US3893272A - Sealing joints for curtain walls - Google Patents

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US3893272A
US3893272A US501526A US50152674A US3893272A US 3893272 A US3893272 A US 3893272A US 501526 A US501526 A US 501526A US 50152674 A US50152674 A US 50152674A US 3893272 A US3893272 A US 3893272A
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
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    • E04B2/00—Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls
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    • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
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    • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
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    • E06B2003/6279—Fixing of glass panes or like plates by means of borders, cleats, or the like of rubber-like elastic cleats with specific characteristics concerning the material with coverings or embellisher strips
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    • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
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  • E04B 2/88; E04B 1/66 sealing members which interengage in an overlapping [58] Field of Search 52/235, 393, 402, 403, manner so as to prevent rain from percolating through 52/461, 463, 460, 459, 469, 465, 466 the wall.
  • the horizontal members have downwardly directed external flaps which overlie the vertical mem- [56] References Cited bers at cross-over points of the horizontal and vertical members.
  • the curtain walls which are employed at the present time for the cladding of buildings are usually made up of an assembly of juxtaposed panels supported on a suitable skeleton framework. With such a mode of construction it is important that good tightness should be achieved at right angles to the lines of separation between the panels so as to avoid. in particular, the percolation of water and dust between the latter and the skeleton framework.
  • sealing systems which consist ofa lattice of vertical profiled joints and horizontal profiled joints which are suitably maintained in compression on the parallel and adjacent exterior edges either of two neighbouring panels or of one panel and the skeleton framework.
  • the essential difficulty which arises in such systems is that of ensuring tightness at the position where the vertical and horizontal joints cross. In effect, it is desirable to avoid any possibility of leakage, of water in particular. at the various crossings of the joints, while at the same time preserving a satisfactory aesthetic appearance for such joints.
  • each horizontal joint is provided with an external flap orientated downwards and that each vertical joint is interrupted at the position of crossing with each horizontal joint and is mounted in such a way that the upper interrupted extremity of the vertical joint is applied in an overlapping manner on to the upper edge of the horizontal joint concerned, while the lower interrupted extremity is arranged below the flap of this lat- ICI.
  • each horizontal joint at the position of crossing with each vertical joint. is notched in its lower part which is situated beneath the flap so as to allow the corresponding lower cut-oft extremity of said vertical joint to be arranged beneath the latter.
  • Such a notch thus avoids an excess thickness at the position of crossing which might be inconvenient both from the aesthetic point of view and from the point of view of tightness.
  • each joint is kept under compression in the curtain wall by means of a rigid maintaining bar which is fixed at various points by screwing, with interposition of spacing devices. to the supporting skeleton.
  • spacing devices make it possible to regulate the compression of the joint once for all so that the joint can thus be easily mounted in conditions ensuring the greatest possible tightness.
  • regularity of the compression achieved by means of these spacing devices gives to the joint a constant efficiency to the joint over its whole length as well as a satisfactory external appearance (constant breadth. no local squeezing or, on the other hand. expansion).
  • FIG. I is a view in schematic elevation, with partial stripping, of a system of sealing joints according to the invention.
  • FIGS. 2, 3, 4 and 5 are sectional views on an enlarged scale, along the lines II-II, III
  • the references 10a, lOb, 10c and 10d denote four of the juxtaposed relatively thin plate panels which are conveniently fixed by any known means (not illustrated) on to a skeleton framework l2 of a building (see FIGS. 2-5) in order to make up that which is customarily called a curtain wall, such a curtain wall being intended essentially to clad the facade of said building.
  • a curtain wall such a curtain wall being intended essentially to clad the facade of said building.
  • the panels and "lb are constituted.
  • a double glazing suitably supported on the skeleton framework 12 with the interposition ofa joint 14
  • the panels 100 and 10d are constituted by a relatively thick single glazing supported in the same way as the double glazing 10a and 10b of the skeleton framework I2, with the interposition of a joint 16 similar to the joint 14.
  • a filling element I is conveniently arranged between the lower edges of the panels 100 and 10b and the skeleton framework 12, in such a way as to support, at least partially, the weight of these panels in the vertical direction.
  • the invention proposes a system of joints which essentially make up a lattice of vertical profiled joints, such as 20, and horizontal profiled joints, such as 22, each of these joints being maintained in compression on the parallel and adjacent exterior edges of two neighbouring panels, in such a way as to ensure a tight seal between these panels in relation to external agents such as rainwater. It is understood that each of the horizontal joints 22 and the vertical joints 20 could also be arranged between the edge of one panel 10 and the adjacent parallel edge of the supporting skeleton framework.
  • each of the horizontal profiled joints 22 is made up of two groups of straight-line lips. 24 and 26 respectively, connected together by a relatively plane central part 28, which constitutes the body of the joint. and an external flap 30, orientated downwards, and fixed at its base to the upper edge of the body of the joint 28, at the position of the commencement of the lips 24.
  • Rigid metallic bars 32 such as hoop irons, are connected to the skeleton framework 12 by any convenient means such as screws 34.
  • each horizontal joint 22 extends in a continuous manner along the whole length of the curtain wall while the maintaining bars 32 of those joints are interrupted at the position of each of the crossings of the corresponding horizontal joint with the various vertical joints 20 of the lattice.
  • Each of the profiled vertical joints 20 is, advantageously, of the type represented in section in FIG. 3 and is made up of two straight-line lips, or groups of lips, 36 and 38 joined together by a central part 40 forming the body of the joint.
  • This latter part is hollow and has an internal space 42 of approximately rectangular form able to receive a rigid metallic bar 44, such as a hoop iron, capable of maintaining by compression the lips 36 and 38 of the joint 20 in contact with the vertical edges of two neighbouring panels, such as me and d, when it is fixed to the skeleton framework.
  • a rigid metallic bar 44 such as a hoop iron
  • the corresponding vertical joint is interrupted and it is arranged that the upper interrupted extremity 50 of the joint 20 overlaps the upper edge of the horizontal joint 22 concerned, while the lower interrupted extremity 52 ofthe joint 20 is, for its part, arranged beneath the flap of the horizontal joint 22.
  • the latter has, for this purpose, a notch 56 of suitable form in its lower part 54 which is situated beneath the flap 30 and into the interior of which the extremity 52 of the joint 20 is inserted.
  • the maintaining bar 44 corresponding to the upper extremity of the vertical joint 20 ends at right angles to this extremity.
  • the maintaining bar 44 corresponding to the lower extremity 52 of this vertical joint 20 prolongs the latter slightly upwards, as shown at 58, in such a way as to be applied to the un-notched upper part 60 of the body 28, which is situated under the flap 30 of the horizontal joint 22.
  • This application is advantageously consolidated by providing, as illustrated, a fixing screw 46 in the immediate neighbourhood of the extremity 52, the flap 30 being able to conceal said screw in this arrangement.
  • lattice ofjoints 20-22 has been described above in relation to vitreous panels. but it is. however. to be understood that said lattice may be used with any type of panel, planar or non-planar. tixcd by any suitable means to the skeleton framework.
  • fixing means maintaining said joints in compression on the exterior edges of said panels.
  • said joints being arranged to form a lattice
  • each of said horizontal joints interrupting at least one of said vertical joints and each ofsaid interrupted vertical joints having at least one interruption thereof whcreat an upper portion of said interrupted vertical joint overlaps on to the upper edge of the respective horizontal joint means and a lower portion of said interrupted vertical joint means is disposed beneath the respective flap means of said respective horizontal joint means.
  • each fixing means comprises a theaded element passed through a hole in the maintaining bar and screwed into tho skeleton framework.
  • each profiled joint has at least two lips separated by a central part against which the maintaining bar of the corresponding joint is applied.

