EP0756658A1 - Systeme d'assemblage - Google Patents

Systeme d'assemblage

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EP0756658A1
EP0756658A1 EP95914310A EP95914310A EP0756658A1 EP 0756658 A1 EP0756658 A1 EP 0756658A1 EP 95914310 A EP95914310 A EP 95914310A EP 95914310 A EP95914310 A EP 95914310A EP 0756658 A1 EP0756658 A1 EP 0756658A1
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edge
connecting device
beads
web
edge beads
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Karl-Heinz Auer
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Preform Raumgliederungssysteme GmbH
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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
    • E04B2/74—Removable non-load-bearing partitions; Partitions with a free upper edge
    • E04B2/7407—Removable non-load-bearing partitions; Partitions with a free upper edge assembled using frames with infill panels or coverings only; made-up of panels and a support structure incorporating posts
    • E04B2/7448—Removable non-load-bearing partitions; Partitions with a free upper edge assembled using frames with infill panels or coverings only; made-up of panels and a support structure incorporating posts with separate framed panels without intermediary posts, extending from floor to ceiling

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  • the present invention relates to a connecting device for connecting at least two components, in particular for connecting at least two wall elements of a room divider, comprising at least two edge profiles for fastening to adjacent components and at least one connecting element connecting them, each edge profile being a device for its attachment to one of the components, each edge profile further has on its side facing away from the attachment device for the associated component two grooves running in its longitudinal direction, the bottom of which is delimited by two parallel lines between which there is a gap, the connecting member consists of a web and two edge beads provided on its longitudinal edges and running parallel to one another, the edge beads have an outer surface corresponding to the groove base and at least adjacent to the edge beads the thickness of the web is less than the thickness is the edge bead.
  • connection device serves to connect two wall elements of a room divider.
  • the two edge profiles can be connected to one another in different positions with respect to one another in accordance with the desired spatial arrangement of the two wall elements.
  • connecting links are provided, in which the web is bent more or less in the longitudinal direction, depending on whether the two wall elements are in alignment with one another or are to enclose a right or an acute angle.
  • a major disadvantage of this known connecting device for practical use is its lack of flexibility.
  • a connecting device is also known from DD-A 59385, in which the two edge profiles are U-shaped. They take up a strip-shaped connecting link between them. From this, hooks protrude on both sides, which engage in pockets provided in the edge profiles when the connecting member is moved in the vertical direction.
  • An essential one A disadvantage of the known connecting device is that it does not allow the wall elements to be connected to one another at different angular positions.
  • Another connecting device is known from DE-C 3016613.
  • the edge profiles are C-shaped.
  • the connecting link consists of a rectangular tube that runs in the cavity between the two abutting edge profiles.
  • the rectangular tube is guided on one of the edge profiles in the longitudinal direction; in the locked position, a hook-shaped projection of the other edge profile engages in a recess in the rectangular tube.
  • This connecting device also has the disadvantage that the angle of the wall elements to be connected cannot be varied.
  • German utility model 7222826 It is known from German utility model 7222826 to hang wall elements of a room divider on a fixed column. For this purpose, hook-shaped projections are provided on the edge profiles, which can be hooked into circumferential grooves in the column.
  • this known connecting device the angle between the wall elements of the room divider can be varied.
  • this connecting device is relatively heavy, complex and expensive.
  • specially adapted edge profiles must be produced for different height room dividers, in which the distance of the hook-shaped projections from one another is matched to the height of the room divider. This makes production and warehousing even more expensive.
  • the column has a circular cross section; the edge profiles have a complementary concave recess.
  • the column and the depressions of the edge profiles are covered with hook tape or loop tape.
  • the edge profiles are pressed radially against the column, which creates the connection between these parts by hooking the hook band and loop band.
  • French patent application 2570408 and German patent application 4207644 disclose connecting devices in which two outwardly curved edge profiles coated with Velcro tape are pressed directly against one another to connect the corresponding wall elements. These connecting devices also allow a change in the angular position between the two interconnected wall elements.
