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EP0399778A1
EP0399778A1 EP90305532A EP90305532A EP0399778A1 EP 0399778 A1 EP0399778 A1 EP 0399778A1 EP 90305532 A EP90305532 A EP 90305532A EP 90305532 A EP90305532 A EP 90305532A EP 0399778 A1 EP0399778 A1 EP 0399778A1
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gasket
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curtain wall
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George Mcdowell
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HH Robertson UK Ltd
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
    • E04B2/00—Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls
    • E04B2/88—Curtain walls
    • E04B2/96—Curtain walls comprising panels attached to the structure through mullions or transoms

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  • This invention concerns improvements in and relating to curtain walls or any type of framework in which glazing or other panels are fitted.
  • Curtain walls generally comprise a grid-like framework typically of aluminium profiled members providing transomes and mullions against which are secured glazing panels and non-transparent panels in a desired arrangement. The panels are held in place by cover plates secured to the mullions or transomes. Problems occur with such systems due to water penetration past gaskets of the system and also condensation on metal parts of the curtain wall eventually leading to water damage behind the curtain wall. To counter that often elaborate thermal break systems have to be provided between and in parts of a curtain wall system.
  • An object of this invention is to provide a curtain wall system wherein water condensation may be prevented from penetrating the system when formed on exterior parts thereof.
  • Another object of this invention is to provide a curtain wall system having thermal break means that can inhibit water condensation on inner parts of the system.
  • one proposal is to surround a curtain wall panel with a continuous gasket, which gasket extends around the panel edges from an intended inner face of the panel to a cover plate for retaining the panel.
  • the gasket is preferably of a rubber material either natural or synthetic.
  • the latter is preferred and suitable examples include ethylene prolylene diene rubbers, neoprene and heat treated silicone.
  • the gaskets of the invention may be formed in one piece or from a strip bent and joined at its ends to give the desired shape.
  • the gaskets of the invention are preferably L-shaped in section, preferably providing one web having at least an end portion ribbed for compression against a panel on its intended inner face. On the opposite face of said one web, the gasket preferably has a hooked rib for engagement and retention in a corresponding channel of a mullion or transome member of the curtain wall system.
  • the other web of the L-section gasket has a returned end for overlying an end edge of an extension of a mullion or transome to which the cover plate is secured.
  • the returned end of the gasket is preferably hooked for retention over said end edge which preferably has a complimentary formation.
  • the cover plate preferably has an upstanding longitudinal projection that fits between adjacent said gasket returned ends.
  • the cover plate used in the present invention is preferably not of metal but may conveniently be of plastics, preferably reinforced, such as with glass fibre. Then even though the mullions and transomes and their exteriors are of metal, metal to metal contact is reduced to screws or bolts through the cover plates to the mullions or transomes.
  • the cover plates are preferably capped to provide concealment of fixings.
  • the caps are preferably channel section members of resilient material having inward lips that engage corresponding slots of the cover plates at edges thereof.
  • the mullions and transomes either have an integral projecting extension to which a cover plate is secured or have means for attachment of an extension thereto.
  • the extension and transome or mullion have cooperating lugs and grooves whereby the extension and transome or mullion can be connected by sliding engagement.
  • the transomes and mullions have a pair of inwardly extending facing lugs for engagement with corresponding grooves on opposite sides of the extensions.
  • the panels used in the curtain wall system of the invention include glazing panels which are preferably double glazed units and single non-glazing panels. For the latter spacing strips are preferably secured to the periphery thereof so that the same gaskets may be used for double glazed units as for other panels. Further gasket material will preferably be included between intended outer panel face and cover plates therefor. Such gaskets maybe of the conventional wedge type, captive type fitted into continuous claw grooves of the cover plate or formed into edges of the cover plate when in the form of a plastics profile.
  • the present invention also provides a gasket for use in curtain wall systems, which gasket is continuous and surrounds individual curtain wall panels to separate them from curtain wall frame members.
  • FIG. 1 to 3 of the accompanying drawings which show a curtain wall system 8 in general, steel framing 10 supports concrete floors 12 on which are raised floors 14 and below which are suspended ceilings 16. Inner wall casings 18 extend upwards from the floors 12 to window height.
  • the curtain wall system 8 comprises mullions 20 and transomes 22 of aluminium and connected grid-like to which are secured either glazing panels 24 for window opening or other facing panels 26 for the remainder of the wall.
  • FIG. 4 a first arrangement at a curtain wall mullion 20 is illustrated.
  • the mullion 20 is secured to the outside of a building structure at spaced points along its length and at spaced intervals to transome members 22 to provide framed openings for panels 24, 26.
  • the mullion 20 is of hollow square section and jointing members 30 are shown.
  • Projecting from one face of the mullion 20 is a fin 34.
  • the fin 34 has two walls 36 connected near their outer ends by a bridge 38 that extend beyond the bridge whereafter their inner faces are longitudinally grooved at 40.
  • the mullion 20 has a pair of longitudinal ribs 42 and 44, the inner one 42 being an L-section spacer and the outer 44 having a lipped end 46.
  • the fin 34 also has spacer projections 48 on its walls 36.
  • the lipped outer ribs 44 receive hooked rib 50 of a rubber material gasket 52 which is in the form of a continuous frame-like member of generally L-section providing first and section webs 54, 56.
  • the hooked rib 50 is on one face of first web 54 and on its opposite face is a ribbed protrusion 58 which abuts one face of double-glazed panel 24 or perimetral spacer 60 of non-­glazing panel 26.
  • the first web 54 lies against spacers 42 and 48.
  • the second web 56 of the gasket 52 has a returned end 62 formed on a hook that engages the longitudinal groove 40 of fin wall 36.
  • cover plates 70 secured to the fins 34 by means of screws or bolts 72.
  • the cover plates 70 have a pair of wings 74 so that one cover plate secures edges of adjacent panels 24, 26.
  • cover plates 70 have central longitudinal protrusions 76 that fit between adjacent gaskets 52 to hold them in position.
  • the cover plates 70 also trap between them and the panels 24 or 26 wedge type gasket strips 80.
  • the cover plates 70 and the gaskets 80 have complimentary engaging formations 82, 84 respectively for additional security. Also side edges of the cover plates 70 are notched at 86 to receive longitudinal ridges 88 of cover plate caps 90.
  • FIG. 6 of the accompanying drawings which shows the curtain wall system arrangemen through a transome 22, the arrangement is similar to that at a mullion.
  • the transomes 22 also have fins 134 through which cover plates 70 are secured.
  • the cover plates have holes 136 and the caps holes 138 therethrough, whereby moisture collecting in a gasket 52 can escape downwards and out of the curtain wall system.
  • the continuous gaskets 52 prevent ingress of moisture past panels of the curtain wall system and any moisture collecting around the gasket can escape via the holes 136, 138 in the cover plates 70.

