JPH06117164A - Method for fitting glass sheet - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce man-hours for fitting a glass sheet, when the glass sheet is fitted on a door, a horizontally sliding door, or the general framing of another sash. CONSTITUTION:Glass guides 50 are fitted at both the ends of a glass sheet 14, and the glass sheet with the glass guides is set, and the glass sheet is fitted on an opening 3 with a framing 4 from the rear surface side and is supported on the opening 3 and is brought in contact with bearing sections 20 formed on the peripheral edge front-side of the opening 3. After that, a linear post- fitting glass vinyl piece 26 having a length equal to that between the glass guides is fitted into a space between the frame inner-periphery of the opening 3 and the side edge of the glass sheet 14, and the glass sheet 14 is fixed on the opening. The glass guides 50 are positioned on a bottom plate section 51 and at least on the rear side surface of a glass sheet end section, and glass vinyl sections 52, 53 to be air-tight members are integrally arranged.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to doors, sliding doors, and other shoji screens having a glass plate attached to an opening defined by a frame.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In general shoji, the method of assembling a glass plate is as follows. First, the glass plate is placed in a glass mounting frame, and a U-shaped beat is pushed around the frame between the frame and the glass plate to fix the glass plate to the frame. Then, either the frame or the frame is fitted and fixed in the opening for mounting the glass plate (hereinafter simply referred to as the opening) formed by the frame, or the frame is composed of the frame body and the pushing edge, and the frame body is attached to the frame body. After first attaching the glass vinyl that contacts one side of the glass plate, fit the glass plate into the opening with the pushing edge removed, and push the glass vinyl into the gap between the frame and the other side of the glass plate to fix the glass to the frame Then, the pushing edge is attached.

However, in any case, it is necessary to mount the U-shaped beat or glass vinyl over the entire circumference of the glass mounting opening. Further, the above-mentioned structure with the pushing edge may be unsightly because the mounted glass vinyl is exposed, and in addition, in order to determine the vertical position between the mounting opening and the glass plate, a laying board is placed between the frame and the end surface of the glass plate. Need to be attached. The floor plate is mounted between the upper and lower end faces of the glass plate and the frame assembly to prevent the glass plate from rattling during transportation.

Due to the design of doors and the like, these operations require a great deal of labor particularly when the glass plate mounting openings in the frame are divided into a large number of openings. Also,
In terms of design, doors and sliding doors often have double-sided designs,
The difficulty in assembling such shoji screens is increasing.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a glass plate assembling method that reduces the number of steps for mounting the glass plate in the opening of the frame.

[0006]

A method for incorporating a glass plate into an opening defined by a frame. Attach the glass guides to both ends of the glass plate to be attached. Glass guide
An upper and lower floor plate portions and a glass vinyl portion serving as an airtight member are integrally formed at least on the back surface of the glass plate end portion. A glass plate with a glass guide is fitted into the opening from the back side to be supported, and the surface thereof is applied to the receiving portion formed by a frame on the front surface side of the peripheral edge of the opening. Between the back surface of the side edge of the glass plate and the inner circumference of the frame, a post-installed glass vinyl on a straight line equal to the length between the glass guides at both ends is fitted to fix the glass plate to the opening.

[0007] A glass member with a glass guide attached to the opening may be reinforced by an auxiliary member attached to the frame from the back side of the opening defined by the frame. Further, in the same manner, the peripheral edge of the glass plate with a glass guide attached to the opening may be covered with makeup by the auxiliary member.

[0008]

The structure in which the glass plate is a glass plate with a glass guide and the glass plate mounted in the opening is fixed by a linear post-installed vinyl guide reduces the number of steps for mounting the glass plate.

