FR2656888A1 - SYSTEM OF REMOVABLE AND MODULAR PARTITIONS. - Google Patents

Abstract

Set of standard elements for the production of demountable partitions flexible at will in dimensions and in configurations, characterized in that it comprises: - a framing profile which can be used for framing all types of panels intended to constitute said partitions, whatever the nature, size and configuration of these panels; and - a profile for assembly and immobilization by clipping said panels onto said frame profiles.

Description

The present invention relates to removable partition systems

  widely used in particular to delimit workspaces in large spaces delivered empty, so as to be subdivided according to the

user's needs.

  Currently the systems proposed, although qualified as modular at will, adapt to real needs only in the case where said premises and said

  spaces respect relatively small dimensions and configurations.

  Thus, while modern architecture is diversified by the multiplication of polygonal shapes with short facets and many, that is to say of very different dimensions and different angles of opening and in any case greater than 90, the currently marketed panels are of small dimensions and only assemble 900, so it is common to create partitions by folding assembly elements, this folding is rarely of a correct accuracy, and by association several elements to reach a non

  standard, with expensive and unsightly fittings.

  The invention overcomes these drawbacks, thanks to a new structure of partitions using a limited number of simple standard elements allowing, by their association, the creation of partitions sizes and unlimited configurations. According to the invention, these standard elements are: a single universal profile constituting the frame of all types of panels constituting the partitions, regardless of the size and configuration of said panels, a single universal profile constituting the assembly element and immobilization by clipping said panels on said frames, a shutter profile of the side face of a partition, adapted to the placement of glass panels, a shutter profile of the side face of a partition , adapted in particular to the establishment of a door frame, and a profile intended to serve as a joint cover between two contiguous panels

  brought together by an assembly amount.

  More specifically, said frame profile is a U-section section, each branch carries an outer wing intended to receive a panel, this wing itself having a finger facing rearwardly so as to form a lateral housing for l assembly element of said panel, the facets facing said housing and said connecting element having recessed notches and lugs ensuring by their cooperation their mutual clipping, said branches extending rearwardly, beyond the base of said U so as to form a U

flattened towards the back.

  Similarly, said connecting section is a section whose section has a wing intended to cover the corresponding panel after its introduction, and a heel intended to be housed by clipping in the lateral housing of the profile

  framing, thereby immobilizing said panel.

  Similarly, said shutter profile is a generally U-shaped profile flattened each branch of which bears on its inner face a lug intended to cooperate with a corresponding notch of the outer face of the front end of each branch of the profile. frame, to ensure their mutual clipping, these profiles may also include at least one outer side wing to create at the same time, in cooperation with the corresponding connecting member, a housing for a panel optionally of non-standard dimensions, such as

than a glass panel.

  Similarly, the other shutter profile is a generally U-shaped profile whose mouth is narrowed to fit on the inner faces of the branches of the frame profile, then flares out creating a shoulder intended to be covered by the wing of an assembly section, the base of the U being arranged

  to receive a fixed element of frame, such as hinges.

  Finally, the assembly of the panels on the upright with joint covers uses a section section generally T-shaped section, the foot of this T being inserted into a corresponding slot of an assembly amount of panels shaped double T, and there to be immobilized by clipping between notches and corresponding lugs, the spaces defined between the respective bars of said T constituting housings for adjacent panels, and said bars forming joint covers for said

spaces from one panel to the next.

  All these profiles are part of the present invention, they are used alone

  or in any combination possible, as will be illustrated by the examples below.

  after. The invention thus covers not only these profiles and their combinations, but also the method of making partitions using these profiles, in combinations between them and with the already existing architectural elements Thus, according to a particularly interesting embodiment of the In the invention, two partitions can be assembled at any opening angle by virtue of the configuration of the double-U section frame elements, the flat U-section rear vertical space being able to adapt to the curvature of a single section. vertical pole

  round, in any desired angular orientation.

  The invention will therefore be illustrated by means of several illustrative examples having no limiting character, with reference to the appended drawings, in which:

  Figure 1 shows the section of a frame profile.

  Figures 2a and 2b show the section of an assembly profile and

  of immobilization according to its two possible orientations.

