ES2511019T3 - Glazing arrangement - Google Patents

Abstract

A glazing system, comprising upper (108) and lower (114) frame structures and at least two window elements (120 to 126), of which at least one window element (122 to 126) is movable at along said frame structures; each window element (120 to 126) having an upper band structure (128) comprising a minimum distance structure (210) that serves as a distance adjuster between the window elements (120 to 126) to define the minimum distances between them when they move sideways and are stacked against each other, said upper band structure (128) further comprising at least one support roller (208) supported on an upper rail part of the upper frame structure, which allows the movement of said at least one window element (122 to 126), characterized in that the minimum distance structure of each window element (120 to 126) comprises a disk-shaped structure (210), the support roller (208) being positioned in the place of a part that has been cut out of the disc-shaped structure (210), the support roller (208) being of size and shape such that it forms the cut-out part of the cir cunference of the disk-shaped structure (210).

Description

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DESCRIPTION

Glazing arrangement

Countryside

The invention relates to a glazing system, for example for a balcony.

5 Background

A balcony glazing system comprises several glass panels with a band structure at the top and bottom edges thereof. A balcony glazing system also consists of upper and lower frame structures that are fixed to the balcony structures. The structure of the upper frame is generally an elongated shape that is almost a U-profile with the open part facing down and having a bracket that extends inwards. The structure of the lower frame is similar to the structure of the upper frame, a straight shape, almost a U-profile with its open part facing up. The upper band structure of each glass panel comprises rollers at least at the edges of the panel. The rollers rest against a projection in the upper frame structure, which makes it possible to move the glass panels along the upper frame structure to different parts of the balcony. The lower band structure of each glass panel is positioned in the U-groove

15 of the structure of the lower frame, which prevents the movement of the window element in any direction other than the longitudinal direction of the upper and lower frames.

Mobile glass panels can usually be moved along the frame structures to the same place where they no longer protect the balcony. They can also be rotated transversely to the longitudinal axis of the frame structures and stacked close to each other. When the panels are turned crosswise, the

The structure of the upper frame and the rotating part of the structure of the upper band of each glass panel act as hinges. Patent publication WO 2009131394 presents a glazing system according to the preamble of claim 1.

However, prior art glazing systems have their problems. The movement and locking mechanisms of the panel band structures require space, which is why the actual transparent section of the panel has to be made much smaller. Therefore, there is a need for a new type of glazing system.

brief description

An object of the invention is to provide an improved glazing system. This is achieved by the glazing system of claim 1.

Some preferred embodiments of the invention are described in the dependent claims.

The invention provides several advantages. The structure of the upper and / or lower band of the window elements is compact and allows a large translucent portion in each window element.

List of figures

The invention will now be described in greater detail by means of preferred embodiments and the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 shows a balcony glazing system;

Figure 2 shows a window element of a balcony glazing system;

Figure 3A shows a roller and a disk-shaped structure from the side;

Figure 3B shows a roller and a disk-shaped structure from the top;

40 Figure 4 shows a roller in the upper frame structure;

Figure 5 shows how the window element is rotated in the lateral direction;

Figure 6 shows the roller and the disk-shaped structure when the window element has been rotated in the lateral direction; Y

Figure 7 shows how the window element is locked laterally while the roller acts as part of the circumference of the disk-shaped structure and defines the density of components of the window elements.

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Description of realizations

In the following, various embodiments will be described with reference to the figures mentioned above. However, the invention is not restricted to the embodiments described, but the solutions presented are examples of viable implementations. The characteristics of various embodiments can also be combined unless they are specifically in conflict or alternatively in regard to their technical application.

The window elements are suitable for use on a balcony or terrace, for example. A solution related to the present glazing system will now be examined by means of Figure 1. The glazing system 100 is generally suitable as transparent walls in a space 102 which can be a balcony or a terrace of a building 104.

A balcony can be defined as a space that extends outside the wall of a building, has a floor and a railing, and a door can be opened from the building. A terrace is a similar space, but you can think that it is on the ground plan, so a separate floor does not have to be included in a terrace.

The structure of the upper frame 108 of the glazing system 100 comprises one or more straight upper rail parts 110, 112, one after the other. There may be an angle α between the upper rail pieces 110, 112 in a possible corner 106. The angle between the upper rail pieces 110, 112 may be the same or different than the angle of the corner 106, but the angle α is conforms to corner 106. The upper rail pieces 110, 112 form a long shape that is almost a U-section profile, with the open part facing down.

