EP1592332B1 - Hinge mounting apparatus for the toilet bowls - Google Patents

Hinge mounting apparatus for the toilet bowls Download PDF

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EP1592332B1
EP1592332B1 EP03811577A EP03811577A EP1592332B1 EP 1592332 B1 EP1592332 B1 EP 1592332B1 EP 03811577 A EP03811577 A EP 03811577A EP 03811577 A EP03811577 A EP 03811577A EP 1592332 B1 EP1592332 B1 EP 1592332B1
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I. Eczacibasi Yapi Gerecleri Sanayi Ve KUCUN
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Eczacibasi Yapi Gerecleri Sanayi ve Ticaret AS
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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
    • A47K13/00—Seats or covers for all kinds of closets
    • A47K13/24—Parts or details not covered in, or of interest apart from, groups A47K13/02 - A47K13/22, e.g. devices imparting a swinging or vibrating motion to the seats
    • A47K13/26—Mounting devices for seats or covers

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  • This invention concerns the WC seat mounting to the toilet bowls that seat mounting cannot be performed, from lower face of the toilet bowl, by the help of butterfly nuts.
  • the seat mounting holes are not accessible from lower face of the toilet bowl for reasons of the design of the toilet bowl; the seat can not be mounted, if the toilet bowl was permanently installed to the floor or the wall.
  • EP 1177756 a device for fixing the seat assembly of a toilet bowl is disclosed.
  • the device in EP 1177756 cannot be fixed into seat mounting hole easily, due to the long slot on the oscillating element, which causes the oscillating element moving or rotating with respect to the stem, in an uncontrolled manner while installation.
  • the subject matter invention was developed to mount the seat to the toilet bowl whose mounting holes are not accessible from lower face of the bowl.
  • the toilet seats can easily be fixed and firmly tightened to such toilet bowls.
  • a spring was not used to bring part (2) to horizontal position, indeed this function is done by shaking the apparatus by hand after insertion of it to hole (5) ( Figure 1).
  • Another advantage of the subject matter invention is that the disclosed hinge mounting apparatus for toilet seats is firmly fixed to the toilet bowls. And the said apparatus and connected seat does not change its initial installed position on the toilet bowl.
  • the said hinge mounting apparatus is comprised with; a bell shaped designed part (2), a cylindrical part (1), a hinge bolt (3) and a hinge body (4).
  • the bell shaped designed part (2) is formed from a piece of metal strip, having a longitudinal slot, such that the strip is bended to provide a semi circular surface in the mid region, and two planar surfaces a both end, of the strip.
  • the two planar surfaces have approximately equal areas and they lie on the same imaginary plane, which is coincident with the longitudinal axis of the said semi circular surface and the line, which is the intersection of one end of the semi circular surface and related end of one of the said planar surface.
  • the cylindrical part (1) has a threaded thru hole whose longitudinal axis perpendicularly intersects the mid point of longitudinal axis of the cylindrical part (1).
  • the hinge bolt (3) is inserted to the hole on the hinge body (4).
  • the hinge bolt (3) is inserted to the slot on the bell shaped designed part (2) from convex side of semi circular surface of the said part (2).
  • the cylindrical part (1) is mounted to the hinge bolt (3) from the threaded hole of the said part (1) and then, the cylindrical part (1) is seated to the concave side of semi circular surface of the bell shaped designed part (2).
  • the bell shaped designed part (2) which can be rotated on part (1), becomes to horizontal position by shaking the hinge body (4) by hand.
  • the hinge bolt (3) is screwed as rotating it to clockwise with a screwdriver. Meanwhile, the hinge body (4) is hold upward to prevent rotating of cylindrical part (1) and the bell shaped designed part (2).

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  • Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
  • Public Health (AREA)
  • Toilet Supplies (AREA)
  • Sanitary Device For Flush Toilet (AREA)
  • Pivots And Pivotal Connections (AREA)

Abstract

The system was designed to mount the seats to the pans that seat can not be fixed from the bottom. The part (2) works on the part (1) mounted to the bottom of part (3) is inserted from the ceramic hole (5) on vertical position. By shaking part (4) slightly, part (2) becomes to horizontal position, by holding part (4) by hand, part (3) is tightened with screwdriver. In this way, hinge can be mounted to the hole (5) by the help of apparatus.

