CZ294817B6 - Movable wall - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a movable wall comprising individual door and/or wall elements mounted in a suspended manner, the individual elements being both movable in a stationary hollow guide strip (1) attached to the ceiling (41) and provided with bifurcation and branches. The individual door and/or wall elements are not guided in the floor (3) region and are provided with a profiled foot strip (5) with a locking device (6) arranged therein. When at least two door and/or wall elements get into mutual contact said locking device locks them to one another and in the floor (3), too. Inside the locking device (6) there is performed a recess (20) with an actuating plate (22) for conversion of horizontal direction of a lifter (11) movement to vertical direction of a locking pin (21) movement arranged therein. In the actuating plate (22) there is performed a skew recess (28), such as a through hole, communicating with a guide pin (12) fastened in the locking pin (21) and sliding in said a through hole (13) made in the locking device (6) fundamental body (7).

Description

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The adjustable wall consists of individual hinged door and / or wall elements which are displaceable in a stationary hollow guide rail (1), fixed to the ceiling (41) and provided with bifurcations and branches. The individual door and / or wall elements are not guided in the floor area (3) and are provided with a foot profile (5) in which a locking device (6) is provided which, when in contact with each other, at least two door and / or wall elements automatically locks both each other and the floor (3). A recess (20) is provided within the locking device (6) in which the control plate (22) is displaceably adapted to convert the horizontal direction of movement of the tappet (11) into the vertical direction of movement of the locking pin (21). An oblique swelling (28) is provided in the control plate (22), for example a through hole cooperating with a guide pin (12), fixed with force and form contact in the locking pin (21) and sliding in the through hole (13) in the base body (22). 7) a locking device (6).

Adjustable wall

Technical field

The invention relates to an adjustable wall consisting of individual door and door panels, respectively. wall elements, which are used to close buildings or parts of buildings. In office hours, however, these movable walls are usually moved from their mutual shifting into a side-by-side position, or so-called parking position. Door, respectively. the wall elements are hung on a guide rail fixed in the ceiling. Door, respectively. the wall elements can be made as all-glass parts, provided with a profile strip for fixing in the upper part and a profile strip for securing them in the lower part, or the entire glass surface can be framed by this profile strip. Inside the frame profiles there is a glass sheet.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

DE 4041925 discloses a hinged adjustable wall comprising several elements. The arrangement of the individual elements is carried out by means of so-called movable members, which are provided in pairs on each of the elements. These movable members are mounted on a profile rail located at the top of each of the wall elements and are guided in a guide rail fixed to the ceiling. The guide rails are designed so that the movable members are located inside and are therefore not visible to passers-by. The movable members are provided, in addition to the suspension rollers, with side rollers for precise guidance.

An adjustable wall of this type is also known, for example, from the DORMA documentation. These glass sliding fronts serve as shop windows and entrances to shops or gastronomic operations, including conservatories, where they protect from drafts and prevent rain. The individual sliding wings are moved to the so-called parking position, in which the individual sliding wings can be easily moved to save space, for as long as the entrance facade is to be left free. The individual sliding wings are not guided in the floor, eliminating the risk of stumbling and trapping dirt. Locks or similar securing elements may be provided within the profile rails located close to the floor, which are fixed to the individual wall elements. The blocking is performed manually. In the floor there are inserts for securing elements, resp. the tongues of the locks or plugs into which these locking elements are inserted by means of buttons provided on each of the sliding wings. The sliding wings, which are in a row after the shop has been closed, are thus securely fastened by means of these locking elements. However, this type of locking is very costly since each individual sliding leaf must be firmly secured.

The locking of individual door elements, which are automatically locked by means of a locking bolt, is further known from U.S. Pat. No. 3143760. Here, a recessed locking bolt cooperates in the upper door frame with a pivotally mounted lever system which is spring loaded. In this lever system, a control lever protrudes at the door frame, which, when the door approaches the closed position, simultaneously slips the plug into the opening located in the door leaf. When the locking bolt is inserted into the door leaf insert, the door leaf is locked.

From EP 0 354 505 A2, movable wall elements are known which can be pushed together to form a partition wall and have floor seals at their lower horizontal edges which can be lowered. During the insertion of the wall elements into each other with the lowering of the floor seal, the lever mechanism arranged on the adjacent wall element is actuated. As the wall elements continue to approach, the floor bar of one wall element slides under the lever mechanism of the other wall element, so that the locking bolt actuated by the lever mechanism is inserted through a hole in the floor rail into a housing arranged

In the floor. Adjacent wall elements are thus locked together and in the floor. The disadvantage of this embodiment is the complexity of the movements, since even slight deviations from the correct direction lead to the occurrence of disturbances. The skirting board can easily be damaged and is a potential source of injury for walking people.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is therefore an object of the invention to automate and simplify the blocking of the individual sliding elements which is manually performed very difficult.

