U.S. patent application number 12/264336 was filed with the patent office on 2009-05-21 for back mount for wall-mounted plumbing fixture.
Invention is credited to Friedrich Wilhelm Angelkorte, Uwe DIETRICH, Anton Schneider.
Application Number | 20090126103 12/264336 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 40435763 |
Filed Date | 2009-05-21 |
United States Patent
Application |
20090126103 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
DIETRICH; Uwe ; et
al. |
May 21, 2009 |
Back mount for wall-mounted plumbing fixture
Abstract
Shown and described is a device for back a plumbing fixture, in
particular to a wall, essentially comprising a mounting rail
preferably made of metal, which contains a large number of holes,
slots or the like provided for the wall mounting and to the
mounting of mounting plates for a plumbing fixture, the two rail
longitudinal edges being designed as attachment zones offset from
the mounting level. The object of the invention is to create a new
device for back mounting a plumbing fixture with which in a simple
fashion a number of a plumbing fixture can be mounted to a wall
with precisely the same spacing from each other and in a precise
arrangement to each other. The solution of the object is the result
of at least one rail longitudinal edge having a plurality of
notches, slots, slits or the like, and that the mounting plates are
provided with holes corresponding to the notches, slots, slits or
the like, in which the screws are mounted which are fixed by anchor
blocks, whereby the mounting plates are brought into a defined
premounting position by the hanging of the windings of the screws
in the notches of the mounting rails.
Inventors: |
DIETRICH; Uwe; (Menden,
DE) ; Schneider; Anton; (Menden, DE) ;
Angelkorte; Friedrich Wilhelm; (Iserlohn, DE) |
Correspondence
Address: |
K.F. ROSS P.C.
5683 RIVERDALE AVENUE, SUITE 203 BOX 900
BRONX
NY
10471-0900
US
|
Family ID: |
40435763 |
Appl. No.: |
12/264336 |
Filed: |
November 4, 2008 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
4/695 |
Current CPC
Class: |
E03C 1/021 20130101;
E03C 2001/028 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
4/695 |
International
Class: |
E03C 1/042 20060101
E03C001/042 |
Foreign Application Data
Date |
Code |
Application Number |
Nov 20, 2007 |
DE |
102007055565.4-25 |
Claims
1-6. (canceled)
7. A mount for securing a plumbing fixture to a vertical wall, the
mount comprising: a rail having a web adapted to be fixed to the
wall and an upper edge spaced outward from the wall and formed with
a row of upwardly directed recesses set at a uniform predetermined
spacing; a mounting plate having a web adapted to be fixed to the
fixture and formed with a pair of throughgoing holes separated by
the spacing; an anchor block between the upper edge and the wall
and formed with threaded holes separated by the spacing and aligned
with two of the recess and with the holes of the mounting plate;
and respective screws engaging through the holes of the mounting
plate, through the respective recesses aligned therewith, and
threaded into the holes of the anchor block.
8. The mount defined in claim 7 wherein the rail has a lower edge
formed with a row or holes.
9. The mount defined in claim 8 wherein the holes of the lower edge
are relatively offset from one another by the spacing.
10. The mount defined in claim 8, further comprising a second such
rail and at least two more of the mounting plates securing the
recesses and holes of the second such rail to those of the
first-mentioned rail with the second rail extending in line with or
perpendicular to the first rail.
11. The mount defined in claim 10 wherein the formations in the
upper edge have a spacing perpendicular to a longitudinal extension
of the rail from the holes in the lower edge that is equal to the
predetermined spacing.
12. The mount defined in claim 8 wherein the web of the rail is
planar and flatly engages the wall and the upper and lower edges
are planar flanges that are coplanar with each other, flank the web
of the rail, and are perpendicularly offset from the web of the
rail by a spacing at least equal to a thickness of the anchor
block.
13. The mount defined in claim 12 wherein the web of the mounting
plate is planar and parallel to the web of the rail and the
mounting plate has upper and lower edges formed with the respective
holes and forming planar flanges that are coplanar with each other,
flank the web of the plate, and are perpendicularly offset from the
web of the plate oppositely to the offset of the flanges of the
rail from the web of the rail.
14. The mount defined in claim 8 wherein the web of the rail is
formed with vertical and horizontal slots through which it is
screwed to the wall.
Description
[0001] The invention relates to a back mount for a plumbing
fixture, in particular behind a wall, essentially comprising a
mounting rail made preferably of metal and formed with an array of
holes, slots or the like provided for the wall mounting of mounting
plates for a plumbing fixture, the two rail longitudinal edges
being designed as attachment zones offset from the attachment
plane.
[0002] Such a device is generally known for example from EP
0,824,170, in which a mounting device is described for a connector
fitting to wall mount a plumbing fixture. This system is
disadvantageous in that it is very difficult and time-consuming
using this device to mount a number of a plumbing fixture using
this device on this device in precisely the same spacing from each
other.
[0003] Proceeding from the above state of the art, the object of
the invention thus is to provide a new device for back-mounting a
plumbing fixture with which in a simple fashion a number of
plumbing fixtures can be mounted to a wall with precisely the same
spacing from each other and in a precise orientation to one
another.
[0004] The object is attained by the features of claim 1, in
particular the features of the characterizing clause, according to
which at least one rail longitudinal edge has an array of notches,
slots, slits or the like, and that the mounting plates are provided
with holes arrayed like the notches, slots, slits or the like, in
which screws engage that are fixed in anchor blocks, the mounting
plates being brought into a defined premounting position by hanging
the threaded shanks of the screws in the notches of the mounting
rails.
