Classifications

• • 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
  • A47K3/00—Baths; Douches; Appurtenances therefor
  • A47K3/28—Showers or bathing douches
  • A47K3/30—Screens or collapsible cabinets for showers or baths
  • A47K3/36—Articulated screens
  • A47K3/362—Articulated screens comprising sliding and articulated panels
• • 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
  • A47K3/00—Baths; Douches; Appurtenances therefor
  • A47K3/28—Showers or bathing douches
  • A47K3/30—Screens or collapsible cabinets for showers or baths
  • A47K3/36—Articulated screens
  • A47K2003/365—Liftable articulated screens to be swung over the faucets and against the wall

Definitions

• the invention is in the field of housing amenities, and it relates to a wall, called a shower screen to use a bathtub as a shower tray.
• a wall called a shower screen to use a bathtub as a shower tray.
• a spring such as a gas spring, provides assistance in lifting the panel (s) by the user.
• the wall of the invention is of the type referred to above comprising at least one panel consisting of a frame formed of profiles supporting a glazing, the said panel being slidably mounted along a wall profile fixed to the frame by means of a profile on which it is pivotally mounted, so that the panel can either be pressed against the edge of the tank in a position, called low, or be raised, in a position called high, and be folded against the frame above valves, said wall being equipped with lifting assistance means comprising a spring, gas in particular, housed in the wall profile and interposed in compression between support members respectively supported by the intermediate profile and the wall profile, so that the spring exerts a upward thrust on the intermediate section slightly greater than the weight of the panel.
• lifting assistance means comprising a spring, gas in particular, housed in the wall profile and interposed in compression between support members respectively supported by the intermediate profile and the wall profile, so that the spring exerts a upward thrust on the intermediate section slightly greater than the weight of the panel.
• the inventive step consisted in equipping the wall with means for deflecting the thrust of the spring from the support it takes on the support member supported by the intermediate section, towards a stop supported by the wall profile, when the wall is brought to the low position.
• said deflection means comprise means for breaking down the force provided by the user to move the wall in translation with a view to raising or lowering it, into a vertical thrust inducing said movement of the wall by a part, and in a thrust perpendicular to the general orientation of the spring inducing a transverse offset thereof on the other.
• the deflection means comprise antagonistic inclined bearing planes formed respectively on the stop and on said panel lifting support member, the distance d transversely separating the stop from the lifting support member of the panel being less than the transverse size thereof, such so that the spring, depending on the upward or downward thrust exerted by the user on the panel, takes a sliding bearing alternately along each of the inclined planes, and finally is acted alternately towards the stop or the supporting member for lifting the panel, abutment and support member against which it alternately bears when these are in a position overhanging it.
• the said inclined planes can be either curved or planar, and can be indifferently arranged, or on the part of the spring bearing on the stop and on the support member for lifting the panel, and / or on the stop and said support member.
• the panel would be slidably mounted along the intermediate profile and the spring would bear against the intermediate profile and on the panel in view of its lifting, and that the provisions relating to one arrangement of the preferred deflection means of the invention would then be applied in correspondence for the intermediate profile and for the profile of the frame of the panel opposite thereon, of the same way as has just been described respectively for the wall profile and the intermediate profile.
• FIGS. 1 and 2 are illustrations of a wall of the kind of which the invention relates, placed in its context of use
• FIGS. 3 and 4 are successive diagrams of the invention, according to a preferred embodiment
• fig.5 and 6 are sectional views, respectively longitudinal and transverse of a wall of one invention according to the preferred embodiment illustrated in the previous diagrams
• fig.7 is a detail of fig.6
• Fig.8 is a partial perspective view partially broken away of a wall illustrated in the previous views.
• a bathtub 2 is equipped with a wall composed of several panels, such as 4, hinged to each other and consisting of glazing 6 supported by a frame formed from profiles, such as 8.
• An end panel 4 is slidably mounted along a wall profile 10, by means of a profile 12 on which it is pivotally mounted 14, so that the panels 4 can either be lowered into a position low resting against the edge 16 of the bath 2 (fig.l), or be raised to a high position to be folded over the tap 18 (fig.2).
• FIGS. 1 a bathtub 2 is equipped with a wall composed of several panels, such as 4, hinged to each other and consisting of glazing 6 supported by a frame formed from profiles, such as 8.
• An end panel 4 is slidably mounted along a wall profile 10, by means of a profile 12 on which it is pivotally mounted 14, so that the panels 4 can either be lowered into a position low resting against the edge 16 of the bath 2 (fig.l), or be raised to a high position to be folded over the tap 18 (fig.2).
• a gas spring 20 exerts a thrust greater than the weight of the wall to provide the user with assistance in lifting the latter, the spring 20 being housed in the wall profile 10 and bearing on a member 22 fixed on the wall profile on the one hand, and on a member 24 supported by the intermediate profile 12. So that the panels 4 making up the wall rest in a sealed manner on the edge 16 of the bath 2, the invention proposes to break the support of the spring 20 on the wall so that the latter naturally rests with all its weight on the edge 16 of the bath 2.
• Figs. 3 and 4 the thrust of the spring 20 is deflected between two supports, from one under the support member 24 supported by the intermediate profile 12, to another under a stop 26 supported by the wall profile 10.
• Support planes 28 and 30 antagonists are respectively provided on the stop 26 and on the support member 24 of the spring 20 on the intermediate section 12. It will be noted that the distance d separating transversely the stop 26 and said support member 24 is less than the transverse size of the spring 20.
• the support planes 28 and 30 transversely bias the spring 20 and places it in engagement, either under the stop 26 under the effect of 'a downward movement (arrow 1) of the intermediate section 12, as illustrated in fig.4 and dotted in fig.5 and 8, either under said support member 24 under the effect of a upward movement (arrow 3) of the intermediate section 12, as illustrated in figs. 3, 5 and 8.
• the wall 4 is automatically freed from any upward constraint to rest naturally on the edge 16 of the bathtub 2 when it is lowered by the user, and automatically placed under the pushing effect of the spring 20 when it is raised.
• FIGS. 5 to 8 which illustrate a shape preferred embodiment of the invention according to which the inclined planes 28 and 30 are formed on the stop 26 and the said support member 24:
• the stop 26 supported by the wall profile 10 is formed of an elongated trapezoid rod, made of plastic for example, extending over a length substantially equivalent to that of the spring 20, for maintaining the latter along its axis d expansion, or in other words to avoid bending of the spring 20 when the panel 4 is in the high position;
• the rod 26 is preferably attached, for example by gluing, in a corridor 32, called the first, formed inside the wall profile 10.
• the support member 24 for lifting the " panel 4" is shaped as a short trapezoid and is attached, for example by screwing, against an external face of the intermediate section 12, the latter being slidably mounted in a corridor 34, called the second, formed in the wall profile 10 opposite the first corridor 32.
• the intermediate section 12 is guided with play along the second corridor 34 by means of a pair of roller trains 36 which it supports at each of its ends.

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• Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
• Public Health (AREA)
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• General Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
• Devices For Medical Bathing And Washing (AREA)
• Residential Or Office Buildings (AREA)
• Bathtubs, Showers, And Their Attachments (AREA)
• Domestic Plumbing Installations (AREA)
• Massaging Devices (AREA)
• Battery Electrode And Active Subsutance (AREA)
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• Sink And Installation For Waste Water (AREA)

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