Object arrangement for attaching an object

Abstract

Object arrangement comprising an object (1), in particular a sanitary object (1), which is fastened to a fastening structure (2), characterized in that a spacer (3) is arranged between the object (1), in particular its mounting surface (1a), and the fastening structure (2), in particular a fastening surface region of the fastening structure (2) opposite the mounting surface (1a), wherein the spacer (3) is made of a transparent material, in particular of an uncolored transparent material.

Description

The invention relates to an object arrangement comprising an object, in particular a sanitary object, which is fastened to a fastening structure.It is generally known to attach any type of objects to attachment structures. For this purpose, the objects to be fastened generally have a mounting surface. Such a mounting surface can be a single continuous surface, but alternatively also consist of a plurality of partial surface regions.In a conventional fastening of the prior art, the mounting surface or the partial surface regions thereof make contact, in particular directly, with a fastening surface region of the fastening structure lying opposite the mounting surface or the respective partial surface region.Usually, the mounting surface or the partial surface regions thereof lies in one plane. The same applies to the fastening surface on the fastening structure. A statically stable, non-tilting arrangement is thus created.The invention provides a preferred application to sanitary objects, but is not limited to these.A sanitary object is preferably understood to mean any object that can be used in the sanitary area, e.g. a toilet bowl, a washbasin or wash table, a bidet, a urinal, a cabinet, etc. Such sanitary objects are usually fastened upright or suspended on a fastening structure in order to be usable.An object, preferably a sanitary object, is fastened to a fastening structure in particular by screws or threaded bolts as fastening elements, which are anchored in the fastening structure and pass through receiving recesses in the object, preferably a sanitary object.A fastening structure is preferably understood to mean a structural, structural installation or arrangement to which an object, preferably a sanitary object, can be fastened, e.g. a wall or a floor or a ceiling of an real-life, but also other objects can form a fastening structure to which the fastening of objects, in particular sanitary objects, can be provided.For example, a stand wash basin as sanitary object can be fastenable standing upright on a lower cabinet as fastening structure. A fastening structure is thus preferably part of an real-world or even a mobile object itself.For the intended use of a sanitary object, the fastening structure preferably has the sanitary connections required for this purpose, preferably piping for the water inlet and waste water outlet.According to the prior art known to date, the fastening of a sanitary object to a fastening surface region of the fastening structure is normally carried out directly or at most with the interposition of a thin decoupling layer, for example made of nonwoven as sound decoupling. Even with such a decoupling layer, a sanitary object acts as directly fastened to the fastening structure visually, because the decoupling layer has a visually negligible build height, in particular of less than 2 millimeters.For decades, this type of direct attachment of sanitary objects to attachment structures has dominated, which combines sanitary objects and attachment structure into a stable, but visually massive arrangement, which lacks visual evidence and ease and in which the object is lost as a stand-alone object.The same problem also arises with other objects outside the sanitary application. Here too, the necessary statically perfect fastening creates the problem that the object fuses visually at least in parts to the fastening structure and loses its visual individuality. This is particularly problematic in the case of objects of demanding design, including sanitary objects which are intended to develop a desired effect on their own.Against this background, it is an object of the invention to provide an object arrangement and a method for fastening an object to a fastening structure, with which a statically stable fastening is achieved despite a visual "ease" being achieved, in particular with the fastened object being optically released from the fastening structure.This object is achieved according to the invention in that in an object arrangement of the type mentioned at the beginning, in particular a sanitary object arrangement, a spacer is arranged between the object and the fastening structure, wherein the spacer is formed from a transparent material, in particular from an unstained transparent material, in particular which is thus to be understood as transparent to glass.According to the invention, the spacer is thus preferably located between the mounting surface of the object or the partial surface regions thereof and a fastening surface region of the fastening structure opposite the mounting surface or the partial surface regions, preferably without the interposition of further elements. The spacer thus preferably forms the only element, which brings about a spacing between object and fastening structure.Preferably, this achieves that a fastening to the fastening structure is achieved without or at least without significantly influencing the color reproduction of light penetrating through the spacers, in particular wherein the fastening surface region of the fastening structure remains perceptible through the transparent / transparent spacer.This achieves a visual effect according to which the object appears to float in front of the attachment structure, since the spacer itself, due to its transparent material, visually enters the background, if not at least substantially invisible.The object is thereby released from the fastening surface of the fastening structure and can thus exhibit its