Domestic appliance, especially a high fitment device comprising a wall mounting device
A wall mounting device for mounting a domestic appliance, such as a high fitted cooking device, on a substantially vertical kitchen wall. The wall mounting device includes a carrier element for mounting the domestic appliance in a reliable yet simple manner. The carrier element acts as a support for the domestic appliance.
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The present invention relates to a domestic appliance, particularly a high fitted cooking appliance, with a wall mounting device for mounting the domestic appliance on a substantially vertical kitchen wall.
An overhead built-in cooking appliance is known from WO 98/04871. The overhead built-in cooking appliance has a cooking chamber surrounded by side walls, a front wall, a back wall and a top wall. The overhead built-in cooking appliance is fastened to a vertical wall. The cooking chamber opening at the bottom is closable by a lowerable bottom door.
The object of the present invention consists in providing a reliable and simple mounting of the domestic appliance on a vertical wall.
The object of the invention is fulfilled by a domestic appliance with the features of patent claim 1. According thereto, the wall mounting device for stable mounting of the domestic appliance on the wall comprises a carrier element supporting the domestic appliance.
It is of advantage if the carrier element of the wall mounting device is arranged, protected from view, within a housing of the domestic appliance. An additional installation space for the carrier element outside the housing of the domestic appliance is thus saved.
In an advantageous form of embodiment the carrier element of the wall mounting device can be formed by a number of frame strips. These extend along a rear wall of the housing. In order to ensure reliable support of the domestic appliance at the frame strips the frame strips can extend over substantially the entire height of the rear wall of the housing.
The carrier element is constructed to be particularly stiff in torsion when it is made as a circumferentially closed carrier frame. Such a torsionally stiff carrier frame is advantageous particularly in the case of an uneven vertical wall. The carrier frame is preferably integrally constructed from a die-casting. The die-casting is advantageous with respect to weight saving and to tool costs.
A further measure for a torsionally stiff carrier element can consist in constructing the frame strips of the carrier element to be U-shaped or meander-shaped in cross-section.
Due to the high weight of a domestic appliance equipped with food to be cooked a reliable support of the domestic appliance is important. A particularly good support of the domestic appliance is obtained when the frame strips of the carrier frame extend along the circumferential edges of the rear wall of the domestic appliance housing.
For acceptance of high bending forces the carrier element can have at least one pair of lateral frame strips at each side of the domestic appliance. In this case the housing of the domestic appliance can be mounted at the two outer frame strips. Further components provided within the housing, such as, for example, a muffle or a fan, can be mounted at the two inner frame strips.
Components provided within the housing can also be mounted at additional support brackets of the carrier element. Such additional support brackets can be mounted at the carrier element and extend away from the vertical kitchen wall.
Adjustment of the domestic appliance in depth of fitting direction or adjustment of the position of the domestic appliance in depth fitting direction is particularly important when the domestic appliance is to be aligned in a row with several items of equipment mounted at the vertical kitchen wall. For this purpose the carrier element can preferably be mounted by way of a tilt axis to be tiltable and the wall mounting device can have an adjusting element for adjusting a tilt angle of the carrier element.
The adjusting element can be constructed as a pivot lever. The pivot lever can be pivotably mounted at a pivot axis and engage the carrier element for the domestic appliance at a lever arm length spaced from the pivot axis. The tilt angle of the carrier element or the domestic appliance is thereby adjustable in dependence on the pivot setting of the pivot lever. Through suitable adaptation of the lever arm length at the pivot lever the tilt angle of the domestic appliance can be adjusted in a manner simple for a user.
It is preferred if a tilting moment in direction towards the tilted second end position is exerted on the carrier element by way of the intrinsic weight of the domestic appliance.
The carrier element can thereby always be urged, counter to the tilting moment, into contact with the pivot lever. The adjusting movement of the pivot lever on the carrier element is thus always exerted counter to the tilting moment.
According to an advantageous form of embodiment of the invention the pivot lever can engage the tiltable carrier element at a first point of action in order to exert the adjusting movement on the carrier element. The pivot lever can receive an actuating movement of the user at a second point of action. Through suitable adaptation of the lever arm length ratio associated with the points of action the tilt angle of the domestic appliance is adjustable in a manner simple for a user.
