Static structures (e.g. – buildings) – Openwork; e.g. – truss – trellis – grille – screen – frame – or... – Three-dimensional space-defining
Patent
1998-01-26
2000-08-08
Kent, Christopher T.
Static structures (e.g., buildings)
Openwork; e.g., truss, trellis, grille, screen, frame, or...
Three-dimensional space-defining
526531, 526569, 527471, 527491, 403230, E04B 119, E04B 138, E06B 396
Patent
active
060983663
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a connector for hollow or solid profiles whose axes intersect at any angle, a process for connecting hollow or solid profiles by means of said connector and a tool assembly or tool kit for practicing said process.
The provision of light structures, such as verandas, glass walls or the like, requires the use of strong structural elements for creating the framework. This framework is thus generally made of wooden elements, plastic elements, metallic elements, composite elements or mixed elements, these elements being solid or hollow. The assembly of said elements with each other can be carried out as described in French patent FR-A-2.667.011 by means of a connection member inserted within the respective cavity provided in each element to be assembled. However, with such connecting members, a connection of the beams along their axes of intersection of various angles is not attainable. The connecting device described in European patent EP-A-0.604.244 has the same drawbacks. The connecting member between said construction elements is constituted by first and second connector elements which are either secured to each other or articulated on each other. In the two embodiments, the angles that can be obtained are generally limited either to a single value, or to a range of values disposed all in the same plane. The connecting device described in French patent FR-A-2.624.153 has the same drawbacks. It is also constituted by two articulatedly interconnected elements. Such a device is complicated and hence cumbersome.
The object of the present invention is thus to overcome the above drawbacks by providing a connector permitting the assembly of solid or hollow profiles with axes of intersection of any angular values.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a connector that is easy to produce and in which any orientation can be obtained by means of a single member that is not articulated to a second element.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a process for connecting profiles by means of said connector which will be simple and rapid to use by any operator including non-professional operators.
To this end, the invention has for its object a process for the assembly of hollow or solid profiles with axes of intersection at any angular values, by means of a connector constituted by a connector body in the form of a blade or of a block providing, after bending the blade or cutting out the block, a bearing face provided with a through hole and arranged to be secured on any of the surfaces of a first profile, in which process the assembly body is pivotally mounted about a first axis, for a blade parallel, and for a block orthogonal, to the longitudinal axis of said through hole so as to predetermine an orientation of the connector about said axis corresponding to a first selected angular value of the connector, at least one part of said body being moreover mounted pivotably about a second axis orthogonal to said first axis so as to predetermine an orientation of the connector about the axis corresponding to a second predetermined angular value of the connector, the portion of the connector located beyond the plane parallel to said first axis and passing through the second pivotal axis constituting an initial securement on which is secured directly or by means of an added member, a second profile whose distal portion has first been cut off on a plane corresponding to the selected angular connection.
According to a first embodiment of the process, the connector is oriented according to first and second selected connector angular values, the bearing face of said connector is delimited by sawing the connector on a cutting plane that coincides with the plane parallel to said first axis of orientation of the connector and passing through the second axis of orientation of said connector, the connector is fixed on the first profile by means of a first securement member and the second profile is fixed on the connector by means of a second securement member.
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REFERENCES:
patent: 4518278 (1985-05-01), Koch
patent: 5544866 (1996-08-01), Dye
Guichard S.A.
Kent Christopher T.
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