optical effect independently of the fastening structure. In particular in the sanitary field, for example when toilet bowls, bidets or wash tables are suspended on a wall as a fastening structure, the massive, bulky sanitary object thereby becomes an optically light and elegant, it is possible to say artistic sculpture because its stability and severity is visually canceled and the sanitary object only appears to float freely in contradiction to the required static and its required water-technical connection, but is in fact both attached statically to the fastening structure to the spacer to a required extent and has the required water-technical connection, in particular which takes place through the spacer by at least one recess, but is preferably hardly perceptible or not perceptible at all, because, due to the higher optical density of the material of the spacer, any light which originates from the structures / elements which penetrate the spacer is present, due to total internal reflection, the user standing in front of the object is not reached.The material of the spacer is preferably understood as being non-colored transparent when the material used is not artificially colored and / or achieves a color rendering index (CRI) of greater than 80 Ra, preferably greater than 90 Ra, more preferably greater than 95 Ra, in particular when illuminated with sunlight as reference light.In this case, the spacer furthermore achieves, according to the invention, a statically secure fastening of the object, in particular of the sanitary object, to the fastening structure, preferably because the mounting surface of the object is supported at least predominantly, preferably completely, in particular the possibly present partial surface regions of the mounting surface are supported at least predominantly, preferably all indirectly, via the spacer on the fastening structure. Thus, even by using the interposed spacer, all forces acting on the object are absorbed in the fastening structure.In a preferred development, it is provided that the edge surface regions of the spacer extending between the object and the fastening structure, in particular at least the edge surface regions visible in a typical use, in particular partial regions, preferably all the edge surface regions, are embodied to be clearly transparent, in particular polished.Preferably, the transparency of the edge surface regions ensures that the edge surface regions themselves lying at the glance of a viewer cannot be seen, or can only be seen hardly, as boundary surface regions of the spacer, in particular since these do not have a light-scattering function, preferably at most a light-refracting function. Light can thus pass virtually unimpeded, in particular without scattering, in both directions through such a clearly transparent edge surface region, provided it is not captured in the interior of the spacer under the conditions of total reflection, which further reduces the visual perceptibility.Edge surface regions are understood here to mean in particular those surface regions of the spacer which extend between the two contact surfaces of the spacer with which the spacer makes contact with the object on the one hand and the fastening structure on the other hand. In particular, these edge surface regions form the fundamentally visible surfaces on the outer periphery of the spacer in the assembled state of the object arrangement.It is further preferably provided that the thickness of the spacer has a value of greater than or equal to 10 mm, preferably of greater than or equal to 15 mm, preferably of greater than or equal to 20 mm, further preferably of greater than or equal to 25 mm, in particular wherein the thickness has a value of less than or equal to 35 mm, preferably of less than or equal to 30 mm. The thickness is considered here in the direction of the spacing of the two contact surface regions of the spacer.These values achieve a sufficiently good optical effect with economically viable limiting of the material use, in particular without unreasoning the effect.If below-mentioned concreteizations assume a specific alignment of the spacer for clear understanding, its alignment is intended when assembled as intended between object and fastening structure, in which an intended use of the object is also possible.Preferably, a transparent plastic is selected as material, in particular polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) or polycarbonate or polyethylene terephthalate glycol (PET-G).In particular, a plastic has the advantage of being reversibly deformable under the usual fastening forces / fastening torques of sanitary objects, which concludes the advantage that in sanitary objects, such as toilet bowls, bidets and wash tables, an additional seal against water between object and fastening structure is unnecessary, which seal is formed with an optically less visible silicone joint in sanitary objects and their usual manner of fastening. In the invention, on the other hand, the material of the spacer can be sealingly deformed, preferably until complete sealing of any gaps between object and fastening structure.A further preferred alternative for the material is glass, in particular white glass. White glass is preferably understood to mean a type of glass in which the iron oxide content is at least reduced or eliminated compared to conventional green glass.Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), in particular also glass, in particular, is furthermore outstandingly recyclable without carrying out a so-called downcycling during recycling. Spacers made from this material can be broken down again into their starting components by chemical recycling in order to produce new elements therefrom-with virtually the same product quality. Also, the spacers of the invention may be made of recycled material. Resources are thus saved and waste is avoided, as a result of which spacers according to the invention are environmentally safe and have a lasting effect.In a structurally preferred embodiment, the spacer is designed as a plate with two preferably parallel, opposite contact surfaces spaced apart by the thickness of the plate, between which edge surface regions of the spacer extend, wherein at least a partial region of all edge surface regions preferably all edge surface regions of the spacer do not protrude / project outwards beyond the contour of the object, in particular not beyond the contour of the object extending around the mounting surface.If it is not realized that all edge surface regions do not project outward beyond the contour, the invention provides, for example, that a partial region of edge surface regions which do not project outward beyond the contour is preferably formed by an edge surface region of the spacer which is situated at the top in the assembled state, in particular which is at least partially extended substantially horizontally in a direction, in particular parallel to the fastening surface.The mounted state is preferably one in which the contact surface of the spacer, which contacts the fastening surface on the fastening structure, and the contact surface of the spacer, which contacts the mounting surface (or the partial surfaces thereof) of the object, each lie in a vertical plane.Preferably, it is thereby achieved that the spacer, at least in the upper edge surface region on which a user looks during normal use, preferably in all edge surface regions, does not project outwards beyond the object in the region of the mounting surface thereof, at most extends with the object in the same contour.Preferably, not only is it provided that all edge surface areas do not protrude outward beyond the contour, but even that the spacer protrudes at least in areas, preferably on / with all edge surface areas, inward behind the contour of the object. Viewed in projection perpendicular to the mounting direction, the edge surface regions are thus located within the contour and / or in the object.In particular, it is provided that at least one edge surface region of the spacer, which is situated at the top in the mounted state, in particular in the aforementioned mounted state, preferably also a respective lateral edge surface region, in particular which extends from top to bottom in the mounted state, protrudes inwardly behind the contour of the object. For example, in a further development it can be provided that the distance of a lateral edge surface region from the contour decreases from top to bottom. A lower edge surface region can preferably likewise be protruding or at least not protruding, in particular flush with the contour.In all embodiments in which at least a partial region of all edge surface regions protrudes inward behind the contour of the object, the cross section of the spacer is smaller than the cross section of the contour when viewed perpendicular to the mounting direction, i.e. in particular the cross section of the contact surface of the spacer contacting the object.If there is a desire to use sealing means, for example made of silicone, in particular as silicone joints / silicone seams, in the transition region from the object to the spacer and / or from the spacer to the fastening structure, the invention achieves the advantage that the sealing means, which frequently has a non-aesthetic appearance, cannot be visually perceived. The invention, on the other hand, preferably decides to be able to dispense with sealing means.In all embodiments in which at least one upper edge surface region and the respective lateral edge surface regions, in particular also a possibly lower edge surface region, stand inward behind the contour, the spacer is preferably removed from the optical perception region for a person standing in front of the object. In this case, the spacer can also be made of a non-transparent material, in particular any material.It can be provided, in particular in an embodiment in which the spacer is located on all edge surface regions inward behind the contour of the object, that the distance of a respective edge surface region from the contour is the same everywhere. In this case, the edge region runs parallel to the extension of the contour. The outer cross-sectional shape of the spacer then preferably corresponds to the cross-sectional shape of the contour multiplied by a factor of less than 1.The invention preferably provides that the distance of an edge surface region (in particular upper and / or lateral edge surface region) standing inward behind the contour from the contour has a dimension which is less than or equal to the thickness of the spacer. Preferably, the distance is 50% to 75% of the thickness of the spacer, preferably 60% of the thickness of the spacer. If a spacer is 25 mm thick, for example, the distance of the edge surface region, in particular of at least one upper, preferably also one lateral edge surface region, from the contour is preferably 15 mm.The contour of the object, in particular of the sanitary object, is preferably understood here as the outer boundary line of the cross section of the object viewed perpendicularly to the mounting direction (the direction perpendicular to the mounting surface of the mounting structure) in the plane of the mounting surface or in a region / a plane lying in the object shortly before the plane of the mounting surface, in particular which lies parallel to the plane of the mounting surface.Here, and also below, a region / a plane just before the plane of the mounting surface is preferably understood to be a region or a plane which is / is not more than 15 mm, preferably not more than 10 mm, more preferably not more than 5 mm, before the plane of the mounting surface in the object. The consideration of such a region is due to the fact that objects, in particular sanitary objects, are frequently rounded at the edges adjacent to the mounting surface plane, so that the cross section of the object exactly in the mounting surface plane is smaller than the actual and visually perceptible cross section of the object.In one possible embodiment, the invention