Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
  • E04B2/00—Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls
  • E04B2/74—Removable non-load-bearing partitions; Partitions with a free upper edge
  • E04B2/7401—Removable non-load-bearing partitions; Partitions with a free upper edge assembled using panels without a frame or supporting posts, with or without upper or lower edge locating rails
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A62—LIFE-SAVING; FIRE-FIGHTING
  • A62B—DEVICES, APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR LIFE-SAVING
  • A62B33/00—Devices for allowing seemingly-dead persons to escape or draw attention; Breathing apparatus for accidentally buried persons
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
  • E04B—GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS; WALLS, e.g. PARTITIONS; ROOFS; FLOORS; CEILINGS; INSULATION OR OTHER PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS
  • E04B2/00—Walls, e.g. partitions, for buildings; Wall construction with regard to insulation; Connections specially adapted to walls
  • E04B2/74—Removable non-load-bearing partitions; Partitions with a free upper edge
  • E04B2/7401—Removable non-load-bearing partitions; Partitions with a free upper edge assembled using panels without a frame or supporting posts, with or without upper or lower edge locating rails
  • E04B2/7405—Removable non-load-bearing partitions; Partitions with a free upper edge assembled using panels without a frame or supporting posts, with or without upper or lower edge locating rails with free upper edge, e.g. for use as office space dividers
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05D—HINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
  • E05D1/00—Pinless hinges; Substitutes for hinges
  • E05D1/04—Pinless hinges; Substitutes for hinges with guide members shaped as circular arcs
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05D—HINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
  • E05D7/00—Hinges or pivots of special construction
  • E05D7/009—Elongate hinges, e.g. piano-hinges
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
  • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
  • Y10T29/00—Metal working
  • Y10T29/49—Method of mechanical manufacture
  • Y10T29/49616—Structural member making
  • Y10T29/49623—Static structure, e.g., a building component
  • Y10T29/49629—Panel

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a device for the protection of living beings and objects against spillage by bulk material, process for their preparation and uses using this device.
• Bulk material in dumps, silos, canopies or other storage devices is used in a variety of commercial and industrial applications, for example in the food, chemical, catalyst, raw materials or building materials sector.
• Such bulk material can accordingly occur, for example, in the form of sugar, cereals, rice, flour, granules, extrudates, sand, gravel or the like.
• Protective constructions must on the one hand be suitable to be introduced into the, often characterized by narrow manholes, bulk containers can, on the other hand, but also in a spatially flexible manner an optionally large area before spillage, z. B. a lying, trapped person to protect.
• a protective device must be able to be handled safely and reliably, even under massive stress, in order to develop an appropriate protective effect for one of the concrete individual spillage situations.
• the present invention is therefore based on the technical problem of providing a device for protecting living beings, in particular persons, but also objects, against spillage by bulk material, which overcomes the aforementioned disadvantages, and is particularly suitable for providing a safe, reliable, easy to handle, fast, robust and spatially flexible protection against spillage.
• the present invention is also based on the technical problem of providing a method which meets these requirements for producing such a device and a method for protecting against spillage of living beings and objects.
• the present invention solves the underlying technical problem by providing a device for spill protection of living beings and objects, comprising at least two via a rotary push joint, in particular provided with two degrees of freedom rotary push joint, interconnected wall elements, wherein the wall elements are identical in a preferred embodiment, wherein each wall element has a rectangular, preferably planar, base body having a first, executed in the form of a circular thickened edge, and a second, the first edge opposite and formed in the form of a circular segment-shaped edge edge and wherein each two of the wall elements on the through the nested , Rotary thrust joint formed with each other in rear-engaging first and second edges of adjacent wall elements are connected to each other so that the wall elements are vertically displaceable relative to each other and horizontally zueina are rotatable up to an angle of at least 60 °.
• a first wall element is inserted with its first edge into the terminal opening of a holder formed by the second edge of a second wall element along the longitudinal axis of this second edge, whereby a rotary push joint and a device having at least two wall elements of the present invention.
• further wall elements can be added to the device thus produced.
• the device according to the invention is therefore characterized by at least two hingedly connected wall elements, which are connected to each other via a formed by their adjacent edges rotary push joint.
• the inventive device forming, preferably flat, wall elements are identical in a preferred embodiment and are characterized by a rectangular, for example, square, basic shape.