This is accomplished by an adjustable wall consisting of individual hinged door and / or wall elements which are movable in a stationary hollow guide rail, fixed to the ceiling and provided with bifurcations and branches, wherein the individual door and / or wall elements are not guided in the floor area and are provided with a foot profile bar in which a locking device is provided which, when the two or more door and / or wall elements are in contact with each other, automatically locks the elements both to and from the floor according to the invention. a recess is provided in which a control plate is slidably provided to convert the horizontal direction of the tappet movement into a vertical direction of movement of the locking pin, wherein an oblique recess, for example a through hole, is provided in the control plate, cooperating with a guide pin mounted with a force m and by positive engagement in the locking pin and sliding in the through hole in the base body of the locking device.

The object is further accomplished by an adjustable wall consisting of individual hinged door and / or wall elements which are displaceable in a stationary hollow guide rail mounted on the ceiling and provided with bifurcations and branches, wherein the individual door and / or wall elements are not guided in the region the floor and are provided with a foot profile rail, in which a locking device is provided which, upon contact of at least two door and / or wall elements, automatically locks these elements both to and from the floor, the locking device of one wall element being lowered a striking wall element according to the invention, the principle of which is that the locking device consists of a locking pin, forced directly into the housing, embedded in the floor, the tappet being a carrier having a fork and which by means of a carrier it a pin which is situated in the locking bolt, presses the locking bolt into the locking position or from the locking position pulls.

When at least two door and / or wall elements meet, they are forced to lock together in the floor to lock them together. This is made possible by the provision in the foot profile bar of a locking device on one front side in which the tappet is provided. This tappet automatically actuates the locking pin when the face of one wing contacts the face of another wing, which is pushed into a housing embedded in the floor. The locking bolt is thereby secured by a resilient element so that, in the case of an uncontrolled tappet, the locking bolt is inserted inside the locking device and therefore inside the sash. Therefore, when the tappet is not actuated, the locking pin automatically slides out of the housing embedded in the floor.

Inside the locking device, the locking pin is mounted vertically in the opening. The locking pin is spring loaded so that when the tappet is not actuated in any way, it is retracted into the interior of the locking device. A horizontally operating tappet works with the control plate connected to the locking pin. The control plate is horizontally displaceable in a recess provided in the locking device. The tappet, in the uncontrolled state, protrudes from the locking device and thus from the wing. Inside the locking device, a through hole is provided in the same axis in which the locking pin moves, through which the guide pin passes. This guide pin extends concentrically through the control plate by means of an inclined recess formed therein in the form of a through hole.

As a result of the horizontal movement of the tappet, when the tappet is in the door respectively. The wall sash is pushed, it is by forced coupling of the guide pin and the oblique longitudinal

At the same time, the locking bolt is pulled out of the locking device and thus also from the door or door. wall wings. This locks the locking pin into the housing located in the floor. Thus, when the pin is inserted into the housing, the guide pin located in the vertical through hole and also in the inclined longitudinal through hole reaches its lowest position.

Thus, at the contact edges of the two interlocking wings, the tappet is first inserted into the corresponding aperture of the adjacent leaf, and as a result of the forced movement the locking pin is pulled out of the locking device and the tappet is pushed into the locking device. However, due to the uniform alignment, the tappet actually remains a part of the blocking device by the depth of the aperture of the adjacent leaf, which at the same time achieves the mutual locking of the two door-to-door or door-to-door interlocks. wall wings.

A further solution of the object of the invention is that the locking bolt is permanently loaded by the force of the resilient element so that, in the absence of a tappet, the locking bolt is automatically pulled out of the housing in the floor. In addition to the use of the resilient element itself, the resilient element may be coupled to a lever system to which the spring is attached, thereby achieving a better transmission of forces when the locking pin is pulled out of the housing when unlocked. However, within the scope of the invention, the elastic element can be omitted completely, provided that a push-pull follower is provided on one side of the displacement element and a corresponding locking device is provided on the opposite side. If it occurs on the door leaf, respectively. the wall, the tappet having a fork-shaped recess in the top-down direction, is then automatically carried by the pin located on the locking pin, i.e. pushed out from the bottom profile rail and inserted into a housing located in the floor . Due to the inclined fork-like design of the carrier, the locking pin is thus secured in the locking position. If the sliding wall element together with the carrier is to be moved back to the so-called parking position, the carrier again moves out of the foot profile bar of the following wall element. At the same time, due to the design, the locking pin is automatically withdrawn again from the locking position, i.e. from the housing formed in the floor. The locking pin is then locked in position inside the foot profile. The locking pin can be secured, for example, by a lateral adjusting pin provided inside the circumferential groove. The extension force can be adjusted by means of the adjusting pin.