  • the present invention has for its object one for connecting two or more PO7EP95 / 01135
  • Components which can in particular be wall elements of a room divider, can be provided with suitable connecting devices of the type mentioned at the beginning, in which the angular position of the edge profiles with respect to one another can be varied without this causing considerable costs.
  • the connection between the edge profiles should be stable and permanently strong.
  • this object is achieved in a generic connecting device in that the thickness of the web adjacent to the edge beads is substantially smaller than the width of the column, which represents the opening of the grooves of the edge profiles.
  • the web of the connecting member is not fixed between edges of the edge profile which delimit the groove base of the groove. Rather, the fact that the thickness of the web adjacent to the edge beads is substantially smaller than the width of the gap of the edge profiles results in the possibility of viewing the connecting member in different positions in the corresponding edge profile. In this way, a large number of different angular positions of the two edge profiles with respect to one another can be achieved with only one connecting member.
  • the connecting device according to the invention ensures The arrangement of the two components to be connected makes the connecting device usable for a wide variety of applications.
  • the connecting device according to the invention is particularly suitable for connecting building blocks and other components of a play kit, for connecting individual pieces of furniture such as cupboards and shelves to form a unit, etc.
  • the edge beads of the connecting elements expediently have an outer surface and the grooves of the edge profiles have an inner surface, each with a cylindrical basic shape corresponding to one another.
  • the edge profiles and connecting links can be connected to one another in various positions with optimum strength.
  • the surfaces of the edge beads and the grooves can be smooth or, in order to fix the angular position of the parts to one another, have a profiling explained in more detail below.
  • the profiling if provided, can be designed in various ways; it can consist in particular of a toothing or a polygonal surface.
  • the assembly of the connecting device is very simple. All that is needed is the connecting member from the front side of the one to the other connecting edge profiles to be inserted between them; the edge beads of the connecting element are pushed into the grooves of the two edge profiles from the front side.
  • the connecting member can consist of several shorter sections.
  • the edge profile itself does not have to extend along the entire edge of the corresponding component; for a stable connection it is much more sufficient if the edge profile is only provided in sections. For example, three edge profile sections of 20 cm each are sufficient to connect two wall elements of a room part.
  • the same edge profile and the same connecting link can be used - correspondingly cut to length - for components of different heights.
  • the connecting device according to the invention not only two components can be connected to one another. Nodes can also be formed at which three, four or even more components collide.
  • a particularly preferred development of the invention is characterized in that the web of the connecting element is connected eccentrically to the edge beads.
  • those sections of the web which directly adjoin the edge beads lie in a plane which is offset sideways to the central axis of the corresponding edge bead.
  • This eccentric arrangement of the two edge beads on the web allows the flexibility of the connecting device according to the invention to be increased further.
  • the connection link can be used in this case rotated by 180 ° in the edge profiles to be connected, whereby, as will be explained in more detail below, the possible adjustment angle between the edge profiles can be increased considerably.
  • any arrangement of the two edge profiles with respect to one another between an aligned position (180 °) and an acute angle of 50 ° in the case of a smooth surface or even only 30 can be achieved with the same connecting member "in the case of a surface provided with a toothing, ie the adjustment range of the angular position of the two edge profiles relative to one another is 130 ° or even 150 ° in this case.
  • the two associated edge profiles can be connected to one another by means of two connecting links.
  • the connecting device according to the invention comprises two identical connecting members.
  • the edge beads of the two connecting links are at a different distance from one another, the two components have a correspondingly more or less angled position.
  • the connection is particularly dimensionally stable due to the two connecting links. An unintentional change in the angular position of the two wall elements to one another is impossible even if both the groove bases as well as the edge beads have a completely smooth circular cylindrical surface.
  • the groove bases and the edge beads are not smooth; Rather, they have a surface profile that prevents the connection member from rotating in the grooves of the edge profiles about the longitudinal axis of the respective edge bead defined by the cylindrical basic shape of the surface of the edge bead.
  • a toothing is particularly suitable as the surface profile. Such surface profiling, in particular toothing, prevents an unintentional change in the angular position of the components with respect to one another, even if the connecting device only comprises a connecting member connecting two edge profiles. Rather, the anti-rotation device formed by the toothing securely fixes the predetermined angular position between the components.
