FR2823786A1 - Modular construction unit for building comprises door frame and door and possible accessories such as Venetian blinds, roller shutters or sun screens and comprises pre-frame fixed against opening internal surface - Google Patents

Abstract

The construction unit is installed and adjusted in a passage opening (11) in a wall which is part of a building. The unit comprises a doorframe (3) and a door (4) and possible accessories (5,6) associated with the doorframe, such as Venetian blinds, a roller shutter or sun screen. It comprises a pre-frame (12) housed in the passage opening and fixed against the opening internal surface. The pre-frame is provided with removable and reversible connections (31) to the doorframe.

Description

Cabinet THIBON LITTAYE

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  The present invention relates to a modular construction assembly, in particular of the door, window, facade element or other similar structure type, used in the construction of a building or similar construction, the arrangement of which can be modified. at will according to the conditions of its use, in particular according to the climate, the seasons, even the nature of the materials

  employss and the mounting parameters to be satisfied.

  It is perfectly conventional in the usual construction techniques, to provide in the main structure of the building openings of adequate dimensions in each of which is sealed, by means of fixing lugs or other similar devices, a fixed support structure which constitutes the frame. of the door or window to be produced, this frame being arranged to receive an opening of a given type, for example sliding, striking, with tilting or tilt-and-turn leaf, of the jealousy type with pivoting parallel blades, etc. according to the needs to be satisfied, the nature of the

  construction and surrounding climatic conditions.

  The frame and its associated opening may have a more or less complex macanic structure and incorporated, by an appropriate arrangement provided during their manufacture, accessories of the rolling shutter type or not, venetian blind, sun protection screen, rollable or fixed, together ventilation or air conditioning ... and which, at the option of the user, can be deployed in front of the door or conversely be retracted into the fixed frame, or even in

  the thickness of the large work surrounding it.

  However, in these usual structures, once the frame is sealed in the main structure, it is understood that it is not possible to modify it and consequently the opening and the accessories which adapt to it. Likewise, the construction structures of the frame and the opening, the materials they use, their relative dimensions in the opening receiving them, are not liable to be modified, unless a total removal of the door or window with loosening towards the wall which

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  support and assembly, in its place and place of a new

together, different from the first.

  However, depending on climatic variations between winter and summer in particular, changes in tastes or user needs, it is particularly desirable to be able to modify all or part of the

  characteristics of these constructive units.

  Furthermore, in order to rationalize manufacturing and as a result of reductions in industrialization costs, it is advantageous to be able to choose, if desired, to vary the possible associations which may be offered to the user, without it being necessary, each time, to study each of the specific cases planned to define the construction parameters, which remain frozen once stopped and

implemented.

  The subject of the invention is therefore a modular constructive assembly with an evolving arrangement, which makes it possible to vary at will its structure, its mechanical arrangement, the materials used and more generally all of its various technological characteristics of structure, shape, external appearance. , size etc ... to adapt this set in a simple and almost immediate way to the wishes of the user or to local traditions and habits, and to solve in each particular case the problems

to satisfy him.

  To this end, the assembly considered, designed to be mounted and adjusted in a passage orifice formed in a wall or similar structure, forming part of the main structure of a building or the like, comprising at least one frame and an opening carried by and capable of struggling vis-à-vis this frame, possibly other accessories associated with the frame, of the type of roller shutter, Venetian blind, sun screen or other, is characterized in that it comprises a pre-frame, housed in the passage opening while being applied and fixed at least partially against the internal surface of this opening, this pre-frame being provided with removable and reversible connection means with the frame

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  and / or accessories, allowing them to be changed to

  will by addition, deletion or substitution.

  According to a particular characteristic of the invention, the pre-frame is made up of contiguous metal profiles, the width of the pre-frame preferably extending according to the depth of the orifice for passage in the large structure. Advantageously, the removable connection means consist of clips engaged respectively with reserves or ribs of the pre-frame, and reserves or

  homologous ribs of the frame and accessories.

  In a particular embodiment, the connection means consist of projecting extensions carried by the frame and the accessories, engaged and locked in grooves for receiving the frame, or vice versa. In addition, according to another characteristic, the metal profiles of the pre-frame comprise joining means made up of complementary elements, cooperating mutually from one to the other, from one profile to the next

depending on the width of the pre-frame.

  Advantageously also, the metal profiles of the pre-frame constitute reserves for electric cables supplying mechanisms for controlling functions linked to the use of the opening leaf and / or of the accessories. Likewise, the metal profiles can also include internal holes for communication from one to the other to allow the circulation of ventilation air in the pre-frame. Cover caps are advantageously mounted at the ends of the pre-frame for

ensure the finish of it.

  The invention thus consists in mounting inside the passage orifice provided in the large structure of the building to be equipped, a support pre-frame, itself fixed and preferably sealed against the wall opposite this passage. , the internal surface of this pre-frame being arranged so as to allow the assembly as well as the easy and rapid disassembly of one or more frame s each receiving an appropriate opening element than various accessories, to be disposed between these opening elements or , as the case may be, in front of or behind them, the assembly thus being entirely "flexible" and being able to be adapted to each particular case according to as many options as desired or made necessary by the surrounding conditions in

  which door or window is used.

