Covering device for a surface side of a wall element

Abstract

A covering device is proposed for a surface side of a wall element, more particularly a side rail of a drawer, with which an aperture in the surface side of the wall element can be covered wherein the covering device has attachment means with which the covering device can be attached to the aperture. According to the invention the attachment means comprise several detent elements which are different from one another wherein the different detent elements are adapted for engagement on different wall thicknesses.

Claims

1. A covering device for a surface side of a wall element configured to cover an aperture in the surface side of the wall element, wherein the covering device has a substantially planar basic body and an attachment mechanism with which the covering device can be attached to the aperture, wherein the basic body has an inner layer and an outer layer, the inner layer has a smaller footprint than a footprint of the outer layer, the inner layer is arranged concentrically with respect to the footprint of the outer layer, wherein the attachment mechanism comprises a plurality of detent elements which are different from one another, wherein the different detent elements are adapted to engage on different wall thicknesses, wherein each of the plurality of detent elements has a substantially block-shaped projecting portion having at least one stop face and an off-set face having a surface dimension opposing a first covering surface and adjoining the at least one stop face at a right angle, wherein at least one of the detent elements includes a first stop face that is spaced apart from an inner surface of the outer layer and which is arranged substantially perpendicular to the first covering surface of the basic body, the first stop face being configured to contact the wall element and configured to receive a pressure defined by the contact with the wall element, and a second stop face adjacent to the first stop face that is inwardly offset from the first stop face by a distance corresponding to the surface dimension of the off-set face and which is parallel to the first stop face, wherein the projection of at least one detent element of the plurality of detent elements is attached to a free-standing swing section of an elastically deformable bar, the elastically deformable bar being fixedly connected at two opposite ends to the basic body each by a support column projecting up from the first covering surface and wherein the first covering surface is one of two main faces of the basic body, and wherein the first covering surface is configured to bear against an outside face of the surface side of the wall element.

2. The covering device according to Claim 1, wherein an off-set edge, at which the first stop face adjoins the off-set face, of a first detent element of the plurality of detent elements is spaced a distance from the first covering surface that is different from a corresponding distance of an off-set edge of a second detent element of the plurality of detent elements.

3. The covering device according to claim 2, wherein at least two detent elements of the plurality of detent elements with differently spaced off-set faces are arranged on a common outline section surface of the first covering surface.

4. The covering device according to Claim 3, wherein the first stop face of at least two detent elements of the plurality of detent elements with differently spaced off-set faces are aligned in agreement in the same direction.

5. The covering device according to Claim 4, wherein the first stop face of at least two detent elements of the plurality of detent elements with differently spaced off-set faces lie in a common plane perpendicular to the first covering surface.

6. The covering device according to Claim 2, wherein several detent elements of the plurality of detent elements are arranged on a common straight outline section of the covering surface, wherein at least two of the detent elements of the several detent elements have off-set edges arranged on the same outline section at different distances from the first covering surface.

7. The covering device according to claim 1, wherein the first covering surface has a rectangular outline.

8. The covering device according to claim 1, wherein the bar has a curved shape.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) The invention will now be explained in further detail using an exemplary embodiment and with reference to the drawings. The embodiment is shown diagrammatically in the drawings and is not to scale.

(2) FIG. 1 shows a section of a first covering surface of a covering device according to the invention; and

(3) FIG. 2 shows a section of a perspective view of the covering device.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

(4) FIG. 1 shows an exemplary embodiment of a covering device 1 according to the present invention with a plate-like basic body 2. The plate-like basic body 2 has a rectangular outline with two long sides 3a and 3b as well as two short sides 4a and 4b. FIG. 1 shows the first covering surface 5 of the basic body which when attached to an aperture (not shown) on a surface side of a wall element (not shown) faces the wall element and its aperture. Several attachment means are formed on the first inner covering surface 5 of the basic body. By way of example lugs 6 protrude perpendicularly from the covering surface and are provided for bearing elastically tensioned against for example an edge of an aperture (not shown). The lugs 6 can furthermore serve to guide movement for example during insertion of the covering device. The attachment means furthermore comprise several detent elements 7, 8, 9 and 10 which are arranged on the long sides 3a and 3b.

