US 11,805,900 B2
Vacuum drawer device for storing groceries
Daniel Bertschi, Gelfingen (CH)
Assigned to Julius Blum GmbH, Hoechst (AT)
Filed by Julius Blum GmbH, Hoechst (AT)
Filed on Jun. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/834,490.
Application 17/834,490 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2020/084939, filed on Dec. 7, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 01568/19 (CH) (CH), filed on Dec. 9, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0295988 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. A47B 88/919 (2017.01); A47B 88/457 (2017.01); A47B 88/969 (2017.01)
CPC A47B 88/919 (2017.01) [A47B 88/457 (2017.01); A47B 88/969 (2017.01); A47B 2088/976 (2017.01); A47B 2210/06 (2013.01); A47B 2210/08 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vacuum drawer device comprising:
a drawer movable linearly in a sliding movement direction, and the drawer having a drawer interior;
a cover designed in an airtight fashion to close the drawer interior of the drawer;
an electric lift configured to control a lifting movement of the cover in a lifting direction extending perpendicularly with respect to the sliding movement direction,
wherein the cover has an air channel leading inside of the cover, the air channel being operatively connected to an electric evacuation device such that, when the cover is placed on the drawer, air is pumped out of the drawer interior via the air channel,
wherein the vacuum drawer device further comprises a seal fitting arranged circumferentially along an entire inner periphery at drawer walls of the drawer on a cover side of the drawer, and the seal fitting extending clamped between two of the drawer walls of the drawer along a side facing the cover such that, in a closed position of the vacuum drawer device or, respectively, the drawer, the cover rests on the seal fitting to allow for an evacuation of the drawer interior.