EP0241775B1 - Cadre pour supporter des vitres isolantes - Google Patents

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EP0241775B1
EP0241775B1 EP87104423A EP87104423A EP0241775B1 EP 0241775 B1 EP0241775 B1 EP 0241775B1 EP 87104423 A EP87104423 A EP 87104423A EP 87104423 A EP87104423 A EP 87104423A EP 0241775 B1 EP0241775 B1 EP 0241775B1
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Karl Birke
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
    • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
    • E06B3/00—Window sashes, door leaves, or like elements for closing wall or like openings; Layout of fixed or moving closures, e.g. windows in wall or like openings; Features of rigidly-mounted outer frames relating to the mounting of wing frames
    • E06B3/66—Units comprising two or more parallel glass or like panes permanently secured together
    • E06B3/663—Elements for spacing panes
    • E06B3/667—Connectors therefor
    • E06B3/6675—Connectors therefor for connection between the spacing elements and false glazing bars
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
    • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
    • E06B3/00—Window sashes, door leaves, or like elements for closing wall or like openings; Layout of fixed or moving closures, e.g. windows in wall or like openings; Features of rigidly-mounted outer frames relating to the mounting of wing frames
    • E06B3/66—Units comprising two or more parallel glass or like panes permanently secured together
    • E06B3/663—Elements for spacing panes
    • E06B3/667—Connectors therefor
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
    • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
    • E06B3/00—Window sashes, door leaves, or like elements for closing wall or like openings; Layout of fixed or moving closures, e.g. windows in wall or like openings; Features of rigidly-mounted outer frames relating to the mounting of wing frames
    • E06B3/96—Corner joints or edge joints for windows, doors, or the like frames or wings
    • E06B3/964—Corner joints or edge joints for windows, doors, or the like frames or wings using separate connection pieces, e.g. T-connection pieces
    • E06B3/9644—L-shaped corner pieces having two articulated or flexible joined legs; Corner joints with variable angle