• a first edge of this wall element is - as seen in cross-section - circular thickening, preferably over the entire edge length of the wall element, formed and is referred to here as hinge pin edge.
• the hinge pin edge is therefore preferably designed as directly on the rectangular, preferably planar, basic body of the wall element attaching rotary cylinder or straight circular cylinder, in a further embodiment as a straight hollow cylinder.
• the central axis of this circular or hollow cylinder is in a plane which is predetermined by the planar surface of the base body.
• the central axis of the circular or hollow cylinder is not in a plane with the predetermined by the planar surface of the body level, but in a parallel plane thereto, in particular, the central axis is at an angle of preferably 1 to 179 °, preferably 30 to 170 °, preferably 40 to 160 ° , In particular 50 to 150 °, in particular 60 to 30 °, preferably 90 ° to the plane of the body.
• the opposite, referred to as the second edge of the wall element edge of the same wall element is - seen in cross-section - circular segment-shaped holder, here also referred to as hinge rail edge, executed, and also preferably over the entire length of the second edge.
• the circular segment-shaped holder is formed by two semi-circular legs attached to the main body of the wall element, which - as seen in cross-section - partially enclose a circular cavity, thus forming a rail which is parallel to the longitudinal axis and thus accommodating the cross-sectional smaller hinge pin edge of another wall element is capable.
• the circular segment-shaped holder has a gap, preferably over the entire length of the second edge, through which the base body of the inserted wall element passes.
• the gap width is greater than the thickness of the passing through body of the inserted wall element, preferably 2 times, 3 times or 4 times as wide, the latter can be pivoted horizontally.
• the gap width ie the width of the gap opening, 0.5 to 7 cm, 1 to 6 cm, 1 to 4 cm, in particular 2 to 2.9 cm, in particular 2.5 to 2.9 cm.
• the geometric center of the gap is not in a plane with the main body.
• the geometric Center of the gap at an angle of 70 to 170 °, 80 to 160 °, in particular 85 to 150 °, preferably 120 °, based on the main body of the wall element.
• the - seen in cross-section - diameter of the circular thickening of the first edge and the circular segment-shaped holder of the second edge are coordinated so that the circular thickening a smaller diameter, for example by a factor of 0.05, 0.1 or 0.15 smaller , as the clear diameter of the circular segment-shaped holder.
• the diameter of the circular thickening 0.9 to 4.5 cm, preferably 1, 8 to 4.0 cm, in particular 2.5 to 3.5 cm, in particular 3 cm.
• the gap is wider than the thickness of the body of the wall element, but narrower than the diameter of the hinge pin edge.
• the gap width of the gap of the circular segment-shaped holder formed by the second edge is thus dimensioned such that the circular thickening of the first edge, that is to say the hinge pin edge, can not be horizontally pulled out of it.
• the hinge pin edge of another wall element introduced into the hinge rail edge of one wall element accordingly engages with one another in the rear grip.
• the at least two wall elements or separating them is possible solely by inserting or pulling out the wall elements through an edge-definite opening of the hinge rail edge along its first and second edges.
• the circular segment-shaped holder either a) above or b) below or c) is open at the top and bottom of at least one of its edge ends. Since, according to the invention, it is particularly preferred that the joint rail edges are a) at the top or b) at the bottom or c) at the top and bottom, ie in each case at both ends of the second edge, open and beyond the diameters of the circular segment-shaped holder and the circular thickening are dimensioned so that much play is present, it is avoided that the wall elements do not jam when handled in the bulk material.
• the device according to the invention has at least two wall elements connected by means of a rotary thickening formed by the circular thickening and the circular-segment-shaped support which partially surrounds them, and thus a high degree of geometric and areal flexibility. If, for example, only two wall elements are connected to one another, they can be used in the form of an articulated wall whose individual elements, ie wall elements, are individually horizontally rotatable and vertically displaceable. In another embodiment of the present invention, articulated walls may also be constructed of three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten or more wall elements.
• the device according to the invention it is also possible to connect at least three, but preferably four, five, six, seven or more wall elements to a device according to the invention, wherein these form a tubular device, namely a space horizontally enclose.
• the first and last wall element in the manner according to the invention are connected to each other via a rotary push joint.
