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EP0332426A1
EP0332426A1 EP89302316A EP89302316A EP0332426A1 EP 0332426 A1 EP0332426 A1 EP 0332426A1 EP 89302316 A EP89302316 A EP 89302316A EP 89302316 A EP89302316 A EP 89302316A EP 0332426 A1 EP0332426 A1 EP 0332426A1
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05F—DEVICES FOR MOVING WINGS INTO OPEN OR CLOSED POSITION; CHECKS FOR WINGS; WING FITTINGS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, CONCERNED WITH THE FUNCTIONING OF THE WING
    • E05F3/00—Closers or openers with braking devices, e.g. checks; Construction of pneumatic or liquid braking devices
    • E05F3/04—Closers or openers with braking devices, e.g. checks; Construction of pneumatic or liquid braking devices with liquid piston brakes
    • E05F3/10—Closers or openers with braking devices, e.g. checks; Construction of pneumatic or liquid braking devices with liquid piston brakes with a spring, other than a torsion spring, and a piston, the axes of which are the same or lie in the same direction
    • E05F3/108—Closers or openers with braking devices, e.g. checks; Construction of pneumatic or liquid braking devices with liquid piston brakes with a spring, other than a torsion spring, and a piston, the axes of which are the same or lie in the same direction with piston rod protruding from the closer housing; Telescoping closers
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05Y—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES E05D AND E05F, RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION ELEMENTS, ELECTRIC CONTROL, POWER SUPPLY, POWER SIGNAL OR TRANSMISSION, USER INTERFACES, MOUNTING OR COUPLING, DETAILS, ACCESSORIES, AUXILIARY OPERATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, APPLICATION THEREOF
    • E05Y2900/00—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof
    • E05Y2900/10—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof for buildings or parts thereof
    • E05Y2900/13—Type of wing
    • E05Y2900/132—Doors