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  • the invention relates to a frame for receiving insulating glass panes, which has rungs which can be fastened to the frame body by means of connecting pieces which are made of plastic and are insulating against heat conduction.
  • Spacer frames of the type mentioned at the outset are known (DE-PS 26 37 034), in which the connecting pieces engage at one end in a form-fitting and non-positive manner in the hollow profile of the rung and at their other end have a pin for fastening in a bore in the frame body .
  • the pin of the connecting piece seated in the bore of the frame body does not guarantee a secure hold of the rung and that the bore itself has a considerable disadvantage in that drying agent filled into the cavity of the frame body prior to the installation of the connecting piece, For example, silica gel, can fall out, which is why the hole must be closed by a special plug before the connector is attached to the frame body.
  • the object of the invention is therefore to develop the construction of the type mentioned so that the prefabrication of a hole in the frame body is unnecessary and moreover a tight fit of the connector is ensured on the frame body, so that the rungs maintain their installation position.
  • the connecting piece has a bore extending in the direction of the surface of the frame body, through which a fastening element can be inserted, which cuts into the frame body and clamps the connector on it.
  • this solution still has a disadvantage in that it can only be used for square or rectangular and square frames, ie those in which the rungs meet the frame bodies surrounding them at right angles.
  • so-called model panes i.e. panes of non-square outline, for example triangular panes, as is the case, for example, with windows arranged under sloping ceilings or also studio windows, the known connecting pieces are unusable for the rungs because the latter abut obliquely running frame bodies .
  • This is intended to provide the possibility of giving rungs for windows with model panes, i.e. insulating glass panes with a shape deviating from a rectangular or square outline, a secure hold on the frame body, without the connection piece required for this, if at all, being significantly more expensive to produce requires as the known connectors for frames with right-angled rungs.
  • the connecting piece is designed as a disk-shaped or spherical body, the convex circumferential surface of which partially protrudes from the front rung cavity opening and in the region of this protruding circumferential surface part with the surface of the frame body, which runs at an angle 9 90 ° to the rung profile body , is fastened with the aid of the fastening element.
  • the main idea of this solution is therefore to give the connecting piece an external shape, on the basis of which it can be inserted into the lattice profile body cavity and connected to the frame body to which the lattice profile body abuts, even if the end of the lattice profile body - and therefore its end face is cut obliquely, at the angle that the rung should make with respect to the frame body.
  • the connecting piece is a disk-shaped or spherical body, the convex circumferential surface of which protrudes from the front rung cavity opening, the longitudinal axis of the frame body can be arranged at any angle, which is approximately between 15 ° and 90 ° , to the longitudinal axis of the rung profile body, in each case the wall of the frame profile body rests on the convex peripheral surface of the connecting piece.
  • the frame body 1 denoted by 1 in FIG. 1 is part of a frame for receiving insulating glass panes, which is provided with rungs 2, which are seated on the end face of its surface 14 and are fastened to it with the aid of a connector 3 made of heat-insulating plastic.
  • the connector which in its across the cross section of the high len web 2 measured width of two parallel edge webs 4, 5 is limited to a parallel to these edge webs central web 6, which is traversed by a through hole 9.
  • the edge webs and the central web open on the end face on the side facing the surface 14 of the frame body 1 into a flange body 7 and on the side facing away from this flange body in a cross body 8.
  • a screw 10 is inserted through the bore 9, which extends completely through the central web 6 and the flange body 7 of the connecting piece 3 adjoining it, in the direction of the surface 14 of the frame body 1, the thread 16 of which extends over its tip 12 and which extends cuts itself through the wall 15 of the hollow frame body 1 to create a hole 13 and clamp the connector to the wall 15.
  • the head 11 of the screw 10 rests on the crossbar 8 of the connecting piece 3, and the flange body 7 is attracted to the wall 15, as a result of which there is thermal insulation between this wall and the end face of the hollow rung 2, since this end face rests on the flange body 7.
  • the two parallel edge webs 4 and 5 are dimensioned such that the rung can be non-positively attached to the connector 3 already firmly connected to the frame body 1.
  • thermal insulation of the end face of the rung 2 against the surface 14 of the frame body is achieved by the flange body 7 extending somewhat beyond the edge webs, so that the rung end face abuts against this projecting tab 17 of the flange body.
  • the frame body designated by 22 in FIG. 5 is also part of a spacer profile for receiving insulating glass panes, which is provided with rungs.
  • a rung profile body is shown at 18. Its front opening is chamfered at an angle a to its longitudinal axis 30, so that the front rung cavity opening strikes the surface 25 of the frame body 22 at this angle and thus the longitudinal axes of 30 and 31 of the rung profile body 18 or frame body 22 intersect at said angle .
  • a connecting piece 20 is inserted, which is inserted into the cavity 19 of the rung profile body and clamps between the profile body walls 27 which delimit this cavity, whereby it partially protrudes from the rung cavity opening, so that part of the connecting piece 20 via the Opening edge 32 of the shorter wall 33 of the two opposing walls 33 and 34 of the rung profile body protrudes.
  • the connecting piece 20 is a flat, disk-shaped body with a circular circumference, on the convex-shaped peripheral surface of which in the region of the part of the connecting piece 20 projecting beyond the opening edge 32, the surface 25 of the frame body 22 lies tangentially.
  • the connecting piece 20 has a radial through bore 23 for receiving a fastening element 24 in the form of a screw, the thread of which extends over its tip and which cuts through the wall 35 of the hollow frame body 22 in order to fasten the connecting piece 20 to the frame body 22 .
  • the connecting piece 20 has a cross-sectional enlargement in the area of the bore 23 for the fastening element 24, which - as can be seen in FIG. 6 - is designed on both sides of the connecting element in the form of a plate-shaped, central extension 26 and has the purpose of a screw head 29 To create support that sits in an provided at the outer end of the bore 23, which is remote from the frame body 22, extension 28 which is dimensioned so that a fastening tool can engage the screw head when the connector 20 is screwed to the frame body 22 .
  • the greatest thickness of the flat, disc-shaped body which forms the connecting piece 20 depends on the width of the profile cavity 19 and corresponds to this width in the limit case, so that the connecting piece then at more than two separate locations with the inner wall 27 of the rung profile body 18 in Touch.
  • the construction described enables the simple connection of frame profile bodies with rung profiles for insulating glass panes in cases where the rungs do not meet the frame parts surrounding them at a right angle, i.e. no rectangular or square glass panes are used, but instead, for example, triangular or trapezoidal configuration, as is the case today can be found more or less immediately below the roof on the gable sides of pitched roof houses if the attic is developed as a living, working or studio space.
  • the convex, in this case circular circumferential surface 21 of the connecting piece 20 gives the possibility to arrange and fasten the rung profile body at any angle to the surrounding frame profile body, since the surface 25 of the frame body 22 Convex circumferential surface of the connector 20 touches like a tangent and thus at any angle, which in practice are between 15 ° and 90 ° .
  • a body with a non-circular circumferential surface could also be used, as well as a spherical body, the connecting piece in each case being clamped between the walls delimiting the cavity of the rung profile body in order to be there to be stuck.
  • the cavity cross section of the rung profile body is expediently square corresponding to the diameter of this spherical body.