  • Different angular positions of the components with respect to one another can be specified during the assembly of the connecting device by inserting the connecting element in a corresponding predetermined position into the edge profiles to be connected to one another.
  • a pitch of 15 ° has proven to be optimal; at this value there are a large number of possible angular positions of the components relative to one another, and yet the anti-rotation device also withstands higher forces.
  • the shape of the surface profiling of the edge beads and the grooves which is required so that the connecting device remains dimensionally stable even when subjected to greater forces, depends on the part of the length of the edge profiles over which the connecting members extend. The shorter the length of the connecting links, the more pronounced the surface profiling must be so that a connection of the same strength results.
  • the toothing is particularly preferably finger-shaped.
  • Such a "long toothing" results in a firm connection between the edge profiles and the connecting member even if the toothing extends over an angle of only 180 ° or even slightly less both in the groove base and on the edge bead.
  • Such a small angle is so advantageous because it enables a correspondingly large angle adjustment range.
  • the components can be arranged in any position between an aligned alignment and an acute angle to one another.
  • a pin, bolt, screw or the like acting between the edge profile and the connecting member is provided for securing the position.
  • the groove base of the grooves encompassing the edge bead preferably extends over an angle between 240 ° and 300 ". At this angle, the possible variations for the position of the connecting member with respect to the Edge profile sufficiently large; on the other hand, it is impossible for the connecting member to spring out of the groove under the action of force.
  • connection device is particularly suitable for producing corner connections for wall elements.
  • the web of the connecting member is particularly preferably angled three times, the middle angling being directed opposite the two outer ones. It has turned out to be particularly expedient if in this case the opening angle of the middle bend is 90 ° and the opening angle of the two outer opposite bends is 135 °.
  • FIG. 1 shows a cross section through a first edge profile which can be used in the context of the invention, - 12-
  • FIG. 2 shows a cross section through a first strip-shaped connecting member which can be used within the scope of the invention
  • FIG. 3 shows a connecting device comprising two edge profiles according to FIG. 1 and two connecting members according to FIG. 2,
  • FIG. 4 shows a connecting device comprising four edge profiles according to FIG. 1 and four connecting members according to FIG. 2,
  • FIG. 5 shows a further connecting device comprising three edge profiles and three connecting links
  • Fig. 8 is an edge profile for use in the
  • FIG. 9 shows a connecting member for use in the connecting device according to FIG. 7.
  • the edge profile 1 shown in FIG. 1 comprises a fastening section 2 with a groove, which is used for fastening to a wall element or another component (cf. FIG. 3), and a connecting section 3, which is used for connection to another Edge profile serves.
  • a C-shaped fastening groove 4 is provided between the fastening section 2 and the connecting section 3 on both sides of the edge profile; fixtures to be hung on the partition, for example, can be clamped to it if the connecting device is used to connect wall elements.
  • Two grooves 5 are provided in the corner areas of the connection area. These each have a groove base 7 provided with a finger-shaped toothing 6 with a circular cylindrical basic shape. The bottom of the groove extends over an angle ⁇ of approximately 180 °.
  • the grooves 5 are each open along a gap 16, the width of which is defined by the clear distance x of the two lines 14 and 15 from one another.
  • the connecting element 8 shown in FIG. 2 comprises a web 9 and two edge beads 10 arranged on its longitudinal edges.
  • the edge beads 10 have a surface 12 with a circular cylindrical basic shape; this is partially provided with a toothing 11.
  • the cylindrical surface of the edge beads profiled with the toothing extends over an angle ⁇ of approximately 180 °.
  • the web 9 is angled three times.
  • the opening angle ⁇ of the middle bend is 90 °.
  • the opening angle of the two outer, opposite bends is 135 °. In this way, the two outer sections of the web 9 adjoining the edge beads 10 lie in one plane.
