CN207470046U - A kind of bilayer fire resistance rolling shutter door - Google Patents

A kind of bilayer fire resistance rolling shutter door Download PDF

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CN207470046U
CN207470046U CN201721227885.4U CN201721227885U CN207470046U CN 207470046 U CN207470046 U CN 207470046U CN 201721227885 U CN201721227885 U CN 201721227885U CN 207470046 U CN207470046 U CN 207470046U
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The utility model discloses a kind of double-deck fire resistance rolling shutter doors, including fire resisting shutter and guide rail, the fire resisting shutter includes door curtain, the door curtain includes several compound curtain plates, expansion bolt is equipped between the guide rail and wall, the depth of the fire resisting shutter insertion guide rail is at least 60mm, the guide rail with the fire resisting shutter place of abutting be fixed with hard polyaminoester plastics made of adhesive tape, Buffer Unit is equipped between adjacent two door curtain, the Buffer Unit includes loop bar, telescopic rod and compressed spring, and aluminium silicate wool is filled in the compound curtain plate.The utility model provides back-fire relief, a kind of double-deck fire resistance rolling shutter door good every cigarette effect and higher safety.

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A kind of bilayer fire resistance rolling shutter door
Technical field
The utility model is related to a kind of fire resistant doorsets more particularly to a kind of double-deck fire resistance rolling shutter doors.
Background technology
Today that basis instrument construction develops rapidly in city, various public buildings, skyscraper continue to bring out, these are built Emerging in large numbers for building also proposes higher requirement to architectural fire-protection methods.Fire resisting shutter is a kind of common back-fire relief facility, with its U.S. It sees, hidden, easy to use and Fire resistances are good etc., and advantages have obtained the extensive favor of building fire safety design.Existing individual layer fire prevention Roller shutter be usually assembled by refractory fiber cloth, fire-retardent fiber felt-rug and steel wire rope, for ensure flameproof effect, refractory fiber cloth and Fibre felt layer usually requires to thicken;But since public place area is big, once fire occurs, one layer of fire resistance rolling shutter door is still Seem more thin, be generally difficult to prevent diffusing for high temperature heat wave and toxic smog, cause its flameproof effect not ideal enough.
In view of the above-mentioned problems, the utility model patent that Chinese patent notification number is CN204457332U discloses a kind of double track Double curtain inorganic composite anti-fire rolling curtains, including the symmetrically arranged fire-proof door curtain of two door frames, the both sides installation of fire-proof door curtain in orbit, Steel bottom girder is connected with per the lower end of door frame fire-proof door curtain, what is be spaced between two pieces of steel bottom girders is welded with one group of joint steel pipe, fire prevention The spool of door curtain upper end is connect by sprocket wheel with motor, and switching device controls fire-proof door curtain to open or close by motor.
Above-mentioned technical proposal is by setting double-deck fire-proof door curtain, and when fire occurs, user can pass through motor and volume Axis quickly puts down double-deck fire-proof door curtain simultaneously, so as to fulfill the isolation intensity of a fire and the effect of smog;But in some occasions, example If wooden utensil puts more market, fire often causes collapsing for implements after occurring, these implements to collapse once rush Fire resisting shutter is hit, coordinates the high temperature blast of scene of fire, the structural strength of the fire resisting shutter is inadequate, it is most likely that there is breakage, So as to cause the intensity of a fire and smog sprawling or even cause safety accident.
Utility model content
The purpose of this utility model is to provide a kind of double-deck fire resistance rolling shutter door, coordinated using double-deck door curtain strengthen connector and Buffer Unit, greatly improves the structural strength of fire-proof door curtain, and safety is greatly improved.
The above-mentioned technical purpose of the utility model technical scheme is that:A kind of bilayer fire resisting shutter Door, including fire resisting shutter and two groups of guide rails being symmetrical set, the fire resisting shutter includes two layers of door curtain being set in distance, institute It states door curtain and includes several compound curtain plates being hinged, the guide rail is embedded in wall, and is set between the guide rail and wall The reinforcement connector of fixed guide rail and wall is useful for, is equipped with to connect and support two door curtains between adjacent two door curtain Buffer Unit.
