EP0661501B1 - Support - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a support or upright holder (10), in particular for radiators, preferably for flat radiators (50), which has a standing base (12), a vertical standing leg (16) and at least one bracket-like device in order thereby to support a radiator, a holding device being arranged on the standing leg (16), according to the invention, at the lower portion of the standing leg (16) in order to hold the radiator such that it can be fixed in a predeterminable position. <IMAGE>

Description

The invention relates to a standing device for radiators, according to the preamble of claim 1.

When installing radiators and in particular panel radiators in buildings, there is often the problem that there are no options for fastening corresponding radiators to the walls. This problem occurs particularly along window fronts.

To a certain extent, this was remedied by stand brackets for the interior and exterior installation of panel radiators, which had a stand, a vertical leg and at least one bracket-like device in order to be able to mount a radiator independently of a wall.

Stand consoles of this type, as have likewise become known from different companies, have various disadvantages.

On these known stand brackets, the radiators and in particular panel radiators can only be fastened for indoor installation in such a way that a fastening part, for example an eccentric pressure plate, is inserted from above into the supporting leg and clamped in the tube of the supporting leg and on the radiator by means of a tool.

In the case of external installation, the radiators are fastened by holding brackets, which are clamped to the outer standpipes by means of screws and hooked into the radiator brackets.

This type of attachment is not only insecure against thermal movements of the radiator or the various materials of the supporting leg and the eccentric pressure plate, since the eccentric pressure plate is released, but also not particularly advantageous optically or aesthetically, since the eccentric pressure plate from is visible above. In order to make this eccentric pressure plate invisible, a cover of the plate radiator would be necessary in any case, which may be detrimental to its heat release.

It should be noted that in addition to the fact that the above disadvantages occur with the known floor brackets, a large number of individual parts are also required in order to be able to connect the known floor bracket with different types of radiators.

From DE-U-77 25 619 a wall or stand bracket is known which has a U-shaped profile which is attached either to a vertical leg or to an arm attached to a wall. The profile has two mutually displaceable angle profiles, by means of which a radiator can be mounted on the known console by bracing the two angular profiles against one another. However, the angular profiles have to grip around the bottom of the radiator and the entire bracket extends significantly beyond the radiator to be clamped.

From DE-U-88 14 401.1 a stand bracket for plate radiators is known, which has a standpipe, a support leg and a radiator support, the plate or plates of the plate heater in question being supported on its circumferential welding hub on the radiator support. In order to be able to fasten the plate heater, the stand device has an upper holder which is inserted into the standpipe and between the plates of the plate heater for clamping insertion. Noise occurs here during heating cycles, which is caused by the thermal expansion of the parts of the standing device in relation to the plate heating element. In addition, the known standing device is mechanically stressed by the thermal expansion and the connections, if they are designed to be detachable, are loosened with each temperature cycle.

From DE-U-72 31 400.2 a pedestal for the installation of a radiator is known, which has a pedestal, a supporting leg and a support plate 5 having grooves. A radiator is attached to this stand by inserting two heating fins into the grooves in the support plate and placing a tab around the lower hub of the radiator. The tab is tightened or tightened in relation to the hub.

From BE-A-836 296 a pedestal according to the preamble of claim 1 is known, which has a pedestal, a supporting leg, and a bracket-like device which is connected to the supporting leg via a base plate. A radiator is supported by this stand device in that the base plate is dimensioned such that it fits on the one hand between parallel heating plates of a radiator and on the other hand supports the heating plates which expand horizontally in the vertical direction. The bracket-like device encompasses the heating plates which extend parallel to one another at the top with a holding section of the bracket and the bracket is clamped between this holding section and the base plate in order to firmly mount the heating element.

From CH-A-457 770 a stand device for radiators is known, which has a stand and a support leg, wherein two clamping pieces can be clamped between the heating plates of a heater in order to fix a heater along the support leg.

From DE-A-23 62 192, a stand device for radiators is known, which has a base and a support leg, a base plate and a head plate being arranged on the support leg, which engage between the welded edge areas of a plate radiator at the top and bottom in order to close the radiator hold.

From DE-U-93 06 088 a pedestal for a radiator is known, in which a plate radiator is inserted at the lower end over the welding edge in a clamp holder, and is held at the upper end via a spreading support.

The known stand devices discussed above are all not optically particularly demanding, mechanically largely unstable and require a large amount of assembly work.

The invention has for its object to provide a stand device, in particular for radiators or panel radiators, which largely remedies the disadvantages of the prior art. In particular, a stand device is to be created which is cheaper to manufacture. or whose parts can be used for a variety of different types of radiators, the aesthetic impression of the pedestal being improved at the same time.

This object is achieved by a standing device with the features listed in claim 1.

