EP0651110B1 - Dispositif d'immobilisation d'un raidisseur vertical pour garde-corps vis-a-vis d'un support d'appui au sol - Google Patents

Dispositif d'immobilisation d'un raidisseur vertical pour garde-corps vis-a-vis d'un support d'appui au sol Download PDF

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EP0651110B1
EP0651110B1 EP94402416A EP94402416A EP0651110B1 EP 0651110 B1 EP0651110 B1 EP 0651110B1 EP 94402416 A EP94402416 A EP 94402416A EP 94402416 A EP94402416 A EP 94402416A EP 0651110 B1 EP0651110 B1 EP 0651110B1
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Robert Clauzet
Guy Saisset
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
    • E04F11/00—Stairways, ramps, or like structures; Balustrades; Handrails
    • E04F11/18—Balustrades; Handrails
    • E04F11/181—Balustrades
    • E04F11/1812—Details of anchoring to the wall or floor
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
    • E04F11/00—Stairways, ramps, or like structures; Balustrades; Handrails
    • E04F11/18—Balustrades; Handrails
    • E04F11/181—Balustrades
    • E04F11/1812—Details of anchoring to the wall or floor
    • E04F11/1814—Covers for the base portions of the balustrade posts

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  • the present invention relates to a device of railings for balcony, terrace, staircase or other construction similar.
  • An example of such a device is illustrated in US-A-3,511,477.
  • a guardrail intended for providing vacuum protection is usually consisting of a low rail, generally horizontal, even inclined by a given angle when the railing forms the stuffing of a staircase in particular, and a high rail, parallel to the first, if necessary surmounted by one hand running at the top of the railing, this one comprising between these beams one or more solid panels or in transparent material, or a plurality of vertical bars suitably spaced, the distance maximum separating these being determined by a Standard, especially to prevent the passage of a child's head.
  • This protection set is supported vis-à-vis from the floor of the balcony, terrace or staircase, at the edge of which extends, by vertical posts or stiffeners, provided with connecting means with the top and bottom rails, so to keep them at an adequate height.
  • stiffeners are conventionally constituted by massive section profiles, fixed to the ground directly or by means of support plates in which engage their lower ends.
  • each plate has holes for mounting locking screw; in the second, fixing the base of the stiffeners in the associated plate is carried out by means of corners whose displacement is also achieved by a clamping screw system.
  • the invention relates to a fixing device which avoids these disadvantages, thanks to the use of a tubular stiffener with internally hollowed section giving mechanical strength for a minimum weight equivalent, in particular with respect to bending forces to which the railing, such a stiffener, is subjected, obtained from a metal profile which can be easily shaped to harmonize with the bars mounted between the rails.
  • tubular stiffener allows to climb inside of it all of the screws required for clamping the various parts assembled, which is therefore hidden from the outside, this which further improves the overall appearance of the railing.
  • This device finally simplifies the installation of the railing and therefore to make it faster, by moreover allowing easy correction of deviations of alignment of the stiffener with respect to its location of fixing to the ground, while using only one screw blocking, regardless of the means it includes for correct, if necessary, the unevenness of the ground.
  • the invention relates to a device for railing, comprising at least one vertical stiffener and a rigid support for supporting the ground, this stiffener having a tubular profile whose section allows it to fit vertically by sliding on the support, this being secured to a support plate extending substantially horizontally or vertically, is characterized in that the tubular stiffener comprises a substantially flat posterior surface provided at its end lower of an open longitudinal notch and, of each side of this notch, support flanges for a stiffener immobilizing flange against a span rigid support, the stiffener being locked against the support through the flange by means of at least a clamping screw, cooperating with a threaded bore provided in the holder.
  • the support is constituted by a solid rigid profile, having a cross section in I or rectangular at its base, with a central branch and two transverse branches, the tubular stiffener comprising two side faces and a front face opposite its face posterior with notch, being fitted vertically on the profile with transverse branches extend substantially perpendicular to the faces sides of the stiffener and whose height is limited to the sufficient realization of such a fitting.
  • the stiffener includes a vertical plane of symmetry, which coincides with the branch center of the support profile.
  • the immobilizing flange consists of a rectangular plate, having a central part capable of engaging in the open notch of the stiffener.
  • the device has two overlapping locking screws, arranged on the side and on the other side of a hole stretched in the vertical direction, arranged at both in the flange and the central branch of the profile of the support, these screws being substantially arranged in the plane median of the stiffener.
  • the elongated hole is freely traversed by a fixing stud, passing through the hole of the flange and the central branch of the profile, to fix, opposite the immobilization flange, a support body of the guardrail's bottom rail, maintained against the outer surface of the anterior wall of the stiffener, regardless of the height adjustment of this vis-à-vis its rigid support, depending on the position relative of the stud in the median plane of the stiffener at inside the elongated hole.
