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EP0750080B1
EP0750080B1 EP96114528A EP96114528A EP0750080B1 EP 0750080 B1 EP0750080 B1 EP 0750080B1 EP 96114528 A EP96114528 A EP 96114528A EP 96114528 A EP96114528 A EP 96114528A EP 0750080 B1 EP0750080 B1 EP 0750080B1
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04D—ROOF COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; ROOF-WORKING TOOLS
    • E04D3/00—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets
    • E04D3/02—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets of plane slabs, slates, or sheets, or in which the cross-section is unimportant
    • E04D3/06—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets of plane slabs, slates, or sheets, or in which the cross-section is unimportant of glass or other translucent material; Fixing means therefor
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04C—STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; BUILDING MATERIALS
    • E04C2/00—Building elements of relatively thin form for the construction of parts of buildings, e.g. sheet materials, slabs, or panels
    • E04C2/54—Slab-like translucent elements
    • E04C2/543—Hollow multi-walled panels with integrated webs
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04D—ROOF COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; ROOF-WORKING TOOLS
    • E04D3/00—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets
    • E04D3/02—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets of plane slabs, slates, or sheets, or in which the cross-section is unimportant
    • E04D3/06—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets of plane slabs, slates, or sheets, or in which the cross-section is unimportant of glass or other translucent material; Fixing means therefor
    • E04D3/08—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets of plane slabs, slates, or sheets, or in which the cross-section is unimportant of glass or other translucent material; Fixing means therefor with metal glazing bars
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04D—ROOF COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; ROOF-WORKING TOOLS
    • E04D3/00—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets
    • E04D3/24—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets with special cross-section, e.g. with corrugations on both sides, with ribs, flanges, or the like
    • E04D3/28—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets with special cross-section, e.g. with corrugations on both sides, with ribs, flanges, or the like of glass or other translucent material
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04D—ROOF COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; ROOF-WORKING TOOLS
    • E04D3/00—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets
    • E04D3/02—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets of plane slabs, slates, or sheets, or in which the cross-section is unimportant
    • E04D3/06—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets of plane slabs, slates, or sheets, or in which the cross-section is unimportant of glass or other translucent material; Fixing means therefor
    • E04D3/08—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets of plane slabs, slates, or sheets, or in which the cross-section is unimportant of glass or other translucent material; Fixing means therefor with metal glazing bars
    • E04D2003/0818—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets of plane slabs, slates, or sheets, or in which the cross-section is unimportant of glass or other translucent material; Fixing means therefor with metal glazing bars the supporting section of the glazing bar consisting of several parts, e.g. compound sections
    • E04D2003/0825—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets of plane slabs, slates, or sheets, or in which the cross-section is unimportant of glass or other translucent material; Fixing means therefor with metal glazing bars the supporting section of the glazing bar consisting of several parts, e.g. compound sections the metal section covered by parts of other material
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04D—ROOF COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; ROOF-WORKING TOOLS
    • E04D3/00—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets
    • E04D3/02—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets of plane slabs, slates, or sheets, or in which the cross-section is unimportant
    • E04D3/06—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets of plane slabs, slates, or sheets, or in which the cross-section is unimportant of glass or other translucent material; Fixing means therefor
    • E04D3/08—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets of plane slabs, slates, or sheets, or in which the cross-section is unimportant of glass or other translucent material; Fixing means therefor with metal glazing bars
    • E04D2003/0843—Clamping of the sheets or glass panes to the glazing bars by means of covering strips
    • E04D2003/085—Clamping of the sheets or glass panes to the glazing bars by means of covering strips locked by snap action
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04D—ROOF COVERINGS; SKY-LIGHTS; GUTTERS; ROOF-WORKING TOOLS
    • E04D3/00—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets
    • E04D3/24—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets with special cross-section, e.g. with corrugations on both sides, with ribs, flanges, or the like
    • E04D3/28—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets with special cross-section, e.g. with corrugations on both sides, with ribs, flanges, or the like of glass or other translucent material
    • E04D2003/285—Roof covering by making use of flat or curved slabs or stiff sheets with special cross-section, e.g. with corrugations on both sides, with ribs, flanges, or the like of glass or other translucent material with specially profiled marginal portions for connecting purposes

