FR3049302A1 - SLIDING DOOR READY TO MOUNT - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a sliding door (P) which is ready to mount and which is remarkable in that it comprises a plurality of vertical panel sections (110, 120, 130, 140) to be assembled by their plane edge and a plurality of pairs of parts ( 200, 300, 200a, 300a) for each connection to be made, the connecting pieces (200, 300) being formed by identical profiles interposed between each section of panel, - each being fixed on the edge (132, 141) of a different panel section (130, 140), - preformed to assemble together arranged head to tail during the assembly of the panel sections (130, 140), - each preformed with profiles in protruding and recessed profiles of suitable shape to accommodate said protruding profiles to form transverse retaining surfaces. Applications: manufacture of sliding wings, sliding doors, etc ...

Description

SLIDING DOOR READY TO MOUNT

FIELD OF APPLICATION OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to the field of mobile joinery type swing door or flap and including adaptations to manufacture, mount and install in the best conditions.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART

A leaf or leaf is a movable, pivoting or sliding frame element whose movement makes it possible to close or open an opening. These leaves adopt various configurations.

These flaps are conventionally pre-assembled before their installation on the fixed part. Indeed, the proposed configurations require a factory assembly. This is for example the so-called iso-flat doors (hollow) composed of framed plywood sheets.

One of the disadvantages of existing doors lies in their size. Thus, it is almost impossible to transport them alone and this transport requires a suitable vehicle.

The document FR2980509 discloses an applied rail device for rendering an already existing leaf sliding with a minimum of modifications. This rail has, inter alia, the advantage of having a small footprint facilitating its purchase and transport by a single person especially in an urban environment. Nevertheless, from the moment when the buyer wanted to change his beating, he found himself in the position of having to

solve the inconvenience of its size and its transport. DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Based on this state of affairs, the Applicant has therefore conducted research to propose a self-assembling kit door to solve the disadvantages of the prior art.

One of the objectives of the invention is to make this kit easy to assemble while ensuring strong links between the different parts.

Another goal is to design a connection between simple and inexpensive parts.

This research has resulted in the design and implementation of a mechanical connection device that can not only be used for doors but also more generally for any opening.

This research has also led to the design and construction of a sliding door kit especially likely to cooperate with existing sliding rail devices.

According to the invention, the sliding door ready to mount, is remarkable in that it comprises a plurality of vertical panel sections to be assembled by their plane edge and a plurality of pairs of assembly parts for each connection to be made, the assembly parts being formed by identical profiles interposed between each section of panel, - each being fixed on the edge of a different section of panel, preformed to assemble together arranged head to tail during assembly sections of panels, each preformed with projecting profiles and recessed profiles shaped to accommodate said protruding profiles to form transverse retaining surfaces.

This feature is particularly advantageous in that it allows to consider the connection between the songs of two sections of panels without particular preformation. Thus, it is the pieces of assembly which are inserted between the songs which are preformed of complementary forms and not the songs themselves.

In addition, these two parts are identical and are preformed so that once arranged head to tail, they have complementary shapes. Thus, it is not necessary to design two different profiles. Each piece is preformed with protruding shapes and recessed shapes capable of cooperating with the projecting and recessed forms of an identical piece but arranged head to tail.

The implementation of complementary identical sections being arranged head to tail cooperating with each other for the purpose of fixing horizontal edges of panel sections of a sliding door horizontally, is not obvious.

The proposed assembly solution is therefore simple and inexpensive which allows the applicant to propose a door ready to mount.

Thus, the transport and installation problems are solved by proposing a sliding door configuration whose elements to assemble have a mass and a volume allowing easy transport by a single person without the need for transportation. In addition, by not requiring a particular preformation of the songs, the door elements to be assembled remain inexpensive to manufacture. Finally, the complementary shapes of the assembly parts and their simplicity facilitate assembly by the individual. According to a preferred embodiment, said vertical panel sections take up the configuration of the one-piece panels, namely that they consist of plywood sheets fixed on wooden frames.

