EP2382363A1 - Dispositif de fixation de boucles de câble - Google Patents

Dispositif de fixation de boucles de câble

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EP2382363A1
EP2382363A1 EP10701649A EP10701649A EP2382363A1 EP 2382363 A1 EP2382363 A1 EP 2382363A1 EP 10701649 A EP10701649 A EP 10701649A EP 10701649 A EP10701649 A EP 10701649A EP 2382363 A1 EP2382363 A1 EP 2382363A1
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shaped part
cable
rope
stops
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Werner Schreiner
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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
    • E04G21/00—Preparing, conveying, or working-up building materials or building elements in situ; Other devices or measures for constructional work
    • E04G21/12—Mounting of reinforcing inserts; Prestressing
    • E04G21/125—Reinforcement continuity box
    • 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
    • E04G21/00—Preparing, conveying, or working-up building materials or building elements in situ; Other devices or measures for constructional work
    • E04G21/12—Mounting of reinforcing inserts; Prestressing
    • E04G21/125—Reinforcement continuity box
    • E04G21/126—Reinforcement continuity box for cable loops

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  • the present invention relates to a device for holding loops, consisting of a cross-sectionally U-shaped part with a bottom and side walls, wherein in the bottom at least one opening for the passage of two cable sections is provided, which are folded into a loop of rope, said the U-shaped part is designed to receive a cable eye angled parallel to the bottom of the U-shaped part, whereby the free ends of the cable sections extend perpendicular to the bottom of the U-shaped part through the at least one opening, wherein at the U -shaped part stops and support members are provided, which are at least partially formed out of the ground and which hold the cable eye in the angled to the cable ends position in the U-shaped part, wherein the resulting from the forming openings except for openings for through hindu the bottom of the U-shaped part Rach led rope ends are closed by plugs.
  • Corresponding devices for holding cable loops are known, for example, from EP 0 819 203 A1, EP 0 914 531 A1 and EP 1 589 156 A1.
  • the above documents are primarily concerned with so-called "storage boxes” or “Verwahrschienen” for cable loops, which are typically formed in the form of a U-profile and have closed storage boxes as closed end sides at the ends of this profile a corresponding device in the form of a longer rail with a substantially U-shaped cross-section is known, which has open end faces and can in principle be produced in any desired lengths.
  • the bottom of corresponding devices has at least one opening for the passage of two parallel cable sections, the two of which are approximately parallel to each other aligned end portions of a single cable section consisting of a - -
  • U-profile is here to be interpreted broadly and includes z. As well as profiles with trapezoidal or V-section.
  • the entire cable section folded together with its two free ends is referred to in the present description as a "cable loop", wherein a distinction is still made between the essentially mutually parallel end sections and the middle section of the cable forming a cable eye
  • the plane defined by the portion of the cable eye is substantially perpendicular to the extension of the two parallel ends.
  • Kunststofformmaschine serve as stops or support members, which, optionally together with parts of the U-shaped part hold the cable loop in the above-described angled position.
  • the present invention has the object to provide a corresponding device for holding cable loops, in which any plastic parts that close, for example, for closing the not stressed by the rope ends cross sections of openings, not by at Cable loop occurring bending forces are loaded, with no parts to protrude beyond the outer cross section of the U-shaped part and the accessibility of the U-shaped part is fully retained without the cable loop extending from its angled position out.
  • the closing of the remaining cross-sections of any breakthroughs can subsequently be made after the cable ends are passed through a corresponding opening and before or after the cable eye is fixed in its relative to the rope ends angled position.
  • an edge of a breakthrough in the ground act as a first stop, while a second stop is formed by an inwardly bent part in the vicinity of the first stop.
  • the cable eye is held by detecting opposite side sections of the eyelet in your approximately parallel to the ground angled position, the advantage that it can be used equally without changes for different lengths of eyelets.
  • two parallel sections running out of the ground as stops for the cable loop are punched out in the longitudinal direction of the U-shaped part.
  • shaped part in angled with an L-shaped cross-section so that they effectively form L-profiles.
