The present invention relates to the field of sockets of a wall building.
Sockets of wall buildings include electrical wall sockets. The wall sockets substantially do not protrude out of the wall, and thus they form part of the building.
Thus, electrical wall sockets are spread all over the walls, even if the implements are not currently connected thereto. The implements are connected and removed by quick connections.
In contrast to electrical infrastructure, water or gas supply sources do not form part of the building. Implements consuming water or gas are rigidly fixed to the supply sources. For an example, a tap is not removably connected to the wall.
The invention, in embodiments thereof, provides apparatus for removably connecting a water or gas consumer to a wall.
In one aspect of the invention, a wall socket is provided, including a pipes-joint assembly including an outlet push-to-release pipe-joint, an inlet push-to-release pipe-joint, and piping for communicating therebetween, the piping including a right angled bending extending from the outlet push-to-release pipe-joint, and a pipe for extending from the right angled bending to the inlet push-to-release pipe-joint, and a panel, for connecting the pipes-joint assembly thereto, and for disposing the pipe of the pipes-joint assembly parallel to the panel.
Embodiments, features, and aspects of the invention are described herein in conjunction with the following drawings:
The drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale.
The invention, in embodiments thereof, will be understood from the following detailed description which is meant to be descriptive and not limiting. For the sake of brevity, some well-known features, methods, systems, procedures, components, circuits, and so on, are not described in detail.
The reference numbers have been used to point out elements in the embodiments described and illustrated herein, in order to facilitate the understanding of the invention. They are meant to be merely illustrative, and not limiting. Also, the foregoing embodiments of the invention have been described and illustrated in conjunction with systems and methods thereof, which are meant to be merely illustrative, and not limiting.
The term “push-to-release pipe-joint” refers herein to a joint for connecting thereto a water pipe by pressing the pipe into the joint, and for releasing the water pipe therefrom by pressing a push button thereof.
A prior art push-to-release pipe-joint 16A is intended to connect, in a quick manner, an end of a pipe 20A thereto without tools.
Pipe 20A is sealed to push-to-release pipe-joint 16A by a seal 28. At the first step, upon pressing pipe 20A to the left, pipe 20A crosses a springy hook 26 by pressing it. Springy hook 26 tacks pipe 20A, for not allowing releasing it.
For releasing pipe 20A, at the second step, the user presses a push button 22 having an end 30 being complementary to hook 26, thus pressing hook 26, for ceasing the pressure on pipe 20A. At the third step, the user may pull pipe 20A outside push-to-release pipe-joint 16A.
A wall socket 10 constitutes a female connector, being fixed to the building wall.
In contrast to the common female electrical wall sockets, designed for inserting male plugs thereinto, wall socket 10 constitutes a female water or gas connector, for inserting thereinto a “male” pipe.
Wall socket 10 utilizes the female character of the push-to-release pipe-joint of
Wall socket 10 includes, according to one embodiment of the present invention, at least two prior art push-to-release pipe-joints 16A and 16B of
Wall socket 10 is designed for connecting an inlet pipe 20A from a first direction; for connecting an outlet pipe 20B from a second direction; and for attaching perpendicular external panel 12 to a building wall 50 and parallel thereto.
Wall socket 10 is designed for attaching thereof to wall 50 of a kitchen or any other room 18 of a residence, for allowing a non-professional user, to connect water pipe 20B of an implement 40 to the outlet push-to-release pipe-joint 16B of wall socket 10.
Wall socket 10 is designed for being connected, by quick connection, to an inlet pipe 20A, to be hidden behind building wall 50 by external panel 12.
According to one embodiment, external panel 12 is disposed proximate to outlet push-to-release pipe-joint 16B, thus outlet push-to-release pipe-joint 16B minimally protrudes from wall 50.
Referring to
External panel 12 may be rigidly fixed at least to outlet push-to-release pipe-joint 16B, thus outlet push-to-release pipe-joint 16B is stationary, for allowing inserting outlet pipe 20B.
Wall socket 10 preferably includes a wall connection panel 56, to be inserted into an opening 58 in the building wall 50, and for being rigidly fixed to the opening 58. Wall connection panel 56 is designed for connecting to external panel 12 thereto by snapping means 66 or by simple screwing means, being quick connecting means.
Wall socket 10 may include a faucet 38, for allowing or disallowing water passage from inlet pipe 20A to outlet pipe 20B. Faucet 38 may be operated by a handle 14 being disposed, like outlet push-to-release pipe-joint 16B, on the external side 52B of external panel 12.
Inlet pipe 20A preferable is hidden behind building wall 50, may be threaded into a housing pipe 32.
In modern kitchen topology, the water is supplied by a water supply source 44, represented by a faucet, disposed below the working surface 62, to a tap 60, laid on the working surface 62, through a pipe 64 crossing the working surface 62 through a hole in working surface.
Wall socket 10 allows supplying the water from water supply source 44, represented by a faucet, disposed below working surface 62, to implement 40, such as a minibar or a refrigerator, disposed above working surface 62, through inlet pipe 20A, without making a hole in working surface, for crossing working surface 62, since inlet pipe 20A is installed behind or within wall 50.