According to another characteristic, said panels have different colors and / or aesthetic renderings. Thus, the door of the invention may have a mismatched aesthetic and / or obeying an imposed code of color association.

According to another characteristic, the ready-to-assemble door is a sliding door comprising a plurality of identical parallelepipedal panel sections whose edges are fixed to one another by the device of the invention forming an apparent crossbar, said door having no jamb. This simplified configuration provides an optimized aesthetic through the presence of sleepers and avoids too many parts with no amounts.

A plurality of profiles is capable of forming the retaining surfaces. These profiles are complementary once arranged head to tail, easy to achieve for example by spinning and make possible an assembly by lateral translation as in a longitudinal translation.

According to another particularly advantageous characteristic, the door comprises a holding module in position including at least one screw interposed between the two assembly parts positioned one inside the other to hold them in position.

According to another particularly advantageous feature of the invention, said assembly piece is preformed with a bearing surface against the edge of the panel section to be assembled and occupying only a portion of the surface of the edge. This preformation will facilitate the positioning and fixing of the assembly part on said edge. This bearing surface corresponds to only a portion of the surface of the edge of the section on which said piece is fixed, the unoccupied portion being subsequently completed by a part of the connecting piece attached to another section coming to assemble with the first.

According to a preferred embodiment, the assembly parts are fixed by screwing on the edges of the sections to be assembled. Advantageously, the holes passing through said parts for the passage of the screws are not aligned so that once the assembly parts arranged head to tail, the screw heads do not touch.

According to another particularly advantageous feature of the invention, each assembly piece is preformed on its face coming in facing relation with the other assembly part, a groove with a half-circular profile in which it comes introduce said screw. This groove will facilitate the insertion of the screw.

More specifically, according to another particularly advantageous feature of the invention, the assembly parts are preformed so that the preformed surfaces of a groove come into contact, once the assembly parts assembled, so as to form a substantially cylindrical hollow core in which the screw is introduced.

According to another particularly advantageous feature of the invention, said assembly pieces are preformed so that their assembly does not have a thickness greater than the thickness of a single piece of assembly. The size of the device is optimized.

More specifically, according to a preferred embodiment, said assembly parts are preformed with a tongue of a thickness equal to half the thickness of the part so that once arranged head to tail and slid the one in the other, the pieces form an assembly corresponding to a single piece thickness.

According to another characteristic, the ready-to-assemble door comprises, in its assembly set, a plurality of pairs of screws coming to the ends of the assembled assembly parts.

According to another particularly advantageous feature of the invention, said ready-to-assemble door is remarkable in that its various disassembled component elements comprising a plurality of panel sections and the plurality of pairs of assembly parts, are accommodated in a suitcase. This bag facilitates the transport of the door ready to mount, in accordance with the objectives of the invention. It also makes it possible to store any piece of hardware necessary for assembly.

According to another particularly advantageous characteristic, said sections of panels once fixed together are associated with a rail by means of wheels which are fixed on the upper edge of the upper section, said rail being made in several parts so as to have a configuration ready to ascend. This configuration facilitates the transport of the element that complements a sliding door, namely the rail.

The basic concepts of the invention having been described above in their most elementary form, other details and characteristics will emerge more clearly on reading the description which follows and with reference to the appended drawings, giving non-limiting example, an embodiment of a door according to the invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Figure 1 is a schematic drawing of an exploded front view of an embodiment according to the invention of a door ready to mount;

Figure 2 is a schematic drawing of a front view of the door of Figure 1 mounted;

Figure 3 is a schematic drawing of a front view of the door of Figure 1 mounted and associated with its guide rail;

Figure 4 is a schematic drawing of an exploded perspective view of detail of an embodiment according to the invention of a mechanical connecting device used by the door;

Figure 5 is a schematic drawing of a perspective view of the device of Figure 4 mounted;

Figure 6 is a schematic drawing of a perspective view of a single assembly piece;

