Device and Method for Mounting a Plumbing Fixture to a Supporting Surface Using an Assembly Plate

Abstract

A device and a method for fixing a sink, a commode, a bidet, or a urinal bowl to the floor surface or wall surface of a bathroom. The base of the bowl can be mounted on the supporting surface in question and can be fixed thereto by way of bolts, especially screw bolts, penetrating boreholes located in the base. An assembly plate is fixed to the supporting surface. The assembly plate is located inside the base once the plumbing fixture has been positioned, and is embodied especially with at least one guide for sliding parts in which the fixing bolts for the fixture can be anchored.

1 . A device for fixing a plumbing fixture to a supporting surface, the plumbing fixture having a base to be positioned on and fixed to the supporting surface, the device comprising: 
 an assembly plate configured to be fixed to the supporting surface and for attachment thereto of the base of the plumbing fixture;    fixing bolts configured to penetrate through bore holes in the base of the plumbing fixture and fixing the base to said assembly plate;    wherein said assembly plate is disposed between the plumbing fixture and the supporting surface when the plumbing fixture is mounted in position.    
   
   
       2 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein said assembly plate is formed with an outer border substantially identical in shape to an inner edge of the base of the plumbing fixture, with the inner edge of the base being positioned at least in part on said outer border of said assembly plate.  
   
   
       3 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein said assembly plate is formed with bore holes for bolting said assembly plate to the supporting surface.  
   
   
       4 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein said assembly plate is formed with bore holes associated with the bore holes formed in the base of the plumbing fixture and configured to receive said fixing bolts for fixing the plumbing fixture.  
   
   
       5 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein said assembly plate is formed with at least one undercut groove, and said fixing bolts penetrating the base of the plumbing fixture are formed to be anchored in said undercut groove.  
   
   
       6 . The device according to  claim 5 , wherein said fixing bolts penetrating the base are hammer head bolts.  
   
   
       7 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein said assembly plate is formed with at least one guide configured to receive sliding parts and allowing sliding displacement of said sliding parts, and wherein said sliding parts are formed for anchoring said fixing bolts penetrating the base of the plumbing fixture.  
   
   
       8 . The device according to  claim 7 , wherein said sliding parts are formed for said fixing bolts to be screwed into said sliding parts.  
   
   
       9 . The device according to  claim 7 , wherein said guide is formed with angled strips on an upper side of said assembly plate.  
   
   
       10 . The device according to  claim 9 , wherein said strips have an L-shaped or T-shaped cross section, and said sliding parts may be slideably displaced thereon.  
   
   
       11 . The device according to  claim 7 , which comprises one or more screws allocated to said sliding parts for fixing said sliding parts in position on said assembly plate.  
   
   
       12 . The device according to  claim 7 , wherein each of said sliding parts is formed with a tube section configured to receive therein in threaded engagement said fixing bolts penetrating the bore holes in the base of the plumbing fixture.  
   
   
       13 . The device according to  claim 12 , wherein said tube section is pivotally supported relative to said sliding parts.  
   
   
       14 . The device according to  claim 13 , wherein said tube section is pivotally supported in a plane of a direction of displacement.  
   
   
       15 . The device according to  claim 7 , wherein said assembly plate is formed with lateral recesses.  
   
   
       16 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein said assembly plate is a metal plate having said fixing bolts projecting from a side facing towards said plumbing fixture, and wherein the fixture may be slid onto said assembly plate with said fixing bolts projecting through the bore holes in the base thereof.  
   
   
       17 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein said assembly plate is a strip, and the base of the plumbing fixture is formed with a counter strip, and wherein said strip and said counter strip are formed for clamping to one another.  
   
   
       18 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein said fixing bolts are threaded bolts.  
   
   
       19 . A plumbing fixture, comprising: 
 a base formed with a recess configured to receive therein an assembly plate according to  claim 1;     said base having a border extending laterally of said assembly plate as far as and coming into contact with a supporting surface.    
   
   
       20 . The plumbing fixture according to  claim 19 , formed as a commode, a toilet bowl, a bidet, or a urinal, wherein said border runs completely around said assembly plate.  
   
   
       21 . A method of fixing a plumbing fixture to a wall surface or to a floor surface of a bathroom, the method which comprises: 
 providing an assembly plate, according to  claim 1;     fixing the assembly plate to the supporting surface by gluing or screwing;    subsequently placing the plumbing fixture placed onto the assembly plate, with the assembly plate between a base of the plumbing fixture and the supporting surface; and    bolting the plumbing fixture to the assembly plate.