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• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04G—SCAFFOLDING; FORMS; SHUTTERING; BUILDING IMPLEMENTS OR AIDS, OR THEIR USE; HANDLING BUILDING MATERIALS ON THE SITE; REPAIRING, BREAKING-UP OR OTHER WORK ON EXISTING BUILDINGS
  • E04G23/00—Working measures on existing buildings
  • E04G23/002—Arrangements for cleaning building facades
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47L1/00—Cleaning windows
  • A47L1/02—Power-driven machines or devices
• • 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
  • E04B2/88—Curtain walls
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04G—SCAFFOLDING; FORMS; SHUTTERING; BUILDING IMPLEMENTS OR AIDS, OR THEIR USE; HANDLING BUILDING MATERIALS ON THE SITE; REPAIRING, BREAKING-UP OR OTHER WORK ON EXISTING BUILDINGS
  • E04G23/00—Working measures on existing buildings

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• the invention relates to a prefabricated facade element with a generally rectangular plate member, for. B. a glass sheet, preferably a composite glass sheet or insulating glass, and with attached in edge regions thereof profile elements.
• the invention also aims at the individual facade elements already during their production _in production operations as much as possible with the necessary means for assembly and for housing equip the desired facade cleaning device, with such equipment of the facade elements in advance, in production plants, easier and more accurate possible than a subsequent installation on the site.
• the invention provides a prefabricated facade element with the features of claim 1; advantageous embodiments and further developments are the subject of the dependent claims.
• the above object is met in an advantageous manner, and it is an extraordinarily simple, rapid, easy installation of prefabricated facade elements on a building, and a simple, rapid installation of the essential elements for the final installation of the facade cleaning device allows.
• the plate parts ie in particular laminated glass panels or. Insulating glass panes, on at least two mutually opposite narrow sides, preferably on all four narrow sides, are pre-equipped with carrier half-profiles, it is possible at the site, single facade elements simply to one another or one above the other, the half-profiles then interlock and so the vertical and / or complete horizontal beam profiles to a box shape.
• the vertical half-profiles are already equipped in pairs with additional profile channels, which serve to receive drive means for wiper-like facade cleaning elements.
• These drive means are preferably as endless drive means, such as a toothed belt, but possibly also as a chain, rope or the like. executed, as is known per se from WO 01/43614 A, and with these drive means, which are subsequently introduced into the additional profile channels, driving parts for the j ehyroid facade cleaning elements are firmly connected in a conventional manner.
• the profile channel or. one of the two profile channels of the respective carrier half-profile has a lateral opening for the passage of a driver part for the facade cleaning element.
• the mating carrier half-profiles for intermeshing provided under mutual investment profile legs, in each case at least one of the j eweils intended for mutual investment profile leg carries a seal for tight contact with the associated profile leg of an adjacent facade element , With such seals it also succeeds, even with unavoidable manufacturing tolerances to achieve a tight completion of the carrier half-profiles, moreover, with a corresponding attachment of the prefabricated facade elements on the building by simply hanging and telescoping no further connection of the nested carrier half-profiles is required , as will be explained in more detail below.
• the profile channel or. one of the two profile channels of the j e election carrier half-profile forms a guide channel for at least one rolling or Gleiteler ⁇ ent the drive means.
• These rolling or sliding elements are provided in particular in the region of the driver parts and thus ensure an exact linear movement of the driver parts together with the cleaning elements, so that the cleaning Transmission elements, ie wiper strips, always in a uniform system on the outer surfaces of the facade elements, in particular on the outer surfaces of the glass panels, are guided without it may lead to an undesirable temporary lifting or "rumble".
• one of the guide channel having carrier half-profiles inserted into the profile channel in a present in the operating position Fug to the adjacent facade element projecting into bridging pieces, preferably made of plastic, having.
• These bridging pieces protrude with a male part in the respective half-profile, more precisely in the profile channel adjacent to the guide channel, wherein the male part with a guide surface of the guide channel in the joint extending guide portion fixed (one-piece) is connected.
• the height or length of the guide section corresponds to the joint width.
• the male part of the bridging piece can continue to be so long that it extends into the one facade element into which it is inserted in advance, and that it can be inserted in the j eweils adjacent facade element in its opposite side during assembly.
• the bridging pieces may be made of plastic in the form of injection molded parts, with exemplary materials being polyamide (nylon), ABS, etc.
• one of the two carrier half-profiles having the additional profile channels, in the region of the profile channels or a middle rail carries, which extends in the region of the narrow side of the plate member.
• These middle rails may be equipped with seals to allow a tight fit of the driver parts or cleaning element carrier to them.