[0009]

EXAMPLE FIG. 4 shows a door plate 1 as an example of a shoji, in which a frame 4 for forming an opening 3 inside an outer frame 2 is mounted. The outer frame 2 is configured to be sturdy by assembling the left and right vertical frames 5 (a, b) and the upper and lower horizontal frames 6 (a, b). Left and right vertical frames 5 (a, b) and upper and lower horizontal frames 6
A mounting groove 7 is formed on the inner peripheral side of the back surface of (a, b), and has a structure in which a back frame assembly 9 described later is fitted. The frame frame 4 is divided into a front frame frame 8 and a back frame frame 9, and the back frame frame 9 is composed of an upper frame frame frame 10, a middle frame frame frame 11 and a lower frame frame frame 12, and a front frame frame frame. Above in the set 8
It is constituted by abutting the middle and lower back frame sets 10, 11, 12 and engaging them, and then fixing them with screws 13. The frame frame 4 is substantially constituted by the front frame frame 8, and the back frame frame 9 functions as an auxiliary member.

In this embodiment, the frame assembly 4 is configured to form a large number of openings 3 in which the glass plate 14 (FIG. 2) having a small vertical size is mounted on the door plate 1. The opening 3 doubles as the light from the door plate 1 and is used because of the design of the door plate 1.

As shown in FIG. 3, the front frame 8 is substantially arranged between the left and right vertical frames 5 (a, b) and the front horizontal frame 15 (a, 15).
b) and a face plate 16 mounted on the surface thereof.
As shown in FIG. 1, the front horizontal frame 15 (a, b) is a screw hole 1
There are two types, a fixed type front side frame 15a (7 in the lower part of FIG. 1) and a fitting type front side frame 15b (the same side) not provided with screw holes 17, between the left and right vertical frames 5 (a, b). Vertically, with a space between them. Front horizontal frame 15 (a, b)
The vertical size of each is almost equal.

The fixed front side frame 15a is assembled in advance using the screw holes 17 when the outer frame 2 is formed. The fitting type front horizontal frame 15b is sequentially combined and attached when the glass plate 14 is mounted later, but the fixed type front horizontal frame 15a is fixed between the left and right vertical frames 5 (a, b). Then, the front frame assembly 8 is substantially completed.

As shown in cross section in FIG. 1, the fixed type front horizontal frame 15a is provided with a reinforcing hollow portion 18 at the center in the vertical direction and is integrally formed with upper and lower eyelet engaging portions 19 on the front side. The receiving part 20 of the glass plate is constructed symmetrically. The receiving part 20 of the glass plate has a horizontal piece 21 and a vertical piece 22 and a cover piece 23 on the front side thereof, and a glass vinyl 24 as a tight material is attached to the back side of the vertical piece 22 both upward and downward (preliminary attachment). Glass vinyl). Cover piece 2
3 is bent to the back side so as to cover the upper surface (upper side) and the lower surface (lower side) of the front glass vinyl 24.

The back side of the fixed front and side frame 15a is provided with a glass vinyl retainer piece 25 which is bent downward after the horizontal piece 21 is extended to the back side at the lower side. In the receiving part 20 of the glass plate, the horizontal piece 21
Has a width (dimension in the front-back direction) sufficiently larger than the thickness of the glass plate 14, and in the lower glass plate receiving portion 20, the space between the vertical piece 22 and the glass vinyl pressing piece 25 is the glass plate 1.
It is made even thicker than the thickness of 4.

Reference numeral 26 is a retrofit glass vinyl. The embedding type front horizontal frame 15b has the reinforcing hollow portion 18 smaller than the fixed front horizontal frame 15a, but the structure on the front side is basically the same as that of the fixed front horizontal frame 15a described above.
9 and the receiving portion 20 for the glass plate are configured, and the receiving portion 20 for the glass plate has a horizontal piece 21, a vertical piece 22 and a cover piece 23. Further, a glass vinyl 24 as an airtight material is preliminarily attached to the back side of the vertical piece 22 both upward and downward (preliminary glass vinyl).

On the back side of the fitting type front and side frame 15b, an engaging guide piece 27 is formed obliquely downward from a horizontal piece 21 in the upper glass plate receiving portion 20, and a glass vinyl in the lower glass plate receiving portion 20 is formed. A stopper 28 is projectingly provided on the back surface of the pressing piece 25. With the above structure, the fixed type front horizontal frame 15a and the fitting type front horizontal frame 15b are arranged with a space therebetween, so that both the front side horizontal frames 15 (a, b) are provided at a position where the fixed type and the fitting type are adjacent to each other. The upper and lower glass plate receiving portions 20 face each other, and an opening 29 (FIGS. 4 and 3) for attaching the glass plate on the front frame assembly 8 side is formed.

