Elkay Manufacturing Company

Daniel Erickson

Paul Randolph Payne

Peter Wozniczka

Gerald J Farrell

Rudy Y Bisonaya

Donald E White

Richard H Dickson

Anna Svehla

Stephen J Doyle

Garry Perryman

Dimitry Roytberg

Doug Odendahl

Phillip J Baranek

Frank J Johnson

Geraldine A Domrose

Edward Adam Przeklasa

A retainer clip includes a ratchet plate and a cooperating pawl for anchoring a sink to a countertop with a press-in, above-counter installation. The ratchet plate has a plurality of detents and is affixed to an edge of a cutout in the countertop. The pawl includes a spring element mountable to the sink and has at least one upwardly angled, resilient tab which successively engages the ratchet plate detents with a one-way action as the sink moves downwardly in the cutout. When the sink is fully inserted, the tab seats upwardly in a detent of the ratchet plate. In an embodiment, the pawl includes multiple tabs having slightly different lengths to provide an installation tolerance that is less than an incremental distance between ratchet plate detents.

Retainer clip for mounting sink to countertop

A sink mounting device includes a weld bracket, a movable clip member and a hanger assembly used to movably couple the clip member to the weld bracket. The weld bracket is secured to a side portion of a sink bowl and the movable clip is used to engage an overhanging portion of the underside of the countertop. The clip includes a base having an axially positioned through-opening, an elongated arm member which extends longitudinally in a direction axially from the base, a projecting finger, which extends laterally from the end of the arm remote from the base, and includes a locating flange which, when the sink mounting device is operated, engages the hanger assembly, weld bracket and/or sink bowl at a limit position to prevent further rotation of the movable arm about the axis.

Mounting device for securing a sink to a countertop and method of using same

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Oak Park, IL, United States of America

Daniel Erickson