provides that the edge surface regions are formed everywhere or in at least a predominant region, perpendicularly to the surface of the fastening structure and / or the mounting surface of the object or perpendicularly to the contact surfaces of the spacer, which contact the aforementioned surfaces after mounting.The perpendicular orientation to the surface of the fastening structure is preferably understood to mean that a normal vector runs on an edge surface region parallel to the fastening surface of the fastening structure.This embodiment gives a simple possibility of producing a plate as a spacer, for example by cutting processes, for example laser cutting, in particular in the case of transparent plastics. Laser cutting has the advantage that the cut surfaces which form the edge surface regions are generally sufficiently clear and no afterpolition is required, although polishing is possible.A preferred embodiment provides that the cross section of the contact surface of the spacer contacting the mounting surface of the sanitary object and / or the cross section of the contact surface of the spacer contacting the fastening structure is smaller or at most the same size as the cross section of the object in the plane of the mounting surface or in a region / a plane just before the plane of the mounting surface. It is thus ensured that none of the two contact surfaces of the spacer projects outwards beyond the contour of the object, because each of these contact surfaces corresponds at most to the cross section of the object in the relevant plane or is smaller.In this case, it can be provided in one embodiment, for example, that a region of the spacer between the two contact surfaces, which can be of the same size or of different sizes, is smaller in cross section than the cross section of each of the two contact surfaces. A maximum tapering of the spacer can thus be present between the two contact surfaces as viewed in the thickness direction.A further preferred embodiment provides that the cross section of the contact surface of the spacer contacting the fastening structure is smaller than the cross section of the contact surface of the spacer contacting the mounting surface of the sanitary object.Preferably, this achieves that the spacer narrows in its cross section in the direction of the fastening structure. Such a tapering can be effected, for example, in a step-like manner or preferably uniformly or continuously, in particular linearly or curved.Preferably, a tapering can be provided on all edge surface areas, i.e. circumferentially around the entire spacer, preferably everywhere in the same manner or e.g. only in the case of an upper edge surface area lying in the visible area.In general, a taper can preferably be formed linearly or curved when viewed in the thickness direction of the spacer.Alternatively, a tapering is provided only or at least on a partial region of the edge surface region viewed in the circumferential direction, preferably on an upper edge region of the spacer, in particular if the spacer is arranged on a vertical wall as a fastening structure. In this case, the upper edge surface region represents the directly visually accessible viewing region for a viewer. The remaining edge surface regions can in this case preferably have an orientation perpendicular to the fastening surface.In all embodiments which provide a taper, the cross section of the contact surface of the spacer contacting the mounting surface of the object is preferably the same size as the cross section of the object in the plane of the mounting surface or in a region / a plane just before the plane of the mounting surface, in particular as a result of which a full-surface support of the mounting surface of the object is achieved despite the taper.A preferred embodiment provides that when using a spacer on a wall as a fastening structure, an upper edge surface region of the spacer, in particular which runs at least in regions parallel to the fastening surface of the fastening structure, is lowered over the entire thickness of the spacer at a constant distance below the upper contour line, which the cross section of the object has in the plane of the mounting surface or in a region / a plane just before the plane of the mounting surface. In this embodiment, the upper edge surface region is thus lowered in a stepped manner below the upper contour / edge of the object and is thus less visually perceptible, but this embodiment is associated with a support of the mounting surface on the object that is not over the entire surface.Alternatively, it is provided that when using a spacer on a wall as a fastening structure, an upper edge surface region of the spacer, in particular which runs at least in regions parallel to the fastening surface of the fastening structure, is formed to fall from the object in the direction of the fastening structure in height at least in regions, in particular over the entire extension.Such a falling configuration can be configured, for example, to be linearly falling at least in regions, or to first fall and again rise, in particular with the formation of a channel.Thus, in a preferred embodiment, it is also provided that an upper edge surface region forms a channel or has a channel which runs parallel to the surface of the fastening structure, preferably wherein the channel is arranged closer to the fastening structure than to the object, in particular wherein the channel adjoins the fastening surface of the fastening structure.Preferably, this ensures that dirt or also splash water can collect in this channel and can be cleaned more easily there.Such a groove in the upper edge surface region, in particular if it is formed over the entire thickness of the spacer, has the further advantage that it acts like a concave lens for light coming from the volume of the spacer, whereby elements necessarily present in the spacer or penetrating it, such as fastening elements or pipe elements, appear smaller when viewed from the outside, whereby their optical effect