GB1302174A - - Google Patents

Abstract

1302174 Frames in buildings; glazing WARD BROS (SHERBURN) Ltd 9 March 1970 [10 Dec 1968 7 Oct 1969] 58502/68 and 49091/69 Headings E1W E1J and E1R A metal framework 110 comprises vertically spaced horizontal members 112 with inside and outside respectively upward and downwardly directed flanges 117, 118 between which and connected so as to span between adjacent framing member webs 116 are uprights 122 or cladding 242. The upwardly directed flange 117 may have either an inwardly or outwardly directed extension flange 119 or (218) Fig. 5, (not shown). The uprights may be welded to the members 112 and the cladding secured by hooked bolts. Glazing panels may be secured to the inside flanges of T-section uprights by means of corrugated wedges (156) Fig. 2 (not shown) or by flexible sealing members (167) Fig. 3 (not shown) or they may be secured by a flexible glazing strip (249) Fig. 7 (not shown) to an under cut groove formation in a channel shaped upright (224) or by a similar strip (172) Fig. 4 (not shown) to a T- or I-section upright (122). The web 116 of the members 113 may slope towards the outside to facilitate drainage and a porous flexible strip (163) Fig. 3 (not shown) may seal against the inside lower edge of the glass panel so that internal condensation may drain onto the outside sill.