Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
  • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
  • E06B1/00—Border constructions of openings in walls, floors, or ceilings; Frames to be rigidly mounted in such openings
  • E06B1/70—Sills; Thresholds
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
  • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
  • E06B3/00—Window sashes, door leaves, or like elements for closing wall or like openings; Layout of fixed or moving closures, e.g. windows in wall or like openings; Features of rigidly-mounted outer frames relating to the mounting of wing frames
  • E06B3/04—Wing frames not characterised by the manner of movement
  • E06B3/06—Single frames
  • E06B3/08—Constructions depending on the use of specified materials
  • E06B3/12—Constructions depending on the use of specified materials of metal
  • E06B3/14—Constructions depending on the use of specified materials of metal of special cross-section
  • E06B3/16—Hollow frames of special construction, e.g. made of folded sheet metal or of two or more section parts connected together
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
  • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
  • E06B3/00—Window sashes, door leaves, or like elements for closing wall or like openings; Layout of fixed or moving closures, e.g. windows in wall or like openings; Features of rigidly-mounted outer frames relating to the mounting of wing frames
  • E06B3/04—Wing frames not characterised by the manner of movement
  • E06B3/263—Frames with special provision for insulation
  • E06B3/26301—Frames with special provision for insulation with prefabricated insulating strips between two metal section members
  • E06B3/26303—Frames with special provision for insulation with prefabricated insulating strips between two metal section members with thin strips, e.g. defining a hollow space between the metal section members
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
  • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
  • E06B3/00—Window sashes, door leaves, or like elements for closing wall or like openings; Layout of fixed or moving closures, e.g. windows in wall or like openings; Features of rigidly-mounted outer frames relating to the mounting of wing frames
  • E06B3/96—Corner joints or edge joints for windows, doors, or the like frames or wings
  • E06B3/964—Corner joints or edge joints for windows, doors, or the like frames or wings using separate connection pieces, e.g. T-connection pieces
  • E06B3/9642—Butt type joints with at least one frame member cut off square; T-shape joints
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
  • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
  • E06B3/00—Window sashes, door leaves, or like elements for closing wall or like openings; Layout of fixed or moving closures, e.g. windows in wall or like openings; Features of rigidly-mounted outer frames relating to the mounting of wing frames
  • E06B3/96—Corner joints or edge joints for windows, doors, or the like frames or wings
  • E06B3/964—Corner joints or edge joints for windows, doors, or the like frames or wings using separate connection pieces, e.g. T-connection pieces
  • E06B3/968—Corner joints or edge joints for windows, doors, or the like frames or wings using separate connection pieces, e.g. T-connection pieces characterised by the way the connecting pieces are fixed in or on the frame members
  • E06B3/9687—Corner joints or edge joints for windows, doors, or the like frames or wings using separate connection pieces, e.g. T-connection pieces characterised by the way the connecting pieces are fixed in or on the frame members with screws blocking the connecting piece inside or on the frame member
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
  • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
  • E06B1/00—Border constructions of openings in walls, floors, or ceilings; Frames to be rigidly mounted in such openings
  • E06B1/70—Sills; Thresholds
  • E06B2001/707—Thresholds with special provision for insulation
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
  • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
  • E06B3/00—Window sashes, door leaves, or like elements for closing wall or like openings; Layout of fixed or moving closures, e.g. windows in wall or like openings; Features of rigidly-mounted outer frames relating to the mounting of wing frames
  • E06B3/96—Corner joints or edge joints for windows, doors, or the like frames or wings
  • E06B3/964—Corner joints or edge joints for windows, doors, or the like frames or wings using separate connection pieces, e.g. T-connection pieces
  • E06B3/9641—Corner joints or edge joints for windows, doors, or the like frames or wings using separate connection pieces, e.g. T-connection pieces part of which remains visible

Definitions

• threshold device joinery comprising said threshold device and method of implementing said threshold device
• the invention relates to the field of joinery and relates in particular to a threshold device, a joinery in particular of the window, door or window door type, comprising said threshold device and a method for implementing said threshold device.
