Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E03—WATER SUPPLY; SEWERAGE
  • E03D—WATER-CLOSETS OR URINALS WITH FLUSHING DEVICES; FLUSHING VALVES THEREFOR
  • E03D9/00—Sanitary or other accessories for lavatories ; Devices for cleaning or disinfecting the toilet room or the toilet bowl; Devices for eliminating smells
  • E03D9/08—Devices in the bowl producing upwardly-directed sprays; Modifications of the bowl for use with such devices ; Bidets; Combinations of bowls with urinals or bidets; Hot-air or other devices mounted in or on the bowl, urinal or bidet for cleaning or disinfecting

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• the present invention relates to a shower attachment, which is designed for mounting ge on a toilet bowl and then forms a shower toilet with the toilet bowl.
• shower attachment devices have been known for many years, were originally used mainly in East Asia and found in many other, including Western countries increasing use.
• shower attachment devices have different advantages over so-called complete devices. Due to the possibility of combination with conventional toilet bowls they usually lead to cheaper solutions, they can also be retrofitted. Finally, in the event of technical problems, the shower attachment can be dismantled and repaired without having to decommission the WC and without the need for an on-site technician.
• a shower attachment for creating a shower toilet by mounting on a toilet bowl
• which shower attachment has: a showering system housing with a shower device therein, a shower arm of the shower device, in the mounted on the toilet bowl state of the shower attachment can be moved out of the showering housing out in a cleaning position for cleaning a toilet user, one attached to the showering housing and a top opening of the toilet bowl surrounding toilet seat, wherein the showering housing on a pointing to the toilet seat side obliquely Having the upper surface oriented, characterized in that the sloping surface of the shower housing housing to an adjacent surface of the toilet seat smooth, ie without Hö- Jumps greater than 5 mm, at least within the middle 150 mm in a horizontal direction perpendicular to a depth direction of a distal to the shower tray housing front edge of the toilet seat toward the showering shower housing 12th
• the invention is based on the basic idea, a relatively far to the "rear", ie, usually in the direction of the wall behind the toilet, reaching in relation to the arrangement of the engineering housing in which the shower device, reaching area for seating the user
• this allows a comfortable and ergonomic seat depth and, if desired, also a generous opening in the WC seat in this direction and, on the other hand, avoids a too great overall depth of the attachment in this direction.
• a smooth transition between the toilet seat surface and the shower tray housing is preferred, which concretely a transition with a vertical jump (perpendicular to the respective surface orientation) of at most 5 mm, preferably at most 4 mm, 3 mm, 2 mm or even only 1, 5 mm, mean.
• the height jump refers to the vertical with respect to the space, so because of the oblique orientation in general not the direction perpendicular to the surfaces involved.
• a small or fading jump in height ensures that the transition for the user, specifically the buttocks, while sitting is little or not noticeable and the user also recognizes that the area considered for sitting extends beyond the smooth connection.
• a joint width in this sense of less than 8 mm, more preferably also less than 6 mm, 5 mm, 4 mm or even less than 3 mm.
• connection in this sense is therefore quite "continuous" and continuous
• These statements apply first of all to the middle of the connection, in the sense of a width direction, ie a horizontal direction perpendicular to the depth direction mm and preferably even for the middle 175 mm or 200 mm
• the described smooth connection is preferably achieved by the fact that the described oblique surface of the showering housing continues to a certain extent under the adjoining part of the toilet seat, with a height jump, the taking into account the strength of the toilet seat allows the described smooth connection, so the toilet seat compensated to some extent.
• the direction perpendicular to the wall is not essential. More generally, then, is the direction from a larger surface area on top of the toilet bowl for mounting the engineering housing to the farthest point of the bowl rim (or the direction from the engineering housing to the farthest point of the toilet seat when you go here without Restriction presupposes a closed seat) or vice versa; in other words: in the usual sitting position of the user, the horizontal viewing direction of the user.
• the top of the shower attachment device according to the invention should not be higher than 56 mm, preferably at most 54 mm, ie relative to the underside of the shower attachment, which is mounted on the toilet bowl.
• the upper side may still belong to the rear area of the toilet seat or already to the surface of the shower housing, it may also just concern the transition between them.
• the shower housing should preferably already have "begun.” It should thus at least in a partial area of the width of the shower attachment (ie relative to the horizontal direction perpendicular to the depth direction below the maximum 56 mm high top).
