EP0611871B1 - Ausrichteckwinkel für Metallfensterrahmen - Google Patents

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EP0611871B1
EP0611871B1 EP19940400063 EP94400063A EP0611871B1 EP 0611871 B1 EP0611871 B1 EP 0611871B1 EP 19940400063 EP19940400063 EP 19940400063 EP 94400063 A EP94400063 A EP 94400063A EP 0611871 B1 EP0611871 B1 EP 0611871B1
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Jean-Francois Blanpied
Francis Lasfargues
Noel Robert
Jacques Le Bart
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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
    • E06B3/96—Corner joints or edge joints for windows, doors, or the like frames or wings
    • E06B3/9624—Corner joints or edge joints for windows, doors, or the like frames or wings with means specially adapted for aligning the frontal surfaces of adjacent frame member ends
    • 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
    • E06B3/9645—Mitre joints
    • 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
    • E06B3/968—Corner joints or edge joints for windows, doors, or the like frames or wings using separate connection pieces, e.g. T-connection pieces characterised by the way the connecting pieces are fixed in or on the frame members
    • E06B3/9681—Corner joints or edge joints for windows, doors, or the like frames or wings using separate connection pieces, e.g. T-connection pieces characterised by the way the connecting pieces are fixed in or on the frame members by press fit or adhesion
    • E06B3/9682—Mitre joints

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  • the present invention relates to a square piece, allowing the leveling, that is to say the outcropping in the same plane containing the corresponding faces of two metal profiles cut in miter section and assembled for forming two sides of a window frame or window frame or the like.
  • these profiles are two by two cut at their ends in a miter, with a slope at 45 °, so as to allow when they abut, to form one of the angles or corners of a support structure receiving for example a glazed wall and seals.
  • the most usual solution consists in providing in the edges and along the sides of the two profiles, each joining with the other in the section at 45 ° from their ends, a groove delimited by parallel edges and into which can be introduced a small metal L-shaped square, the branches of which are parallel to the longitudinal direction of the two sections respectively, this square thus joining the two sections and above all maintaining the external faces thereof strictly in the same plane.
  • the square In addition, for the square to give a satisfactory result and to appropriately stiffen the angle of the two sections while keeping them in the plane containing the external faces of these sections, the square must be adjusted in its grooves. with very little play. However, the dimensions of these grooves can vary from one profile to another, due to the extrusion tolerances during the manufacture of these profiles and their surface finish or finish which is not always very regular.
  • the use of the anti-flush square piece is made more difficult because, once this square is previously put in place, the two sections must still be joined and assembled definitively by means of a piece connecting which also fits between the two profiles and which can be hindered during its engagement by the brackets already housed in their grooves.
  • the present invention relates to a square piece of different design which avoids these drawbacks, in particular because it can be put in place on the two profiles after they have been previously connected together, the frame or chassis being completely assembled before that the leveling correction is not carried out.
  • the outcrop angle considered intended to be associated with two metal profiles cut to miter cut and forming together once mutually assembled the angle or the corner of a window frame or the like. being adapted to accommodate its branches in open homologous grooves provided in the two profiles opposite edges respectively parallel to the grooves, is characterized in that it is made of a relatively flexible and elastic material, and has a V-shaped profile , whose two branches are free and form at rest an angle slightly less than 90 °, the top of the bracket being shaped as a point, so that the bracket can be deformed by a force exerted on its vertex substantially in the direction of the bisector of the angle formed by the two branches in the direction of the center of the frame, moving the latter in the grooves by spreading them apart, until the summit can be slid under the edges in the angle that they form at the junction of the two sections and against which it engages, before elastic relaxation of the bracket by relaxation of the force exerted.
  • the square piece is made of a plastic material having a certain flexibility allowing the momentary deformation of its V-profile, in particular in polyethylene, polyamide, polypropylene, or in semi-rigid polyvinyl chloride .
  • the upper face of the piece at right angles to its V-shaped top is slightly thinned at a bevel in order to allow engagement of the top under the contiguous edges of the two profiles.
  • the lateral branches of the square part have a recess in their thickness to facilitate their engagement in the grooves of the profiles where they move consecutively to the force exerted on the top of the part.
  • the reference 1 designates a window frame or the like, formed in itself well known in the art, especially in that of metal carpentry, by means of two profiles, respectively 2 and 3, similarly section, these profiles being cut or cut at their ends joining together according to a plane embodying a junction line 4 extending at 45 ° relative to the longitudinal direction of each of the profiles.
  • Figure 2 shows in exploded perspective the two profiles 2 and 3 with their end edges cut at 45 ° to define their junction line 4, the assembly of the two profiles being carried out by means of a bent connecting tab 6 which engages in housings such as 7 provided inside the profiles, before being joined to the latter.
  • a bent connecting tab 6 which engages in housings such as 7 provided inside the profiles, before being joined to the latter.
  • Such a solution is also usual and, to avoid or at least limit the offset between the two profiles as mentioned above, provides for the use of a metal piece at an angle 8, bent at a right angle and whose branches such as 9 are provided to engage in a complementary groove 10 formed in the internal face of the profiles in the vicinity of the sides thereof which should be brought in the same plane to eliminate to the best possible extent the mismatch otherwise noted.
  • Figures 3 and 4 illustrate a square piece 11 produced in accordance with the invention and which can in particular be put in place in the two profiles 2 and 3 after the latter have been assembled together, this positioning being able to be carried out without being hindered by the previously attached connecting tabs.
  • these connecting tabs have not been shown in order to simplify the drawings.
  • Each of the two profiles 2 or 3 has a groove 12, preferably delimited between the flat bottom 13 of the profile and a protruding part 14 formed in a blank 15 perpendicular to the bottom 13.
  • each profile comprises a vertical return 16, parallel to the blank 15 and terminated by a flange 17, itself parallel to the bottom 13 and extending at a certain distance from the latter.
  • the square piece 11 is made of a suitable plastic material having a relative rigidity but at the same time the faculty to deform elastically under an appropriate effort, before, when this effort is released, the square returns to its initial shape.
  • the part 11 has a V-shaped profile, with an angle at the top slightly less than 90 °, the lateral branches 18 and 19 of the V being joined by a connecting element 20, at the top of the bracket.
  • the two branches 18 and 19 of the bracket 11 have a recess 21a matching, in the case of the example shown, the shape of a pin whose width dimension corresponds substantially to the height of the groove 12 so as to allow this pin to freely engage in this groove, and this for each of the branches of the square piece according to the blanks 15 of the two sections 2 and 3 respectively.
  • the square part In its top 20, the square part has a reduction in thickness corresponding in particular to an end part 21 of the part cut in a bevel, the top further comprising opposite this part 20 an undercut 22 also with a face slightly inclined in the longitudinal direction of the branches 18 and 19.
  • each of the corners formed by two consecutive sections in the chassis is associated to a part 11 of the kind described, the latter being presented substantially in the direction of the junction line 4 between the profiles, so that the recesses or pins 21a provided at the end of the branches 18 and 19, engage in the grooves 12 provided on each of these sections, the part being presented slightly at an angle as shown in FIG. 3.
  • a force is exerted on the top 20 directed substantially in the direction of the bisector of the V formed by the branches 18 and 19 of the part 11, as shown diagrammatically by the arrow 23, this force causing a deformation of the V with spacing of the branches 18 and 19 which move slightly in the grooves 12.
  • the beveled end 21 of the apex 20 is plumb with the rim 17 and inside of it, it then suffices to apply the square in the direction of the bottom 13 of the profiles to bring this end 21 under this rim before, the driving force being released, the arms 18 and 19 return to the initial position, immobilizing the end 21 from above edge 17 as illustrated in Figure 4.
  • the square 11 thus put in place exerts on the two profiles a limited force but nevertheless sufficient to oppose the bending created by the offset of these profiles by bringing them back in the same plane where the The bracket itself no longer undergoes torsional stress.

