Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
  • E04F10/00—Sunshades, e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or baldachins
  • E04F10/02—Sunshades, e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or baldachins of flexible canopy materials, e.g. canvas ; Baldachins
  • E04F10/06—Sunshades, e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or baldachins of flexible canopy materials, e.g. canvas ; Baldachins comprising a roller-blind with means for holding the end away from a building
  • E04F10/0611—Sunshades, e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or baldachins of flexible canopy materials, e.g. canvas ; Baldachins comprising a roller-blind with means for holding the end away from a building with articulated arms supporting the movable end of the blind for deployment of the blind
  • E04F10/0618—Sunshades, e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or baldachins of flexible canopy materials, e.g. canvas ; Baldachins comprising a roller-blind with means for holding the end away from a building with articulated arms supporting the movable end of the blind for deployment of the blind whereby the pivot axis of the articulation is perpendicular to the roller
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
  • E04F10/00—Sunshades, e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or baldachins
  • E04F10/02—Sunshades, e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or baldachins of flexible canopy materials, e.g. canvas ; Baldachins
  • E04F10/06—Sunshades, e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or baldachins of flexible canopy materials, e.g. canvas ; Baldachins comprising a roller-blind with means for holding the end away from a building
  • E04F10/0662—Sunshades, e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or baldachins of flexible canopy materials, e.g. canvas ; Baldachins comprising a roller-blind with means for holding the end away from a building with arrangements for fastening the blind to the building

Definitions

• the present invention relates to the technical field of awnings or roller blinds intended to form, when deployed, a canopy or awning sun visor.
• the invention relates more particularly to the awnings comprising a chest inside which is disposed a tube on which is wound the banne and in which are retracted articulated arms supporting at their end a load bar to which the banne is fixed .
• the load bar generally ensures the closure of the trunk in the closed position.
• the trunk is usually fixed to a wall by means of two supports on which are traditionally taken the fastenings of the articulated arms.
• Such blinds have the advantage of providing good protection to the banne and the deployment mechanism of the latter outside the phases of use of the awning.
• the blind since the blind is pre-assembled at the factory, it is necessary during installation to perfectly position the supports so that, on the one hand, the boot and the load bar are perfectly horizontal and, on the other hand, the joints of the arms can be connected to the support, an operation made difficult by the distance of the supports and their installation height, of the order of 2, 50 m approximately above the ground.
• the adjustment of the inclination of the awning must be done during installation by the installer and the end user can not change it later as it sees fit. It has therefore emerged the need for a new type of awning which is easier to assemble and which allows users to adjust according to their wish the inclination of the awning according to their needs.
• the invention relates in the first place to a console for fixing a frame, in particular a box, of a structure carrying a blind according to the invention comprising: a body provided with means for fixation on a support, a cradle for receiving and fixing the frame of the supporting structure, which is adapted to the body to be movable relative to the body in rotation along a single horizontal axis,
• this console is characterized in that the means for fixing the body on the support comprise at least two receiving slots of fasteners on the support which are separated by a horizontal distance D greater than or equal to 5 cm and, preferably, to 10 cm, and in that the cradle defines support points or fastening of the trunk separated by a horizontal distance d greater than or equal to 20 cm and preferably to 50 cm.
• the body fixing means comprise at least four lights defining a fixing rectangle whose long horizontal sides have a length equal to the distance D.
• the distance D is greater than or equal to 10 cm and less than or equal to 100 cm. This characteristic of the invention makes it possible to confer on the console a dimension suitable for laying by a single operator, for example by using a drilling template whose horizontality will be easy to control.
• the fastening means of the body of the console comprise at least four lights defining a fixing square whose long horizontal sides have a length equal to the distance.
• the cradle advantageously comprises two half-cradles connected by a single drive shaft associated with the means tilt adjustment.
• the cradle comprises two half-cradles connected by a drive shaft, one of the half-cradles being associated with the inclination adjustment means.
• the body of the console consists of a one-piece housing in which are housed the means for adjusting the inclination of the cradle relative to the body, the housing receiving furthermore in two coaxial slots formed in its side walls a drive shaft carrying the cradle and cooperating with the means for adjusting the inclination of the cradle.
• the body comprises two lateral flanges connected by an L-shaped longitudinal wall which partially covers the cradle and the tilting means.
• the inclination adjustment means are motorized.
• the body fixing means are adapted to allow attachment of the console is applied to a vertical support or under a horizontal support.