The actuating force, which is required from the user, for the pivot lever shall be kept as small as possible. It is therefore advantageous if the lever arm length associated with the first point of action is smaller than the lever arm length associated with the second point of action. As a result, notwithstanding a small actuating force of the user a sufficiently large actuating moment can be exerted on the pivot lever. It is of particular advantage if the second lever arm length is at least twice as large as the first lever arm length.
Advantageously the pivot lever can be mounted at one end at the pivot axis. Thus, the first and second points of action are disposed on the same pivot side of the pivot lever. The pivot lever is therefore arranged in the wall mounting device in a simple as well as space-saving manner.
It is of advantage if an additional movement transmission means engages the pivot lever, particularly at the second point of action of the pivot lever. An actuating movement of a user is converted into the pivot movement of the pivot lever by the movement transmission means. The actuating movement of the user can thus be exerted on the pivot lever independently, in terms of location, of the position of the pivot lever.
In an advantageous simple embodiment the movement transmission means can be constructed as a rigid transmission lever. This accepts the actuating movement of the user at its first lever end. An opposite, second lever end transmits the actuating movement to the pivot lever.
A linear stroke movement, preferably a vertical stroke movement, substantially parallel to the vertical wall is particularly favourable for the user in ergonomic terms. This vertical stroke movement can advantageously be taken up from the first lever end of the transmission lever by way of an adjusting screw adjustable by the user.
Advantageously the pivot lever and/or the transmission means for the pivot lever can be arranged within a housing of the domestic appliance. It is thus not necessary to provide an additional installation intermediate space for the pivot lever and/or for the transmission means between a housing rear wall and the vertical wall. In that case the housing can preferably have at least one access opening. The user exerts through this, from outside the housing, an actuating movement on the pivot lever and/or the transmission means of the pivot lever.
It is particularly advantageous if the wall mounting device comprises a mounting element which is mounted in stationary position at the wall and which provides the tilt axis for the carrier element. The mounting element is thus interposed between the carrier element and the vertical wall. The carrier element is therefore tiltable relative to the mounting element independently of the conditions at the wall.
In addition, the wall mounting device of the domestic appliance can comprise a vertical adjusting element which, for adjustment of the domestic appliance in height, exerts a vertical stroke on the carrier element thereof. Thus, outer furniture edges of the domestic appliance can be adjusted not only in depth of fitting direction, but also in a vertical direction.
It is particularly advantageous for the adjustment in height if the carrier element is vertically adjusted relative to the mounting element mounted in stationary position at the vertical wall. The vertical adjusting element is thereby supported—without, for example, having to be supported on the kitchen floor—between the mounting element and carrier element.
It is advantageous for a compact embodiment of the domestic appliance if the vertical adjusting apparatus is arranged within the housing and is accessible from outside by way of an access opening in the housing.
It is particularly favourable for the user in ergonomic terms if the access opening for the pivot lever and/or for the transmission means thereof as well as the access opening for the vertical adjusting element are arranged physically adjacent to one another in the housing, for example protected from view at a bottom housing wall facing the kitchen floor.
The invention is described in the following on the basis of the accompanying figures, in which:
An overhead built-in cooking appliance with a housing 1 is shown in
In
The wall mounting device 23 is illustrated in
Details of the wall mounting 23 are described in the following. According to
The carrier element 31 without the hanging rails 29 is illustrated in
As shown in
According to
The carrier frame 31 is therefore adjustable merely in the upper T-shaped cut-out 41 by way of the play a relative to the hanging rails 29. There against, a horizontal tilt axis K is formed between the lower side flank 49 of the carrier frame 31 and the support ribs 47 of the hanging rails 29. The carrier frame 31 can tilt about the tilt axis K in the depth of fitting direction B. The carrier frame 31 is therefore tiltable about the tilt axis K relative to the stationary hanging rails 29 over a tilt angle between the upper first end abutment 55 and the upper second end abutment 57. A tilt moment MK always acts on the carrier frame 31, in the arrow direction shown in
It is evident from
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An adjusting process for adjusting the tilt angle of the carrier frame 31 with respect to the stationary hanging rails 29 is described in the following by reference to
In addition, the wall mounting device 23 according to the invention comprises the already mentioned second adjusting screws 27. A vertical adjustment of the carrier frame 31 of the domestic appliance in height can be controlled by these. For this purpose, according to
As shown in
The carrier frame 29 is illustrated in its lowermost height position in
Claims
1-29. (canceled)
30. A domestic appliance, particularly a high fitted cooking appliance, including a housing, comprising:
- a wall mounting device for mounting the domestic appliance on a substantially vertical wall; and
- said wall mounting device including a carrier element for supporting the domestic appliance.