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  • This invention relates to a door closing device for urging an opened door towards its closed position relative to a stationary jamb.
  • the invention concerns improvements in a door closer which is of the kind that acts between the hinge stile of the door and the hinge jamb.
  • This kind of closer has an elongate body from which a tension member extends to an anchor element.
  • the body contains a spring which operates to bias the tension member inwardly of the body, for closing the door.
  • the body is normally installed in a bore in the door stile, when the anchor element is installed in the jamb. Conceivably the positions of the body and anchor element might be reversed.
  • the tension member is flexible and for this an articulated element such as a chain is normally employed.
  • Door closers of this kind are effective in operation and beneficial insofar as they provide a concealed installation : they are only partially visible when the door is opened.
  • a possible drawback of these door closers is that they can close a door too quickly causing it perhaps to bump into someone passing through the opened door or to slam.
  • An object of the invention is to provide a door closer having a decelerated or damped closing action, and at the same time to keep moving parts to a minimum in the interests of simplicity and cost effectiveness.
  • Door closers of the general type to which this invention relates, are known wherein hydraulic cylinder/piston dampers are incorporated. These closers, which are marketed by Perkins & Powell PLC, England and Worcester Parsons, England feature unidirectional valve means in their hydraulic dampers. The valve means are intended to allow easy opening by overriding the damping when the door is opened, and to restore damping as soon as the door is released for closing. Such valve means complicate the manufacture of door closers and add significantly to their cost.
  • valve means can be eliminated without making the opening of a door unduly burdensome, for we have now realised that most of the effort required to open the door is directed at stressing the closing spring; in practice, only a little extra effort need be expended in overcoming the hydraulic resistance of the damper.
  • the hydraulic resistance on opening is minimised by appropriately undersizing the piston relative to its cylinder, in combination with appropriately selecting the viscosity of the hydraulic fluid of the damper.
  • an end wall of the damper is made movable against and by a biasing spring to compensate for possible in service fluctuations in hydraulic pressure within the damper.
  • the movable end wall may also assist in the manufacture and assembly of the door closer. Further, the movable end wall may help to avoid bubble formation, in use, which could be a source of trouble.
  • the damper features a fluid by-pass operative as the closer approaches a door-closed condition.
  • the damping effect is removed as the door enters its final closing movement, so its spring-driven swinging motion is accelerated. This is to enable the door to overcome latch resistance so as to be closed properly.
  • the concealed door closer 10 comprises (a) a main body 11, (b) an anchor member not shown and a spring-biased tension member 12 extending from the main body 11 and coupled to the anchor member.
  • the main body 11 is for mounting in a bore usually provided in a door stile, a mounting plate 14 at one end of the body being recessed into the stile and screwed thereto as normal.
  • the tension member 12, which could be a flexible steel cable is shown here in the form of a flexible, articulated chain element.
  • Tension member 12 protrudes from an aperture 13 in the aforesaid end of the body 10. It is coupled in any convenient way to an anchor element which also has a mounting plate similar or identical to plate 14.
  • the anchor element is recessed in and secured to the door jamb opposite to the body 10 in the door.
  • the anchor element is not illustrated and will not be described further since exemplary elements are known.
  • the relative positions of the body 11 and the anchor element could be reversed in a suitable installation, the body then being mounted in the door frame or jamb and the anchor element being mounted in the door stile.
  • a main spring 15 which acts at one end against a fixed end wall 16 of the body 11.
  • the other end of the spring 15 bears against a movable inner cylinder element 17 the latter having the tension member fastened thereto.
  • the spring 15 is in a state of compression and is thus effective in biasing the tension member inwardly of the body 11.
  • the spring 15 thrusts the inner cylinder element 17 axially towards the left, or inner, end of the body 11.
  • the door stile swings away from the anchor element set in the door jamb.
  • the tension member 12 is thus pulled outwardly of the main body 11, dragging the inner cylinder element 17 to the right and thereby increasing the compression in the main spring 15.
  • the main spring 15 relaxes thrusting cylinder element 17 rearwardly to the left and causes the tension member 12 to be retracted inwardly of the housing. This, of course, has the effect of closing the door.
  • the inner cylinder element 17 is part of a hydraulic damper unit 20.
  • the cylinder element is closed at a front end thereof by a fixed wall 21 which includes an apertured lug to which the tension member 12 is fastened. Its other end is closed by a second fixed wall 22 which is centrally apertured.
  • the damper unit 20 also includes a piston 24 with a piston rod 25, and optionally a movable seal 26 and associated spring 28.
  • the piston 24 is on the inner extremity of the rod 25, which extends rearwardly of the piston through the aperture of wall 22.
  • Movable seal 26 and its spring 28 being optional, they may be omitted: a fixed seal will then be provided at the aperture of wall 22.
  • the fixed seal can, for example, be an O-ring or equivalent seal capable of establishing a seal between the wall 22 and the piston rod 25.
  • the rod extends out of the main body 11 through an apertured end plug 30 thereof.
  • the end plug 30 and end portion 31 of the piston rod are matchingly screw-threaded.
  • the screw-threaded interengagement of the end plug 30 and piston rod 25 fixes the rod and piston 24 against axial movement in the damper unit in normal use.
  • the interengagement allows the position of the piston to be adjusted, as may prove necessary, to ensure the door closer is operative to overcome latch resistance when closing the door.
  • the outer end of the piston rod 25 is slotted for a screw driver.
  • the space inside the damper unit 20 which is bounded by the end wall 21, the end wall 22 or movable seal 26 and the cylinder shell is filled with hydraulic fluid.
  • hydraulic fluid Preferably this is a silicone fluid.
  • it is Dow Corning (RTM) 20 fluid.
  • RTM Dow Corning
  • This fluid is available in a range of viscosity grades which can be blended in varying proportions, as explained in the manufacturer's technical literature, to obtain any chosen viscosity.
  • the piston 24 is deliberately undersized with respect to the main bore 33 of the cylinder.
  • the undersizing is to permit hydraulic fluid to flow from one side of the piston to the other when the cylinder and piston move relatively in response to door opening and closing movements. Since the main body 11 is secured in the door, and the piston is in use immobile thanks to the screw-threaded connection of its rod 25 to the body end plug 30, opening and closing movements of the door cause the cylinder element 17 to move to and fro relative to the piston 24.
  • the opening movement causes the cylinder element 17 to move outwardly, or forwardly to the right, while the spring-biased closing movement is accompanied by an opposite, rearward movement of the cylinder element.
