Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
  • E04B1/00—Constructions in general; Structures which are not restricted either to walls, e.g. partitions, or floors or ceilings or roofs
  • E04B1/18—Structures comprising elongated load-supporting parts, e.g. columns, girders, skeletons
  • E04B1/26—Structures comprising elongated load-supporting parts, e.g. columns, girders, skeletons the supporting parts consisting of wood
  • E04B1/2604—Connections specially adapted therefor
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
  • E04B1/00—Constructions in general; Structures which are not restricted either to walls, e.g. partitions, or floors or ceilings or roofs
  • E04B1/02—Structures consisting primarily of load-supporting, block-shaped, or slab-shaped elements
  • E04B1/10—Structures consisting primarily of load-supporting, block-shaped, or slab-shaped elements the elements consisting of wood
• • 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
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T403/00—Joints and connections
  • Y10T403/55—Member ends joined by inserted section
• • 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
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T403/00—Joints and connections
  • Y10T403/55—Member ends joined by inserted section
  • Y10T403/556—Section threaded to member

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a connecting device for interconnecting at least two components, in particular floor or wall or ceiling elements, a wooden structure, in particular a wooden house, with at least one bolt and a first fastening element for fastening the bolt to one of the components and a second fastening element for fastening the bolt to another of the components, wherein the bolt connects the fastening elements together and at least one intermediate layer of vibration-damping material is arranged on one side of at least one fastening element.
• Generic connection devices serve to connect heavier components of a wooden construction, in particular of a wooden house, to one another such that vibrations occurring at one point within the wooden structure can not be transmitted to other components of the wooden structure via the connection device. Specifically, it goes, for example to prevent the transmission of impact sound and structure-borne sound in wooden houses.
• the components to be joined together are therefore in particular floor, wall or ceiling elements of a wooden house.
• JP 2003-147 862 A shows a connection between a concrete base part and a precast reinforced concrete wall part by means of an anchor bolt which runs in a mortar-guided pipe in the foot part, wherein the mortar acts vibration damping.
• US 2008/0017780 A1 shows a housing for reducing energy transmission, which accommodates vibration damping material and a similar disc which are fastened by bolts to a wall pillar.
• connection device is already known in particular from Fig. 10 and the associated description.
• This is a screw.
• the screw shaft forms the bolt.
• the thread of the screw forms the first fastener, the screw head the second.
• this document proposes an intermediate layer on the screw head, that is to say on the second fastening element to be arranged from vibration damping material.
• the bolt is merely supported in a hole in the component with a slightly larger diameter, so that an air gap is created between the bolt and one of the components.
• the object of the invention is to improve a generic connection device to the effect that this can not happen.
• the pin is at least partially covered with at least one further intermediate layer of vibration damping material.
• the bolt preferably exclusively, bears against at least one of the components via the further intermediate layer of vibration-damping material.
• the known per se in the prior art in addition to the side of at least one of the fasteners provided intermediate layer of vibration damping material is conveniently in mounting position between the component and fastener and prevents at this point the transmission of vibrations.
• the outer surface of the bolt is completely encased in the direction of its longitudinal extension and / or its circumference by the further intermediate layer of vibration-damping material.
• the outer surface of the bolt in the direction of its longitudinal extent and / or its circumference is at least 20%, preferably at least 50%, of the further intermediate layer of vibration damping material coated.
• the vibration-damping or vibration-isolating or sound-insulating material is advantageously an elastic material. This has prefers a static modulus of elasticity between 0.025N / m 2 and 5N / m 2 . It is preferably an elastomer. These may be, for example, preferably foamed polyurethane elastomers or rubber elastomers or thermoplastic elastomers.
• the first fastening element can be a thread arranged on the bolt and designed for screwing into wood.
• the first fastening element is a mounting plate fastened to the bolt, in particular a fixed one.
• the bolt may then be arranged normal to an outer surface of the mounting plate.
• the mounting plate has holes for fixing the mounting plate to one of the wood elements, e.g. by means of screws.
• the first fastening element can also be a nut screwed onto a thread of the bolt in another alternative embodiment.
• nuts or the like screwed onto a thread of the bolt are preferred.
• this may also be a bolt head which is fixedly arranged on the bolt and thus not movable relative to the bolt.
• a particularly preferred embodiment of the invention provides that for clamping the connecting device, the distance between the fastening elements, in particular in the direction of a longitudinal extension of the bolt, is adjustable.
