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US 6,902,123 B2Granted
Sanitary fitting
AssigneeDieter Wildfang GmbH
InventorsHermann Grether, Christoph Weis
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AssigneeDieter Wildfang GmbH
InventorsHermann Grether, Christoph Weis
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The invention relates to a sanitary fitting (5) including an external housing (2) that has at least one housing section (6, 7, 30), the housing section (6, 7, 30) having an insertion opening (10) on an inlet side. At least one functional unit can be inserted through said opening into the interior of the housing until it abuts an insertion stop (18, 19, 29). A housing clearance (20, 21, 22) for receiving the protruding part of the functional unit(s) that projects beyond the insertion stop is located upstream and/or downstream of the insertion stop (18, 19, 29) in the direction of insertion. The inventive fitting is characterized in that the fitting (5) optionally includes several different functional units and that the housing clearance (20, 21, 22) located upstream and/or downstream of the insertion stop(s) (18, 19, 29) has a longitudinal extension in the direction of insertion, which is equal to or greater than the maximum distance between the insertion stop (18, 19, 20) and the front face of the functional unit(s) in the fitting (5), the front face projecting into the housing clearance (20, 21, 22). Despite its modular configuration, the inventive fitting (5) can thus be simply mounted in the outflow mouth of a sanitary outflow fixture.
Sanitary fitting (1, 3, 4, and 5) comprising an external housing (2) that has at least one housing section (6, 7, 30), said housing section (6, 7, 30) having an insertion opening (10) at an inlet side through which at least one functional unit can be inserted into an interior of the housing up to at least one insertion stop (18, 19, 29), a housing clearance (20, 21, 22) being situated upstream and downstream from the at least one insertion stop (18, 19, 29) in a direction of insertion, in order to accept a projecting part, which protrudes past the insertion stop (18, 19, 29), of the at least one functional unit, the fitting (1, 3, 4, and 5) is of modular construction, and the at least one housing section comprises at least two housing sections (6, 7) that can be connected with one another, into which a plurality of different ones of the functional units can each optionally be inserted up to a respective one of the at least one insertion stop (18, 19, 29), of each of the housing sections, and the housing clearance (20, 21, 22) situated upstream and downstream has a longitudinal extension that is greater than or equal to a maximum distance between the insertion stop (18, 19, 29) and a front side, protruding into the housing clearance (20, 21, 22), of the functional units allocated to the respective housing section (6, 7, 30).
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