31. The domestic appliance according to claim 30, including said carrier element of said wall mounting device is arranged within the housing of said domestic appliance.
32. The domestic appliance according to claim 31, including said carrier element of said wall mounting device is formed by a plurality of frame strips.
33. The domestic according to claim 32, including said carrier element of said wall mounting device is constructed as a circumferentially closed carrier frame.
34. The domestic appliance according claim 33, including said frame strips of said carrier frame follow the circumferential sides of the rear wall of said housing.
35. The domestic appliance according to claim 30, including said carrier element has at least one pair of lateral frame strips at each side of said domestic appliance.
36. The domestic appliance according to claim 32, including said frame strips are formed to have a meander-shaped cross-section.
37. The domestic appliance according to claim 30, including at least one support bracket, which supports at least one of the housing or further components, mounted at said carrier element.
38. The domestic appliance according to claim 30, including said wall mounting device including an adjusting element for adjustment of a position of the domestic appliance in a depth of fitting direction (B).
39. The domestic appliance according to claim 38, including said carrier element is mounted to be tiltable by way of a tilt axis (K) and that said adjusting element adjusts a tilt angle of said carrier element.
40. The domestic appliance according to claim 39, including said adjusting element is a pivot lever pivotably mounted at a pivot axis (S) and which adjusts said tilt angle of said carrier element dependent on the pivot setting of said pivot lever.
41. The domestic appliance according to claim 40, including said pivot lever is connected to said carrier element at a lever arm length spaced from said pivot axis (S).
42. The domestic appliance according to claim 39, including a tilting moment (Mk) is exerted on said carrier element due to the intrinsic weight of said domestic appliance and that said adjusting element exerts an adjusting movement on said carrier element counter said tilting moment (Mk).
43. The domestic appliance to claim 40, including said pivot lever for exertion of the adjusting movement connected to said carrier element at a first point of action and that said pivot lever receives an actuating movement of the user at a second point of action.
44. The domestic appliance according to claim 43, including the lever arm length associated with said first point of action is smaller than the lever arm length associated with said second point of action.
45. The domestic appliance according to claim 40, including said pivot lever mounted at one end at said pivot axis (S).
46. The domestic appliance according to claim 39, including said adjusting element connected to a movement transmissions means which at a physical spacing from said adjusting element transmits an actuating movement of a user to said adjusting element.
47. The domestic appliance according to claim 46, including said movement transmission means formed by a rigid transmission lever.
48. The domestic appliance according to claim 47, including said transmission lever including a first lever end for receiving the actuating movement of the user and a second lever end connected with said adjusting element.
49. The domestic appliance according to claim 48, including said actuating movement exerted by the user on said movement transmission means is a linear substantially vertical stroke movement, substantially parallel to said wall.
50. The domestic appliance according to claim 49, including said linear actuating movement is exerted on said first lever end of said transmission lever by way of an adjusting screw adjustable by the user.
51. The domestic appliance according to claim 46, including at least one of said adjusting element or said movement transmission means for said adjusting element arranged within the housing of said domestic appliance.
52. The domestic appliance to claim 51, including said housing including at least one access opening for access to said movement transmission means from outside of said housing.
53. The domestic appliance according to claim 40, including said wall mounting device including at least one mounting element mounted in a stationary position on said wall and on which said carrier element is tiltably mounted.
54. The domestic appliance according to claim 53, including said pivot lever pivotably mounted on said mounting element.
55. The domestic appliance according to claim 53, including said wall mounting device additionally including a vertical adjusting element exerting a vertical stroke on said carrier element for adjustment of said domestic appliance in height on said wall.
56. The domestic appliance according to claim 55, including said vertical adjusting element vertically adjusts said carrier element relative to said stationary mounting element.
57. The domestic appliance according to claim 55, including said vertical adjusting element arranged within the housing of said domestic appliance accessible from outside said housing by way of at least one access opening in said housing.
58. The domestic appliance according to any one of claim 57, including said access opening for said movement transmission means and said access opening for said vertical adjusting element are arranged physically adjacent to one another in said housing.
Type: Application
Filed: Dec 2, 2003
Publication Date: Apr 27, 2006
Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH (Munich)
Inventor: Ingo Bally (Traunstein)
Application Number: 10/540,821
International Classification: F24C 15/00 (20060101);