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Granted Patent B2
US 12,000,624 · App. 17/463,747 · Granted Jun 4, 2024

Water heater mounting structure

Inventor: Keita Kawano (Nagoya, JP)
Assignee: PALOMA CO., LTD
F24H9/06F24H9/02
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Patent No.
US 12,000,624
App. No.
17/463,747
Granted
Jun 4, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

An object is to provide a water heater mounting structure for mounting a case to a mounting surface via a support fitting component that is fixed to the mounting surface in a vertical direction. The case houses a burning device. On a back plate of the case, a lock-engagement fitting component is mounted. The lock-engagement fitting component has an upper plate portion and a lower plate portion. The upper plate portion is fixed to the back plate, and the lower plate portion is lock-engageable with the support fitting component from thereabove and has a dimension longer than the support fitting component in the left-right direction. The lower plate portion is lock-engaged with the support fitting component from thereabove to hang and support the case through the lock-engagement fitting component by the support fitting component.

Claims (13)

1. A water heater mounting structure for mounting a case in which a burning device is housed, to a mounting surface, via a support fitting component that is fixed to the mounting surface in a vertical direction and that has a lock-engaged portion facing upward, comprising:

a lock-engagement fitting component that is mounted to a back surface of the case and includes a fixed portion which is fixed to the back surface, and a lock-engaging portion that is joined to the fixed portion, is lock-engageable with the lock-engaged portion from above the lock-engaged portion, and has a dimension longer than that of the lock-engaged portion in a left-right direction;

wherein the lock-engaging portion is lock-engaged with the lock-engaged portion from above the lock-engaged portion to hang and support the case through the lock-engagement fitting component by the support fitting component; and

wherein the lock-engaging portion has, at a lower end, a turned-back portion that is turned back towards a front side of the lock-engaging portion and that extends substantially in an upward direction from the lower end so as to overlap the lock-engaging portion.

2. The water heater mounting structure according to claim 1 , wherein the lock-engaging portion is disposed over almost an entire length of a width of the back surface of the case in the left-right direction.

3. The water heater mounting structure according to claim 1 , wherein the lock-engaging portion has, at a lower end, a turned-back portion that extends in the left-right direction, and that comes into contact with the support fitting component in a state where the lock-engaging portion is lock-engaged with the lock-engaged portion.

4. The water heater mounting structure according to claim 3 , wherein the turned-back portion has an insertion portion in which a thickness in a front-rear direction is increased upward from a lower end so as to form an acute angle, and the insertion portion has a forward tilting front surface.

5. The water heater mounting structure according to claim 1 , wherein stoppers for preventing the lock-engaged portion from falling from the lock-engaging portion are disposed on both left and right sides of the lock-engaging portion.

6. The water heater mounting structure according to claim 1 , wherein the lock-engaged portion is plate-shaped.

7. The water heater mounting structure according to claim 1 , wherein

a mounting fitting component is fixed to the back surface above the lock-engagement fitting component, and the mounting fitting component has a provisionally attaching hole that is lock-engageable with a screw disposed at the mounting surface, and a fully attaching hole through which a screw is screwed into the mounting surface, and

the case is mountable to the mounting surface through the mounting fitting component in a state where the case is hung and supported by the support fitting component.

8. The water heater mounting structure according to claim 1 , wherein the support fitting component includes a fixed plate portion which is fixed to the mounting surface, a horizontal plate portion that is bent forward from an upper end of the fixed plate portion, and the lock-engaged portion that is bent upward from a front end of the horizontal plate portion.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 5, 2024
From: PALOMA CO., LTD.
To: PALOMA RHEEM HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 068180/0989 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 2, 2021
From: KAWANO, KEITA
To: PALOMA CO., LTD
Reel/Frame 057370/0464 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2021-011388 · Jan 27, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
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