Variable stop
Technical Field
The invention relates to a cladding device according to the invention for a door element, in particular for a door element of a glass door installation, comprising a first cladding element and a second cladding element which can be connected to one another in such a way as to form a clamping region for the door element in order to clamp the door element, and wherein an adjusting element which can be moved relative to the cladding elements and relative to the door element accommodated in the clamping region is provided between the cladding elements and can be coupled to the cladding elements in a force-fitting and/or form-fitting manner.
Background
Such cladding devices are mounted not only on doors but also on windows and should have a visually advantageous appearance within the cladding system. Cladding devices are usually composed of two cladding elements between which door elements, for example the sides and/or the upper part of a glass door installation, are clamped. In addition to the clamping, the door element is also held by the cladding device according to the predetermined standard by a fixing element which is guided by the cladding device through a recess, for example in the form of a bore, and through a recess in the door element. In order to clamp the door element between the cladding elements, the corner regions of the door element are cut along their contour. The cladding element can rest against the contour and a cavity is formed in the cutout of the door element, for example, for enabling a door element in the form of a revolving and/or swinging door to be arranged or mounted at a point of rotation and/or on an axis via a connecting element, wherein the connecting element is a component of the cladding device and the connecting element is preferably arranged between the cladding elements. In particular, cladding devices are known for installing glass doors or glass door elements into a monolithic glass door installation, wherein the upper part as well as the side parts are made of glass. In this case, generally, thicker glass is used for the side or upper applications of the glass door installation than for the glass door elements connected thereto. Due to the different glass thicknesses between the glass door and the side or upper part, i.e. between the door elements of the glass door installation, in particular in the case of stops of the door, i.e. in the region of the upper corner of the door diagonally opposite the pivot point of the door, a plane or angular offset between the glass surface of the glass door and the glass surface of the side or upper part of the door installation is caused on the basis of the defined spacing of the known stops. In order to be able to compensate for plane misalignment, it is known to move known stops by means of shims. However, since the spacer cannot be provided in any thickness, a flexible adjustment of the stop on the known cladding device cannot be performed.
Disclosure of Invention
It is therefore an object of the present invention to obviate the above-described drawbacks of the prior art. In particular, the object of the invention is to provide a cladding device which makes it possible to fix a stop to the cladding device in a stepless manner and by means of which a plane offset between the door elements of a glass door installation can be adjusted.
The above objects are achieved by a cladding apparatus having the features of an embodiment of the present invention. Further advantages, features and details of the invention emerge from the dependent claims, the description and the drawings.
The cladding device according to the invention for a door element, in particular for a door element of a glass door installation, comprises the technical teaching of providing a stop on the adjusting element.
The solution described provides the advantage that, via the adjusting element which is movable between the cladding elements and towards the door element accommodated in the clamping region, the stop arranged on the adjusting element can also be movable relative to the cladding elements and towards the door element accommodated in the clamping region or can be displaced for fine adjustment within the cladding apparatus. Accordingly, the stop with the adjusting element can be moved at least in sections in a direction parallel to the longitudinal extent of the cladding elements, i.e. parallel to the surface of the glass door element clamped in the clamping region between the cladding elements. On the other hand, the stop can be moved toward the center of the glass or outward, i.e., normal to the glass surface, in order to be able to orient the stop on the door element as the case may be. By arranging the stop on the adjusting element, the stop can be moved or adjusted with the adjusting element such that at least one face of the glass door element is not offset in the plane from at least one face of the upper or side part of the door arrangement.
Advantageously, the adjusting element is formed integrally with the stop. In this case, both the one-piece design of the adjusting element and the stop and also the structure or the mounting group or unit formed by the adjusting element and the stop are to be understood as one-piece designs. In the case of an integrated design of the adjusting element and the stop, the adjusting element in the sense of the present invention can also be understood as a stop. If the stop is designed as an adjusting element, it can be coupled directly to at least one of the cladding elements in a force-fitting and/or form-fitting manner, or it can be coupled to at least one of the cladding elements in a force-fitting and/or form-fitting manner via an additional adjusting element or a connecting element operatively connected to the adjusting element.
The stop can advantageously be coupled to the adjusting element at least in a form-fitting manner. Alternatively or also in combination with a form-fitting coupling between the stop and the adjusting element, the stop can also be coupled with the adjusting element in a non-positive manner. For a force-fitting coupling between the adjusting element and the stop, a fastening element in the form of a bolt, a rivet or an equivalent fastening element can be used, for example.
