Static structures (e.g. – buildings) – Multiroom or level – Partition secured to and crossed by preconstructed barrier
Patent
1994-11-03
1997-08-12
Wood, Wynn E.
Static structures (e.g., buildings)
Multiroom or level
Partition secured to and crossed by preconstructed barrier
52241, 524811, 52690, 527315, E04B 238
Patent
active
056553447
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
A framework for partitioning walls, especially modular walls, for rooms in houses, comprising floor, ceiling and wall profiles, which is designed to be fastened to the room's ceiling, floor and walls and support panel boards respectively, the profiles running on the plane of the partitioning wall, and upright profiles, hereinafter called uprights, designed to run vertically between the floor and ceiling profiles, where the profiles' cross section is principally U-shaped and comprises a bottom section, hereinafter called bottom, and two flange sections, hereinafter called flanges, and the bottom of the ceiling and floor profiles has a row of pegs or pins which are provided evenly spaced in the profiles' longitudinal direction and protrude from the bottom, midway between the flanges, and which are designed to engage the respective end sections of the uprights.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
From U.S. Pat. No. 4,704,835 there is a known framework of the above-mentioned type, comprising an upper and a lower horizontal profile and a row of vertical upright. Between the flanges of the horizontal profiles there projects inwards from the bottom a channel section which runs in the profile's longitudinal direction, and in the bottom of the end section of the uprights there is provided a slot which is designed to receive the respective channel sections. Thus the channel section only counteracts movement of the uprights in the horizontal profiles' transverse direction.
For mounting of the wallboards a number of hooks which are located along the vertical edge of the wallboards have to be connected to corresponding rows of holes in the uprights to ensure, amongst other things, accurate positioning of the uprights in relation to the wallboards. The hooks therefore have to fit the holes exactly. Thus the construction is expensive and complicated and the assembly work awkward.
It is not possible to place the uprights between the wallboards' vertical edges, since any uprights which are provided here are not secured and could fall. The mid section of the wallboards' could therefore bulge in or out, thus detracting from the appearance.
Furthermore, the horizontal profiles' channel sections abut against the respective end sections of the uprights. As each upright is composed of a single bar, it and thereby the wallboards, could be exposed to a buckling load in the event of any mutual movement of the floor and the ceiling.
The object of the invention is to provide a framework which is not encumbered with the above-mentioned disadvantages.
The framework according to the invention is characterized by the features in the claims presented.
In the following section the framework will be described in more detail with reference to the drawing which illustrates embodiments of a framework according to the invention.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
FIG. 1 is a side view of a first embodiment of a framework for a partitioning wall with panel boards not inserted, mounted between the ceiling, floor and a wall of a room in a house, on a slightly smaller scale than the scale of the other figures.
FIG. 2 is a section along the line 2--2 in FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a section along the line 3--3 in FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 is a section along the line 4--4 in FIG. 1.
FIG. 5 is a section along the line 5--5 in FIG. 4.
FIG. 6 is a section corresponding to that which is illustrated in FIG. 3 of a ready-assembled wall.
FIG. 7 is a section corresponding to that which is illustrated in FIG. 4 of a ready-assembled wall.
FIG. 8 is a section corresponding to that which is illustrated in FIG. 2 of another embodiment of an upright.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT(S)
As illustrated in FIG. 1 the framework comprises a lower profile or floor profile 1, an upper profile or ceiling profile 2 and a side profile or wall profile 3, which, e.g., by means of screws 38, 36, 37, can be fastened to the floor 4, ceiling 5 and a wall 6 respectively of the room, and which runs on the same vertical plane 39 (FIG. 3), i.e. the plane in which the partitioning wall runs. The pro
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Arnhjell Knut
Moen Egil
Str.o slashed.mmen Arnfinn J.
Starka A/S
Wood Wynn E.
Yip Winnie
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