• these seals can also be provided with corresponding seals on the half profiles, these seals, for example in the form of lip seals, tions, in the area outside the driver parts or cleaning element carrier directly abut each other and are pushed apart when passing the driver parts.
• the middle rail carries at one end a joint bridging element for connection to a middle rail of an adjacent facade element.
• These joints-bridging elements like the above-mentioned guide bridging pieces, in each case already be pre-assembled on the prefabricated facade element, with the assembly of the facade element only the connection to each adjacent facade element - by appropriate abutment or plugging or plugging - is required .
• the middle rail is T-shaped in cross-section 1 and engages with its transverse web in a profiled groove in the region of or a profile channel, preferably with the interposition of a seal.
• the carrier half-profiles can be connected in the edge regions adjacent to the narrow sides of the plate member with this simply by gluing.
• bordering or clamping profile sections which may be formed in one piece with the semi-profiles, and which grasp or grasp the narrow sides of the plate parts, in particular glass plates, by clamping.
• connection parts are preferably hook-shaped, wherein they are placed with the hook opening pointing down on the corresponding building-solid support.
• vertical adjusting screws which are at bridge portions of the connecting parts - S - are provided to be provided for fine adjustment of the height of the facade element relative to the building-solid carriers.
• the invention also provides the provided for the present facade element carrier half-profiles and further constructed with the present facade elements facade.
• Fig. 1 shows a schematic view of a building façade with facade elements to be cleaned, in particular with glass panels, wherein a vertically movable wiper strip unit is provided per vertical row of facade elements as cleaning device;
• FIG. 2 shows a horizontal cross section in the connection region between two facade elements, according to the line II-II in FIG. l;
• Figure 3 shows a corresponding horizontal section through a prefabricated facade element, without adjacent facade elements, but in already mounted on the building by hanging mounted position.
• FIG. 5 shows a vertical section in the region of a horizontal connection point between two adjacent, superposed facade elements, in the mounted state, wherein the formation of a horizontal support through the adjacent, telescoped carrier half-profiles is visible;
• FIG. 6 is a schematic side view of the components used for fastening the facade elements to the building by hanging on a support;
• FIGS. 7 and 7A show a perspective view of a joint bridging element in the region of middle rails between adjacent facade elements one above the other;
• FIG. 8 is a perspective view of a joint Oberbrückungs Fantasy with guide sections for the continuation of guide surfaces in guide channels of the semi-profiles in joints between adjacent facade elements one above the other to guide rollers or sliders for the entrainment of facade cleaning elements smoothly over the joints;
• FIG. 9 shows a schematic representation of a driver part of the drive means for the facade cleaning elements, with a plurality of rollers, which allow a smooth passage of joints between adjacent facade elements without transition piece by respective abutment of at least three rollers of the group on opposite guide surfaces of the guide channel.
• FIG. L is a very schematic view of a building 1 to be cleaned facade elements 2 on a facade surface 3 illustrated.
• the facade elements 2 are separated, for example, by vertical joints 4 and horizontal joints 5, wherein on the vertical joints 4, as will be explained in more detail below, facade cleaning devices 6 with wiper strip units 7 are movable up and down.
• each wiper strip unit 7 can be moved vertically according to double arrows 8 along a vertical row of facade elements 2, to which end in FIG. l endless drive means not shown in detail, in particular in the form of toothed belts, are provided, which are housed in the region of the vertical narrow sides of the facade elements 2;
• Each of these drive means is placed on top of the facade surface .3.
• This drive shaft 11 is driven by a likewise only schematically illustrated, stationary mounted engine 12.
• FIG. 1 illustrates a main supply line 13 with a shut-off valve 14 for a cleaning fluid to spray nozzles 15 in the region of the facade elements 2.
• These spray nozzles 15 can have varying nozzle cross sections or distances over the height of the building 1 in order to compensate for a pressure drop which results over the height of the facade surface 3.
• the spray nozzles 15 can also be accommodated in a horizontal region within the individual facade elements 2.
• the cleaning liquid used is in particular water, if appropriate mixed with a cleaning agent.
• each facade element 2 (or 2A, 2B) has a plate part 16.
• This plate member 16 is carried out in a conventional manner as a composite glass sheet (insulating glass), and hereinafter, this plate member is also referred to simply as a glass sheet 16.
• Each glass sheet 16 has at its rear in the assembled operating position, d. H . on the side facing the building 1, adjacent to the vertical narrow side 17 (see Fig. 3) in the edge region, a vertical carrier half-profile 18 and 19, respectively, which together form a box-shaped closed carrier profile 20.
• the two half-profiles 18, 19, which are designed to fit together, with profile legs 21, 22 on the one hand and 23, 24 on the other hand into each other, d. H .