• the horizontal rotation of the wall elements to each other is not or only partially realized.
• the wall elements can be rotated in the bulk material in the horizontal direction against each other.
• the device according to the invention can additionally be adapted to a different level in the bulk material by virtue of its vertical flexibility which can also be used in bulk material, ie vertical displaceability of the wall elements, taking into account solid chunks in the bulk material, structural conditions, outstretched arms or clamped legs.
• the device provided according to the invention which enables a vertical displaceability of the individual wall elements relative to one another as well as a horizontal rotation of the wall elements relative to one another, it is advantageously possible to optimally protect persons or objects that have been spilled in the concrete spatial situation from bulk material.
• it may be provided in a preferred embodiment to subsequently insert further wall elements in a device provided according to the invention, in particular during a rescue operation, so as to be able to cope with time-changing situations.
• the device according to the invention is characterized in that it can assume a largely arbitrary surface size and / or geometry, for example devices which have more than one wall element not only in horizontal extension but also in vertical alignment can be provided by the rotary push connection mechanism provided according to the invention.
• a hinge rail edge of a wall element can receive and fix two first edges, ie hinge pin edges, of two wall elements inserted one above the other.
• the hinge rail edges of these two inserted wall elements can be connected to other, for example two or three wall elements, rotatable and displaceable.
• the individual elements required for the production of this large and geometriejon unlimited protection device are relatively small and very easy to handle, as they represent substantially rectangular wall elements, which are very good on plugs, cones or even side by side or one above the other in the field of the bulk material and thus can be stored close to the operation.
• the gap of the holder has an angular width of 80 to 150 °, preferably 90 to 145 °, in particular 90 to 120 °, preferably 100 °, on.
• the wall elements are constructed of metal or plastic, in particular consist of these or essentially comprise these.
• the wall elements plates, z. B. aluminum or steel sheets.
• the wall elements, in particular sheets have a thickness of 0.1 to 2 cm, in particular 0.2 to 1, 5 cm, 0.3 to 1 cm, preferably 0.4 to 0.8 cm, in particular 0 , 5 to 0.6 cm up.
• the main body of the wall element is rectangular, in particular with two short and two long edges, the long edges preferably representing the first and second edges, which respectively form the circular thickening and the circular segment-shaped holder.
• the wall elements have a format with short edges of a length of 20 to 70 cm, 30 to 65 cm, preferably 35 to 60 cm, in particular 35 to 50 cm, preferably 37 to 38 cm.
• the wall elements have a format with first and second edges of a length of 60 to 140 cm, in particular 70 to 130 cm, preferably 80 to 120 cm, in particular 90 to 110 cm, preferably 100 cm.
• each wall element in a particularly preferred embodiment as a tube, in particular hollow tube, formed first edge and on the opposite second edge a circular segment-shaped holder, in particular a C-shaped holder, in particular a three-quarter circle segment-shaped holder, for example in shape a slotted hollow tube having.
• the opening width of the gap of the circular segment-shaped holder is formed so that a rotation of the inserted wall element at an angle of 90 to 145 °, in particular 95 to 140 ° is possible.
• a device according to the present invention is provided, which forms a pentagonal tube from five wall elements - seen in cross-section.
• the device according to the invention is formed of six wall elements, which - seen in cross-section - form a hexagonal tube.
• the present invention also provides to provide a device of at least two wall elements of the type described above, wherein the device additionally comprises a length-adjustable telescopic rod.
• a telescopic rod can stabilize the wall elements or the device by connecting to at least two of the wall elements of the device according to the invention, for example by additionally fitting them onto the wall elements or by replacing one or more of the wall elements.
• the present invention therefore also relates to a device, in particular of the afore-mentioned type, wherein the latter comprises at least two wall elements connected to one another via a rotary push joint and wherein two of the wall elements are respectively connected to at least one telescopic rod via a rotary push joint the at least two wall elements to the at least one telescoping rod are vertically displaceable relative to each other and horizontal to each other with a minimum angle of 60 ° rotatable.
• the telescopic rod connects at least two wall elements of the device according to the invention vertically displaceable and horizontally rotatable relative to each other, preferably in a reversible manner.
• the telescopic rod used according to the invention particularly preferably has at its ends in cross-section a circular segment-shaped holder and seen in cross-section a circular thickening.
