Domestic cooling appliance with a shelf to which differently sized food receiving units are attachable

Abstract

The invention relates to a domestic cooling appliance ( 1 ) having at least an interior ( 4 ), which is delimited by the walls of an inner container ( 3 ) and configured to receive food, and with a shelf ( 9 ), which is arranged in the interior ( 4 ), and with a food receiving unit, which is attached to the shelf ( 9 ) by means of a retaining device ( 15 ), wherein the retaining device ( 15 ) is size adjustable and in a first size adjustment configured to receive a first food receiving unit ( 14 ) having a first size and in a second size adjustment configured to receive a second food receiving unit ( 16 ) having a second size, which is different from the first size.

1 . Domestic cooling appliance having at least an interior, which is delimited by the walls of an inner container and configured to receive food, and with a shelf, which is arranged in the interior, and with a food receiving unit, which is attached to the shelf by means of a retaining device, wherein the retaining device is size adjustable and in a first size adjustment configured to receive a first food receiving unit having a first size and in a second size adjustment configured to receive a second food receiving unit having a second size, which is different from the first size. 
     
     
         2 . Domestic cooling appliance according to  claim 1 , wherein the retaining device has a first carrier and a second carrier, at which in dependence on the current size adjustment of the retaining device the first food receiving unit or the second food receiving unit is arranged and arranged movably in relation thereto. 
     
     
         3 . Domestic cooling appliance according to  claim 2 , wherein the first carrier is immovably arranged at the shelf. 
     
     
         4 . Domestic cooling appliance according to  claim 2 , wherein for the size adjustment of the retaining device the second carrier is arranged at the shelf movably with regard to the shelf. 
     
     
         5 . Domestic cooling appliance according to  claim 1 , wherein for the size adjustment the retaining device is formed in discrete size levels and the first size adjustment is a first discrete size level and the second size adjustment is a second discrete size level. 
     
     
         6 . Domestic cooling appliance according to  claim 5 , wherein the retaining device has a latching element and at the shelf a latching unit with at least a first latching reception and a second latching reception is formed, wherein for the adjustment and fixation of the first size adjustment of the retaining device the latching element engages into the first latching reception and for the adjustment and fixation of the second size adjustment of the retaining device the latching element engages into a second latching reception reachable from the first latching reception only through a relative displacement of the latching element with regard to the latching unit. 
     
     
         7 . Domestic cooling appliance according to  claim 6 , wherein the latching element has at least a first latching tooth and a second latching tooth. 
     
     
         8 . Domestic cooling appliance according to  claim 6 , wherein the first latching reception and the second latching reception form a toothed rack. 
     
     
         9 . Domestic cooling appliance according to  claim 6 , wherein the engaged state of the latching element with the first latching reception or with the second latching reception is maintained in prestressed condition by means of a spring element. 
     
     
         10 . Domestic cooling appliance according to  claim 4 , wherein an operating element is arranged at the second carrier, operation of which enables the disengagement of the latching element from the first latching reception or the second latching reception and thus an alteration of the adjusted and fixated first or second size adjustment of the retaining device. 
     
     
         11 . Domestic cooling appliance according to  claim 9 , wherein the spring element is coupled to the operating element such and through operation of the operating element the spring element is operated such that the prestressed state of the latching element in the first latching reception or the second latching reception is released and the latching element is removed from the first latching reception or the second latching reception and lowered into the second carrier. 
     
     
         12 . Domestic cooling appliance according to  claim 6 , wherein the shelf features a plate and a frame, which at least partially surrounds the plate, wherein the latching unit is formed in the frame. 
     
     
         13 . Domestic cooling appliance according to  claim 1 , wherein the size adjustability is a width adjustment of a receiving space of the retaining device, which is configured to receive the first food receiving unit or the second food receiving unit. 
     
     
         14 . Domestic cooling appliance according to  claim 1 , wherein the first food receiving unit or the second food receiving unit are retained at the shelf beneath said shelf by the retaining device. 
     
     
         15 . Domestic cooling appliance according to  claim 1 , wherin the first food receiving unit is a trough or a bottle holder or the second food receiving unit is a trough or a bottle holder.