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  • This invention concerns building structures, especially roofs.
  • Self-supporting roofs or roof sections which comprise a plurality of extruded plastics profile elements connected side-by-side, each element having at least one longitudinal chamber and coupling members by which neighbouring profile elements are interconnected, the adjacent coupling members of neighbouring profile elements engaging to form a duct.
  • each element has an internal partition substantially parallel to the outer surfaces of a building unit made up of said elements. That partition is principally to provide additional heat insulation.
  • GB-A-2115452 discloses a structural system including a panel having a pair of parallel planar outer walls, reinforcing ribs joining the outer walls with reinforcing shoulders at the intersection of the ribs with the walls, and a panel connecting member for joining the panel to an adjacent panel by means of sliding engagement.
  • GB 2243170A discloses a structure comprising hollow building elements of plastics material coupled together side by side, the elements comprising flat bottom walls, vertical end and intermediate walls and an intermediate wall between and parallel to the top and bottom walls to form a plurality of rectangular ducts in two layers one on top of the other, the elements further comprising integral coupling members on opposite sides.
  • An object of this invention is to provide an improved building structure.
  • a structure comprising hollow building elements of plastics material coupled together side by side, the elements comprising flat top and bottom walls, vertical end and intermediate walls and an intermediate wall between and parallel to the top and bottom walls to form a plurality of rectangular ducts in two layers one on top of the other, the elements further comprising integral coupling members on opposite sides, wherein lower coupling members comprise a formation on one building element engaged with a second formation of an adjacent building element and held together by a stiffening member between the elements that fits over said engaged formations.
  • the intermediate wall of a building element used in the invention is of thinner section than its top or bottom walls.
  • the stiffening beam may be a single member having upper and lower formations for engagement with upper coupling members and for holding together lower coupling members respectively.
  • a preferred upper coupling member comprises a flange forming a channel section which is engageable in a complementary channel section of the stiffening beam.
  • Preferred lower coupling members of building elements comprise a first member on one building element that is a horizontal channel into which a second member of an adjacent building element fits, the stiffening beam having a formation that fits over said engaged first and second members to hold them together.
  • the cap or cover is securable to said stiffening beam.
  • the cap or cover preferably has at its side edges sealing means in the form of flexible resilient material.
  • the stiffening beam preferably has a formation engageable with a formation of the cap or cover to retain the cap or cover in place.
  • the stiffening beam may have a channel formation into which one or more depending projections of the cap or cover locate.
  • the cap or cover has two such projections shaped to engage complementary formations on inside surfaces of the channel of the stiffening beam.
  • the projections are preferably resilient and angled away from each other, whereby they will tend to urge outwards when pressed together and so improve engagement in the channel formation.
  • the preferred structure of the invention may permit elements of greater width than hitherto to be made, possibly of the order of 0.5m.
  • the earlier described building elements are generally only made to about 0.25m.
  • a building element 10 for forming building structures, such as roofs is shown made of translucent plastics material, such as polycarbonate, by extrusion.
  • the element 10 is generally hollow having relatively thin walls.
  • the element 10 has a flat bottom wall 12, upstanding end walls 14, upstanding intermediate walls 16, a flat top wall 18 and an intermediate wall 20 parallel to and equidistant from the top and bottom walls 18 and 12 respectively.
  • the intermediate wall 20 will probably be of thinner section than the top or bottom walls 18, 12 respectively.
  • the building element 10 comprising a plurality of rectangular section ducts 22 arranged in two rows one on top of the other.
  • the lower coupling member 24 is an L-shaped extension of bottom wall 12 and at the other end lower coupling member 26 comprises an extension of the bottom wall 12 with a horizontal channel section 28 formed thereon into which the lower coupling member 24 of the other end of an adjacent building element can fit.
  • the upper coupling members 30 at each end of the building element comprise vertical extensions 31 of side walls 14 and downwardly open channel forming members 32 extending therefrom.
  • the upper coupling members do not actually engage each other but engage a stiffening beam 40 inserted between building elements that are brought together end to end.
  • the stiffening beam 40 preferably extruded from aluminium, has upper and lower formations 42 and 44 respectively whereby adjacent building elements 10 are held together.
  • the lower formation 44 comprises a downwardly opening channel 46 having a pair of opposed internal projections 48 that extend towards each other but do not meet.
  • the formation 44 is sized so that when the lower coupling elements of adjacent building elements are brought together they fit between the projections 48 thereby holding them together.
  • the upper formation 42 of the beam 40 comprises an upwardly opening channel 50 having its internal side walls serrated. Extending outwards from opposite sides of the channel 50 in line with its base are L-shaped projections 52. The projections 52 are sized and shaped each to engage channel members 32 of upper coupling member 30, thereby holding adjacent elements 10 in a fixed relationship.
  • the connection between a pair of building elements 10 is covered by a capping 60.
  • the capping 60 comprises a channel section extrusion having flexible edges 62 for forming seals with top walls 18 of the elements 10 and a pair of internal downwardly depending resilient projections 64.
  • the projections 64 are angled apart and each has a lip 66 at its distal end to engage the serrations of the channel 50 of beam 40.
  • the elements are laid side-by-side on a structure providing support at opposite ends of the elements with their lower coupling elements engaged.
  • a stiffening beam 40 is then slid into the space between the elements to fix the lower coupling members and engage the upper coupling members of the elements.
  • a capping 60 is pressed into the beam 40 until it seats onto the adjacent elements sufficiently to form a seal between the edges of the capping and the top walls of the adjacent elements.