• the telescopic rod at one of its ends a seen in cross-section circular segment-shaped holder, which is suitable for receiving a cross-sectionally circular thickening of a hinge pin edge of a wall element.
• the other end of the telescopic rod has, viewed in cross-section, a circular thickening which can be inserted into the hinge rail edge of a wall element according to the invention which forms a circular segment-shaped holder.
• An inventively preferred telescopic rod can therefore be connected to the wall elements of the present invention so that the edge of the one wall element, a first rotary push joint and the edge of the other wall element, a second rotary push joint is formed and so the wall element or the wall elements to the telescopic rod vertically slidable and horizontally rotatable.
• the present invention also provides a wall element available, which is essential, in particular sole component of the device according to the invention.
• such a wall element has a first and an opposite second edge , wherein the first edge in the form of a circular thickening and the second edge in the form of a circular segment-shaped holder is formed with a over the entire length of the second edge extending gap.
• the circular segment-shaped holder is designed as a tube having a longitudinal gap.
• the circular thickening is formed as a tube.
• the present invention also provides methods for producing a device according to the invention, wherein wall elements of the present invention are interconnected by a hinge pin edge of a wall element is inserted through the open edge end of a hinge rail edge of another wall element along the longitudinal axis of this hinge rail edge in this , the two wall elements so reversibly connected vertically and horizontally movable reversibly and optionally one or more further wall elements are added and connected by repeating the aforementioned method step.
• the present invention provides a present method, wherein at least one telescopic rod with at least two wall elements vertically and horizontally movable reversibly connected, in particular by forming a first rotary push joint with a first wall element and a second rotary push element with a second wall element.
• the present invention also provides methods for protecting living beings or objects threatened by burial by bulk material, wherein in a first method step a) at least two wall elements of the present invention are provided, in a second method step b) the at least two wall elements, in particular three, four , five, six, seven or eight, wall elements connected together to form a device according to the invention, in particular against each other vertically displaceable and horizontally rotatable with each other, in particular forming each forming between two wall elements rotary push joints, connected, and in a third step c) the device of the invention , In particular, at least two interconnected wall elements are placed between bulk material and the living beings or objects.
• the present invention also provides a method for the protection of endangered by a burial by bulk material or objects of the aforementioned type, wherein in a further process step, the at least two wall elements are vertically displaceable and horizontally rotatably connected to a telescopic rod.
• the present invention also relates to the use of a wall element of the present invention or a device of the present invention for protecting living beings or objects from being buried by bulk material. Further advantageous embodiments of the present invention will become apparent from the dependent claims. The present invention will be explained in more detail with reference to the following examples and the associated figures, without limiting their scope.
• FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a device according to the invention
• FIG. 2 shows a wall element according to the invention in cross section
• FIG. 3 shows a part of a wall element according to the invention in a perspective view, namely the circular thickening of a first wall element
• FIG. 4 shows another part of a wall element according to the invention in a perspective view, namely the circular segment-shaped mounting of a first wall element
• FIG. 5 shows a formed by insertion of the circular thickening of a wall element in the circular segment-shaped support of another wall element rotary push joint of a device according to the invention
• FIG. 6 shows a device according to the invention designed as an articulated wall
• FIG. 7 shows a device according to the invention designed as a hexagonal open tube
• FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view of a hexagonal tube device of the present invention.
• FIG. 9 shows a further embodiment of a device according to the invention.
• FIG. 10 a telescopic rod used according to the invention in plan view
• FIG. 11 a telescopic rod used according to the invention in cross-section
• FIG. 10 a telescopic rod used according to the invention in plan view
• FIG. 11 a telescopic rod used according to the invention in cross-section
• FIG. 10 a telescopic rod used according to the invention in plan view
• FIG. 11 a telescopic rod used according to the invention in cross-section
• FIG. 10 a telescopic rod used according to the invention in plan view
• FIG. 11 a telescopic rod used according to the invention in cross-section
• FIG. 12 shows a device according to the invention designed as a wall with a stabilization according to the invention provided by a telescopic rod. example
• FIG. 1 shows a device 100 according to the invention which has been produced by joining two identical first and second wall elements 10, 20.
• FIG. 2 shows a wall element 10 in cross section.
• Figures 1 and 2 show that the wall element 10 is constructed from a flat rectangular base body 11, whose two opposite longitudinal edges 12, 14 are designed differently.
