Telescopic pull-out shelf for a refrigeration device

#This application is a U.S. National Phase of International Patent Application No. PCT/EP2006/061104, filed Mar. 28, 2006, which designates the U.S. and claims priority to German Patent Application No. DE 10 2005 021 589.0, filed May 10, 2005, the entire contents of each of which are hereby incorporated by reference.

#The present invention relates to a telescopic pull-out shelf comprising at least two runners which are movably guided one on the other so that they can be displaced relative to each other in the longitudinal direction and a support, for example in the form of a support plate or a drawer compartment, fastened to a first of the runners.

#The runners of such a telescopic pull-out shelf are intended to run smoothly, so that the support, even when it is heavily loaded, may be withdrawn with little force expenditure from a housing in which the pull-out shelf is installed. Generally, pull-out shelves of this type comprise stops which limit the freedom of movement of the runners relative to one another, so that the runners are not completely pulled apart from one another inadvertently. Such a stop is conventionally formed by a rubber buffer which is accommodated in an intermediate space between two runners movably guided one on the other and is fixedly connected to one of the runners, and a projection connected to the other runner, which, when the end of the permissible freedom of movement has been reached, strikes the rubber buffer and thus brakes the support.

#Further features and advantages of the invention are revealed from the following description of embodiments by referring to the accompanying drawings, in which:

#FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a refrigeration device in which the present invention is implemented;

#FIG. 2 shows a perspective view of two refrigerated goods carriers of the refrigeration device of FIG. 1;

#FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a refrigeration device with a body 1 and a door 2. Two refrigerated goods carriers 4, 5 in the form of drawer compartments are shown by way of example in a cooling chamber 3 in the interior of the device. The drawer compartments 4, 5 are displaceably held on telescopic pull-out shelves, not visible in the figure, which are suspended on the side walls of the body 1. The upper drawer compartment 4 has a shallower depth than the lower drawer compartment 5, in order to allow space for a door storage device 6 fastened to the door 2.

#Further refrigerated goods storage devices may be attached according to requirements, in the form of further drawer compartments or in the form of stationary or displaceable shelves, in the upper region of the cooling chamber 3 which is left empty in the figure.

#FIG. 2 shows the two drawer compartments 4, 5 in a perspective view of their rear face. The drawer compartments 4, 5 respectively comprise a basket formed from perforated sheet steel, the front side of which facing the door being clad by a plastics shield 7. For the upper drawer compartment 4, this shield 7 extends over the entire height thereof, for the lower compartment 5 only over part of the height, so that between the shield 7 and the compartment 4 located thereabove, an engagement opening is formed, as may be seen in FIG. 1.