  • movement of the cylinder element 17 is opposed by hydraulic resistance.
  • the hydraulic resistance is principally speed responsive.
  • hydraulic hindrance to opening can be insignificant in comparison with the effort needed to compress the spring 15, while adequate damping on closing is attained.
  • the unidirectional valve previously considered essential can be omitted entirely.
  • a complicated valve with moving parts is obviated, easing assembly of the door closer 10 and reducing the manufacturing expense.
  • the main bore 33 of cylinder element 17 is 11.9 mm and the total length of the bore is 8.3 cm.
  • the piston 24 is 8 mm long and has a diameter of 11.7 mm and thus is 0.2 mm undersized with respect to the cylinder bore 33. If the piston and cylinder are accurately coaxial (which is not essential) the clearance for fluid flow is 0.1 mm wide or 3.7 mm2 in area. With such a clearance, we have found that a suitable hydraulic fluid is one having a viscosity of the order 7000 - 7500 cSt (7-7.5 x 10 ⁇ 3 m2/s). The area of face 35 is 89.4 mm2 and of face 36 is 107.5 mm2, the piston rod having a diameter of 4.8 mm. Overall, the main body 11 has an outer diameter of about 21 mm and a length of some 15 cm.
  • the invention is not to be limited to the foregoing dimensions and viscosity, which can be varied recognising that the clearance is increased, a greater viscosity can be tolerated. Matching the clearance and viscosity is a matter of experiment, the aim being to achieve a damped closing movement which is adequately smooth and rapid.
  • Fluid displacement past the piston 24 may result in pressure fluctuations depending on the direction of movement of the cylinder element 17, due to the difference in effective areas of the opposite piston faces 35, 36.
  • the damper unit 20 can optionally be adapted to compensate of its own accord for pressure/volume variations.
  • the unit 20 can include a movable rear wall provided by the optional seal 26. The seal 26 is slidable to and fro on the piston rod 25 and is biased towards the piston 24 by spring 28 compressed between fixed wall 22 and the seal 26.
  • the optional seal 26 comprises a metal or plastics body 40 internally grooved to receive a seal ring - e.g. an O-ring 41 - which prevents fluid leakage along the piston rod.
  • a pair of cup seals 42 mounted on the body 40 form a seal with the bore 33 of the cylinder element 17.
  • the seal 26 need not be as shown in Fig. 1.
  • One alternative is shown in Fig. 2.
  • This is a one-piece element 26′ moulded e.g. from an elastomer or a synthetic plastics material such as nylon. It will be seen that one or more ribs encroach on the passage through this seal element, for sealing to the piston rod 25.
  • the seals 26, 26′ are symmetrical. This is not essential, since a seal only has to be formed towards the fluid-filled space inside the damper unit 20. Thus, the seals 26, 26′ could be constituted merely by the portions to the right of the chain-dotted line of Fig. 2. Nevertheless, the symmetrical form is perhaps to be preferred e.g. from the point of view of simplicity of assembly.
  • hydraulic fluid will be introduced via the end of the cylinder 17 to which the end wall 22 will be fitted.
  • the fluid may be introduced before or after the piston 24 is installed, and before the movable seal 26 and associated spring 28 are fitted. Overfilling is to be avoided since it would result in the mechanism locking solid thanks to the essentially incompressible nature of the hydraulic fluid. Simple experiments will determine how much fluid should be used for a given design and size of door closer.
  • the movable seal and spring 28 are not essential. Substitution of a fixed seal in or associated with the end wall 22 simplifies manufacture and can minimise costs. Surprisingly, even with a fixed seal at the end wall 22, the door closer functions entirely satisfactorily and effectively. Conveniently, in this case, the piston 24 is located in the cylinder 17, adjacent the end wall 21 before the hydraulic fluid is introduced. The fluid is filled to a level leaving adequate space for the wall 22 and fixed seal to be installed. Again, simple experiments will determine the optimum amount of fluid required for proper operation.
  • the damper unit 20 includes a fluid by-pass operative as the closer approaches a door-closed condition.
  • the by­pass 44 is an enlarged, counterbored end portion of the cylinder element 17.
  • the counterbore 46 is located at the end of the cylinder element wherein the piston 24 reposes in the door-closed position.
  • the counterbore may have an internal diameter some 1 mm larger than the piston, and for a piston of axial length about 8 mm, the axial extent of the counterbore can be some 20 mm.
  • the function of the by-pass 44 is to significantly reduce or effectively remove the hydraulic damping during the final closing stage, by providing an enlarged clearance for fluid to pass around the piston.
  • the effect of the by­ pass 44 is to allow the closer spring 15 to accelerate the door as it swings through the last part of its closing movement, to ensure the swinging movement is fast enough that the door can become latched. In other words, the door is accelerated so as to be able to overcome the normal door latch resistance.
  • the by-pass may become effective when the door enters the last 20° of its closing swing.
  • the closer 10 is adjustable to vary the point in the door's closing swing at which the by-pass 44 becomes operative. The adjustment is effected by advancing or retracting the piston 24 and rod 25 axially of the cylinder element 17. The screw-­threaded interengagement between the outer end of the piston rod and the body end plug 30 provides for the desired adjustment.
  • the end wall 21 can be swaged, crimped, indented, brazed or welded to the forward end of the cylinder element.
  • Wall 22 can be secured in a similar manner but, in the illustrated embodiment, is screw fixed to an integral collar 48 encircling the rear end of the cylinder element 17.
  • the end wall 16 and plug 30 may be fitted immovably to the tubular main body 11 in a like fashion.
  • the mounting plate 14 can be secured to the end wall 16 in any convenient way.
  • This sleeve 50 is a convenient means of establishing a desired initial compression in the spring 15 where this is a stock, bought-­in item.
  • the sleeve 50 can be omitted if spring 15 were lengthened.
  • the damper unit 20 has the piston 24 fixed and the cylinder element 17 movable, the tension member 12 being secured to the latter.
  • a door closer embodying the invention can, in principle, be designed to have a fixed cylinder element and a movable, spring biased piston and rod to which the tension member is secured.
  • the hydraulic fluid employed in the present damped door closer is significantly more viscous than the fluid that would be used in a conventional door closer whose damper incorporates small-­dimensioned, unidirectionally-valved passages.
  • the conventional, relatively limpid hydraulic fluids such as may be used are likely to have strongly temperature-dependent viscosities.
  • the silicone fluids preferred for this invention are highly viscous.
  • the silicone fluids may be blended to have viscosities of 5000 cSt or more, e.g. in the range 5000 - 12,500 cSt, and these preferred fluids are relatively insensitive to changes in temperature. This temperature-insensitivity is highly beneficial. In-service changes in ambient temperature from day to night, or from season to season, will not seriously affect the damping characteristics, even where the temperature range may be large. Moreover, from a manufacturing standpoint these fluids are beneficial since a given fluid may suit various markets of widely differing climates.

