Electric heating – Heating devices – Combined with container – enclosure – or support for material...
Reexamination Certificate
2000-03-20
2001-08-28
Paik, Sang (Department: 3742)
Electric heating
Heating devices
Combined with container, enclosure, or support for material...
Reexamination Certificate
active
06281480
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Field of the Invention
The invention lies in the field of household appliances. The present invention relates to an installation strip for a cooktop, or hob, for the surface-flush installation of a cooktop panel in a work-top or counter cutout, and to a correspondingly equipped cooktop. The installation strip has a supporting section for supporting and securing the cooktop or the cooktop panel.
An installation frame is disclosed by German Patent DE 30 09 961 C2. The installation frame is first fastened in the work-top cutout by screws with a height tolerance of +/−0.5 mm. An elastic sealing material is fastened around the top horizontally extending leg of the installation frame. For installation, the cooktop is positioned loosely on the sealing material applied to the installation frame. Following completion of the surface-flush installation of the cooktop unit in the work-top, the remaining peripheral gap is jointed with a silicone adhesive.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is accordingly an object of the invention to provide an installation strip for a cooktop that overcomes the hereinafore-mentioned disadvantages of the heretofore-known devices of this general type and that simplifies the surface-flush installation of a cooktop in a work-top cutout.
With the foregoing and other objects in view, there is provided, in accordance with the invention, in a work-top having a top side and a cutout with a border region, an installation strip for the surface-flush installation of a panel of a cooktop including a supporting section for supporting the cooktop, and at least one suspension section for suspendedly positioning the supporting section relative to a top side of a work-top in a border region of a work-top cutout, the at least one suspension section being spaced apart from the supporting section and connected to the supporting section.
In accordance with another feature of the invention, the at least one suspension section is vertically spaced apart from the supporting section.
The installation strip has at least one suspension section that is suitably spaced apart from the supporting section in the vertical direction. The suspension section is intended for positioning the installation strip relative to the top side of the work-top by suspending the installation strip in the border region of the cutout. The suspension section is connected to the installation strip by a bending or predetermined breaking point. Thus, the invention dispenses with the high-outlay operation of positioning the installation strip heightwise relative to the top side of the work-top in the work-top cutout. The vertical distance between the supporting section and the suspension section of the installation strip is realized, taking into account the overall height of the cooktop, and, if appropriate, of additional seals, such that the surface-flush installation of the cooktop panel is always ensured.
In accordance with a further feature of the invention, the supporting section supports a cooktop panel of the cooktop.
In accordance with an added feature of the invention, the suspension section is connected to the supporting section at a bending point.
In accordance with an additional feature of the invention, the suspension section is removably connected to the supporting section at a predetermined breaking point.
In accordance with yet another feature of the invention, the work-top cutout has a longitudinal side and the supporting section and the at least one suspension section together extend essentially over the entire length of the longitudinal side.
To ensure that the cooktop is secured in the work-top cutout as reliably as possible, the installation strip extends essentially over the entire length of a longitudinal side of the work-top cutout.
In accordance with yet a further feature of the invention, the work-top cutout has an inner side, and the supporting section is plate-shaped and extends horizontally from the inner side of the work-top cutout to beneath a cooktop panel. The configuration ensures that, when the peripheral gap between the work-top cutout and the end surface of the cooktop panel is jointed, the silicone adhesive cannot pass into the installation space beneath the cooktop.
Installation strips can be connected to one another and, thus, form an installation frame. In accordance with yet an added feature of the invention, the supporting section is a plurality of supporting sections, and the plurality of supporting sections form an installation frame.
With the objects of the invention in view, there is also provided a cooktop for installation in a work-top having a top side and a cutout with a border region including a cooktop panel, and at least one installation strip for the surface-flush installation of the cooktop panel in a work-top, the at least one installation strip having a supporting section for supporting a cooktop, and at least one suspension section for suspendedly positioning the at least one installation strip relative to a top side of the work-top in a border region of a work-top cutout, the at least one suspension section being spaced apart from the supporting section and connected to the supporting section.
Other features that are considered as characteristic for the invention are set forth in the appended claims.
Although the invention is illustrated and described herein as embodied in an installation strip for a cooktop, it is nevertheless not intended to be limited to the details shown because various modifications and structural changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit of the invention and within the scope and range of equivalents of the claims.
The construction and method of operation of the invention, however, together with additional objects and advantages thereof will be best understood from the following description of specific embodiments when read in connection with the accompanying drawing.
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BSH Bosch und Siemens Haus-geraete GmbH
Greenberg Laurence A.
Lerner Herbert L.
Paik Sang
Stemer Werner H.
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