DE9409429U1 - Undercounter household appliances - Google Patents

Description

EBHZ-93/38

Ba-fr

6, June 1994

License

Patent Management GmbH

Frankfurt-Main

Undercounter household appliances

The innovation concerns undercounter household appliances according to the generic term of claim 1 - in the narrower sense it concerns their stable fastening in kitchen units.

Kitchen units are a series of furniture and large household electrical appliances arranged next to each other, with the same design and front, covered by a common, continuous worktop. Undercounter household appliances include: electric stoves, refrigerators and freezers, washing machines, dishwashers and tumble dryers.

The household appliances in question all have an upper sheet metal cover frame with fastening holes on the front or tabs that protrude to the front, which are screwed to the kitchen worktop from below. For most worktops made of plastic-coated pressed fiberboard, this can be done easily with normal wood or self-tapping screws. Kitchen units in the higher price range, on the other hand, increasingly have worktops made of stone or even marble. Attaching the appliance in the traditional sense is no longer possible.

EBHZ-93/38

Ba-fr

June 6, 1994

The innovation aims to create a device that can be used to fix household appliances in place underneath stone worktops.

This object is achieved according to the innovation by the characterizing features of claim 1. Further advantageous embodiments of the innovation can be found in the subclaims.

The advantages that can be achieved with the innovation are already apparent from the nature of the task. Other advantages include: only two identical, simple and inexpensive fastening parts are required, which can be mounted outside of the field of vision and therefore do not cause any visual disturbance. In the case of a larger installation niche available (wider than the respective under-counter household appliance), symmetrical side adjustment is possible.

An embodiment of the innovation is shown in the drawings and is explained in more detail below.
It shows:

Fig. 1 the new mounting bracket in perspective view,

Fig. 2 shows a section of an upper cover plate of the respective substructure device, also in perspective view.

Fig. 1 illustrates a mounting bracket 1, manufactured as a plastic injection-molded part. Said bracket 1 has a countersunk hole 2 on the vertical leg and a molded double guide groove 3 of length a on the top of its horizontal leg.

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Fig. 2 shows a schematic representation of the upper cover plate 4 of the corresponding under-counter household appliance. In the front area of the cover plate 4, side cutouts 5 are cut out, which can be inserted precisely into the double guide groove 3 of the mounting bracket 1.

Assembly and substructure of the appliance are as follows: a mounting bracket 1 is inserted into the cutouts 5 of the cover plate 4 on the left and right. The substructure appliance in question is then pushed into the existing gap in the kitchen unit, aligned flush with the front and the mounting bracket 1 is screwed to the adjacent furniture with the appliance door open. When the appliance door is open, the countersunk holes 2 of the mounting bracket 1 are accessible. The substructure appliance can be attached to an existing furniture element in the same way. Screwing to the worktop is not necessary.

If the available space between the kitchen units cannot be completely filled, the length a of the double guide groove 3 allows a fully symmetrical lateral gap or space compensation.

Claims (3)

· » Ba-fr EBHZ-93/38 : : :·: :: :· ··:··:· June 6, 1994 License Patent Management GmbH Frankfurt-Main Protection against scratches 1- Undercounter household appliances, such as electric stoves, refrigerators and freezers, washing machines, dishwashers and tumble dryers, which are intended for fixed integration between undercounter cabinets or furniture in kitchen units that can be covered with worktops and which are equipped with a top cover plate, characterized in that two lateral cutouts (5) are made in the cover plate (4) of the undercounter household appliance and that a fastening bracket (1) can be screwed onto the side walls of the kitchen furniture or undercounter cabinets adjacent to the undercounter household appliance. 2. Under-counter household appliances according to claim 1, characterized in that a countersunk hole (2) is made in the vertical leg of the fastening angle (1). 3. Under-counter household appliances according to claim 1, characterized in that a double guide groove (3) that can be inserted into the cutout (5) of the cover plate (4) is formed on the upper side of the horizontal leg of the fastening angle (1).