EP1335101B1 - Mechanismus für das kontrollierte Einziehen eines rollbaren Fliegengitters - Google Patents

Mechanismus für das kontrollierte Einziehen eines rollbaren Fliegengitters Download PDF

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EP1335101B1
EP1335101B1 EP03386002A EP03386002A EP1335101B1 EP 1335101 B1 EP1335101 B1 EP 1335101B1 EP 03386002 A EP03386002 A EP 03386002A EP 03386002 A EP03386002 A EP 03386002A EP 1335101 B1 EP1335101 B1 EP 1335101B1
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
    • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
    • E06B9/00—Screening or protective devices for wall or similar openings, with or without operating or securing mechanisms; Closures of similar construction
    • E06B9/24—Screens or other constructions affording protection against light, especially against sunshine; Similar screens for privacy or appearance; Slat blinds
    • E06B9/40—Roller blinds
    • E06B9/42—Parts or details of roller blinds, e.g. suspension devices, blind boxes
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
    • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
    • E06B9/00—Screening or protective devices for wall or similar openings, with or without operating or securing mechanisms; Closures of similar construction
    • E06B9/52—Devices affording protection against insects, e.g. fly screens; Mesh windows for other purposes
    • E06B9/54—Roller fly screens
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
    • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
    • E06B9/00—Screening or protective devices for wall or similar openings, with or without operating or securing mechanisms; Closures of similar construction
    • E06B9/56—Operating, guiding or securing devices or arrangements for roll-type closures; Spring drums; Tape drums; Counterweighting arrangements therefor
    • E06B9/80—Safety measures against dropping or unauthorised opening; Braking or immobilising devices; Devices for limiting unrolling
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
    • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
    • E06B9/00—Screening or protective devices for wall or similar openings, with or without operating or securing mechanisms; Closures of similar construction
    • E06B9/56—Operating, guiding or securing devices or arrangements for roll-type closures; Spring drums; Tape drums; Counterweighting arrangements therefor
    • E06B9/80—Safety measures against dropping or unauthorised opening; Braking or immobilising devices; Devices for limiting unrolling
    • E06B2009/807—Brakes preventing fast screen movement
    • E06B2009/808—Fluid brakes

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  • the present invention relates to a mechanism for effecting a controlled retracting movement of a roller insect-blocking foil means adapted for blocking the entrance of insects through doors or windows.
  • roller blind means have a textile structure with a mesh allowing lighting and fresh air passage, but blocking the intrusion of undesirable insects.
  • These roller insect-blocking foil means are wound round a drum installed within a housing on top of the door/window opening, said drum being set in a rotational winding or unwinding movement to enable retraction or deployment of the roller insect-blocking foil means respectively.
  • roller insect-blocking foil means when deployed is locked onto hook means at the bottom of the opening and is automatically wound round the drum when released from these hook means.
  • Such winding retracting movement of the roller insect-blocking foil means is effected at undesirably high speed resulting from the resilient spring means acting upon the drum, such high speed possibly leading to accidents, whilst reliable operation of the roller blind means may be deteriorated due to frequent high speed retracting movement thereof.
  • US-6,155,328 discloses a winding mechanism for controlling the retraction and deployment of an architectural covering, such as a window blind or shade according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • US-6,155,328 thereby proposes a fluid brake comprising a fluid light compartment containing a liquid and an impeller, wherein rotation of the liquid relative to the impeller or to the compartment leads to retarding the rotation of the winding element.
  • This mechanism is however subject to the abovementioned drawbacks of complexity and dependency of the viscosity of the liquid agitated through the impeller on the varying temperature thereof.
  • the above mentioned mechanism for the controlled retracting movement of a roller insect-blocking foil means according to the present invention is characterized by
  • Fig. 1 shows a typical configuration of a roller insect-blocking foil means 1 being wound around a drum means 8 installed on top of the door or window opening wherein the foil means is deployed, within a housing unit 4.