The structure of the lower frame 114 of the glazing system 100 may comprise one or more straight bottom rail pieces 116, 118 that are formed in the corner 106 of the space 102 at an angle in the same manner as the upper frame structure 108. Each Bottom rail part 116, 118 also has a shape that is almost a U-profile. The structure of the upper frame 108 and the structure of the lower frame 114 with its upper and lower rails 110, 112, 116, 118 can be made of metal , such as aluminum.

The glazing system 100 comprises at least two window elements 120, 122, 124, 126, of which at least one window element 112 to 126 is movable. Each window element may comprise a panel of glass or some other material that permeates the light to a desired degree and in a desired manner. The panel may comprise optical radiation absorption and / or dispersion agents at a desired band (approximately 10 nm to 500 µm). In this way, the panel can be resistant to ultraviolet radiation. Similarly, the penetration of infrared and thermal radiation can be adjusted in the panel. The panel can also be colored, in which case its light transmission at different wavelengths is not the same. When the panel comprises particle dispersion, its color and diffuse or non-diffuse permeability can be controlled with the size and number of particles in a desired manner.

The upper band structure 128 of the glazing system 100 is fixed to at least one mobile window element 112 to 126. The upper band structure 128 of each window element comprises two rollers, for example (rollers 108 in Figure 2 ) on the edges of the glass element 122 to 126. The rollers rest against a support in the upper rail part 110, 112, which makes it possible to move the window elements 122 to 126 along the rail piece upper 110, 112 of the upper frame structure 108 to different parts of the space 102.

A lower band structure 130 of the glazing system 100 is fixed to at least one mobile window element 122 to 126. The lower band structure 130 of each window element is positioned in the U-groove of the lower frame structure 114 , 116, which prevents movement of the panel 122 to 126 in any other direction than in the longitudinal direction of the upper and lower frames 108, 114.

The glazing system 100 may also comprise at least one window element 120 that is not movable along the upper structure of the frame 108 and the lower structure of the frame 114. However, the stationary window element 120 made of this way it can comprise a lower band structure 132 and an upper band structure 134 and can be rotatable in the lateral direction to open the space 102 relative to the other rail pieces 110, 116, to which the stationary window element 120 is fixed by its hinge structure. Figure 1 indicates with a broken line the stationary panel 120 that has been rotated in the lateral direction. To rotate, the upper structure of the band 134 of the stationary panel 120 may have a handle 136 to help grasp and rotate it.

In Figure 1, window element 126 is moving over corner 106.

The structure of the lower frame 116 may have a port 138, with which the window elements 120 to 126 can be rotated in the same manner as the window element 120 indicated by a broken line.

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Figure 2 shows a window element 100 comprising an upper edge band structure 128 and a lower edge band structure 130. The upper band structure 128 can be continuous along the entire length of the panel, as is shown by the dashed line, or the upper band structure 128 may comprise at least two separate parts, as shown by the continuous line. The upper band structure 128 comprises a roller 108 closed to the edge of the window element that is intended to move the window element 100 along the upper frame structure 108. The upper band structure 128 also comprises a structure in which disk shape 210 that serves as an adjuster of the distances between the elements of the window, when they move to one side and are stacked against each other to make the space 102 open. The structure of the band 128 also comprises a support bracket 212. The support bracket 212 is generally a circle with a section defined by a rope shorter than the diameter removed from it.

The upper band structure 128 comprises at the edge of the window element 100 a roller 208 for moving the window element along the band structure of the frame. However, this edge does not necessarily comprise a support bracket.

Figures 3A and 3B show a roller 208 and the disc-shaped structure 210. In these figures, the roller 108 and the disc-shaped structure 210 meet at an angle to each other. Generally, the roller 108 and the disc-shaped structure 210 may be forming an angle that differs from a right angle, but more commonly the angle between the roller 108 and the disc-shaped structure 210 is at least about 90 °. The disc-shaped structure 210 comprises a round structure of the middle part of the fixing element of the window element 100, in which a bearing is part of the structure. The disk-shaped structure 210 is in the middle of a fixing accessory (the structure of Figure 3A) and together with the bearing forms an entity. Of the disk-shaped structure 210 a part has been cut, having a diameter greater than that of roller 208 and a shape that conforms somewhat to the shape of roller 208, and roller 208 is placed in place, being the roller of size and shape such that it forms the cut-out part of the circumference of the disk-shaped structure 210. In this way the solution provides a convenient, smaller and denser overall structure, with which the window element 122 a 126 connects to the upper rail part 110, 112 of the upper frame structure

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The roller 208 forms the outer circumference of the disk-shaped structure 210 at the edge of the window element 122 to 126 in which the hinge for rotating the window element 122 to 126 also resides.

In Figure 4, the upper frame structure 108 abuts the structures 400 of the space. The structure of the upper frame 108 comprises a support bracket 402, on which the roller 208 can roll back and forth. At the same time, the roller 208 together with the rest of the upper band structures 128 supports the window element 122 to 126.

