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EP1065322A1
EP1065322A1 EP00305337A EP00305337A EP1065322A1 EP 1065322 A1 EP1065322 A1 EP 1065322A1 EP 00305337 A EP00305337 A EP 00305337A EP 00305337 A EP00305337 A EP 00305337A EP 1065322 A1 EP1065322 A1 EP 1065322A1
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clamping member
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Graham Keith Lacy
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Aqualisa Products Ltd
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47K—SANITARY EQUIPMENT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TOILET ACCESSORIES
    • A47K17/00—Other equipment, e.g. separate apparatus for deodorising, disinfecting or cleaning devices without flushing for toilet bowls, seats or covers; Holders for toilet brushes
    • A47K17/02—Body supports, other than seats, for closets, e.g. handles, back-rests, foot-rests; Accessories for closets, e.g. reading tables
    • A47K17/022—Wall mounted grab bars or handles, with or without support on the floor
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E03—WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
    • E03C—DOMESTIC PLUMBING INSTALLATIONS FOR FRESH WATER OR WASTE WATER; SINKS
    • E03C1/00—Domestic plumbing installations for fresh water or waste water; Sinks
    • E03C1/02—Plumbing installations for fresh water
    • E03C1/06—Devices for suspending or supporting the supply pipe or supply hose of a shower-bath
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47K—SANITARY EQUIPMENT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TOILET ACCESSORIES
    • A47K2201/00—Details of connections of bathroom accessories, e.g. fixing soap or towel holder to a wall
    • A47K2201/02—Connections to a wall mounted support

