GB2241887A - Sink - Google Patents

Abstract

A sink, especially for households, has at least one deep bowl 1 and a waste 9 in the bottom of the bowl, in which in addition there is formed at least one stop, particularly a step 6 or a gully at which larger utensils may be supported during washing-up so that they do not slip in the bowl. If desired, the gulley (12) Fig 4 (not shown) may be T-shaped in plan view. <IMAGE>

Description

1 :;? 1-2 -el I- a a -7 Sink The invention concerns a kitchen sink,

particularly for households, with at least one deep bowl and an outflow (waste) in the bottom of the bowl.

Sinks of this type are known in numerous embodiments, they frequently have drainer surfaces and/or also a further bowl and/or flat trays etc., optionally with their own waste outflow. The present invention is concerned with the construction of the actual (deep) bowl.

On washing up larger parts (utensils), such as e.g.

grill or baking trays, the problem arises that these parts cannot be set in a stable manner into the sink. Mostly during cleansing they lie at an angle in the sink and must be held by hand. This is very impractical.

If the part to be cleansed is not held steady by hand, it slips over the bottom, whereby it may scratch the latter and then by way of its flat angle of inclination extensively blocks the bowl whereby the cleaning is also rendered more difficult.

The task of the present invention is so to improve a kitchen sink bowl that the largest parts (utensils) may be more easily manipulated during washing-up.

In addition the sink should be characterised relative to the hitherto known embodiments by a higher economic value.

This task is solved according to the invention in that at least one stop is arranged in the bottom of the sink bowl for may be set larger kitchen utensils or crockery to lean against.

The advantage arises thereby that the baking trays at an angle during cleaning, without any sliding of th.ese parts to occur. Thus they may be comfortably cleaned in a stable position without having to fear that the bottom of the 30 bowl will be scratched.

It is particularly expedient to form the stop at the bottom of the bowl as a step at which a part of the bottom of the bowl is sunk lower than the rest of the bottom of the bowl. This has the advantage that flat parts lying on the bottom of 1 bowl, e.g. chopping boards, cake plates etc. may more easily be engaged or supported in the vicinity of the lowered bottom so that a simpler manipulation in the washing-up water results.

The step may extend over almost a whole length, width or a diagonal of the sink in order to limit the range of dimensions of the parts to be cleaned as little as possible.

In order to ensure that on discharging the washing-up water no residual pool (puddle) should form in the lowered region of the bowl bottom, the waste of the bowl should at least in part be disposed in this lowered region.

In order to make it possible for the washing-up water to run out in a uniform manner, advantageously the part of the bowl bottom lowered in relation to the rest of the bowl region extends on both sides of the waste outflow.

A further development of the invention consists in providing a second step lyin- opposite to the first step so that the steps are the flanks of a bottom channel (gully). In this way a particularly favourable washing-up water outflow relationship is achieved in which the dirt at the bottom of the sink settles finally only in this gAly and thus the sink is easier to clean.

This is also the case where the steps are partially angled and form a Tshaped bottom gully. In this way large parts (utensils) may simultaneously be stood in the sink both longitudinally and transversely.

Where the stop is arranged outside the centre, the large parts will stand relatively steeply and the part disposed above the sink does not project laterally too far out of the sink.

In order that this lateral overhang should not be made bigger also for increasingly larger parts (utensils), larger parts should stand more steeply than smaller ones. Starting from the assumption that the proportions of length and width for larger and smaller parts (utensils) remain approximately the same, then this is achieved in that the essentially mutually orthogonal bowl walls go over into one another by way of wall regions extending at approximately 451. In this way for wider utensils the set position of the utensil to be washed is moved further inwardly so that the part to be washed stands more steeply.

v 7 4 1 Advantageously, the bowl is of mirror-symmetrical configuration in respect of at least one vertical plane. It is thereby achieved that it is reversible, i.e. the same sink with a bowl and a drainer may be mounted either with the drainer on the left of the bowl or with the drainer on the right of the bowl. In this way,.'n manufacture a single tool suffices for the making of this sink and in the subsequent storage only one type of sink needs to be supplied for both cases of use. This works out in a cost-sparing manner.