• a first edge 12 of the wall element is designed as a circular thickening 12, in this case as a tube connected in one piece to the main body 11, and constitutes the so-called hinge pin edge.
• the opposite second edge is configured as a circular segment-shaped holder, ie hinge rail edge 14 and has two semicircular legs 15, 16 which form an upper and lower, ie at their ends, open hinge rail edge 14.
• the clear diameter of the circular segment-shaped holder 14 is greater than the total diameter of the circular thickening, that is to say the steering bolt edge 12, so that the hinge pin edge 12 can be inserted into the hinge pin rail 14 from one of its open ends 21 forth along its longitudinal axis.
• the angular width ß of the gap 18 in the holder 14 is selected so that a horizontal extraction of a inserted into the circular segment holder 14 hinge pin edge 12 due to their larger diameter compared to the angular width ß of the gap 18 is not possible and is here about 100 ° ,
• a device 100 according to the invention is constructed from at least two such wall elements 10, 20, as can be seen from FIG. Since in each case the first edge, that is to say the hinge pin edge 12, of a wall element 10 is brought into engagement with the second edge 14 of another wall element 20, namely its hinge rail edge 14, the second, namely the hinge rail edge, of the first wall element 10, receive a hinge pin edge 12 of another wall element and so on, so that in this way a fundamentally unlimited number of wall elements can be coupled together.
• FIG. 3 shows a partial view of a main body 11 with its hinge pin edge 12, which, as seen in its circular cross section, allows insertion into a hinge rail edge 14 shown in detail in FIG. 4 along its longitudinal axis and starting from the terminal opening 21 of the holder 14 ,
• the figure 4 can also be seen that the geometric center 19 of the gap 18, which is bounded by the two legs 15 and 16 of the holder 14, not in a - imaginary - plane E with the main body 11 of the wall element 10, but rather is located at an angle ⁇ of 70 to 170 ° thereto, here 120 °.
• hinge pin edge 12 By inserting the hinge pin edge 12 in the terminal opening 21 of the hinge rail edge 14 is provided with two degrees of freedom, namely a vertical and horizontal degree of freedom, which in each case allows horizontal pivoting and vertical displacement equipped rotary push joint 16, which due to the smaller diameter of circular thickening 12 in comparison to the clear diameter of the circular segment-shaped holder 14 has a clear game.
• FIG. 6 illustrates a further embodiment of a device 100 according to the invention, according to which five wall elements 10, 20 are connected to one another in the form of an articulated wall. It is clear that by the vertical displacement and horizontal pivoting of the wall elements 10, 20 to each other made adapting the device to different horizontally to be considered spatial conditions.
• FIG. 7 shows a further embodiment of a device 100 according to the invention, in which six wall elements 10, 20 are connected to one another via six rotary thrust joints 16 in the form of a hexagonal tube and thus offer a space which is enclosed on all sides horizontally for protection against spillage.
• FIG. 8 shows such a device 100 according to the invention in cross section.
• Other embodiments are of course possible, for example, as shown in Figure 9 and according to the also a plurality of wall elements 10, 20 are additionally arranged vertically above one another.
• FIG. 10 shows a telescopic rod 30 used according to the invention, which, depending on the rescue situation, can replace at least one of the wall elements 10, 20 used in a device 100 according to the invention as a spacer.
• the length-adjustable telescopic rod 30 according to the invention has, at one of its ends, a circular segment-shaped holder 32 seen in cross section and, at the opposite end, a circular thickening 34, seen in cross section.
• the telescopic rod 30 can jointly form two rotary thrust joints 16 and thus move vertically relative to one another and horizontally to each other to achieve an angle of at least 60 ° rotatable mobility.
• FIG. 11 shows the telescopic rod 30 in cross section.
• Figure 12 shows a possible embodiment of a device according to the invention using a telescopic rod 30, which is used as a spacer between two wall elements 10, 20 and by means of their circular segment-shaped holder 32 and the circular thickening 12 of a wall element 20 a Drehschubge- steering 16 and by means of their circular thickening 34 and the circular segment-shaped holder 14 of a wall element 10, a further rotary push joint 16 is formed.
• the telescopic rod 30 can in this embodiment either replace a wall element or stabilize the wall of the invention.

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