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  • This invention concerns the WC seat mounting to the toilet bowls that seat mounting cannot be performed, from lower face of the toilet bowl, by the help of butterfly nuts. When the seat mounting holes are not accessible from lower face of the toilet bowl for reasons of the design of the toilet bowl; the seat can not be mounted, if the toilet bowl was permanently installed to the floor or the wall.
  • In prior art, by a European Patent Application EP 1177756 , a device for fixing the seat assembly of a toilet bowl is disclosed. The device in EP 1177756 cannot be fixed into seat mounting hole easily, due to the long slot on the oscillating element, which causes the oscillating element moving or rotating with respect to the stem, in an uncontrolled manner while installation.
  • Also, after installation of the device, which is disclosed in EP 1177756 , there exists a significant clearance between the stem and seat mounting hole. Even if the oscillating element is firmly tightened between the nut and the lower face of the seat mounting hole, the stem may slide or move inside the said hole. This event results in that the seat can change its initial installed position on the toilet bowl.
  • The subject matter invention was developed to mount the seat to the toilet bowl whose mounting holes are not accessible from lower face of the bowl. By the help of this invention, the toilet seats can easily be fixed and firmly tightened to such toilet bowls. In order to make the apparatus more user-friendly and to minimize the manufacturing cost, it was designed as simple as possible and the number of parts that forms it held in minimum. For example, a spring was not used to bring part (2) to horizontal position, indeed this function is done by shaking the apparatus by hand after insertion of it to hole (5) (Figure 1).
  • Another advantage of the subject matter invention is that the disclosed hinge mounting apparatus for toilet seats is firmly fixed to the toilet bowls. And the said apparatus and connected seat does not change its initial installed position on the toilet bowl.
  • After that point, this invention was explained more detailed by referring to the figures in appendix.
    • Figure 1: The position of apparatus during assembly of the toilet seat to the toilet bowl.
    • Figure 2: Tightening the screw during fixing hinge to toilet bowl by the help of apparatus.
    • Figure 3: Final assembly.
  • The said hinge mounting apparatus is comprised with; a bell shaped designed part (2), a cylindrical part (1), a hinge bolt (3) and a hinge body (4).
  • The bell shaped designed part (2) is formed from a piece of metal strip, having a longitudinal slot, such that the strip is bended to provide a semi circular surface in the mid region, and two planar surfaces a both end, of the strip. The two planar surfaces have approximately equal areas and they lie on the same imaginary plane, which is coincident with the longitudinal axis of the said semi circular surface and the line, which is the intersection of one end of the semi circular surface and related end of one of the said planar surface.
  • The cylindrical part (1) has a threaded thru hole whose longitudinal axis perpendicularly intersects the mid point of longitudinal axis of the cylindrical part (1).
  • In order to mount the hinge mounting apparatus components to each other; firstly, the hinge bolt (3) is inserted to the hole on the hinge body (4). Secondly, the hinge bolt (3) is inserted to the slot on the bell shaped designed part (2) from convex side of semi circular surface of the said part (2). Thirdly, the cylindrical part (1) is mounted to the hinge bolt (3) from the threaded hole of the said part (1) and then, the cylindrical part (1) is seated to the concave side of semi circular surface of the bell shaped designed part (2).
  • In order to fix the hinge mounting apparatus to the seat mounting hole of toilet bowl: as in figure 1, user inserts the bell shaped designed part (2), by tilting it, that can move or rotate on cylindrical part (1) which is screwed to the hinge bolt (3), to the seat mounting hole (5) on the toilet bowl.
  • Then, as in figure 2, the bell shaped designed part (2), which can be rotated on part (1), becomes to horizontal position by shaking the hinge body (4) by hand. The hinge bolt (3) is screwed as rotating it to clockwise with a screwdriver. Meanwhile, the hinge body (4) is hold upward to prevent rotating of cylindrical part (1) and the bell shaped designed part (2).
  • In figure 3, by tightening the hinge bolt (2) assembly is completed.
  • After fixing of the aparatus to the seat mounting hole, it is clear that the two ends of the semi circular surface of the bell shaped designed part (2) rigidly seated to the corner which is at the lower face of the the seat mounting hole. This type of mounting prevents the the hinge bolt (3) (and connected seat) sliding or moving in the seat mounting hole of the toilet bowl.

Claims (3)

  1. Hinge mounting apparatus, for the toilet bowls which are permanently installed to the floor or the wall, providing the mounting of WC seats to the toilet bowls, in case of the seat mounting holes are not accessible from lower face of the toilet bowl for reasons of the design purpose,
    and said hinge mounting apparatus comprising:
    a cylindrical part (1),
    a bell shaped designed part (2),
    a hinge bolt (3),
    a hinge body (4),
    characterized in that
    the bell shaped designed part (2)
    - being formed from a piece of metal strip, having a longitudinal slot, such that the strip is bended to provide a semi circular surface in its mid region, and two planar surfaces at both end, of the strip;
    - whose said two planar surfaces have approximately equal areas and lie on the same imaginary plane, which is coincident with the longitudinal axis of the said semi circular surface and the line, which is the intersection of one end of the semi circular surface and related end of one of the said planar surface;
    - whose two ends of the semi circular surface rigidly seated to the corner which is at the lower face of the seat mounting hole, in order to prevent the hinge bolt (3) and connected seat sliding or moving in the seat mounting hole of the toilet bowl.
  2. Hinge mounting apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the cylindrical part (1) has a threaded thru hole whose longitudinal axis perpendicularly intersects the mid point of longitudinal axis of the cylindrical part (1).
  3. The method of fixing the hinge mounting apparatus to the seat mounting hole of toilet bowl; according to claims 1 and 2, characterized in that
    - the bell shaped designed part (2) being inserted, by being tilted, that can move or rotate on cylindrical part (1) which is screwed to the hinge bolt (3), to the seat mounting hole (5) on the toilet bowl,
    - the bell shaped designed part (2) being in a horizontal position, by shaking the hinge body (4) or the apparatus by hand, after the insertion of bell shaped designed part (2) with the cylindrical part (1) into the seat mounting hole (5),
    - hinge bolt (3) being tightened while holding the hinge body (4) upward to prevent rotating of the cylindrical part (1) and the bell shaped designed part (2).
EP03811577A 2002-11-15 2003-05-20 Hinge mounting apparatus for the toilet bowls Expired - Lifetime EP1592332B1 (en)

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TR200202529 2002-11-15
TR2002/02529A TR200202529A2 (en) 2002-11-15 2002-11-15 Seat cover mounting bracket
PCT/TR2003/000045 WO2004045357A1 (en) 2002-11-15 2003-05-20 Hinge mounting apparatus for the pans

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AU (1) AU2003232718B8 (en)
DE (1) DE60316606T2 (en)
EA (1) EA006461B1 (en)
IL (1) IL167912A (en)
NZ (1) NZ538889A (en)
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WO (1) WO2004045357A1 (en)

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US3449774A (en) * 1967-02-01 1969-06-17 American Standard Inc Attachment device for toilet seat hinge
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