CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

The present application claims priority to Korean Patent Application No. 10-2019-0084446, filed Jul. 12, 2019 in Korea, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.

BACKGROUND

1. Field

The present disclosure relates to a refrigerator having a drawer, more particularly, to a refrigerator having a drawer in which an outside cover being easily detachable is installed at opposite sides of a storage body.

2. Background

A refrigerator is a device for freezing or refrigerating food or the like by discharging cold air generated by a refrigeration cycle including a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, and an evaporator and lowering temperature in the refrigerator.

The refrigerator may include a freezer compartment for freezing food or drink and a refrigerating compartment for storing the food and drink at low temperature. A kimchi refrigerator for storing food and vegetables such as kimchi while keeping them fresh is also a refrigerator.

The refrigerator may be classified into various types depending on a door opening and closing method of a storage chamber in a cabinet, such as a swinging door-type refrigerator, a drawer-type refrigerator, and a hybrid-type refrigerator having both doors and drawers. The hybrid-type refrigerator has a structure in which a swinging door is provided in an upper portion of the cabinet and a drawer is provided in a lower portion thereof.

The drawer provided in the drawer refrigerator or the hybrid-type refrigerator may open, by a user's operation, from an inside space of the cabinet in a sliding manner. The drawer may close by being pushed into the inside space of the cabinet by user's pushing operation, thereby allowing an open front portion of the cabinet to be closed.

The drawer may include a front panel and a storage bin (or storage room), the front panel forming a front surface of the refrigerator and being moved forward and rearward, thereby allowing the inside space of the cabinet to be opened/closed and the storage bin being provided in rear of the front panel and received in the inside space of the cabinet. By pulling the front panel, the storage bin may be pushed out from the inside space of the cabinet, thus various foods can be stored in and taken out from the storage bin.

The drawer provided in the drawer refrigerator or the hybrid-type refrigerator is mainly provided in the lower portion of the cabinet. This is because, due to weight of storage items stored in the storage bin of the drawer, the drawer may be removed from the cabinet and may fall down when the drawer is opened.

However, when the drawer is provided in the lower portion of the cabinet, the user may bend over at the waist while keeping away from the front panel by an appropriate distance for opening of the drawer.

Korean Patent No. 10-0946784 and Korean Patent Application Publication No. 10-2009-0027111, the subject matters of which are incorporated herein by reference, may disclose an assembly structure of a storage bin (or storage room).

The assembly structure may be configured such that a side plate is assembled to a side drawer supporting frame on which the storage bin is mounted.

The assembly structure may be configured such that the side plate is fixed to the side drawer supporting frame by welding or screw fastening.

Accordingly, in order to disassemble the side plate of the storage bin, the side plate is separated by removing a welding portion of the side plate or by removing screws coupled thereto. Therefore, a long time may be required for disassembly and other parts may be damaged during disassembly of the side plate.

As the assembly and disassembly of the side plate are performed through complicated processes, work efficiency may be reduced and a large number of people may be required for assembly and disassembly.

As a separate protection member is not provided at an edge of the metal side plate, during assembly and disassembly of the side plate, other parts may have damage such as scratching and chipping.

