FR2498995A3 - Push-fitted decorative panel for cooker controls and display - uses stud clips or adhesive pads fitted to rear surface of panel, allowing quick fitting and alteration to match rest of cabinet - Google Patents

Abstract

The decorative panels are fitted around controls and displays of the cooking appts. are fitted with metal clips or adhesive pads to allow quick insertion and removal so that panels of different colouring and patterning can be quickly fitted to match the decor required for a range of finishes and designs of cooker. The decorative panel has cutouts to allow passage of controls and viewing of displays such as indicator lights, temperature setting dials and the like. Holes are provided in the cooker face for the studs fitted and the rear of the decorative panel, which is push fitted to the cooker face, with the studs fitted into the holes. Alternatively adhesive pads may be used in place of the studs.

Description

 The present invention relates to a decorative panel for the control and display panel of a household appliance, such as an oven, an extractor hood, etc.

 It has become common to market sets of household appliances, each of which includes, for example, an oven, an extractor hood, a built-in hob, etc., all of which are intended to equip the same kitchen. It is obviously desirable that all the apparatuses of such an assembly present, at least on certain parts of them, the same decorative aspect, for example the same color. This decorative aspect, in particular this color, is chosen by the 'buyer preferably relative to the hob, whose entire surface is for example covered with an enamel of a specific color; the same color, in particular the same enamel, on the other hand only covers limited areas of other household appliances in the same set, especially the control and display panels for the oven, the extractor hood, etc.

 The multiplicity of decorations, and in particular of colors, therefore creates considerable difficulties both for manufacturers of household appliances and for resellers, who are obliged to stock, in sufficient number, complete sets corresponding to each of the decorations, and in particular 9 each of the possible colors.

 The present invention eliminates the difficulties which have just been mentioned, both in terms of manufacturing and in terms of storage of household appliances.

 The decorative panel according to the present invention is of the type indicated initially, and it is characterized by the fact that it has openings and windows adapted to allow the passage of the control members and the reading of the displays provided on the control panel. 11 household appliance, and that means are provided on the back of the decorative panel and / or on the table which it must cover to allow very rapid, and preferably removable, fixing of said panel on the table.

 Qråce the present invention, it becomes possible to manufacture and store only, on the one hand, household appliances such as ovens, extractor hoods .. etc .., whose control and display panels are devoid of any decor, as well as, on the other hand, decorative panels adaptable to said household appliances, and presenting the different decors, in particular the different colors of the range offered to buyers.

 The present invention also covers sets of household appliances of the above type.

ment indicated, the control and display panels of all devices of the same set are covered by decorative panels according to the present invention.

 By way of examples, several embodiments of the invention have been described below and illustrated diagrammatically in the appended drawing.

 Figure i illustrates the mounting of a decorative panel according to the present invention on the control and display panel of an oven.

 Figure 2 illustrates the mounting of a decorative panel according to the present invention on the control panel of an extractor hood.

 In FIG. T, 1 designates the control and display panel of an oven, in particular of a built-in oven; 2 designates a decorative panel according to the present invention, intended to cover the table 7 of the oven; in this exemplary embodiment, the decorative panel 2 is constituted, for example, by a piece of sheet, shaped and cut with the press so as to include windows 2a, 2b, 2c adapted to allow the passage of the control members and reading the displays, provided in la, 7b and 7c on the oven table 1. In this embodiment, the decorative panel 2 can be fixed on the oven table 1 by means of several metal clips, including the male parts , 3A, are fixed to the rear face of the decorative panel 2, while the female parts, 3B, are embedded in the table 1 of the oven, in appropriate positions.

This allows a very rapid fixing of the panel 2 on the table 1 if it suffices to present the panel 2 in a suitable position opposite table 1 of the oven and to push the said panel 2 so that, on the one hand, the edges of the said panel 2 fit into the profile 4 which surrounds the table 1, and that, on the other hand, the male parts 3A of the clips engage in the corresponding female parts, 3B, which hold them. This fixing iodine obviously allows the decorative panel 2 to be removed and its possible replacement with another panel, for example having a different decorative aspect.

For example, the front face (not visible in FIG. 1) of the decorative panel 2 can be coated with an enamel of determined color. By cons, it is not necessary that the table 7 of the oven has any decorative appearance, including a specific color, since it will be completely masked by the decorative panel 2. The same oven can therefore be matched for example with plates enameled baking trays of different colors, especially by fixing on its table 1 a decorative panel 2 of color matching the enamel of the baking sheet.

 FIG. 2 shows a decorative panel according to the present invention, intended to cover the control panel 5 with an extractor hood (not shown in detail). This decorative panel 6 only has an opening 6a and a window 6b for the passage of different control members arranged on the panel, 5, of the extractor hood.

The front face of the decorative panel 6 can also be covered with colored enamel.

On the other hand, four permanent, flat magnets, 7a to 7d, are fixed by any appropriate means, to the four corners of the table 5, so as to keep applied, on the latter, the decorative panel 6, at least if consists of t8le. If, on the other hand, the decorative panel 6 is made of a non-magnetic material, it is necessary to fix, at the four corners of its rear face (not visible in FIG. 2), pallets of magnetic or movable material, in positions suitable for allow them to cooperate with the permanent magnets 7a to 7d of the table 5. The fixing of the decorative panel 6 on the table 5 is still very easy; the decorative panel 6 can then easily be detached from the table 5, for example by using the blade of a screwdriver or the like.

 The present invention is not limited to the two embodiments described above.

It encompasses all their variants. The metal clips 3A-3B (Figure 1) can be replaced by plastic clips, or by strips of fabric, adapted to hang on to each other, or by adhesive or self-adhesive strips. adhesives. In the case, for example, of the decorative panel 6 (FIG. 2), capable of being fitted onto a projecting table 5, it is possible to secure it from one to the other by elastic deformation from one to the other. less of the cooperating parts of table 5 and panel 6; in the case illustrated in FIG. 2, at least some of the edges of the panel 6 could for example be provided with cut elastic tabs, forming sorts of spring blades, which would be applied to the projecting edges of the table 5. The panels decorative elements according to the present invention can also be glued to the control and display panels of the corresponding household appliances.

Claims (4)

 1. Decorative panel for the control and display panel of a household appliance, such as an oven, an extractor hood, etc., characterized in that it has openings and windows adapted to allow the passage of the control members and the reading of the displays provided on the table of the household appliance, and that means are provided on the back of the decorative panel, and / or on the table which it must cover, to allow a very rapid, and preferably removable, fixing of said panel on the board.  2. Panel according to claim 1, characterized in that it is removably attached to the control and display panel, for example by means of permanent magnets, metal or plastic clips, strips of fabric adapted to cling to one another, adhesive or self-adhesive strips, or by deformation of at least one of the cooperating parts of the panel and of the table.  3. Panel according to claim 1, characterized in that it is glued to the control and display panel.  4. Set of household appliances such as ovens, extractor hoods etc ..., intended to equip the same kitchen, the control and display panels of all the appliances in this set being covered by decorative panels according to one any of claims i to 3, all having the same decorative appearance, for example the same color.