  • these L-profiles each consist of a first, perpendicular to the ground extending portion and a second, extending parallel to the ground portion, said second portions of the two parallel L-profiles are angled towards each other.
  • the length of the first portion measured perpendicular to the ground may be between 3 and 10 mm, so that the second portion parallel to the ground has a corresponding distance from the ground.
  • an end-side end edge of the second section serves as a bending stop for a cable section, while one of this end side in a horizontal (measured parallel to the ground) distance edge of a breakthrough in the ground serves as a counter-stop, which in cooperation with the first-mentioned bending stop the cable sections emerging from the ground holds in a direction substantially vertical extent to the ground plane.
  • the stop on the L-profile and the counter-stop at the edge of the opening are relatively to each other in the longitudinal direction of the storage box about the rope thickness or something - -
  • the closed end of the cable eye is pressed down over the first-mentioned bending stop in the direction of the ground and z. B. hooked behind a, punched out of the ground, hook-shaped holding element.
  • This holding element could also be considered as a third bending stop, it being sufficient if the holding element in the profile is also approximately L-shaped, again one leg of the L extends substantially perpendicular to the bottom surface and the other parallel to the bottom surface and wherein the extending parallel portion of this L-shaped holding element either from the first two bending stops or extends to this.
  • the distance of this holding element of the first two stops is adapted to the length of the cable eye, so that the closed end can be hooked after the pressing down and bending the cable eye to the first bending stop under the second portion of the L-shaped support member without Slip off holding element.
  • rope loops with different lengths of eye loops in the U-shaped part is provided in a preferred embodiment that several hook-shaped holding elements are punched out at different distances to the first and second bending stops from the ground and bent out, said the different distances of these holding elements are in turn adapted to the different standard lengths of corresponding cable loops.
  • support elements in the form of plate-like parts can be shaped out of the ground, which are aligned approximately perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of a cable eye and have at least one recess for receiving and pressing down the rope sections forming the cable eye, which are located on opposite sides of the cable eye run approximately parallel
  • the invention can be made both in the form of a U-shaped rail of a greater length of at least 25 cm and up to 3 m or more, with corresponding bending stops and retaining element are distributed at regular or varying intervals over the length of the rail, or the invention is embodied in the form of a so-called "storage box", which is at least 15 cm long, for example, and in which the U-shaped part is closed at its end faces and which is dimensioned so that it receives only a single loop of cable, however, variants are also possible in which, for example, two cable loops are accommodated in a storage box, wherein, incidentally, the transition from a storage box with one or two cable loops to rails with more than two cable loops is, in principle, fluid.
  • corresponding rails can be designed as long boxes with closed end faces.
  • the remaining open side of the U-shaped cross-section may optionally be replaced by a - -
  • NEN lid are closed, and this is not absolutely necessary if the upper edge of the U-shaped part and optionally its end faces is designed so that it can be tightly attached to the inside of a formwork.
  • the sealing or a closing of the storage box can also be done by adhesive tape.
  • the openings and openings that arise due to the punching out and bending out of the bottom sections should be closed by appropriate plugs.
  • These may be very simple plastic elements whose outer shape matches the shape of the apertures and which are mounted to securely and tightly seal the respective aperture, i. Seal the interior of the U-shaped part against the ingress of concrete when the U-shaped part is mounted in a formwork and the projecting from the U-shaped part cable ends are shed with the concrete.
  • the opening in the bottom which has the first two bending stops, is closed by a plug which is in the form of a slide and on the bending stops forming bending stop edges facing away from under the L-shaped profiles is pushed until it abuts the cable sections extending between the first and second bending stops, wherein a corresponding extension also fills any remaining free space between the parallel Seilab- sections, but without this plastic plug must absorb any bending forces of the cable loop.
  • the corresponding plug can then be made of a correspondingly easily moldable, possibly also compliant and in any case good sealing and easy to process material.
  • FIG. 1 shows a perspective side of a storage box according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 shows a top view of a section of the storage box from FIG. 1 in an intermediate state after a first punching step
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 show two alternative forms of holders
  • FIG. 3 shows a side view of the storage box according to FIG.
  • FIG. 5 shows a perspective view of a further embodiment of a storage box
  • FIGS. 6 to 8 different views of the storage box according to FIG. 5.