can be reduced.The invention can generally also provide that the edge surface regions of the spacer are provided at least in regions with an inclination which deviates from a perpendicular orientation of the edge surface regions with respect to the fastening surface, in particular in such a way that light from the interior of the spacer is broken away by a viewer in comparison with the perpendicular orientation.For example, this can be achieved in that the surface normal on an edge surface region points a component in the direction of the fastening surface, in particular intersects the latter. Since a light beam emerging from the interior of the spacer is broken away from the surface normal, the deviation of the surface normal from the position parallel to the fastening surface in the direction of the fastening surface causes the broken light beam to also be displaced in the direction of the fastening surface and thus move away from a viewer in comparison with the situation if the surface normal were parallel to the fastening surface or the edge surface region were perpendicular to the fastening surface as viewed in the thickness direction of the spacer. This embodiment thus also allows light originating from elements present in the spacer to be moved away from the perception range of a viewer.The invention can also provide that the edge surface regions of the spacer have, at least in regions, preferably completely, a reflection-reducing surface coating. Such an antireflection coating further reduces the visual perceptibility of the edge surface regions as boundary surfaces of the spacer.A preferred further development of the invention provides that pipe elements and or fastening elements which are passed through the spacer carry a specularly reflective sleeve or the surface of bores or recesses in the spacer for the passage of pipe elements and / or fastening elements are specularly coated. A sleeve can be designed, for example, as a polished and / or chrome-plated metal sleeve, for example made of aluminum. A plastic sleeve can also be mirror-coated to form a sleeve according to the invention.Another preferred development provides that the spacer has at least one of the functional elements mentioned below. Such a functional element can be arranged, for example, in / on at least one recess of the spacer, preferably in at least one recess on a lower edge surface region or in the contact surface of the spacer facing the object or the fastening structure.For example, a functional element can be formed by a lighting device, in particular based on LEDs (light emitting diodes) as the light source. By means of the at least one illumination device, the light emitted by the at least one light source can preferably be coupled into the transparent material, in particular wherein it can propagate therein at least in regions under the principle of total reflection, preferably also can emerge from the spacer through edge surface regions. It is thus possible to achieve illumination of the object close to the mounting surface which is preferably emissive of light outwards around the mounting surface, in particular which can generate a highlight appearance, in particular a structured / shaped highlight appearance on the fastening surface.In order to also achieve a decoupling of light at edge surface regions which guide the light under the condition of total reflection, it can be provided, for example, that these or other edge surface regions have a structure disturbing total reflection.The lighting device can be supplied by an energy source arranged in the spacer as a further functional element, e.g. by at least one battery, or by an external energy connection. It can be provided to actuate the illumination device by a control device integrated in the spacer, for example as a function of an external signal or a detected measured value of a sensor.A preferred embodiment provides that an illumination device comprises a plurality of individual light sources, in particular a plurality of individual LEDs, wherein the light sources are arranged in the circumferential direction around an element penetrating the spacer.Such a penetrating element can be formed, for example, in a preferred embodiment by the wastewater pipe and / or flushing water pipe of a toilet bowl. This embodiment has the advantage that there is no shading of the light by the penetrating element, because the light is radiated into the spacer as it were starting from the element.In a preferred development, the light sources are arranged on a ring with radially outwardly directed light emission, which is arranged in a recess of the spacer penetrated by the element or on the penetrating element.Preferably, it is provided that the plurality of light sources is connected by means of a cable to another functional element, in particular an energy source and / or control device, wherein the cable is guided in a groove or in a channel in the material of the spacer.For example, a functional element can be formed by a signal generator for generating an acoustic or optical signal, in particular for generating a tone sequence or voice output. For example, a signal perceptible by the user can thus be generated, for example depending on an operating state of the object, for example in the case of a toilet bowl, when a user is seated and / or is standing up and a sensor detects this.For example, a functional element can be formed by a sensor for metrological detection of an operating state of the object, in particular wherein the sensor is formed as a motion detector or force sensor or vibration sensor or optical sensor (e.g. light barrier). For example, the use of an object can be detected with the sensor, e.g. the use of a toilet bowl, if a user sits on top and a sensor, e.g. force sensor, detects the force load resulting therefrom by measurement. For example, it can be provided to detect the movement of a part of the object, in particular the opening and / or closing of a toilet lid, using a sensor, preferably an optical sensor, and to