EP0726043B1 - Domestic appliance with a base - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a standing household appliance, which is parked on a base.

Such household appliances are generally known, and this especially when delivering to Scandinavia a base is included. This makes it possible on site the height of a household appliance with a stand height of 85 cm to enlarge the usual 90 cm there. This measure is also cheap wherever large household appliances Operators are operated. Otherwise they have to when working ergonomically unfavorable to bend over to the household appliance. A particular disadvantage is that in the 90 cm variant no increase in the usable height of the interior of the device takes place because the base as a closed box is trained.

The adjustable ones usually available on the free-standing household appliance Feet alone would be without height adjustment Sockets to the extent described above are not sufficient. These are only to compensate for minor ones Uneven floors when setting up the stand-alone household appliance suitable. In addition, with such long adjustable feet an undesirable gap between the floor of the free-standing household appliance and the actual floor, and on the other hand, the storage of the feet in the device floor would have to be appropriate be elaborately prepared. Such would continue long adjustable feet at an 85 cm setting are disturbingly wide protrude inside the stand-alone household appliance and the actual one Adjustment process due to the fine-tuned Thread of the adjustable feet or their bearing be very cumbersome. In addition, there is no enlargement the usable height of the interior of the device.

The object of the present invention is therefore to a Stand device that can be easily changed in height provide, with substantially the entire amount of Device interior is usable.

This is achieved according to the invention in that the base at least laterally from a base base body has top extending base side walls, and in the base Distance elements can be arranged for parking the household appliance at different heights within the base side walls. The free-standing household appliance rests with its side walls for example in the 85 cm height directly on the base body and at a height of 90 cm on the spacers. The side walls of the device disappear in both Heights behind the plinth side walls, creating the impression an overall closed device side wall is always guaranteed is. In addition, with the 90 cm setting Except for the thin plinth base due to the increased parking the height of the household appliance inside won the device for the operator. Can continue by parking the free-standing device within the base side walls the sheet metal parts otherwise required for stiffening of the housing of the free-standing household appliance in the floor area and for additional stabilization, especially for the Transport of the household appliance, additionally required Stiffeners in the side walls of the household appliance omitted. By providing different spacing elements and a corresponding height of the base side walls can basically all device heights on simple Way are provided.

According to a preferred development, the base side walls double-walled, with a pocket form for the side walls of the household appliance. By the Resting the side walls inside the receiving pocket is one particularly good stability of the household appliance ensured.

Pluggable spacers are preferably used as Base body plug-on spacer elements. To do this corresponding fasteners on the base body provided for the spacers.

Alternatively, mounting strips can also be used as spacing elements to serve. These are different in at least two Insertion positions at heights above in the Formed mounting openings on the end face of the receiving pocket can be inserted into the pocket. So are in different Height storage options for the side walls of the Household appliance formed. Through the mounting strips is advantageous large-scale parking of the side walls of the household appliance on the base possible. Are the side walls bent at their lower end portions, the base can be inserted into the household appliance with the mounting strip inserted be held. This makes transportation easier and setting up the stand-alone household appliance.

According to a preferred embodiment are in the base body Height-adjustable device feet stored. That's the way it is possible, both with the 85 cm and with the 90 cm variant to even out unevenness of the floor in a simple manner and to enable an exact adjustment of the device height.

There is advantageously a between the base side walls insertable accessory compartment arranged. The usable amount of the The accessory compartment is compared to the 90 cm version 85 cm version by 5 cm less the thickness of the base body enlarged.

All the essentials are advantageously in or on the base Functional elements designed so that their separate Forming and attachment to the floor unit, such as the guide rail for the accessory compartment is omitted.

Fig. 1

stark vereinfacht in einer Frontansicht ein Standhaushaltsgerät mit Sockel in der 90-cm- und der 85-cm-Gerätehöhe,

Fig. 2

einen Sockel in einer perspektivischen Frontansicht von schräg oben,

Fig. 3

einen Sockel in einer perspektivischen Rückansicht von schräg unten, und

Fig. 4

in vergrößertem Maßstab einen Ausschnitt des Sockels gemäß Fig. 2 und einen Abschnitt der Geräteseitenwand und der Montageleiste.

An exemplary embodiment of the stand-alone household appliance according to the invention is described below using schematic representations. Show it:

Fig. 1

a front view of a free-standing household appliance with a base in the 90 cm and 85 cm unit heights,

Fig. 2

a base in a perspective front view obliquely from above,

Fig. 3

a base in a perspective rear view obliquely from below, and

Fig. 4

in an enlarged scale a section of the base according to FIG. 2 and a section of the device side wall and the mounting bar.

