WO1994004769A1 - On shell elements based wall construction - Google Patents

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WO1994004769A1
WO1994004769A1 PCT/FI1993/000318 FI9300318W WO9404769A1 WO 1994004769 A1 WO1994004769 A1 WO 1994004769A1 FI 9300318 W FI9300318 W FI 9300318W WO 9404769 A1 WO9404769 A1 WO 9404769A1
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Tarmo Mononen
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
    • E04B2/00—Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls
    • E04B2/74—Removable non-load-bearing partitions; Partitions with a free upper edge
    • E04B2/7401—Removable non-load-bearing partitions; Partitions with a free upper edge assembled using panels without a frame or supporting posts, with or without upper or lower edge locating rails

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  • the invention relates to a wall construction made up of at minimum two shell elements each of which has a surface sheet portion and, at the opposite edges, edge portions parallel to the thickness of the element, as well as any filling required in each given case in the space delimited by these, and of fasteners each of which comprises a web portion approximately perpendicular to the surface sheet and, projecting from the web, in parallel with the surface sheet, at least at one depth, a transverse branch or branches which engage in the edge por ⁇ tion of the shell element.
  • shell elements are made up of a separate surface sheet and of filler materials, assembled into elements by using an edge profile.
  • the surface sheet and the edge portions of the element are made of a bent sheet, and the inside of the element is filled with the filler materials desired in a given case.
  • the edge portion of the shell element has a groove which is used for fastening the elements.
  • the shell elements are fastened by means of sub ⁇ stantially T-shaped fasteners, the transverse T-branches of which engage the grooves in the aligned edge portions of shell elements placed one in continuation of another.
  • This construction evidently constitutes either one entire surface of a partition wall, in which case the construc ⁇ tion and installation method of the other surface remains un ⁇ clear or, alternatively, the publication describes a construe- tion in which the load-bearing posts are visible.
  • the frame posts are located directly in the grooves in the edge portions of the elements, in which case there are no load-bearing structures which are left clearly visible.
  • An object of the present invention is thus to provide a wall construction based on shell elements, a construction which would be at least self-supporting and, when necessary, accord ⁇ ing to the same principle, also load-bearing, but which does not require a frame separate from the shell elements.
  • a second object of the invention is to provide this type of a wall con ⁇ struction with which very good sound insulation and thermal insulation can be achieved.
  • a third object of the invention is this type of a wall construction the assembly of which is con ⁇ siderably rapid and simple and does not require the fitting of a number of different components to each other by measuring or otherwise.
  • a fourth object of the invention is the possibility of easy and rapid demounting and relocation of the wall. In this case the premises built by using a wall construction ac ⁇ cording to the invention can be altered.
  • the self-supporting and load-bearing wall construction is made up merely of shell elements, which are fastened to each other without any structural parts other than the fastening members.
  • the fastening members interconnect the shell elements into a structural entity which functions mechanically as one and has a high resistance to normal forces and bending moments.
  • a wall construction according to the invention has a high sound insulation and thermal insulation capacity also at the joints between the elements.
  • a high sound and thermal insulation capa ⁇ city is achieved by using two separate shell elements.
  • the only parts which pass through the wall are point-like fasteners, which do not significantly weaken the above-mentioned charac ⁇ teristics. Also, in the completed wall construction there are no load-bearing structures or fastening members visible.
  • Figure 1 is a general representation, from the outside, from direction I of Figure 2, of a wall made up of shell elements.
  • Figure 2 depicts a cross section, through B-B in Figure 1, of a joint according to the invention, between shell elements.
  • Figure 3 depicts, in a plane parallel to the joint, along plane A-A in Figure 2, a joint according to the invention.
  • FIG 1 shows in general a wall construction which is made up of a plurality of shell elements la-lg, which are generally indicated by reference numeral 1.
  • the height of the wall con ⁇ struction is indicated by L and the joints between the shell elements by 15.
  • each shell element 1 comprises a surface sheet portion 2 and, and at its opposite edges, edge portions 3 in the direction of the thick ⁇ ness of the element.
  • any filling 4a, 4b required in the given case which may be building board, insulation board, soft mineral wool, or other material, known per se, suitable for the given purpose.
  • the surface sheet por ⁇ tion 2 may be made up of a separate sheet and the edge portions 3 may be made up of profiles by which the other parts are held together, but in the preferred shell element shown in the fig ⁇ ures the surface sheet portion and the edge portions have been shaped from one and the same sheet by bending, and this sheet is preferably steel sheet, such as plastic-coated steel sheet.