Inlet pipe 20A disposed behind or within building wall 50, extends from a splitting element 42, splitting the water supply from water supply source 44 to wall socket 10 installed to building wall 50.
Referring again to
A pipes-joint assembly 17 includes outlet push-to-release pipe-joint 16B; inlet push-to-release pipe-joint 16A; and piping 78 disposed therebetween for communicating therebetween.
External panel 12 is designed to be disposed between push-to-release pipe-joints 16A and 16B, thus pipes-joint assembly 17 traverses external panel 12 through a hole 72A of external panel 12 including a traversing zone 76A, while depression 70A extending from external panel 12 supports outlet push-to-release pipe-joint 16B against manual pressing 80.
According to another embodiment, wall connection panel 56 is designed to be disposed between push-to-release pipe-joints 16A and 16B, thus pipes-joint assembly 17 traverses wall connection panel 56.
Namely, inlet push-to-release pipe-joint 16A of pipes-joint assembly 17 traverses through a traversing zone 76B of hole 72B of wall connection panel 56, while a depression 70B extending from wall connection panel 56 supports outlet push-to-release pipe-joint 16B.
Even though pipes-joint assembly 17 traverses wall connection panel 56 thus pipes-joint assembly 17 apparently could have been simply straight like in
Depression 70B is shaped three-dimensionally complementary to bending 82B, for housing and reducing mechanical freedom therebetween upon inserting bending 82B into depression 70B by pressing (80) outlet pipe 20B onto outlet push-to-release pipe-joint 16B. In particular, depression 70B avoids moving outlet push-to-release pipe-joint 16B by rotation of handle 14 of faucet 38 to avoid rotation of outlet push-to-release pipe-joint 16B in relation to inlet push-to-release pipe-joint 16A.
In addition to supporting bending 82B of pipes-joint assembly 17 on depression 70B of wall connection panel 56, pipes-joint assembly 17 further includes snapping members 66A and 66B extending from pipe 82A, designed for snapping complementary snapping members 68A and 68B respectively of wall connection panel 56.
According to this embodiment, external panel 12 is not fixed to push-to-release pipe-joint 16B or to pipes-joint assembly 17, and does include any connection means thereto.
Outlet push-to-release pipe-joint 16B is being pressed 80 by the user, by pressing outlet pipe 20B onto push-to-release pipe-joint 16B for connecting thereto, thus push-to-release pipe-joint 16B requires and receives a massive support, being depression 70B.
Outlet 16B push-to-release pipe-joint 16B and bending 82B of pipes-joint assembly 17 are thus supported by depression 70B of wall connection panel 56; pipe 82B of pipes-joint assembly 17 is thus supported by snapping members 68A and 68B respectively of wall connection panel 56; and inlet 16A push-to-release pipe-joint 16A of pipes-joint assembly 17 traverses traversing zone 76B of hole 72B of wall connection panel 56, rather than being supported by wall connection panel 56.
Piping 78 of pipes-joint assembly 17 may further include another right angled bending 82C extending from inlet push-to-release pipe-joint 16A, for providing compactness.
Right angled bending 82C allows rotating inlet push-to-release pipe-joint 16A, thus to increase the compactness.
Thus, according to one embodiment, the invention is directed to a wall socket (10), including:
The piping (78) of the pipes-joint assembly (17) may further include a faucet (34) including a rotatable handle (14), thereby the housing of the depression (70A, 70B) avoids rotating the outlet push-to-release pipe-joint (16B) in relation to the inlet push-to-release pipe-joint (16A), by the rotating of the handle (14).
The pipes-joint assembly (17) may further include fastening members (66A, 66B) extending from the pipe (82A) of the pipes-joint assembly (17), for being fastened to complementary fastening members (68A, 68B) of the panel (12, 56), thereby the outlet push-to-release pipe-joint (16B) and the pipe (82A) of the pipes-joint assembly (17) may be supported by the panel (12, 56), whereas the inlet push-to-release pipe-joint (16A) traverses the panel (12, 56).
The panel (12, 56) may constitute panel 56 for being fixed to a building wall (50), and/or panel 12 being external to the user.
The piping (78) may include a second right angled bending (82C) extending from the inlet push-to-release pipe-joint (16A), thereby providing compactness.
In the figures and/or description herein, the following reference numerals (Reference Signs List) have been mentioned:
The foregoing description and illustrations of the embodiments of the invention has been presented for the purposes of illustration. It is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the above description in any form.
Any term that has been defined above and used in the claims, should be interpreted according to this definition.
The reference numbers in the claims are not a part of the claims, but rather used for facilitating the reading thereof. These reference numbers should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any form.
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This application is a Continuation-in-Part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/554,258, which is a U.S. National Phase application under 35 U.S.C. 371 of International Application No. PCT/IL2016/050211, which has an international filing date of Feb. 24, 2016, and which claims priority and benefit from Israel Patent Application No. 237,545, filed Mar. 3, 2015, the contents and disclosure of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
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