Figure 7 is a schematic drawing of an exploded perspective top view of the two assembly parts;

Figure 8 is a schematic drawing of an exploded perspective view of the various elements constituting the door ready to mount, with the bag accommodating them for transport purposes;

Fig. 9 is a schematic drawing of a perspective view of another embodiment of a single joining piece;

Fig. 10 is a schematic drawing of a perspective view of an embodiment of a screw jig;

Figure 11 is a schematic drawing of an exploded perspective view of details of another embodiment according to the invention of a mechanical connecting device used by the door;

Fig. 12 is a schematic drawing of a perspective view of an embodiment of a multi-part rail. DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

As illustrated in the drawings of Figures 1, 2 and 3, the door referenced P as a whole is of the type forming a movable vertical leaf for closing a door bay (not shown) in a horizontal sliding movement (according to the double - arrow F).

This door P is designed in several parts to provide a ready-to-mount configuration.

According to the illustrated embodiment, said door P comprises four identical panels 110, 120, 130, 140 assembled together by three assembly devices D.

Each panel 110, 120, 130, 140 adopts a parallelepipedal shape and are joined by their horizontal edges coming in opposite relation. A panel 120 is preformed with a recess 121 to accommodate a handle 122.

As illustrated by the drawing of Figure 2, the door P forms a single vertical panel whose vertical faces are divided by three horizontal bands formed by the sides of the devices D in the assembled position.

As illustrated in the drawing of Figure 3, the door P is associated with a rail 150 by means of rollers (not shown) being fixed on the upper edge of the upper section 140. According to the embodiment illustrated by the drawing of the Figure 12, said rail 150 is divided into two equal parts so as to have a ready-to-mount configuration. These two parts 151 and 152 are connected in the extension of one another by a flat profile 153.

The drawings of FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrate the assembly between the panels 130 and 140 but could indifferently illustrate the assembly between the panels 110 and 120 or between the panels 120 and 130. The edges 141 and 132 of the panels 140 and 130 are constituted by flat horizontal surfaces between which is inserted the device D.

As illustrated, each device D comprises four main parts, namely two identical profiled assembly parts 200 and 300 and two identical corners 400 (only one of which appears in the drawings of FIGS. 4 and 5 but which appear in pairs in the drawing of FIG. figure 1). According to a preferred embodiment, these assembly parts are made of aluminum.

The assembly part 200 is fixed on the upper edge 132 of the panel 130 and the assembly part 300 is fixed on the lower edge 141 of the panel 140. The assembly parts are then assembled together.

As illustrated, the connecting pieces 200 and 300 are preformed to assemble together by being arranged upside-down during assembly of the elements. In this arrangement, the profile has complementary shapes that, once assembled, form an assembly ensuring the positioning and assembly of the panels together.

Indeed, the assembly parts are each preformed with projecting profiles and recessed profiles of suitable shape to accommodate said protruding profiles to form transverse retaining surfaces. Once the profiled assembly pieces fixed on the edges, the panels can be assembled together by a combination and a sliding longitudinal translation or horizontal transverse profiled assembly parts. The corners 40 are then inserted into force at both ends to maintain the formed assembly in position.

An embodiment of preforming the parts forming the device is described below based on the drawings of Figures 6 and 7.

Only the piece 200 is described but the piece 300 has the same profile and is simply arranged head to tail to form the assembly.

This piece 200 is a linear profiled piece of aluminum.

Its profile illustrated by the drawing of FIG. 6 adopts: a vertical plane side 210 which will be positioned coplanar with the vertical planes of the panels and in particular with that of the panel 130 on which the part 200 is fixed; a horizontal flat bottom face 220 which will be positioned on the horizontal plane edge 132 of the panel 300 and has a common edge with the vertical plane side 210 and a common edge with the second side 230, - a second side 230 preformed with a surface inclined to project outwardly, - an intermediate flat horizontal surface 240 returning to the interior of the workpiece 200 about two-thirds of the width of the workpiece 200 and positioned at a height corresponding to half the thickness on the side 210, - a new inclined surface 250 parallel to that forming the side 2 30 and joining a flat horizontal top face 260 disposed at the same height as the side 210. The angle formed between the flat surfaces and the inclined surfaces is forty-five degrees.

