WO1991014137A1

WO1991014137A1 - Securing systems for safety guards on built-in stoves

Info

Publication number: WO1991014137A1
Application number: PCT/NO1991/000038
Authority: WO
Inventors: Halvor Saga
Original assignee: Halvor Saga
Priority date: 1990-03-09
Filing date: 1991-03-08
Publication date: 1991-09-19
Also published as: NO901123L; NO901123D0

Abstract

Securing bracket (10) for a children's safety guard for built-in stoves comprising an angled body (14) whereof one end optionally is downwards extended to produce a lip (9) which may clamp about a recess (3) for a built-in stove top (1), and/or which further comprises at least one upwards extending ear (11) for securing the children's safety guard (8) relatively to the stove top (1). The securing bracket may also be shaped so that the children's safety guard part (8) may be disassembled from the bracket and be secured by the help of a loosable snap-lock device. The securing bracket (10) may also be formed as an integrate part of the children's safety guard (8').

Description

SECURING SYSTEMS FOR SAFETY GUARDS ON BUILT-IN STOVES

D i s c l o s u r e

The present invention concerns devices for securing a children's safety guard on built-in stoves, especially securing brackets for such children's guards, and a unity product comprising such fastening brackets.

A large part of accidents in a socitey are domestic accidents, and of such accidents the ones involving children and stoves/cooking appliances a large group. Based on the fact that children are curious and do not always have any insight inTO the function or the dangers of household appliances, children's saftey guards are important, preventing harm to come to the children. In this connection children's safety guards preventing children access to the heating plates on the stoves/cooking appliances are very important because the children may become seriously burnt by hot objects such as pots or hot fat therein on top of the stove if they by curiosity or through play accidentally overturn the pots over themselves.

There is from previous technique known several types of children's safety devices preventing children access to the top of the stove, but all of these are deviced for mounting on conventional stoves/cooking appliances standing freely in the room, and not for built-in stoves. To secure such previously known children's saftety devices on built-in stoves is either difficult and requires drilling or not suitable improvised adjustment of the safety device, or is impossible. This on account of the fact that built-in stoves are inserted and recessed into the kichen workbench and do thus not have the front part of the stove top accessible for mounting the above mentioned children's safety device. Accordingly, it is a purpose for the present invention to provide a device, especially a securing bracket, making the securing of such children's safety devices possible. It is furthermore a purpose of the present invention to produce a 5 unitary device which may be formed to a children's safety guard for built-in stoves with the mentioned bracket as an integrated part.

The present invention will below be more closely described 0 with reference to the attatched figures, wherein:

Fig. 1 shows an overview of a conventional mounting for built-in heating plates wherefrom implicitly appear the difficulties with mounting conventional children's safety 5 guards.

Fig. 2 shows the same built-in cooking plates as fig. l, but with an indication of the securing device for the cildren's safety guard according to the present invention. 0

Fig. 3 shows a detailed section of the security system for the children's safety guard for built-in stoves wherefrom there appears a possibilty for securing the children's safety guard according to the invention.

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Fig. 4 shows a detailed picture of a special form of a securing bracket for a children's safety device according to the invention.

30 Fig. 5 shows a sectional drawing of a combined children's safety device/securing device where the fastening according to the invention is an integrated part of the children's safety guard.

35 In fig. 1 ut is shown a conventional built-in stove top 1 with heating plates 2 which may be built into a recessed opening 3 in the top of a kitchen workbench 4. On the figure there is also suggested a switch panel 5 for a built- in stove 6. The stove top 1 comprises conventionally in addition a covering/water-tight sealing list 7 usually being mounted on the built-in stove 6/kitchen workbench 4 as shown in fig. 3 and as disclosed with reference to this figure. As is evident from fig. 1 the dimensions of the stove top fits the recess 3 so that a mounting of a possible chil¬ dren's security guard might be percieved to be performed by either mounting the children's guard to the stove top proper 1 or to the workbench plate 4. In both cases there would, however, have to be placed screw fastening to each of the parts with corresponding penetrating holes, something which would look both disfiguring to the appearance and harmful for workbench/stove top since water and liquids might get into the screw fastenings/screw holes.

One solution to this problem has been found with the securing system according to the present invention, as shown i fig. 2. In this figure, wherein each reference number corresponds to the ones shown in fig. 1, it is suggested a placing for a transparent children's safety guard 8. (The safety guard need not be made of transparent material, but may be made of any suitable material such as plastic or metal, but is in the figure illustrated as being transparent for reasons of clarity.) The dimensions of this children's safety guard is such that it is somewhat larger than the recessed opening 3, but not larger than downreaching lips 9 on securing brackets 10 fastened to the safety guard 8, may clamp around the edges of the workbench material 4 along the edge of the recessed hole 3. This is also illustrated in fig. 3. The size of the children's safety guard is also chosen so that the stove top 1 may be placed inside the limits surrounded by the edges of the children's safety guard 8, the stove top simultaneously being so large that it fits into the recessed hole 3 and may be mounted along its securing/water-tight listing 7 along the edge of the recessed hole 3, but being gripped by upwards extending ears 11 being placed on the securing brackets 10, as shown in detail in fig. 3. Fig. 3 illustrates in sectional view a mounting possibility for the children's safety guard according to the invention. The reference numbers in the figure are equal to the ones in fig. 1 and 2. In this figure there are for conventional fastening of the built-in stove 6 to the workbench plate 4 shown a conventional mounting bracket 12 which with a screw 13 is screwed onto the stove 6. This fastening bracket 12 is further secured to the stove top 1, optionally as a unitary downwards projecting part from the water-tight/moun¬ ting bracket 7. With such a fastening the workbench plate 4 will be pulled tight between the stove 6 and the stove top 1 via the water-tight/securing listing 7. By equipping a children's safety guard 8 with mounting clamps 10 as disclosed above, it will be possible to clamp tight such a children's safety guard under the water-tight/securing listing 7 simultaneously with mounting the stove top 1. By such a mounting the extending ears 11 on the mounting brackets 10 will serve as hooked prickles so that the children's safety guard does not slip or become twisted when mounting or with subsequent use.

