Refrigerating device comprising a subdivided interior

Abstract

A refrigerating device is subdivided, by means of a thermally insulating intermediate base, into two areas wherein the temperature can be controlled independently from each other. The intermediate base comprises a plate which is bordered on the front and rear edges thereof by extrusion profiles.

1 - 21 . (canceled) 
   
   
       22 . A refrigerating device comprising:
 a housing having side walls;   an interior space within the housing; and   a thermally insulating intermediate base disposed in the interior space at a location at which the intermediate base subdivides the interior space into two zones each of whose respective temperature can be controlled substantially mutually independently of the temperature of the other zone, and the intermediate base is formed in a modular manner of individual elements that are principally semi-finished individual elements.   
   
   
       23 . The refrigerating device as claimed in  claim 22 , wherein the intermediate base has a sandwich-type structure and includes at least one plate-type support element optimally resistant to bending. 
   
   
       24 . The refrigerating device as claimed in  claim 22 , wherein the intermediate base includes at least two plate-type support elements that are optimally resistant to bending and a layer made of thermally-insulating material is arranged between the two plate-type support elements. 
   
   
       25 . The refrigerating device as claimed in  claim 24 , wherein the support elements exhibit different degrees of abrasion resistance and a respective one of the support elements serves as a covering layer and has a degree of abrasion resistance greater than the degree of abrasion resistance of the other support element. 
   
   
       26 . The refrigerating device as claimed in  claim 25 , wherein the support element serving as the covering layer is formed from at least one of a glass, a ceramic material, a glass ceramic, or metal. 
   
   
       27 . The refrigerating device as claimed in  claim 22 , wherein the intermediate base includes a plate bordered along its front and back edge by extrusion profiles. 
   
   
       28 . The refrigerating device as claimed in  claim 27 , wherein the plate is bordered along its lateral edges by injection-molded parts. 
   
   
       29 . The refrigerating device as claimed in  claim 28 , wherein at least one of the injection-molded parts is provided on a rear end with a plug-in cable connector. 
   
   
       30 . The refrigerating device as claimed in  claim 27 , wherein the plate has an inner layer made of porous material and at least one outer layer substantially impervious to humidity. 
   
   
       31 . The refrigerating device as claimed in  claim 30  and further comprising a cable channel recessed in the inner layer of the plate. 
   
   
       32 . The refrigerating device as claimed in  claim 22 , wherein the intermediate base supports at least one of a temperature sensor and illuminating means. 
   
   
       33 . The refrigerating device as claimed in  claim 22  and further comprising an electronics module attached to the front edge of the intermediate base. 
   
   
       34 . The refrigerating device as claimed in  claim 33 , wherein the electronics module includes control and/or display elements that are freely exposed through a window in an extrusion profile attached to the front edge. 
   
   
       35 . The refrigerating device as claimed in  claim 33 , wherein the electronics module includes an extrusion profile, the extrusion profile attached to the front edge is divided into two parts, and the electronics module is arranged between the two parts of the extrusion profile. 
   
   
       36 . The refrigerating device as claimed in  claim 22  and further comprising a seal attached between a front edge of the intermediate base and a door of the refrigerating device. 
   
   
       37 . The refrigerating device as claimed in  claim 22  and further comprising an air-distribution chamber that communicates with a cold-air feeder pipe extending in a wall of the housing and, via distributed openings, with a respective one of the two zones that is located beneath the intermediate base and that is arranged on the underside of the intermediate base. 
   
   
       38 . The refrigerating device as claimed in  claim 22  and further comprising an air-collecting chamber that communicates via distributed openings both with a respective one of the two zones that is located beneath the intermediate base and with a warm-air extraction pipe extending in a wall of the housing, the air-collecting chamber being arranged on the underside of the intermediate base. 
   
   
       39 . The refrigerating device as claimed in  claim 37 , wherein the air-distribution chamber and air-collecting chamber each extend over a part of the intermediate base and an illuminating-means housing is arranged on a boundary between the two chambers. 
   
   
       40 . The refrigerating device as claimed in  claim 22  and further comprising a horizontal securing profile into which lateral edges of the intermediate base engage and that is attached to each side wall of the housing. 
   
   
       41 . The refrigerating device as claimed in  claim 22 , wherein the side walls of the housing have a metallic inner coating and the inner coating is interrupted at the height of the intermediate base.