Static structures (e.g. – buildings) – With indicia
Patent
1987-09-21
1990-08-21
Scherbel, David A.
Static structures (e.g., buildings)
With indicia
5230912, 52426, 52427, 52563, E04B 102
Patent
active
049495151
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a fastening element for sheathing and thermal insulation components of hard foam, in particular for the cladding concrete method of construction.
In known manner (German published specification (DE-AS) No. 26 18 125 and German laid-open application (DE-OS) No. 34 05 736), the cladding concrete method of construction uses large-size sheathing elements of hard foam material which are provided at their edges with grooves and tongues for securing them in position and which are filled with concrete after having been erected in an associated structure. Because of the high levels of forces which occur in that situation connecting elements are used in known manner between the side walls, which engage the inward sides of the side walls, for example in the form of groove-and-tongue connections, or are also secured by adhesive means. While smooth walls are comparatively easy to deal with, when using the cladding concrete method of construction, particular difficulties occur at corners, angles, at connections between walls, at door and window opening lintels and like locations because in that case free-standing or exposed portions of sheathing elements have to particularly supported and secured. As similar point applies when panels of hard foam material are to be used as barrier panels for thermal insulation purposes.
The invention is accordingly based on the object of providing a fastening element for sheathing and thermal insulation components of hard foam, which can be to universal use, which avoids fire and cold bridges and which is cheap and easy to produce. The invention also seeks to improve and supplement the sheathing elements themselves.
To attain that object, the present invention takes as its basic starting point a fastening element of the kind set forth in the opening part of this specification, and is characterized by a plate which can be fixed to the component of hard foam material and which is provided with extending fastening means.
Similarly to when using the known connecting arms of rigid shape and length for connecting the side surfaces of sheathing elements, plates in accordance with the invention permit a connection over a large area to the surfaces of sheathing and thermal insulation components of hard foam material, in which case a large number of conventional and different fastening means make it easily possible to fix the plates in position and therewith the hard foam components to other structures.
There are numerous options which are the subject-matter of further developments of the invention, for carrying the invention into effect in a practical fashion. Thus the plate on the one hand and the hard foam component on the other hand may be provided with corresponding retaining means which are advantageously formed for example by spaced-apart continuous grooves in one member, for example the plate, and corresponding web portions in the other member, for example the hard foam component. In that connection the cross-section of the grooves may be complementary to the cross-section of the respective web portions remaining between each two adjacent grooves. In order to provide a connection which can resist a pulling force, the grooves are desirably of a widened configuration at their bottom. The continuous grooves and web portions permit displacement and thus any desired positioning of the plates with their fastening elements. The cross-sectional shape of the grooves and web portions is to be of such a size that the frictional forces which occur prevent unintentional displacement even when the arrangement is subjected to vibration, or when a jet of concrete impinges thereon, when introducing the concrete.
The plate may be of any shape but is alos preferably in the form of a plate or disc member and on its rear side which faces away from the hard foam component, carries the respective fastening means which are arranged in, at or on a rearward shank portion of the plate. The material used or manufacturing the plate and the shank portion is in particular concrete so that the f
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Scherbel David A.
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