The blocking device thus formed, without being visible to passing persons, is capable of automatically and safely interlocking the sliding wall elements in the floor. This overcomes so far manually operated interlocking systems, which is a significant easing for operators. Also, in the solution according to the invention, no additional tools are required to lock the individual door or door sections together. of wall elements.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The invention is illustrated in more detail by means of drawings showing a number of possible embodiments.

Here means:

Fig. 1 an adjustable wall, Fig. 2 an embodiment of the locking device shown in the locking position, Fig. 3 a control plate with a tappet, Fig. 4 an embodiment with a forced guiding carrier in the unlocked position, Fig. 5 an embodiment according to Fig. 4 but in position blocking.

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The adjustable wall is shown in principle in FIG. 1. A guide rail 1 is fixed to the ceiling 41 of the building, in which a hinge is located, which consists in the fact that on the supporting profiles 4 of the individual door resp. In the following description, only the wings are mentioned for the sake of simplicity, but in principle the movable wall elements can be made of any suitable material, especially glass. It does not matter whether these are framed or non-framed adjustable wall elements. In the proximity of the floor, the wings 2 are provided with a foot profile strip 5. The first movable wall element, which is the wing 42, is fixedly fixed to the wall 29 by means of the detent device 30. locking device. The individual wings 2 in this embodiment can then be displaced in the direction of movement 19, and when the two wings 2 are in contact with each other, it is also possible to lock them both to each other and to the floor.

FIG. 2 shows the locking device 6 according to the invention, namely in the locking position, with the locking pin 21 being located in a housing 25 formed in the floor 3. The lower end of the housing 25 is fixed to the floor 3 via a screw connection 27. of the locking pin 21 into the housing 25, a chamfer 24 is formed at its lower end.

The locking device 6 essentially consists of a base body 7 in which a vertical bore 10 is formed. A sliding bearing 23 is pressed into the bore 10 to better guide the locking pin 21. Inside the base body 7, the locking pin 21 has a larger diameter than its diameter. output part.

A spring 14 is provided on the larger diameter of the locking pin 21 to keep it in the rest position. The spring 14 is supported on one side by the end shoulder 32 of the bore 10 formed in the base body 7, on the other hand the spring 14 is supported by a collar 31 formed on the locking pin 21. A guide guide is firmly recessed near the end of the locking pin 21. The pin 12 has a length such that it protrudes beyond the diameter of the locking pin 21. The ends of the guide pin 12 protruding from the locking pin 21 are displaceable in a through hole 13 which is formed vertically in the base body 7. At the end of the locking pin 21, a recess (not shown in greater detail) is therefore provided. In the recess there is a horizontally displaceable actuating plate 22 inside the base body 7. The actuating plate 22 cooperates with a tappet 11 which is also displaceable and protrudes from the wing 2. The tappet 11 is in this case fixedly connected to the control plate 22. the inclined recess 28 in the form of a through hole through which the guide pin 12 also passes. As the tappet 11 moves in the horizontal direction, the locking pin 21 is displaced in the vertical direction. In this case, both the inclined recess 28 and the through hole 13 are dimensioned to each other so as to allow a purely horizontal movement of the control plate 22, both in the recess 20 and inside the locking pin 21.

The tappet 11 is provided at its end protruding from the wing 12 with a head 18, at the end of which a chamfer 17 is formed to better penetrate the tappet 11 into the hole or recess 16 of the cover plate 15 in contact with the other wing 2. Thus, two adjacent wings 2 are locked into the adjacent wing 2. If the wing 2 is then moved a little further in the direction of movement 19, the locking bolt 21 penetrates into the housing 25 as a result of the forced movement caused by the inclined recess 28, thereby the wing 2 at the same time blocked in the floor 3.

The entire locking device 6 is fastened by means of fastening elements 8 on the front side of the wing 2. The side cover here constitutes a cover plate 9 through which the tappet 11 extends.

