Patent ID: 8485618

Claim:
A kitchen device including at least one of a refrigerator and a freezer, having an interior compartment containing at least one height-adjustable support for accommodation of goods, the kitchen device comprising: at least two guide rails; a drive having a height adjustment assembly; and at least one transport carriage guided along one or more of the at least two guide rails with the transport carriage configured for connection to the support and wherein the transport carriage is configured for height adjustment by the drive, wherein each of the at least two guide rails includes a rotatably-supported threaded spindle and the transport carriage is operatively engaged with the rotatably-supported threaded spindles included on each of the at least two guide rails, the drive includes the rotatably-supported threaded spindles connected to each other using a coupling shaft and a rotation-transmitting connection, the coupling shaft is connected to at least one of the two threaded spindles using a worm gear set, and the coupling shaft includes a first portion connected to a first one of the rotatably-supported threaded spindles, a second portion connected to a second one of the rotatably-supported threaded spindles, and a first elastic coupling connecting the first portion to the second portion.