Circulating air refrigerating appliance and assembly method therefor
View Patent ↗A circulating air refrigerating appliance surrounds at least one storage region and an evaporation chamber containing an evaporator. The evaporator engages with projections extending from an inner wall of the housing defining the evaporation chamber. A separating wall between the storage region and the evaporation chamber is mounted adjacently to the evaporator in the housing.
1. A circulating air refrigeration appliance having a housing enclosing at least one storage area and an evaporator chamber housing an evaporator, the refrigeration appliance comprising projections extending from an inner wall of the housing bordering the evaporator chamber wherein the evaporator is locked in place in a snap-fit manner on said projections, and further comprising a pincer formed at the tip of the projections configured for gripping around a tube of the evaporator.
2. The circulating air refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 wherein the pincer is formed with an insertion opening facing away from the inner wall and configured for introduction of the tube.
3. The circulating air refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 wherein a stem of the projection is formed by at least two struts extending from the pincer to the inner wall and spaced apart from one another by a gap.
4. The circulating air refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 wherein the projections are formed as molded parts, with each molded part being anchored in a respective opening in the inner wall.
5. The circulating air refrigeration appliance according to claim 4 wherein the molded parts are each formed with a head section configured for engagement with the opening in the inner wall, wherein the head section is undercut at two edges and being formed with a gap between the two edges.
6. The circulating air refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 wherein the evaporator is a finned-tube evaporator.
7. The circulating air refrigeration appliance according to claim 1 and further comprising a dividing wall disposed between the storage area and the evaporator chamber and installed in the housing independently of the evaporator.
8. The circulating air refrigeration appliance according to claim 4 , wherein each opening in the inner wall is capped.
9. A method for assembling a circulating air refrigeration appliance comprising the steps of locking an evaporator in place in a snap-fit manner on projections extending from an inner wall of a housing of the appliance; installing a dividing wall at the inner wall thereby subdividing the interior of the housing into a storage area and an evaporator chamber, and anchoring molded parts in openings in the inner wall thereby forming projections, wherein the openings in the inner wall are capped.