Particularly advantageously, the stop can be moved relative to the adjusting element. By the relative movability between the adjusting element and the stop, in particular the position of the stop in the sheathing device can be changed or adjusted again. If, for example, the difference in glass thickness between the side or upper part of the door arrangement and the door element is particularly large, the planar or angular offset between the door element and the glass door arrangement in the region of the stop can be adjusted not only via the adjusting element that can be moved between the cladding elements and relative to the door element, but also additionally by the stop that can be moved on the adjusting element and is designed as an additional adjusting element. Accordingly, the adjustment range can also be extended by means of the sheathing device according to the invention, i.e. in this case in particular by means of a stop which can be moved relative to the adjustment element.
Advantageously, the adjusting element can be designed as a holding element, so that in operative connection with the connecting element, the stop can be coupled to the connecting element in a non-positive and/or positive manner. For orienting the door element, i.e. for compensating for angular misalignment between the glass door and the side and/or upper part of the door installation, a holding element in the form of a T-piece can advantageously be used. The holding element preferably has a surface which is introduced into the recess of the cladding element and on which a bearing section is formed which provides a sufficiently large bearing for moving the connecting element, which is effectively connected to the holding element, and the stop provided thereon, from or towards the glass midpoint of the glass door element clamped between the cladding elements within a tolerance range of approximately 10mm to 20 mm.
If the adjusting element is designed as a holding element as described, the holding element preferably has a T-shaped configuration with two surfaces that are orthogonal to one another. In this case, the adjusting element, which is designed as a holding element, is introduced into the two cladding elements, for example in the form of a recess or a guide in the cladding element, preferably on both sides, via one of the surfaces, and bears in a particularly preferred manner against the two cladding elements in a force-fitting and/or form-fitting manner. The adjusting element, which is designed as a T-shaped holding element, has the further advantage that: the adjusting element can be moved or guided not only in the guide of the cladding elements parallel to the cladding elements in the longitudinal direction, but also between the cladding elements, i.e. towards one or the other cladding element, within the tolerance range. In this way, not only plane or angular displacements between the upper or side of the door installation and the glass door can be adjusted via the adjusting element designed as a holding element, but also the stop can be moved parallel to the cladding element, as a result of which the stop region for the glass door can be additionally adjusted.
Advantageously, the stop can be coupled to the adjusting element in a force-fitting and/or form-fitting manner via a connecting element operatively connected to the adjusting element in the form of a holding element. In order to couple or receive the stop in or on the connecting element in a form-fitting manner, the connecting element is advantageously designed such that the stop is form-fittingly engaged by introducing the stop at least in sections into the connecting element, i.e., in this case preferably in a recess on the connecting element. For a positive coupling between the connecting element and the stop, the coupling can advantageously be designed as a dovetail coupling.
In addition to a positive coupling between the connecting element and the stop, or a positive coupling between the stop and the adjusting element, the stop can advantageously be coupled in a non-positive manner to the connecting element. For a force-fitting coupling between the stop and the connecting element, at least one fastening element is preferably used, which can be embodied, for example, in the form of a screw.
Advantageously, at least one recess in the form of a bore or a milling is formed on the stop, in which recess a fastening element with an external thread engages in a non-positive and/or positive manner, or engages through the recess and engages in a non-positive and positive manner in a bore formed on the connecting element or on the adjusting element with an internal thread matching the external thread of the fastening element.
Particularly preferably, the adjusting element is designed as an angle element or angle piece. In the case of an integrated design of the adjusting element and the stop, the stop is designed as an angle element or angle piece. In the simplest case, the angled element or the angled part has two edges which are perpendicular to one another, one of which serves for the provision of a stop and in this case in particular for the provision of a stop, and the other edge serves for a non-positive and/or positive coupling to the connecting element or to the cladding element. For this purpose, the recess is formed as a drilled or milled portion at the edge for the non-positive and/or positive coupling with the connecting element or cladding element, through which the fastening element engages or to which the fastening element is positively and positively coupled.
In particular, it is advantageous if the adjusting element, which is designed as an angle element and can be coupled to at least one of the cladding elements in a non-positive and/or positive manner, has a U-shaped contour. The U-shaped angle element is advantageously joined at least in sections to one of the cladding elements of the cladding device. The U-shaped angle element can be moved back and forth at least in sections between the cladding elements of the cladding device via the parallel edges, both parallel to the cladding elements, i.e. until the orthogonally disposed edge between the parallel edges comes into contact with one of the cladding elements. The movement, i.e. the outward adjustment of the stop toward or away from the center point of the glass, can thereby be performed via the adjusting element which is designed as a U-shaped angle element.
