Classifications

• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
  • F24D—DOMESTIC- OR SPACE-HEATING SYSTEMS, e.g. CENTRAL HEATING SYSTEMS; DOMESTIC HOT-WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; ELEMENTS OR COMPONENTS THEREFOR
  • F24D19/00—Details
  • F24D19/02—Arrangement of mountings or supports for radiators
  • F24D19/0203—Types of supporting means
  • F24D19/0209—Supporting means having bracket
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
  • F24D—DOMESTIC- OR SPACE-HEATING SYSTEMS, e.g. CENTRAL HEATING SYSTEMS; DOMESTIC HOT-WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; ELEMENTS OR COMPONENTS THEREFOR
  • F24D19/00—Details
  • F24D19/02—Arrangement of mountings or supports for radiators
  • F24D19/022—Constructional details of supporting means for radiators
  • F24D19/0223—Distance pieces between the radiator and the wall
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
  • F24D—DOMESTIC- OR SPACE-HEATING SYSTEMS, e.g. CENTRAL HEATING SYSTEMS; DOMESTIC HOT-WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; ELEMENTS OR COMPONENTS THEREFOR
  • F24D19/00—Details
  • F24D19/02—Arrangement of mountings or supports for radiators
  • F24D19/022—Constructional details of supporting means for radiators
  • F24D19/0226—Additional means supporting the process of mounting
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
  • F24D—DOMESTIC- OR SPACE-HEATING SYSTEMS, e.g. CENTRAL HEATING SYSTEMS; DOMESTIC HOT-WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; ELEMENTS OR COMPONENTS THEREFOR
  • F24D19/00—Details
  • F24D19/02—Arrangement of mountings or supports for radiators
  • F24D19/024—Functioning details of supporting means for radiators
  • F24D19/0256—Radiators clamped by supporting means
  • F24D19/0263—Radiators clamped by supporting means between two columns or tubes
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
  • F24D—DOMESTIC- OR SPACE-HEATING SYSTEMS, e.g. CENTRAL HEATING SYSTEMS; DOMESTIC HOT-WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; ELEMENTS OR COMPONENTS THEREFOR
  • F24D2220/00—Components of central heating installations excluding heat sources
  • F24D2220/20—Heat consumers
  • F24D2220/2009—Radiators
  • F24D2220/2045—Radiators having horizontally extending tubes

Definitions

• the invention relates to a device for fixing a bar heater.
• Barred heating bodies are conventionally used in the field of dry towels, dry towels, radiators, etc., they generally comprise two vertical hollow collectors substantially parallel and interconnected by a plurality of parallel horizontal hollow bars and adjacent two-by-two .
• a coolant can circulate in the collectors and / or bars to allow heat transfer through the bars and / or collectors.
• the collectors and bars can take various forms, for example straight or bent, round, square or square tubes, etc.
• a conventional installation of these heating bodies is carried out on a wall using specialized fasteners for this purpose.
• the heating body does not have means for hanging, and therefore requires the use of devices adapting to the forms of the latter to support it on the one hand, and fix it to the wall on the other hand.
• fasteners may require many settings such as depth, angle of attachment, tightening, etc.
• fixing devices offering a complex mechanism using various fixing means requiring several assembly operations.
• the installation using fasteners according to the prior art involves a considerable assembly time and difficulty of implementation.
• the risk of falling of the heating body during installation are high because of the number of parts to be assembled for each fastener.
• the devices according to the prior art make it difficult to control the quality of the assembly by direct vision, or the safety of the fixation of the heating body depends on the quality of the assembly, especially when using the means of complex fixation.
• An object of the invention is to provide a simple and fast heating element fixing device to implement, while ensuring the maintenance of the heating body and assuring the quality of editing by direct vision.
• a support provided with a cavity, and intended to be secured to a wall
• a fixing element comprising an elongated body inserted in the cavity, and a fixing head of the heating body disposed at one end of the elongate body, said fixing head projecting from the support,
• the invention also relates to a method of installation on a wall of a heating body equipped with bars, said method comprises the following steps: - fix the support on the wall,
• Figure 1 illustrates a support used to form the fastener.
• Figure 2 illustrates a fastener used to form the fastener.
• Figure 3 illustrates a pin used to secure the assembly of the support and the fastener.
• FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrate two assemblies using the support of FIG. 1, the fastening element of FIG. 2 and the pin of FIG.
• Figures 6 and 7 illustrate another embodiment of a fastener.
• FIGS. 8 to 11 illustrate a first method of installing a heating element on a wall, the device comprising a fixing element according to FIG.