  • the edge portions 3 have longitudinal grooves 10, or over the length of the edge portion there are perforations for the fas ⁇ tening of the shell elements and for possible sealing, riot shown in the figures, of the joints 15 between the shell ele ⁇ ments.
  • the wall construction has fasteners 5, which are made up of a web portion 6 approximately perpen ⁇ dicular to the surface sheet and a branch projecting from it transversely, in a direction parallel to the surface sheet, at least at one depth of the web part, or branches projecting at one depth, which engage the grooves 10 or, respectively, per ⁇ forations, not shown in the figures, in the edge portions 3 of the shell elements.
  • fasteners 5 are made up of a web portion 6 approximately perpen ⁇ dicular to the surface sheet and a branch projecting from it transversely, in a direction parallel to the surface sheet, at least at one depth of the web part, or branches projecting at one depth, which engage the grooves 10 or, respectively, per ⁇ forations, not shown in the figures, in the edge portions 3 of the shell elements.
  • the branch projecting at one point in the direction of wall thickness T mainly in a direction parallel to the surface sheet portion 2, or two branches, which are in this case oppo ⁇ site each other on two sides of the web portion.
  • the wall construction has at mini ⁇ mum two shell elements 1' and 1", shown in Figure 2, which are located adjacently in the direction of the wall thickness T, as a shell element combination 11.
  • Figure 2 thus shows two shell element combinations 11 according to the invention, placed as continuations of each other.
  • these two shell elements 1' and 1" are located so that the surface sheet por ⁇ tions 2 face away from each other, thus forming the outer sur ⁇ faces of the wall construction.
  • These shell elements 1' and 1", which form a combination 11 adjacently in the direction of the thickness need not be mutually similar in the manner shown in the figure; they may differ from each other in order to provide the desired overall construction for the wall.
  • the shell ele ⁇ ments la-lg, etc., which are on one and the same side of the shell combinations 11 and constitute continuations of each other, are usually mutually alike.
  • the fasteners 5 have, in the embodi ⁇ ment shown in Figures 2 and 3, branches which project from the web portion 6 at four different depths, i.e. at four different points of the wall thickness T.
  • the fasteners 5 have pro ⁇ jecting branches 7, 8, 9' and 9" in such a manner that the branches extend to both sides of the web portion 6.
  • the fasteners are suitable for the continuation joints of the shell element combinations 11.
  • fas ⁇ teners in which the branches extend to only one side of the web portion, in which case the fastener can be used, for example, at the end of the wall, for fastening a shell element combina ⁇ tion 11 to another construction.
  • the extreme branches 7 and 8 engage, on the one hand, the groove 10 in the first shell ele ⁇ ment 1' and, on the other hand, respectively, the groove 10 in the second shell element 1", in order to tie these two shell elements to form the said combination 11.
  • the minimum re ⁇ quirement is that the fasteners have projecting branches 7, 8 at minimum at two depths, and that they engage the grooves in the shell elements of the shell element combination 11.
  • the fasteners 5 are shorter than the thickness T of the shell element combination 11 and are located between the combination's surface sheet portions 2 which face away from each other.
  • the fasteners are not visible in the assembled joint but tie in the thickness direction the elements 1' and 1" of the element combination 11 effectively to each other, whereby a rigid wall is produced which is capable, without a separate frame, of bearing loads.
  • the edge portion has two or more support surfaces 12 and 13 at points away from the plane of the surface sheet portion in the thickness direction T.
  • each element thus has two of these support surfaces, and one 12 of these support surfaces always at the same time constitutes one side wall of a groove 10.
  • the fastener 5 respec ⁇ tively has more branches for engaging these support surfaces.
  • the projecting branches 7, 8, 9 of the fasteners bear on both support surfaces 12, 13 of each element 1' and 1".
  • the distance between the elements in the element combination 11 is S.
  • the fasteners have four sets of branches 7, 8, 9', 9", at four different depths, and the shell element com ⁇ bination is very well supported in the direction of its thick ⁇ ness, thus bearing loads effectively.
  • the fastener has projections at only three depths, i.e. that the projections 9' and 9" join, forming only one projec ⁇ tion.
  • the shell elements in an element combination come against each other, without any substantial distance S. Nevertheless, between these adjacent shell elements 1' and 1" there is a branch which supports the construction. In this case this combination branch is relatively thin in direction T.