  FIGS. 3 a and 3 b represent in section two variants of a profile

  shutter adapted to the installation of panels.

  FIG. 4 represents the section of a shutter profile adapted to the implementation of FIG.

place of a door frame.

  Figure 5 shows the section of an assembly stud of adjacent panels. Figures Ga and 6b show in section two variants of joint covers

  usable with the amount of Figure 5.

  FIG. 7 represents in section an intermediate assembly between

  solid panels and glass panels.

  FIG. 8 represents in section an intermediate assembly between

solid panels and a door frame.

  FIG. 9 illustrates in perspective a fragment of a partition according to FIG. 8. FIGS. 10 and 11 are respectively views similar to FIGS. 7 and 8, the assembly being done on a round post, allowing the creation of a angle

  any two consecutive partitions.

  FIG. 12 illustrates in perspective a fragment of an assembly according to FIG. 10. FIG. 13 shows in horizontal section the assembly of two adjacent panels of the same partition on a vertical upright, with joint covers, and

  Figure 14 illustrates in perspective a fragment of the partition of Figure 13.

  In all the figures, the corresponding elements are designated by the

  same numerical references, as they appear in FIGS. 1 to 6.

  If we first consider Figure 1, there is shown the section of a frame profile 1, which is one of two basic standard elements of the invention. This section is in the form of a U, each branch 2a, 2b carries an outer side wing, 3a, 3b against which will abut the field of a panel disposed along the outer face 4a 4b of the front of the branches 2a, 2b Each wing 3a, 3b itself has a finger 5a, 5b facing rearwardly so as to constitute a lateral housing 6a, 6b for the assembly and immobilization element of said panel, the facets facing said housing and said connecting element having notches (7a, 7b on the profile 1 and 8a, 8b on the assembly elements ) and lugs (9a, 9b on the section 1 and 10a, 1 Ob on the assembly element) ensuring by their cooperation their mutual clipping, said branches 2a, 2b extending rearward following 1a, 11b beyond the

  base 12 so as to form a flattened U 13, facing rearward.

  Referring to Figures 2a, 2b, there is shown the same section of the assembly and immobilization sections 14, 14 k which are the other basic standard elements according to the invention, and which cooperate with the elements

  framing 1, as illustrated in Figures 7 to 12.

  The profiles 14a and 14b are identical, with the difference that they are oriented symmetrically with respect to the vertical plane of symmetry of the partition in which they participate. Each consists on the one hand of a wing 15a, 15b intended to cover the panel placed along the face 4a, 4b and against the wing 3a, 3b of the profile 1, and other part of a U-shaped heel 16 a, 16 b intended to lock in the housing 6 a, 6 b of the profile 1, by clipping the lugs 9 a, 9 b in the notches 8 a, 8 b, and lugs

a, 10b in the notches 7a, 7b.

  Referring to Figures 3a, 3b and 4, there is shown closure profiles of the open face of the profiles 1, in various configurations: In the case of Figure 3a, Sb, the profiles 17a and 17 b respectively have a flattened U-shaped section with each leg 18a, 19a and 18b, 19b bears on its inner face a pin 20a 21a and 20b, 21b for cooperating with a corresponding notch 22a, 22b b of the front end 4a, 4b of each branch of the frame section 1, to ensure their mutual clipping In the case of the profile 17b of Figure 3b, in addition, each branch 18k, 19b comprises in addition to a side wing 23 a, 23 b intended to create, at the same time, in cooperation with the corresponding connecting element 14 k, 14 b a housing for a panel that may not have the standard dimensions, for example a panel of glass, as

illustrate it in Figures 7 and 10.

  In the case of Figure 4, the section 24 also has a U-shaped section but whose mouth is narrowed along front branches 25a, 25b so as to fit on the inner faces 26a, 26b of the frame section 1, while the rear portion of the U flares off creating a shoulder 27a, 27b to be covered by the flange 15 to 15b of an assembly section 14, 14b, the base 28 of the U being arranged appropriately (not shown) to receive a fixed element of door frame, for example an amount

carrying a series of hinges.

  Finally, if we consider FIGS. 5, 6a and 6b, there is shown in section a set of elements intended to ensure the assembly of contiguous panels together forming a partition of particular dimensions, to avoid the interposition

of frame profiles 1.

