WO2003078751A1 - Procede et moyen pour interconnecter des elements de type panneaux - Google Patents

Procede et moyen pour interconnecter des elements de type panneaux Download PDF

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WO2003078751A1
WO2003078751A1 PCT/IB2003/001023 IB0301023W WO03078751A1 WO 2003078751 A1 WO2003078751 A1 WO 2003078751A1 IB 0301023 W IB0301023 W IB 0301023W WO 03078751 A1 WO03078751 A1 WO 03078751A1
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Edgar Gudmundsson
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Geca Hf
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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
    • E04B2/76—Removable non-load-bearing partitions; Partitions with a free upper edge with framework or posts of metal
    • E04B2/78—Removable non-load-bearing partitions; Partitions with a free upper edge with framework or posts of metal characterised by special cross-section of the frame members as far as important for securing wall panels to a framework with or without the help of cover-strips
    • E04B2/7854—Removable non-load-bearing partitions; Partitions with a free upper edge with framework or posts of metal characterised by special cross-section of the frame members as far as important for securing wall panels to a framework with or without the help of cover-strips of open profile
    • 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
    • E04B2/7407—Removable non-load-bearing partitions; Partitions with a free upper edge assembled using frames with infill panels or coverings only; made-up of panels and a support structure incorporating posts
    • E04B2/7453—Removable non-load-bearing partitions; Partitions with a free upper edge assembled using frames with infill panels or coverings only; made-up of panels and a support structure incorporating posts with panels and support posts, extending from floor to ceiling

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  • the present invention relates to a method wherein a stud web means as well as means for interconnecting essentially planar board-like members is formed preferably at a building worksite during raising of walls or the like structural building elements.
  • the present invention further relates to a stud means for interconnecting board-like members, said stud means including a sheet-like web extending in a transverse disposition in relation to said board-like members.
  • sheet metal stud or post arrangements wherein a sheet metal is formed to constitute flange means and interconnecting web means.
  • stud arrangements are used in partitional walls or the like in buildings.
  • studs are attached between a floor and a ceiling, after which boards or board-like members such as gypsum boards, wood chip boards, flat sheet metal structures or the like are attached to the flanges.
  • One object of the present invention is also to provide an arrangement wherein a hitherto unknown flexibility in dimensioning can be achieved.
  • One further object of the present invention is to provide an arrangement wherein a minimum of different items are required for erecting a multitude of walls having identical, almost identical or even quite different dimensions and properties.
  • Yet one object of the present invention is to provide an arrangement wherein the transportation and utilization of the stud material is economical and which still provides the same or even better building properties than known stud arrangements can provide.
  • said strip to include, at least at one edge thereof, subsequent spaced bending portions for constituting a first bending line, as well as to include, in the vicinity of said bending portions, cooperating tongue portions arranged for cooperation with said at least one groove;
  • a stud means according to the present invention is characterized in that said stud means is an essentially flat strip of a sheet material at which successive strip flange blanks are arranged at least at one edge to be bent into a transverse disposition in relation to said web portion.
  • Figure 1 as a perspective view discloses a general wall arrangement according to one embodiment of the present invention
  • Figure 2 discloses a portion of a strip having generally the properties of the strips used in connection with the embodiment disclosed in Figure 1,
  • Figures 3 to 6 in an exaggerated manner in section disclose subsequent intermediate and/or final steps in order to form an arrangement as disclosed in Figure 1
  • Figure 7 in an exaggerated manner in section discloses a portion of a wall structure close to the one disclosed in Figure 1, but now including double boardlike members
  • Figure 8 discloses an alternative embodiment of a strip according to the present invention
  • Figure 9 in section along A-A of Figure 8 discloses how a tongue portion is bent out from a generally planar strip in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figure 10 in section discloses a single wall structure wherein a strip as disclosed in Figure 8 constitutes a wall stud.
  • a wall structure 1 includes subsequent essentially vertical posts or studs 2 as well as, at each side of the wall, a board arrangement including at least one layer of, respectively, first and second board-like members or boards 3, 3a arranged subsequently at both sides of one end area 4 of said vertical stud 2.
  • said stud 2 comprises an essentially planar strip 5 of a sheet material, favorably sheet metal, which is bent at the worksite to constitute subsequent first tongue portions 6 which extend into a groove 7, 7a made in a front edge 8 at said boards 3, 3a.
  • each strip 5 as such can easily be cut off from a larger storage coil (not shown) by means of common sheet metal cutting means and to the exact length necessary for the post .
  • the strip material as such can be utilized in a most efficient manner without any waste, except possibly for the innermost coil end.
  • transportation and storage of a flat material especially in a large coil is much more efficient than handling three- dimensional studs of a final or semi final shape as known from prior art .
  • said strip 5 is bent or folded around a longitudinal axis or bending line X ⁇ constituted by subsequent spaced sheet material bridges or first bending portions 9.
  • Said first bending portions 9 are arranged in order to facilitate a bending of the strip along said bending line X ] _ in relation to said first tongue portions 6 which are inserted to extend into said groove 7, 7a.