A standing household appliance 1 or a standing stove 1 is on one Plastic recycled base 3 in two different heights parkable. These correspond to the usual 85 cm and one 90 cm device height. In the base 3 there is an accessory compartment 4 inserted. The standing household appliance 1 is in its lower Area without stiffeners and struts or functional rails trained for the accessory compartment 4. The stability of the household appliance is in this area through the base 3 guaranteed.

The base 3 is box-shaped without a front wall and lid. It has a sole base 5 and away from it from vertically on both sides and on the back top extending base side walls 7. Here is the single-walled rear side wall and are on both sides arranged base side walls 7 formed double-walled. The double-walled base side wall 7 has an outer side wall 9 and an inner side wall 11 with a closed front end 13 and a rear end 14, the together each have an upwardly open receiving pocket 15 form. Within the base side walls 7 are in the bottom of the Base body 5 guides 17 for adjustable feet (not shown) of the standing hearth 1 shaped. In appropriate guides cylindrical spacers can be screwed, on which the household appliance could be placed at a height of 90 cm. At the bottom of the base body 5 are the base body 5 or the base side walls 7 by a honeycomb structure 19 stabilized.

On the rear end face 14 of the receiving pocket 15 are a first mounting opening 21 and a second mounting opening 23 provided. Both are shaped as a narrow slot, the first mounting opening 21 being in the region of a floor 24 of the receiving pocket 15 extends vertically upwards, and the second mounting opening 23 horizontally spaced therefrom runs about 5 cm above the floor 24. Furthermore are inside the receiving pocket 15 evenly spaced on the bottom 24 thereof over the depth of the receiving pocket 15 several support ribs 25 molded. A support surface 26 of the support ribs 25 is at the level of the lower edge of the slot second mounting opening 23. When preparing the base to turn off the range 1 in the 90 cm version a shaped according to the length of the receiving pocket 15 Mounting bar 27 in the second mounting opening 23 from the rear face 14 of the base 3 (in the direction of the arrow) fully inserted into the receiving pocket 15. The mounting bar rests on the support surfaces 26 of the various Support ribs 25 and in the second assembly opening 23 the mounting bar 27 is a side wall 29 of the household appliance 1 adjustable. This is in her lower End section an elongated, plate-shaped parking foot 31st forming, can be placed on the assembly bar 27. The width of the Parking foot 31 is on the width of the receiving pocket 15 matched. In the 85 cm variant, the mounting bar is 27 first completely pulled out of the receiving pocket 15. On the support ribs 25 is appropriately arranged Incisions 33 of the parking foot 31, the side wall 29 or the parking foot 31 can be placed on the bottom 24 of the receiving pocket 15. To secure the base 3 on the stove 1 is the Mounting bar 27 in the first mounting opening 21 above the Parking foot 31 inserted. To complete the mounting bar 27 To be able to insert, are in the support ribs 25 of the corresponding to the first mounting opening 21 with regard to position and shape Breakthroughs 35 formed.

In addition, 3 additional functions are integrated in the base, like a drawer guide 41 and a stepped Rear 43 for cable routing. Furthermore, the Shaping the base 3 and parking the floor unit 1 stiffeners or struts of the free-standing appliance 1 or its side walls 29

Claims (9)

1. Upright domestic appliance which is set down on a stand (3), characterised thereby that the stand (3) comprises stand side walls (7) extending at least at the sides upwardly from a stand base body (5), and spacer elements can be arranged in the stand (3) for the setting down of the domestic appliance (1) at different heights within the stand side walls (7) on the stand base body (5).
2. Upright domestic appliance according to claim 1, characterised thereby that the stand side walls (7) are shaped to be double-walled to form a receiving pocket (15) for the side walls (29) of the domestic appliance (1).
3. Upright domestic appliance according to claim 1 or 2, characterised thereby that spacers pluggable onto the stand base body (5) serve as spacer elements.
4. Upright domestic appliance according to claim 2, characterised thereby that as spacer elements a respective mounting strip (27) is insertable into the receiving pocket (15) in at least two insertion positions disposed at different heights by way of mounting openings (21, 23) formed in an end face (14) of the receiving pocket (15) and thus forms set-down possibilities for the side walls (29) of the domestic appliance (1) at different heights.
5. Upright domestic appliance according to claim 4, characterised thereby that the side walls (29) are constructed to be bent over at their lower end portions, whereby the stand (3) is fixed to the domestic appliance (1) when the strips (27) are inserted.
6. Upright domestic appliance according to one of the preceding claims, characterised thereby that apparatus feet adjustable in height are mounted in the stand base body (5).
7. Upright domestic appliance according to one of the preceding claims, characterised thereby that an insertable accessory compartment (4) is arranged between the stand side walls (7).
8. Upright domestic appliance according to one of the preceding claims, characterised thereby that all essential functional elements (15, 17, 41, 43) are formed in or at the stand (3).
9. Upright domestic appliance according to claim 8, characterised thereby that functional elements of the domestic appliance are arranged in or at the stand (3).

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