By using above-mentioned technical proposal, guide rail is embedded in wall, pre-buried effect is played to guide rail;It is meanwhile logical It crosses the setting between guide rail and wall and strengthens connector, further strengthen the bonding strength between guide rail and wall, effectively avoid Fire causes guide rail to be detached from from wall or impacted and damaged by implements.In addition, by setting double-deck door curtain, ensure fire resistance rolling shutter door Back-fire relief effect;And Buffer Unit is set between adjacent door curtain, when implements impact fire resistance rolling shutter door, Buffer Unit can be right Certain cushioning effect is played in the impact of implements, and door curtain is avoided to damage, strong so as to greatly improve the structure of fire resisting shutter entirety Degree ensures that fire resisting shutter can continue normally to play the role of completely cutting off the intensity of a fire and smog, greatly improves safety.
The utility model is further arranged to:The reinforcement connector is expansion bolt, and the expansion bolt is fixedly connected Guide rail and wall, and along the guide rail length direction be equipped at intervals with it is multigroup.
By using above-mentioned technical proposal, it is embedded in wall simultaneously in guide rail, by multigroup spaced expanding screw Bolt is fixedly connected with guide rail and wall, is further ensured that installation strength of the guide rail on wall, effectively reduces guide rail and is damaged due to accident Bad risk helps to improve the safety of fire resistance rolling shutter door entirety.
The utility model is further arranged to:Edge at left and right sides of the fire resisting shutter is embedded at respectively in two guide rails, And the depth of the fire resisting shutter insertion guide rail is at least 60mm, the guide rail is fixed with elastic component with the fire resisting shutter place of abutting.
By using above-mentioned technical proposal, will be respectively embedded at left and right sides of fire resisting shutter in two guide rails so that fireproof rolling Curtain along lifting rail, can improve the stationarity of fire resisting shutter lifting;Meanwhile when implements impact fire resisting shutter, guide rail is also The effect of support can be played to fire resisting shutter;And ensure that the depth of fire resisting shutter insertion guide rail is no less than 60mm, can avoid preventing Fiery roller shutter is detached from guide rail due to impact and the back-fire relief effect of fire resistance rolling shutter door is caused to be greatly reduced, anti-so as to further improve The structural strength of fiery rolling screen door entirety, helps to improve safety.In addition, by setting elasticity between guide rail and fire resisting shutter Part, elastic component can play fire resisting shutter good cushioning effect, reduce the risk of fire resisting shutter damage.
The utility model is further arranged to:The elastic component is adhesive tape, and the adhesive tape is fixedly installed vertically in guide rail There are two groups, two adhesive tape abut respectively with the front and rear sides of fire resisting shutter.
By using above-mentioned technical proposal, fire resisting shutter is pushed against respectively by two groups of adhesive tape being fixed on vertically in guide rail Front and rear sides, adhesive tape can not only play fire resisting shutter the effect of buffering, and can also improve between guide rail and fire resisting shutter Sealing effect, so as to improve fire resistance rolling shutter door back-fire relief and the effect every cigarette.
The utility model is further arranged to:The adhesive tape is made of hard polyaminoester plastics.
By using above-mentioned technical proposal, adhesive tape is made of hard polyaminoester plastics, is ensureing adhesive tape to fire resisting shutter While buffering and sealing effect, due to hard polyaminoester plastic fireproof, fire-retardant and high temperature resistant, belong to fire retardant self-extinguishment material Material, and it does not also generate pernicious gas at high temperature, therefore it can effectively avoid adhesive tape from being damaged due to high temperature or the intensity of a fire, thus into One step improves safety.
The utility model is further arranged to:The Buffer Unit includes loop bar, telescopic rod and compressed spring, the loop bar It is set with telescopic rod in grafting, and one end that the loop bar and telescopic rod mutually deviate from is respectively with two door curtains in hinged setting, institute It states compressed spring to be sheathed on telescopic rod, and its both ends is in respectively to abut setting with the end of the loop bar and telescopic rod.