• FIGS. 12 to 16 illustrate a second method of installing a heating element on a wall, the device comprising a fixing element according to FIGS. 6 and 7.
• Figure 17 illustrates an embodiment of a fastener using a peg.
• Figure 18 illustrates a heating body placed on a wall. Description of preferred embodiments
• the invention differs from the prior art in that it does not require the use of screws other than for example at least one screw for fixing the support to the wall.
• the device for fixing a bar-shaped heating body comprises a support 1 (FIG. 1) intended to be secured to a wall by any type of fastener, for example a screw, of the glue, or a hole made in the wall in which the support 1 will be mounted by force.
• This support 1 is provided with a cavity 2.
• the cavity 2 preferably forms a hole that may or may not open, along a parallel longitudinal axis to the direction di.
• the inlet of the cavity 2 is preferably located at one end of the support 1 opposite the end intended to be fixed to the wall.
• the fixing device further comprises a fixing element 3, illustrated in FIG. 2, comprising an elongated body 4 and a fastening head 5 of the heating body shaped to support a bar of the heating body, preferably in the position of stable balance to favor safety during assembly.
• the fixing head 5 is disposed at one end of the elongate body 4.
• the head 5 and the body 4 are in one piece.
• Positive locking means a lock that removes the relative movements of the fixing head 5 with respect to the heating element, that is to say, after locking, the fixing head 5 is fixed to the heating body securing the latter in case of attempted efforts exerted on said heating body (eg a traction, a translation, etc.).
• the cavity 2 may comprise two facing faces of one another, preferably planar, each of the faces being provided with notches (striated portion in FIG. 1) arranged so as to reinforce the retention of the elongate body 4 in the cavity 2.
• the notches can act by frictionally sandwiching the elongate body 4, and by slaving the translation of the elongate body 4 according to its direction of insertion into the cavity 2 at a predetermined threshold force.
• the faces of the elongate body 4 intended to come into contact with the faces provided with notches of the support 1 may comprise a plurality of protuberances improving the connection between the elongated body 4 and the cavity 2.
• a locking pin 6, illustrated in FIG. 3, makes it possible to lock the assembly of the fastening element 3 with the support 1.
• the pin 6 thus prevents the removal of the fastening element 3 from the support 1 once it has been set. in place.
• Figures 4 and 5 illustrate two assembled devices.
• the pin 6 can be nested in a first hole 7a formed at the support 1 (FIG. 1) and opening into the cavity 2, and in a second hole 7b (FIG. 2) formed in the elongate body 4 inserted into the the cavity 2 of the support
• the faces of the cavity 2 having the striations are substantially perpendicular to the axis of the first hole 7a.
• the support 1 comprises a longitudinal direction di and a transverse direction 62 perpendicular to the longitudinal direction di. These two directions di and d 2 form a first plane.
• the first hole 7a is preferably made perpendicular to this first plane and opens into the cavity 2.
• the elongated body 4 of the fastening element 3 has a direction longitudinal d 3 , parallel to the longitudinal axis of the elongate body 4, and perpendicular to a transverse direction d 4 so as to form a second plane.
• the second hole 7b is made in the elongated body 4, preferably perpendicular to the second plane.
• the pin 6, illustrated in Figure 3 comprises at one end a stopper head 8 and at a second end opposite the stopper 8, 9 locking means.
• the pin 6 has a longitudinal axis A1 passing through both the abutment head 8 and the locking means 9.
• the first hole 7a passes through the support 1, that is to say that it opens on the outer surface of the support 1 at two opposite orifices while passing through the cavity 2.
• the second hole 7b made in the elongate body 4 of the fastening element 3 is also open. This allows the use of a pin 6, the distance between the stop head 8 of the locking means 9 is preferably substantially equal to the dimension separating the two holes of the first hole 7a at the outer surface of the support 1.
• the elongate body 4 can be inserted into the cavity 2 so that the first hole 7a and the second hole 7b are coaxial.
• the pin 6 is then inserted, by its end having the locking means 9 into the first through hole 7a through one of its orifices until the abutment head 8 comes into contact with the outer surface of the support 1 , or a counterbore bottom coaxial with the first hole 7a and larger in diameter than the first hole 7a to hide the stopper head 8 in the support, and the locking means 9 open through the other hole to lock the assembly.
• the locking means 9 may comprise perpendicular to the body of the pin 6, two protuberances 9a, 9b, and a slot 9c formed in the body of the pin 6 between the two protuberances 9a, 9b .
• the slot can be formed by a light in the form of oblong.
• the fixing head 5 is shaped to fit between two adjacent bars of a heating body in a first position, and to lock between the two adjacent bars in a second position so as to positively lock the fixing head 5 on the heating body.