  • said bending line X ⁇ is favorably provided to extend essentially along a front edge 10 of said strip 5, from which edge 10 said first tongue portions 6 protrude to an extent roughly corresponding to the depth of said grooves 7, 7a, into which said tongue portions 6 are inserted when the wall structure 1 is built.
  • boards 3, 3a of standard dimensions used in wall structures 1 are provided already during manufacture to include such grooves 7, 7a, but especially in non-standard cases and embodiments the grooves 7, 7a are cut on site by means of, e.g., a circular saw or the like hand or bench tool on the building site.
  • a circular saw or the like hand or bench tool on the building site.
  • Normally one central groove 7, 7a is considered to be sufficient but in some embodiments (not shown) further grooves or asymmetrically arranged grooves provided in the front edge can be used especially for adapting board-like members of a non-standard thickness .
  • At least one strip edge 10 comprises subsequent first tongue portions 6 which extend beyond the edge 10 of the strip, but it should be clear that some embodiments include such formations also at the opposite edge of the strip, as disclosed, as an example only, in Figure 8.
  • These first tongue portions 6 are inserted into the groove 7 of said first boards, as disclosed in Figure 3.
  • Such a bending line X ] _ is favorably provided by cutting out a portion 11 of said strip 5 so that said tongue portion 6 connects to the strip by means of a rather short bridge portion 6b which is located at a distance from said edge 10.
  • said bending line X is favorably provided by means of exactly defined corner portions 12 of said cut-out portions 11.
  • Said cut-out portions are favorably provided by means of a punching machine or the like known means which is capable of cutting out exactly defined portions 11, 12 of the sheet material.
  • a counter or second tongue portion 6a is favorably provided as an inwards extension of said first tongue portion 6, which best can be seen in Figures 2 and 4.
  • a structure including first and second boards 3, 3a can be provided, wherein said boards are interconnected by opposite tongue portions 6, 6a which each one co-operate with a corresponding groove 11, 11a.
  • This stage is reached by inserting (arrow i) , in a first step disclosed in Figure 3, all said subsequent first tongue portions 6 into said first groove 7, after which the rest of the strip 5 is folded (arrow ii) along said first bending line X x into a position essentially transversal to the general planar extent of said first board 3. In this position the rest of the strip will, as such, in some embodiments constitute the web portion 13 of a sheet material stud 2.
  • said second tongue portion 6a since said second tongue portion 6a is connected to said first tongue portion 6, but due to said cut-out portion 11 not connected to the other parts of the strip 5, said second tongue portion 6a will not bend when the web portion 13, i.e. the rest of said strip 5, is bent or folded into the transversal position. Thus, said second tongue portion 6a will remain unbent to constitute an extension of said first tongue portion 6 beyond said bending line X ⁇ and essentially in the same common plane as said first tongue portion 6. Now a corresponding groove 7a arranged at a corresponding (or actually opposite) front edge of an adjacent board 3a can be brought by means of a pushing motion (see arrow iii) into co-operation with said second tongue portion 6a, or actually with several subsequent such second tongue portions 6a along said front edge 10.
  • a glue favorably a poly-urethane glue known per se, can be provided in the seam between said front edges 8, 8a.
  • a poly-urethane glue known per se.
  • Figure 2 and Figures 5 to 7 disclose how a favorable embodiment of the present invention further includes additional bending lines X2 , ⁇ 2a' x 2 which are located at some distance from the edge 10 of the strip and thus nearer the central axis of the strip, in relation to the first bending line X2 ⁇
  • said additional bending lines X2 , ⁇ 2a» x 3 are favorably provided by means of cut-out portions 11, 11a made in the strip in such a manner that relatively short subsequent bridge portions 9a, 9b remain between axially defined portions of the strip.
  • FIG. 1 discloses as partial Figures 2a and 2b slightly different embodiments, wherein the embodiment according to partial Figure 2b an additional bending line X2 a is arranged to extend at an intermediate part of a tongue web portion 6b connecting said tongues 6 with the strip web portion 13.
  • additional bending lines X2 , X2a * x 3 will be described with reference to Figures 5 to 7.
  • a method according to one favorable embodiment of the present invention includes further steps beyond those discussed in context with Figures 3 and 4.
  • the web portion 13 is bent, around an additional bending line X2 (arrow iv) to extend essentially flat along one surface 14 of the board 3.
  • an additional bending line X2 (arrow iv) to extend essentially flat along one surface 14 of the board 3.
  • Such portions 14 of the strip 5 which are connected to the strip web 13 but extend to the other side of said bending line X2 , in relation to the web, will favorably bend outwards to extend in an opposite direction, i.e. outwards from said front edge 8 of said first board.
  • Such extending portions 15 extend over the seam area 4 between subsequent boards 3, 3a and support the seam area, as is more clearly disclosed in Figure 7.
  • the web portion 13 is bent one more time, now around a second additional bending line X3 (arrow v) to extend transversely in relation to the board's surface 14.
