FR3067051B1 - DEPLOYABLE COVER DEVICE FOR EXTERNAL STORAGE SPACE - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a covering device (1) for external storage space (10), said space (10) being delimited by at least two lateral walls (11, 12) facing each other, said covering device (1) being deployable between at least a first developed position (P) completely covering said space (10) and a second retracted position (P ') at least partially revealing it, said device (1) comprising at least one movable module (21, 22, 23) of arcuate shape and cooperating in sliding along side rails (31, 32, 33) through rolling means (51, 52, 53) fitted to the straight edges of said module (21, 22, 23). (1) is characterized in that said rolling means (51, 52, 53) are attached to the arcuate shape through a gutter (71, 72, 73) extending longitudinally along each of said straight edges .

Description

The present invention relates to the field of shelters or outdoor spaces, particularly shelters or external storage spaces, such as including, but not limited to, the spaces for the reception and storage of salt snow removal in winter on the roads.

Such storage spaces are generally constituted by two panels or side walls and optionally a wall wall, and traditionally have a height not exceeding 3 meters, or even 2.50 m, so as not to be too expensive at the time of construction.

These outdoor spaces must be equipped with a cover in order to protect, especially against bad weather, the material stored in the external storage space.

Indeed, without such coverage, the material, subject to climatic conditions, including rain, is likely to be weathered or totally unusable.

In the particular case of the salt of snow removal, a contact of this equipment with the rain is moreover liable to cause a rush of the salt and thus a not insignificant loss of material, as well as a risk of pollution of the grounds and / or harvests in the vicinity storage space.

In addition, it is preferable that the cover of protectionsoit retractable to allow the loading and unloading equipment, such as truck, tractor, backhoe loader or similar, from loading or unloading the equipment stored in the shelter to enter and be able to maneuver. For this purpose, it is known in particular, in the state of the art, the patent document FR 2 788 2 91 relating to an abriescamotable for enclosures and outdoor premises, andcomportant a plurality of elementary modules of arcuate shape, likely to be moved in translation between two extreme positions.

In the first "retracted" position, all of said elementary modules are concentrically assembled under the outermost module, towards the bottom wall of the shelter, thus freeing access to the shelter.

In the second "developed" position, each of the mobile elementary modules is moved in rectilinear translation along a determined course, in a telescopic manner, so as to completely open up said storage place.

In addition, the shelter comprises triangular profiled metal structures attached to the upper ends of the side walls of the shelter, and in which there are cutouts for the reception of a guide rail for the relative displacement of the elementary modules.

However, nothing is planned here to allow the collection and evacuation of rainwater.

In the field of terrace shelters, more specifically, document FR 3,018,529 describes a telescopic shelter composed of a plurality of elements or sections that are movable relative to one another in a longitudinal direction. Each movable memberis slideably connected to a longitudinal guide member, which has a guide rail for each movable member, said rail being connected to the movable member by a support member may be concave or planar shape to collect rainwater.

In this device, the gutter must already be in positionand staged on the facade of the house. In addition, it is necessary to have gutters of different widths. The invention offers the possibility of mitigating, at least in part, the various disadvantages of the state of the art by proposing a retractable structure intended to cover and protect an outside storage place of a material, for example salt snow removal, or grains from agricultural crops, or any other material that can be stored in desabris or outdoor spaces.

A particular objective pursued by the present invention is to propose a structure which is both telescopically sliding in order to make it possible to discover the place of clearance and to authorize the entry and exit of unloading / unloading machines while presenting optimum sealing to the rain, but also acting, particularly advantageously, bracing, that is to saypermettant to ensure the stability of the cover element in relation to horizontal tensions generated by the wind. To this end, the present invention relates to an opening device for external storage space, said space beingdefined by at least two side walls facing each other, said cover device being deployable between at least one first developed position completely covering said space and a second retracted position at least partially exposing it, said device comprising at least one modulemobile of arcuate shape and cooperating in sliding along side rails through rolling means equipping the rectilinear lips of said module, characterized in that said rolling means are attached to the arcuate shape through a gutter extending longitudinally along each of said straight edges.

