EP3574813B1 - Charnière pour un ensemble d'un siège de toilettes - Google Patents

Charnière pour un ensemble d'un siège de toilettes Download PDF

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EP3574813B1
EP3574813B1 EP18189769.5A EP18189769A EP3574813B1 EP 3574813 B1 EP3574813 B1 EP 3574813B1 EP 18189769 A EP18189769 A EP 18189769A EP 3574813 B1 EP3574813 B1 EP 3574813B1
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Sebastian LIETZMANN
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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
    • A47K13/12—Hinges
    • 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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  • the invention relates to a hinge for a toilet seat set formed from a cover and a seat, comprising a rotary damper for braking the lowering movement of the cover or the seat about a pivot axis of the toilet seat set, an adapter piece coupled coaxially with the rotary damper along the pivot axis, a hinge bolt which engages a receiving hole formed in the adapter piece, and a mounting base attachable to a toilet bowl on which the hinge pin is retained. Furthermore, the invention relates to a toilet seat set with a cover, a seat and a fastening device for attachment to a toilet bowl, the fastening device having two hinges.
  • a certain for a toilet seat hinge above type is from EP 1 199 020 B1 known.
  • the hinge pin engages in a receiving bore of an adapter piece that is coupled coaxially to a rotation damper.
  • the mounting hole of the adapter piece is here as a Blind hole formed, which has a hole base that prevents the complete passage of the hinge pin through the adapter piece transversely to the pivot axis. Since the free end of the hinge bolt, which is inserted into the mounting hole of the adapter piece during assembly of the toilet seat set, rests against the bottom of the mounting hole in the mounted state, comparatively large bearing forces act on the hinge bolt, which means that it is necessary to design the hinge bolt to be particularly stable in order to prevent damage to the prevent hinge.
  • document CN 106 388 682 A discloses a hinge for a toilet seat set with a mounting base and an outer tube, the outer tube resting with a contact surface on a bearing surface of the mounting base and the outer tube having a through hole.
  • EP 2 160 967 A2 discloses a toilet hinge having a mounting base and an outer tube, the outer tube resting on the base.
  • the object of the present invention is to further develop a hinge of the type mentioned at the outset in such a way that it is designed to be particularly stable with a comparatively simple structure. Furthermore, the object of the invention is to provide a toilet seat set with a fastening device which is intended for attaching the toilet seat set to a toilet bowl and has particularly compact hinges.
  • the hinge according to the invention for a toilet seat set formed by a lid and a seat comprises a rotary damper for braking the lowering movement of the lid or the seat about a pivot axis of the toilet seat set, coaxial with the rotary damper along the pivot axis coupled adapter piece, a hinge pin that engages in a receiving hole formed in the adapter piece, and a mounting base attachable to a toilet bowl on which the hinge pin is held.
  • the hinge also includes an outer tube that encloses at least the adapter piece and has a through hole, through which the hinge bolt engages in the receiving hole of the adapter piece, the receiving hole of the adapter piece also being designed as a through hole and the outer tube having a contact surface which is on a bearing surface designed on the fastening base rests.
  • the bearing forces are absorbed by the hinge bolt, which is attached to the bottom of the hole in the adapter piece trained blind hole rests, is kept free of bearing forces in the hinge according to the invention of the cross into the receiving bore of the adapter hinge pin.
  • the invention provides for the support forces to be absorbed by a support surface which is formed on the fastening base and on which a contact surface which is provided on an outer tube enveloping the adapter piece rests. Because the aforementioned surfaces are provided on the outer tube or the fastening base, they can be designed without great manufacturing effort in such a way that they absorb the support forces particularly effectively.
  • the outer tube preferably has a contact piece which is aligned perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the tube (or parallel to the longitudinal axis of the hinge bolt), the end face of which forms the contact surface resting on the bearing surface of the fastening base.
  • the contact piece can be designed, for example, as a short piece of pipe attached to the side of the outer pipe, which surrounds the through-bore formed in the outer pipe. The end face of this piece of pipe facing the fastening base then forms the contact surface which is in contact with the bearing surface of the fastening base.
  • the contact piece is preferably designed in one piece with a tubular body of the outer tube. This favors a particularly compact construction of the hinge according to the invention.
  • the contact surface of the outer tube and the bearing surface of the mounting base are conically shaped surfaces. Due to the conicity of the aforementioned surfaces During assembly, it is possible in a particularly simple manner to align the outer tube in the correct position on the fastening base and to place it there.
  • the hinge bolt can preferably be latched in the receiving bore of the adapter piece.
  • the mounting hole of the adapter piece has a lateral insertion groove in which an elastically deformable flat element is seated that protrudes laterally into the mounting hole, and that the hinge pin has a tapered section at its free end and an adjoining section Locking head has, which is widened compared to the tapered section.
  • the adapter piece when attaching the toilet seat set to the toilet bowl, the adapter piece is placed with its receiving bore on the hinge bolt so that its locking head passes through the elastically deformable flat element until the tapered section of the hinge bolt is held in the flat element.