• This allows easy assembly, thereby avoiding any relative movement of the heating body with respect to the fixing device.
• This blocking may, for example, be achieved by friction to keep the heating body in position when attempting to rotate or translate said heating body relative to its wall bracket.
• the fixing head 5 has a groove 5a, preferably of oval section, which can be divided into two pairs of zones, two zones of the same pair being opposite.
• the bars of the body Since the heating zones are substantially parallel, the two zones of the first pair, called the insertion pair, are separated by a distance less than the distance separating two adjacent bars.
• Each zone of the first pair of zones may be perpendicular to the second plane defined above.
• the two zones of the second pair, called the locking pair are separated by a distance greater than or equal to the distance separating the two adjacent bars.
• the first pair of zones is preferably formed in two planes parallel to each other and perpendicular to the planes associated with the second pair of zones.
• the attachment head 5 comprises a first part 10a mounted on the elongate body 4, and a second removable part 10b arranged to mate with the first part 10a and form the fixing head 5 by positively locking the fixing head 5 on the heating body.
• the elongate body 4 and the first part 10a are monoblock, for example obtained by a single molding of suitable material.
• the fixing head 5 is shaped so as to be inserted between the two adjacent bars when the second piece 10b is removed, even if the elongate body 4 is inserted into the cavity 2 and the support 1 is fixed on a Wall.
• the first piece 10a then preferably comprises a footprint 11a complementary to the shape of a bar for receiving a bar, and thus support and maintain in stable equilibrium position a heating body at said bar.
• the heating body can rest via a first bar, by gravity, at the footprint 11a of the first piece 10a of the head 5
• the second removable part 10b can be put in place so as to form the head 5 and to block the latter, by positive locking, between two adjacent bars of the heating body in a coupling position of the first and second parts 10a, 10b.
• the second piece 10b may also include an imprint 11b intended to conform to the shape a second bar located below adjacent the first bar.
• the two cavities form two opposite zones for blocking the fixing head 5 on the heating body.
• the first part 10a and the second part 10b each comprise complementary guiding elements 12a, 12b and / or clipping 12c ensuring proper positioning of the two parts 10a, 10b at the moment of their coupling.
• the first part 10a may comprise a first coupling face with a second complementary face of the second part 10b, said first and second faces 10a, 10b being provided with complementary guiding means 12a, 12b and / or clipping 12c.
• the guide elements 12a, 12b present on the second part 10b are in the form of two parallel bars projecting on one side of the second part 10b intended to mate with a complementary face of the first piece 10a.
• the complementary face of the first part 10a comprises two parallel recesses for receiving the parallel bars 12a, 12b by sliding.
• the clipping member 12c locks the coupling, this element may have the shape of a projecting protuberance of the second part 10b.
• the protuberance connects the two parallel bars, thus forming an H.
• the parallel bars slide in the corresponding recesses of the first part 10a until clipping of the protuberance 12c in a hollow corresponding made in the first piece 10a.
• the fixing head 5 may also comprise a stop 5b (FIGS. 2 and 6) at the interface of the fixing head 5 with the elongated body 4.
• This stop may be formed by a flange ( Figure 2) or two opposite shoulder ( Figure 6), and have dimensions greater than the distance between two adjacent bars. This makes it possible in particular to lock in the right place the fastening head 5, where appropriate at the groove 5a or fingerprints 11a, 11b.
• the fastening head 5 has ribs 16 (FIGS. 2, 4 and 5) in contact with the adjacent bars in the second position, or, if appropriate, in position coupling. These ribs 16 improve the mounting of the heating body by friction on the fastening head 5.
• the ribs 16 are preferably made of a kind of rubber, rubber, or any other material with a high coefficient of friction.
• the fixing head 5 may comprise two sets of ribs disposed in opposite manner on the fastening head 5 at areas intended to be respectively brought into contact with the two adjacent bars during positive locking. According to the particular example of FIG. 2, these zones correspond to the pair of blocking zones defined above.
• the elongate body 4 of the fixing element 3 is rotatable about the longitudinal axis of the pin 6, the angle of rotation of the body of the fastening element 3 around the axis of the pin 6 being constrained by the dimensions of the section of the cavity 2 in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis A1 of the pin 6 (plane corresponding to the first plane defined above).
• the axis A1 of the pin 6, inserted into both the elongate body 4 and the support 1 forms a pivot allowing the elongate body 4 of the fastener element to rotate in the cavity 2.
• the dimensions of the section of the cavity 2 in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the pin 6 are greater than the dimensions of the elongate body 4 in this same plane.