Upper, middle and lower back frame assembly 10, 11, 12
As shown in FIG. 4, each of the (back frame assembly 9) has a left and right vertical frame 3
0 (a, b) and a back horizontal frame 3 with both ends fixed to both vertical frames 30 (a, b), which are vertically spaced from each other.
1 (a, b). The above-mentioned interval is 15
It corresponds to the interval (a, b). Back side frame 31 (a, b)
As shown in FIG. 4 and FIG. 1, there are two types of a small width back horizontal frame 31a having a small vertical size and a wide back horizontal frame 31b whose vertical size is almost the same as the corresponding front horizontal frame 15b and the back side of these. It is composed of a backing plate 32 to be attached. Small back horizontal frame 31
Further, a is composed of two types of an upper narrow back horizontal frame 311a which is located on the upper side of each back frame assembly 10, 11, 12 and a lower small width horizontal horizontal frame 312a which is located on these lower sides. (FIGS. 1 and 4).

As shown in FIG. 4, the upper narrow width back horizontal frame 311a is
A glass plate pressing portion 37 composed of a screw hole portion 33 and an eye plate contact portion 34, a cover piece 35, and a vertical piece 36 is formed above the screw hole portion 33. This structure is the same as the above-mentioned front horizontal frame 15
This corresponds to the component portion (a, b) consisting of the eye plate engaging portion 19 and the glass plate receiving portion 20 provided with the cover piece 23. A glass vinyl 38 is preliminarily attached to the vertical piece 36 (preliminary glass vinyl). As shown in FIG. 4, the lower narrow back horizontal frame 312a includes only the screw hole portion 33 and the cover portion 35 formed below the screw hole portion 33. Back side frame 31
The dimensions of (a, b) in the front and back directions are contained within the dimensions of the left and right vertical frames 30 (a, b) in the front and back directions, as shown in FIG.

The wide back horizontal frame 31b has an eye plate engaging portion 40, a cover piece 41, and a vertical piece 4 above the central screw hole portion 39.
The glass plate pressing portion 43 made of 2 and the engaging piece 44 directed obliquely upward are integrally formed, and the eye plate engaging portion 40, the cover 45, and the contact piece 46 are integrally formed below.
The glass vinyl 38 is preliminarily attached to the vertical piece 42 of the glass plate pressing portion 43. The upper and lower intervals of the engagement piece 44 and the contact piece 46 formed on the front side of the wide back horizontal frame 31b correspond to the distance between the engagement guide piece 27 and the stopper 28 in the fitting type front horizontal frame 15b. Table board 16
Is provided with engaging protrusions 47 (FIG. 5) on the inner and lower sides, and the backing plate 32 corresponding to the wide back horizontal frame 31b is provided with the engaging protrusions 47 on the inner upper and lower sides and corresponding to the narrow width horizontal frame 31a. The one having an engaging portion 48 vertically opposed to each other is provided in the central portion on the inner side.

With the above construction, the left and right vertical frames 30
Between (a, b), the narrow back horizontal frame 31a is arranged at the upper side and the lower side position, and the wide back horizontal frame 31b is arranged in the middle between them, and the respective screw hole parts 33, 39 are arranged. By using these and fixing them to the left and right vertical frames 30 (a, b), the back frame assembly 9 (upper, middle, lower back frame assembly 10, 1
1, 12) are completed in advance. Each back horizontal frame 31
A space defined by (a, b) and the left and right vertical frames 30 (a, b) constitutes a glass plate mounting opening 49 (FIG. 1) on the back frame assembly 9 side. Therefore, when the back frame assembly 9 is joined to the front frame assembly 8, the glass plate mounting opening defined by the frame assembly is formed.