  • the web 9 Adjacent to the edge beads 10, the web 9 has a thickness D. This is considerably smaller than the width of the gap 16 of the edge profiles. For example, in the case of a connecting device for 6 mm thick wall elements, a gap 16 with a width of 8 mm can be provided, whereas the thickness of the web adjacent to the edge beads is only 2.5 mm. In this way, the web 9 is not between lines 14 and 15 fixed, but the connecting member can be inserted into the groove of the edge profile in different angular positions (cf. FIGS. 3, 4 and 6).
  • edge beads 10 are connected eccentrically to the web 9 in that the central plane 17 of each section of the web directly adjacent to the associated edge bead has the lateral offset y with respect to the center axis 18 of the edge bead 10.
  • the two edge profiles 1 are connected by means of the two connecting members 8.
  • the double coupling of the two edge profiles results in a particularly firm connection.
  • the two connecting links 8 are constructed identically, so that the two wall elements (not shown) attached to the edge profiles run in alignment and run in one plane. If one of the two connecting links 8 were exchanged for one in which the two edge beads 10 are at a greater distance from one another, the two wall elements would be bent accordingly.
  • a wall element 13 is received in the fastening section 2 of each edge profile.
  • the connecting unit shown in FIG. 5 comprises three edge profiles 1 and three connecting members 8 and 14.
  • the two angled connecting links 8 are constructed as described in connection with FIG. 2.
  • the connecting member 14 has a wider, flat web, so that its two edge beads 10 are at a greater distance from one another than in the case of the other connecting members 8.
  • an unintended one would be unintentional Change of the angular position of the wall elements connected to the edge profiles is guaranteed even without the additional connecting member 14; the latter, however, contributes to the further stabilization of the connection unit and is also advantageous for optical reasons if the room divider is accessible from all sides.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates a 90 ° corner connection of two edge profiles 1, which differs from that according to FIGS. 4 and 5 by a different arrangement of the connecting member 8.
  • the offset between the edge profiles can be varied by arranging the connecting element differently.
  • the edge profiles could also be connected to one another in such a way that the wall elements 13 enclose an acute angle.
  • the formation of the toothing 6 or 11 as a finger-shaped "long toothing" ensures that the connection between the connecting member 8 and the edge profile 1 is sufficiently firm even when the corresponding toothing is only at an angle of approximately 90 ° to one another intervene (see A).
  • the connecting device shown in FIG. 7 differs from that according to FIG.
  • the grooves 5 of the edge profiles 1 have no toothing, but rather are smooth, circular-cylindrical.
  • the edge beads 10 of the connecting member 8 also have a smooth, circular-cylindrical surface, which corresponds to the groove base 7.
  • the groove 5 is more closed, than is the case for the previously described embodiment.
  • the gap 16 is significantly narrower than in the case of the edge profile described earlier; the two longitudinal edges 14 and 15 thus face each other at a closer distance.
  • a gap with a width of approximately 7 mm is provided, while the diameter of the groove is 8.6 mm.
  • edge beads 10 are also arranged eccentrically on the web 9 in this embodiment of the invention. This contributes to the large pivoting angle of the edge profiles relative to one another explained above.

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Abstract

Un système d'assemblage d'au moins deux éléments de construction, notamment d'au moins deux éléments formant paroi (13) d'une cloison, comprend au moins deux profilés marginaux (1) à assujettir sur les éléments de construction adjacents et au moins un organe de liaison (8) qui relie ces profilés. Le système présente les caractéristiques suivantes: chaque profilé marginal (1) comprend deux rainures longitudinales (5) dont le fond est délimité par deux lignes parallèles qui forment une fente intermédiaire; l'organe de liaison (8) comprend une bande et deux bourrelets marginaux parallèles (10) qui s'étendent le long des bords longitudinaux de la bande; les bourrelets marginaux (10) ont une surface extérieure qui correspond au fond de la rainure; l'épaisseur de la bande est inférieure au diamètre des bourrelets marginaux (10) au moins au voisinage de ceux-ci; au voisinage des bourrelets marginaux (10), l'épaisseur de la bande est sensiblement inférieure à la largeur de la fente des rainures (5) ménagées dans les profilés marginaux.
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