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EP0470724A1 (fr) * 1990-08-09 1992-02-12 Reilor Limited Améliorations à ou relatifs à des ferme-portes
US5432977A (en) * 1990-08-09 1995-07-18 Reilor Limited Door Closers
US6625847B1 (en) * 1999-03-04 2003-09-30 Samuel Heath & Sons Plc Door closers
WO2007113576A1 (fr) * 2006-04-03 2007-10-11 Astra Door Controls Limited Ferme-porte
GB2441896A (en) * 2006-04-03 2008-03-19 Astra Door Controls Ltd Damped door operator comprising piston having foam accumulator
GB2452574A (en) * 2007-09-10 2009-03-11 Astra Door Controls Ltd Door closer having a hydraulic damper
GB2452573A (en) * 2007-09-10 2009-03-11 Astra Door Controls Ltd Door closer having a spacer to adjust the pre-load of a biasing member
EP2924224B1 (fr) 2014-03-28 2016-10-12 C.C.E. Costruzioni Chiusure Ermetiche S.r.l. Dispositif de joint amovible contrôlable
CN106628297A (zh) * 2016-12-08 2017-05-10 无锡海特信成高分子科技有限公司 一种高效安全防卡机的压料机

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GB2044840A (en) * 1979-03-20 1980-10-22 Perkins & Powell Ltd Door closer
GB2167121A (en) * 1984-11-14 1986-05-21 Ivor John Wherton Door closer
US4665584A (en) * 1985-05-29 1987-05-19 Williams Patrick Y Buoyant valve member closing device for doors

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GB2044840A (en) * 1979-03-20 1980-10-22 Perkins & Powell Ltd Door closer
GB2167121A (en) * 1984-11-14 1986-05-21 Ivor John Wherton Door closer
US4665584A (en) * 1985-05-29 1987-05-19 Williams Patrick Y Buoyant valve member closing device for doors

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EP0470724A1 (fr) * 1990-08-09 1992-02-12 Reilor Limited Améliorations à ou relatifs à des ferme-portes
US5432977A (en) * 1990-08-09 1995-07-18 Reilor Limited Door Closers
US6625847B1 (en) * 1999-03-04 2003-09-30 Samuel Heath & Sons Plc Door closers
WO2007113576A1 (fr) * 2006-04-03 2007-10-11 Astra Door Controls Limited Ferme-porte
GB2441896A (en) * 2006-04-03 2008-03-19 Astra Door Controls Ltd Damped door operator comprising piston having foam accumulator
GB2441896B (en) * 2006-04-03 2009-03-25 Astra Door Controls Ltd Damped door closer having piston and compressible foam body
GB2452574A (en) * 2007-09-10 2009-03-11 Astra Door Controls Ltd Door closer having a hydraulic damper
GB2452573A (en) * 2007-09-10 2009-03-11 Astra Door Controls Ltd Door closer having a spacer to adjust the pre-load of a biasing member
GB2452574B (en) * 2007-09-10 2012-08-08 Astra Door Controls Ltd Door closer
EP2924224B1 (fr) 2014-03-28 2016-10-12 C.C.E. Costruzioni Chiusure Ermetiche S.r.l. Dispositif de joint amovible contrôlable
EP2924224B2 (fr) † 2014-03-28 2023-07-12 C.C.E. Costruzioni Chiusure Ermetiche S.r.l. Dispositif de joint amovible controlable
CN106628297A (zh) * 2016-12-08 2017-05-10 无锡海特信成高分子科技有限公司 一种高效安全防卡机的压料机

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EP0332426B1 (fr) 1992-06-03
DE68901665D1 (en) 1992-07-09
CA1320512C (fr) 1993-07-20
DE68901665T2 (de) 1992-12-24
GB8805706D0 (en) 1988-04-07

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