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EP0436868A2 (fr) * 1990-01-12 1991-07-17 Reynolds Aluminium Deutschland, Internationale Vertriebsgesellschaft Mbh Structure porteuse pour une façade
EP0518222A1 (fr) * 1991-06-11 1992-12-16 W. HARTMANN & CO (GMBH & CO) Cadre comportant montants et traverses profilés pour une construction murale ou de toiture composée d'éléments-panneaux
WO1994020720A1 (fr) * 1993-03-12 1994-09-15 Eric Holmes Systeme de montage structural
ES2080636A2 (es) * 1992-11-05 1996-02-01 Diseno De Productos S A Muro cortina de silicona flexible y anclaje mecanico.
WO1996018778A1 (fr) * 1994-12-16 1996-06-20 Pk Stålprofil Ab Dispositif utilise dans un systeme d'elements profiles
EP0737793A2 (fr) * 1995-03-01 1996-10-16 Gerd Philippi Fenetre d un mur en verre construite forme de squelette a profils creux comme montants et barres
FR2740799A1 (fr) * 1995-11-03 1997-05-09 Forster Ag Hermann Garniture d'etancheite interieure pour systeme de facades a montants et traverses
EP0799945A1 (fr) * 1996-04-01 1997-10-08 EVG Bauprofil-System Entwicklungs- und Vermarktungsgesellschaft mbH Construction de poteaux et barres
EP0823514A1 (fr) * 1996-08-06 1998-02-11 J. Eberspächer GmbH & Co. Dispositif d'étanchéité pour un longeron constitué en particulier d'aluminium servant de support à un mur-rideau ou à un toit
DE19830087A1 (de) * 1998-07-06 2000-01-27 Gutmann Hermann Werke Gmbh Gebäudefassade oder Dachfassade mit einem Rahmenwerk aus Pfosten und Riegeln
NL1015442C2 (nl) * 2000-06-15 2001-12-19 Mhb B V Metalen Ramen Vliesgevel.
WO2002057559A1 (fr) * 2001-01-19 2002-07-25 Walter Ribic Systeme d'elements de construction et elements de construction d'un tel systeme pour façades suspendues, habillages de façades, verandas, murs antibruit, constructions de foire, abris de voiture et similaires
EP1338713A2 (fr) 2002-02-21 2003-08-27 SCHÜCO International KG Construction de façade ou de toiture vitrée et profilé de fixation
EP1643049A3 (fr) * 2004-10-04 2007-08-01 Raico Bautechnik GmbH Construction avec profilés porteurs
GB2435652A (en) * 2006-03-02 2007-09-05 Architectural & Metal Systems Walling system
ES2351748A1 (es) * 2008-10-07 2011-02-10 Cerrajeria Gorris, S.L. Dispositivo de montaje de fachadas ligeras.
US8826611B2 (en) 2010-12-23 2014-09-09 Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation Structural glazing spacer
US9388974B2 (en) * 2012-04-06 2016-07-12 Airbus Corporate Jet Centre Textile covering incorporating an optical fibre and associated installation method

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GB2133449A (en) * 1983-01-13 1984-07-25 Neolok Technical Services Limi Panel mounting system
GB2137673A (en) * 1983-04-05 1984-10-10 Modern Art Glass Company Limit Support structures for walls or roofs
GB2157338A (en) * 1984-03-22 1985-10-23 Yoshida Kogyo Kk Curtain wall panel support
CA1235561A (fr) * 1984-12-03 1988-04-26 Helmut Schmidt Mur rideau