• This is particularly suitable for heavy wood constructions such. Wooden houses and allows both a tensioning and a retightening of the connecting device when due to an increased ballast or subsidence or other movements in the wood of the originally existing between the fasteners distance no longer leads to safe or play-free holding the components to be joined together.
• the connecting device can be tightened.
• Under adjustable is to be understood in particular that different distances from each other are adjustable and the changed or set distances then by friction forces or the like also remain preserved.
• the bolt, the fasteners and also the possibly existing shims are favorably harder than the one or more vibration-damping materials.
• the bolt and the fasteners and also optionally the shims are made of metal, preferably steel or aluminum, or have at least such metals.
• the bolts Conveniently a diameter between 10 and 30mm, preferably between 16 and 24mm. Their length is depending on the type preferably between 12cm and 80cm.
• the components of the wood construction are connected to each other exclusively with the interposition of vibration-damping materials.
• the same vibration-damping materials as in the intermediate layer and the further intermediate layer can be used.
• Connecting devices according to the invention are particularly intended to connect wall and ceiling or floor elements of wooden houses with each other. It can be provided that a connecting device comprises two components, such as e.g. connects a wall and a ceiling or a wall and a floor element together. However, it can also be provided that connecting devices according to the invention are designed to connect two superimposed wall elements and an intermediate ceiling element with each other. It can therefore by no means be assumed that connecting devices are only intended to connect only two components. They can also be designed so that they can attach three or more components together.
• Fig. 1 shows the situation in which an inventive embodiment of a connecting device is used to connect two components 1 and 2 of a wooden house with each other.
• the component 1 is a wall element of a wooden house, in the case of component 2 is a floor element.
• the bolt 4 and the fasteners Ia- like shown in the fully assembled state completely within the components, partly in, not visible in Fig. 1 holes 16, partly in the visible in Fig. 1 milled recesses 17.
• a separating layer 18 is arranged from vibration-damping material, so that vibrations and sound can not be transmitted directly between the two components 1 and 2.
• the bolt 4 can be seen. He carries on its opposite sides in each case a fastener 5 and 6.
• the first fastener 5 is realized in this embodiment as a arranged on the bolt 4, trained for screwing in wood thread.
• Fixing element ⁇ is provided in this first embodiment, a screwed onto a thread of the bolt nut.
• the distance 13 between the fastening elements 5 and 6 in the direction of the longitudinal extension 14 of the bolt 4 can be adjusted. This makes it possible to tension the connecting device during the first assembly. But it also allows a retightening of the connecting device, if, for example, by increased ballast or by shrinkage of the wood or by settlement processes to a change in the distance between the cutout 17 and the second component 2 has come.
• the accessibility of the second fastening element 6 is permanently given by the cutout 17. Otherwise, the connecting device is hidden in the components 1 and 2, so that it does not interfere visually.
• the second fastening element 6 and the nut is supported on the shim 11 - here a shim - on the intermediate layer 7, which in turn rests on the corresponding shoulders of the cutout 17.
• the intermediate layer 7 of vibration-damping material avoids the transmission of vibrations or sound via the second fastening element 6.
• the bolt 4 of a further intermediate layer 8 is enveloped from vibration damping material.
• the further intermediate layer 8 is tubular. In the central cavity of this tube, the bolt 4 is mounted.
• the further intermediate layer 8 extends over the entire length of the bore 16 in the component 1 and over more than 20% of the length of the bolt 4.
• the bolt 4 exclusively is applied via the intermediate layers 7 and 8 to at least one of the components 1 or 2, so as to avoid a transmission of sound between the two components 1 and 2 via the connecting device.
• the component 1 is a solid wood wall, so that the bore 16 and the cut-out 17 open to the outside must be provided for receiving the connecting device in the component 1.
• Fig. 3 shows another embodiment of a connecting device according to the invention.
• the wall elements 1 and 3 are not solid, but designed in a pedestal, so to achieve the accessibility of the second fastener ⁇ no cutout 17 must be provided.
• 3 shows a side view of a sequence of upper wall element 1, ceiling element 2 and lower wall element 3, these components 1 to 3 in turn being connected to one another by means of the connecting devices according to the invention.
• the embodiment of the connecting device shown here provides as the first fastening element 5 'before a mounting plate which is attached to the bolt 4, for example, welded.