  The first element (FIG. 5) is a section 29 with a double-T section comprising a foot 30 and two perpendicular symmetrical bars 31, 31b. In the longitudinal plane of symmetry of the foot 30, there are slots 32-a, 32b, and in the outer faces of the bars 31a, 31b are cut notches 33a, 33b and 34a, 34b. The second element 35 (FIG. 6 a) or 36 (FIG. 6 k) is T-shaped, the foot 37 (or 38) being intended to be inserted into a slot 32a (or 32b) where it is clipped by a pin 39 (or 40) cooperating with notches represented in 41 to 41 k, formed in said slots 32a, 32b The bar 42 of the T 36 is flat, while the bar 43 of the T 35 is curved, as will be explained about figures 13 and

  14, to serve as joints between said contiguous panels.

  The different standard elements according to the invention have thus been described, we will now illustrate how they can be exploited in combinations

  very diverse for the realization of partitions.

  Referring first to Figure 7 there is shown the assembly

  intermediate of a first partition 44 and a second partition 45.

  The first partition, 44, consists of two solid panels 46a, 46b assembled and held in place by the cooperation of a first profile 14a, 14b, that is to say between the outer faces 22a, 22 b of the profile 1 A and the wings 15a, 15b of the profiles 14k, 14k, the profiles 14, 14b being themselves locked in the recesses 6a, 6b of the profile 1A, as exposed more top of Figures 1, 2 a

and 2 b.

  The second partition 45 consists of two glass panels 47 to 47 b assembled to the profile IB via a shutter profile 17 b, and seals 48 a, 48 b compensating for the difference in thickness of the panels. This results in the rectilinear succession of the two partitions 44, 45, the respective rear branches 11 a, 11 b of the two sections 1 A 1 B connecting around a

  amount 49 constituted by a standard rectangular section section.

  In the variant illustrated in FIGS. 8 and 9, the partition 44 is assembled,

  more with another partition 45, but with a frame.

  For this purpose, instead of the closure element 17b, the closure element 24 is used, as has been described with reference to FIG. 4. Thus, the external faces 25a, 25b of FIG. the mouth of the profile 24 fit the inner faces 26a, 26b of the front legs 4a, 4b of the profile 1B, and the fields of the wings 15a, 15b of the assembly elements 14a, 14b take bearing on the shoulders 27a, 27b of the element 24. In the latter case, the element 24 may constitute a vertical upright for

  a frame (suggested in broken lines at 50 in Figure 2).

  FIG. 9 makes it possible to better understand the assembly mode of the elements 1A, 1B, 14a, 14b and 24, it being understood that for the sake of clarity, the

  panels 46 a, 46 b were omitted, as well as the central amount 49.

  If we now consider Figures 10, 11 and 12, they are comparable to Figures 7, 8 and 9, with the difference that the assemblies are no longer on either side of an amount 49, imposing a straight alignment, but around a pole

round 51.

  As a result, the position of each partition being defined (in section) by the three points of contact 52, 53, 54, branches 11 i 1 b and the base 12 of the flattened U portion 13 of the profile l A (and 1 B), it is possible to orient the partition 45 or the frame 24 from any angle with respect to the partition 44, as illustrated at 55 in broken lines in Figure 10, where angle alpha between the partition 44 and the partition 45 is 120, which corresponds to the constitution of partitions

  hexagonal, widespread today.

  Finally, referring to FIGS. 13 and 14, there is illustrated a method of assembling two contiguous panels 56, 57, without the interposition of framing elements,

  with the aim of constituting a continuous partition of large dimensions.

  The panel 56 consists of two solid panels 58a, 58b and the panel 57 consists of two glass panels 59a, 59b through a

  shutter element 17b and compensating joints 48a, 48b.

