Structural component for securing tiles onto a ready-made chimney
AssigneeMEZ Keramik GmbH
InventorManfred Zerres
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Abstract
A structural component for securing tiles onto a metallic housing of a ready-made chimney, wherein the tiles have side surfaces and wherein the side surfaces have grooves and tongues complementing one another, has hoops to be fastened on the metallic housing at a given distance from one another which distance matches the size of the tiles. Brackets are provided that are insertable into the hoops. The brackets are snapped into place between two adjacent tiles.
Claims4
A structural component for securing tiles onto a metallic housing of a ready-made chimney, wherein the tiles have side surfaces and wherein the side surfaces have grooves and tongues complementing one another, the structural component comprising:
- hoops configured to be fastened on the metallic housing at a given distance, matching the size of the tiles, from one another;
- brackets configured to be inserted into the hoops, wherein the brackets are configured to be snapped into place between two adjacent tiles, wherein the hoops have a U-shaped cross section having legs with free ends and a stay connecting the legs, wherein the hoops have fastening projections adjoining the free ends of the legs and extending parallel to the stay.
A structural component for securing tiles onto a metallic housing of a ready-made chimney, wherein the tiles have side surface and wherein the side surfaces have grooves and tongues complementing one another, the structural component comprising:
- hoops configured to be fastened on the metallic housing at a given distance, matching the size of the tiles, from one another;
- brackets configured to be inserted into the hoops, wherein the brackets are configured to be snapped into place between two adjacent tiles, wherein the bracket is L-shaped and has a first leg insertable into the hoop and a second leg configured to snap into place between two adjacent tiles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.