Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04H—BUILDINGS OR LIKE STRUCTURES FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES; SWIMMING OR SPLASH BATHS OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; TENTS OR CANOPIES, IN GENERAL
  • E04H3/00—Buildings or groups of buildings for public or similar purposes; Institutions, e.g. infirmaries or prisons
  • E04H3/10—Buildings or groups of buildings for public or similar purposes; Institutions, e.g. infirmaries or prisons for meetings, entertainments, or sports
  • E04H3/14—Gymnasiums; Other sporting buildings
  • E04H3/16—Gymnasiums; Other sporting buildings for swimming
  • E04H3/165—Gymnasiums; Other sporting buildings for swimming having movable parts
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10S52/00—Static structures, e.g. buildings
  • Y10S52/17—Static structures, e.g. buildings with transparent walls or roof, e.g. sunroom

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a cover structure capable of being discovered, in particular for swimming pools.
• Such structures generally consist of fixed and / or sliding elements which are themselves formed of pairs of arches between which panels, made of deformable material, and usually transparent or translucent, are mounted. Some of these panels are slidably mounted so as to make each element, capable of being discovered, at least partially. Depending on the specifications desired by the designer, the elements can themselves be fixed or mobile telescopically and horizontally with respect to each other.
• the hoops each forming an element in pairs are made from a profile - generally made of lacquered aluminum - which is curved and which has on its lateral faces several grooves intended to receive the deformable panels and to ensure their sliding.
• the lower grooves of the profile that is to say in the rest of this text, those located on the side of the smallest bending radius, receive the sliding and lifting panels which, on each side of the arches, descend towards the ground .
• These panels are mostly made of a solid and transparent material, such as in particular polymethyl methacrylate resin or polycarbonate resin, so that these liftable side panels have a significant weight to lift to partially discover vertically the structure on its sides, and this always between each element.
• the deformable and sliding panels used most often are flat panels, so that their variable curve is given to them by the curved shape. hoops between which they are arranged. It follows that, the lateral edges of the panels are applied naturally against the internal walls of the guide grooves, so that, during the vertical displacement of the movable panels descending towards the ground, on each longitudinal side of the structure (ascent or descent), it is created by friction, as and when used, scratches on the edges of their faces in contact with the profile.
• the present invention aims to remedy these drawbacks, by proposing means making it possible to avoid such scratches, these means also facilitating the sliding of the panels in their guide groove.
• the subject of the present invention is therefore a cover structure, in particular for swimming pools, capable of being at least partially uncovered and which consists of several pairs of parallel arches, which maintain the deformable panels, in particular in transparent material or translucent, the arches being made up of a curved profile, the side walls of which are provided with a series of parallel guide grooves, superimposed, perpendicular to the plane of the arch in which the deformable panels take place, characterized, in that at least one of the panels is provided, on each of the edges of its 2 lateral sides, intended to take place in the guide grooves, with an extension and sliding tongue which comes into contact with at least the 'one of the internal faces of the groove, and, the height under the panel, is sufficient to prevent contact of the latter with the profile.
• the present invention also relates to the fact that the end of at least one internal face, of at least one of the grooves, will be provided with a rib, extending over at least part of the length of the profile.
• This rib makes it possible to constitute, with the bottom of the groove, a buffer tank.
• this tongue of raising and sliding, located under a panel, will have a thickness greater than the height of the rib, which is associated with it.
• the total thickness of this extension and sliding tongue, integral with its movable panel will be less, at the entrance to the chosen groove of the hoop profile, so that the panel can be easily introduced laterally between each pair of poles of the structure.
• This extension and sliding tongue will necessarily be formed of a flexible material to adapt with its panel to the variable curve of the arch and will have a good coefficient of sliding, relative to the material constituting the profile.
• this flexible tongue for raising and sliding will have a contact surface with the profile which can be reduced relative to its total base surface.
• the present invention thus also aims to provide a profile of the reversible type thus allowing make the ridge panels of the structure of different thicknesses, using a single profile.
• the present invention thus relates to a structure of the aforementioned type, in which the upper and lower grooves have different heights and have a rib on each of the ends of their internal faces.
• the upper and lower faces of the profile will have means making it possible to maintain a junction element between the arch formed by this profile and an arch arranged under the latter.
• the profile will preferably comprise a central core in which the guide grooves will be constituted by parallel fins, superimposed, perpendicular to the plane of the arch.
• the throat the internal face of which is provided with a rib, will be a lower throat.
• FIGS. 1a and 1b are perspective views of an example of a cover structure, respectively in the closed and open position, as usually used.
• Figure 2 is a cross-sectional view of an embodiment of the profile 7 according to the invention.
• Figure 3 is a partial cross-sectional view of a lower guide groove of a profile 7, according to the invention, in which a movable panel 18 is slidably mounted.
• Figure 4 is a partial cross-sectional view of an alternative embodiment of a section 7 according to one invention.