• a front part of the shower housing which includes the shower arm is considered, but shower arm parts extending from the actual shower enclosure are not considered as a housing part Area as low as possible and space-saving executed, so goes, for example, only as little as possible beyond the desired or required height of a cross section through the shower arm.
• the interior of the shower enclosure beneath the top of the shower attachment may preferably have a clear height of at most 50 mm, preferably at most 45 mm or even only 40 mm.
• this clear height can increase significantly with increasing distance from the front edge of the toilet seat, in particular to other shower parts as To accommodate the shower arm or a possible Föhnarm or a suction of odor extraction.
• the top of the shower attachment device behind the described location at the distance of 370 mm is preferably not too steep.
• This can also be expressed in corresponding height dimensions, preferably at a distance of 380 mm, preferably at most 70 mm and preferably at most 68 mm, 66 mm or even 64 mm, at a distance of 390 mm at most 83 mm, preferably at most 81 mm, 79 mm or even only 77 mm and finally at a distance of 400 mm at most 100 mm, preferably at most 98 mm, 96 mm or only at most 94 mm.
• the shower arm in turn, preferably at the point in question, ie below the corresponding 370 mm from the toilet seat front edge remote top of the shower attachment, a vertical extent (cross-sectional dimension in the vertical direction, ie not normally transverse to the longitudinal direction of the shower arm) of at most 33 mm , preferably at most 30 mm or even only at most 28 mm. In principle, even thinner Duscharme could be realized.
• the measure of the shower arm shown there is 26 mm in the vertical direction, this shower arm in this measure contains three water channels (one water channel for two shower nozzles and a channel for a nozzle washing function).
• Duscharme in dispensing with such a number of channels thinner Duscharme are possible and thus can in principle also the clear height of the showering housing and the height of the shower attachment device be further reduced.
• certain lower limits are realistic, such as the vertical cutting dimension through the shower arm in the range of 10 mm, for the clear height within the shower enclosure, for example of 15 mm or 20 mm and accordingly for the height of the shower attachment in total at the described location of eg 25 mm.
• a simple and robust shower arm construction is provided, namely with a purely translatory and straight movement and a straight shower arm.
• curved Duscharme and curved trajectories are occasionally found to reduce the footprint in a showering housing, especially the latter cause a greater mechanical effort.
• the height criteria described alternatively refer to positions that are measured from other reference points: namely, a significant for the ergonomics and the construction of the shower attachment device position is in addition the rear limit of the opening in the toilet seat. From this trailing edge of the opening (or front edge of the rear part of the toilet seat), the described reference positions (of 370, 380, 390, 400 mm) are 31 mm and 41 mm and 51 mm and 61 mm, respectively will be clarified with reference to the embodiment. The above statements for the respective positions should alternatively also apply to this reference point with the specified distance measures.
• a third possible reference position is the passage of the shower arm through a horizontal plane defining the boundary between the shower attachment and the toilet bowl, on the rear side of the shower arm, ie on the distal side with respect to the center of the opening of the toilet bowl. Bowl.
• the horizontal level is the top level of the toilet bowl on which the shower attachment is mounted.
• the shower arm in the sense of the movable arm is meant and guides the shower arm are not taken into account.
• the corresponding distance values are 15 mm or 25 mm or 35 mm or 45 mm.
• the above-mentioned opening in the toilet seat which is also decisive for the distance between the described front edge of the toilet seat and the two other reference points, is preferably at least 280 mm in size, preferably lower limits of 285 mm or even 290 mm, and Although in the same direction as the described measure of 370 mm.
• the toilet seat does not necessarily have to have a closed circumferential shape. Firstly, it can have an opening on its front side, that is to say on the distal side with respect to the shower housing. Then you have to imagine this opening closed to determine the minimum amount just described.
• the toilet seat must not necessarily be closed on the other side, the showering housing, in particular because the actual seating function, so the design for contact through the buttocks of the user, are partially relocated to the surface of the shower housing in the context of this invention can.
• the movable part should be used to clarify this, in order to allow a clear separation, because toilet seats can always be folded up.
• the opening is measured just up to the corresponding seat function area of the shower system housing, so it is more precisely an opening in the shower attachment in total and not only in the toilet seat itself.
• the usual and preferred case is a completely enclosed WC Seat, so a seat ring.
• the sloping surface of the shower housing has already been mentioned. This surface is thus oriented with respect to the depth direction towards the toilet seat, but obliquely upward. Preferably, this applies, provided that the toilet seat is closed on the proximal side, even for this.
