Static structures (e.g. – buildings) – Including component designed to receive a disparate article... – Lavatory fixture
Patent
1994-02-15
1996-03-12
Friedman, Carl D.
Static structures (e.g., buildings)
Including component designed to receive a disparate article...
Lavatory fixture
52DIG12, 4675, 4695, 4696, 137359, 137360, 137382, 285 23, 285 46, 285 64, 285193, E03C 1042
Patent
active
054975840
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a national phase of PCT/EP92/01336 filed 13 Jun. 1992 and based upon German national application P41 33 266.0 of 8 Oct. 1991 under the International Convention.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
My present invention relates to a plaster protective cover for a bathroom fitting, e.g. subplaster faucet or fitting; to be built in, whereby the plaster protective cover is fastenable on the subplaster body of the fitting for building in of the fitting and, for the protective covering of the inwardly lying fitting parts, has an outwardly extending hood or facing hood shaped [dome shaped] protective part.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In rooms having sanitary fixtures, the room walls, for example in regions of bathtubs, shower stalls or the like, must be sealed absolutely tight which means that, before the application of tile to the wall, a watertight layer must be coated onto it as a base for the tiling. This sealing layer, however, is interrupted at the locations at which any buried fitting projects outwardly so that, in these regions, moisture can penetrate into the wall.
OBJECT OF THE INVENTION
The object of the invention is to provide an improved plaster protective cover, wherein the penetration location of the buried body of the fitting is sealed, so that the protective cover is functionally reliable, easily fabricated, satisfactory in use and cost effective.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
To achieve this object the invention provides that the plaster protective cover is surrounded by a water tight, collar like sealing element which, on the wall side, has a circumferential annular flange lying against the wall and which is embedded in a sealing layer to the wall after the fitting has been built in, as a base for a subsequent tiling and which seals the edge of the opening pierced in the wall for the buried part of the fitting.
This construction has the advantage that the sealing layer is applied over the sealing element in the vicinity of the penetration opening for the fitting at the fitting-side seal so that in this region no moisture can penetrate from the exterior behind the sealing layer. Because of the collar-like configuration of the sealing part, simple manipulation and simple mounting of the plaster protective cover is ensured in an advantageous manner.
According to one embodiment of the invention, the collar-like sealing element is formed as a tubular stub which externally engages the plaster protective cover. This stub can be correspondingly foreshortened in the framework of the final mounting of the fitting. Because of its massive configuration, the stub is guided by the plaster protective cover and held thereby whereby the plaster protective cover itself is releasably held on the buried part of the fitting.
In an alternative embodiment of the invention, the sealing element is formed as an elastic cover which also is pressed over the plaster protective cover and lies with an annular flange against the wall and is embedded in an identical manner in the sealing layer as is the stub-type sealing member. In this case, the plaster protective cover is foreshortened correspondingly in the final mounting of the fitting.
For sealing of the finely mounted fitting, the invention provides in an embodiment that, after the removal of foreshortening of the plaster protective cover, an elastic closure ring is inserted into the room side end of the foreshortened sealing element or the plaster protective cover which seals the sealing part or the plaster protective cover with respect to a visible escutcheon for covering and sealing the controls of the fitting.
In a preferred embodiment the invention provides a protective cover with an interior to receive the elastic closure ring as well as the elastic collar as sealing parts and is closed with a removable cover so that the fitting body can be handled in a premounted state at the building site, whereby the associated sealing parts, upon the mounting of the buried part, can be removed in a simple manner from the pla
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Dubno Herbert
Friedman Carl D.
Ideal-Standard GmbH
Saladino Laura A.
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