EP0729540B1 - Paumelle de porte ou de fenetre - Google Patents

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EP0729540B1
EP0729540B1 EP95900700A EP95900700A EP0729540B1 EP 0729540 B1 EP0729540 B1 EP 0729540B1 EP 95900700 A EP95900700 A EP 95900700A EP 95900700 A EP95900700 A EP 95900700A EP 0729540 B1 EP0729540 B1 EP 0729540B1
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Sandro Politi
Fabio Moro
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05D—HINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
    • E05D7/00—Hinges or pivots of special construction
    • E05D7/0009—Adjustable hinges
    • E05D7/0018—Adjustable hinges at the hinge axis
    • E05D7/0027—Adjustable hinges at the hinge axis in an axial direction
    • 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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  • the invention relates to a door or window hinge with a pin part and a sleeve part, wherein the pin in the pin part is adjustable in height, the pin is held in the axial direction secured against rotation in the pin part and the pin and an axially aligned to this, rotatably mounted adjustment part a thread coaxial to the axis of rotation are in mutual operative connection.
  • Such door or window strips have one or more radially freely projecting threaded bolts both on the pin part and on the sleeve part, which engage on the one hand in the door or window frame and on the other hand in the door or the window itself.
  • the pin of the pin part is designed to be height-adjustable, in order to be able to lift the sleeve part more or less far from the pin part. This allows the door or window hinge to be adjusted in the direction of the axis of rotation.
  • a hinge band has already become known in which the pin is provided with an external thread and the pin part with an internal thread, so that the pin must be screwed more or less far into the pin part for the height adjustment.
  • the set position can be fixed using appropriate locknuts. These locknuts are visible from the outside between the two parts of the door or window hinge (CH-PS-654 063). So that a fixation of the pin can be achieved at all, a lock nut is required here in any case, which must be driven with appropriate force.
  • CH-PS-383 202 A similar known design is provided for a hinge for doors, windows and the like (CH-PS-383 202). In this embodiment, too, a threaded pin is screwed into a threaded hole in the pin part, the height adjustment being fixed by a corresponding lock nut.
  • the sleeve part has a larger recess on its lower side in order to cover the nut or lock nut.
  • a drilling pin band in which a pin designed as an axle bolt is supported on a height adjustment screw with a conical end face.
  • the screw head also has a conical surface, so that when the screw is screwed in, the pin is raised more or less in relation to the axis of rotation in the radial direction.
  • This adjustment unit is easily visible from the outside and can therefore be adjusted again at any time. Securing the set altitude is at least attempted by pressing a threaded bolt into a corresponding opening on the circumference of the pin. However, if the height adjustment screw becomes loose, the pin can move down under the load on the suspended door or window, so that the height adjustment is lost.
  • a pin part and a sleeve part are provided, the pin of the pin part being adjustable in height.
  • the adjustment part provided here in the form of a threaded spindle engages in an internal thread of the pin, the pin being tubular so that a tool inserted from above through the pin can be used for adjustment. It is therefore necessary in this embodiment that the height-adjustable pin is always freely accessible from above, so that a special design of the sleeve part of the door or window hinge is therefore required.
  • the pin must therefore always be passed through the sleeve part and, if necessary, be freely accessible at the top of the sleeve part and can be covered with a cap.
  • the present invention has therefore set itself the task of creating a simple, effective and self-locking adjustment for the pin of the pin part of a door or window hinge of the type mentioned.
  • the adjustment part is secured against axial displacement in a hole provided in the pin part and that the pin on its end which engages in the pin part has at least one axially parallel groove or a projecting web which opens out freely towards the end of the pin, and that at least approximately correspondingly designed or arranged webs, elevations or Grooves.
  • a simple adjustment of the screwable adjustment part enables a height adjustment of the pin which is displaceably guided in the axial direction, the pin not being able to rotate with the adjustment part due to this special guide.
  • an expedient embodiment provides that the pin has two grooves arranged at 180 ° to one another at its end which engages in the pin part. The pin can then be inserted into the pin part in two positions offset by 180 °. A single groove would be sufficient for reliable displacement guidance and rotation of the pin, but for manufacturing reasons it makes more sense to provide two mutually opposite grooves which can be produced in a simple manner by a pressing or milling process.
  • the groove (s) is or are limited in cross section in the form of a circular arc. Such training is particularly advantageous for production.
  • a special variant is given if there is an elevation on the wall of the bore in the journal part or two or more consecutive axially protruding elevations in the form of knobs or the like are provided in the axial direction. It is sufficient if these knobs or the like simply protrude a little bit into the interior of the bore in the pin part, because these knobs or the like are only intended to create the possibility that the pin can move in the axial direction, but is secured against twisting. Therefore, only such an elevation in the form of a knob or the like would be sufficient, but the arrangement of two or more than two such knobs or the like makes sense particularly when larger adjustment paths are necessary.
