Back mount for wall-mounted plumbing fixture

Abstract

Shown and described is a device for back a plumbing fixture, in particular to a wall, essentially comprising a mounting rail preferably made of metal, which contains a large number of holes, slots or the like provided for the wall mounting and to the mounting of mounting plates for a plumbing fixture, the two rail longitudinal edges being designed as attachment zones offset from the mounting level. The object of the invention is to create a new device for back mounting a plumbing fixture with which in a simple fashion a number of a plumbing fixture can be mounted to a wall with precisely the same spacing from each other and in a precise arrangement to each other. The solution of the object is the result of at least one rail longitudinal edge having a plurality of notches, slots, slits or the like, and that the mounting plates are provided with holes corresponding to the notches, slots, slits or the like, in which the screws are mounted which are fixed by anchor blocks, whereby the mounting plates are brought into a defined premounting position by the hanging of the windings of the screws in the notches of the mounting rails.

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       7 . A mount for securing a plumbing fixture to a vertical wall, the mount comprising:
 a rail having a web adapted to be fixed to the wall and an upper edge spaced outward from the wall and formed with a row of upwardly directed recesses set at a uniform predetermined spacing;   a mounting plate having a web adapted to be fixed to the fixture and formed with a pair of throughgoing holes separated by the spacing;   an anchor block between the upper edge and the wall and formed with threaded holes separated by the spacing and aligned with two of the recess and with the holes of the mounting plate; and   respective screws engaging through the holes of the mounting plate, through the respective recesses aligned therewith, and threaded into the holes of the anchor block.   
   
   
       8 . The mount defined in  claim 7  wherein the rail has a lower edge formed with a row or holes. 
   
   
       9 . The mount defined in  claim 8  wherein the holes of the lower edge are relatively offset from one another by the spacing. 
   
   
       10 . The mount defined in  claim 8 , further comprising
 a second such rail and   at least two more of the mounting plates securing the recesses and holes of the second such rail to those of the first-mentioned rail with the second rail extending in line with or perpendicular to the first rail.   
   
   
       11 . The mount defined in  claim 10  wherein the formations in the upper edge have a spacing perpendicular to a longitudinal extension of the rail from the holes in the lower edge that is equal to the predetermined spacing. 
   
   
       12 . The mount defined in  claim 8  wherein the web of the rail is planar and flatly engages the wall and the upper and lower edges are planar flanges that are coplanar with each other, flank the web of the rail, and are perpendicularly offset from the web of the rail by a spacing at least equal to a thickness of the anchor block. 
   
   
       13 . The mount defined in  claim 12  wherein the web of the mounting plate is planar and parallel to the web of the rail and the mounting plate has upper and lower edges formed with the respective holes and forming planar flanges that are coplanar with each other, flank the web of the plate, and are perpendicularly offset from the web of the plate oppositely to the offset of the flanges of the rail from the web of the rail. 
   
   
       14 . The mount defined in  claim 8  wherein the web of the rail is formed with vertical and horizontal slots through which it is screwed to the wall.