Thus, the projecting angle formed by the side 230 forms a male part capable of cooperating with the reentrant angle formed by the surface 250. Likewise, the reentrant angle formed between the side 230 and the edge forms a female part capable of to cooperate with the salient angle formed by the surface 250 with the face 260.

It is understood that during assembly, an identical piece arranged head to tail as the piece 300, once their intermediate horizontal flat surface (240 for the piece 200) in contact, will see its own inclined surfaces come into contact with the surfaces inclined part 200 to create a transverse retainer both horizontally and vertically.

In order to maintain these surfaces in contact and ensure a fixing between the assembly parts 200 and 300 and therefore between the panels 130 and 140. A wedge 400 is interposed in force between the intermediate plane surfaces of the two assembly parts 200 and 300 positioned one in the other.

In order to facilitate its insertion and to optimize the jamming that it implements, the intermediate flat surface 240 is advantageously preformed in the middle part of a groove 241 with a U-shaped section. It is understood that once assembled to an identical piece positioned in the head -bêche, the two grooves are positioned vis-à-vis to form a mortise rectangular section in which the corners 400 are inserted in force.

As illustrated in the drawing of Figure 4, to ensure this jamming and close both ends, said corners 400 adopt the shape of a parallelepiped, two of the vertical edges at the same end are chamfered.

It also appears that the use of a half-thickness on one side of the assembly part allows the assembly of the two assembly parts not to have a thickness greater than the thickness of a single piece of assembly. 'assembly.

As illustrated in the drawing of FIG. 7, the assembly part 200 is also pierced, at regular intervals, with a pair of holes 270. These holes are used for screwing the assembly parts onto the edge of the panel with which they associate. These holes 270 are made at the bottom of the groove to prevent the screw heads from interfering if they were positioned vis-à-vis a room to another. For the same reasons, every second hole is used to prevent the screw heads from being coaxial. These characteristics make it possible to obtain a very thin assembly.

As illustrated in the drawing of FIG. 10, in order to guarantee a good screwing and a good position of the screw, the device of the invention comprises a screw jig 600 which comes from time to time to associate with the assembly profile 200, above the holes 270 through fixing ensures guiding the screw V, a good positioning of said screws for drilling and the beginning of the penetration of the screw in the edge. To do this, said template 600 comprises a plate 610 cooperating with the profile of the connecting piece 200 for purposes of good positioning and a tube 620 with a hollow core through which is positioned along an axis perpendicular to the edge. According to a feature not shown, said plate 610 is further preformed with a downward tubular projection cooperating with the hole 270 to coax the hollow core of the tube 620 with the hole axis 270. The template 600 and the screw V are then removed, and the screw V is reintroduced into the hole started to fix the assembly part 200.

Finally, as illustrated in the drawing of Figure 7, the groove 241 is further preformed with at least one light 280 which comes opposite a corresponding slot 380 formed in the section 300. This light 280 accommodates a key 281 acting as a mechanical stop. Projecting in the light 380, this mechanical stop prevents the longitudinal translation movement of the assembly part 300 relative to the assembly part 200 and consequently prevents the equivalent movement between the associated panels.

The drawing of FIG. 11 illustrates a situation equivalent to that illustrated in the drawing of FIG. 4 but with a different embodiment as regards the fixing device D between the sections. Indeed, a screw 400a is inserted instead of the corner 400 between the two parts to assemble 200a and 300a. Indeed, the device D 'comprises a holding module in position including two set screws 400a interposed between the two assembly parts 200 and 300 positioned one in the other to hold them in position.