Advantageous embodiments of the standing device according to the invention emerge from the subclaims. The advantages of the invention are based on the fact that a holding device is arranged on the lower section of the supporting leg. to keep the radiator fixable in a predetermined position.

In this case, there are tabs, indentations or bulges or the like on the radiators, which are generally provided on the lower and the upper section of the radiator. exploited to engage the heater so that the radiator can be secured against tipping. The heater is located, which is mounted on the stand device according to the invention. on a tab-like device, which is preferably supported on the same base with respect to the leg or the base of the console according to the invention as the holding device fastened according to the invention to the lower section of the stand console.

In this way, the entire pedestal and its mounting parts can be hidden under or behind the radiator or panel radiator to be attached.

Advantageously, the tab-like device on which the radiator is seated and the holding device provided according to the invention are individually or jointly vertically displaceable, so that the stand device according to the invention, hereinafter referred to as the stand bracket, can be adjusted to a wide variety of radiators and in particular plate radiators. In addition, the desired standing height of the radiator can be set over a large area in this way, the holding device and the tab-like device being reversibly fixed to the standing leg.

The length of the holding device can be changed, so that here, too, it is possible to adapt the standing console according to the invention to a wide variety of requirements over an extremely wide range. The holding device according to the invention can have a bracket which is held on a base by means of a nut and can engage in the said recess, bulge, tab or the like on the radiator to be fastened by means of a hook at the other end of the bracket. Instead of a bracket, a rope, for example a steel rope or the like, could also be used, for example, which could be clamped between the base and the heating element.

The base on which the holding device according to the invention and / or the tab-like device can be fastened advantageously has a profile which at least partially encompasses the supporting leg of the standing console according to the invention, which profile can be attached via a clamping device, in particular a screw, can be attached vertically to any position on the support leg. Of course, radiators with a plurality of heating plates, that is to say for example a front and a recessed plate or a front, a middle and a recessed plate, can also be fastened to the stand console according to the invention, for example by merely providing the plate of the plate heating element with a tab-like device for supporting it, or else receive two or all of the plates of the plate heater in question in accordance with tab-like devices for support. Advantageously, the tab-like devices are designed as bracket stands, ie the plates stand on these bracket stands, for example by inserting the lower weld seam of a respective plate of the plate heater, which protrudes like a burr, into a groove-like recess in the respective bracket stand.

Although the pillar of the device according to the invention can be provided at any point on the pedestal of the pedestal according to the invention, the at least essentially central arrangement of the pillar on the pedestal is advantageous for aesthetic reasons. Only for asymmetrical radiators that protrude far beyond the base or the pedestal, it could be advantageous for aesthetic reasons to set the pedestal back and / or to attach it to the pedestal off-center.

In order to be able to support the radiator to be fastened even more advantageously, the upper end of the supporting leg, which for aesthetic reasons advantageously has a length, so that the supporting leg ends inside the radiator or below the upper collecting tube of the radiator, with a Abutment. For thermal reasons, this abutment can be produced from a material with a low thermal conductivity. This abutment advantageously has at least one legs protruding substantially at right angles from the supporting leg, which bears against at least one section, preferably the viewing section or a front section of the heating element. If the holding device or the hook or bracket located on the lower section of the supporting leg is tightened relative to the base during assembly, the hook or bracket being arranged on the side of the supporting leg opposite the direction of extension of the leg of the abutment, ie behind the radiator, tightened, the radiator to be fastened is clamped between the abutment and the holding device according to the invention and thereby held even more securely.

In order to make the stand console according to the invention even more universally applicable, a horizontal extension can be provided for the holding device in order to be able to hold plate radiators with a single plate, namely the front plate, securely. The horizontal extension for the holding device can have a profile comparable to that of the base of the holding device according to the invention. The horizontal extension can be displaceable along the support leg of the stand console according to the invention and an extension, a lug or the like can be provided on the side of the horizontal extension for the holding device opposite the engagement side of the holding device according to the invention, which extension then into a tab, a bulge or an indentation engages on the single-panel radiator to be fastened, in order to in turn hold it securely on the pedestal according to the invention, and an abutment can also be provided here at the upper end of the pedestal according to the invention.

In order to make the base or base plate of the console according to the invention even more universal, it can be provided with holes at predetermined locations be in the tab-like devices or bracket blocks can be attached to the base via preferably reversible locking or plug-in profiles.

Fig. 1

eine erfindungsgemäße Standkonsole in Verbindung mit einem Einplattenheizkörper, der auch eine rückwärtige Verkleidung aufweist, in einer schematischen Seitenansicht;

Fig. 2

eine Ausführungsform der erfindungsgemäßen Standkonsole in Verbindung mit einem Zweiplattenheizkörper in einer schematischen Seitenansicht;

Fig. 3

eine Ausführungsform einer erfindungsgemäßen Standkonsole für einen Einplattenheizkörper ohne rückwärtige Verkleidung in einer schematischen Seitenansicht; und

Fig. 4

eine Standkonsole in Verbindung mit einem Dreiplattenheizkörper in einer schematischen Seitenansicht.