  • the support member of the low smooth vis-à-vis the stiffener has a part protruding in the shape of a clamp, delimiting a groove in engagement with a protruding rim of the arm mounted against the stiffener and applied to its anterior wall by the fixing stud.
  • the stiffener has, in its outer surface, substantially in the vicinity of its rear face, two grooves extending along vertical generators arranged symmetrically with respect to the median plane of the stiffener and reserved for mounting, like a clip, the ends curved side panels, hiding the immobilizing flange and the locking screws from the outside, closing the apparent outline of the stiffener beyond its notch longitudinal open.
  • the lower part of the stiffener is associated in its external surface, with the right of the clear play between the base of the stiffener and the ground support plate, according to their relative longitudinal position, to a soft finish sock, hiding this game, this sock being formed of a collar, preferably in plastic material, closed on itself.
  • the collar includes a rear part, joined by two zones of link forming hinges and able to dispose of part and on the other side of the stiffener, with two lateral arms extending beyond these connecting zones, these arms being provided with their opposite ends of a snap connection for the closure of the collar on itself and the complete strapping from the base of the stiffener.
  • the ground support plate comprises an open housing, offset laterally from the stiffener beyond its rear face, this housing having a vertical hole for the free passage of a screw fixing plate.
  • this screw rests by its head on a flat washer, mounted in the housing open and having an oblong central hole, suitable for laterally position the screw according to the orientation angle of the washer, to ensure that a possible defect in the position of a hole provided in the ground to receive the end of the screw.
  • the plate comprises, on both sides of the housing open, auxiliary screws passing through the plate for ensure a prior horizontal adjustment thereof vis-à-vis the ground.
  • the housing is closed by a cover coming to be fixed on the sides of this housing by engaging in a mounting groove provided on the body of the turntable.
  • the support plate on the ground is constituted by a piece of fixing mounted against the nose of a slab or the like, this piece vertically extending the support profile on which fits the stiffener, and comprising a housing open receiving a fixing screw against the slab, arranged horizontally in it to block the piece on the vertical face of the nose.
  • Figure 1 are represented the various parts of a device according to the invention, designated in as a whole under the reference 1 and comprising mainly a tubular stiffener 2 and a support plate on the ground 3, formed on the one hand by a rigid support 4 extending vertically and on which the end is fitted lower of stiffener 2 and secondly of a sole transverse 5, integral with the support 4 and provided with means allowing it to be fixed to the floor of a balcony, a terrace or staircase in particular, the railing ensuring satisfactory protection against a vertical vacuum of such a construction.
  • the tubular stiffener 2 is produced by means of a suitably shaped hollow metal profile, of preferably with a slightly leaky symmetrical section towards the front, i.e. towards the outside of the guardrails, however it is specified that the section particular adopted in the example described does not matter directly to the invention and that more specifically illustrated in the drawings is given for information only.
  • the tubular stiffener 2 thus comprises an anterior face 6, a posterior face 7 and two faces or side walls 8 and 9, connecting mutually to ensure its continuity.
  • the stiffener At the lower end of its posterior face 7, the stiffener has a longitudinal notch 10, open towards the bottom of this stiffener, this notch being delimited on each of its lateral sides by edges parallel supports, respectively 11 and 12 (see Figure 3).
  • the tubular stiffener 2 is planned to come fit onto the rigid support 4, the structure of which particular will be specified below, being maintained by this support in vertical position.
  • the blocking of the stiffener 2 vis-à-vis of the support 4 is produced by means of an immobilizing flange 13, shown separated from the support in Figure 1 but attached to it in Figures 2 and 3, this flange, general rectangular shape corresponding substantially to that of the notch 10, comprising a central part 14, clean to come to engage inside this notch when the stiffener is mounted on the support, with two longitudinal edges, respectively 15 and 16, coming lean from the outside on the flanges 11 and 12 provided on the stiffener on each side of this notch.
  • the immobilizing flange 13 has open notches 17 and 18, allowing the mounting of screws 19 and 20 for fixing the flange on support 4 with intermediate locking of stiffener 2, these screws being arranged one above the other, preferably substantially in the vertical plane median of the flange and the stiffener.
  • the support 4 is constituted by a massive piece metallic, the cross section of which by a horizontal plane roughly has the shape of an I, with a part central 21 in the median plane of the stiffener containing the screws 19 and 20 and two transverse end branches, respectively designated under the references 22 and 23, these branches extending across the stiffener 2 in two parallel planes approximately perpendicular to side faces 8 and 9 thereof (see Figure 3).
  • the support 4 has a counterbore 24 ( Figure 1), in which the part is inserted central 14 of the immobilizing flange 13, when this the latter is blocked by its screws 19 and 20 against this support, trapping between it and the branch 23 the edges 11 and 12 of the stiffener 2, on each side of the notch 10, with the support of these edges against the edges 15 and 16 of the flange.
  • the support 4 In its thickness, the support 4 has threaded bores, 25 and 26 respectively, in which engage the threaded ends of the screws 19 and 20, thus allowing progressive tightening then immobilization of the flange 13.