  • this third branch can also be omitted, and branch ⁇ es 7 and 8, at only two different depths, can be used, in which case these branches press at the edges 12 of the grooves 10 the adjacent shell elements 1' and 1" against each other. It is thus advantageous that the fastener 5 engages the shell ele ⁇ ments by pressing the element by the support surfaces 12 and/or 13 between the branches of the fastener.
  • the fastener can ad ⁇ vantageously engage, in one and the same element, both support surfaces 12 and 13 or at least one 12 of the support surfaces.
  • the branch alternatives described in the preceding paragraph concern a situation in which the grooves 10 in the shell ele ⁇ ments have slack for the branches. If the grooves are, in the direction of the thickness T of the shell elements, substan ⁇ tially of the same dimension as the thickness of the branches in this direction, the elements cannot move in this direction, in which case the said distance S can be provided between the elements also when the fasteners have only two sets of branches 7 and 8.
  • the fastener 5 could also be a fastening profile, but the transportation, storage and use of such a profile would be relatively cumbersome, and therefore, according to the in ⁇ vention, fastener pieces having a length H relatively short as compared with the height L of the wall are preferably used.
  • fastener pieces having a length H relatively short as compared with the height L of the wall are preferably used.
  • two such fasteners are used for each joint 15 in such a way that one fastener 5' is close to the upper edge of the wall and the other fastener 5" is close to the lower edge of the wall, as can be seen in Figure 1.
  • the fasteners can be attached by screws 14, staples, or in some other manner, at least to one of the shell elements of the element combination 11 or to both shell ele ⁇ ments of the element combination 11, as can be seen in Figures 2 and 3.
  • the material of the fastener itself may be plastic or metal or some suitable composite material, and is not critical to the construction.

Abstract

A wall construction which is made up of at minimum two shell elements (1) having a surface sheet portion (2) and at opposite edges edge portions (3), as well as any necessary filling (4a, 4b) in the space delimited by these, and of fasteners (5) comprising a web portion (6) and, protruding from it in a direction parallel to the surface sheet, a transverse branch (7) or branches, which engage a groove or perforations in the edge portion of the shell element. In the wall construction the said two shell elements (1) are located adjacently in the direction of the wall thickness (T), as a combination (11), and the fasteners (5) have projecting branches (7, 8) at least at two different depths of the web portion (6), at the first depth to engage a groove (10) or a perforation in the first shell element (1') and at the second depth to engage a groove (10) or perforation in the second element (1'), and the fasteners (5) are within the thickness (T) of the shell element combination (11), in order to produce a wall without a separate frame.

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On shell elements based wall construction.
The invention relates to a wall construction made up of at minimum two shell elements each of which has a surface sheet portion and, at the opposite edges, edge portions parallel to the thickness of the element, as well as any filling required in each given case in the space delimited by these, and of fasteners each of which comprises a web portion approximately perpendicular to the surface sheet and, projecting from the web, in parallel with the surface sheet, at least at one depth, a transverse branch or branches which engage in the edge por¬ tion of the shell element.
The forming of walls, and in particular partition walls, of shell elements is known per se. For example, from publications DE 2 035 531 and DE-2 230 249 it is known to use shell elements of the type described above for making walls. In the former reference publication, the shell elements are made up of a separate surface sheet and of filler materials, assembled into elements by using an edge profile. In the latter publication, the surface sheet and the edge portions of the element are made of a bent sheet, and the inside of the element is filled with the filler materials desired in a given case. In each reference publication, the edge portion of the shell element has a groove which is used for fastening the elements. In the publication DE-2 035 531 the shell elements are fastened by means of sub¬ stantially T-shaped fasteners, the transverse T-branches of which engage the grooves in the aligned edge portions of shell elements placed one in continuation of another. The web portion of the T-shape of the fastener, emerging from the joint between the shell elements, forms a curve and is fastened to a separate frame post. This construction evidently constitutes either one entire surface of a partition wall, in which case the construc¬ tion and installation method of the other surface remains un¬ clear or, alternatively, the publication describes a construe- tion in which the load-bearing posts are visible. In the publi¬ cation DE-2 230 249, the frame posts are located directly in the grooves in the edge portions of the elements, in which case there are no load-bearing structures which are left clearly visible.