trigger an action using another function element, for example using the signal generator, as a function thereof.A functional element can also be formed by a signal input, in particular for triggering an action of another functional element as a function of a signal obtained from the outside. Such an externally obtained signal can originate, for example, from a home controller and be triggered, for example, when a user enters a room with the object. The signal can originate, for example, from a motion detector of the house controller external to the spacer. By means of the signal, a function of the lighting device and / or of the signal generator can be triggered, for example. The signal input can be configured, for example, in a cable-bound manner or as a result of radio technology.A functional element can also be formed by a control device for controlling another functional element, in particular a lighting device or a signal generator. The control device is preferably configured to perform the control as a function of signaling from another functional element, e.g. as a function of a received measured value of a sensor, in particular a aforementioned sensor, or a received signal.For example, the control device can receive the force signal of a force sensor or the signal of an optical or other sensor and actuate the illumination device and / or the signal generator as a function thereof.For example, a functional element can also be formed by at least one energy source, in particular a battery or an accumulator for supplying energy to at least one other functional element.The aforementioned functional elements listed by way of example can be realized individually and in any combination on / in the spacer. There can be electrical cable-bound and / or radio connections between different functional elements so that they can exchange information / signals with one another. Cables for connecting two or more functional elements can be formed by grooves and / or channels in the material of the spacer, which extend between the connected functional elements.In particular, it is provided to combine at least one illumination device and / or a signal generator with a sensor and a control device, in particular also with an energy source provided in / on the spacer or external, which actuates the latter as a function of the measured value of the sensor. A signal input can additionally be provided.The invention achieves the advantage of object arrangements according to the invention originally or else subsequently to be produced from a known object arrangement of the prior art by a spacer made of a transparent material, in particular made of an unstained transparent material, being interposed between the mounting surface of the object and the fastening structure in order to fasten an object, in particular a sanitary object, to a fastening structure. For this purpose, a plate made of a transparent material, in particular of an unstained transparent material, preferably with clearly transparent edge surface regions, is used as spacer during the fastening of the object, in particular of a sanitary object, to a fastening structure, in particular for achieving a visual effect of the floating of the object in front of the fastening structure.The invention is explained in more detail with reference to the figures.FIGS. 1A and 1B show in two different views a first embodiment of the invention on the basis of a toilet bowl as object 1, which is fastened to a wall as fastening structure 2 by means of a spacer 3 made of a transparent plastic, e.g. PMMA / acrylic glass. Both the fastening screws / threaded rods and the feed and waste water pipes pass through the spacer 3, which is shown in FIG. 1B only in dashed lines for the waste water pipe 4.The spacer 3 has an exemplary thickness in the preferred range of 10 mm to 35 mm, in particular 25 mm, wherein its edge surface regions 3 awhich form the visible outer periphery of the spacer 3 are embodied to be clearly transparent, for example by subsequent polishing of the edge surface regions 3 aformed during a cutting process.In this embodiment, it can be seen that the edge surface regions 3 aare oriented perpendicularly over the entire circumferential periphery of the spacer 3 to the surface of the wall 2 to which the toilet bowl 1 is fastened or also to the mutually opposite contact surfaces of the spacer 3.In this case, the spacer 3 has a constant cross section over the entire thickness, wherein the contour of the cross section of the spacer 3 is identical in shape or, scaled by a factor, smaller than the contour of the cross section of the toilet bowl 1 in the plane E in which the mounting surface 1 aof the toilet bowl lies or a plane E 1 explained below or both contours of the spacer 3 and the toilet bowl 1 aal least substantially lie on top of one another.By fastening the toilet bowl 1 indirectly via the spacer 3 made of transparent material with clearly transparent edge surface areas and by adapting the outer cross section of the spacer 3 to the cross section of the toilet bowl 1 in the plane of its mounting surface 1 aor the plane E 1 explained below, a visual impression is created according to which the toilet bowl appears to float in front of the wall 2, wherein it is statically securely fastened to the wall 2, in particular comprises all necessary water connections.In a modification to FIGS. 1A and 1B, FIGS. 2A and 2B show, in the same views, a second embodiment in which the spacer 3 is formed such that its cross section, starting from the contact surface against which the toilet bowl 1 abuts, narrows on all sides in the direction of the contact surface against which the wall 2 abuts, tapers linearly in this example such that all edge surface regions 3 aare inclined in the direction of the wall 2, i.e. in particular are no longer oriented perpendicularly to the wall 2.It can thus be achieved that the edge surface regions 3 a, when viewed by a user standing in front of the toilet bowl 1, are at least partially covered, optionally depending on