  • the elastic resistance of the flat element must then be overcome in order to release the latching head of the hinge bolt from the flat element.
  • the receiving bore of the adapter piece can also have an annular groove in which an elastically deformable ring element is seated, which protrudes radially into the receiving bore.
  • the locking head is connected and released with or from the ring element.
  • the mounting base is a disk-shaped member having a bore for receiving the hinge pin and a slot for receiving a fastener attachable to the toilet bowl.
  • the fastener is part of a threaded connection, such as a threaded rod, onto which a nut is threaded to lock the mounting base to the toilet bowl.
  • the elongated hole allows variable positioning of the mounting base on the toilet bowl within limits.
  • the outer tube and the fastening base are made of plastic and/or metal, for example, and are therefore inexpensive and easy to clean, at least in the former case.
  • the toilet seat set according to the invention has a fastening device with which the Toilet seat set can be attached to a toilet bowl, this fastening device having two hinges of the type explained above.
  • the outer tubes of the two hinges are preferably formed from tube sections of a one-piece outer tube.
  • the two hinges are preferably located at opposite ends of the one-piece outer tube.
  • the outer tube jointly assigned to the two hinges results in a particularly compact construction of the toilet seat set.
  • the respective rotary damper which is coupled coaxially to the associated adapter piece along the pivot axis, is arranged outside of the one-piece outer tube.
  • one of the two rotary dampers brakes the lowering movement of the cover and the other rotary damper brakes the lowering movement of the seat.
  • figure 1 shows in perspective view a fastening device 10, which serves to attach a toilet seat set formed from a cover and a seat to a toilet bowl.
  • a fastening device 10 serves to attach a toilet seat set formed from a cover and a seat to a toilet bowl.
  • the toilet bowl and the toilet seat set to be attached thereto are omitted.
  • the fastening device 10 comprises two in figure 1 hinges, generally designated 12 and 14, by means of which the lid and the seat of the toilet seat set can be pivoted about a pivot axis S for lowering and raising respectively.
  • the two hinges 12 and 14 have a common, one-piece outer tube 16 and a disk-shaped mounting base 18 and 20, respectively.
  • the outer tube 16 made of plastic, for example, has two contact sockets 22, 24, which are aligned perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the tube coinciding with the pivot axis S and are placed on the associated fastening base 18 or 20 in a manner explained in more detail later.
  • the two hinges 12, 14 each have an adapter piece arranged inside the outer tube 16, which is coaxial along the pivot axis S with an in figure 1 not shown, is coupled outside of the outer tube 16 arranged rotary damper.
  • the two hinges 12, 14 respectively assigned adapter pieces and denoted there by 26, 27.
  • the two adapter pieces contained in the outer tube 16 interact with the rotary dampers assigned to them in a manner known per se in such a way that one of the two rotary dampers brakes the lowering movement of the cover and the other brakes the lowering movement of the seat.
  • the two hinges 12, 14 are essentially identical. In the following, therefore, with reference to the Figures 2 to 12 only the structure of the hinge 12 is explained in detail.
  • the hinge 12 forming components are in their entirety in the Figures 3 , 6 , 7 and 8th shown. while showing figure 3 a cut through the in figure 2 shown level AA and figure 7 a cut through the in figure 5 shown level BB. the figures 6 and 8th show the hinge 12 in different side views. In the figures 4 and FIGS. 9 through 12, parts of the overall assembly forming hinge 12 are shown.
  • the hinge 12 includes a hinge pin 28 which is retained within a bore 30 of the mounting base 18 (see particularly Figs Figures 3 and 7 ).
  • the hinge pin 28 is made of metal while the mounting base 18 is made of plastic.
  • the mounting base 18 has a slot 32 through which a fastener not shown in the figures, such as a threaded rod can be performed to attach the toilet seat set to the toilet bowl.
  • the mounting base 18 also has a support 34 protruding upwards from its upper side, which comprises a conically tapering support surface 36 and an adjoining cylindrical engagement section 38 (cf. in particular Figures 9 and 11 ).
  • the contact piece 22 formed on the outer tube 16 has an end face 40 which faces the fastening base 18 and which is adapted in shape to the bearing surface 36 of the fastening base 18, ie is also designed conically.
  • the end face 40 of the contact piece 22 thus forms a contact surface with which the contact piece 22 is seated on the bearing surface 36 of the fastening base 18 .
  • the outer tube 16 has a through hole 42 within the contact piece 22, with which the outer tube 16 can be plugged onto the engagement portion 38 of the support 34.
  • the hinge pin 28 thus reaches through the through hole 42 into the interior of the outer tube 16.
  • the hinge 12 can have a connecting element 56, such as a horizontal spring, which laterally surrounds the contact piece 22 in the side view of the hinge 12.
  • the adapter piece 26 has the shape of a cylinder and has a receiving bore 44 for the hinge pin 28 .
  • the receiving bore 44 is designed as a through bore and is aligned with the through bore 42 formed in the outer tube 16 .
  • the hinge pin 28 thus engages through the through bore 42 formed in the outer tube 16 into the receiving bore 44 of the adapter piece 26.