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US4453355A (en) * 1981-07-28 1984-06-12 Stoakes Richard Lewis Curtain wall constructions
US4614067A (en) * 1984-06-11 1986-09-30 Yoshida Kogyo K. K. Assembly of prefabricated panel units having lapping watertight seals
US5524404A (en) * 1991-06-22 1996-06-11 General Electric Co. Facade structure
US5687524A (en) * 1995-02-10 1997-11-18 Ting; Raymond M. L. Apparatus for sealing panel joints of building surfaces
US20080302047A1 (en) * 2007-06-06 2008-12-11 Steven Schraga Drywall joint system and method
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US3223209A (en) * 1963-04-16 1965-12-14 Pacific Curtainwall Inc Sealed frame cross joint
US3353316A (en) * 1965-06-01 1967-11-21 Edward T Berg Panel-covered structures
US3359700A (en) * 1965-11-26 1967-12-26 Jr Herbert L Birum Sealing means for exterior panel wall structures
US3373537A (en) * 1966-07-05 1968-03-19 Aluminum Co Of America Joint structures and elements thereof
US3766698A (en) * 1971-08-23 1973-10-23 Standard Products Co Means for preventing panel roll out in a panel mounting system
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US2923305A (en) * 1957-08-07 1960-02-02 Firestone Tire & Rubber Co Sealing closure
US2985263A (en) * 1957-11-19 1961-05-23 Olin Mathieson Field fabricated curtain wall construction
US3223209A (en) * 1963-04-16 1965-12-14 Pacific Curtainwall Inc Sealed frame cross joint
US3353316A (en) * 1965-06-01 1967-11-21 Edward T Berg Panel-covered structures
US3359700A (en) * 1965-11-26 1967-12-26 Jr Herbert L Birum Sealing means for exterior panel wall structures
US3373537A (en) * 1966-07-05 1968-03-19 Aluminum Co Of America Joint structures and elements thereof
US3766698A (en) * 1971-08-23 1973-10-23 Standard Products Co Means for preventing panel roll out in a panel mounting system
US3844087A (en) * 1972-06-22 1974-10-29 Roper Corp Skylight structure

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US4453355A (en) * 1981-07-28 1984-06-12 Stoakes Richard Lewis Curtain wall constructions
US4614067A (en) * 1984-06-11 1986-09-30 Yoshida Kogyo K. K. Assembly of prefabricated panel units having lapping watertight seals
US5524404A (en) * 1991-06-22 1996-06-11 General Electric Co. Facade structure
US5687524A (en) * 1995-02-10 1997-11-18 Ting; Raymond M. L. Apparatus for sealing panel joints of building surfaces
US20110017301A1 (en) * 2007-05-29 2011-01-27 Canavan Donald H Facade rainwater harvesting system
US20080302047A1 (en) * 2007-06-06 2008-12-11 Steven Schraga Drywall joint system and method
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