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  • Extrusion Moulding Of Plastics Or The Like (AREA)

Claims (10)

  1. Eine Struktur, die hohle Bauelemente (10) aus Plastikmaterial, die aneinander Seite an Seite gekuppelt sind, aufweist, wobei die Elemente flache obere und untere Wände (18, 12 jeweils), vertikale End- und Zwischenwände (14, 16 jeweils) und eine Zwischenwand (20) zwischen und parallel zu den oberen und unteren Wänden aufweisen, um eine Vielzahl von rechteckigen Dukten (22) in zwei Lagen, eine auf der anderen, zu bilden, wobei die Elemente weiter integrale Kupplungsglieder (24, 26 und 30) an entgegengesetzten Seiten aufweisen, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß untere Kupplungsglieder (24, 26) eine Formation an einem Bauelement, das mit einer zweiten Formation eines gegenüberliegenden Bauelements gekoppelt ist, aufweisen und durch ein Versteifungsglied (40) zwischen den Elementen gehalten werden, das über die Formationen paßt.
  2. Eine Struktur wie in Anspruch 1 beansprucht, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Zwischenwand (20) des Bauelements (10) einen dünneren Querschnitt als die obere oder untere Wand des Bauelements aufweist.
  3. Eine Struktur wie in Anspruch 1 oder 2 beansprucht, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß untere Kupplungsglieder ein erstes Glied (28) auf einem Bauelement aufweisen, das ein horizonter Kanal ist, in den ein zweites Glied (24) eines gegenüberliegenden Bauelements paßt, wobei der Versteifungsbalken (40) eine Formation (44) aufweist, die über die eingekoppelten ersten und zweiten Glieder paßt, um diese zusammenzuhalten.
  4. Eine Struktur wie in einem der Ansprüche 1, 2 oder 3 beansprucht, gekennzeichnet durch eine Kappe oder Abdeckung (60) über dem Bereich des Kuppelns zwischen gegenüberliegenden Elementen (10).
  5. Eine Struktur wie in Anspruch 4 beansprucht, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Kappe oder Abdeckung (60) an den Versteifungsbalken (40) festsetzbar ist.
  6. Eine Struktur wie in Anspruch 4 oder 5 beansprucht, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Kappe oder Abdeckung (60) an ihren Seitenkanten Dichtungsmittel (62) in der Form eines flexiblen elastischen Materials aufweist.
  7. Eine Struktur wie in Anspruch 6 beansprucht, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Versteifungsbalken (40) eine Formation (50) aufweist, die mit einer Formation (64) der Kappe oder Abdeckung (60) einkuppelbar ist, um die Kappe oder Abdeckung in Position zu halten.
  8. Eine Struktur wie in Anspruch 7 beansprucht, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Versteifungsbalken (40) eine Kanalformation (50) aufweist, in der sich eine oder mehrere abhängende Projektionen (64) der Kappe oder Abdeckung (60) befinden.
  9. Eine Struktur wie in Anspruch 8 beansprucht, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Kappe oder Abdeckung (60) zweier derartiger Projektionen (64) aufweist, die derart geformt sind, um komplementäre Formationen auf inneren Oberflächen des Kanals (50) des Versteifungsbalkens (40) festzusetzen.
  10. Eine Struktur wie in Anspruch 9 beansprucht, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Projektionen (64) elastisch und voneinander abgewinkelt sind, wobei diese, wenn sie zusammengepresst werden, dazu tendieren nach außen zu drücken und so ein Ineinanderkoppeln in der Kanalformation (50) verbessern.
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DK0750080T3 (da) 2000-07-10
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GB2268765B (en) 1997-01-22
DE69230839T2 (de) 2000-07-27
GB9313948D0 (en) 1993-08-18
GB9613271D0 (en) 1996-08-28
EP0602289B1 (de) 1998-09-16
GB2268765A (en) 1994-01-19
DE69227030T2 (de) 1999-03-18
DE69227030D1 (de) 1998-10-22
DE69230839D1 (de) 2000-04-27
GB2300012B (en) 1997-01-22
GB9215332D0 (en) 1992-09-02
GB2300012A (en) 1996-10-23
DK0602289T3 (da) 1999-06-14

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