By using above-mentioned technical proposal, Buffer Unit connects two door curtains simultaneously, can improve the knot of fire-proof door curtain entirety Structure intensity;Meanwhile loop bar is set with telescopic rod in grafting, compressed spring is sheathed on telescopic rod, when fire resisting shutter is by implements Impact when, compressed spring can to being played cushioning effect by the door curtain impacted, so as to the effective subject of a lecture door curtain damage risk, Help to improve safety;Meanwhile be hinged loop bar and telescopic rod with two door curtains respectively, ensureing fire-proof rolling shutter structure intensity Meanwhile convenient for users to integral elevating fire resisting shutter.
The utility model is further arranged to:The Buffer Unit is provided with along the length direction straight uniform of compound curtain plate It is multigroup.
By using above-mentioned technical proposal, multigroup Buffer Unit, energy are uniformly arranged by the length direction along compound curtain plate Enough further improve the structural strength of fire resisting shutter.
The utility model is further arranged to:The Buffer Unit is set in the vertical direction with each compound curtain plate one-to-one correspondence It is equipped with multigroup, the both ends of each slow Buffer Unit are hinged respectively with two compound curtain plates.
By using above-mentioned technical proposal, by being vertically arranged multigroup Buffer Unit, each Buffer Unit between two door curtains With each compound curtain plate in being arranged in a one-to-one correspondence, the structural strength of fire resisting shutter entirety can be further improved, reduces fire resisting shutter Impaired risk.
The utility model is further arranged to:Refractory material is filled in the compound curtain plate.
By using above-mentioned technical proposal, the filling fire resisting material in compound curtain plate further improves compound curtain plate Fire resistances.
The utility model is further arranged to:The refractory material is aluminium silicate wool.
By using above-mentioned technical proposal, using characteristics such as aluminium silicate wool low heat conductivity, low heat capacity and thermal stability height, Ensure the back-fire relief and heat insulation of compound curtain plate, help to improve safety.
In conclusion the utility model has the advantages that:By the way that guide rail is set to wall in a manner of pre-buried It is interior, and guide rail and wall are fixedly connected with by expansion bolt, the installation strength between guide rail and wall is improved, guide rail can be avoided It is hit and damages;Meanwhile by the adhesive tape made of hard polyaminoester plastics, adhesive tape can not only play one to fire resisting shutter Determine buffering effect, moreover it is possible to the back-fire relief for improving fire resistance rolling shutter door and the effect every cigarette;It is in addition, more between two door curtains using being set to The equally distributed Buffer Unit of group, Buffer Unit can play door curtain effective cushioning effect, reduce door curtain and are hit and damage Bad risk.So as to ensure fire resistance rolling shutter door back-fire relief and under the premise of cigarette effect, greatly improve the structure of fire resisting shutter Intensity reduces the risk that fire resisting shutter fails due to damage, ensures that fire resistance rolling shutter door can continue to work normally, and then greatly Improve the safety of fire resistance rolling shutter door.
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Fig. 1 is that the present embodiment is mainly used for embodying the integrally-built front view of double-deck fire resistance rolling shutter door;
Fig. 2 is the local axonometric schematic diagram that the present embodiment is mainly used for embodying guide rail and fire resisting shutter;
Fig. 3 is the vertical view that the present embodiment is mainly used for embodying guide rail and fire resisting shutter mounting means;
Fig. 4 is the structure diagram that the present embodiment is mainly used for embodying compound curtain plate;
Fig. 5 is the structure diagram that the present embodiment is mainly used for embodying Buffer Unit.
Reference numeral:1st, wall;2nd, guide rail;3rd, fire resisting shutter;31st, door curtain;311st, compound curtain plate;32nd, Buffer Unit; 321st, loop bar;322nd, telescopic rod;323rd, compressed spring;4th, reeling-up reeling-out device;41st, spool;42nd, door roller;43rd, case;5th, it expands Bolt;6th, adhesive tape;7th, refractory material.
Specific embodiment
The utility model is described in further detail below in conjunction with attached drawing.
Referring to attached drawing 1-2, a kind of bilayer fire resistance rolling shutter door is mainly used as the fireproofing installation of public place, it includes guide rail 2nd, fire resisting shutter 3 and reeling-up reeling-out device 4, middle guide 2 are fixed at doorframe, are embedded at guide rail 2 when fire resisting shutter 3 is put down just In;When fire, which occurs, for scene needs to put down fire resisting shutter 3, reeling-up reeling-out device 4 can drive fire resisting shutter 3 vertical in guide rail 2 Decline, and doorframe is thoroughly completely cut off.