(5) The plate-like basic body 2 has two layers 2a and 2b, for example, of the same thickness. The inner layer 2b has a smaller outline which is arranged preferably concentric with the larger outline of the outer layer 2a. The first, i.e. inner covering surface 5 thereby has a stepped off-set edge 11 which surrounds the inner layer 2b for example at a constant width.

(6) The outline of the inner layer 2b is preferably adapted to an outline of an aperture (not shown) in a surface side of a wall element (not shown) in such a way that the inner layer 2b can be inserted into the aperture. Play of the inner layer 2b inside the apertureat least parallel to the short side edges 4a and 4bis preferably clearly less than a spring path of one of the detent elements 7-10. The play of the inner layer 2b is similarly preferably smaller than a width with which the edge 11 protrudes over the inner layer 2b in order to prevent an uncovered area occurring at the aperture.

(7) Different detent elements 7-10 are arranged spread out along the sides 3a and 3b. For example, several different detent elements 7 and 8 are arranged on the side 3a symmetrically relative to a center point of the side 3a, wherein the detent elements 8 are placed further out relative to the detent elements 7. Several different detent elements 9 and 10 are similarly formed and arranged on the side 3b. The detent elements 7 and 9 as well as the detent elements 8 and 10 can then be constructed identical in pairs.

(8) FIG. 2 shows the covering device 1 in section with the side 3b on which the detent elements 9 and 10 are provided. Each of the detent elements 9, 10 has two support columns 12 which protrude at a distance from one another perpendicularly from the inner layer 2b of the basic body 2. A bar 13 swung approximately in a semi-circular shape projects outwardly aligned on the two support columns 12 and connects the two support columns 12 of the detent element 9 or 10 to one another. In the centre of the bar 13, which preferably projects the furthest outwards, a block-shaped projection 14 is formed on the outside of the bar 13. The block-shaped projection 14 projects beyond a peripheral side face 2c of the inner layer 2b whereby a stop face 15 of the block-shaped projection 14 is arranged freely protruding above the edge 11. The stop face 15 can bear for example flat against an edge of the aperture with a contact pressure force which can be produced by deformation of the bar 13 in the inserted position in an aperture (not shown).

(9) Underneath the stop face 15 a further surface 16 is formed on the projections 14 and is arranged at a for example right angle relative to the stop face 15. The surface 16 is preferably arranged at a distance opposite the edge 11 whereby a section of a surface side which surrounds an aperture (not shown) can be pushed into an interspace between the edge 11 and the projection 14.

(10) The surface 16 on the detent element 10 is a side face of the block-shaped projection 14 which is placed at a distance corresponding to a height of the side face 2c above the edge 11.

(11) In the case of the detent elements 9 an off-set stagger is formed on the block-shaped projection 14 wherein the stop face 15 is recessed by the off-set face 16 from a second stop face 17 which is off-set inwards, for example, towards a plane of the surface 2c opposite the stop face 15. The off-set face 16 on the detent elements 9 thus lies at a greater distance from the edge 11 than the off-set face 16 of the detent elements 10. The projection 14 of one of the detent elements 9 can thereby engage behind a surface side (not shown) with greater material thickness at the edge of an aperture (not shown) than the projection 14 of a detent element 10.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMERALS

(12) 1 Covering device 2 Basic body 2a Layer (outer) 2b Layer (inner) 2c Surface 3a Side edge 3b Side edge 4a Side edge 4b Side edge 5 Covering surface 6 Lug 7 Detent element 8 Detent element 9 Detent element 10 Detent element 11 Edge 12 Support column 13 Bar 14 Projection 15 Stop face 16 Off-set face 17 Stop face