  Other characteristics of a construction assembly established in accordance with the invention will become apparent from

  through the following description of several examples of

  embodiment, given by way of non-limiting example, with reference to the appended drawings in which: - Figure 1 is a schematic perspective view of a window mounted in an orifice for passage of the large structure of a building wall or the like, in accordance with

the invention.

  - Figure 2 is a cross-sectional view on a larger scale of a part of the pre-frame intended to be mounted inside the passage orifice and means

associated with it.

  - Figures 3 and 4 are schematic cross-sectional views of the pre-frame installed in its orifice and on which adapt, according to various variants, the frames and accessories fitted to the door or window considered. In these figures and in particular in Figure 1, the reference 1 designates a wall constituting a part of the main structure of a building or similar construction assembly in which a constructive element 2 is to be mounted.

kind of a window here.

  This mainly comprises, although very schematically illustrated in the figure, a fixed frame 3 inside which is an opening 4, capable of struggling vis-à-vis the frame 3 to open or close the window considered. A sun visor 5 is shown disposed in the front part of the window in front of the frame 3, this screen being mounted in a support frame 6 and s 2823786

  associated with a mechanism 7 allowing it to be wound on itself-

  even to retract it in front of the opening 4 and authorize the

  free passage through the window.

  In the example shown, the window 2 comprises, located under the frame, an air conditioning unit 8,

  in front of which a protective grid can be placed 9.

  If necessary, this assembly occupies only a fraction of the length of the window so that in this case the remaining part can be advantageously filled with a material

insulator 10.

  The example briefly described above is given for information only, the realization of a door or window to be mounted in the main structure of the building can undergo multiple modifications compared to this example, the structure of the window itself and the accessories associated with it being in fact entirely

indifferent to the invention.

  In FIGS. 3 and 4, which are views in partial cross-section of the large structure 1, the reference 11 designates the passage orifice provided in the corresponding wall and in which the window 2 must be mounted, with implementation of the arrangements of the invention, this

  last basically consisting of using a pre-

  frame 12, intended to be mounted and immobilized inside the orifice 11 during the initial construction.

  In Figure 3, the lower part of the pre-

  frame 12, sealed against the wall opposite the large structure by means of legs or similar angles 13, suitably immobilized by an addition of cement, as schematically shown, while in FIG. 4, the upper part of the pre-frame 12 appears, again sealed against the wall of the large structure 1 by blocks of cement 15, any other means of fixing the pre-frame which can be envisaged, provided that the latter once put in place surrounds, in whole or in part, the wall of the passage orifice 11, preferably extending along

all the depth of it.

  As shown in these figures and, on a larger scale in Figure 2, the pre-frame 12 thus mounted in the orifice for passage of the large work, consists of a set of metal profiles 16 and 17 in this figure, these profiles being hollow and advantageously comprising in their lateral faces, respectively 18 and 19, extensions 20 on the one hand, and reserves 21 on the other hand, these extensions, which extend perpendicular to the faces 18 and 19, being provided with attachment teeth 22 so as to allow the mutual fixing of two successive sections 16 and 17, due to the engagement of the extensions

in reserves 21.

  Thanks to the relative elasticity of the metal which constitutes the extensions 20 and preferably to a sloping profile of the hooking teeth 22, it is easily understood that the docking of the two profiles 16 and 17 allows the extensions carried by the 'one of these sections, to bend slightly to enter the reserve provided opposite the other, until the teeth 20 relax by blocking the two sections together, as illustrated in

the central part of Figure 2.

  The pre-frame 12 is made up of as many sections 16 or 17 as necessary to cover the entire internal surface of the passage orifice 11. Furthermore, each section comprises, preferably in one and the other of its faces, which extend substantially parallel to the wall of the orifice, in any case in that directed towards the interior thereof, grooves 23, distributed along the length of the pre-frame and intended to allow the attachment on it of attached elements formed as the case may be, either by other profiles 24 or 25 (Figure 2) which belong to frames of the kind deigned out under the reference 3 in Figure 1, or to frames or similar boxes of various accessories intended to equip the door or window considered, such as that

  designated by reference 6 in this same figure.

  In the example considered, the sections 24 and 25 each have a substantially planar return 26 or 27,

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  adapted to cooperate with a fixing clip 28, allowing

  to ensure the connection and immobilization of this profile vis-

  opposite a groove 23 of the pre-frame, this clip comprising, comprising, as illustrated in the drawing, two elements 29 in the form of inverted hooks which come to fit in the groove and an external clamp 30, suitable for coming to block from above the return 26 or 27 of the profile 24 or 25 according to

  the case, which is thus thus blocked against the pre-frame.

  It is easy to see that, thanks to this clip system, it is also possible to separate each section 24 or 25 simply from the pre-frame and in particular to replace one of these sections with another of different shape, also to modify the mounting position of these profiles according to the length of the pre-frame 12

  in the depth of the passage opening 11.