Guide rail 2 is arranged with two groups at left and right sides of doorframe, and during actual installation, and guide rail 2 is set by pre-buried mode It is placed in wall 1, the concrete on wall 1 plays sufficient fixation to guide rail 2.
With reference to attached drawing 3, for the installation strength of guarantee guide rail 2, expansion bolt 5 is additionally provided between guide rail 2 and wall 1, it is swollen Swollen bolt 5 set along 2 length direction straight uniform of guide rail it is multigroup, so as to which guide rail 2 effectively be avoided to take off from wall 1 when being hit It falls.
Above-mentioned expansion bolt 5 constitutes the reinforcement connector for connecting guide rail 2 and wall 1.
Referring to attached drawing 1, reeling-up reeling-out device 4 includes spool 41, door roller 42 and the cover for installing spool 41 and door roller 42 Shell 43.
Case 43 is set to the top of doorframe, and passes through bolt and be fixedly connected with wall 1.
41 level of spool is arranged in case 43, and both ends are rotatablely connected by bearing and case 43, and the end of one end Portion is connected with door roller 42 by shaft coupling.
Door roller 42 belongs to one kind of motor, the power source being commonly used in fire resisting shutter 3;Door roller 42 by bolt with Case 43 is fixedly connected.
Referring to attached drawing 3, fire resisting shutter 3 includes door curtain 31 and Buffer Unit 32, and wherein door curtain 31 is set in dual-layer Parallel interval It puts, Buffer Unit 32 is set between two door curtains 31, plays the role of improving 3 overall construction intensity of fire resisting shutter.
Door curtain 31 includes several compound curtain plates 311, and each compound curtain plate 311 is in be horizontally disposed with, and adjacent compound curtain plate 311 It is hinged by axis pin.
With reference to attached drawing 4, aluminium silicate wool can be used filled with refractory material 7, the refractory material 7 in compound curtain plate 311;It utilizes The characteristics such as aluminium silicate wool low heat conductivity, low heat capacity and thermal stability height ensure the back-fire relief and heat insulation of compound curtain plate 311, Help to improve safety.
With reference to attached drawing 5, Buffer Unit 32 includes loop bar 321, telescopic rod 322 and compressed spring 323, wherein 321 He of loop bar Telescopic rod 322 is set in grafting, and one end for mutually deviating from of loop bar 321 and telescopic rod 322 respectively with adjacent two compound curtain plates 311 It is hinged by axis pin;Compressed spring 323 is sheathed on telescopic rod 322, and always in compressive state, both ends respectively with loop bar 321 and the end abutment of telescopic rod 322.
The length direction straight uniform of Buffer Unit 32 along parallel two compound curtain plates 311 is provided with multigroup, and Buffer Unit 32 be arranged in a one-to-one correspondence in the vertical direction with each compound curtain plate 311 it is multigroup.
When fire resisting shutter 3 is impacted by implements, above-mentioned multigroup equally distributed Buffer Unit 32 can be to fireproof rolling Curtain 3 plays the role of buffering, reduces the risk that door curtain 31 is hit and damages.
Referring to attached drawing 3, the left and right sides of fire resisting shutter 3 is embedded at respectively in two guide rails 2;Meanwhile to avoid fire resisting shutter 3 It is detached from from guide rail 2 when being hit, the depth that fire resisting shutter 3 is embedded in guide rail 2 is no less than 60mm, and fireproof rolling is corresponded in track The front and rear sides of curtain 3 are equipped with the elastic component for abutting fire resisting shutter 3.
Above-mentioned elastic component is adhesive tape 6;For on the left of doorframe, two adhesive tape 6 coordinate screw to be fixed on guide rail 2 by bonding On.
To avoid 6 heat damage of adhesive tape, adhesive tape 6 can be used hard polyaminoester plastics and be made;Due to hard polyaminoester plastics Fire prevention, fire-retardant and high temperature resistant, belong to fire retardant self-extinguishing, and it does not also generate pernicious gas at high temperature, therefore its energy Effectively adhesive tape 6 is avoided to be damaged due to high temperature or the intensity of a fire, so as to further improve safety.
