Mounting arrangement for balcony glazing
The invention relates to a mounting arrangement according to the preamble of the appended claim 1 in connection with a balcony glazing or the like. The balcony glazing or the like comprises two or more glass panes or the like, moving supported and pivoted on guide arrangements and located in the functional position one after the other, main planes in parallel in the longitudinal direction of the guide arrangement. They are arranged to be placed at one end of the guide arrangement into a bundle-shaped strorage position, wherein the direction of their main planes is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the guide arrangement. In the balcony glazing, that glass pane or the like, which is placed nearest to the storage location is arranged to be fixed in a stationary manner with respect to the guide arrangement by means of pivoting elements on the upper or lower edge of the glass pane or the like which is located at the end of the balcony glazing or the like. The pivoting elements comprise a frame part, which contains a sleeve or the like for receiving a hinge pivot, and a receiving part, which is arranged to receive the coupling means, located in connection with the pivoting elements attached to the the pivoting axis of the next glass pane or the like arranged to move in the guide arrangement, in order to bring the glass pane or the like in question in fixed contact with the pivoting elements for the duration of the storage position, for pivoting the glass pane or the like in question to the storage position.
The above presented guide arrangements and glazing systems used for balcony glazing or in connection with corresponding glazings placed in an opening in a structure, are presented for example in publications FI-84645, FI-950522 and FI-955693. These publications disclose balcony glazing systems which are functional as such and applicable for use in also other openings in structures.
In the field of turnable glazing systems, there has recently been considerable development in that respect that especially balcony glazing systems are installed both in old blocks of flats, for example in connection with facade renovation, and in large numbers in new buildings. For the basic functionality of the balcony glazing, it is
especially important how the guide arrangement can be reliably installed on the edge of the opening. The fact that balcony openings and corresponding openings in structures are designed and implemented with a large variety of sizes and materials in the stock of buildings currently in use, causes difficulties especially with respect to the design and installation of the guide arrangement and finally possibly even with the functionality of the glazing. For the functionality of the balcony glazing or the like, it is especially important that a stationary, merely pivoted balcony glazing, which in this context is called the first glass pane or the like, can be placed in connection with the balcony glazing or the like so that the receiving parts grip the next glass pane simultaneously. Bringing the stationary first glass pane in such a position is a highly demanding operation, if it has to be conducted directly in direct contact with the guide arrangement. If a faulty mounting takes place in the operation, it affects the function of the whole balcony glazing or the like, and it is difficult to fix or adjust it later if alterations due to wearing and deflection take place in the structures.
The purpose of this invention is to present an improvement to the above presented problem, wherein first of all, it is possible to conduct the installation of a balcony glazing or the like in such a way that the balcony glazing or the like is easy for the user to manipulate, and the balcony glazing can for that part be later adjusted with respect to functionality, if wearing and transformations take place in the structure. To attain these purposes, the mounting arrangement according to the invention is primarily characterized in that in connection with at least one pivoting element and/or guide arrangement there are means for adjusting the location of the pivoting element especially with the purpose of adjusting the vertical line running via the receiving parts of the pivoting elements of the stationary, first glass pane or the like in parallel with the vertical line running via the coupling means of the pivoting elements of the next glass pane or the like.
With this solution, the advantage achieved is that after the installation of a balcony glazing or the like, it is possible to conduct an adjustment applying to the overall functionality of the balcony glazing so that the location of the receiving parts of the first, stationary glass pane is such
that the next glass pane is easily placed in its temporary pivoting position, wherein in the balcony glazing or the like, the corresponding position is naturally applied also to the other movable glass panes or the like which are moved along the guide arrangement to the storage location at one end of the balcony glazing, to be joined with a temporary connection between the coupling means and the receiving means and to be pivoted to the storage position, wherein locking takes place between the hinge pivot and the receiving part.
The other dependent claims will present advantageous embodiments of the mounting arrangement according to the invention.
In the following description, the mounting arrangement according to the invention will be illustrated in more detail. In the description, reference will be made to the appended drawing, in which
Fig. 1 shows a vertical cross-sectional view at the location of an embodiment of a fixed pivoting element placed in connection with the lower guide of the guide arrangement, and
Fig. 2 shows in a perspective view the structure of the embodiment of the fixed pivoting element according to Fig. 1.