Figure 5 shows a situation, in which the window elements are stacked sideways to the edge of the balcony, for example. A window element 500 has already rotated an angle of 90 ° with respect to the direction of the upper band structure 128 and a second window element 122 to 126 is rotating. The rotation takes place in relation to the hinge that is located at one edge of each window element 120 to 126. The first window element 500 does not necessarily have to be movable along the upper frame structure 108. When the element moving window 122 to 126 has been brought into place to rotate forming a stack, the upper rail part 110, 112 of the upper frame structure 108 has an opening 502 such that the roller 208, the disk-shaped structure 210 and the support bracket 212 can be separated from the upper rail part 110, 112 in other places except at the edge of the already rotated window element 500.

Figure 6 shows the same situation as Figure 5, but Figure 6 now shows in more detail the roller 208, the disk-shaped structure 210 and the support bracket 212. When the window element 122 to 126 rotates, the roller 208 moves away from the support bracket 402 and into the open groove of the upper rail part 110, 112 of the upper frame structure 108, whereby the window element 122 to 126 can be lowered to a certain extent, or even fall out of position. However, this does not occur because the support bracket 212 then contacts the second support bracket 600. At the same time, the locking rake 602 of the upper frame structure 300 blocks the window element 122 to 126 in position when support bracket 212 rotates inside the recess in rake 602.

Figure 7 shows the same situation as Figures 5 and 6. Figure 7 shows that when the support bracket 212 is a circle with a section defined by a rope shorter than the diameter, it has been removed from it (it is that is, it is crescent-shaped), the window element 122 to 126 can also be moved in the area of the blocking rake 602 of the upper rail part 110, 112 of the upper frame structure 108. The section removed from the support bracket 212 makes it possible for the support bracket 212 to pass through the supports 700 of the blocking rake 602, when the window element 122 to 126 moves in the direction of the upper frame structure 108. But when the element of window 122 to 126 is rotated, the support bracket 212 pushes into the recess 702 of the locking rake 602 and the window element 122 to 126 can no longer move in the

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direction of the upper frame structure 108. Figure 7 also shows how the roller 208 of the first window element 120 rotates transversely within the open groove 702 of the upper frame structure 108. In this example, the first element of window 120 can also be moved by means of the roller

208. Because roller 208 forms the circumference of the disk-shaped structure 210, it also defines the

5 distance between the window elements 120 to 126 to be suitable, since the roller 208 of any window element 120 to 124 is in contact with the disk-shaped structure 210 of the upper band structure 128 of the next element of window 122 to 126.

Even if the first window element 120 was not movable, the disk-shaped structure 210 of the first window element 120 without the roller 208 defines the minimum distance between the elements of the window 120 to 126. 10 However, the second and the third window element 122, 124 touch each other by their circumferential structures 210, to which roller 208 also belongs. Consequently, any consecutive window elements i, i + 1, in which i is an integer greater than two, they touch each other by their disc-shaped structures 210, to which roller 208 also belongs, in the form shown in the figure

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Although the invention has been described above with reference to the examples in the accompanying drawings, it is clear that the invention is not limited thereto, but can be modified in a variety of ways within the scope of the appended claims.

Claims (1)

E12165608 09-29-2014 1. A glazing system, comprising upper (108) and lower (114) frame structures and at least two window elements (120 to 126), of which at least one window element (122 to 126) is mobile along the aforementioned frame structures; each window element (120 to 126) having a structure 5 upper band (128) comprising a minimum distance structure (210) that serves as a distance adjuster between the window elements (120 to 126) to define the minimum distances between them when moving sideways and stacked against each other, said upper band structure (128) further comprising at least one support roller (208) supported on a top rail part of the upper frame structure, which allows the movement of said at least one element window (122 a 10 126), characterized in that the minimum distance structure of each window element (120 to 126) comprises a disk-shaped structure (210), the support roller (208) being positioned in the place of a part which has been cut out of the disk-shaped structure (210), the support roller (208) being of size and shape such that it forms the cut-out part of the circumference of the disk-shaped structure (210).

A glazing system as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that in the consecutive window elements (120 to 126), the disk-shaped structure (210) of the first window element (120 to 124 ) and the roller (208) on the circumference of the disk-shaped structure (210) of the second window element (122 to 126) are arranged to touch each other when the window elements (120 to 126) have been turned and stacked on one side.

A glazing system as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the disk-shaped structure (210), with its roller (208) is on the articulated edge of the upper band structure (128 ) of the window element (122 to 126) which makes it possible to rotate the window element (122 to 126).

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