The glass plate 14 is elongated in the lateral direction corresponding to the size of the opening 3, and the glass guides 50 are attached to the left and right ends thereof. Each glass guide 50 is the upper and lower floor plate parts 5
1 and 51 and glass vinyl parts 52 and 53, which are located on the front and back surfaces of the end portions of the glass plate and serve as airtight members, are integrally formed to have a box-shaped structure as a whole. The upper and lower parts of the glass vinyl portion 52 on the front surface side are cut out by the width (vertical dimension) of the upper and lower pre-attached glass vinyls 24, 24 in the fitting type front horizontal frame 15b.

A glass plate 14 is assembled into the opening 3 for attaching the glass plate, which is defined by the frame assembly 4, of the door plate 1 in the following procedure. First, the front side frame assembly 8 and the back side frame assembly 9 are formed, and the glass guides 50 are attached to both ends of the glass plate 14. The fitting type front horizontal frames 15b and the glass plates 14 with glass guides are alternately arranged in the gap between the fixed type front horizontal frames 15a of the front side frame assembly 8 so that the upper and lower edges of the glass plates 14 are fixed and fitting type. Front side frame (15a, 15
b) Fit between them (Fig. 1).

At this time, the upper and lower sides of the glass plate 14 are supported and positioned by the upper and lower laying plate portions 51, 51 of the glass guide 51 between the fixed type and the fitting type front horizontal frames (15a, 15b), and the front side position is the glass plate. The surface of 14 is the front frame (1
5a, 15b) is positioned by abutting the pre-attached glass vinyls 24, 24 arranged on the inner surface side of the receiving portion 20 above and below. This pre-attached glass vinyl 2
Reference numeral 4 is a length equal to the lateral dimension of the glass plate 14, and is in contact with the glass surface through the upper and lower cutout portions of the front side glass vinyl portion 52 of the glass guide 50. On the other hand, at the both ends of the glass plate 14, the above-mentioned pre-attached glass vinyl 24,
Between 24, the outer frame 2 is provided via the glass vinyl part 52 on the front surface side.
It contacts the inner edges of the left and right vertical frames 5a, 5b. As a result, the surface of the glass plate 14 is covered with glass vinyl (24,
In 52), there is no play and the airtightness is maintained.

Then, a rear glass vinyl 26 is fitted between the rear surface of the upper edge of the glass plate 14 and the front side frame assembly 8, that is, the glass vinyl retainer piece 25 of the front horizontal frame (15a, 15b), and the glass plate 14 is attached. Is temporarily fixed to the front side frame assembly 8. The post-installation glass vinyl 26 can be fitted in a straight line and only on the upper side, and can be easily and quickly carried out. That is, at both ends of the glass plate 14, upper and lower floor plate portions 51 and a glass vinyl portion 52 located at least on the back surface of the glass plate end portion and serving as an airtight member,
A glass guide 50 integrally formed with 53 is preliminarily mounted, and the glass plate 14 with a glass guide is fitted into and supported by the opening 3 from the back side, and its surface is constituted by a frame on the front side of the peripheral edge of the opening 3. Receiver 20
Then, a linear post-installation glass vinyl 26 having a length equal to the length between the glass guides at both ends is fitted between the rear surface of the lateral side edge of the glass plate and the inner circumference of the frame to open the glass plate 14. It is fixed to.

Then, in addition to being assembled in advance,
The middle and lower back frame sets 10, 11, 12 (back frame set 9) are sequentially fitted into the mounting grooves 7 of the outer frame 2 and joined to the front frame set 8, and the left and right vertical frames 30 are screwed together. Fix (Fig. 5). In addition, each back horizontal frame 31 (a, b) is also a screw hole 39.
Reinforcement hollow part 1 of each front horizontal frame 15 (a, b) corresponding in part
It is fixed with screws 54 with respect to 8. In addition, the upper and lower narrow back horizontal frames 311a and 312a are paired to form a fixed type front horizontal frame 15
It is arranged so as to correspond to the reinforcing hollow portion 18 of a. At this time, the wide back horizontal frame 31b of each back frame assembly 10, 11, 12
The upper engaging piece 44 on the inner side is engaged with the engaging guide piece 27 of the fitting type front horizontal frame 15b, and is pushed up and fixed until the lower contact piece 47 contacts the stopper 28.
As a result, the back frame assembly 9 is aligned with the front frame assembly 8.