In other words, each mobile module component ofthe cover device comprises, along its rectiligne edges, a gutter element for the recovery andexhaust of rainwater, so that the gutter elements can also be movable between said positions "developed And "retracted".

Another advantage of the present invention, in comparison with the state of the art, is that the number of mobile modules is unlimited, using identical elements, particularly with regard to the side rails, the gutters and, whatever the number of mobile modules, these are all identical, in terms of shapes and dimensions.

Advantageously, said rolling means and said gutter have in common a vertical wall, the upper edge of which penetrates inside the rail, the latter having a longitudinal back edge overlapping said vertical flange.

This prevents rainwater from entering the rails and the storage space. The tightness of the system is optimal, which guarantees a protection of the material present in the storage space against the bad weather, and limits the losses of material.

Most preferably, said space further comprises a bottom wall delimiting it.

In a most preferred exemplary embodiment, said outer storage space cover device of the invention comprises more than one mobile module sliding along superimposed lateral rails and secured to the level of vertical profiles fitted, in the upper part, to said lateral walls space, the number of rails is equivalent to the number of mobile modules.

More preferably still, said opening device for storage space comprises, in addition, a fixed module attached to the side walls.

According to another particularity of the invention, said side rails have an inclination, in order to promote the evacuation of rainwater.

Advantageously, said mobile modules are equipped, at each end, with vertical tabs so that, during the passage of the device from the developed position to the retracted position and vice versa, the sliding of a modulemobile slidably causing the mobile module located immediately after.

Interestingly, said cover device also comprises a motor means adapted to allow a passage of said cover device from the developed position to the retracted position and vice versa.

This motor means advantageously cooperates with at least one notched belt driving the mobile module farthest from the bottom wall.

This facilitates the sliding of the various mobile modules relative to each other and the passage from the deployed position to the retracted position and vice versa. Other characteristics and advantages of the inventionwillbe set forth in the following detailed description of the nonlimiting embodiments of the invention, with reference to the appended figures in which: FIG. 1 schematically illustrates, in perspective, a method of particular embodiment of deployable cover device for an outer clearance space composed of two side walls screwed and a bottom wall, said device being in developed position, completely covering said space, and comprising four relatively relatively movable modules relative to others; FIG. 2 illustrates a device similar to that of FIG. 1, the modules however being in retracted position, leaving a portion of the clearance space uncovered; FIG. 3 illustrates, in perspective, a detail of a mobile module equipping said flexible cover device; Figure 4 shows schematically, in perspective and in a partial view from below, a particular embodiment of the cover device of the invention in the deployed position; FIG. 5 illustrates a partial view, and transverse section, of an embodiment of the covering device of the invention, comprising three mobile modules and a fixed module, the mobile modules sliding in superposed rails and secured at the level of vertical profiles themselves. arranged on the lateral walls of the storage space; FIG. 6 diagrammatically shows, in partial view and in partial view, a particular embodiment of the covering device of the invention, comprising motor means connected, via a transmission shaft, to a toothed belt slidably driving at least one mobile module.

As shown in particular in Figures 1 and 2 of the attached drawings, the present invention relates to a cover device 1 for protecting, by recovery, a storage area 10 salt snow removal, for example, or any other stored material generally outdoors but under shelter, eg, grains from agricultural crops, sand, or other. The storage space 10 intended to be protected by the device 1 of the invention is delimited by at least two lateral walls 11, 12, vis-à-vis, and arranged parallel to one another.

In an interesting example embodiment, which ismore that shown in the appended figures, said storage space 10 comprises, besides the two lateral walls 11, 12, a bottom wall 13, these structures 11, 12 and 13 being able, preferably but not limitatively, rest on a concrete slab14.

