Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04C—STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; BUILDING MATERIALS
  • E04C1/00—Building elements of block or other shape for the construction of parts of buildings
  • E04C1/42—Building elements of block or other shape for the construction of parts of buildings of glass or other transparent material
• • 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
  • E04B2/02—Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls built-up from layers of building elements
  • E04B2002/0202—Details of connections
  • E04B2002/0243—Separate connectors or inserts, e.g. pegs, pins or keys
  • E04B2002/0254—Tie rods

Definitions

• the object-matter of the invention is the construction unit to be used in erecting building walls, being an element of the interior decoration, with the application of glass hollow tiles.
• the unit for erecting straight or arched walls with the application of cubicoidal glass profiles, mainly hollow tiles, is known; it consists of a vertical and a horizontal circumferential slat, horizontal fasteners with a length equal to the length of the wall as well as of vertical fasteners with a length equal to the height of the hollow tiles.
• These fasteners have a form of bars or ladders constituting reinforcement elements.
• In the case of erecting arched walls both circumferential slats and horizontal fasteners are adequately profiled to match the wall contour.
• Reinforcing fasteners are placed in horizontal and vertical gaps between hollow tiles. Such reinforcing fasteners are being filled with construction mortar starting from the lower slat, on which the successive rows of hollow tiles are being put; it must be noted that ends of fasteners are introduced into profiled circumferential slats.
• the unit for non-mortar erection of straight walls being the element of the interior decoration of the erected building with the application of glass hollow tiles is also known. It embraces the supporting element made of timber.
• This unit consists of : the frame, horizontal slats with a length equal to the length of the wall and fixed to the frame with catches as well as vertical fasteners with a length equal to the height of the hollow tile.
• the slats fill in horizontal joints between rows of hollow tiles, whereas the fasteners fill in vertical joints between individual hollow tiles situated in each row.
• Fasteners tightened between slats have their lateral side flat or convex, adjusted to the concave contour of lateral walls of the hollow tile.
• the construction unit for non-mortar erection of building walls was designed.
• This unit consists of supporting elements having a rectangular profile and embracing glass hollow tiles that constitute horizontal and vertical fasteners in a form of joining blocks.
• These fasteners on their frontal sides have longitudinal holes with mortises, which may be formed in a shape of grooved recesses.
• In the lateral sides of vertical fasteners there are transverse holes overlapping with holes made in horizontal fasteners, in which threaded fasteners are being mounted.
• profiled slats are being fixed, edges of which are somewhat advanced outside the lateral edges of these fasteners.
• Profiled slats are being fixed to horizontal and vertical fasteners by means of tongue-and-groove joints.
• the threaded fastener is composed of a stud-bolt and a longitudinal nut co-operating with it.
• the horizontal fastener has a length preferably equal to the length of the glass hollow tile, whereas transverse holes of the vertical fastener are situated in relation to the frontal surfaces, contacting each other after the assembly, at a distance equal to the sum of a half height of the hollow tile and a half thickness of the horizontal fastener.
• the unit is provided with distance pads in a form of tongues, mounted in front of the convex section between side surfaces of the vertical fastener and frontal surfaces of the horizontal fastener.
• the construction unit according to the invention enables easy assembling of both straight and arched profiled walls of buildings or of their fragments with the application of various construction materials including timber, ensuring - on the one hand - the appropriate stability and tightness of the whole construction, and - on the other hand - guaranteeing the high aesthetic qualities being associated with the possibility to functionally operate the light in the interior decoration by means of the adequate selection of glass hollow tiles.
• Fig.l presents the construction unit within the fragment of the straight wall, constructed with the application of glass hollow tiles from a top perspective view
• Fig.2 the construction unit in the fragment of the wall from the Fig. 1 without glass hollow tiles from a top perspective view
• Fig.3 the construction unit in the fragment of the arched profiled wall, erected with the application of the glass' hollow tiles from a top perspective view
• Fig.4 the construction unit in the fragment of the wall from Fig.3 without the glass hollow tiles from a top perspective view
• Fig. 5 the horizontal fastener of the unit in a longitudinal section
• Fig. 6 the horizontal fastener from the Fig. 5 from a front side view
• Fig.7 the horizontal fastener from a side perspective view
• Fig.8 the vertical fastener of the unit in a longitudinal section
• Fig. 9 the vertical fastener in a longitudinal section along the A-A line according to the Fig.8,
• Fig.10 the basic vertical fastener from a side perspective view
• Fig.11 shorter vertical fastener from a top perspective view
• Fig.12 disassembled threaded fastener in a longitudinal section
• Fig. 13 the profiled slat from an inside view
• Fig 14 the slat from Fig.13 in a longitudinal section
• the construction unit according to the invention is provided with the horizontal and vertical fasteners 1 and 2 in a form of joining blocks having a rectangular or near-rectangular shape and serving as the supporting elements, to which profiled sealing slats 3 are being fixed.
• the fasteners and slats compose together a rigid framing for all glass hollow tiles, which form the glazing of construction facilities.
• the fasteners 1 and 2 preferably of the same thickness d, are joined together with the threaded fasteners consisting of stud-bolts 4 and longitudinal nuts 5 co-operating with them. These nuts are at the same time the joints used to fasten together stud-bolts.
• the stud-bolts directly fastening the vertical fasteners together have such length, that has been adequately adjusted to the length of these fasteners.
• stud-bolts fastening the horizontal fasteners together, separated by the vertical fasteners have a length adequately adjusted to the length of the horizontal fastener and to the thickness of the vertical fastener.