the inclination, completely behind the edges 1 bof the toilet bowl 1, which surround the mounting surface 1 ain the plane E. In this embodiment, despite the tapering of the spacer 3, a full-surface support of the mounting surface 1a in the plane E is achieved, because the spacer 3 preferably has the same cross section there as the toilet bowl 1.FIGS. 3A and 3B show, in the same views, a third embodiment in which the tapering of the adapter plate 3 is provided only in the upper edge surface region 3 a, on which a user looks directly from above. The other edge surface regions 3 aare oriented perpendicularly to the surface of the wall 2 in the sectional views shown.FIG. 4 shows a further variant according to which the upper edge surface region 3 aof the spacer 3 has a channel 3 b, in particular in which the upper edge surface region 3 ais formed in a first partial surface region, which is closer to the toilet bowl 1, decreasing in height in the direction of the wall 2, in particular decreasing linearly, and has a channel 3 bin a second partial surface region, which is closer to the wall 2 in comparison to the first partial surface region. Dirt or splash water which arises in a simplified manner can be collected and cleaned off by the channel 3 b. The other edge surface regions 3 acan be formed, for example, as is illustrated in FIG. 2 bor FIG. 3 b.FIG. 5 shows a further variant in which the upper edge surface region 3a has a channel 3b over its entire thickness extending between toilet bowl 1 and wall 2. Here too, the other edge surface regions 3 acan be formed, for example, in the manner illustrated in FIGS. 2 bor 3 b.In this embodiment, the groove 3 bacts for light emerging from the spacer, which originates, for example, from fastening elements or pipelines, such as a concave lens, so that these elements, if they are visible, are represented smaller than they are actually. The visual perceptibility of these elements is thereby significantly reduced. Preferably, the two contact surfaces of the spacer 3 are designed to correspond to the cross section of the toilet bowl in the plane E. In this embodiment, a maximum tapering of the spacer 3 is also obtained between the two contact surfaces.FIG. 6 shows a further embodiment in which the upper edge surface region 3a is lowered in height in the plane E below the upper edge 1b of the toilet bowl 1, this edge surface region 3a being oriented perpendicularly to the fastening surface of the wall 2. The upper edge surface region 3 aalso thereby exits from the immediate view region of a user, or under this upper edge of the toilet bowl 1.Here too, the other edge surface regions 3 acan be formed, for example, in the manner illustrated in FIGS. 2 bor 3 b. According to FIG. 6B, on the other hand, the lateral edge surface regions 3a, as well as the upper edge surface region 3a, are also formed so as to be recessed in the inward direction behind the contour of the toilet bowl.Preferably, the value of the lowering of the upper edge surface area 3 aunder the upper edge 1 bof the toilet bowl 1, or also the distance of the lateral edge surface areas from the contour, corresponds in one possible embodiment to the thickness of the spacer 3 or in another possible embodiment to 50% to 75% of the thickness, in particular 60% of the thickness of the spacer 3.FIG. 7 visualizes that, in the production of an object 1 due to manufacturing engineering, such as a toilet bowl 1 shown with rounded edges 1 bat the transition to the mounting surface 1 a, which is shown greatly exaggerated in FIG. 7, it is expedient not to exactly adapt the cross section or the contour of the cross section of the spacer 3, which is not shown here, in particular in the case of its contact surface facing the object or the fastening structure 2, to the cross section of the object 1 at the location of the plane E of the mounting surface 1 a, but to the cross section of the object 1 at a distance in front of the mounting surface 1 a, in this case the plane E 1, wherein this plane E 1 has a distance to the plane E, which is preferably smaller than 15 mm, more preferably smaller than 10 mm, more preferably smaller than 5 mm. The plane E 1 should preferably have a minimum distance from the plane E, at which the plane E 1 lies outside a rounding in terms of production technology.FIG. 8A shows an embodiment in which an illumination device 5 is integrated into the spacer 3, e.g. is arranged in a recess on the lower edge surface region 3 a. With this light 6 can be coupled into the spacer 3, which light passes through the spacer 3 and also propagates therein at least in regions according to the principle of total reflection. The light 6 can exit from the edge surface regions on all sides, for example.FIG. 8B shows an alternative embodiment, in which the lighting device 5 is each formed as a plurality of light sources 5 a, in particular LEDs, arranged annularly and in the circumferential direction around the flushing water pipe 4 and / or the wastewater pipe 4 of the toilet bowl 1. As a result, the light 6 emerges from the respective tube, so that no shading effect takes place as a result of this. The annular arrangement of light source 5 acan be formed by a ring with radially outwardly radiating light sources 5 awhich is pushed onto the respective tube 4 and is carried by the latter or which is fastened to / in the edge of the recess in the spacer 3 which is penetrated by the respective tube.FIG. 9 shows a further embodiment in which a signal generator 7, here preferably a tone generator 7, is arranged in the spacer 3. This can be controlled, for example, as a function of a measured value which is recorded by the sensor 8. For example, at least one sound or speech can thus be played when the sensor 8 indicates a monitored operating state, for example that a user is seated or is standing up. The control device for controlling the tone generator 7 as a function of the measured value from the sensor 8 can be installed in the tone generator 7 or arranged externally thereto in the spacer 3.