In order to fix the adjusting element, i.e. also to fix the stop formed integrally with the adjusting element or the stop coupled to the adjusting element in a non-positive and/or positive manner, a threaded hole, and preferably two threaded holes, are formed at least on one of the parallel edges of the angled element formed in a U-shaped profile, into which a threaded pin formed as a fixing element engages, which pin, when screwed into the threaded hole, presses with its free end against the outer wall of the cladding element and thus against the adjusting element, so that the stop is also pressed against the cladding element, and in particular against at least one of the cladding elements. Since the fixing of the adjusting element is effected here by screwing, i.e. by the pressing force of a threaded pin screwed in through a threaded hole, stepless adjustability or fine adjustment of the stop in the stop region can be achieved by means of the cladding apparatus according to the invention.
In order to extend the adjustment range, the stop or the adjustment element formed integrally with the stop preferably has a recess in the form of a slot, wherein the adjustment element is formed as an angle having two edges that are perpendicular to one another. In this case, a fastening element for a force-fitting coupling between the stop or the stop designed as an adjusting element and the connecting element is preferably engaged in a bore designed on the connecting element and having an internal thread adapted to the external thread of the fastening element.
Drawings
Hereinafter, other means of improving the present invention will be described in detail together with the description of the preferred embodiments of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings. The features mentioned in the claims and in the description may each, individually or in any combination, reflect the essence of the invention. In the drawings:
figure 1 shows a partial perspective detail view of a first embodiment of a cladding apparatus according to the invention;
fig. 2a, b show a plan view from below of the cladding device in fig. 1 with the stops adjusted to a thin glass door 4a and a thick glass door (fig. 4 b);
figure 3 shows a partial perspective detail view of a second embodiment of the cladding apparatus according to the invention; and
fig. 4a, b show a top view from below of a part of the cladding device in fig. 3 with the stop adjusted to a thin glass door 4a and a thick glass door (fig. 4 b).
In the different figures, identical components are always provided with the same reference numerals, and are therefore generally described only once.
Detailed Description
Fig. 1 shows a first embodiment of a cladding device 1 according to the invention for a door element 2, in particular for a glass door element of a glass door installation. The cladding apparatus 1 comprises a first cladding element 3 and a second cladding element 4. The cladding elements 3 and 4 form a clamping area 5 for the door element 2. In the case of a clamped-in door element 2, the cladding elements 3 and 4 can be connected to one another. Between the cladding elements 3 and 4 an adjusting element 6 is arranged. The adjusting element 6 can be moved parallel to the cladding elements 3 and 4 and toward the door element 2 clamped between the cladding elements 3 and 4 in the clamping region 5. Furthermore, the adjusting element 6 can be moved between the cladding elements 3 and 4, i.e. towards the glass center point AA or outwards (see fig. 2a and 2 b). The adjusting element is designed as a U-shaped angle element 6.1 with three edges. Two recesses 8 in the form of threaded bores are formed in the edge 7 of the adjusting element 6, which is formed as a U-shaped angle element 6.1, through which fixing elements 9 in the form of threaded pins engage. Via a fastening element 9, which is designed as a threaded pin, the adjusting element 6 and a stop 10 arranged on the adjusting element 6 are adjustably fastened to the cladding element 3 of the cladding apparatus 1. The stop 10 is formed integrally with the adjusting element 6 in the form of an angle element 6.1, i.e. in the form of a planar element 11 arranged orthogonally to the edge 7 of the adjusting element 6 in the form of an angle element 6.1, at the free end of which a stop 12 is arranged. The cladding device 1 thus formed with the stop 10 arranged on the adjusting element 6 is preferably intended for mounting on a door element 2 formed as a louver or upper part or on a door element 2 formed as a side part of a door installation. The glass door resting against the stop 10 of the cladding apparatus 1 is preferably supported on the axis of rotation within the door installation. The glass door is advantageously a revolving door or a swinging door which rests against a stop 10 provided on the cladding apparatus 1. The cladding device 1 is preferably arranged here on a corner region of the door arrangement, i.e. here on a corner region of a door element 2, which can be an upper or a side of the door arrangement. The cladding apparatus 1 with the stop 10 arranged thereon is advantageously arranged here on an upper corner region of the door installation, which is substantially diagonal to a lower corner region in which the glass door is arranged on the axis of rotation, wherein the glass door is arranged between the two corner regions and rests against the stop 10 arranged in the upper corner region or against a stop 12.
Fig. 2a and 2b show a top view of the sheathing apparatus in fig. 1, seen from below. The adjustment of the stop 10 in the cladding apparatus 1 shown in fig. 2a relative to the adjustment of the stop 10 in the cladding apparatus 1 shown in fig. 2b serves to adapt a glass door having a smaller glass thickness to the door installation and in this case in particular to the glass thickness of the door element 2 clamped in the cladding apparatus in order to compensate for angular misalignment. In order to adjust the stop 10 via the adjusting element 6, i.e. in order to compensate for an angular misalignment between the door element 2 and the glass door, in fig. 2a the adjusting element 6 is moved relative to the glass center point AA of the door element 2 and is fixed in this position, i.e. toward the glass center point AA, via a fixing element 9 which engages as a threaded pin through a recess 8 embodied as a threaded hole. In contrast, in fig. 2b, the stop 10 is moved outward from the center of glass point AA, i.e., downward as shown in fig. 2 b. In this position, the adjusting element 6 and the stop 10 arranged on the adjusting element 6 are fixed to the cladding element 3 via a fixing element in the form of a threaded pin.