  • the immobilizing flange 13 and the support 4 also include, always in the median plane of the stiffener and across the central part 21 of this support, an elongated hole, identified by reference 27 in the flange and by 28 in the support, this hole being reserved for mounting of a stud 29 whose head 30 has a diameter higher than that of the hole in order to be stopped by it, while its opposite end 31, provided with a thread suitable, allows, after crossing the front wall 6 of the stiffener 2 when the latter covers the support 4, to immobilize against this wall a support member 32.
  • this support member 32 has a clip-like part 33, in the groove of which engages a protruding rim 34 provided at the end lower of a transverse beam 35, thus in support against the various parallel and successive stiffeners equipping the railing.
  • This rail 35 supports, manner which is not concerned by the present invention, either a flat panel 36 which extends in front of the railing, either a succession of parallel vertical bars, suitably spaced.
  • the cross section of these bars presents a profile chosen to combine harmoniously with that of the stiffener, here a profile substantially in the shape of a partially curvilinear triangle.
  • any other section could be chosen, regardless of the features of this invention.
  • This collar includes in particular a rear part 38 coming to rest against the extreme edge of the face rear 7 of stiffener 2, completely surrounding it and extending on its lateral sides 8 and 9 to two hinges 39 and 40.
  • the latter are formed by a simple cut in the material of the necklace, preferably made of suitable plastic, extend by arms lateral 41 and 42, able to flex around these hinges, in particular to allow the collar open in its end part opposite the rear part 38, to embrace the base of the stiffener 2, before the folded ends of arms 41 and 42, provided with a connection latching consisting of a tongue 43 carried by a arms and engaging in a housing 44 on the other, do not close the necklace, then surrounding the stiffener completely.
  • stiffener 2 is associated with an external masking element of all of these various elements, in order to present a practically continuous visible surface, without any projection or other element likely to affect aesthetics general assembly.
  • the stiffener 2 comprises in its side faces 8 and 9, two longitudinal grooves, 45 and 46 respectively, planned to cooperate with suitably curved and folded edges 47 and 48 of a cover 49 ( Figure 1), which clips onto the outside from the stiffener, completely concealing the flange 13, the screws 19 and 20 and the head 30 of the stud 29.
  • the device's equipment is completed by a appropriate arrangement of the sole 5 provided at the base of the support 4, to authorize its immobilization on the ground of the balcony, terrace or the like receiving the railing.
  • the sole 5 includes a support body 50 of generally elongated shape as shown in the Figures 1 and 2, projecting laterally from the support 4 to ensure proper seating.
  • the body 50 comprises, offset from the support 4 and in its surface 51 extending towards the rear of the stiffener 2, an open housing 52 whose bottom 53 is drilled to receive a support flange 54 provided with a central through hole 55, very wide in diameter greater than that of a fixing screw 56 coming to engage in a hole 57 made in the ground 58 of the terrace, balcony or other.
  • the head 59 of the screw 56 rests on the flange 54 by means of a washer 60, provided in its center an oblong hole 61 ( Figures 1 and 3), so that, in function of the relative orientation of the washer by relative to the collar, the body of the screw 56 is offset laterally, making it possible to make up for gaps possibly noted between the position of the sole 5 and the axis of the hole 57 receiving the threaded part of the screw 56.
  • the bottom 53 of the housing 52 also supports complementary screws 53a, allowing possible retrofitting a defect in the flatness of the ground, ensuring rectification suitable position of the support surface of the sole on this ground.
  • the open housing 52 is then closed by a cover 62, provided with a tongue 63 and a folded heel 64, clipping under the bottom 53, like Figures 1 and 2 make it easy to understand.
  • Figure 5 schematically illustrates another variant, where the stiffener 2, fitted on the support 4, is no longer fixed on the horizontal floor 58 of a terrace, balcony or other slab but against the nose vertical of such a slab.
  • the support 4 is extended by a part 65, similar to the sole 5 of the first example of envisaged realization, but arranged in the extension vertical support.
  • This room 65 has a housing open 66 for mounting a locking screw 67, the head cooperates with a washer 68, also similar to the washer 60 of the first example, the housing being finally closed by a cover 69. Screws 70 again allow a catching up of the gaps between the support plane of the part 65 and the nose of the slab.
  • the stiffener used is tubular, which ensures effective holding and in particular a satisfactory resistance to the efforts of bending for minimal weight and especially widely lower than that of a conventional solid stiffener.
  • the overall aesthetic is greatly improved, in particular by allowing, when the section of the stiffener is slightly receding towards the front as in the example of Figures 1 to 4, to give the bars supported by the rails of the railing, a profile conjugating with the terminal form of the stiffener.
EP94402416A 1993-10-28 1994-10-26 Dispositif d'immobilisation d'un raidisseur vertical pour garde-corps vis-a-vis d'un support d'appui au sol Expired - Lifetime EP0651110B1 (fr)

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