  In this assembly, use an amount 29 according to Figure 5 and two covers 35,36 according to Figures 6a, 6b The feet 37, 38 of the joint covers 36 are immobilized in the slots 32a, 32 b of the amount 29, as described with reference to Figures 5, 6a, 6b The bars 42, 43 are pressed on the outer faces 60a, 60b of the solid panels 58a, 58b and on the outer faces 61a, 61 b glass panels 59 a, 59 b, pressing against the outer faces of the horizontal bars 62 to 62 b of the upright 29 Despite the empty space 63 a, 63 b, remaining between the various elements assembled, sealing of the assembly is perfectly ensured by these joints, which, of small dimensions, do not interfere with

the aesthetics of said assembly.

  FIG. 14 allows, in perspective, a better understanding of the relative disposition of a frame member, 1, an upright 29, an assembly element 14a and

  an attached cover 36, the panels 60b and 61b, being omitted for clarity.

  Of course, the examples of associations illustrated in FIGS. 7 to 14 are in no way limiting, and this patent covers all the elements illustrated in FIGS. 1 to 6 and all the modes of association of these elements with a view to

  formation of partitions of all configurations and all dimensions.

Claims (8)

  1 set of standard elements for the realization of demountable partitions modular at will in dimensions and configurations, characterized in that it comprises: a frame profile used for the framing of all types of panels intended to form said partitions, whatever the nature, size and configuration of these panels; and an assembly and immobilization profile by clipping said panels   on said framing profiles.   2 assembly according to claim 1, characterized in that it comprises, additionally: at least one shutter profile of the side face of a partition, adapted to the establishment of panels of different dimensions and / or configurations: and / or at least one closure profile of the lateral face of a partition, adapted to the establishment of a frame; and / or at least one profile intended to serve as a holding element in place forming a joint cover between two adjacent panels joined by a post   assembly, in the absence of a frame profile.   3 assembly according to one of claims 1 and 2, characterized in that the   frame profile is a U-section section each branch carries an outer wing for receiving a panel, this wing itself having a finger facing rearwardly so as to form a lateral housing for the element of assembly of said panel, the facets facing said housing and said connecting element having notches and lugs ensuring by their cooperation their mutual clipping; said branches extending rearward, beyond the   base of said U, so as to form a flattened U oriented rearwardly.   4 assembly according to one of claims 1 and 2, characterized in that the   assembly and immobilization section is a profile whose section has a wing intended to cover the corresponding panel after its introduction, and a heel intended to lock by clipping in the lateral housing of the profile   framing, thereby immobilizing said panel.   Assembly according to Claim 2, characterized in that the shut-off profile is a section section of generally U-flattened shape, each branch of which bears on its inner face a lug intended to cooperate with a corresponding notch on the outer face of the end. before each branch of the frame profile, to ensure their mutual clipping, these profiles may also include at least one outer side wing to create at the same time, in cooperation with the corresponding connecting element, a housing for a panel possibly non-standard dimensions, such as a sign of glass.   6 assembly according to claim 2, characterized in that the closure profile is a section section generally U-shaped whose mouth is narrowed to fit on the inner faces of the branches of the frame profile, then widens by creating a shoulder intended to be covered by the wing of an assembly section, the base of the U being arranged to receive a   fixed element of frame, such as hinges.   7 assembly according to claim 2, characterized in that the profile holding in place contiguous panels in the absence of framing profile is a section section generally T-shaped, the foot of this T being inserted into a corresponding slot of an assembly amount of double T-shaped panels and be immobilized by clipping between notches and corresponding lugs, the spaces defined between the respective bars of said T constituting housing for adjacent panels, and said bars forming joint covers for said spaces from one panel to the next.   Assembly according to any one of the preceding claims,   characterized in that the assembly of the two contiguous panels is in a rectilinear direction on a standard section-shaped upright of rectangular section, housed in the space defined by the two flattened U of the two elements successive supervision.   Assembly according to any one of claims 1 to 7, characterized   that the assembly of the two contiguous panels is at an angle chosen at will around a round pole on which bear the surfaces defining the spaces defined by the two flattened U U of the two successive framing elements. Process for producing partitions that can be dismantled and modulated at will according to all dimensions and configurations, in particular angular configurations, characterized in that it consists of assembling standard elements according to one of   any of claims 1 to 9.   It can be dismantled and modular at will according to all dimensions and configurations, particularly angular, characterized in that it is obtained from   of an assembly according to any one of claims 1 to 9 and / or according to   process according to claim 10.