For further ensuring water-tightness between the workbench top 4 and the underside of the mounting bracket 10, ther may be placed a rubber listing between these parts. At such a mounting it will be required to apply mounting holes either in the workbench plate 4 or in the stove top 1.

In the figures there is shown a mounting bracket situated on each side edge of the children's safety guard 8, but it is obviously possible to place any number of such brackets on any side of the guard as long as thy are gripped by the water-tight/securing listing 7. It is also obvious that the ears 11 do not extend so high that they interfere with the mounting possibilities of the listing 7.

In fig. 4 there is shown another possible embodiment of the securing bracket 10 according to the invention, wherein the reference numbers are as given previously. In this figure the lip 9 shown in the other figures is, however, omitted. The ears 11 are, however, present as before to ensure the safety guard against twisting in relation to the stove top 1. Additionally there is on the bracket 10, optionally on the backside 14 of the bracket 10, provided guiding wings 14' for guiding the plate section of a children's safety guard 8 to lock into the slot thereby being produced between the backside 14 and the guiding wings 14'. Furthermore, the backside 14 may also comprise a conventionally known snap lock mechanism with a corresponding locking part/slot in the children's safety guard so that when the children's safety guard 8 is dropped into the slot being present between the back part 14 and the wings 14* , the locking mechanism will secure the children's safety guard to the bracket. It is preferred for cleaning and hygienic reasons that the locking mechanism is of a detatchable kind so that the children's safety device may be removed from the securing bracket. In such a case the children's safety guard part 8 may be present as a surrounding plate covering the edge(s) of the stove, and needing only to encompass the snap-locking device cooperating with the corresponding locking mechanism on the securing bracket so that it may be secured or detatched by simply leding it into or up from the slot between the wings 14' and the back side 14.

It is also possible to produce the securing bracket according to the invention without the ears 11, but with the lip 9 (or vice versa). In this case the children's safety guard will be secured by depressing the securing bracket against its seating, and will be prevented from twisting via the lining of the lip 9. This may be of interest e.g. with an alternate shape of the bracket when the securing device for the children's safety guard is as shown in fig. 4, namely with wings 14', guiding slots and locking mechanism.

The securing bracket 10 may according to the invention be produced as a single bracket as shown in fig. 4, or as an integrate part of the children's safety guard as shown in fig. 5. If there is produced a bracket which may be secured to the children's safety guard 8, the backside 14 of the securing bracket 10 may optionally be fastened in any suitable way, e.g. with welding, soldering or gluing if it is convenient not to disassemble the children's security guard from the bracket. It is of course not necessary to shape the ears 11 as shown in the figure, but they may be shaped in other ways, e.g. as one (or more) upwards extending ears on the middle of the holding part of the bracket.

If the securing bracket is present as an integrate part of the safety guard as shown in fig. 5, it will of course not be necessary with any such fastening, but it will obviously be possible, if convenient, to mount extra securing brackets in addition to the ones being an integrate part of the children's safety guard. Such a combined children's safety guard/securing system may be formed as one single stamped- out plate 8' with wakened sections 15,16 in the form of holes, where the children's safety guard proper may be formed by bending the plate 8' about the wakened line 15, and thereafter bend the bracket parts 10 into position about the weakened lines 16. Fig. 5 does not show one complete part for a children's safety guard, but only half a one, and the complete children's safety guard will be formed so that the second half, which is not shown, is a mirror image of the part being shown in fig. 5.

Claims

C l a i m s

1. Device for securing a children's safety guard to a built-in stove, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that the securing device comprises a bracket (10) which is made up of an angular body (14) with one end (9) optionally being bent to a lip which may clamp the edge of a recess (3) for a built-in stove (1) and/or comprising at least one upwards extending ear (11) for securing the downward end of a children's security guard (8).

2. Device according to claim 1, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that it comprises two upwards extending ears (11) .

3. Device according to claim 1 or 2, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that the backside part (14) of the bracket (10) comprises a part of a locking mechanism for a children's safety guard and a slot present between the backside (14) and at least one wing (14*) being present on the bracket (10) .

4. Device according to claim 3, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that the locking device may be disassembled for removing the children's safety guard (8).

5. Device according to claim 1 or 2, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that the bracket is an integrate part of the children's safety guard (8¹).

6. Device according to claim 5, c h a r a c t e r i z e d i n that the bracket is equipped with a weakened section (16) at the intersection with the children's safety guard (8').