  • the pin has a threaded bore at its end engaging in the pin part, into which the threaded shaft of a head screw forming the adjustment part engages.
  • a design can be designed in accordance with the measures according to the invention. This special construction alone ensures self-locking, since the corresponding forces rest securely on the head of the screw when the pin is loaded, so that the screw does not twist by itself, not even in the event of vibrations.
  • the head of the screw also acts as a corresponding guide part for the pin if it is provided that the head of the screw acting as an adjusting part has the same diameter as or a slightly smaller diameter than the pin.
  • the bore in the pin part can have the same diameter throughout, since the adjustment part designed as a screw and the pin itself form a unit that is approximately uniformly continuous in the outside diameter.
  • the adjusting part be provided with a central, front-side internal engagement for attaching a tool, and that the pin part has a coaxial opening at the bottom of the bore for inserting the tool. It can therefore be accessed from below with a tool in the pin part to bring about a height adjustment of the pin. It is also an advantage that this adjustment option is not particularly visible from the outside, so that an intentional, unauthorized adjustment will hardly ever occur. In addition, it is easily possible to close this additional opening for inserting the tool by means of a plug-in part, if this is expedient.
  • the elevations on the wall of the bore are formed by the ends of radially screwed in or hammered in pins or bolts or by knobs produced by deformation of the wall.
  • the door or window hinge according to the invention can be manufactured in various ways.
  • One variant provides that the pins, bolts or knobs are inserted or molded in after the unit formed from the pin and adjusting part has been inserted. This makes it possible to use this unit after the pre-assembly of the pin and adjustment part and then to fix it by screwing or driving in the pins or bolts or by molding the knobs, whereby with such a production method care must be taken that the grooves in the pin in the are in the correct position and the adjustment part stands exactly on the bottom of the hole in the pin part.
  • the door or window hinge consists essentially of a pin part 1 and a sleeve part 2, both parts being equipped with a radially projecting threaded bolt 3 or 4. These threaded bolts 3 and 4 are fixedly arranged here on the respective pin part 1 or sleeve part 2. In the case of a rotatable arrangement, it is also possible to arrange further such threaded bolts on these parts or, in addition to a threaded bolt, a correspondingly smooth bolt, which can also contribute to the transmission of force or to the precise alignment.
  • a pin 5 is arranged in the pin part 1, which protrudes beyond the pin part 1.
  • a bore 6 corresponding to the pin 5 is provided in the sleeve part 2, in which the pin 5 engages when the door or window hinge is used as intended.
  • the pin 5 is displaceable in its axial direction, but is secured against rotation in the pin part 1.
  • An adjusting part 7 designed as a screw is aligned with the journal and secured in the journal part 1 against being axially displaced.
  • the adjustment part 7 is rotatably mounted.
  • the pin 5 and the adjustment part 7 are mutually operatively connected via a thread 9, 10 coaxial with the axis of rotation 8.
  • the pin 5 has on its outer surface at least one axially parallel groove 11, but preferably two grooves 11 and 12. Of course, more than two such grooves 11 and 12 are also conceivable.
  • the elevations 15 protruding radially from the wall 13 of the bore 14 can be produced, for example, by reshaping in the corresponding region of the pin part 1. Using a suitable tool, the outer circumference of the sleeve-shaped Pin part 1 corresponding to the number of elevations 15 grooves 16 pressed, which then cause the corresponding elevations 15 inwards.
  • the pin 5 has, at its end engaging in the pin part 1, a threaded bore 17 into which the threaded shaft 18 of a head screw 19 forming the adjustment part 7 engages.
  • the head 20 of the screw 19 acting as the adjusting part 7 has a diameter that is equal to the diameter or only slightly smaller than the diameter of the end of the pin 5 protruding into the pin part 1.
  • the adjusting part 7, in the present case the screw 19, is provided on the head 20 with a central, internal attack 21 on the end face.
  • the pin part 1 is provided at the bottom of the bore 14 with an opening 22 aligned coaxially with this bore 14, which is used for inserting a tool which can then be attached to the inner engagement 21 of the adjustment part 7.
  • the elevations 15, which form a kind of knobs, have the effect that the adjusting part 7 is not axially displaceable, but can easily rotate in the region below the lower elevation 15.
  • the elevations 15 also engage in the groove 11, and elevations lying opposite one another could also engage in the groove 12. This provides an axial guide for the pin 5 used, so that this pin 5 can thus be adjusted in the direction of the axis of rotation 8, but is secured in the direction of rotation.
  • the elevations 15 engage in the groove 11. With a corresponding adjustment movement it can happen that only the upper elevation 15 engages in the groove 11, but this is not a problem, since a further elevation 15 protrudes into the groove 11.
