Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sink and method of installing same
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Application No.: US15662863Application Date: 2017-07-28
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Publication No.: US10550558B2Publication Date: 2020-02-04
- Inventor: Alessandro Cagliari , Christian W. Bomatter , Rolf Neeser
- Applicant: Franke Technology and Trademark Ltd
- Applicant Address: CH Hergiswil
- Assignee: FRANKE TECHNOLOGY AND TRADEMARK LTD
- Current Assignee: FRANKE TECHNOLOGY AND TRADEMARK LTD
- Current Assignee Address: CH Hergiswil
- Agency: Volpe and Koenig, P.C.
- Priority: EP16181575 20160728
- Main IPC: E03C1/33
- IPC: E03C1/33 ; A47B77/06 ; E03C1/18

Abstract:
A method of installing a sink in a worktop cut-out, including: (a) providing a sink with: a bowl with a bottom wall and a circumferential side wall; at least one outlet opening located in the bottom; a circumferential rim located at an upper edge of the bowl and extending outwardly from the side wall by an extent (E); resilient clamping elements arranged on the outside of the bowl adjacent the rim, that in a free or uncompressed state, extend outwardly beyond the extent (E), and which provide, in a loaded state, a clamping force outwardly from the side wall; (b) making the worktop cut-out larger in dimension than a rim area but smaller than an envelope around the uncompressed clamping elements while defining a cut-out side wall extending at right angles to upper and lower surfaces of the worktop; (c) placing the sink in the cut-out so that the cut-out side wall is located opposite the rim, the sink being centered within the cut-out by the clamping elements, which are compressed between the cut-out side wall and the sink.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180030703A1 SINK AND METHOD OF INSTALLING SAME Public/Granted day:2018-02-01
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