The solution according to the invention can be used in both manual operation and in the automatic method of operating the adjustable wall elements. This solution ensures that the individual wall elements,

If they are facing each other, they are always locked to each other and to the floor.

Another variant of the locking device, intended both to lock the wings 2 together and to lock in the floor 3 within the scope of the invention, is shown in FIGS. 4 and 5. At the same time, as already mentioned, on one side of the foot profile 5 is provided and a locking device 51 is provided on the opposite side of the same wing. The carrier 51 is shaped such that it is fixed inside the foot profile rail 5 by means of fastening elements 49. The protruding portion of the carrier 51 is in the form of a fork 52, characterized in that its open end lies at the top, the recess of the fork 52 extending obliquely downwards. Roundings 54 are formed on the tips of the fork 52. The carrier 51 further has a bevel 53, which is located at the bottom of the fork 52.

The locking device in this variant consists of a fastening piece 64, which is fastened inside the foot profile bar 5 by means of fastening elements 58. The fastening piece 64 also has an opening in which a vertically displaceable locking bolt 55 is disposed at the outlet end of which a chamfer 57 is formed. In order to secure the locking pin 55 in the unlocked position, a laterally adjustable locking pin 60 is provided. This locking pin 60 has a spring-compressed ball at its front end which extends into the peripheral If the locking pin 55 is to be pulled out of the foot profile 5, the spring force in the locking pin 60 must also be overcome and the locking pin 55 can be brought into the locking position. In the upper part of the locking pin 55 is further provided a driving pin 56 which, in conjunction with the driver 51 and 51, respectively, is provided. with the fork 52 formed thereon, it allows the automatic operation of the locking pin 55.

Upon engagement of the carrier 51 on the upstream wing 2, the two wings which are in contact with each other 2 are locked by inserting the carrier 51 into the through hole 61 of the wing 2. Simultaneously, contact occurs between the carrier pin 56 and the carrier 51, which the fork 52 results in the locking pin 55 being pulled out of the foot profile strip 5. This is particularly evident from FIG. 5, where the wings 2 are shown in the locked position, both with each other and on the floor 3. V Due to the guide through the inclined fork 52, the individual wings 2 do not have to be manually locked. Also, when the two wings 2 are pushed together, the locking pin 55 is automatically pulled out of the housing 25 to ensure their unlocking in the floor 3. they are also unlocked at the same time.

The solution according to the invention can be applied to both manually and automatically operated adjustable wall elements, since it always ensures the blocking of the individual elements both to each other and to the floor.

Claims (5)

PATENT CLAIMS Adjustable wall, consisting of individual hinged door and / or wall elements which are movable in a stationary hollow guide rail (1), fixed to the ceiling (41) and provided with bifurcations and branches, wherein the individual door and / or wall elements are not They are provided in the floor area (3) and are provided with a foot profile (5), in which a locking device (6) is provided which, upon contact between at least two door and / or wall elements, automatically blocks these elements both floor (3), characterized in that a recess (20) is formed inside the locking device (6) in which the control plate (22) is displaceably adapted to convert the horizontal direction of movement of the tappet (11) into the vertical direction of movement of the locking pin (21), wherein an inclined recess (28) is provided in the control plate (22), in particular a through hole cooperating with the guide pin (12), fixed with force and form contact in the locking pin (21) and sliding in the through hole (13) in the base body (7) of the locking device (6). Adjustable wall according to claim 1, characterized in that the locking device (6) is provided on one side of the foot profile bar (5). Adjustable wall, consisting of individual hinged door and / or wall elements, which are movable in a stationary hollow guide rail (1), fixed to the ceiling and provided with bifurcations and branches, wherein the individual door and / or wall elements are not guided in the region in the floor (3) and are provided with a foot profile (5), in which a locking device is provided which, when in contact with at least two door and / or wall elements, interlocks these elements automatically with respect to each other and in the floor (3); the device of one wall element is lowered by the tappet of another wall-impacting element, characterized in that the locking device consists of a locking pin (55), forced directly into the housing (25), embedded in the floor (3), the tappet being a carrier (51), which has a fork (52), and which by means of driving means The pin (56) located in the locking pin (55) pushes the locking pin (55) into or out of the locking position. Adjustable wall according to claim 3, characterized in that a locking system comprising at least two pivotally mounted levers is provided on the locking pin (55). Adjustable wall according to one of Claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the door and / or wall elements are locked to one another by means of tappets (11,51) which are inserted into a through hole (16, 61) provided therefor.