  • the web portion 13 will constitute the structural web of a wall stud 2 in a single board wall as disclosed in Figure 1.
  • This embodiment is especially intended for structures including relatively thick boards 3, 3a.
  • the present invention also renders the use of, e.g., double boards 3, 3' and 3a, 3a' possible.
  • the provision of a further additional bending line X2a i- s especially favorable, since it facilitates the use of the same strip 1 for both single and double wall structures.
  • Such an additional bending line X2 a enables a bending at the edge of the additional boards 3', 3a' which doubles the main first and second boards 3, 3a and thus the flange 15 will extend at the inner surface of the additional boards 3', 3a' and support them, as can be seen in partial Figure 7b.
  • subsequent boards are attached to first boards by pressing the subsequent board 3a against the first board 3 so that a corresponding groove 11a made in a front edge 8a thereof receives said second tongue portions 6a which after attachment of the stud 2 extends outwards from said front edge 8 at said first board 3.
  • the edge may be bevelled 16 in order to facilitate the introduction under said extending portion 15, but in most cases this will be unnecessary.
  • the strip 5 includes a further bending line X4 at the opposite side of the strip 5. This further bending line X4 renders a bending of an edge flange 23 or separate tongue 24 possible which in some embodiments provides additional support for the inner boards 3', 3a'.
  • the wall is favorably built so that a strip portion 5 according to the invention is introduced at the edge 8 of each first board 3 favorably when said board lies vertically flat. Thereafter the board 3 is raised and a subsequent second board 3a, which in the same manner has been provided with a strip 5, is attached to the first one in a raised position. In this manner the erecting of one first side of the wall is performed either as one operation or so that an opposite wall side is added to said first side as the installation proceeds. Prior to the installation of the opposite wall portion an insulation 17 is favorably arranged between the mutually opposite wall portions.
  • the opposite wall portions are favorably provided with a corresponding strip 5 which, in turn, also constitutes a stud 2 or a part thereof .
  • the web of each strip includes suitably longitudinal thin slits 18. In a final wall these slits 18 will be located in such an aligned position that a locking element, suitably a flat essentially round interconnecting piece 19 as shown in Figure 11 can be introduced (see arrow in Figure 1) into both slits 18 for preventing a separation of the opposite web portions 13 which together constitute the web of the stud.
  • This interconnecting piece 19 is easy to install in the grooves 18 where it will be functionally positioned at a correct position by means of the extending stoppers 20 and a slit 21 which generally corresponds to the thickness of both the webs 13 which together constitute the stud's web.
  • the web 13 favorably comprises also further openings 22 arranged for piping and the like purposes.
  • Figures 8 to 10 disclose a slightly different embodiment of the present invention.
  • the tongues 6, 6a which co-operate with the grooves 7, 7a in the boards 3, 3a favorably constitute a major portion of the strip's 5 edge 10a.
  • Figure 8 further discloses that tongues 6, 6a can be arranged at both edges 10a, 10b of the strip 5.
  • said portions cut out from the strip's web 13 comprise closed slits lib which extend essentially in the main general direction of the strip 5.
  • the strip embodiment according to Figure 8 constitutes an essentially I-beam shaped stud 2.
  • This stud 2 includes a web 13 and opposite flanges 6, 6a which are inserted in corresponding front edge grooves 7, 7a as discussed above.
  • a wall arrangement is provided which requires no nails, screws or the like fastening elements when the wall is raised.
  • the studs 2 are easily stored and transported since the material is essentially flat until the time when it is attached to the boards 3, 3a, 3', 3a'. Since the material is essentially continuous the waste in material will be very little, even in cases when the height of the wall 1 differs from any standard height.
  • the inventive arrangement requires a minimum of different strip dimensions, since the same strip can be used for walls having different wall thickness, and for both single and double board walls. All boards used can be pre-manufactured symmetrically with factory made shallow grooves at both edges. Still, the provision of special off standard dimensions causes no problems since any necessary additional grooves can easily be made also on site. Thus, the inventive arrangement can easily be used also for attaching door and window frames to the wall as well as for vertically fixing a wall to an adjacent structure.

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L'invention concerne un procédé et un système pour interconnecter des panneaux (3, 3a, 3') soutenus par un montant (2) en tôle. Une rainure (7, 7a, 7') est aménagée sur les arêtes opposées (8) des panneaux (3, 3a, 3') et sont destinées à coopérer avec des languettes subséquentes disposées le long de l'arête d'une bande plate (5). Des sections de cintrage (9) sont prévues en connexion avec lesdites languettes, afin de former des lignes de cintrage X le long desquelles la bande (5) est cintrée au moins une fois, afin de s'étendre parallèlement à ladite arête (8). A cet effet, les languettes opposées (6a) demeurent non cintrées et s'étendent de manière à coopérer avec une rainure (7a) aménagée dans un panneau subséquent (3a), tandis que la section principale de la bande forme une bande transversale (13) qui s'étend entre des panneaux subséquents (3, 3a), depuis la surface du panneau, vers l'extérieur.
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