• the present invention is particularly applicable to joinery of the type comprising an opening hingedly connected to a frame.
• Joinery intended for reversibly closing off a bay of a building generally comprises an opening movably connected to a frame.
• the sash and the frame are conventionally formed from several profiles joined to each other so as to form an opening frame and a frame frame, respectively.
• the sash and frame frames are formed by uprights interconnecting upper and lower cross members.
• the lower cross member of the frame is intended to rest against the ground and consists of a joinery threshold.
• Joinery comprising a threshold formed by a composite profile comprising two aluminum or aluminum alloy profiles separated by a synthetic material profile.
• the sound and thermal insulation performance at the interface of the threshold and of the lower opening cross member are generally relatively low compared to the interfaces between the uprights. and the upper cross member of the sash and the frame.
• the thresholds of the state of the art are generally fixed to the ground between the uprights of the frame, irreversibly, for example by gluing.
• the window frames of the joinery are placed in the bays of buildings before the construction work is completed.
• the bays are crossed many times by the workers in charge of construction during the work.
• the latter transporting tools or maneuvering machines in particular, they often cause damage to the thresholds of joinery where the frame frames are already installed.
• the thresholds of these frames tend to obstruct the passage of workers and their tools or machines and increases the risk of workers falling as well as the risk of damaging their tools.
• the thresholds are generally connected to the uprights of the frames by a connecting piece having low mechanical strength.
• the object of the present invention is to overcome the aforementioned drawbacks by proposing a threshold device making it possible to increase the sound and thermal insulation performance.
• Another objective of the present invention is to increase the mechanical strength of the connection between the threshold and the frame uprights.
• Yet another objective of the present invention is to provide a removable threshold.
• the invention relates to a threshold device for carpentry, said carpentry comprising an opening hingedly connected to a frame, the frame being formed by two uprights, an upper cross member and a threshold profile, the device threshold comprising a connecting member intended to mechanically connect the threshold profile with a frame upright.
• the connecting member comprises a rigid bracket and a sealing bracket, which is made of a polymer material, said rigid bracket and sealing bracket being intended to be fixed to the threshold profile and to the frame upright and being configured so as to cooperate by interlocking one with the other.
• the sealing square advantageously allows the joinery to have significant sound and thermal insulation properties insofar as it allows continuity in the peripheral insulation of the joinery produced by joints of the known type of state of the art.
• the term "rigid” is understood to mean that the square is non-deformable under normal conditions of use, that is to say the conditions under which the square is used in the frame. of the present invention.
• the rigidity of the square gives it adequate resistance to mechanical stress.
• the threshold according to the invention is compatible with hidden opening articulation devices.
• the threshold device further comprises a sealing plug at least partially covering the sealing square, including its free end, said plug being intended to also cover a portion of the threshold profile.
• the invention further meets the following characteristics, implemented separately or in each of their technically operative combinations.
• the sealing square and the rigid square each comprise a sole, said sole having one and the other of the interlocking elements of complementary shape, by which said sealing bracket and rigid bracket cooperate with each other by interlocking.
• This characteristic makes it possible to be able to fix the brackets together in a simple and rapid manner.
• this fixing is preferably removable.
• the sole of the rigid bracket comprises a tongue intended to be engaged in a groove, called “first groove” of the threshold profile, said sole also comprising an intermediate groove intended to be arranged in the extension of another groove, called the “second groove” of the threshold profile adjacent to the first groove, when the rigid bracket is fixed to the threshold profile.
• This characteristic advantageously allows, after fixing the threshold device to the threshold profile, to observe a continuity of the second groove and thus to be able to consider integrating in the second groove of the threshold profile a locking mechanism of the closing of the opening and / or an articulation mechanism of the opening.
• the sealing bracket is intended to be arranged in the extension of an intermediate bar of the threshold profile, and is intended to receive in support a seal , called “central seal”, intended to be fixed against the upright, said sealing bracket comprising for this purpose a cooperation profile by which it is intended to cooperate with the central seal by complementarity of shape.