The present invention is explained in more detail below on the basis of preferred embodiments according to the invention on the basis of the drawings. Further features and advantages according to the present invention are disclosed. Show it:

Fig. 1

a stand console according to the invention in connection with a single-panel radiator, which also has a rear panel, in a schematic side view;

Fig. 2

an embodiment of the stand console according to the invention in connection with a two-panel radiator in a schematic side view;

Fig. 3

an embodiment of a stand console according to the invention for a single-panel radiator without rear paneling in a schematic side view; and

Fig. 4

a pedestal in connection with a three-panel radiator in a schematic side view.

1 shows a console 10 designed according to the invention in connection with a single-plate heating element 50.

The console 10 according to the invention has a base 12 which is designed as a screw base. It can in a tubular, open hollow profile 14, the is fixed on the stand 12, a stand 16 is used from above, which is fastened to the stand or screw base 12 by means of a screw, for example an Allen screw 30.

The stand 12 can also be firmly welded to the support leg 16 if the otherwise possible additional adjustment option can be dispensed with.

The supporting leg 16, which in the present case is a square tube, is connected to a base 18 at its lower region. The base 18, to which the base plate 24 is fastened, is held vertically displaceably on the supporting leg 16 by means of an adjusting screw 28. Although the base 18 completely encompasses the cross-sectional profile of the supporting leg 16, in principle a base 18 designed as a sleeve would also suffice. The base 18 could also be designed as a plate, which could be held by means of a screw with a lock nut which extends through an elongated hole in the support leg 16.

A preferred embodiment in terms of production technology results if the base 18 and the base plate 24 are replaced by an appropriately designed tube. This tube then has the corresponding adjustment options and holding or fastening profiles. The tube or carrier tube provides additional mechanical stability.

At the upper end of the support leg 16, an abutment 32 or a support 32 is provided, which provides the attached plate heater 50 with additional support. On the base plate 24 of the base 18, a tab-like device, in the present case a bracket block 22, is provided, which has a groove into which the welding burr of the plate heating element is inserted. In this way the Radiator held securely at its lower end on the base 18 or the base plate 24.

The holding device 20 of the console 10 designed according to the invention is itself fastened via a thread provided on the holding device or the hook or bracket 20 and a nut 38 in a hole or a recess in the base plate 24 of the base 18. At the upper end of the bracket or hook, the hook-like engagement device of the holding device 20 provided according to the invention is arranged, which engages in a tab 58 provided on the heating element 50.

The heating element 50 itself, in the present case a plate heating element, has a heating plate 56, an upper collecting pipe 52 and a lower collecting pipe 54. These components of the radiator 50 are surrounded by a covering which has a front covering plate 60a, an upper covering covering 60b and a rear covering covering 60c. Tabs 58 are provided on the rear cover panel 60c, which are generally intended for wall mounting.

The assembly of the plate heater 50 is carried out, for example, such that the console 10 according to the invention is first connected to the floor of a building by screws or the like on its base 12. The desired height for the radiator to be fastened is then adjusted by adjusting the base 18 and thus the base plate 24 vertically along the supporting leg 16. The screw 28 is first loosened and later tightened again.

The plate heater is inserted with its lower weld or its lower weld bead into the groove within the console block 22, the Radiator or its panel is simultaneously slipped over the upper end of the console with the abutment 32 or the support 32. Then the bracket or the holding device 20 provided according to the invention is brought into engagement with the tab 58 with its hook-like end 26 and the nut 38 is tightened. By pulling on the nut 38, the radiator 50 to be fastened can be erected into a vertical position, with the upper support 32, which is held by a spreading profile 34 in the leg 16 designed as a square tube, tensioned and thereby secure is held.

Although the profiles of the supporting leg 16, the base 18 and the screw base 14 shown here are shown as four-edged tubular profiles, round tubular profiles or any other profiles can of course also be used.

The holding device 20 could also have a length such that it engages in the upper tab 58 of the plate heater 50. However, this would result in a higher cost of materials and the assembly would be more complicated. However, the advantages according to the invention would still be largely fulfilled.

2 shows a stand bracket 10 'designed according to the invention, to which another type of plate heating element 50' is attached. In this figure, as in all other figures, identical or at least functionally identical parts have been given the same reference numbers.

1, in the embodiment according to FIG. 2, a plate heater with two plates is attached. The rear plate 56 of the plate heater 50 'is on a bracket block 22 been put on. The tabs 58 are not, as in the embodiment according to FIG. 1, attached to a rear cover 60c, but to the rear heating plate 56. The holding device or the bracket or hook 20 engages in the tab 58 with a symmetry rotated by approximately 180 °, that is to say vice versa.