• the invention also relates to an awning comprising: a load-bearing structure comprising a frame supporting: a winding bar cooperating with means for controlling and driving in rotation, and a load bar, preferably parallel to the winding bar, and o two articulated arms pivotally mounted on the frame of the supporting structure at a first end and on the load bar at a second end so that the load bar is movable between a folded position in which the arms are bent and the load bar substantially close to or against the winding bar and an unfolded position in which the arms are unfolded and the load bar deployed away from the winding bar, the articulated arms having biasing means in the unfolded position, and
• the awning of the invention is further characterized by the fact that the fixing means comprise a single bracket fixed to the support and on which a region of the frame of the supporting structure is fixed.
• the fixing means comprise a single bracket fixed to the support and on which a region of the frame of the supporting structure is fixed.
• the use of a single console for fixing the boot of the awning gives a new ease of installation compared to existing awnings.
• such a console provides a single wall fixing point of the blind instead of two minimums with the current blinds which completely eliminates the risk of misalignment and height of the fixing points.
• the frame of the supporting structure which preferably comprises a trunk receiving the banne and the articulated arms and cooperating with the load bar
• the awning may comprise at least one return bearing of one end of the single drive shaft of the bracket, the bearing comprising fixing means on a support, preferably identical to the mounting bracket of the body of the console.
• a bearing is particularly useful when the fastening bracket of the load-bearing structure of the blind can not be positioned centrally relative thereto but must instead be located more or less close to the ends of this bearing structure.
• the single drive shaft of the console forms a sometimes important lever that should be taken back on the bracket of the blind through the bearing to prevent buckling of the axis of training and deterioration of the blind.
• the articulated arms comprise, when the console can be centered with respect to the supporting structure of the blind, each two half-arms, respectively proximal and distal, connected by an intermediate joint, the proximal half-arm being hinged to the frame while the distal half-arm is articulated on the load bar, the intermediate joints of the two arms articulated being, in the folded position of the articulated arms, located opposite the central region relative to the articulation on the chassis of the corresponding proximal half-arm, so that during the deployment of the articulated arms, the intermediate joints are approaching one from the other.
• This advantageous arrangement of the articulation points of the arms on the frame avoids the risk of deformation of the bearing structure under the effect of the forces exerted by the unfolded arms, especially when the banne is subject to the wind. Indeed, this arrangement allows to benefit from the stiffening of the chassis provided by the console.
• the frame is adapted to take up the forces exerted by the articulated arms and that the joints of the arms on the frame are not fixed directly on the central console.
• the joints of the arms are housed in or on the frame of the carrier structure of the blind.
• Fig. 1 is a schematic perspective of an awning according to the invention in the folded position of the arms.
• Fig. 2 is a perspective similar to FIG. 1 of the awning in unfolded position of the arms.
• Fig. 3 is a schematic perspective of a bracket for fixing the awning according to the invention on a support.
• FIG. 4 is a partially exploded perspective of the console illustrated in FIG. 3.
• FIG. 5 is an elevation in front view of the console shown in FIG. 3.
• Fig. 6 is a cross section of the console illustrated in FIG. 3.
• Fig. 7 is an elevation in front view of an alternative embodiment of the fixing bracket of the awning on a support.
• Fig. 8 is a perspective of the awning of the invention in unfolded position of the arms in a second embodiment.
• Fig. 9 is a perspective view of a bracket for fixing the awning according to the invention in the second embodiment of FIG. 8.
• FIG. 9A is a sectional view along a transverse vertical plane A - A of the fixing bracket of FIG. 9.
• FIG. 10 is a top view of the bracket of FIG. 9.
• Fig. 11 is a partial right view of the bracket and the trunk of the awning of the invention in the second embodiment.
• Fig.12 and 13 show perspective views of two alternative embodiments of the mounting bracket of the invention, for non-symmetrical mounting configurations of the console body with respect to the support cradles of the blind.
• An awning according to the invention as illustrated in FIG. 1 in a first embodiment and designated as a whole by the reference 1, comprises a carrying structure comprising a frame formed by a box 2 and fastening means 3 of the box to a support such as a wall.
• the trunk 2 incorporates the various elements necessary for the support and deployment of a banne or canvas 4, as shown in fig.2.
• the trunk 2 comprises two articulated arms 5 which are each composed of a proximal half-arm 6 and a distal half-arm 7.