• the only freedom of movement of the elongate body 4 of the fastening element 3 in the cavity 2 is the rotation around the pivot formed by the pin.
• the dimension of the cavity 2 may be substantially equal to the dimension of the elongate body 4 inserted in said cavity 2.
• the elongated body 4 of FIG. the fixing element 3 comprises a plurality of second holes 7b adapted to cooperate with the first hole 7a so as to promote the insertion of the pin 6 in the first hole 7a and in one of the second holes 7b to the desired position .
• the second holes 7b are arranged between the fixing head 5 and the end of the elongated body 4 opposite to said fixing head 5, allowing with the pin 6 a depth adjustment of the insertion of the elongated body 4 into the cavity 2 support 1 by choosing the hole of the elongate body 4 to be placed coaxially with the first hole 7a to engage the pin 6.
• These holes 7b may be, as mentioned above, perpendicular to the second plane.
• the second holes 7b may be staggered in the direction d3.
• the inlet orifice of the or each second hole may include a countersink to facilitate the insertion of the pin 6.
• the second holes may be communicating in pairs along their respective axes forming for example a single through hole whose section in the second plane, formed by the longitudinal direction d 3 and the transverse direction d 4 , may have a shape arranged to receive the pin at different positions in the longitudinal direction of ( Figure 6).
• the dimensions of the body of the pin 6 must be sufficient to avoid the latter to pass from one hole to another when inserted into one of the holes of the elongated body 4.
• the section of the second hole 7b can then be formed by a line of circles, two adjacent circles having a rope in common.
• the second hole 7b may consist of a line of holes, a hole of the line having parallel to the axis A1 of the pin 6, and therefore perpendicular to the second plane a portion opening into an adjacent hole. This communication between two adjacent holes facilitates the insertion of the pin 6, in fact, if it comes to bear on the interface between two holes, it will naturally slide in one of the two holes of the line.
• FIG. 4 illustrates the connection between the support 1 and the fixing element 3 in which the pin 6 has been inserted into the second hole of the elongate body 4 closest to the fixing head
• FIG. 5 illustrates the same assembly in which the pin 6 has been inserted into the second hole of the elongate body 4 furthest from the fixing head 5.
• the method of installing on a wall a heating body equipped with bars comprises the following steps:
• the fixing element on the one hand on the heating body and on the other hand in the support may consist of an assembly between the support and the fixing element by a locking pin.
• FIGS. 8 to 11 illustrate different steps of the installation method implementing the fixing device described above and corresponding to the first preferred embodiment, that is to say a fixing element 3 according to FIG. to lock by rotation between two adjacent bars of a heating body.
• the support 1 is fixed on the wall 17 and the fastening head 5 is placed in the first position between the two bars 13a, 13b of the heating body 13.
• a rotation of the fixing head 5 so as to arrange the latter in the second position (positive locking).
• this friction lock is obtained by making a quarter turn to the fixing head 5, and therefore the fastening element 3, from its first position.
• the fixing head 5 is shaped so as to fit between two adjacent bars 13a, 13b of the heating body 13 in a first position, and to lock between the two adjacent bars 13a, 13b in a second position, and the step of mounting the heating element on the fixing element 3 is performed by inserting the fixing head 5 in the first position between the two adjacent bars 13a, 13b of the heating body 13, and then by rotating the head 5 in the second position before inserting the elongate body 4 in the cavity 2 to mount the fixing element 3 in the support 1.
• the elongated body 4 is inserted into the cavity 2 of the support 1 (FIG. 10). , and the pin 6 can be inserted into the first and second holes 7a, 7b to lock the assembly (FIGS. 10 and 11) of the fastening element 3 with the support 1.
• the bars are cut (hatched portion) to facilitate the perspective view of the process.
• the bars extend to a collector not shown. Since the bars are substantially parallel, the head 5 of the fixing element 3 can not be inserted directly between two adjacent bars in the second position, hence the use of a two-position head preferably of oval shape.
• a fastener 3 such as that illustrated in Figures 6 and 7.
• the installation process is easier for an operator.
• Such a method is illustrated in Figures 12 to 16.
• the support 1 is first attached to a wall 17.
• the fastening element 3, with or without the second piece 10b is inserted into the cavity 2, and its assembly can be locked by the introduction of the pin 6.
• the cavity 11 of the first piece 10a is oriented upwards. This orientation of the recess 11a upwards allows, as illustrated in Figure 14 to have the heating body 13, a first bar 13a bears on the cavity 11a of the first part 10a of the fixing head. In this position, the heating body 13 is in equilibrium stability by gravity because it rests on the impression by at least one bar 13a. If necessary, if the second piece 10b was coupled with the first piece 10a during the insertion of the elongate body into the cavity 2 of the support 1, it is removed before placing the heating body 13 to allow the passage of the first piece between two bars 13a, 13b adjacent. Then, as illustrated in FIG.