  • the hinge pin 28 has a section 46 that is tapered in relation to its base body and a latching head 48 adjoining it.
  • the latching head 48 is widened compared to the tapered section 46 .
  • a lateral insertion groove 50 is formed within the receiving bore 44 of the adapter piece 26, in which an elastically deformable flat element 52 is received (cf. in particular Figures 3 and 12 ).
  • the flat element 52 has a central annular opening 54, which is adapted to the tapered section 46 and the latching head 48 of the hinge bolt 28 in such a way that when the outer tube 16 is placed on the fastening base 18, the hinge bolt 28 first snaps with its latching head 48, thereby widening the annular opening 54 passes through the flat element 52 and is then held at its tapered section 26 due to the elasticity of the flat element 52 in its annular opening 54 and locked therewith.
  • the elastic resistance with which the tapered section 46 of the hinge pin 28 is held in the ring opening 54 of the flat element 52 must be overcome.

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  1. Charnière (12) pour garniture de siège de toilettes formée à partir d'une assise et d'un couvercle, comprenant :
    un amortisseur de rotation pour freiner le mouvement d'abaissement du couvercle ou de l'assise autour d'un axe de pivotement (S) de la garniture de siège de toilettes,
    un adaptateur (26) couplé coaxialement à l'amortisseur de rotation le long de l'axe de pivotement (S),
    un boulon de charnière (28) qui vient en prise dans un alésage de réception (44) formé dans l'adaptateur (26), et
    une base de fixation (18) pouvant être montée sur une cuvette de toilette, sur laquelle le boulon de charnière (28) est maintenu,
    un tube extérieur (16) enveloppant au moins l'adaptateur (26) avec un alésage traversant (42), à travers lequel le boulon de charnière (28) vient en prise dans l'alésage de réception (44) de l'adaptateur (26), et
    dans laquelle l'alésage de réception (44) de l'adaptateur est réalisé sous la forme d'un alésage traversant et le tube extérieur (16) présente une surface de contact (40) qui repose sur une surface d'appui (36) formée sur la base de fixation (18),
    caractérisée en ce que la surface de contact (40) du tube extérieur (16) et la surface d'appui (36) de la base de fixation (18) sont des surfaces de forme conique.
  2. Charnière (12) selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que le tube extérieur (16) présente un embout d'installation (22) orienté perpendiculairement à l'axe longitudinal de tube, dont la surface frontale forme la surface de contact (40) en appui sur la surface d'appui (36) de la base de fixation (18).
  3. Charnière (12) selon la revendication 2, caractérisée en ce que l'embout d'installation (22) est réalisé en une seule pièce avec un corps de tube du tube extérieur (16) .
  4. Charnière (12) selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que le boulon de charnière (28) peut être encliqueté dans l'alésage de réception (44) de l'adaptateur (26).
  5. Charnière (12) selon la revendication 4, caractérisée en ce que l'alésage de réception (44) de l'adaptateur (26) présente une rainure d'insertion latérale (50) dans laquelle est disposé un élément plat déformable élastiquement (52) qui fait saillie latéralement dans l'alésage de réception (44), et en ce que le boulon de charnière (28) présente, au niveau de son extrémité libre, une section effilée (46) et une tête d'encliquetage (48) adjacente qui est élargie par rapport à la section effilée (46).
  6. Charnière (12) selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que la base de fixation (18) est un élément en forme de disque qui présente un alésage (30) pour recevoir le boulon de charnière (28) et un trou oblong (32) pour recevoir un élément de fixation qui peut être monté sur la cuvette des toilettes.
  7. Charnière (12) selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que le tube extérieur est réalisé en matière plastique.
  8. Charnière (12) selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que la base de fixation (18) est réalisée en matière plastique et le boulon de charnière (28) est réalisé en métal.
  9. Garniture de siège de toilettes comprenant un couvercle, une assise et un dispositif de fixation (10) destiné à être monté sur une cuvette des toilettes, dans lequel le dispositif de fixation (10) présente deux charnières (12, 14) selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes.
  10. Garniture de siège de toilettes selon la revendication 9, caractérisé en ce que les tubes extérieurs des deux charnières (12, 14) sont formés à partir de sections de tube d'un tube extérieur en une seule pièce (16).
  11. Garniture de siège de toilettes selon la revendication 10, caractérisé en ce que les deux charnières (12, 14) sont agencées à des extrémités opposées du tube extérieur (16) .
  12. Garniture de siège de toilettes selon la revendication 11, caractérisé en ce que l'amortisseur de rotation respectif, qui est couplé coaxialement à l'adaptateur associé (26) le long de l'axe de pivotement (S), est agencé à l'extérieur du tube extérieur en une seule pièce (16).
  13. Garniture de siège de toilettes selon l'une quelconque des revendications 9 à 12, caractérisé en ce que l'un des deux amortisseurs de rotation freine le mouvement d'abaissement du couvercle et l'autre amortisseur de rotation freine le mouvement d'abaissement de l'assise.
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