To do this, each assembly part 200a and 300a is preformed on its face coming in facing relation with the other assembly part of a semi-circular profile groove into which said screw 400a is introduced.

The two pieces 200a and 300a assemble to form a cylindrical hollow core in which the screws 400a are introduced at both ends of the assembly.

As illustrated in the drawing of FIG. 8, the sections of panels 110, 120, 130, 140 form, once disassociated and arranged face-to-face, a reduced parallelepipedal volume which will define the volume of reception of a suitcase 500 which also accommodates the other components of the device D necessary for mounting (assembly parts, corners, keys).

It is understood that the sliding door ready to mount, which has just been described above and shown, has been for disclosure rather than limitation. Of course, various arrangements, modifications and improvements may be made to the example above, without departing from the scope of 1'invention.

Thus, for example, the vertical side 210 of the assembly part 200 can adopt a plurality of profiles (bulging, V protruding or retracting, curved, etc ...) to change the aesthetics of the device. A more technical preformation is illustrated by the drawing of Figure 9 which proposes for the part 2 00 ', a side 210' with ribs 211 'projecting vertically beyond the horizontal plane surfaces of the sides 260' and 220 '. These ribs 211 ', providing a transverse lateral bearing surface, will facilitate the positioning of the piece 200' and therefore the device which it is part of the edges of the sections of panels to be assembled.

Claims (9)

1. Door (P) sliding ready to mount, CHARACTERIZED BY THE FACT THAT it comprises a plurality of vertical panel sections (110, 120, 130, 140) to be assembled by their plane edge and a plurality of pairs of parts (200 , 300, 200a, 300a) for each connection to be made, the connecting pieces (200, 300) being formed by identical profiles interposed between each panel section, each being fixed on the edge ( 132, 141) of a different panel section (130, 140), preformed to be assembled together arranged head-to-tail when assembling the panel sections (130, 140), each preformed with projecting profiles and recessed profiles of suitable shape to accommodate said protruding profiles to form transverse retaining surfaces. 2. Door (P) according to claim 1, CHARACTERIZED BY THE FACT THAT it comprises a holding module in position including at least one screw (400a) interposed between the two assembly parts (200a and 300a) positioned l one in the other to keep them in position. 3. Door (P) according to claim 1, CHARACTERIZED BY THE FACT THAT said connecting piece (200) is preformed with a bearing surface (220) against the edge (132) of the panel section to be assembled and occupied. only a portion of the surface of the song (132). 4. Door (P) according to claim 2, CHARACTERIZED BY THE FACT that each assembly part (200a, 300a) is preformed on its face coming in facing relation with the other assembly part of a groove half-circular profile in which is introduced said screw (400a). 5. Door (P) according to claim 4, CHARACTERIZED BY THE FACT THAT the connecting pieces (200a, 300a) are preformed so that the preformed surfaces of a half-circular profile groove come into contact once the assembly parts (200a, 300a) assembled to form a substantially cylindrical hollow core into which the screw (400a) is introduced. 6. Door (P) according to claim 1, CHARACTERIZED BY THE FACT THAT said assembly parts (200, 300, 200a, 300a) are preformed so that their assembly does not have a thickness greater than the thickness of 'a single piece of assembly. 7. Door (P) according to claim 1, CHARACTERIZED BY THE FACT THAT it comprises a plurality of pairs of screws (400a) coming to the ends of assembling parts (200a, 300a) assembled. 8. Door (P) according to claim 1, CHARACTERIZED BY THE FACT THAT its various disassembled constituent elements comprising a plurality of sections of panels (110, 120, 130, 140) and the plurality of pairs of connecting pieces (200, 300, 200a, 300a) are accommodated in a suitcase (500). 9. Door (P) according to claim 1, CHARACTERIZED BY THE FACT THAT said sections of panels (110, 120, 130, 140), once fixed together, are associated with a rail (150) by means of casters which are fixed on the upper edge of the upper section, said rail being made in several parts (151, 152) so as to have a ready-to-assemble configuration.