Static structures (e.g. – buildings) – Veneer tiles held by nonload-bearing grid
Patent
1998-04-29
2000-10-31
Friedman, Carl D.
Static structures (e.g., buildings)
Veneer tiles held by nonload-bearing grid
52386, 52387, 523112, 52314, E04F 15022
Patent
active
061384232
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION
This invention relates to a plane element to be used as a facing panel on the exterior surface in buildings.
Previously known is a facing panel (2) with a body of corrosion resistant sheet metal. By means of punching tools tiling guides have been made in the sheet which are tongues extracted from the sheet with the tool and bent off the sheet in the direction of the tiling. Guided by the tongues, the tiles are laid and jointed.
To be transportable and mountable, such a facing panel needs extra support. The back sheet must be stiff if used to provide handling strength to the panel. The panel will then be heavy and have a thickness of many millimeters. Known panels of this kind are, as matter of fact, facing panels with insulation, frame and inwall lining. Accordingly, on using thin sheet the panel requires a separate supporting framework. Examples of such frameworks are constructions a.o. in U.S. Pat. No. 4,334,394, in the Finnish application No. 884288 and in the publication print No. FI-58810. The panels are as thick as the whole wall and have a thin back plate for fixing of tiles, concrete or casting material.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of this invention is to bring forth a facing panel sufficiently rigid upon handling and mounting and onto which especially tiles, e.g. lining bricks are easily fastened. The panel is fixed on a wall as a lining. This object is reached by a means of facing panel according to the invention, characterized in what is presented in the patent claims.
A facing panel according to the invention is made sufficiently rigid by means of a lattice structure, the vertical profiles of which are made of thin sheet metal. The whole profile construction, which functions as the panel back plate, is formed from sheet metal material. With a framework of profiles according to the invention the facing panel needs no other bearing frame and can therefore be handled and mounted independently as a facing panel on a wall. For laving the tiles or lining bricks and distribution of jointing compound there are necessary guides in the profiles for the tiles and bearing surfaces for jointing compound.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWING
In the following the invention is disclosed with reference to the enclosed drawing, where
FIG. 1 is a front view of the facing panel.
FIG. 2 is a vertical view of the facing panel.
FIG. 3 is a horizontal view of the facing panel.
FIG. 4 is a joint of tile and horizontal profile.
FIG. 5 is another joint of tile and horizontal profile.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
FIG. 1 shows the facing panel framed by a L-profile 6. Inside the frame a lattice of vertical and horizontal profiles is formed. The vertical profiles 2 are fixed at a pitch of half of the tile length from each other. The horizontal profiles 3 are fixed at a pitch of half of the tile width from each other. Most suitably the profiles are shaped of corrosion resistant thin metal sheet. The profiles are fixed together as a lattice for instance by spot welding in the intersections. Profiles 2 and 3 are then at different levels and, most advantageously, the vertical profiles are undermost. The vertical profiles 2 have tile guide brackets 5 in every second space between the horizontal profiles 3. Most advantageously the tile guides 5 are made punching them partly off profile with a tool to form tongues sticking out from the profile. The tile pattern shown in the figure is produced with tile guides 5 in every second space in the vertical profiles 2. The purpose of tile guides 5 is to function as tiling guides and bearing surfaces for the jointing compound.
As tiling guide and bearing surface for the jointing compound the surface of horizontal profile 3 can have an unbroken profile shape 4 similar to the bracket shown in FIG. 1. Naturally, on the surface of this profile 3 there can also be brackets partially punched out with a tool at a distance from each other.
The profiles of the lattice can be fixed together also with a punching tool by percussing the
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Poutanen Tuomo
Tiirola Tuomo
A Phi Dieu Tran
Friedman Carl D.
Stonel Oy
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