In both of the reference publications described above, frame posts separate from the shell elements are used as the load- bearing structure, and when left visible, they have an un¬ attractive outer appearance and in each case they require sepa¬ rate fastening to both the floor and the ceiling. This makes the wall construction and its assembling complicated and time- consuming. Furthermore, in each of the constructions disclosed in the reference publications, in particular the sound insula¬ tion and thermal insulation at the joint are poor. This is due to the frame structure which passes through the wall and con¬ ducts sound and heat through the wall structure. Fitting sev¬ eral components together requires rather extensive tolerances, which in turn results in throughgoing slits or the like and in the. possibility that the shells move, with the consequences mentioned above. Especially in the publication DE-2 230 249 there is no description of how the effects of installation errors of the load-bearing post can be compensated for, except by using loose construction.
An object of the present invention is thus to provide a wall construction based on shell elements, a construction which would be at least self-supporting and, when necessary, accord¬ ing to the same principle, also load-bearing, but which does not require a frame separate from the shell elements. A second object of the invention is to provide this type of a wall con¬ struction with which very good sound insulation and thermal insulation can be achieved. A third object of the invention is this type of a wall construction the assembly of which is con¬ siderably rapid and simple and does not require the fitting of a number of different components to each other by measuring or otherwise. A fourth object of the invention is the possibility of easy and rapid demounting and relocation of the wall. In this case the premises built by using a wall construction ac¬ cording to the invention can be altered.
The disadvantages described above can be eliminated and the objects defined above can be achieved by means of a wall con¬ struction according to the invention, which is characterized in what is stated in the characterizing clause of Claim 1.
The most important advantage of the invention is that, when it is used, the self-supporting and load-bearing wall construction is made up merely of shell elements, which are fastened to each other without any structural parts other than the fastening members. The fastening members interconnect the shell elements into a structural entity which functions mechanically as one and has a high resistance to normal forces and bending moments. A wall construction according to the invention has a high sound insulation and thermal insulation capacity also at the joints between the elements. A high sound and thermal insulation capa¬ city is achieved by using two separate shell elements. The only parts which pass through the wall are point-like fasteners, which do not significantly weaken the above-mentioned charac¬ teristics. Also, in the completed wall construction there are no load-bearing structures or fastening members visible.
The invention is described below in detail, with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 is a general representation, from the outside, from direction I of Figure 2, of a wall made up of shell elements.
Figure 2 depicts a cross section, through B-B in Figure 1, of a joint according to the invention, between shell elements.
Figure 3 depicts, in a plane parallel to the joint, along plane A-A in Figure 2, a joint according to the invention.
Figure 1 shows in general a wall construction which is made up of a plurality of shell elements la-lg, which are generally indicated by reference numeral 1. The height of the wall con¬ struction is indicated by L and the joints between the shell elements by 15. As can be seen in Figures 2 and 3, each shell element 1 comprises a surface sheet portion 2 and, and at its opposite edges, edge portions 3 in the direction of the thick¬ ness of the element. In the space delimited by the surface sheet portion 2 and the edge portions 3 there is any filling 4a, 4b required in the given case, which may be building board, insulation board, soft mineral wool, or other material, known per se, suitable for the given purpose. The surface sheet por¬ tion 2 may be made up of a separate sheet and the edge portions 3 may be made up of profiles by which the other parts are held together, but in the preferred shell element shown in the fig¬ ures the surface sheet portion and the edge portions have been shaped from one and the same sheet by bending, and this sheet is preferably steel sheet, such as plastic-coated steel sheet. The edge portions 3 have longitudinal grooves 10, or over the length of the edge portion there are perforations for the fas¬ tening of the shell elements and for possible sealing, riot shown in the figures, of the joints 15 between the shell ele¬ ments. In addition, the wall construction has fasteners 5, which are made up of a web portion 6 approximately perpen¬ dicular to the surface sheet and a branch projecting from it transversely, in a direction parallel to the surface sheet, at least at one depth of the web part, or branches projecting at one depth, which engage the grooves 10 or, respectively, per¬ forations, not shown in the figures, in the edge portions 3 of the shell elements. By the said one depth of the web is meant here the branch projecting at one point in the direction of wall thickness T, mainly in a direction parallel to the surface sheet portion 2, or two branches, which are in this case oppo¬ site each other on two sides of the web portion. According to the invention, the wall construction has at mini¬ mum two shell elements 1' and 1", shown in Figure 2, which are located adjacently in the direction of the wall thickness T, as a shell element combination 11. Figure 2 thus shows two shell element combinations 11 according to the invention, placed as continuations of each other. In particular, these two shell elements 1' and 1" are located so that the surface sheet por¬ tions 2 face away from each other, thus forming the outer sur¬ faces of the wall construction. These shell elements 1' and 1", which form a combination 11 adjacently in the direction of the thickness, need not be mutually similar in the manner shown in the figure; they may differ from each other in order to provide the desired overall construction for the wall. The shell ele¬ ments la-lg, etc., which are on one and the same side of the shell combinations 11 and constitute continuations of each other, are usually mutually alike.