• the profile legs 21, 23 and 22, 24 are in pairs, in particular with the interposition of a respective seal 25, 26 in a profile groove of a half-profile 19, to each other.
• Another, in particular mechanical or. non-positive connection between the half-profiles 18, 19 is not intended.
• the half-profiles 18, 19 are each formed with profile channels 27, 28 for receiving drive means 29, said drive means 29 in the illustrated embodiment as endless drive means 29 with a front run 30 in the front profile channel 27 and a rear run 31 in the rear profile channel 28 are formed.
• the endless drive means 29 are preferred in order to enable a slip-free drive, provided in the form of toothed belt 32.
• Each half-profile 18 and 19 is attached to the associated plate member 16 back with the help of an adhesive 33 in a conventional manner. If desired, the semi-profiles
• Each vertical half profile 18 or 19 is for each facade element 2 or. 2A, 2B with a horizontal carrier half-profile 34 and. 35 (see also Fig. 4 and 5 except Fig. 2 and 3) firmly connected.
• This connection can be accomplished, for example, with the aid of screws 36, 37 and 38, the j e election vertical half-profile, z. B. 19 in Fig. 2, in the horizontal associated semi-profile, z. B. 35, are screwed.
• corresponding screw receptacles 39 can be formed in the respective half-profile, s. in particular Fig. 4 below.
• each facade element 2 contains at its back facing the building 1 a rectangular profile frame with open to all four sides profile elements, so as to allow the connection to other facade elements as described by telescoping the profile elements.
• the horizontal carrier half-profiles 34, 35 as can be seen from Fig. 5 in the region of a horizontal joint 5 (see Fig. 1), can also be seen with profile legs 40, 41, resp. 42, 43 with the interposition of seals 44, quite analogous to the vertical half-profiles 18,
• This stiffening profile 45 ' is T-shaped in cross-section, and it may have in its vertical leg 45''in the drawing, not shown openings to hooking in a crane hook or attaching a crane rope for lifting the j ehyroid prefabricated facade element. 2 to allow for mounting on a building 1.
• the prefabricated facade elements 2 formed in this way are mounted on the building 1 (still without endless drive means 29), wherein - as mentioned - during assembly the respective half-profiles of adjacent facade elements 2 are simply pushed into one another.
• the individual facade elements are suspended with their upper edge region also on building-solid supports 46 (see Fig. 2, 4 and 5 and in particular Fig. 6) by means of hook-shaped connecting parts 47.
• These hook-shaped connecting parts 47 are on the respective rear leg 21 and. 23 of the respective half profile 18 resp. 19 screwed at its upper edge by means of screws 48, wherein the profile leg 21 and 23 on both sides reinforcing rails 49, 50 - the latter with threaded holes for screwing the screws 48 - are provided.
• the carrier 46 is in turn fixed in a ceiling 51 by means of a U-profile rail 52 with bent upper flange edges 53 and by means of screws 54, the screws 54 allow a height adjustment of the support 46 relative to the ceiling 51 during assembly.
• a conventional screed, flooring or floor 55 is mounted on the ceiling 51, cf.
• the rail 52 is concreted in the ceiling 51.
• the carrier 46 is angled upwards at its free front end 56, s. in particular Fig .6 so as to form a support for an adjusting screw 57 on the connecting part 47.
• the adjusting screw 57 can be inserted through a bridge portion 58 of the connecting part 47 therethrough.
• the driver parts 60 consist, as known in principle from WO 01/43614 A, of two together with the interposition of the toothed belt 32 bolted together block parts which are connected to the plate-shaped, angled support members 61 for the wiper strip units 7 via an inner block member 62, wherein Connection region and at least one roller member 63 is rotatably mounted.
• a roller 63 it is theoretically also conceivable to provide a sliding element of reibarr ⁇ em plastic.
• This roller or sliding element 63 is arranged in a guide channel 64 of the front profile channel 27, so that a uniform movement of the driver part 60 along the profile channel 27 when moving up and down the wiper strip units 7 is achieved.
• a plurality of, for example five, rollers 63 can be mounted one above the other on the block part 62, with axes of rotation slightly offset in the horizontal direction, so as to alternately engage the entire carrier 60 alternately on the axis to ensure one side and on the other side of the guide channel 64.
• This also ensures a smooth traversing of a joint region 5 (indicated by dashed lines in FIG. 9), since in each case several rolls 63 rest in a guide channel 64 on both sides thereof, so that no tilting in the region of the joint 5 is possible.
• each wiper strip unit 7 contains a wiper strip 70 which projects out of a housing 71 and rests against the outer glass surface of the insulating glass 16 of the facade element 2.