[0005] The inventive device for back mounting a plumbing fixture
has the crucial advantage that merely by hanging the mounting plate
of a sanitary element a precise prepositioning of each individual
sanitary component is achieved. Using the above it is possible in a
simple and quick fashion to also attach a number of plumbing
fixtures at a corresponding precise spacing and height.
[0006] In one embodiment of the invention, the other rail
longitudinal edge is provided with a row of holes for mounting the
mounting plate. The additional holes serve to provide improved
mounting of the mounting plates of a plumbing fixture.
[0007] A preferred embodiment of the invention has notches, slots,
slits or the like in the one rail longitudinal edge and/or holes in
the other rail longitudinal edge which have the same spacing from
one another. Due to this grid dimension, it is very easy for the
professional plumber to install a number of plumbing fixtures on a
device for the recessed mounting of a plumbing fixture in a desired
spacing from each other.
[0008] In an especially preferred embodiment of the invention, the
attachment zone of the mounting plates has depending on the
installed depth of the recessed fitting and end fitting a different
spacing from the wall-engaging part of the mounting rail. This
advantageously guarantees that the front surfaces projecting into
the space of a plurality of end fittings can also be mounted as
much as possible on one level.
[0009] Finally, in another embodiment of the invention, two or more
mounting rails can be secured together using in the area of the
rail longitudinal edges in the mounting bars existing notches or
holes in a line or at a right angle to each other. The above makes
it possible not only to guarantee the same spacing between sanitary
components horizontally in a very simple fashion, but also to
maintain a matching vertical grid dimension when mounting a
plumbing fixture on a wall.
[0010] Additional advantages of the invention are found in the
following subclaims and from the description of the embodiments.
Therein:
[0011] FIG. 1 shows a back mount for a plumbing fixture,
[0012] FIG. 2 shows a mounting rail that is part of the device
according to FIG. 1,
[0013] FIG. 3 shows a mounting plate that is part of the device
according to FIG. 1,
[0014] FIG. 4 shows an anchor block or mounting bar that is part of
a device according to FIG. 1,
[0015] FIG. 5 a schematic section in the premounting position of
mounting rail and mounting plate.
[0016] FIG. 6 shows a cruciform configuration of devices according
to FIG. 1,
[0017] FIG. 7 is a large-scale view of a detail of FIG. 6, and
[0018] FIG. 8 is a view like FIG. 6 but including recessed and
surface fittings.
[0019] In the drawings, a back mount for a plumbing fixture is
designated throughout with the number 10.
[0020] Such a device comprises primarily as shown by FIGS. 1 and 2
a mounting rail 11. The mounting rail 11 comprises a wall-engaging
web 12 and rail longitudinal edges 13a and 13b that are offset by a
spacing a from a wall W. The upwardly extending rail longitudinal
edge 13a is formed notches 14 set at a uniform spacing b, while the
lower rail longitudinal edge 13b is also formed with a row of holes
15 at the spacing b. For example, the grid dimension can equal 30
mm. The wall-engaging web 12 of the mounting rail 11 is also
provided with uniformly spaced arrays L that each comprise two
horizontal slots 16 and a vertical slot 17.
[0021] Finally, the wall-engaging web 12 is formed between adjacent
slot arrays L with pairs of mounting holes 18.
[0022] Mounting plates 19 (see FIGS. 1 and 3) are secured to the
mounting rail 11 and each have a central web 21 formed with holes
20 and right-angle attachment parts 22 on the edges and formed with
holes 23. A back-mounted fitting 24 is secured to the central web
21 by means of the holes 20. In addition, two screws 19 engage
through the holes 23 of the upper edge and are screwed into
threaded holes B of a respective anchor block 26.
[0023] At the time of the preassembly of the mounting plate 19 with
the fitting 24 on a mounting rail 11 there exists as shown in
particular by FIG. 5 between the anchor block 26 and a confronting
face 27 of the screw 25 a spacing c that is greater that respective
thicknesses M.sub.1 and M.sub.2 of the mounting rail 11 and the
mounting plate 19. This makes it possible for the mounting plate 19
including the recessed fitting 24 to hung from above on the
mounting rail 11 so that it immediately and automatically can be
brought into a precisely aligned preassembly position.
[0024] FIGS. 6 and 8 further represent an embodiment of the
inventive device for back mounting a plumbing fixture 10, in which
three mounting rails 11 are secured together by mounting bars 28
(see also FIG. 4)--corresponding to the previously referenced
anchor blocks 26--at right angles to one another and also in the
standard grid spacing. In this case, as shown in particular by FIG.
6 but also in the large-scale view of FIG. 7 four mounting bars 28
are mounted in the area of the rail longitudinal edges 13a, 13b by
screws 29 in such a fashion that ends of the mounting bars 28
extend longitudinally from the horizontally running mounting rails
11. The ends of the mounting bar 28 from the mounting rails 11 have
holes B that receive respective screws 30, with which the mounting
bar 28 is anchored in a notch/hole 14/15 of the vertical mounting
rail 11.
[0025] Finally, FIG. 8 shows an embodiment according to FIGS. 6 and
7 in which surface fittings are represented schematically along
with the recessed fittings 24 mounted on the mounting plates 19.
Here one can see on the horizontal mounting rails 11a hand shower
connection 31, two flow controls 32 for the hand shower 31, three
side shower jets 34, and a thermostatic control 33.
[0026] In addition, this drawing shows clearly that in order to
offset the insufficient depth of the side showers 34 with respect
to the hand shower connectors 31 or the thermostat 33, the
respective mounting plate 19x is equipped in such a way that a
spacing dx between the mounting plate 19x and the wall-engaging web
12 is distinctly greater. This makes it possible to compensate for
the different install depths of the recessed fittings 24 and the
end fittings 31-34.
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