As can be seen respectively in FIGS. 1 and 2, said covering device 1 is deployable, outelescopic, and able to pass from at least a first position Pdite "developed position", in which said device 1 comes to recover the entirety of the storage space10, at a second position P 'called "retracted position", where the storage space 10 is at least partly discovered, in order to allow access to the storage space 10 to a cargo gear for loading or unload the material to be stored. For this purpose, the covering device 1 of the inventioncomporte advantageously at least one mobile module, formearqué or dome in a circular arc, cooperating in sliding along the side rails, and through rolling means that equip the edges rectilinear mobile module.

In addition, according to an essential feature of the invention, the rolling means of the mobile module sontrattachés arcuate form thereof through a gutter that extends longitudinally along all of the rectiligne edges of said mobile module.

Thus, particularly advantageously the terminal element of the module is also mobile.

In one embodiment of the invention, not shown in the figures of the accompanying drawings, the cover device1 comprises a mobile module and a fixed module, and the sliding of the mobile module along two longitudinal rails through rolling means allows the passage of said device 1 from the developed position P to the retracted position P 'and inversely.

In a second embodiment, also not shown, the covering device 1 for external storage space 10 comprises two modules, or even more than two modules, which are movable relative to each other and, through the rolling means, and the along longitudinal rails which are superimposed.

In this embodiment, and when the outer clearing space 10 consists solely of two sidewalls 11, 12 facing each other, in the retracted position P 'of the modules, the entry of the construction equipment intended for material handling can take place on one or other side of the storage space.

In a third embodiment, all preferential, which is that shown in the appended figures, the cover device 1 comprises a fixed module 20 and at least two mobile modules, and preferably three mobile modules 21, 22, 23.

As already mentioned, and shown in the appended figures, the fixed module 20 and the mobile modules 21, 22, 23 are of shape, and the length of said modules 20, 21, 22, 23 correspondingly to the width of the storage space 10 between the two sidewalls 11, 12 facing each other.

With reference to FIG. 3, the arcuate form of the fixed or movable modules 21, 22, 23 preferably consists of a frame 81, 82, 83 having transverse slats on which a sheet 61, 62, 63 rests, the latter Advantageously consisting of a prelacked sheet, and preferably corrugated.

Such an arcuate shape of the modules 20, 21, 22, 23 of the covering device 1 of the invention is particularly advantageous in that it makes it possible to form a slope in the direction of the rectilinear edges of said modules 20, 21, 22, 23, for the recovery and channeling of rainwater in the gutter elements respectively 70, 71, 72, 73 equipping longitudinally said rectilinear edges of each of saidmodules 20, 21, 22, 23.

Bearing means 51, 52, 53 are also part of the mobile modules 21, 22, 23, equipping the longitudinal rectilinear lips of the latter. As a result, the gutter elements 71, 72, 73 of the mobile modules 21, 22, 23 are also movable.

Thus, for example, as illustrated in FIG. 3 joining the mobile modules 21, 22, 23 each rectilinear edge of each mobile module 21, 22, 23 comprises three rolling means 51, 52, 53 and preferably distributed regularly along said edges.

However, such an embodiment is notlimitative, and the skilled person can quite adapt the number of rolling means 51, 52, 53, necessary for the operation of the device 1, for optimal sliding thereof, in function, for example, of the width of the mobile modules 21, 22, 23.

Referring now to FIGS. 4 and 5, the rolling means 51, 52, 53 of the mobile modules 21, 22, 23 of the covering device 1 of the invention co-operate in sliding along lateral rails 31, 32, 33, so as to allow a device passer 1 from the developed position P to the retracted position P 'and vice versa.

In the figures mentioned above are shown three lateral rowels 31, 32, 33, for the sliding cooperation with each of the rectilinear edges of the mobile modules 21, 22, 23, so on each side of the device 1. However, such a mode of realization n is not limiting, and the number of lateral railsfixed to the vertical sections 41, 42 of the lateral walls 11, 12of the storage space 10 is obviously a function of the number of mobile modules, and thus in particular of the length of said space10 that it should be protected.