• the proximal half-arms 6 are each attached to the trunk 2 at the level of one end. their end by a hinge 8 whose axis of rotation is preferably located in a vertical plane perpendicular to a longitudinal axis ⁇ of the trunk 2.
• the joints 8 are preferably arranged inside the trunk 2.
• the end of each proximal half-arm 6 opposite the hinge 8 is connected by an intermediate hinge 9 to the corresponding distal half-arm 7.
• the axes of rotation of the intermediate joints 9 are also preferably located in a vertical plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis ⁇ of the trunk 2.
• the distal half-arms 7 are furthermore each connected by a hinge 10 to a load bar 11.
• the joints 8, 9, 10 as well as the lengths of the proximal 6 and distal half-arms 7 are then adapted so that the load bar 11 is parallel to the longitudinal axis ⁇ both in the folded position R of the arms 5, as illustrated in FIG. 1, both in the unfolded position D of the arms 5, as illustrated in FIG. 2, while maintaining this orientation during the passage of the arms from their unfolded position D to their folded position R and vice versa.
• the joints 8 of the proximal half-arms 6 on the trunk 2 are fixed in a central region C of the latter and the arms 5 open opposite one another, so in folded position R, the intermediate hinges 9 are located opposite each other with respect to the central region C.
• the trunk 2 also contains a tube 12 for winding the fabric 4 which extends parallel to the axis ⁇ .
• the box 2 then comprises means for controlling the rotation of the tube 12 that can be made in any suitable manner and in particular in the form of a remote-controlled electric motor integrated in the tube 12.
• the body comprises means 15 for biasing the arms 5 in the unfolded position which can be made in any appropriate manner.
• the return means 15 comprise spring systems integrated in the arms 5, as is well known to those skilled in the art.
• the boot 2 constituting the blind according to the invention is designed to be fixed on its support by fixing means comprising, in accordance with an essential characteristic of the invention, a single console 3, an exemplary embodiment of which is more particularly illustrated in FIG. .3.
• the console 3 comprises a body 20 formed according to this example of two lateral cheeks 21 connected by a longitudinal wall 22 L, as shown in FIG. 4.
• the body 20 further comprises fixing means on a support which, according to the illustrated example, are formed by two lateral fastening tabs 23 each integral with a cheek 21.
• the lateral fixing lugs 23 are here disposed at a rear side of each cheek 21 so as to allow attachment of the bracket wall on a wall.
• Each fixing lug 23 comprises at least one and, preferably, two slots 24 for receiving fixing members.
• the four lights 24 then together define a fastening rectangle 25 shown in phantom in FIG. 5.
• the console 3 further comprises a cradle 26 for receiving and securing the boot 2.
• the cradle 26 comprises two half-cradles 27, 27G distant from each other and connected by a shaft drive 28 horizontal.
• the two half-cradles then each define a housing 29 for receiving the boot 2.
• the console 3 comprises means 31 for adjusting the inclination of the cradle 26 which, according to the illustrated example, are associated with one of the half cradles 27, 27G and, more particularly, the left half-cradle 27G.
• the tilt adjustment means then comprise a stirrup 32 fitted on the inner face of the corresponding cheek.
• the stirrup 32 comprises two branches 33 between which extends an endless screw 34 whose lower end 35 is accessible outside the body 2.
• the tilt adjustment means 31 further comprise a knuckle. drive 36 which is mounted on the screw 34 and a finger extends into a slot 37 formed in an arm 38 secured to the left cradle 27G.
• the nut 36 moves in translation along the latter and causes the lever 38, which modifies the inclination of the two cradles 27, 27G in view of their connection by the splined drive shaft 28.
• the awning 1 according to the invention thus constituted is implemented in the following manner.
• the operator responsible for mounting in the carrier bore holes for receiving the fasteners such as for example studs associated with expansion plugs.
• these holes can be easily made without risk of horizontal problems.
• the operator may for example use a template to the dimensions of the fastening rectangle 25.
• the lights 24 of the lateral wings 23 are spaced a horizontal distance D , corresponding to the length of a long side of the attachment rectangle 25, greater than or equal to 20 cm and preferably to 50 cm.
• the distance D will be chosen to be greater than or equal to 50 cm and less than or equal to 100 cm.
• the operator fixes the console 3 on its support.
• the actual assembly of the awning ends by placing the central region C of the trunk 2 at the cradle 26.
• the cradle 26 defines support points. or securing the trunk separated by a horizontal distance d, here corresponding to the distance between the outer faces of the half-cradles 27, 27G, greater than or equal to 20 cm and preferably greater than or equal to 50 cm.