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  • the present invention relates to a rail holder, more particularly a rail holder for holding rails used in the bathroom and even more particularly a rail holder used to hold a riser rail for supporting a shower handset.
  • Rails are often held in place on a surface by two rail holders, one at either end. Often the rail holder comes in two parts, the first half being attached to the surface by two screws which pass through the base of that half of the holder into pre-drilled holes in the surface. The end of the rail is held in place by a retainer on that half of the rail holder and the second half of the rail holder is subsequently attached to the first half and covers the screws. It can also cover the end of the rail.
  • This system of fastening requires great care to be taken when drilling the screw holes in the surface.
  • the holes must be drilled accurately so that the rail holders at each end of the rail line up in both the horizontal and vertical directions. Ensuring that the screw holes for the rail holders are drilled in the right place can be time consuming and is difficult. For example, for previous rail holders, this may have involved holding both rail holders required to hold a single rail to the surface at the same time and marking the positions for the screw holes before drilling the holes. Even once the ideal positions for the screw holes have been marked, drill bit skating often results in the holes being drilled in the wrong place.
  • a rail holder for mounting the end of a rail with respect to a surface, the rail holder comprising:
  • a method of mounting the end of a rail with respect to a surface including the steps of:
  • the rail holder may be attached to the wall with the fastening member before the rail and is mounted to the rail holder. This is advantageous because the two required rail holders can each be attached to the surface one at a time without the need to hold the rail in place.
  • the rail ends can be inserted into the holders, the holders can be positioned and the fasteners tightened to rigidly clamp the rail holders to the surface.
  • there is easy access to the clamping member and fastening member but dust and water can be prevented from entering the main body of the rail holder during use.
  • the main body includes retainer means which engage with the clamping member to attach the clamping member to the main body. In this way the clamping member is retained in the main body and the risk of loss of the clamping member is minimised.
  • the fastener is a screw.
  • the rail holder may be loosely attached to the wall, then adjusted into the required the position before the holder is locked into position by tightening the screw.
  • fastener can be used such as rivets, nuts and bolts or other means.
  • the main body includes projections which run in open ended guide slots in the clamping member so as to guide the clamping member in the second direction.
  • the clamping member can be prevented from rotating when the fastener is tightened. Furthermore, this can aid in difficult fittings because it is easier to judge by how much the position of the holder is changing,
  • the clamping member can be guided by other means such as by making the inside of the clamping member narrow, with parallel sides, so that the clamping member cannot rotate.
  • the cap can be attached to the clamping member.
  • the clamping member preferably further comprises two flexible clips which engage said cap so as to allow relative movement in the second direction.
  • the rail holder requires a minimum number of components and no integrally formed (and plated) clips are required on the cap.
  • the cap may further comprise a locator which engages with one of the projections of the body.
  • the rail holder of the present invention can decrease the time and difficulty in attaching a rail to a wall. Furthermore, if a rail is being replaced with a new one, it is likely that one of the holes used to fasten the previous rail holder to the wall will be in a position where that hole can be used by the rail holder of the present invention.
  • the main body of the rail holder is dimensioned such that, when it is attached using either of the previous pair of holes, it conceals the other of the previous pair of holes.
  • the stresses in the rail holder can be evenly distributed throughout the rail holder when it is attached to the surface even if the fastener is located at one extremity of the elongated aperture. This is achieved by splitting the positional adjustment in the two directions such that the main body and the clamping member can be engineered to cope with the specific stresses induced by moving the position of the fastener or the clamping member.
  • a rail holder generally denoted 10 comprises a main body 20 and a clamping member 30.
  • the end of a rail or hollow bar may be fitted to the main body.
  • the end of the rail fits over a supporting member 11 which is in the form of an elongated cross.
  • the end of the rail may either sit flush with the end of the main body or, as in this embodiment, may slot partly into the rail holder in hole 21.
  • Two vertically aligned rail holders may be used to support the riser rail of a shower handset.
  • the main body 20 of the rail holder may be clamped to a surface, usually a wall, using the clamping member 30.
  • the clamping force is produced by tightening a screw 40 which is screwed into a hole formed in the surface.
  • the clamping member 30 has an elongated aperture 31 through which the fastener 40 passes.
  • the fastener 40 also passes through the back wall of the main body, which lies parallel to and abuts with the surface, to clamp the holder to the surface.
  • the position of the clamping member 30 can be moved in a first (horizontal as illustrated) direction relative to the fastener member 40.
  • the clamping member 30 is also constrained to fit to the main body 20 in any position in a substantially second (vertical as illustrated) direction. In this way, the position of the main body relative to the fastener 40 in the surface can vary with two degrees of freedom i.e. in a plane. This means that the fastening need not be positioned in the surface with any great accuracy.
  • the main body of the rail holder can still be moved around so as to be correctly aligned.
  • the clamping member 30 is attached to the main body 20 by retainer means so that the clamping member 30 can still move relative to the main body 20 in the second direction, but so that the clamping member 30 cannot fall out of the main body 20 even if the main body 20 is shaken.
  • the first and second directions are perpendicular to each other. This facilitates adjustment of the position of the rail holder relative to the fastener 40 in all directions.
  • a shower riser rail may easily be installed.
  • Each holder can be moved horizontally by virtue of the elongate aperture 31 so as to correctly align the holders one above the other. They can also be moved vertically so as to have the correct spacing for the riser rail being used.
  • the fastener 40 is fully tightened once the position of the rail holder 10 is set.
  • two open ended guide slots 32,33 formed in the clamping member 30 are elongated in the second direction. Projections formed on the main body 20 lie in the elongated guide slots 32,33 thereby allowing the rail holder to be moved with respect to the clamping member 30 in the second direction.
  • the two open ended guide slots 32,33 of the clamping member 30 lie on T-shaped guide projections 23,24.
  • the guide projections 23,24 are separated by a distance larger than the closest distance between guide slots 32,33 so that the main body 20 can be moved with respect to the clamping member 30.
  • the retainer means are formed on the T-shaped guide projections 23, 24 as protrusions 27.
  • the protrusions 27 can be formed as a clip or a pip at the end of the vertical part of the T-shaped guide projections.
  • the opened ended guide slots 32, 33 of the clamping member 30 actually lie in a narrowing of the vertical part of the T-shaped guide projections. In this way, the clamping member 30 can be movably attached to the main body 20.
  • the clamping member 30 may clamp the back wall of the main body to the surface. This can be done by simply providing a large hole in the back wall of the main body 20.
  • the clamping member fits against the back wall and the back wall is recessed from the outer surface of the main body 20, the clamping member lying in the recess within the main body.
  • a number of spacers and guides 23, 26 integrally formed within the main body 20 and recessed from the outer surface of the main body 20 can be used as the clamping surfaces against which the clamping member 30 fits.
  • the main body of the preferred embodiment is formed generally pipe-shaped.
  • the opening 25 as shown in Figure 1 is a cut out of that pipe shape to allow access to the clamping member 30 which is positioned within the main body against the clamping surfaces which, as described above, can either be a back wall or a number of spacers and guides formed in the main body 20 and recessed from the opening.
  • the opening 25 which allows access to the clamping member 30 and fastener 40 in the recess is covered using a cap 50 ( Figure 4).
  • a cap 50 Figure 4
  • the outer surface of the main body 20 and cap 50 may have a smooth appearance. If, for example, the main body is generally pipe-shaped as described above, the cap will complete the effect and the fully assembled rail holder will have an aesthetically pleasing appearance.
  • the cap 50 may be attached to the main body 20, or the clamping member 30.
  • the accompanying member 30 further comprises two flexible clips 35 which engage with the cap 50 so as to allow relative movement in the second direction.
  • the cap 50 may also include flexible clips 51 for convenience.
  • cap 50 may also include an integrally formed locator 52 which engages with one of the projections 23, 24 of the main body 20. In this way, it is easy to ensure that the cap is correctly located.
  • the rail holder may be used to replace a previous rail holder having a pair of screws directly through the back of the rail holder.
  • the dimensions of the rail holder where it contacts the wall or surface are preferably such that the rail holder covers both of the previous screw holes when one of the previous screw holes is used for the fastener 40.

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GB9915337A GB2351525B (en) 1999-06-30 1999-06-30 Rail holder
GB9915337 1999-06-30

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DE3239107C1 (de) * 1982-10-22 1983-12-15 Turk + Bolte GmbH & Co, 5860 Iserlohn Vorrichtung zur lösbaren Verbindung einer Abdeckkappe mit einem Wandhalter für Seifenschalen und dgl.
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