• the bolt 4 is normal on the outer surface 9 of the mounting plate 5 '.
• the mounting plate has bores 10 by means of which the mounting plate and thus the entire connecting device can be fastened to the component 2. This attachment can be achieved by screwing but also by other fastening variants such as gluing or the like done.
• the mounting plates 5 ' are arranged in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3 and 4 in any case in recesses 19 in the release layer 18 of vibration damping material.
• the connecting device is otherwise formed as in the first embodiment shown in FIG. 1 and 2, so that this can be dispensed with further explanations.
• FIG. 4 shows how the embodiment of a connecting device according to the invention already shown in FIG. 3 can also be used for the attachment of solid wall elements 1 and 3 to ceiling elements 2.
• a connecting device according to the invention already shown in FIG. 3 can also be used for the attachment of solid wall elements 1 and 3 to ceiling elements 2.
• corresponding recesses 17 and holes 16 must be provided for this purpose again.
• Fig. 5 shows a further variant, which largely corresponds to the connecting device according to FIG. 4, in contrast to the variant according to FIG. 4, the further intermediate layer 8 of vibration-damping material, however, is shorter in FIG.
• This variant shows by way of example that the second intermediate layer 8 does not necessarily have to extend over the entire length of the bore 16.
• the length or size of the further intermediate layer 8 should, however, be chosen such that it is still ensured in the case of the maximum expected deformations that the bolt 4 does not bear directly on the respective component 1 or 3. Notwithstanding the embodiment according to FIG. 5, it is not absolutely necessary that the further intermediate layer 8 is arranged directly underneath or adjacent to the intermediate layer 7. Conveniently, in the shortened embodiment, it is to be arranged in each case where there is a risk that the bolt 4 could come to bear against the inner wall of the bore 16 or directly on the components 1 or 2.
• FIG. 6 and 7 show an embodiment variant of the invention in which this is not the case is.
• cutouts 17 are provided in this embodiment in the component 1 instead of the otherwise existing bores 16.
• the further intermediate layer 8 used here is encased in vibration-damping
• FIG. 7 shows a variant in which the cutouts 17 are replaced by holes 16.
• the basic structure of the connection device must be changed nothing. This largely corresponds to the exemplary embodiment according to FIGS. 3 and 4. In the following, only the differences will be discussed.
• a first difference lies in the embodiment of the shim 11, with which the second fastening element 6 is supported on the inner walls of the bore 16.
• the contact surface 12 of the shim 11, to which the intermediate layers 7 are arranged from vibration damping material each partially circular, while the contact surfaces 12 are formed flat in the embodiments shown so far.
• the supplemental body 11 can be displaceably mounted on the bolt 4, as is known from normal washers.
• a second difference from the exemplary embodiment according to FIGS. 3 and 4 is that the recesses 19 in the separating layer 18 have been dispensed with.
• the embodiment according to FIG. 8 shows that it may also be sufficient to provide corresponding holes in the separating layer 18, through which the bolt 4 and possibly also the further intermediate layer 8 can be passed.
• FIGS. 9 and 10 show an embodiment of the invention in which the three components 1, 1 are connected by means of a single connecting device. 2 and 3 - here again a wall element 1, a ceiling element 2 and another wall element 3 - can be connected to each other.
• the first fastening element 5 "in this embodiment, as well as the second fastening element 6 is formed as a nut screwed onto a thread of the bolt 4.
• the shape of the shims 11 corresponds to the embodiment of FIG. 8.
• the exemplary embodiment discussed here is a connection device with a single continuous bolt for connecting the three components 1, 2 and 3.
• the first and second fastening elements 5 "and 6 are each accessible via the bores 16 ,
• the bolt 4 is guided in further holes 16 in the components 1, 2 and 3.
• the further intermediate layer 8 extends over almost the entire distance 13 in the longitudinal direction 14 of the bolt 4. A re-tensioning of the connecting device is possible in this embodiment both via the first fastening element 5 "and via the second fastening element ⁇ .
• FIGS. 11 and 12 corresponds in broad terms to the first embodiment according to FIGS. 1 and 2.
• the second fastening element 6 ' is not one, screwed onto a thread of the bolt 4 nut, but one on the bolt 4 fixed screw head provided.
• This embodiment is therefore particularly appropriate when it can be dispensed with a retightening.

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