In Fig. 1 , the reference number 1 indicates a lower guide, privided with a fixed pivoting element 4. The structure and function of the lower guide 1 will not be discussed in detail in this context, but reference is made to other publications of the field, in which the technical details of such a structure are described more closely. The pivoting element 4 is placed in a groove 2 in the lower guide 1 and fixed to it with adjustment means 3a and 3b for adjusting the location of the pivoting element 4. The pivoting element 4 is placed in the groove 2 in a way that it can move in the groove 2 in the longitudinal direction of the lower guide 1. Thus, in the presented embodiment, a corresponding pivoting element located in the upper guide (not shown) can be designed so that it is completely fixed or in a corresponding manner adjustable in its fixed position, wherein by moving either one or both of the pivoting
arrangements it is possible to conduct the adjustment of the first, stationary glass pane or the like so that the functionality of the balcony glazing or the like can be secured by joining the vertical lines in adjacent glass panes or the like in parallel.
With particular reference to Fig. 2, the fixed pivoting element 4 has preferably a rectangular cross-section, which is thus located in the groove 2 situated in the lower guide 1 and/or upper guide and having a corresponding form. In the frame 5 of the pivoting element 4 there is at its first end, directed outward from the groove 2, a sleeve 6, or the like, for receiving the hinge pivot of the stationary first glass pane or the like. The first element 3a of the adjustment means is in the presented embodiment a screw-nut combination 13, 14 (Fig. 1). The second element 3b of the adjustment means, having the form of the groove arrangement 11 , 12, is placed in the middle of the frame part 5, and its structure will be described in more detail hereinbelow. At the other end of the pivoting element 4, opposite with respect to the sleeve 6 or the like, there is a receiving part 7, which comprises a groove 8 for receiving the hinge pivot located in connection with the adjacent glass pane or the like and for producing locking in connection with the turn of the adjacent glass pane or the like, joined to the hinge pivot. A pivoting element 4' located in connection with the adjacent glass pane or the like is suggested in Fig. 2. This technical detail is prior art in the field, and will not therefore be desribed in more detail. The receiving part 7 also contains a cylindrical surface 9, which functions as a coupling means and to which a corresponding surface 10 is joined, located in connection with the sleeve 6, underneath the same, and in connection with the pivoting element 4' of the adjacent glass pane. The hinge pivot of the adjacent glass pane is placed in a sleeve which has a form corresponding to the form of the sleeve 6. The above presented structures and functional principles are already known from previous patents in the field, and therefore for their part reference is made to prior art, for example to the publications presented above in the specification.
The invention is characterized in that in connection with the pivoting element 4 and the guide arrangement, there are means 3a, 3b for adjusting the location of the pivoting element 4 in the longitudinal
direction of the guide arrangement. For this purpose, in the embodiment presented in Figs 1 and 2, a drilling 15 through the wall is made in the guide arrangement 1 , in its vertical inner surface 1a, at the location of the groove 2 . The drilling 15 can be a round hole or a groove in the longitudinal direction of the guide arrangement. Correspondingly, the pivoting element (Fig. 2) is provided with a groove arrangement in its middle part, between the parts 7 and 6, 10. The first part 11 of the groove arrangement is a horizontal hole or a groove in the longitudinal direction of the pivoting element 4 as well as the guide arrangement 1 , and correspondingly, the second part 12 is a hole or a groove located in the frame of the pivoting element, which, in a similar way, has the longitudinal direction of the frame 5 of the pivoting element 4 as well as guide arrangement 1 as its main direction, and joins to the inner end of the first part 11. The second part 12 is arranged so that the nut part 14 of the adjustment screw 13 which in the presented embodiment forms the first element 3a of the adjustment means, is located in a non-rotational manner in said second part 12, and is capable of moving in the longitudinal direction of the second part 12 while adjustments are made.
Thus, in the presented embodiment, the first part 13, 14 of the adjustment means 3a, 3b is a screw which is placed via drilling 15 in the first part 11 of the pivoting element 4 opening to the groove 2 of the guide arrangement 1 in such a way that its longitudinal direction is perpendicular against the longitudinal direction of the first part 11 , wherein by loosening the screw 13 it is possible to move the pivoting element 4 in the groove 2 of the lower guide 1 in its longitudinal direction to a location suitable with respect to adjustability, after which the screw 13 can be tightened, wherein the pivoting element 4 is locked in the guide arrangement 1. Thus the adjustment allowance in this case is the length of the first part 11 located in the pivoting element 4, and possibly the length of the drilling 15.