The lateral rails 31, 32, 33 for sliding the mobile modules 21, 22, 23 are preferably secured in a superimposed or staggered manner at the level of vertical sections 41, 42 fitted to the upper part of the side walls 11, 12, respectively. outside storage space 10.

The securing of the lateral rails 31, 32, 33 to the level of said vertical profiles 41, 42 can be performed by any means adapted for this purpose and known to those skilled in the art.

As can be seen in more detail in the accompanying FIG. 5, each of the lateral rails 31, 32, 33 has a longitudinally reciprocal return 31a, 32a, 33a, overlapping the entire length of the rails 31, 32, 33 and at least partially a vertical wall respectively 71a, 72a, 73a common between the rolling means 51, 52, 53 and the gutter 71, 72, 73 mobilemodules 21, 22, 23.

Such a feature is particularly advantageous in that it ensures both optimum sealing of the cover 1, by preventing rainwater from entering the storage space 10, and a bracing function.

Indeed, such a design of said device 1 allows, gust of wind, to play an anti-lift role since, when the cover of a shelter is curved or arched shape, a lifting of the roof generates phenomena of lateral traction starting from the rail and going towards the interior of the storage space 10.

Consequently, the covering device 1 having a characteristic feature with regard to interleaving between the lateral rams 31, 32, 33 and the troughs 71, 72, 73, on each side of the device 1, is particularly advantageous because it enables it to act as a bracing, and to ensure the lastability of the movable elements 21, 22, 23, which constitute the roof element of said device 1, with respect to horizontal stresses generated in the event of strong winds.

In an advantageous embodiment, to facilitate the evacuation of the rainwater collected at the arcuate form of the modules 21, 22, 23, the lateral rails 31, 32, 33, and thus, by extension, the gutters 71, 72, 73 attached to these rods 31, 32, 33 through the rolling means 51, 52, 53present an inclination.

More preferably still, the inclination of said lateral rails 31, 32, 33 is of the order of 5 to 6% and this inclination is advantageously towards the rear of the clearance space 10, in other words towards the wall 13 of this space 10 to evacuate the rainwater collected by the gutters 71, 72, 73.

As regards now the fixed module 20, which may also be part of the covering device 1 of the invention, it is integral with the side walls 11, 12, preferably through the vertical sections 41, 42 also, as can be seen in particular in particular in Figure 4 attached.

More particularly, the fixed module 20 also comprises a gutter element 70, the vertical wall 70a of which is fastened to the vertical sections 41, 42 mounted on the lateral walls 11, 12.

When the covering device 1 of the invention comprises a fixed module 20, it is preferably positioned towards the rear part of the storage space 10, in other words towards the bottom wall 13 when said space 10 has one.

In any case, it is easy to understand that it is preferable that the fixed module 10 be positioned opposite the end of the storage space which constitutes the entry for the gear for loading or unloading the material to be stored.

In addition, when the present cover device 1comporte a fixed module 20 and one or more mobile modules 21,22, 23, the fixed module is advantageously secured to the niveaude the lower part of the vertical profiles 41, 42 equipping thelateral walls 11, 12 while that the lateral rails 31, 32, 33 for sliding of the mobile modules 21, 22, 23 are secured above, the side rails 33 for the mobile module 23recovering, in position P, the entrance of the storage space 10 being the higher while the movable module 22 cooperates collapse with side rails 32 immediately below the upper side rails 33, etc.

In addition, advantageously, the mobile modules 21, 22, 23 are equipped, at each of their ends, with vertical tabs 91a / 91b, 92a / 92b, 93a / 93b, visible in FIG.

These vertical tabs 91a / 91b, 92a / 92b, 93a / 93b can equip one and / or the other of longitudinal gutters 71, 72,73 that comprise the mobile modules 21, 22, 23.

The presence of these tabs makes it possible, during the passage of the covering device 1 from the developed position P to the retracted position P 'and vice versa, that the sliding of a mobile module along its lateral rails causes the moving module immediately after And so on.