  • the foil means 1 When the foil means 1 is deployed, it slides within side profile guide rails 2 that are mounted onto the side wall structure around the opening by means of bolts 6.
  • a horizontally extending profile 3 at the bottom end of the foil means 1 constitutes the means of hooking the foil means and maintaining it at a deployed position by means of hooking mechanisms 5.
  • a shaft 16 extends along the drum unit 8 and a resilient spring means 10 is wound around the shaft 16, said spring means 10 operating so as to be loaded during deployment of the foil means 1 and unloaded in the reverse direction of movement thereof.
  • the drum unit 8 and spring carrying shaft 16 are located within the housing unit 4, that is closed by side plug means 13 being fixedly mounted onto the side wall structure of the opening.
  • the present invention is directed towards handling the problem encountered with the excessive energy being released by the resilient spring means 10 when the foil means 1 is unhooked and free to rise upwards winding around the drum unit 8.
  • the solution proposed is the connection of the drum unit 8 to a shaft means 9 that is allowed to rotate within an environment of increased friction established within the chamber 7, thereby acting so as to retard the movement of the drum unit 8.
  • the shaft 9 is provided with a frontal connecting end 19a that fits within a correspondingly shaped recession 17a of the chamber 7 and with a rear connecting end 19b being provided with a longitudinally extending opening 19c.
  • a plug means 17b is fitted around the rear connecting end 19b of the shaft 9 and is employed in water tightly closing the chamber 7.
  • the side plug means 13 is provided with an inwardly projecting tubular element 13a that receives the frontal projecting end 7a of chamber 7, a bolt 18 being used in securely connecting the two elements.
  • the shaft 9 is selectively engaged to the drum unit 8 in the retracting, rolling up direction of movement of the roller insect-blocking foil means 1 only, by means of an engaging mechanism comprising in combination a pair of cooperating members 20,21 and a spring means 22.
  • Member 20 is provided with a first tubular body 20a that is fixedly fitted within the open end of the drum unit 8, so that it becomes rotatable together with the latter. Member 20 is further provided with a second tubular body 20b with an opening 20c adapted to receive the equivalently shaped tubular body 21 b of cooperating member 21.
  • Member 21 is provided with a tubular body 21 a that extends into the abovementioned tubular body 21b at one end thereof, whilst its other end is provided with a central rectangularly shaped opening 21c within which is fixedly inserted the abovementioned, correspondingly shaped rear connecting end 19b of shaft 9.
  • An elongated pin 8a passes sequentially through the opening 20c of member 20, the opening 21c of member 21, the opening 17c of chamber plug means 17b and through the longitudinally extending opening 19c of the rear connecting end 19b of shaft 9, such connection defining a condition of engagement of shaft means 9 to the drum unit 8.
  • the spring means 22 is alternatively located, as depicted in Fig. 7 or Fig. 8 either in between the side plug means 13 and member 21 or in between abovementioned members 20, 21 of the engaging mechanism, that operates so as to engage shaft means 9 of the retarding mechanism to the drum unit 8 during the upward movement of the roller insect-blocking foil means 1 only and disengage the same in the opposite direction of movement.
  • chamber 7 is filled with a malleable solid material, that creates a constant, independent of temperature, frictional environment for the movement of shaft means 9, thereby causing the desirable retarding effect.
  • a malleable solid substance may be selected from a variety of available substances that have this property of malleability, whilst they maintain their humidity without being petrified.
  • Suitable chemical compositions of this category are polyester plasticizers, that have been inorganically thickened and contain a certain additive quantity of silicon resins that impart to them the friction enhancing desired stick grade, as well as corrosion resistant characteristics.
  • valve sealant AUDCO VALVE SEALANT 733 that contains a saturated polyester resin in a proportion of 70%, bentone clay-silica in a proportion of 29.4%, 2-imidazoline in a proportion of 0.3% and n-oleoyl sarcosine.1-(2-hydroxyethyl)-2-heptadecenyl in a proportion of 0.3%.