  • FIG. 9 shows a plug for closing recesses in the bottom of a storage box
  • FIG. 10 shows a perspective view of the storage box according to FIG. 1 with a cable loop received therein and FIG - -
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 show a side view of the embodiment according to FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • FIG. 1 a generally designated 10 storage box in the form of a substantially rectangular U-profile, consisting of a bottom 1 and side walls 2, wherein the upper ends of the side walls 2 are angled to form flange portions 3 to the outside. These flange sections 3 are used, for example, the attachment of a lid.
  • the end faces of the Verwahrkastens 10 are shown here open and can optionally be closed by appropriate cover, which may also be integrally formed with a top closing lid.
  • such a lid can also be formed analogously to the stops and holding elements according to the present invention by means of a folded-up, end-side projecting end section of the bottom.
  • the storage box 10 shown can also be considered as a section of a longer, in profile U-shaped rail, within which the openings 6, 7 and 8 and the correspondingly bent stops 4 and support elements 5 can be repeated several times, with the relative arrangement of Recesses 7 and 6 and the corresponding bent-out elements can be partially reversed, so that therefore the cable loops can be partially angled in a direction opposite to 180 ° direction.
  • Front lid or closures are required in such a rail only when the rail is shorter than the edge of the prefabricated component to be produced therewith.
  • the stops 4 and holding elements 5 have been formed by punched out of the bottom 1 and angled bottom sections, which, as can be seen in particular in Figure 10, a cable eye 22 in an approximately 90 ° relative to the Keep rope ends 21 angled.
  • FIG. 2 shows the storage box 10 in a plan view from above in an intermediate state after a first punching operation. It can be seen the openings 6 and 7 and 8, wherein already completely punched out and removed bottom portions are surrounded by solid lines, such as parts of the openings 6 and 7 and the opening 8, while other parts of the openings 7 and 6 only by bending out more - -
  • a T-shaped profile section 5 'could be bent out of the ground, in which the ends of the T Crossbar hook-shaped bent downwards, wherein two approximately parallel cable sections, instead of being inserted as in the case of the illustrated embodiment from the inside into the corresponding recess 8, could be hooked from the outside under the hooked ends of the "T" crossbar and due to Residual stress of the wire rope loop in the angled state of the loop would remain there.
  • two U-shaped recesses each with a one-sided bulge or undercut 18a, 18b, could be provided in the plate-shaped angled bottom section, which defines the retaining element 5 ".
  • FIG. 10 shows the storage box according to the invention with a cable loop received therein and held at an angle.
  • the cable loop consists essentially of a section of a steel rope whose free ends 21 are folded in parallel and are pressed together by a ferrule 14 firmly together.
  • a cable eye 22 forms in the central cable section, in the region furthest from the ferrule.
  • the cable sections forming the cable loop extend through the recess 6 and lie in particular in the lateral bulged sections 6a, 6b of the opening 6 the two L-shaped angled bottom sections, which form the stops 4, put thefastwinkelnden cable sections to the free edges of the stops 4, wherein on the attacks 4 opposite side of the ropes, the lower outer edges of the recess 6 and the portions 6a, 6b counter-attacks form, so that the edges of the opening 6 and the edges of the L-profiles, Wel- - - -
  • the cable loop Due to the elastic properties inherent in the wire rope, the cable loop generally has the tendency to extend the cable eye 22 in extension of the cable sections 21 and at right angles to the floor 1. This is prevented by the additional holder 5, which has a recess 8 with lateral undercuts 8a, 8b, in which two still approximately parallel cable sections of the cable eye 22 are mounted.
  • the cable eye 22 has the tendency to form the largest possible radius of curvature, the suspended in the recesses 8a, 8b cable sections have a tendency to move apart and are in this way safely in the undercut recesses 8a , 8b pressed in and held there, so that the cable loops can not slip out of the recess 8 and can stretch in alignment with the cable sections 21.
  • plug 30 one of which an embodiment in a plan view of Figure 9 is recognizable, insofar as a peculiarity, as they by appropriate design and / or marking z.