  Of course, the use of a fixing clip 28 as envisaged in the example above, has no character in itself essential, the fixing of a profile belonging to a frame or to a housing d accessories on the pre-frame 12, which can be provided in a different way, in particular by having protruding extensions 31 in the facing faces of this frame or of this housing, allowing them to be locked by force by engagement of these in the grooves 23 provided in the pre-frame 12, as illustrated in this case on the various assemblies of the

Figures 3 and 4.

  The latter clearly highlight the characteristic of the invention, making it possible to modify the overall structure of the door or window by adding, modifying or replacing the various frames or accessory boxes housed and fixed on the pre-frame 12, once it is sealed in the orifice 11 of the

big work.

  These modifications can be, as the case may be, of all kinds, consisting both in changing the very structure of the frames or accessories, and in implementing variations in the nature of the materials used to form the profiles thereof, in particular by function

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  climatic conditions, user wishes

  or local habits or practices.

  Thus, in FIG. 3, the equipment of the assembly represented comprises a sliding sash structure 32, intended to be mounted substantially in the central part of the pre-frame 12, this structure being associated with another window element 33 to opening with impact and an accessory 34 comprising a rolling shutter, the detail of the production of each of these parts of the assembly being

not necessary here.

  In this first variant, the roller shutter accessory 34 is disposed in the front part of the window, while the frames 32 and 33, with sliding opening and

  strikes, climbed behind the first.

  In the variant according to FIG. 4, the assembly again comprises a frame 32 with a sliding leaf, an accessory 34 with a rolling shutter and a frame with a striking leaf 33, these three parts being arranged differently, with the two frames surrounding accessory

placed in the center of the structure.

  Other assemblies could of course be envisaged, the invention allowing the user to adopt all the combinations he wishes, the modifications necessary to pass from one to the other requiring only the disassembly of each opening or accessory with respect to the pre-frame fixed to the large structure and their mounting

  later in a different position.

  Under these conditions, it goes without saying that the invention is not limited to the embodiments more specifically described above with reference to the accompanying drawings; on the contrary, it embraces all its variants. In addition, various additional provisions can advantageously be provided to develop and improve

the means adopted.

  Thus and as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the sections 16 and 17 which constitute the pre-frame 12, can be associated at the ends of the latter, with external closing covers 35, these covers possibly being

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  where appropriate, like the profiles themselves if necessary, to electric cables or the like 36 used for powering motors or the like, and more generally for controlling particular functions implemented in the construction unit under consideration, for example for control the opening or closing of a roller shutter, if necessary a sunscreen or similar blind, or even to ensure the automatic opening or closing of the or

  openings used elsewhere.

  Advantageously, the sections 16 and 17 which constitute the pre-frame 12, may include passages or communication holes 37, to allow, along its length, a circulation of cooling or ventilation air from

the structure.

  Likewise, although the examples described above relate essentially to a modular assembly for producing a window mounted in an orifice for the passage of the main structure of a building, it emerges from the considerations set out that the invention applies more generally to any similar constructive element, both of its kind

  door as a facade element or other.

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Claims (8)

  1 - Modular constructive assembly, with an evolving arrangement, intended to be mounted and adjusted in a passage orifice (11) formed in a wall or similar structure, forming part of the main structure of a building or the like, comprising at least one frame ( 3) and an opening (4) carried by and capable of struggling vis-à-vis this frame, possibly other accessories (5, 6) associated with the frame, of the type of roller shutter, Venetian blind, d sunscreen or other, characterized in that it comprises a pre-frame (12), housed in the through hole being applied and fixed at least partially against the internal surface of this orifice, this pre-frame being provided with removable and reversible connecting means (28, 31) with the frame and / or the accessories, making it possible to modify these at will by adding, removing or replacing.  2 - assembly according to claim 1, characterized in that the pre-frame (12) consists of contiguous metal profiles (16, 17), the width of the pre-frame preferably extending according to the depth of the orifice passage (11) in the main work.   3 - assembly according to one of claims 1 or 2,   characterized in that the removable connecting means (28) consist of clips engaged respectively with reserves or ribs (23) of the pre-frame, and homologous reserves or ribs (26, 27) of the frame and / or accessories.   4 - assembly according to one of claims 1 or 2,   characterized in that the connection means (31) consist of projecting extensions carried by the frame and the accessories, engaged and locked in grooves for receiving the pre-frame, or vice versa   5 - assembly according to any one of claims   2 to 4, characterized in that the metal profiles (16, 17) of the pre-frame (12) comprise joining means made up of complementary elements (20, 21, 1 1 2823786   22), cooperating with each other, from one profile   to the next depending on the width of the pre-frame.   6 - assembly according to claim 5, characterized in that the metal profiles (16, 17) of the pre-frame (12) constitute reserves for electric cables (36) supplying control mechanisms of smooth functions   to the implementation of the opening and / or accessories.   7 - assembly according to claim 5, characterized in that the metal profiles (16, 17) have internal holes (37) for communication from one to the other to allow circulation of ventilation air in the pre- frame. 8 - assembly according to claim 5, characterized in that the covering covers (35) are advantageously