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Claims (4)

  1. Ausrichtwinkelelement (11) für Fensterrahmen (1) oder ähnliches, das vorgesehen ist, in Verbindung mit zwei Metallprofilen (2,3) verwendet zu werden, die auf Gehrung zugeschnitten sind und, einmal zusammengebaut, zusammen den Winkel oder die Ecke des Fensterrahmens oder ähnliches bilden, wobei das Winkelelement eingerichtet ist, seine Schenkel in entsprechenden offenen Rillen (12) unterzubringen, die in den zwei Profilen gegenüber jeweils zu den Rillen parallelen Leisten (17) vorgesehen sind, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß es aus einem relativ nachgiebigen und elastischen Material hergestellt ist und ein V-förmiges Profil aufweist, dessen zwei Schenkel (18,19) frei sind und entspannt einen Winkel etwas unter 90° bilden, wobei der Scheitel (20) des Winkelelements an der Spitze profiliert ist, so daß das Winkelelement durch eine Kraft verformt werden kann, die auf seinen Scheitel im wesentlichen in Richtung der Halbierungslinie des Winkels, der durch die zwei Schenkel gebildet wird, in Richtung der Mitte des Rahmens ausgeübt wird, wobei die letzteren in den Rillen bewegt werden, wobei sie sich spreizen, bis zu dem Augenblick, an dem der Scheitel in demjenigen Winkel unter die Leisten gleiten kann, den sie an der Verbindung der zwei Profile bilden und in welche er vor einer elastischen Entspannung des Winkelelements durch Nachlassen der ausgeübten Kraft eingreift.
  2. Winkelelement nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß es aus einem Kunststoffmaterial hergestellt ist, das eine gewisse Nachgiebigkeit aufweist, die die augenblickliche Verformung seines V-förmigen Profils erlaubt, insbesondere aus Polyethylen, Polyamid, Polypropylen, oder auch aus halbsteifem Polyvinylchlorid.
  3. Winkelelement nach einem der Ansprüche 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß seine obere Fläche, senkrecht zu seinem V-förmigen Scheitel (20), mit einer Schrägkante (21) leicht verjüngt ist, um das Eingreifen des Scheitels unter den Leisten (17) der zwei Profile (2,3) zu erlauben.
  4. Winkelelement nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die seitlichen Schenkel (18,19) eine Stufe (21) in ihrer Dicke aufweisen, um ihr Eingreifen in die Rillen (12) der Profile (2,3), in denen sie sich bewegen, aufgrund der auf den Scheitel (20) ausgeübten Kraft zu erleichtern.
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FR9301688A FR2701510B1 (fr) 1993-02-15 1993-02-15 Equerre d'affleurement pour chassis de fenêtre ou analogue en profilés métalliques.

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