Static structures (e.g. – buildings) – Multiroom or level – Curtain-wall; i.e. – panel attached outside floor or beam
Patent
1995-04-13
1998-08-11
Safavi, Michael
Static structures (e.g., buildings)
Multiroom or level
Curtain-wall; i.e., panel attached outside floor or beam
522041, 52272, 524891, 52769, 5274515, 527471, E04B 296
Patent
active
057911053
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a module for the production of an all-glass facade in the construction of a building and is connected with the technique called structural glazing, in which a glazing covers a frame.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Since the production of a first all-glass facade, the technique of installing glazing has developed little. Although, at the outset, the retention of very small glasses was carried out by metal profiles, very quickly the glazing was placed in rabbets. An added peripheral element prevented the glass from coming out of the rabbet while at the same time ensuring impermeability with the aid of a filling putty, various cover strips or rubber seals.
In recent years, all-glass facade research has led contractors to reduce the section of the frames made of steel or aluminum.
The general use of aluminum, which has a high coefficient of expansion, has compelled contractors to look for a solution to the problems of expansion between the structure, the frames and the glazing. The result is a joint gap of more or less 20 mm between the various modules. On the other hand, the projecting or re-entrant angles necessitate one or two angle profiles. Although these frames are intended for assemblies which are in principle fixed, taking air-conditioning installations into account, the production of an opening part is possible if insertion into the all-glass facade of a frame which has an opening panel and a case is accepted. This frame with an opening panel and a case is generally wider than the other frames and for this reason is too noticeable in an all-glass facade.
U.S. Pat. No. NL 8500516 issued Sep. 16, 1986 to Compri-Aluminum BV discloses a module and a method making it possible to renovate the glazing of an existing building provided with frames made of wood. The module is capable of supporting a double glazing and comprises, on each side, a gripping tab, one of which is capable of being held in place by a boss fixed against a first frame case while the other is capable of snapping in behind a spring lamella fixed against a second case.
The spring lamella serves only to indicate if the putting in place of the module is correct. Definitive putting in place is carried out with the aid of a stud fixed in the masonry.
U.S. Pat. No. DE 3816619 issued Nov. 30, 1989 to P. Jordan. Discloses a glazing known which is intended for covering a building facade of the structural glazing type. The glazing is supported by a module formed by an angle made of profiled stainless steel sheet. The angle is a simple corner piece stuck to a pane fixed by eye bolts. The fixing of the modules to one another is an extremely delicate operation which necessitates a perfect alignment of the modules which are not necessarily supported on a supporting structure of the facade.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The aim of the invention is to produce, following the technique called structural glazing, an all-glass facade, in which the space between two juxtaposed modules is greatly reduced and in which no angle profile is necessary.
The module according to the invention is characterized in that it comprises a framework made of stainless steel sheet which is profiled so as to produce, on the one hand, a rabbet intended to receive a double glazing and, on the other hand, a stiffening element which makes it possible to fix the assembly--surround and glazing--in the supporting structure of the facade.
The stiffening element has, in order to allow direct fixing in the supporting structure of the facade, an end which is bent towards the inside of the module. This bent end is associated with a stainless steel spring sheet borne by the structure.
According to one embodiment of the invention, an elastically deformable element, to allow the clipping of the module on the structure, equipped with the first, is constituted by the ends of a flat spring made of stainless steel sheet in the shape of a chair and riveted at its center to the structure, the first end of the spring serving for attaching the module and
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L'Atelier Du Verre S.A.
Safavi Michael
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