Patents Assigned to Friedrich Grohe Akteingesellschaft
  • Patent number: 5291622
    Abstract: A faucet body mounted on a wall and having a connecting pipe projecting from the wall and having an outer end secured via a faceted nut to the body, has escutcheon with a sleeve centered on an axis, formed with an external screwthread, and formed with at least one axially extending and radially inwardly projecting ridge engageable with facets of the faucet-assembly nut so as to rotationally couple the sleeve to the nut. An outer ring fitting around the sleeve has an internal screwthread meshing with the screwthread of the sleeve and has a rear face. A seal set in and projecting axially rearwardly from the rear face of the ring engages the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1994
    Assignee: Friedrich Grohe Akteingesellschaft
    Inventor: Jurgen Humpert
  • Patent number: 5290000
    Abstract: A bracket assembly for securing a fitting to a wall. The assembly has a generally T-section plate having a pair of parallel T-flanges, fasteners securing the plate to the wall with the flanges substantially parallel to the wall, a holder adapted to carry the fitting and formed with a T-section slot open at one end, substantially complementary to the flanges of the plate, and normally receiving the plate, and an elastically deflectable latching tongue formed on the holder at the one end and retaining the holder and plate together. Spring formations resiliently engaged between the plate and the holder retain same snugly together. These formations are elastically deformable ribs on the flanges of the plate. The ribs are unitarily formed with the flanges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1994
    Assignee: Friedrich Grohe Akteingesellschaft
    Inventors: Detlef Hochstein, Christian Frankholz