Thus, when moving from the extended position P to the retracted position P ', the mobile module 23 positioned at the entrance of the storage space 10 moves towards the bottom wall 13 of the space 10 and comes to cover the first module intermediate 22, in turn driving the module 22 rearward through the vertical tabs 93a / 93b, etc. until all the mobile modules 21, 22, 23 are superimposed above the fixed module 20 when the cover device 1 is in the retracted position P '.

Referring now to FIG. 6 attached, and according to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the passage of the cover device 1 from the deployed position P to the retracted position P ', and vice versa, is facilitated by the presence of engine means 15, the latter being preferentially located towards the rear of the storage space 10, for example at the level of the bottom wall 13, in the case where said space 10 is equipped with it.

Advantageously, the motor means 15 actuate, through a transmission shaft 151, at least one toothed belt 16, the latter being advantageously connected to the mobile module 23 which is located at the entrance of the storage space 10, at the opposite end said space 10 relative to the bottom wall13.

Of course, the invention is not limited to the examples illustrated and described above which may have variations and modifications without departing from the scope of the invention.

In particular, the number of fixed and mobile modules can be adapted to the needs of the user and the length of the storage space that should be covered by means of the telescopic cover device 1, or deployable, according 1'invention.

In addition, it is also conceivable an opening device 1 to discover, in retracted position P ', the entire outer storage space 10. To do this, the side rails 31, 32, 33 are then likely to exceed one and / or the other end (s) side walls11,12.

Claims (4)

1. Cover device (1) for outer storage space (10), said space (10) being delimited by at least two sidewalls (11, 12) facing each other, said cover device (1) being deployable between at least a first developed position (P) completely covering said space (10) and a second retracted position (P ') at least partially opening, said device (1) comprising at least one movable module (21, 22, 23) of shaped form and slidably cooperating with along lateral rails (31, 32, 33) through rolling means (51, 52, 53) fitted to the rectilinear edges of said module (21, 22, 23), characterized in that said rolling means (51, 52, 53) are attached to the arcuate shape through a ditch (71, 72, 73) extending longitudinally the entire length of each of said straight edges. 2. Cover device (1) according to the preceding claim characterized in that said rolling means (51, 52, 53) and said gutter (71, 72, 73) together have a vertical wall (71a, 72a, 73a) of which the upper edge penetrates inside the rail (31, 32, 33), the latter having a longitudinal return (31a, 32a, 33a) overlapping said vertical flange (71a, 72a, 73a). 3. Cover device (1) according to any preceding claim characterized in that saiditespace (10) further comprises a bottom wall (13) ledimulating. 4. Cover device (1) according to the preceding claim characterized in that said device (1) comprises more than one movable module (21, 22, 23) sliding along side rails (31, 32, 33) superimposed and secured at the level of vertical profiles (41, 42) equipping, in the upper part, said side walls (11, 12) opposite the space (10), the number of rails (31, 32, 33) being equivalent number of mobile modules (21, 22, 23). 5. Cover device (1) according to any preceding claim characterized in that it comprisesde plus a fixed module (20) integral with the side walls (11,12). 6. Cover device (1) according to the preceding claim characterized in that said movable modules (21, 22, 23) are equipped at each of their ends with vertical cleats (91a / 91b, 92a / 92b, 93a / 93b ) so that, during the passage of the device (1) from the developed position (P) to the retracted position (P ') and vice versa, the sliding of a mobile module slidably drives the mobile module immediately after. 7. Cover device (1) according to any preceding claim characterized in that said side rails (31, 32, 33) have an inclination. 8. Cover device (1) according to any preceding claim characterized in that it also comprises a motor means (15) adapted to allow a passerudititit cover device (1) from thedeveloped position (P) to the retracted position ( P ') and inversely. 9. Cover device (1) according to the preceding claim characterized in that said motor means (15) cooperates with at least one toothed belt (16) driving the movable module (23) farthest from the bottom wall (13).