The rear surface of the glass plate 14 is the rear surface glass vinyl portion of the glass vinyl 38 in the upper narrow back horizontal frame 311a and the left and right glass guides 50 of the post-attached glass vinyl 26 and the back frame assembly 9 as an auxiliary member. A glass plate 14 with a glass guide, which is attached to the opening 3 while being held airtightly without backlash over four rounds at 53
Installation is reinforced. The glass vinyls 24, 38, and 26 that are attached in advance or after are attached to the cover pieces 41, 45, and 3 respectively.
Then, the periphery of the glass plate 14 which is concealed by 5 is mounted on the glass plate 14.

Finally, the front side plate 16 and the back side plate 32 are formed by the front side frame 15 (a, b) and the wide side back side frame 31b.
It is attached by engaging the engagement protrusion 47 on the inner surface with 40.
As for the upper and lower narrow back horizontal frames 311a and 3112a, as shown in FIG. 5, after the engaging spring member 55 is attached to the back surface side of the reinforcing hollow portion 18 of the fixed front horizontal frame 15a,
The engaging portion 48 on the inner surface is engaged and attached to this, and both upper and lower edges are brought into contact with the eye plate abutment portions 34, 34.

The above is an example, and the present invention is directed to a table frame 1
It is not limited by the specific cross-sectional structure of 5 (a, b) or the back horizontal frame 31 (a, b). Further, the opening 3 for attaching the glass plate in the frame 4 may be formed vertically long. Further, the glass guide 50 may be attached to the upper and lower side edges of the glass plate instead of the left and right ends.
In this case, the upper surface or the lower surface of the glass guide 50 becomes the floor plate portion 51. The auxiliary member may be a pushing edge.

[0029]

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION In assembling a glass plate into a glass plate mounting opening defined by a frame, it is not necessary to mount a glass vinyl after the attachment around the gap between the four glass plates and the frame. When it is necessary to divide the openings into small pieces and attach many glass plates, the glass plates can be attached easily and in a short time.
The glass plate attached to the glass plate mounting opening has its upper and lower positions determined by the bottom plate parts provided on the upper and lower sides of the glass guides attached to both ends, and the rattling may occur due to the opening and closing of shoji screens and vibration during transportation. There is no. As in the example,
When the back frame assembly for the front frame assembly is used as an auxiliary member,
Easy to form shoji with double-sided design.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a vertical cross-sectional view of an essential part shown in an exploded view.

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a main part that is disassembled and shown.

FIG. 4 is an exploded front view (rear surface).

FIG. 5 is a vertical cross-sectional view of a main part.

[Explanation of symbols]

4 Frame assembly 8 Front frame assembly 9 Back frame assembly 14 Glass plate 24 Pre-installed glass vinyl 26 Post-installed glass vinyl 29,49 Glass plate mounting opening 50 Glass guide 51 Floor plate part 52,53
Glass vinyl part

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A method for incorporating a glass plate into an opening defined by a frame, wherein the glass plate is located at both ends of the glass plate to be attached and is located at least on the back surface of the upper and lower base plate portions and the glass plate end portion and serves as an airtight member. A glass guide integrally formed with a vinyl portion was previously mounted, and the glass plate with the glass guide was fitted into the opening from the back side to be supported, and the surface thereof was constituted by a frame on the peripheral front side of the opening. Place it on the receiving part, then insert a linear post-installation glass vinyl equal to the length between the glass guides at both ends between the back surface of the side edge of the glass plate and the inner circumference of the frame to fix the glass plate in the opening. A method of assembling a glass plate, which is characterized by: 2. The mounting of the glass plate with a glass guide mounted on the opening is reinforced by an auxiliary member mounted on the frame from the back side of the opening defined by the frame. How to install the glass plate. 3. A peripheral member of a glass plate with a glass guide attached to the opening is concealed with makeup by an auxiliary member attached to the frame from the back side of the opening divided by the frame. 1. The method for incorporating a glass plate according to 1.