Since the radiator 50 'has a greater depth, the support 32 or the abutment 32 is also provided with a longer leg. The attachment of the abutment 32 in the support leg 16 of the support bracket 10 ′ designed according to the invention is still secured via a plug-in profile or an expansion profile in the inner cross section of the support leg 16.

The attachment of the plate heater 50 'to this embodiment of the floor bracket 10' according to the invention proceeds in a similar manner to that shown in FIG. 1.

3 shows a stand bracket 10 ″ designed according to the invention, which holds a different type of single-plate heating element 50 ″. In contrast to the stand brackets according to FIGS. 1 and 2, the stand bracket 10 ″ designed according to the invention additionally has a horizontal extension 40 or an intermediate piece 40. The hook-like extension 26 of the holding device or of the hook 20 engages in a tab 44 provided on the intermediate piece 40. At the end of the intermediate piece 40 aligned with the radiator plate, an extension or a nose 42 is provided, which can come into engagement with the tab 58 on the plate 56 of the plate heater 50 ″. The intermediate piece 40 at least partially encompasses the supporting leg 16 in the same manner as the base 18. If the hook 20 or the holding device 20 is tightened via the nut 38, the pull of the hook 20 on the tab 44, the intermediate piece 40 and the nose 42 Transfer tab 58 of the radiator 50 ", so that the radiator is pivoted inwards until it rests on the abutment or the support 32 and is firmly clamped.

In the embodiment according to FIG. 4, a three-panel radiator 50 "'is attached to another embodiment of a stand bracket 10"' designed according to the invention. Deviating from this, the stand bracket 10 "'designed according to the invention has two bracket stands 22, into which the welding burrs of two plates 56 of the plate heating element 50"' are inserted. The bracket brackets 22 shown perpendicular to the groove in the bracket bracket 22 are triangular in shape and additionally support the plate heater with their corner or angle facing the respective heating plate of the plate heater 50 ″. The two bracket brackets 22 are aligned mirror images of one another, with the supporting leg 16 of the bracket 10 "'represents the mirror axis.

Otherwise, the console 10 '' corresponds in principle to the embodiments according to FIGS. 1 to 3.

Claims (10)

1. A support device for radiators, preferably panel radiators,

   having a bearing foot (12);

   having a vertical bearing leg (16);

   having a base plate (18, 24) which is supported on the bearing foot and/or the bearing leg (16),

   characterised in that a retention device (20, 26, 38) having a curved part (20) is disposed at the lower region of the bearing leg (16), in order fixably to retain the radiator (50, 50', 50'') in a predetermined position, and in that

   a) at least one bracket-type device (22) is provided on the base plate (24) in order to support the radiator;

   b) the curved part (20) acts by a portion (26) on a bracket-type formation (58; 44) on the radiator in order to retain it;

   c) with the upper section (32) of the bearing leg (16) serving as support in relation to the retention force of the curved part.
2. A support device according to Claim 1,
   characterised in that the retention device (20, 26, 38) and/or the base plate with the at least one bracket-type device (22) can be fixed in a vertically displaceable manner to the bearing leg (16).
3. A support device according one of Claims 1 or 2,
   characterised in that the retention device (20, 26, 38) and the bracket-type device (22) are disposed on the base plate (18. 24), which can be reversibly fixed to the bearing leg (16).
4. A support device according to one of Claims 1 to 3,
   characterised in that the length of the retention device (20, 26, 38) can be changed.
5. A support device according to one of Claims 1 to 4,
   characterised in that the curved part (20) has at least one engagement end, in particular an end (26) constructed like a hook, in order to retain the radiator.
6. A support device according to one of Claims 3 to 5,
   characterised in that the base plate (18, 24) has a profile (18) at least partially encircling the bearing leg (16).
7. A support device according to one of Claims 3 to 6,
   characterised in that at least one clamping device (28), in particular a screw, is provided to fix the base plate (18, 24) in any predetermined position on the bearing leg (16).
8. A support device according to one of Claims 1 to 7,
   characterised in that the bearing leg (16) has such a length that the bearing leg (16) ends beneath an upper collecting pipe (52) of the radiator (50, 50', 50'', 50"').
9. A support device according to one of Claims 1 to 8,
   characterised in that an abutment (32), preferably made of a material having a low thermal conduction coefficient, is disposed at the upper end of the bearing leg (16).
10. A support device according to one of Claims 1 to 9,
    characterised in that a horizontal extension (40, 42, 44) is vertically displaceably disposed on the bearing leg (16) in order preferably to come into engagement with the retention device (20, 26, 28).

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