The operation principle of the present embodiment is:When fire occurs for scene, user can start door roller 42, door roller 42 Driving spool 41 rotates and puts down 3 entirety of fire resisting shutter being wound on spool 41, until thoroughly closing is entire for fire resisting shutter 3 Doorframe.
After fire resisting shutter 3 is put down, when fire resisting shutter 3 is by the implements to collapse when impacting, the pre-buried set-up mode of guide rail 2 And each expansion bolt 5 can effectively avoid guide rail 2 impaired or come off because impacting from wall 1.
In addition, when being impacted, the compressed spring 323 in each Buffer Unit 32 is further compressed, and telescopic rod 322 is covering Certain distance is inside contracted in bar 321, so as to playing effective cushioning effect to the impact, fire resisting shutter 3 is avoided to damage when being hit It is bad.
This specific embodiment is only explanation to the utility model, is not the limitation to the utility model, ability Field technique personnel can as needed make the present embodiment the modification of no creative contribution after this specification is read, but As long as it is all protected in the right of the utility model by Patent Law.

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1. a kind of bilayer fire resistance rolling shutter door, including fire resisting shutter(3)And two groups of guide rails being symmetrical set(2), the fireproof rolling Curtain(3)The door curtain being set in distance including two layers(31), the door curtain(31)Including several compound curtain plates being hinged (311), it is characterized in that:The guide rail(2)It is embedded in wall(1)In, and the guide rail(2)With wall(1)Between be equipped be used for Fixed guide rail(2)And wall(1)Reinforcement connector, adjacent two door curtain(31)Between be equipped with for connecting and support two Curtain(31)Buffer Unit(32).
2. a kind of double-deck fire resistance rolling shutter door according to claim 1, it is characterized in that:The reinforcement connector is expansion bolt (5), the expansion bolt(5)It is fixedly connected with guide rail(2)With wall(1), and along the guide rail(2)Length direction be equipped at intervals with It is multigroup.
3. a kind of double-deck fire resistance rolling shutter door according to claim 2, it is characterized in that:The fire resisting shutter(3)The left and right sides Edge be embedded at two guide rails respectively(2)In, and the fire resisting shutter(3)Embedded guide rail(2)Depth be at least 60mm, it is described Guide rail(2)With fire resisting shutter(3)Elastic component is fixed at abutting.
4. a kind of double-deck fire resistance rolling shutter door according to claim 3, it is characterized in that:The elastic component is adhesive tape(6), it is described Adhesive tape(6)In guide rail(2)In be fixedly installed two groups vertically, two adhesive tape(6)Respectively with fire resisting shutter(3)Front and rear sides It abuts.
5. a kind of double-deck fire resistance rolling shutter door according to claim 4, it is characterized in that:The adhesive tape(6)Using hard polyurethane Ester plastics are made.
6. a kind of double-deck fire resistance rolling shutter door according to any one of claims 1-5, it is characterized in that:The Buffer Unit (32)Including loop bar(321), telescopic rod(322)And compressed spring(323), the loop bar(321)With telescopic rod(322)In grafting Setting, and the loop bar(321)And telescopic rod(322)The one end mutually deviated from respectively with two door curtains(31)In hinged setting, institute State compressed spring(323)It is sheathed on telescopic rod(322)On, and its both ends respectively with the loop bar(321)And telescopic rod(322)'s End is set in abutting.
7. a kind of double-deck fire resistance rolling shutter door according to claim 6, it is characterized in that:The Buffer Unit(32)Along compound curtain Plate(311)Length direction straight uniform be provided with it is multigroup.
8. a kind of double-deck fire resistance rolling shutter door according to claim 7, it is characterized in that:The Buffer Unit(32)In vertical side Upwards with each compound curtain plate(311)It has been arranged in a one-to-one correspondence multigroup, each Buffer Unit(32)Both ends it is compound with two respectively Curtain plate(311)It is hinged.
9. a kind of double-deck fire resistance rolling shutter door according to claim 1, it is characterized in that:The compound curtain plate(311)Interior filling There is refractory material(7).
10. a kind of double-deck fire resistance rolling shutter door according to claim 9, it is characterized in that:The refractory material(7)For alumina silicate Cotton.
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