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Claims (11)

1. Châssis pour montage de vitres isolantes, qui présente des meneaux (2) que l'on peut fixer au corps du châssis (1), sur sa face antérieure, au moyen de pièces de jonction (3) constituées de matière plastique assurant une isolation à la conduction thermique, caractérisé par le fait que la pièce de jonction (3, 20) présente un alésage (9, 23) s'étendant en direction de la surface (14, 25) du châssis (1, 22), par lequel peut être introduit un élément de fixation (10, 24) qui incise le corps de châssis (1, 22) et y immobilise la pièce de jonction (3, 20).
2. Châssis selon la revendication 1, caractérisé par le fait que la pièce de jonction (3) présente deux cloisons latérales parallèles (4, 5) sur lesquelles les meneaux creux (2) peuvent être fixes solidement, ainsi qu'une partie médiane (6) parallèle à ces deux cloisons latérales et dans laquelle se trouve l'alésage (9) recevant la vis de fixation (10).
3. Châssis selon les revendications 1 ou 2, caractérisé par le fait que l'alésage (9) traverse complètement la partie médiane (6) et la bride (7) de la pièce de jonction (3) qui s'y raccorde.
4. Châssis selon la revendication 3, caractérisé par le fait que la bride (7) présente des pattes latérales (17) qui s'étendent sur les cloisons latérales parallèles (4, 5) et sur lesquelles aboutissent les faces frontales des meneaux (2).
5. Châssis selon la revendicatoin 1, caractérisé par le fait que la pièce de jonction (20) est conformée en disque ou en sphère, dont la surface périphérique convexe (21) fait partiellement saillie hors de l'ouverture frontale de la cavité du meneau et qui est fixée dans la zone de cette partie de surface périphérique en saillie, à l'aide de l'élément de fixation (24) à la surface (25) du profilé (22) de châssis qui fait un angle égal ou inférieur à 90° avec le corps profilé de meneau (18).
6. Châssis selon la revendication 5, caractérisé par le fait que la pièce de liaison (20) est un corps plat en forme de disque à périphérie circulaire, dont une partie constitue la surface périphérique convexe.
7. Châssis selon les revendications 5 ou 6, caractérisé par le fait que l'alésage (23) destiné à l'élément de fixation (24) traverse radialement la pièce de jonction (20).
8. Châssis selon l'une quelconque des revendications 5 à 7, caractérisé par le fait que, dans la zone de l'alésage (23) destiné à l'élément de fixation, la pièce de jonction présente une surépaisseur (26).
9. Châssis selon l'une quelconque des revendications 5 à 8, caractérisé par le fait que l'alésage (23) présente un évasement (28) à son extrémité éloignée du profilé (22) de châssis en vue de recevoir la tête (29) de l'élément de fixation (24).
10. Châssis selon l'une quelconque des revendications 5 à 9, caractérisé par le fait que l'élément de fixation (10) est une vis.
11. Châssis selon l'unê quelconque des revendications 5 à 10, caractérisé par le fait que la pièce de jonction (20) est en contact avec la paroi interne (27) du corps de meneau en plus de deux points distincts entre eux.
EP87104423A 1986-04-14 1987-03-25 Cadre pour supporter des vitres isolantes Expired - Lifetime EP0241775B1 (fr)

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AT87104423T ATE54352T1 (de) 1986-04-14 1987-03-25 Rahmen zur aufnahme von isolierglasscheiben.

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DE8610075U 1986-04-14
DE19868610075 DE8610075U1 (de) 1986-04-14 1986-04-14 Rahmen zur Aufnahme von Isolierglasscheiben
DE3632625 1986-09-25
DE19863632625 DE3632625A1 (de) 1986-09-25 1986-09-25 Rahmen zur aufnahme von modellscheiben bildenden isolierglasscheiben

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DE8617772U1 (de) * 1986-07-03 1987-08-06 Hartwig + Führer GmbH, 4837 Verl Rahmen mit Sprossengitter
GB2242699A (en) * 1990-04-03 1991-10-09 Ellay Enfield Tubes Limited Decorative grid inserts for double-glazing
EP0545024A1 (fr) * 1991-11-22 1993-06-09 Helmut Lingemann GmbH & Co. Cadre intercalaire pour vitrage isolant
GB9418581D0 (en) * 1994-09-15 1994-11-02 Ulmke Metals Ltd Improvements relating to joints between members of which at least one is tubular
DE19636220C2 (de) * 1995-09-13 2001-02-08 Lenhardt Maschinenbau Isolierglasscheibe mit thermoplastischem Abstandhalter und mit eingesetztem Sprossenrahmen

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DE2637034C2 (de) * 1976-08-17 1982-06-03 Helmut Lingemann GmbH & Co, 5600 Wuppertal Abstandhalterrahmen für Isolierverglasungen
DE3420205A1 (de) * 1984-05-30 1985-12-05 SCHÜCO Heinz Schürmann GmbH & Co, 4800 Bielefeld Verbinder fuer haupt- und sprossenprofile eines fensters, einer tuer, einer fassade oder einer ueberdachung

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