• the housing 71 is bolted to the cleaning element support 61, as can be seen at 72 in FIG.
• the wiper strip 70 may be fastened in a separate profile holder 73, cf. Fig. 9, which in turn is optionally held horizontally displaceable in the housing 71.
• a roller 74 is rotatably mounted on each side of the wiper strip housing 71, these rollers 74 being provided with a roller 74.
• Fig. 4 From Fig. 4 is further seen that in one of these separation profiles, for. B. 77, in the region of the local joint cover 75 'also spray nozzles 15' can be accommodated.
• the connection of the spray nozzles 15 (FIG. 15 '(FIG. 4) to the cleaning agent line 13 can be accomplished in a conventional manner, for example via hose lines or pipelines, so that a further description thereof can be dispensed with.
• a center rail 80 can be seen, which is in the area between each two adjacent facade elements 2A, 2B and sealing gaskets 81, which cooperate with seals 82 on the half-profiles 18, 19, a sealing of the vertical joint 4 in the area between the half-profiles 18, 19 causes;
• the seals 81, 82 also provide a seal and guidance of the respective wiper strip carrier 61 when they are placed along the vertical narrow sides of the facade elements 2 and between the seals 81, 82. moved off.
• the center rail 80 is closed at its front by an internally toothed U-profile 83, and it is in cross-section, as shown in Fig.
• FIG. 3 Prior to or during assembly is expediently such a central rail 80 as shown in FIG. 3 can be seen in each case already preassembled on a vertical side of a prefabricated facade element 2.
• a prefabricated Façade element 2 carries no wiper strip unit 7, but this has already been illustrated in FIG. 3 for the purpose of better illustration of the mutual association together with the drive means 29.
• a middle rail 80 of a in Fig.7 only indicated with 2 otherwise not shown lower facade element can project upwards and is connected during installation with the middle rail 80 'of the then mounted thereon facade element 2', so as a precise Aligning the center rails 80, 80 'in the vertical direction in spite of the distance in the joint area 5 ensure.
• the center rail 80 'of the overlying facade element 2' has, in order to enable this, a starting offset with the lower end U-profile 83 '.
• Fig .7 are further the inner web portions
• FIG. 7A is also a prefixed in a vertical section H-shaped joint bridging element 87 on one of the prefabricated facade elements, for example on the upper facade element, the middle rail 80 'thereof, and during assembly of this bridging element 87 is narrowed with its lower opening 88 to a slid and fixed at the top, for example, beveled or rounded portion of the underlying middle rail 80 of the underlying facade element.
• Fig. 8 shows diagrammatically a joint bridging piece 89 for the continuation of guide surfaces in the guide channels 64 of the semi-profiles 18 and 19 between vertically stacked facade elements.
• the joint bridging piece 89 guides the roller elements 63 or sliders for the entrainment of the facade cleaning elements smoothly over the horizontal joints 5.
• protruding tabs 90 are arranged, which are easily inserted into the corresponding profile channel 27 at least one half-profile 18.
• the joint bridging piece 89 is fixed at least in one of the adjacent semi-profiles 18 and is against secured slipping.
• the procedure described in the installation of the described facade elements 2 that this, after its prefabrication with the attached to the plate members or glass panels 16, preferably made of aluminum semi-profiles 18, 19, 34, 35, optionally together with pre-assembled middle rails 80, U And / or joint bridging elements 87, etc., attached in sequence to each other and one above the other on a facade 3, wherein at the bottom of the facade 3, a series of semi-profiles similar to the half-profiles 35 may be attached to the bottom row of facade elements. 2 to attach first. After assembly of the facade elements 2, the drive means 29 together with driver parts 60 and cleaning element carriers 61 are mounted in the profile channels 27, 28, and the wiper strip units 7 are mounted.
• the horizontal joints 5 are, of course, only possible in the area of the superimposed plate parts 16 and vertical half profiles 18, 19, but not in the horizontal half profiles 34, 35, which are inserted into one another during installation. It would be conceivable, the plate members 16 as well as the vertical half-profiles 18, 19 directly abut each other when the facade elements 2 are mounted one above the other, however, the provision of the joints 5 or distances for aesthetic reasons, as well as in terms of any manufacturing tolerances desired or be necessary, for example, to prevent the abutting vertical half-profiles 18, 19 hinder the proper assembly of a facade element 2 over another, with telescoping of the respective horizontal half-profiles 34, 35 at a possible excess length.
• the height of the facade elements 2 will usually depend on the storey height of the respective building 1, since this makes it possible to suspend the facade elements 2 on the supports 46 embedded in the storey ceilings, without the necessity of attaching the supports to other locations.

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