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GB2133449A (en) * 1983-01-13 1984-07-25 Neolok Technical Services Limi Panel mounting system
GB2137673A (en) * 1983-04-05 1984-10-10 Modern Art Glass Company Limit Support structures for walls or roofs
GB2157338A (en) * 1984-03-22 1985-10-23 Yoshida Kogyo Kk Curtain wall panel support
CA1235561A (fr) * 1984-12-03 1988-04-26 Helmut Schmidt Mur rideau

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EP0436868A2 (fr) * 1990-01-12 1991-07-17 Reynolds Aluminium Deutschland, Internationale Vertriebsgesellschaft Mbh Structure porteuse pour une façade
EP0436868A3 (en) * 1990-01-12 1992-03-18 Reynolds Aluminium Deutschland, Internationale Vertriebsgesellschaft Mbh Supporting structure for a facade wall
EP0518222A1 (fr) * 1991-06-11 1992-12-16 W. HARTMANN & CO (GMBH & CO) Cadre comportant montants et traverses profilés pour une construction murale ou de toiture composée d'éléments-panneaux
ES2080636A2 (es) * 1992-11-05 1996-02-01 Diseno De Productos S A Muro cortina de silicona flexible y anclaje mecanico.
WO1994020720A1 (fr) * 1993-03-12 1994-09-15 Eric Holmes Systeme de montage structural
US5655346A (en) * 1993-03-12 1997-08-12 Holmes; Eric Structural mounting system
WO1996018778A1 (fr) * 1994-12-16 1996-06-20 Pk Stålprofil Ab Dispositif utilise dans un systeme d'elements profiles
EP0737793A2 (fr) * 1995-03-01 1996-10-16 Gerd Philippi Fenetre d un mur en verre construite forme de squelette a profils creux comme montants et barres
EP0737793A3 (fr) * 1995-03-01 1997-03-19 Gerd Philippi Fenetre d un mur en verre construite forme de squelette a profils creux comme montants et barres
FR2740799A1 (fr) * 1995-11-03 1997-05-09 Forster Ag Hermann Garniture d'etancheite interieure pour systeme de facades a montants et traverses
EP0799945A1 (fr) * 1996-04-01 1997-10-08 EVG Bauprofil-System Entwicklungs- und Vermarktungsgesellschaft mbH Construction de poteaux et barres
EP0823514A1 (fr) * 1996-08-06 1998-02-11 J. Eberspächer GmbH & Co. Dispositif d'étanchéité pour un longeron constitué en particulier d'aluminium servant de support à un mur-rideau ou à un toit
DE19830087A1 (de) * 1998-07-06 2000-01-27 Gutmann Hermann Werke Gmbh Gebäudefassade oder Dachfassade mit einem Rahmenwerk aus Pfosten und Riegeln
DE19830087C2 (de) * 1998-07-06 2000-09-14 Gutmann Hermann Werke Gmbh Gebäudefassade oder Dachfassade mit einem Rahmenwerk aus Pfosten und Riegeln
EP0971081A3 (fr) * 1998-07-06 2001-02-07 Hermann Gutmann Werke Gmbh Façade de bâtiment ou façade de toit avec un cadre de poteaux et de traverses
NL1015442C2 (nl) * 2000-06-15 2001-12-19 Mhb B V Metalen Ramen Vliesgevel.
US7162842B2 (en) 2001-01-19 2007-01-16 Walter Ribic Structural element system and structural elements of such system for curtain facades, facade linings, sun rooms, soundproofing walls, fair buildings and the like
WO2002057559A1 (fr) * 2001-01-19 2002-07-25 Walter Ribic Systeme d'elements de construction et elements de construction d'un tel systeme pour façades suspendues, habillages de façades, verandas, murs antibruit, constructions de foire, abris de voiture et similaires
EP1338713A2 (fr) 2002-02-21 2003-08-27 SCHÜCO International KG Construction de façade ou de toiture vitrée et profilé de fixation
EP1338713A3 (fr) * 2002-02-21 2004-06-30 SCHÜCO International KG Construction de façade ou de toiture vitrée et profilé de fixation
EP1643049A3 (fr) * 2004-10-04 2007-08-01 Raico Bautechnik GmbH Construction avec profilés porteurs
GB2435652A (en) * 2006-03-02 2007-09-05 Architectural & Metal Systems Walling system
GB2435652B (en) * 2006-03-02 2008-11-19 Architectural & Metal Systems Walling system
ES2351748A1 (es) * 2008-10-07 2011-02-10 Cerrajeria Gorris, S.L. Dispositivo de montaje de fachadas ligeras.
US8826611B2 (en) 2010-12-23 2014-09-09 Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation Structural glazing spacer
US9272499B2 (en) 2010-12-23 2016-03-01 Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation Structural glazing spacer
US9388974B2 (en) * 2012-04-06 2016-07-12 Airbus Corporate Jet Centre Textile covering incorporating an optical fibre and associated installation method

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