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Object arrangement comprising an object (1), in particular a sanitary object (1), which is fastened to a fastening structure (2), characterized in that a spacer (3) is arranged between the object (1), in particular its mounting surface (1a), and the fastening structure (2), in particular a fastening surface region of the fastening structure (2) lying opposite the mounting surface (1a), wherein the spacer (3) is formed from a transparent material, in particular from an uncolored transparent material.Arrangement according to Claim 1, characterized in that the edge surface regions (3a) of the spacer (3) which extend between the object (1) and the fastening structure (2), in particular at least the edge surface regions (3a) which are visible in a customary use, preferably all the edge surface regions (3a), are of clearly transparent form, in particular are polished.Arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the thickness of the spacer (3) has a value of greater than or equal to 10 mm, preferably of greater than or equal to 15 mm, preferably of greater than or equal to 20 mm, more preferably of greater than or equal to 25 mm, in particular wherein the thickness has a value of less than or equal to 35 mm, preferably of less than or equal to 30 mm.Arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that one of the following is selected as the material of the spacer (3): transparent plastic, in particular polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) or polycarbonate or polyethylene terephthalate glycol (PET-G) or glass, in particular white glass.Arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the spacer (3) is designed as a plate with two contact surfaces which are preferably situated parallel opposite one another and are spaced apart by the thickness of the plate and between which edge surface regions (3a) of the spacer (3) extend, wherein at least a partial region of all edge surface regions (3a), preferably all edge surface regions (3a) of the spacer (3), does not project / project outwards beyond the contour of the object (1).Arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the edge surface regions (3a) are formed everywhere or in at least a predominant region perpendicular to the surface of the fastening structure (2).Arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the cross section of the contact surface of the spacer (3) contacting the mounting surface of the sanitary object and / or the cross section of the contact surface of the spacer (3) contacting the fastening structure (2) is smaller than or at most the same size as the cross section of the object (1) in the plane (E) of the mounting surface (1a) or in a region / a plane (E1) in front of the plane (E) of the mounting surface (1a).Arrangement according to Claim 7, characterized in that the cross section of the contact surface of the spacer (3) contacting the fastening structure (2) is smaller than the cross section of the contact surface of the spacer (3) contacting the mounting surface (1a) of the object (1).Arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that, when using a spacer (3) on a wall as a fastening structure (2), an upper edge surface region (3a) of the spacer (3), in particular which runs at least in regions parallel to the fastening surface of the fastening structure (2), is lowered a. over the entire thickness of the spacer (3) at a constant distance below the upper contour line which the cross section of the object (1) in the plane (E) of the mounting surface (1a) or in a region (of a plane (E1) in front of the plane (E) of the mounting surface (1a), or b. is formed so as to drop in height from the object (1) in the direction of the fastening structure (2), at least in regions, in particular over the entire extent, in particular is formed so as to drop linearly at least in regions, and in particular wherein a lateral edge surface region is also formed with a constant distance or a distance decreasing from top to bottom to the inside, which returns behind the lateral contour line, and / or preferably wherein a constant distance or a maximum distance from the contour line is in the range from 50% to 75%, preferably 60% of the thickness of the spacer (3).Arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, in particular according to Claim 9, characterized in that an upper edge surface region (3a) forms a channel (3b) or has a channel (3b) which runs parallel to the surface of the fastening structure (2), preferably wherein the channel (3b) is arranged closer to the fastening structure (2) than to the object (1), in particular wherein the channel (3b) adjoins the fastening surface of the fastening structure (2).Arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the edge surface regions (3a) of the spacer (3) are provided at least in regions with an inclination which deviates from a perpendicular orientation of the edge surface regions (3a) to the fastening surface (2), in particular in such a way that light from the interior of the spacer (3) is broken away by a viewer in comparison with the perpendicular orientation.Arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the edge surface regions (3a) of the spacer (3) have a reflection-reducing surface coating at least in regions.Arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that pipe elements (4) and or fastening elements which are passed through the spacer (3) carry a specularly reflective sleeve or the surface of bores in the spacer (3) for the passage of pipe elements (4) and / or fastening elements are specularly coated.Arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the spacer (3) has at least one of the following functional elements, in particular in at least one recess of the spacer (3), preferably in at least one recess on a lower edge surface region (3a) or in the contact surface facing the object or the fastening structure: a. at least one illumination device (5), in particular with which light (6) can be coupled into the transparent material, preferably which can emerge from the spacer (3) through edge surface regions (3a), in particular wherein the edge surface regions (3a) have structures disturbing total reflection, b. at least one signal generator (7) for generating an acoustic or optical signal, in particular for generating a tone sequence or voice output, c. at least one sensor (8) for measuring-technical detection of an operating state of the object, In particular, the sensor is designed as a motion detector or force sensor or vibration sensor d. at least one signal input, in particular for triggering an action of another functional element as a function of a signal received from the outside e. at least one control device (9) for controlling another functional element (5, 7), in particular a lighting device (5) or a signal generator (7), preferably as a function of the measured value of a sensor (8) or a received signal. f. at least one energy source, in particular a battery or an accumulator for supplying energy to at least one other functional element.Arrangement according to Claim 14, alternative a), characterized in that the lighting device (5) comprises a multiplicity of individual light sources (5a), in particular a multiplicity of individual LEDs, wherein the light sources (5a) are arranged in the circumferential direction around an element (4) penetrating the spacer (3), preferably wherein the light sources (5a) are arranged on a ring with radially outwardly directed light emission which is arranged in a recess of the spacer (3) penetrated by the element (4) or on the penetrating element (4).Use of a plate made of a transparent material, in particular made of an unstained transparent material, preferably having clearly transparent edge surface regions (3a), as a spacer (3) when fastening an object (1), in particular a sanitary object (1), to a fastening structure (2), in particular for achieving a visual effect of the floating of the object (1) in front of the fastening structure (2), preferably wherein the plate is formed as a solid material apart from necessary recesses for passing fastening elements or pipe elements or for functional elements.

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