• Glass hollow tiles of the luxfer type have external walls of a rectangular shape. The upper, lower and side walls forming the circumference of the hollow tile have concave surfaces in their central sections.
• the horizontal fastener 1 having a length a preferably equal to the length b of the glass hollow tile and a width slightly lower than the thickness of this tile, has at least one and has preferably made two longitudinal holes 7 for stud-bolts 4. These holes are broadened at one side and they form recesses 8 for thrust washers 9 and mortises K) for nuts 5. In the external sides through their whole length recesses are made, forming grooves JT preferably of a trapezoidal shape.
• the vertical fastener 2 has at least one longitudinal hole 12 made in it for the stud-bolt 4, which is situated lenghtwise the vertical axis of symmetry and which is broadened at one side and forms recess 8 for a thrust washer 9 and a mortise 10 for a nut 5.
• the remaining, shorter vertical fasteners, forming the side framing of the first and the last layer of the hollow tiles creating the wall have a length preferably equal to the sum of a half height h of the hollow tile and thickness d of the horizontal fastener.
• Transverse holes 13 are made.
• Transverse holes of shorter and longer fasteners 2 are situated in relation to the frontal surfaces 25 , adhering to each other, at a distance s being equal to the sum of a half height h of the hollow tile and a half of thickness d_of the horizontal fastener.
• Profiled slats 3 having a width being slightly greater than thickness of the fasteners and 2 and a length adjusted adequately to the lengths of these fasteners, have on their inner side the tongues 14, shape of which is adjusted to a shape of the grooves J , made in the fasteners ⁇ with which they are fastened by means of the front tongue- and-groove joint
• the transverse section of the slats has a polygonal contour with stepped-shaped edges 16, advanced a little bit outside the side edges J 7 and !_8 of the fasteners and reaching above the outside edges 19 of the hollow tiles, what additionally stiffens and, at the same time, seals joints formed between the hollow tiles.
• Construction units earmarked for erecting profiled walls with a shape approximate to arch with the application of hollow tiles are provided with horizontal fasteners, in which longitudinal passage holes 7 are increased in order to adequately position stud-bolts 4 during the assembly.
• These units are additionally provided with distance pads 20 in a form of tongues with a near-rectangular section, which - as it is shown in the Fig. 16 - during the assembly of the fastener are being placed in the front of convexly profiled section of the wall, between the side surfaces 2J_ of the vertical fastener and the frontal surfaces 22 of the horizontal fastener, as well as side walls of the glass hollow tile.
• the horizontal fasteners Preferably on their front sides, the horizontal fasteners have rectangular recesses 23, earmarked for mounting distance pads into them.
• Such a construction ensures adequate angular positioning of the fasteners and 2 one in relation to another and erecting the intended profiles of walls, in principle without any strain of the threaded fasteners, what ensures the required stability of walls shape. Respectively to the thickness of pads 20, the proper profiles of walls with lower or greater convexity can be obtained. Such the construction solution eases the assembly and construction of various profiles without any necessity to form e.g. the horizontal fasteners in order to receive a suitable shape of their frontal sections.
• the external fasteners When erecting free-standing walls inside the building, the external fasteners are being replaced or additionally reinforced with the frame, formed from the vertical and horizontal, uniform elements 24 having a shape of straps, fastened by means of usually known metal fasteners. Short bolts may be mounted on the frame, dimensions of which are adjusted to longitudinal nuts 5, to which then stud-bolts 4 are being fastened. In the case of arched walls, a shape of the frame base is adjusted to a profile of the erected wall.
• the horizontal and vertical fasteners can have, according to the recesses on their circumference, adequately profiled surfaces as it is marked by a broken line in the Fig. 6 and 9, what limits to the minimum the possibility to form gaps inside the walls structure.
• the construction unit embracing the one glass hollow tile in principle consists of two horizontal fasteners (the upper and the lower one), four vertical fasteners (two on each side) and eight threaded fasteners, mounted in longitudinal holes 7 and _12.
• the number of elements is being selected depending on the number of glass hollow tiles used for wall erection.
• the suitable location of transverse holes 13 .
• the longitudinal holes 7 along with mortises 10 of the horizontal fastener 1 have a form of the grooved recesses 7a with mortises 10a
• In front of the mortises 10a earmarked for mounting nuts 5, there are recesses 8a for thrust washers 9.
• Recesses 7a and 12a of the horizontal and vertical fasteners are provided with a cubicoidal groove of a width slightly exceeding the diameter of the stud-bolt 4 of the threaded fastener, and they are terminated with the bottom 26 having the arched surface adjusted to the oval shape of the above bolt.
• the recess bottom is made at such the depth, which enables longitudinal and centric positioning of the bolt, the axis of symmetry of which runs at a depth approximately equal to a half of thickness of the fasteners and 2. From the technological point of view, irrespective of the length of both the horizontal and vertical fasteners, on the whole length we can reach a high precision in mapping the grooved recesses shape e.g.
• the horizontal and vertical fasteners, profiled slats and distance pads are made of timber, plastic and/or other construction materials with suitable resistance parameters. Adequately selected materials e.g. these made of timber, ensure at the same time high aesthetic qualities of the walls, creating the decorative element in building facilities.
• the construction units according to the invention make it possible to erect, with the application of glass hollow tiles, partition walls, external walls as well as the other free-standing decorative screens of large sizes, enabling to functionally operate the light subject to the adequate selection of glass hollow tiles.
• the unit characterised in the simple construction makes it possible to assemble the walls (both straight and arched profiled ones) by oneself .

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