  • the adjustment part 7 can initially be inserted into the bore 14, whereupon the elevations 15 designed as knobs can be pressed in by a forming process.
  • the entire unit formed from the pin 5 and the adjusting part 7 is inserted into the bore 14, but care should be taken to ensure that the pin 5 is aligned with the groove 11 and that the elevations 15 are then pressed in accordingly getting produced.
  • the elevations 15 could be produced before the adjustment part 7 and the pin 5 are inserted, but then an additional axial groove would have to be provided on the head 20 of the adjustment part 7 so that the unit could be inserted in a correspondingly oriented manner.
  • one or more grooves are provided on the pin 5 and on the wall 13 of the bore 14 in the pin part 1 corresponding radially protruding elevations 15 are provided.
  • corresponding elevations or webs on the pin 5 and a corresponding groove on the wall 13 of the bore 14 are formed.
  • the screwable adjustment part 7 is designed as a cap screw 19. It would be quite conceivable to screw the adjustable part in the sense of a nut, e.g. a sleeve-like nut, the lowest section of the pin 5 would then have to be provided as a bolt with an external thread. The securing of the adjusting element against axial displacement and the securing of the pin 5 against twisting must then be solved in a structurally different manner, but it is always possible to work with corresponding grooves, webs, elevations or the like.

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  1. Articulation de porte ou de fenêtre comprenant un gond à fiche (1) sur lequel pivote une douille (2), la fiche ou tourillon (5) étant réglable en hauteur dans le gond (1) à l'intérieur duquel elle peut coulisser axialement sans tourner, la fiche ainsi qu'une pièce de réglage tournante et coaxiale à la fiche étant en interaction par l'intermédiaire d'un filetage (9, 10) coaxial à l'axe de rotation (8),
    caractérisée en ce que
    la pièce de réglage (7) est maintenue sans pouvoir coulisser axialement, dans un alésage (14) du gond (1), la fiche ou tourillon (5), vers son extrémité située dans le gond (1), portant au moins une rainure (11, 12) parallèle à l'axe et débouchant librement à l'extrémité de la fiche ou tourillon (5), ou une barrette en saillie, tandis que la paroi (13) de l'alésage (14) du gond (1) dans lequel est logé la fiche ou tourillon (5) comporte des barrettes, des saillies (15) ou des rainures correspondantes au moins approximativement dans leurs configurations ou dispositions.
  2. Articulation selon la revendication 1,
    caractérisée en ce que
    la fiche (5), vers son extrémité en prise dans le gond (1), comporte deux rainures (11, 12) décalées du 180°.
  3. Articulation selon la revendication 1 ou 2,
    caractérisée en ce que
    la ou les rainures (11, 12) présente(nt), en coupe, une section en arc de cercle.
  4. Articulation selon la revendication 1,
    caractérisée en ce que
    sur la paroi (13) de l'alésage (14) du gond (1), est prévue une saillie (15) ou, se succédant axialement, au moins deux saillies (15) radiales en forme de tétons ou organes analogues.
  5. Articulation selon une des revendications 1 à 4,
    caractérisée en ce que
    la fiche ou tourillon (5) présente, dans sa partie extrême en prise dans le gond (1), un alésage fileté (17) dans lequel est en prise la tige (18) d'une vis à tête (19) constituant la pièce de réglage (7).
  6. Articulation selon la revendication 5,
    caractérisée en ce que
    la tête (20) de la vis (19) constituant la pièce de réglage (7) a un diamètre équivalent ou seulement un peu inférieur à celui de la fiche ou tourillon (5).
  7. Articulation selon les revendications 1 ou 6,
    la pièce de réglage (7) porte un empreinte frontale centrale (21) pouvant accueillir un outil, tandis que le gond (1) présente, au fond de l'alésage (14) une ouverture coaxiale (22) permettant le passage de l'outil.
  8. Articulation selon la revendication 4,
    caractérisée en ce que
    les saillies (15) sur la paroi (13) de l'alésage (14) sont constituées par les extrémités de broches ou tiges vissées ou emmanchées radialement ou par des tétons obtenus par déformation de la paroi.
  9. Articulation selon les revendications 1 ou 8,
    caractérisée en ce que
    les broches, tiges ou tétons sont montés ou formés respectivement après réalisation de l'ensemble constitué de la fiche ou tourillon (5) et de la pièce de réglage (7).
EP95900700A 1993-11-18 1994-11-10 Paumelle de porte ou de fenetre Expired - Lifetime EP0729540B1 (fr)

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DE4339396A DE4339396C1 (de) 1993-11-18 1993-11-18 Tür- oder Fensterband
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PCT/EP1994/003719 WO1995014148A1 (fr) 1993-11-18 1994-11-10 Paumelle de porte ou de fenetre

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