  • B. indicate the length and / or orientation of the recorded in the U-profile cable eye and / or the installation direction of the profile.
  • plugs 30 may be color-coded for the length of the cable loops and have a directional arrow 31 or the like for the installation direction or cable eye direction,
  • FIG. 8 a further embodiment of the invention is shown, in which instead of the support members 5, 5 'or 5 ", which lateral rope sections of a cable eye 22 can detect and hold, three spaced at different distances support elements are shown, which 5 and also in the side view of Figure 7, have approximately a hook shape
  • These three holding elements 25 are arranged at intervals one behind the other, so that they each for cable eyes of different lengths, eg. Otherwise, the cable loop extends in exactly the same way through the recesses 6 and 6a, 6b in front of the stops 4, is bent over the stops 4, wherein the opposite cable sections of a cable eye for hanging in one of the hooks 25 are expediently compressed, whereby - -
  • All bottom openings 28 are in turn closed by plugs, wherein the stopper which closes the opening 28 under a hook to which the cable eye is attached, may differ in color from the other plugs, so that it is readily apparent from the outside, which length the has respective cable eye, which is located in the here designated 20 storage box.
  • the advantage of the present invention is that except the plug 30, to which no special technical requirements must be made because they do not have to fulfill any support or support function for the cable loop, no separate components are necessary. That Retaining elements and stops are an integral part of the storage box itself and punched out of the bottom of the same. This simplifies the manufacture and also facilitates handling, including the insertion of appropriate cable loops, since you do not have to handle additional parts when inserting and fixing the rope loops.
  • the stoppers closing the openings can either be used as soon as the cable ends 21 have been passed through the opening 6 and the cable sections abut substantially in the areas 6a, 6b, or they only become active after the cable eye 22 has been bent and secured the right angle bent position inserted into the corresponding openings and z. B. locked.
  • a lid on the open top does not necessarily have to be attached, since the two flange sections 3a, 3b can also be tightly connected to the formwork, for example, directly (eg by nailing or by gluing or by other fastening methods). Nevertheless, the use of a lid or generally any kind of closure for the storage box or a corresponding Verwahrschiene in many cases useful and appropriate, because in other ways a secure seal against penetrating concrete can not always be guaranteed.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un dispositif de fixation de boucles de câble (20), dispositif constitué par une pièce (10) de section en U, présentant un fond (1) et des parois latérales (2a, 2b), dans le fond (1) de laquelle est prévue au moins une ouverture de passage (6) permettant le passage de deux sections de câble (21) qui sont réunies de manière à former une boucle de câble, la pièce en U (10) étant conçue pour recevoir un oeillet de câble (22) coudé sensiblement parallèlement au fond de la pièce en U (10), de sorte que les extrémités libres des sections de câble (21) s'étendent perpendiculairement au fond (1) de ladite pièce en U (10) à travers au moins ladite ouverture de passage (6), cependant qu'il est prévu, sur la pièce en U (10), des butées (4) et des éléments de fixation (5) qui sont formés au moins partiellement en saillie par rapport au fond (1) et qui maintiennent l'oeillet de câble (22) dans la position coudée vers les extrémités de câble (21) dans la pièce en U (10), les ouvertures formées par la saillie précitée pouvant être fermées par bourrage, à l'exception des ouvertures (6a, 6b; 8a, 8b) pour les extrémités de câble (21) guidées à travers le fond de la pièce en U (10). Afin que toutes les butées et tous les éléments de fixation soient formés par le fond même et/ou par des parties du fond poinçonnées dans le fond de la pièce en U et cintrées vers l'intérieur dans le plan du fond, les ouvertures ainsi formées pouvant être fermées par bourrage, à l'exception d'une ou de deux ouvertures pour les extrémités de câble sortant de la pièce en U, l'invention est caractérisée en ce que toutes les butées (4) et tous les éléments de fixation (5) requis pour le pliage et la fixation de la boucle de câble en un état coudé en U sont formés par le fond ou par des parties du fond poinçonnées dans le fond (1) de la pièce en U (10) et cintrées vers l'intérieur, au moins partiellement, dans le plan du fond (1).
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