The fasteners 5 according to the invention have, in the embodi¬ ment shown in Figures 2 and 3, branches which project from the web portion 6 at four different depths, i.e. at four different points of the wall thickness T. Thus, the fasteners 5 have pro¬ jecting branches 7, 8, 9' and 9" in such a manner that the branches extend to both sides of the web portion 6. In this case the fasteners are suitable for the continuation joints of the shell element combinations 11. Also conceivable are fas¬ teners in which the branches extend to only one side of the web portion, in which case the fastener can be used, for example, at the end of the wall, for fastening a shell element combina¬ tion 11 to another construction. The extreme branches 7 and 8 engage, on the one hand, the groove 10 in the first shell ele¬ ment 1' and, on the other hand, respectively, the groove 10 in the second shell element 1", in order to tie these two shell elements to form the said combination 11. Thus the minimum re¬ quirement is that the fasteners have projecting branches 7, 8 at minimum at two depths, and that they engage the grooves in the shell elements of the shell element combination 11.
According to the invention, the fasteners 5 are shorter than the thickness T of the shell element combination 11 and are located between the combination's surface sheet portions 2 which face away from each other. In this case the fasteners are not visible in the assembled joint but tie in the thickness direction the elements 1' and 1" of the element combination 11 effectively to each other, whereby a rigid wall is produced which is capable, without a separate frame, of bearing loads.
In order that a shell element could be fastened by its edge portion 3 firmly to fasteners 5, and thereby to each other, the edge portion has two or more support surfaces 12 and 13 at points away from the plane of the surface sheet portion in the thickness direction T. In the embodiment of Figures 2 and 3, each element thus has two of these support surfaces, and one 12 of these support surfaces always at the same time constitutes one side wall of a groove 10. There may, of course, be more of these support surfaces, in which case the fastener 5 respec¬ tively has more branches for engaging these support surfaces. In this case the projecting branches 7, 8, 9 of the fasteners bear on both support surfaces 12, 13 of each element 1' and 1". In this case, when the second support surfaces 13 are in the plane of the back side of the shell element 1, which side is the side opposite to the surface sheet portion 2, the distance between the elements in the element combination 11 is S.
The above is a description of a preferred embodiment of the invention, in which the fasteners have four sets of branches 7, 8, 9', 9", at four different depths, and the shell element com¬ bination is very well supported in the direction of its thick¬ ness, thus bearing loads effectively. It is also conceivable that the fastener has projections at only three depths, i.e. that the projections 9' and 9" join, forming only one projec¬ tion. In this case the shell elements in an element combination come against each other, without any substantial distance S. Nevertheless, between these adjacent shell elements 1' and 1" there is a branch which supports the construction. In this case this combination branch is relatively thin in direction T. Furthermore, this third branch can also be omitted, and branch¬ es 7 and 8, at only two different depths, can be used, in which case these branches press at the edges 12 of the grooves 10 the adjacent shell elements 1' and 1" against each other. It is thus advantageous that the fastener 5 engages the shell ele¬ ments by pressing the element by the support surfaces 12 and/or 13 between the branches of the fastener. The fastener can ad¬ vantageously engage, in one and the same element, both support surfaces 12 and 13 or at least one 12 of the support surfaces.
The branch alternatives described in the preceding paragraph concern a situation in which the grooves 10 in the shell ele¬ ments have slack for the branches. If the grooves are, in the direction of the thickness T of the shell elements, substan¬ tially of the same dimension as the thickness of the branches in this direction, the elements cannot move in this direction, in which case the said distance S can be provided between the elements also when the fasteners have only two sets of branches 7 and 8.