• this angle criterion for places further back: At a distance of 380 mm (instead of 370 mm), the angle should preferably be at most 55 °, at a distance of 390 mm at most 63 ° and Finally, at a distance of 400 mm at most 75 °. Further preferred are in each case at the four points mentioned by 3 °, 5 ° or even 7 ° lowered upper limits. Furthermore, these statements again relate alternatively to the other two mentioned reference positions and the corresponding distance measurements, as explained above.
• the surface of the shower housing housing thereof is steeper away in the direction of the toilet seat, that is, is concave. This already results from the above angle values.
• This concavity in turn is preferably at least centrally with respect to the width direction.
• the criterion applies in a section along the longitudinal section of at least 20 mm, with a preferred radius of curvature between 80 mm and 120 mm. The radius of curvature is more preferably over 90 mm or even 100 mm or less than 180 mm, 160 mm or even 140 mm.
• connection to the sloping surface of the showering housing should be designed without too large a jump in angle, preferably with an angle jump of not more than 30 °, more preferably not more than 20 ° or even not more than 15 ° or 10 °. This applies again in the middle and preferably within the middle 20 mm in the horizontal width direction.
• the surfaces that are noticeable to the user in this extended seating area should in this sense connect to one another without kinking, with the local direction of the surfaces (in the case of curved shapes) being determined directly at the conclusion on one another and in the sense of a longitudinal section along the depth direction for the angle criterion are relevant.
• Such a design allows a comfortable and undisturbed leaning.
• structures with a lateral dimension of less than 5 mm are not considered.
• the shower attachment according to the invention builds in the seat area and adjacent thereto lower than in the prior art and is ergonomically inclined.
• the device as a whole remains relatively low, preferably with a maximum Height of the shower enclosure of 130 mm or even only 125 mm, 120 mm or at the most 1 15 mm and 1 10 mm.The device thus disturbs the user less behind the back.
• the shower arm is preferably mounted relatively flat, such as at an angle between 28 ° and 36 °, preferably between 30 ° and 34 °. It can also be built relative to the retracted state relatively short.
• the jet angle (the mean angle of the exit jet) with respect to the longitudinal axis of the shower arm can be selected to be greater than 95 ° and even greater than 98 °.
• the geometric statements about the shower attachment height and the inclination angle of the top of the shower attachment, the concavity, the smoothness and the edge freedom apply individually and independently preferably for at least the middle 200 mm in the horizontal direction perpendicular to the direction of the distance measure (370 mm) and particularly preferably even for the middle 250 mm or 300 mm.
• a water heater is used for shower water heating.
• This can either completely replace a boiler and its construction volume or at least reduce the required volume of the boiler by using the instantaneous water heater and the boiler in combination.
• the invention is basically also feasible with boiler with the geometric criteria given here and in particular the dimensions of the embodiment.
• the necessary boiler volume can be reduced not only by a water heater, but, for example, by reducing the volume performance of the shower jet, especially in skilful nozzle design, by a pulsating operation of the shower jet and other options.
• FIG. 1 shows a longitudinal sectional view of a conventional shower attachment device of the applicant
• Figure 2 shows a perspective view of the shower attachment device of FIG.
• Figure 3 shows a longitudinal sectional view of a shower toilet according to the invention, namely a shower attachment according to the invention on a conventional toilet bowl.
• 1 shows a conventional shower attachment "Geberit AquaClean 4000" for mounting on a toilet bowl, wherein the vertical sectional plane divides a toilet seat 1 and a shower housing 2 in each case centrally and along the depth direction and thus is not perpendicular to the toilet bowl
• the wall on which the shower toilet created with the shower attachment is usually mounted (and which are located on the right in the figure next to the shower attachment shown and would thereby run vertically and perpendicular to the plane of the drawing.)
• parts are shown in side view lying behind the cutting plane, namely about half of the toilet seat 1 and a part of the shower system in the shower housing 2.
• the toilet seat 1 is relatively high in its right (housing) area, but this outside a middle sloping top 3 of the shower housing 2 (behind the cutting plane).
• This raised area ends at the top (shown in FIG. 2) in the joints. In particular, this raised area is located outside the middle 280 mm.
• this raised area is located outside the middle 280 mm.