• the second part 10b is arranged so as to mate with the first part 10a and to remove the relative movements of the fastening head 5 thus formed with respect to the heating body 13 (FIG. 16). by positive locking.
• the second piece 10b may be disposed at a cavity 11b on a second bar 13b located immediately below the first bar 13a in contact with the cavity 11a of the first part 10a.
• the second piece 10b can then be pushed along the second bar 13b ( Figure 15) so that, if necessary, the complementary guide means of the two parts 10a, 10b cooperate until the coupling of the two parts 10a, 10b forming the head 5 as shown in Figure 16.
• the parallel bars guide elements are substantially oriented along the longitudinal axes of the bars.
• the fastening head 5 having a first part 10a mounted on the elongate body 4, and a second removable part 10b
• the method may include, during the step of mounting the fastening element 3 d firstly on the heating body 13 and secondly in the support, a first step of mounting the elongated body 4 in the support 1 fixed to the wall 17, then a step of mounting the heating element 13 on the first part 10a of the attachment head 5 without the second piece 10b removable.
• the second piece 10b can be coupled to the first piece 10a so as to block the fastening head 5 between two adjacent bars 13a, 13b of the heating body 13, and thus make the positive locking of the fixing head 5 on the heating element 13.
• Mounting the elongated body 4 in the support 1 at its cavity 2 preferably comprises a step of inserting a pin 6 to lock the mounting of the fixing element 3 with the support 1 before placing the heating body on the first part 10a.
• this locking of the assembly of the fixing element 3 with the support 1 makes it possible to secure the mounting of the heating element on the fixing element 3, in particular at the level of the first part 10a.
• the pin 6 could be added after coupling the two parts 10a, 10b, but the risk that the fastening element 3 separates from the support 1 would be too large, thus causing the fall of the heater.
• FIG. 18 illustrates a heating body 13 equipped with two vertical collectors 14a, 14b connected by horizontal bars 13a, 13b.
• the heater is supported by three devices according to the invention.
• the heating body 13 can be supported by a plurality of fasteners that can be installed at the same time during the steps of the methods described above.
• the number of fasteners used may correspond to a distribution of forces to maintain the heater after installation and / or facilitating its installation in a stable equilibrium position, thus reducing the risk of accidental drop during assembly.
• two adjacent bars are preferably substantially parallel to one another.
• the device thus described allows a locking without screws (other than the possible screw fixing the support to the wall) and without tools, greatly facilitating the installation of a heating body along a wall.
• the shape of the fixing head 5 can be adapted according to the type of heating body, it can take several forms. Indeed, the bars of the heating body can take different forms ranging from the simple circular tube to a pipe of rectangular section, an arcuate pipe or not, etc.
• the fixing device is made of transparent or translucent material so as to integrate as discreetly as possible to the heating body.
• only one type of fixing device can adapt to different colored heating bodies. This facilitates industrialization by proposing only one type of fastening device adapting to different heating bodies.
• the fixing device is more discreet and melts more easily to the heating body once the latter installed along a wall by the device according to the invention.
• the fixing device as described above in its variant combining the plurality of second holes and a cavity of larger dimensions than the elongate body allows three types of adjustments; depth adjustment, angle adjustment, height adjustment.
• the depth adjustment is carried out in translation of the elongate body in the cavity and choosing the right hole for the pin.
• the angle adjustment mainly useful in the case of arched bars, is achieved by the rotation around the pin of the fastener relative to the support.
• the height adjustment is done by fixing the support at the desired height at the wall.
• the free end of the fixing head 5 comprises a hook 15.
• This hook 15 makes it possible to support clothes while keeping them as close as possible to the heating body 13.
• the hook 15 is disposed at a free end of the fixing head, substantially parallel to the plane formed by the heating body.
• the hook system may equally well be installed on the fixing head of the fastening element 3 of FIG. fixation can be formed only by the three or four pieces described namely the pin, the fastening element (with or without additional parts), and the support. These parts can be made of molded plastic.
• the device also has the advantage of allowing a visual control of the quality of the assembly, this visual inspection can be carried out by checking the presence of the pin in the first preferred embodiment, or by checking the presence of the pin and the shape the head generated by the coupling of the first piece and the second piece in the second world of preferred embodiment.
• Such a heater can be installed in a bathroom and allows, for example, the drying of towels.

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