  • chamber 7 is being filled with a fluid medium, but the mechanism still remains independent of viscosity variations with temperature, since fluid flow is primarily controlled by a predefined plurality and shape of perforations 12a in diaphragm means 12 (Figs. 2-4), said diaphragms 12 being located longitudinally along shaft means 9 within the chamber 7 and dividing the chamber 7 in two parts and operating so as to effect a retarding movement of shaft means 9 and accordingly of the drum unit 8 engaged therewith as the fluid contained within the chamber 7 moves from one part of the chamber to the other.
  • An alternative simpler engaging mechanism of shaft means 9 to the drum unit 8 is depicted in Figs.

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  1. Mechanismus für das kontrollierte Einziehen eines rollbaren Fliegengitters (1), das für Türöffnungen oder Fenstern angewendet wird, wobei der Mechanismus innerhalb einer Gehäuseeinheit (4) eingerichtet wird, die sich mit Seitenstöpseln (13) schliesst, die stabil an den Seitenwänden der Öffnung eingerichtet werden, eine Trommeleinheit (8) innerhalb des Gehäuses (4) ringsherum dessen, wo das rollbare Fliegengitter (1) während seines Einziehens eingewickelt wird, wobei die Trommeleinheit (8) sich in einer Achse (16) anschliesst, die einen elastischen Federmittel (10) trägt, wobei dieses Federmittel (10) so funktioniert, dass es während des Einziehens des Fliegengitters (1) beladet wird und während der umgekehrten Richtung des Einziehens des Fliegengitters (1) es ausladet, wobei der Mechanismus so angeordnet wird, dass er die übermässige Energie, die aus den elastischen Feder (10) befreit wird, handhaben kann, wenn das Gitter (1) frei wird und sich nach oben ringsherum der Trommeleinheit (8) durch einen Anschluss an einem drehbaren Mittel innerhalb einer Umgebung von erhöhten Reibung, die innerhalb eines Raumes (7) gebildet wird, einwickelt, wobei dieses Mittel so wirkt, dass es die Bewegung der Trommeleinheit (8) verzögert, dadurch gekennzeichnet dass der Mechanismus in Zusammenhang mit den folgenden besteht aus:
    einer Achse (9) innerhalb eines Raumes (7), wobei dieser Raum (7) mit einem Füllungsmittel gefüllt wird, das eine stabile, unabhängig von der Temperatur, Reibungsumgebung für die Bewegung der Achse (9) bildet, veranlassend auf diese Weise die Verzögerungseinwirkung, wobei die Achse (9) mit einem vorderen Verbindungsende (19a) ausgestattet ist, das innerhalb eines entsprechenden Vertiefungsschemas (17a) des Raumes (7) angepasst wird und mit einem hinteren Verbindungsende (19b), welches eine der Länge nach erstreckende Öffnung (19c) trägt, wobei ein Stöpselmittel (17b) ringsherum des hinteren Verbindungsendes (19b) der Achse (9) angepasst wird und wird für das wasserdichte Schliessen des Raumes (7) verwendet;
    Der Seitenstöpsel (13) ist mit einem rohrförmigen Element (13a) ausgestattet, das sich nach innen erstreckt, welches das vordere hinausstreckende Ende (7a) des Raumes (7) aufnimmt, wobei eine Schraube (18) für den sicheren Anschluss des Raumes (7) mit den Seitenstöpsel (13) verwendet wird;
    einem Mittel für die auswählende Aktivierung des Mechanismus nur in der Richtung des Einziehens durch das Einwickeln nach oben des rollbaren Fliegengitters (1) durch das auswählende Blockieren der Achse (9) innerhalb der Trommeleinheit (8), wo der Mechanismus unabhängig der Viskösänderungen der Temperatur bleibt.