• FIG. 1 also shows the shower arm 4 arranged in the showering housing 2, the distal end of which can also be seen in FIG. 2, together with a corresponding drive motor 5 and a hot water boiler 6 in the perspective of FIG. 1 behind it (ie in FIG 2 along the center of the shower enclosure 2).
• a hot water boiler 6 in the perspective of FIG. 1 behind it (ie in FIG 2 along the center of the shower enclosure 2).
• the boiler 6 takes in Fig. 1 to the left the volume up to the sloping wall (corresponding to the top 3) of the shower housing 2 to complete. In the drawn in Fig. 1 measure of 370 mm from the left in Fig.
• the height of the sloping upper side 3 is centered and above the essential part of the seat width 59 mm and increases steeply at larger distances.
• the height at 370 mm is already 70 mm and behind it even steeper.
• Esp. Fig. 2 illustrates that the user can not slide down to the range of 370 mm back, but rather limited to the actual central longitudinal extent of the toilet seat 1 itself, namely about 356 mm.
• FIG. 3 shows a shower toilet according to the invention with a toilet bowl 10 in longitudinal section and a shower attachment device according to the invention constructed thereon.
• the toilet bowl 10 is conventional and could also be mounted under the shower attachment of Fig. 1 or Fig. 2.
• the shower attachment has again a toilet seat 1 1, which is again shown partially partially in side view, and a shower housing 12 with an oblique front side 13.
• a shower arm 14 which also pulled out in dotted lines is shown.
• the showering system housing 12 is not only lower overall than the showering housing 2 of FIG. 1, but rather increases less strongly, especially in the rear area (near the wall) together with the toilet seat 11 and stays flatter on the slope.
• a very generous dimensioning of the opening in the toilet seat of 294 mm results in the distance measure of 370 mm instead of the 59 mm of Fig. 1, a value of 53 mm.
• the difference is even more pronounced, namely 63 mm in Fig. 3 compared to 78 mm and similar at 390 mm and 400 mm at 75 mm and 92 mm in comparison to 107 mm and 137 mm.
• the final height of the shower achieved engineering housing 12 which is here only 105 mm or with a cover plate, not shown, 108 mm and just visible enough to accommodate the rear end of the shower arm 14 in the retracted state.
• the sloping upper side 13 and in the lower region of the showering-housing-side part of the WC seat 1 1 lying thereon are designed to be relatively flat, the incline increasing, so that the overall shape is concave.
• the radius of the concavity is here 120 mm and the pitch angles at the four mentioned distance measures are (in the above order): 41 °, 47 °, 55 °, 65 °.
• the shower tray 12 is “pulled down” under the back of the toilet seat 11 and immediately thereafter to about 380 mm from the front edge, as permitted by the placement of the shower arm 14.
• "Full-size" shower arm with three water channels is used, which has not been changed due to the aforementioned ergonomic considerations and thus has a cross-sectional dimension of 20 mm, which means the vertical direction converted just under 24 mm.
• a cleaning device (cf., for this purpose, EP 12 000 780.2), which likewise has a certain overall height, exists at the distal end of the shower arm 14, which is oriented toward the lower left, in its retracted position. Further back, so at 390 mm and 400 mm distance, then more volume can be provided inside the Duschtechnikgephinuses 12 again, because there is for the user a concave and rising curve behind his buttocks quite ergonomic and not disturbing.
• the total length of the shower arm was limited.
• the shower jet is tilted relative to the longitudinal axis of the shower arm 14 by 100 °, so slightly inclined forward, as Fig. 3 illustrates.
• the shower tray housing 12 is not further upwardly or forwardly projecting in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the drawing, and thus does not disturb the user even in off-center areas, not even in areas that are as off-center as The same applies to the shower-side housing edge of the toilet seat 1 1 in Fig. 3.
• Insb. is the horizontal width of the structure shown in Fig. 3 in section of the shower housing 12 315 mm up to the non-illustrated lateral transitions from showering housing
• Fig. 3 shows for comparison also a horizontal dimension in the depth direction of 339 mm between said front edge of the toilet seat 1 1 and the front edge of its rear (proximal to the shower housing 12) portion.
• Another useful referencing refers to the shower arm 14 in its retracted state, namely its passage through the horizontal plane defined by the top of the toilet bowl 10. The distance between this position and the front edge of the front portion of the toilet seat 1 1 is also shown and here is 355 mm, so that the distance measures described can also be converted to this reference, ie z. B. 15 mm distance to the position with a height of 53 mm.

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