Other features and advantages will become clear from the following description of preferred embodiments according to the invention. Shown are:

Fig. 1 is a section through a sink with a drainer and a step-like stop in the bowl, Fig. 2 is a plan view of the sink according to Fig.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of a sink with a gully-like stop in the bowl, Fig. 4 is a sink as in Fig. 3 but with a T-shaped gully.

In Figures 1 and 2 a sink may be seen which has a deep bowl 1 on the right and a drainer 2 on the left. The bowl 1 and the drainer 2 are surrounded by a splash protection rim 3 which is somewhat higher than the web 4 between the bowl and the drainer.

Should the bowl 1 be over-filled, excess water flows over the web 4 onto the drainer 2 and there into an overflow 5 through which water disperses also from the articles that are drained on the drainer.

What is essential is that a step 6 is moulded into the bottom of the bowl 1. At this step utensils leaning against the web 4 may be supported so that they stand stably and do not slip to the right over the flatter part 7 of the bottom.

At the same time the step 6 enables a part of chopping boards or the like which lie flat in the region 7 of the bottom of the bowl to be pushed into the lowered region 8 and there more readily to manipulated.

be gripped by the hand and thus more easily 1 - 4 The overflow 9 i s arranged in the deepest region in order that on letting out the washing-up water no residual water should collect in the lowered region 8.

A further step 10 may lie opposite the first step 6 so that the steps 6 and 10 form a channel (gully) 11, as is shown in Fig. 3.

In Fig. 4 the steps 6A and 6B have an angled configura tion so that they, together with the step 10, form a Tshaped gully 12 with an approximately semi-circular cross-section.

In all the illustrated variants the steps 6, 6A, 6B and 10 extend over nearly the whole width of the bowl, on both sides of and symmetrically about the waste 9.

laterally offset from the middle of the bowl of the sink 1, whereby a utensil to be washed and set therein stands somewhat more steeply.

In order to increase this steepness for larger and thus also wider utensils, the essentially mutually perpendicu- larly extending bowl walls 13 have transition regions 14 set at about 451 to each other.

By means of these angled intermediate wall regions 14 surfaces 15 are created at the top surface of the sink which are suitable for the mounting of water tap fittings.

All the illustrated sinks are about their plane of symmetry 16.

The steps and the waste are mirror-symmetrical A

Claims (10)

1. A sink, especially for households, with at least one deep bowl and a waste in the bottom of the bowl, and wherein a stop is arranged in the bottom of the bowl for larger kitchen utensils or crockery to lean against.

2. A sink according to claim 1, wherein said stop is formed by at least one step at which a part of the bottom of the bowl is lower than the remainder of the bottom and the waste of the bowl is at least partially disposed in this lower part.

3. A sink according to claim 2, wherein the or each step extends over nearly the whole length, width or diagonal of the bowl.

4. A sink according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the said lower part of the bottom of the bowl extends on both sides of the waste outflow of the bowl.

5. A sink according to any of claims 2 to 4, wherein there are two mutually oppositely lying steps such that the steps form the flanks of a gully or channel in the bottom of the bowl.

6. A sink according to claim 5, wherein the said steps are partially angled and form a T-shaped bottom gully.

7. A sink according to any preceding claim, wherein the stop is laterally offset relative to the centre of the bowl.

8. A sink according to any preceding claim, wherein the walls of the bowl are essentially mutually orthogonally disposed but have transition wall regions angled at about 450 between adjacent walls.

9. A sink according to any preceding claim, wherein the sink is mirrosymmetrical about at least one vertical plane.

10. A sink, or household sink unit, according to claim 1, substantially as herein described with reference to and as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, Fig. 3 or Fig. 4 of the accompanying drawings.

Published] 991 at The Patent Office. Concept House. Cardiff Road- Gwent NP9 I RH Further copies may. be obtained from Sales Branch. Unit 6. Nine Mile Point. Ci%-mfelinfach. Cross Keys. Newport- NP1 7HZ. Printed by Multiplex techniques lid. St Mary Cray. Kent-