Fig. 3 shows a second embodiment of the cladding apparatus 1 according to the invention in a partial perspective detail view of the cladding apparatus 1. The adjusting element 6 is designed as a holding element 13 which can be moved or displaced parallel to the cladding elements 3 and 4 of the cladding device 1 and between the cladding elements 3 and 4, i.e. perpendicularly to the surface of the door element 2 clamped between the cladding devices 3 and 4. The adjusting element 6 is operatively connected to a connecting element 15 via a plug 14. The connecting element 15 has a recess 16 into which the edge 7.1 of the stop 10, which is designed as an angle 6.2, engages in a form-fitting manner. In the edge 7.1 of the stop 10, which is formed as an angle 6.2, the recess 8 is formed in the form of an elongated hole. A fastening element 9, which is designed as a screw and has a receptacle for a tool in the form of a hexagon socket here, engages through the recess 8. Of course, the connecting element 15 can also be formed integrally, i.e. in one piece with the stop 10 formed as an angle 6.2. As shown in fig. 3, however, the two-part design of the angle piece 6.2 and the connecting element 15 provides the advantage that the stop 10 is adjusted via the retaining element 13, which is used here as the first adjusting element 6. Furthermore, the second adjusting element 6 is formed by a stop 10, which is formed as an angle 6.2 and can be displaced relative to the connecting element 15, wherein a greater adjustment range can be formed by a relative movement between the stop 10, which is formed as an angle 6.2, and the connecting element 15. In addition, a greater angular offset between the two door elements, i.e. a greater difference between the glass thicknesses of the two door elements, can be compensated for via the stop 10 embodied as an angle 6.2 together with the recess 8 embodied as an elongated hole in the edge 7.1.
As fig. 4a and 4b show, the cladding device 1 shown in fig. 3, in particular the stop 10, can also be moved between the cladding elements 3 and 4 via the adjusting element 6, i.e., via the adjusting element 6, which is formed integrally with the stop 10, by means of the recess 8, which is formed as a long hole, relative to the glass midpoint AA of the door element 2. In glass doors with a small glass thickness, as shown in fig. 4a, the stop 10 is moved by means of a planar element 11 via the recess 8, which is designed as a long hole, in the direction of the glass center point AA of the door element 2 until it abuts against the head of the fastening element 9, which is designed as a bolt.
In order to attach a glass door with a greater glass thickness to the door element 2, the stop 10 shown in fig. 4a is adjusted relative to the stop 10 to a glass door with a smaller glass thickness, as shown in fig. 4b, the stop 10, in particular the stop 12 arranged on the stop 10, is displaced downward from the glass center point AA, wherein the fastening element 9 embodied as a bolt is approximately centered in the recess 8 embodied as an elongated hole.
In addition to the adjustment possibilities of the stop 10 as shown in fig. 3, 4a and 4b via the adjusting element 6 formed integrally with the stop 10, the adjustment of the stop 10 can also be carried out via the adjusting element 6 formed as a holding element 13, i.e. by its displacement between the cladding elements 3 and 4 of the cladding apparatus 1. In combination with the adjusting element 6 in the form of the angle 6.2, which is formed integrally with the stop 10, the adjusting range of the stop can additionally be extended by means of the adjusting element 6 in the form of the retaining element 13, i.e. in particular the displacement of the stop 10 and in particular of the stop 12 away from the glass center point AA is increased, and thus the distance between the stop 12 and the glass center point AA is also increased. Additionally, the stop 10 can be moved parallel to the cladding element 3 or 4.
The door element 2 clamped between the cladding elements 3 and 4 of the cladding device 1 is preferably an upper and/or a side of a glass door installation designed as a transom, wherein a glass door is connected between the upper and one or more sides.
List of reference numerals
1 coating apparatus
2 door element
3 cladding element
4 cladding element
5 clamping area
6 adjusting element
6.1 adjusting elements as angle elements
6.2 adjusting elements as angles
76, 6.1 edge
7.16, 6.2 edges
8 concave part
9 fixing element
10 stop
11 plane element
12 stop dog
13 holding element
1413 embolization
15 connecting element
1615 hollow part
Mid-point of AA 2 glass