• the distance d will be chosen to be further less than or equal to 100 cm.
• the central region fixing the hinge points 8 will correspond substantially to the region center of the trunk on console 3, it being understood that the points of articulation be inside the central area of attachment of the box 2 on the cradle or slightly outside the latter depending on the rigidity characteristics of the box 2.
• the console 3 is intended to be placed on a wall.
• the console 3 may be provided to be fixed under a support such as for example a balcony.
• Fig. 7 thus shows an example console provided for this purpose.
• the cheeks 21 are designed to be inverted to provide the wings 23 either a vertical orientation or a horizontal orientation.
• FIGS. 8 to 13 An alternative embodiment of the awning of the present invention is shown in Figs. 8 to 13 and described hereinafter with reference to these figures, in which the elements identical to the blind described above in FIGS. 1-7 have the same reference numbers.
• the awning comprises a console 3 'for fixing the trunk 2' having a compact and simplified structure.
• the console 3 ' consists essentially of a hollow monoblock body 20' formed in one piece obtained by molding for example plastic or metal material, in particular steel or aluminum.
• the one-piece body 20 ' comprises a substantially flat upper face comprising fixing means on a support which, according to the illustrated example, are formed by four fixing wedges 23' to the upper joint of the side walls 21 'of the body 20'.
• the fixing wedges 23 ' are here arranged at the upper face of the body 20' so as to allow attachment of the bracket applied or under a lintel bay window or window for example.
• Each fixing corner 23 ' comprises at least one receiving slot 24' of fixing members such as screws for example.
• the four lumens 24 'then together define a fastening square 25' shown in phantom in FIG. 10, the side has a length D greater than or equal to 10 cm preferably.
• the console 3 'further comprises a cradle 26 for receiving and securing the trunk 2'.
• the cradle 26 comprises two half-cradles 27 spaced from each other and connected by a single splined drive shaft 28 horizontal.
• the two half-cradles 27 then each define a housing 29 for receiving the trunk 2 'which can be fixed on the half-cradles by screwing, riveting or any other appropriate means of attachment or simply by snapping or clipping using appropriate means such as lugs or ribs 40 formed on the half-cradles 27 and cooperating with a chute 41 formed on the trunk 2 'as shown in FIG. 11.
• the cradle 26 defines points of support or fixing the trunk 2' of the blind. separated by a horizontal distance d, here corresponding to the distance separating the external faces of the half-cradles 27, greater than or equal to 20 cm and preferably greater than or equal to 50 cm.
• the distance d will be chosen to be further less than or equal to 100 cm.
• the drive shaft 28 is mounted in slots constituting bearings 30' formed in two opposite side walls 21 'of the one-piece body 20' of the console 3 ' , the drive shaft 28 and through and through the body 20 'of the console 3'.
• the console 3 ' comprises means 31' for adjusting the inclination of the cradle 26 which, according to the illustrated example, are housed at inside the body 20 'in a cavity provided for this purpose.
• the tilt adjustment means comprise a worm 34 supported at its ends 34a, 34b in a direction perpendicular to the drive shaft 28 through the front and rear walls of the body 20 '.
• a drive nut 36 is also mounted on the screw 34. As shown in detail in FIGS. 9 and 9A, this nut 36 cooperates by two lateral fingers with two levers 38 'in the form of rods through an oblong slot 37' formed in each of the levers 38 ', which are mounted integral in rotation on the spline shaft 28 In addition, the posterior end 34b of the rod is accessible outside the body 20 'and cooperate with a return cannula 39.
• the installation and attachment mode of the awning 1 in this embodiment remains identical to that described above relative to the embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 7.
• Figs. 12 and 13 finally present two alternative forms of configuration of a console 20 'for fixing a awning 1 on a wall or lintel.
• the body 20 'of the console is located on the single drive shaft 28 in a non-symmetrical position relative to the half-cradles 27 of the console on which the box 2 of a box must be supported. awning according to the invention.
• Such an offset of the console body 20 ' may in particular be necessary in some cases [to be specified].
• the single drive shaft 28 then forms a significant lever between the two half-cradles 27 of the console.
• a return bearing 42 adapted to receive and support an end of the drive shaft 28 and avoid bending it and tearing the console body.
• This recovery bearing 42 advantageously has two slots 43 for fixing on a fixed support, for example by means of bolts.

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