DE8221925U1 - CLADDING ELEMENTS FOR SPECIALTIES, IN PARTICULAR SPACE SPECIALTIES FROM RODS AND NODE PIECES - Google Patents

Description

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GmbH & Co Würzburg July 27, 1982

\ Cladding elements for trusses, in particular

Spatial frameworks made of rods and knot pieces

The innovation relates to cladding elements for trusses, in particular space frameworks made of rods and junction pieces, the cladding elements being releasably fastened to the rods, Stigen are to fill the gaps between certain rods and node pieces in a correspondingly polygonal shape or to cover.

Such cladding elements for the above purposes are usually in the form of flat panels made of cardboard, wood and / or Plastic, glass, etc. known. To assemble these known cladding elements on a framework or space framework separate fasteners in the form of brackets, clamps, clips, etc. used, which not only have disadvantages during assembly and during transport or shipping, but also the visual impression of the clad truss or Can negatively affect the space framework.

DE-PS 23 65 704 already has a lighting system with a space framework-like support made of rods and knot pieces for the lights become known in which the the gaps between the rods and junction pieces surrounding the luminaires by means of corresponding polygonal surface elements

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translucent, light-diffusing material are filled. However, these surface elements are also used here spring clips which can be snapped onto the rods are releasably held.

Another disadvantage of the above-explained holding structures for cladding elements or the like is that there is always one more or there is less large gap between the cladding elements or the like and the bars adjacent to them. which can also be visually disruptive.

The innovation is based on the task of creating a remedy here by means of a cladding element that can be used without additional Fasteners attached directly to the bars of a framework or space framework quickly and easily and in the If necessary, it can also be removed again.

According to the innovation, this object is achieved in that the cladding elements are made of resilient or elastically yielding There are plastic or metal plates and have angled, outwardly concavely curved holder edges, which through the Intrinsic elasticity of the respective cladding element against the respective one gap in the framework or space framework delimiting Rods can be pressed on appropriately. The cladding elements according to the innovation are therefore advantageous without additional fastening elements can be clamped between the rods delimiting a gap in the framework or space framework, wherein their outwardly concavely curved retaining edges lie fully against part of the circumference of the rods concerned. There-

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is also advantageous in the known constructions between each rod and an edge of the cladding element existing gap avoided. The assembly and disassembly of the cladding elements is extremely easy because you need them simply to snap into or push out of the gaps in a framework or space framework.

When the rim edges are angled inwards according to claim 2 are, the visual impression of the clad framework ", or space framework is further improved.

If, according to claim 3, the cross section of the curved retaining edges extends over an arc angle of approximately 90 °, can use up to four cladding elements when cladding spatial frameworks can be connected to a single rod with one retaining edge each.

According to yet another embodiment of the innovation, the cladding elements can advantageously be made of relatively inexpensive, e.g. vacuum-formed thermoplastic plastic sheets. The latter can also be spatially deformed and e.g. openings for any insert body, such as lights, loudspeakers etc. included.

The cladding elements according to the innovation can advantageously be used in connection with frameworks or space frameworks in the ceiling area of buildings, generally for the interior design of rooms, for film and television decorations, for cladding advertising

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towers and in the interior design of discos, shops

stores, etc. can be used.

If the cladding elements are also usually adapted to the usual framework or space framework constructions have a rectangular or triangular plan, but they can also be produced in other polygonal shapes.

The innovation is then based on the drawings of trainers examples of management explained. Show it:

Fig. 1 is an oblique view of a space framework that partially is equipped with cladding elements according to the innovation and can be used, for example, as a suspended ceiling can;

FIG. 2 shows a sectional view along the line II - II in FIG. 1;

Fig. 3 shows a section of a space framework in which the connection of three cladding elements on one rod

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FIG. 4 shows an enlarged detail from FIG. 3 in the region of the I. FIG

dash-dotted circle;

Fig. 5 shows a further section of a space framework, the connection of four cladding elements to one Rod shows and

6 shows an enlarged detail from FIG. 5 in the area of the dot-dashed circle.

The space framework 10 shown in FIG. 1 consists of rods 11 and node pieces 12, which are connected to one another in a known manner

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are screwed. In the upper chord and lower chord of the space framework 10, cladding elements 13 according to the innovation are installed, for example, in some predetermined rectangular gaps delimited by rods 11. In the exemplary embodiment, the cladding elements 13 consist of resilient or elastically resilient thermoplastic plastic plates which have been brought into the spatial shape shown by vacuum deformation. Each covering element 13 is provided with angled, concavely outwardly curved retaining edges 14, the capacity by the Eigenelasti · ¹ and the restoring force of the respective lining element

13 against the four, each delimiting a gap in the space framework 10 Rods 11 are pressed, creating each cladding element 13 is clamped or held between the rods 11.

As can be seen particularly well from FIG. 2, these are retaining edges

14 angled inwards, therefore covered or not from below visible. In the exemplary embodiments according to FIGS. 1-6, each retaining edge 14 also extends over an arcuate angle of about 90 °, so that, as can be seen, for example, from Figures 5 and 6, Up to four cladding elements 13 can be attached to one rod 11 each with one of their retaining edges 14. FIGS. 3 and 4 show, by way of example, the connection of three cladding elements 13 to a rod 11.

In the embodiment of Figure 1, the cladding elements 13 also provided with central openings 15 for receiving lights (not shown).

The cladding elements 13 can be made of translucent or J

-permeable, also colored plastics or sheet metal- | be made of material. |

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Claims (4)

, s suffered protection claims 1. Cladding elements for trusses, especially space trusses of rods and knot pieces, the cladding elements being releasably fastened to the rods in order to designed according to polygonal shape to fill or cover the gaps between certain trenches and node pieces, characterized in that the cladding elements (13) made of resilient or resilient plastic or metal plates and have angled, outwardly concavely curved retaining edges (14), which through the inherent elasticity of the respective cladding element (13) against each one gap in the framework or space framework delimiting rods (11) can be appropriately pressed. 2. Cladding elements according to claim 1, characterized in that the retaining edges (14) are angled inward. 3. Cladding elements according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that that the cross-section of the curved retaining edges (14) extends over an arc angle of approximately 90 °. 4. Cladding elements according to claims 1 - 3, characterized in that that the cladding elements (13) consist of, for example, vacuum-formed thermoplastic plastic sheets.