  2. Mechanismus nach dem oberen Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Füllungsmittel ein schmiedes, festes Material ist, das eine stabile, unabhängig von der Temperatur, Reibungsumgebung, für die Bewegung der Achse (9) bildet, veranlassend auf diese Weise, die gewünschte Verzögerungseinwirkung, wobei das schmiede, feste Material von der Kategorien der polyester-Plastifizierungsmitteln ausgewählt wird, die anorganisch dick geworden sind und enthalten eine bestimmte zugefügte Quantität von Silikonharzen, die deren eine verstärkende der Reibung klebrige Eigenschaft und Korrosionsverhütende Kennzeichen geben.
  3. Mechanismus nach dem oberen Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das schmiede, feste Material, Füllungsmittel eine chemische Zusammensetzung eines gesättigten polyester-Harzes ist, in einem Anteil von 70%, Tonerde-Silicium bentone in einem Anteil von 29,4%, 2-imidazoline in einem Anteil von 0,3% und n-oleoyl-1-(-hydroxyethyl)-2-heptadecenyl-1 in einem Anteil von 0,3%.
  4. Mechanismus nach dem oberen Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der blockierende Mechanismus eine Kombination von einem zusammenarbeitenden Stengelpaar (20, 21) und einer Feder (22) umfasst, wobei der Stengel (20) mit einem ersten rohrförmigen Körper (20a) ausgestattet ist, der innerhalb eines offenen Endes der Trommeleinheit (8) stabil angepasst wird, so dass er zusammen mit der letzten und einen zweiten rohrförmigen Körper (20b), der eine Öffnung (20c) hat drehbar wird, und wobei der Stengel (21) mit einem rohrförmigen Körper (21 a) ausgestattet ist, der sich bis zu einem rohrförmigen Körper (21 b) von der eine Seite und bis zu einer zentralen rechteckig gebildeten Öffnung (21c) erstreckt, innerhalb deren das entsprechende Schema des hinteren Verbindungsendes (19b) der Achse (9) stabil hineindringt, wobei ein länglicher Zapfen (8a) durch die Öffnung (20c) den Stengel (20), die Öffnung (21c) den Stengel (21), die Öffnung (17c) das Stöpselmittel des Raumes (17b) und durch der Länge nach der erstreckenden Öffnung (19c) des hinteren Verbindungendes (19b) der Achse (9) nacheinander durchgeht, wobei diese Verbindung setzt einen blockierenden Zustand der Achse (9) in der Trommeleinheit (8) fest.
  5. Mechanismus nach dem oberen Anspruch 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet dass, die Feder (22) wechselweisend sich entweder zwischen des Seitenstopsels (13) und des Stengels (21) oder zwischen der Stengeln (20, 21) des blockierenden Mechanismus befindet, der so funktioniert, damit er die Achse (9) in der Trommeleinheit (8) nur während der Bewegung des rollbaren Fliegengitters (1) nach oben blockieren kann und sie ausser Blockieren bringen wenn es sich entgegen bewegt.
  6. Mechanismus nach dem oberen Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet dass das Füllungsmittel eine Flüssigkeit ist, die in Zusammenhang mit einer Blendenanordnung (12), die mit vielfachen Öffnungen (12a) ausgestattet ist, funktioniert, damit sie das Durchfliessen der Flüssigkeit auswählend erlauben, wobei das Fliessen der Flüssigkeit erstens von einer vorher festgesetzte Menge und der Form der Öffnungen (12a) innerhalb der Blenden (12) kontrolliert wird, wobei die Blenden (12) der Lange nach der Achse (9) innerhalb des Raumes (7) angeordnet sind und trennen den Raum (7) in zwei Räume und funktionieren so, damit sie eine verzögerte Bewegung der Achse (9) veranlassen und entsprechend der Trommeleinheit (8), die innerhalb der Achse blockiert ist, die enthaltene im Raum (7) Flüssigkeit sich von einem Abteil zu dem anderen bewegt.
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