In principle, the fastener 5 could also be a fastening profile, but the transportation, storage and use of such a profile would be relatively cumbersome, and therefore, according to the in¬ vention, fastener pieces having a length H relatively short as compared with the height L of the wall are preferably used. Typically two such fasteners are used for each joint 15 in such a way that one fastener 5' is close to the upper edge of the wall and the other fastener 5" is close to the lower edge of the wall, as can be seen in Figure 1. Of course, it is also possible to use only one, or alternatively three or four or more fasteners, depending on the height of the wall and the required load capacity. In order to increase the rigidity of the fastening, the fasteners can be attached by screws 14, staples, or in some other manner, at least to one of the shell elements of the element combination 11 or to both shell ele¬ ments of the element combination 11, as can be seen in Figures 2 and 3. The material of the fastener itself may be plastic or metal or some suitable composite material, and is not critical to the construction.

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Claims
1. A wall construction made up of at minimum two shell ele¬ ments (1), each having a surface sheet portion (2) and, at op¬ posite edges, edge portions (3) parallel to the direction of the thickness of the element, as well as any filling (4a, 4b) required in the given case in the space delimited by these, and of fasteners (5) which are located within the thickness of the wall construction and comprise a web portion (6) approximately perpendicular to the surface sheet and, at least at two depths, transverse branches (7) projecting from it in a direction pa¬ rallel to the surface sheet, the branches engaging respectively in the edge portions (3) of these two shell elements, charac¬ terized in that the fasteners (5) have projecting branches (7-
9) at least at three depths, that the edge portions (3) have been shaped from the same sheet as the surface sheet portion (2) or in some other corresponding manner, that each edge por¬ tion (3) has two or more support surfaces (12, 13) parallel to the surface sheet portion, the fasteners (5) bearing by their projecting branches (7, 8, 9) on both support surfaces in each element (1', 1") located adjacently in the direction of the thickness (T) of the wall, as a combination (11), to produce a double-shell wall without a separate frame.
2. A wall construction according to Claim 1, characterized in that the fasteners have projecting branches (7, 8, 9', 9") at least at four different depths, and that the said two ad¬ jacent shell elements (1', 1") are respectively at a distance (S) from each other in order to improve further the support of the wall in the direction of its thickness.
3. A wall construction according to any of the above claims, characterized in that the length (H) of the fasteners (5) is smaller than the wall height (L) in the direction of the edge portion (3) of the shell elements (1), and there is at least one (5', 5") of them within the length (L) of the edge portion. 4. A wall construction according to any of the above claims, characterized in that, the wall construction having a butt joint between two of the said shell element combinations (11), the fastener (5) is mirror-symmetrical in relation to the joint (15) .
AMENDED CLAIMS
[received by the International Bureau on 10 January 1994 (10.01.94); original claim 1 amended; new claim 5 added; other claims unchanged (2 pages)]
1. A wall construction made up of at minimum two shell elements- (1) , each having a surface sheet portion (2) and, at opposite edges, edge portions (3) in the direction of the thickness of the element, as well as a filling (4a, 4b) required in the space delimited by said portions, and of fasteners (5) which are located within the thickness of the wall construction and comprise a web portion (6) approximately perpendicular to the surface sheet portions and, at least at two depths, transverse branches (7, 8) projecting from it in a direction parallel to the surface sheet, the branches engaging respectively in the edge portions (3) of these two shell elements, characterized in that the fasteners (5) have projecting branches (7-9) at least at three depths, that the edge portions (3) have been shaped from the same sheet material as the surface sheet portion (2) or from some other corresponding material to have two or more support faces (12, 13) of said material, said faces parallel to the surface sheet portion, and that the fasteners (5) are bearing by their projecting branches (7, 8, 9) on both support faces in each element (l1, 1") located adjacently in the direction of the thickness (T) of the wall, as a combination (11) , to produce a double-shell wall without a separate frame.
2. A wall construction according to Claim 1, characterized in that the fasteners have projecting branches (7, 8, 9', 9") at least at four different depths, and that the said two adjacent shell elements (l1, 1") are respectively at a distance (S) from each other in order to improve further the support of the wall in the direction of its thickness.
3. A wall construction according to any of the above claims, characterized in that the length (H) of the fasteners (5) is smaller than the wall height (L) in the direction of the edge portion (3) of the shell elements (1) , and there is at least one (51, 5") of them within the length (L) of the edge portion.
4. A wall construction according to any of the above claims, characterized in that, the wall construction having a butt joint between two of the said shell element combinations
(11) , the fastener (5) is mirror-symmetrical in relation to the joint (15) .
5. A wall construction according to any of the above claims, characterized in that, said sheet material is a metal sheet, preferably a steel sheet and that said filling is a building board, an insulation board, a soft mineral wool, or other material or a combination thereof.
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