• Figure 5 is a cross-sectional view of another alternative embodiment of a profile 7, according to the invention.
• a structure 1 which covers a swimming pool, respectively in the closed position and in the open position.
• This structure consists of three vaults, namely a fixed vault 3a, a movable vault 3b coming, in the open position, to be embedded under the vault 3a and a third vault 3c, coming to be embedded, in the vault 3b.
• each of these vaults is of the same type, that is to say, it consists of a series of arches 5 which are distant and which define a certain number of elements.
• the vault 3a has four elements while the vaults 3b and 3c have three elements.
• Each of the arches 5 consists of a profile 7, for example, an aluminum profile obtained by extrusion, bent, often in one or more parts, and which is sometimes ends in its parts joining the ground, by two vertical zones allowing immediately to obtain more height available inside the structure, on its lateral sides.
• the section of this profile 7 is shown in Figure 2 by way of example. It thus consists of a central core 8, of overall tubular shape, the center of which receives a sheath 9 (shown in dotted lines in the drawing) which is in particular intended to ensure the fixing of this hoop 5 with the ground and to ensure the connection of the portions of arches together, when these arches are made up of several parts.
• Each of the two lateral faces of the core 8 of the profile 7 comprises four superimposed wings, namely an external wing 11, an internal wing 12 and two central wings 13.
• the inner wing 12 defines with the central wing 13 which is adjacent to it, a lower guide groove 15 '.
• the upper groove 15 is intended to receive the ridge panel of the element, which consists of a panel 16 of very thick thickness which is fixed, relative to the profile 7.
• the panels 16 can be made of any plastic, deformable, and preferably transparent or translucent material and in particular of a polycarbonate resin generally with a cellular structure.
• the throat for its lower guide 15 ′ is intended to receive vertically sliding liftable panels 18 which, as shown in FIG. 1 a, are located on either side of the arches and in this case descend to the ground.
• FIG. 3 is made on an enlarged scale, the lower guide groove 15 '.
• the end of the lower internal walls of the groove 15 ′ is provided with a rib 19, of thickness e, which extends over the entire length of the profile 7.
• This rib 19 makes it possible to constitute, inside the grooves of guide 15 ′, a sort of buffer tank 20, intended to receive, collect, external runoff water and promote its flow towards the base of the arches. It was found here that the runoff water flow is of course without problem for the parts of the profile which have a steep slope, but that it was not the same for those of the latter which have a low slope.
• extension and sliding tabs 22 are made of a material, generally a plastic which has both good flexibility, good hardness and a low coefficient of friction compared to the profile 7.
• This flexible tongue for raising and sliding 22 has a slot 24 in which comes to be embedded for example by force - one could also provide in particular a fixing by gluing, screwing or other - the 2 lateral sides of the panel 18.
• the thickness E of the part of this tongue 22, located under the panel, will be sufficient so that the sliding panel 18 cannot come into contact with the rib 19 of the profile 7. It will be understood, of course, that the total height H of this flexible tongue 22 and integral with its panel 18, will be less than that L of the entry of the grooves 15 'which receive said panel 18, so that it can be easily introduced laterally into them.
• this flexible extension and sliding tongue 22 performs two functions, namely: on the one hand, a function specific to preserving the scratches of the sliding panel 18, and on the other hand, a function capable of facilitating sliding.
• this tongue 22 may consist of one or more elements which extend continuously over the entire length of the 2 lateral sides of the sliding panel 18, or on the contrary, it may consist of more or less punctual, distributed regularly or not, over said length.
• upper guide 15 and lower guide grooves 15 'of different height h and h' have been produced, and the ends of the two internal faces of these grooves.
• the width of the base of this flexible tongue for raising and sliding 22, associated and integral with the sliding panel 18, will necessarily have a dimension less than the width of the base of the buffer tank 20 to allow expansion and Indispensable removal from the panel 18 in the grooves 15 'of each pair of arches of the structure, or even in the grooves 15, when the arches profiles 7 are used in reversibility.
• the profiles 7 generally have a groove 14 which is arranged on their underside, that is to say on the side of the smallest bending radius of the arch 5, and which is intended to receive the heel of a flexible element such as in particular, a plastic broom, a brush, etc. which performs a vertical junction function between the arch formed by this profile and an arch arranged under the latter.
• the profile 7, in order to be completely reversible, will in turn have a second groove 14 'on its upper face, that is to say on the side of the largest bending radius of the arch.
• Such an implementation mode allows using a single extrusion die, to obtain a double configuration of the structure.
• FIG. 5 shows another form of implementation of the profile 7, constituting the arches 5 forming the structure.
• the section 7 has a solid section of rectangular shape, for example, in the transverse walls from which upper and lower grooves are dug. These grooves form the grooves 15 and 15 'respectively intended to receive the fixed 16 and sliding 18 panels.

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