ITPD960306A1 - DEFORMABLE GUIDE FOR DIVIDERS IN GENERAL - Google Patents

Description

TITLE

DEFORMABLE GUIDE FOR DIVIDERS IN GENERAL

DESCRIPTION

The present invention relates to the construction sector and in particular concerns the construction of walls with prefabricated panels applied to a light load-bearing structure.

Currently, metal structures covered with plasterboard panels or other similar material are widely used for the construction of partition walls or furnishing walls. These structures are easy and quick to erect and allow you to create walls with particular or arched shapes that would otherwise be expensive and difficult to build with bricks and concrete.

Rectilinear walls or rectilinear partitions can be made with plasterboard panels applied to a frame of straight wooden slats or metal profiles.

If the walls are not rectilinear, articulated elements are used consisting of a punched and folded sheet metal to form a continuous set of modular box elements.

Basically a strip of sheet metal is punched and U-folded to form a series of U-shaped segments joined together by three appendages, two on the sides and one on the bottom. Subsequently, the appendages are folded inside the U-shape to form a series of boxed elements without one of the major surfaces and joined together by portions of the minor surfaces.

During construction, each jointed element is used as it is or is adapted to the curvilinear shape to be created by stretching the folded appendages.

However, these articulated elements have a series of disadvantages:

- the limitation of the width of the U-shaped elements which makes them incompatible with most of the similar but rectilinear structures that must flow into the curved portions and integrate with them, without cumbersome and precarious adaptations;

- the presence of the appendages folded inwards prevents longitudinal sliding in the correct position of the vertical upright profiles in sheet metal which constitute the supporting frame of the plasterboard or similar panels;

- the impossibility of using them as a guide for a retractable sliding door due to the presence of the appendages folded inwards;

- the possibility that the fixing screws of the plasterboard or of furnishings or external structures fall into the punched holes on the articulated element or on the folded appendages making such fixing unsafe,.

To obviate all the aforesaid drawbacks, a new type of articulated element has been studied and realized.

The new articulated element consists of a strip of sheet metal punched and folded so as to assume the shape of a U-shaped profile.

The metal strip is punched and perforated so that continuous lines and sections with notches and perforations alternate.

Each section with notches and perforations has on the side bands three notches parallel to each other and perpendicular to the edge of the strip while in the central area there are two notches, parallel to each other and aligned with the end notches present on the edges, between which they are made two holes in isosceles triangle with opposite vertices. The edges of the strip are then folded orthogonally to the central area of the strip itself to form a U-section profile.

The notched areas are slightly pre-bent towards the inside of the U shape.

The articulated element thus constituted allows you to create, with the help of plasterboard panels, walls or against linear or arched ceilings.

The new articulated element is used as it is for linear structures. It can also act as a guide for a sliding or retractable door inside the wall made with the new jointed element and plasterboard panels.

If it is necessary to create partitions, walls, counter ceilings or other curved structures, it is possible to shape the new jointed element by suitably bending the areas with notches. The new articulated element can be curved both laterally (so that the base of the U-section always lies on one plane) and vertically (so that all the wings of the U-profile of the structural elements all lie on two parallel planes).

In any case, when fastening elements such as screws or bolts are applied, there is always a part of the wall of the new articulated element to guarantee an adequate and suitable seal.

Furthermore, during the assembly phase, the new articulated element allows, with extreme ease and speed of installation, the sliding up to the fixing point of the galvanized sheet upright profiles that form the support frame of the plasterboard or similar panels.

The new articulated element therefore considerably simplifies assembly operations, thus reducing the installation times of the walls and false ceilings thus created.

In the attached table, a practical embodiment of the invention is presented by way of non-limiting example.

Figure 1 shows the development of the new articulated element, that is the strip of sheet metal punched before bending.

The metal strip has seamless areas (X) alternating with areas with notches and punches (Y). The physical edges of the sheet are indicated with a thick line, the simple notches with a thin line and the bending lines with a dash-point-point line.

The notches (4) on the side edges (. H) are three in number, parallel to each other and perpendicular to the sheet metal strip.

The notches (5) and the punches (6) on the central part of the strip (K, bottom of the U profile) are aligned with the notches (4) side edges (77) i.e .:

- two series of three notches (5) are aligned with the extreme notches (4) of the side edges (77);

- two punches (6) in the schematic shape of an isosceles triangle are placed between the two series of notches (5) and with opposite vertex. The strip is then folded along the dash-dot-dot lines or along the bases of the die-cuts (6) in an isosceles triangle forming a U-shaped profile as shown in figure 2.

Figure 3 shows an isometric view of part of the new jointed element folded laterally, while Figures 4a and 4b respectively schematize an isometric view and a section of the new jointed element folded downwards. In these last three figures it is clearly possible to see how the various parts with notches are bent to allow the bending of the various structural parts of the new articulated element.

These are the schematic modalities sufficient for the skilled person to realize the invention, consequently, in concrete application there may be variations without prejudice to the substance of the innovative concept.

Therefore, with reference to the preceding description and the attached table, the following claims are expressed.

Claims (5)

CLAIMS 1. Deformable guide for dividers generally composed of a strip of punched, carved and folded sheet metal characterized by the fact of having continuous sections alternating with tr with notches and perforations, and where each section with notches has notches parallel to each other and perpendicular to the length d metal strip and die cuts in the generic shape of isosceles triangles. 2. Deformable guide for dividers in general as claim 1, characterized in that the notches on the U-shaped booms are preferably three in number. 3. Deformable guide for dividers in general as claims 1, 2, characterized in that the notches on the central part (bottom of the U-shape) are preferably two series of three notches aligned with each other and with the extreme notches of the edge. 4. Deformable guide for dividers in general as claims 1, 2, 3, characterized by the fact that the blanks are in the central part (bottom of the U-shape), they preferably have the shape of a stylized isosceles triangle, they are number of two with opposite vertices and are comprised between two series of three notches. 5. Deformable guide for dividers generally composed of a strip of punched sheet metal, cut and U-folded according to the preceding claims, characterized by the fact that its production, its commercialization are intended as protected by this patent, all as described and illustrated.