include U-legs which are inserted between rearward protruding lateral fixing lugs which protrude rearward from U-legs of the bottom intermediate struts, a distance between the lateral fixing lugs is adapted to a distance between an outside of the U-legs of the vertical intermediate struts, the lateral fixing lugs and the U-legs of the vertical intermediate struts are provided with openings that are brought into alignment with each other and through which a securing screw is transversely guided to clamp the vertical intermediate strut to the bottom intermediate strut.
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