• This characteristic advantageously allows, after fixing the threshold device to the threshold profile, to observe a continuity of sealing and thus to favorably impact the thermal and sound insulation properties of the joinery in which the door is integrated. threshold device.
• the sealing bracket comprises a branch extending from its sole to a free end, said branch being intended to be housed in a groove of the frame upright .
• the present invention also relates to a joinery comprising an opening and a frame formed respectively by amounts fixed to so-called “lower cross member” and “upper cross member”, the joinery comprising a threshold device as above.
• the sealing bracket comprises a sole from which a wall extends, said wall being connected at one of its ends to a branch also extending from said sole and being arranged to bear against the profile threshold, the sealing square being configured so that said wall, on the one hand, cooperates with a central seal fixed to the frame upright, and on the other hand, that it receives in support a seal carried by the lower cross member of the opening, when said opening is closed against the frame.
• the sole of the rigid bracket comprises a tongue engaged in a first groove of the threshold profile, said sole also comprising an intermediate groove configured so that it is arranged in the extension of a second groove of the threshold profile adjacent to the first groove, and in the extension of a longitudinal groove with which the frame upright is provided, so that said intermediate groove of the sole forms the junction between the second groove and longitudinal groove.
• the present invention also relates to a method of implementing a threshold device as described above in a joinery according to the invention, comprising the following steps:
• the rigid bracket and the sealing bracket are rigidly fixed by screwing means to the threshold profile and to the amount of the frame.
• the method further comprises a step in which the sealing plug is arranged so as to cover at least part of the sealing square and part of the profile of threshold.
• FIG. 1 a perspective view of an exploded view of a threshold device according to the invention
• FIG. 2 a perspective view of FIG. 1 in which the threshold device is fixed to a threshold profile and to a frame upright, which are shown in section;
• FIG. 3 a perspective view of Figure 2 in which an opening is closed against the threshold profile and against the amount of the frame.
• top, bottom, upper and lower are used so as to correspond to the case in which the joinery according to the invention is installed in a building bay, such as as described in the embodiment shown in Figures 1 to 3.
• the joinery according to the invention comprises an opening hingedly connected to a frame.
• the sash and the frame are formed of several profiles joined to each other so as to form an opening frame and a frame frame, respectively.
• section commonly defines as well as in the present text an elongate part of constant cross section.
• the sash and sash frames are formed by uprights interconnecting upper and lower cross members.
• the lower cross member of the frame is intended to rest against the ground and consists of a threshold profile.
• Figure 1 illustrates an exploded view of a threshold device 10 according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and a threshold profile 20 and a frame amount 30 with which it is intended to be set for form a portion of a sleeper frame.
• the threshold device 10 is intended to be integrated into the joinery.
• the threshold device 10 comprises connecting members intended to mechanically link the threshold profile 20 and the frame upright 30 to one another.
• the threshold device 10 When the opening is closed against the frame, the threshold device 10 according to the invention cooperates with the lower cross member, as shown in Figure 3 and as described below in detail.
• each connecting member comprises a set of parts intended to cooperate with each other by complementary shapes. More precisely, each link member comprises:
• sealing plug 13 intended to cover at least part of the sealing square 12 and the threshold profile 20.
• the threshold profile 20 extends between two longitudinal ends and is formed by a section called "proximal profile” 21 intended to be arranged on the side towards which the sash is driven when it is moved so as to open the bay.
• proximal profile 21 is intended to be adjacent to an interior environment of a building.
• the proximal profile 21 is separated from a so-called “distal profile” 22 by a bar called “intermediate bar” 23 made of a thermally insulating material.
• This intermediate bar 23 constitutes a means of breaking the thermal bridge.
• the proximal 21 and distal 22 profiles are made of aluminum or of an aluminum alloy.
• the proximal profile 21 comprises successively, from a free edge to an edge by which it is connected to the intermediate bar 23, a longitudinal groove oriented downwardly called “first groove” 210, a longitudinal groove oriented towards the bottom. top known as “second groove »211, and a lateral groove oriented towards the intermediate bar 23.
• the distal section 22 comprises successively, from a free edge to an edge by which it is connected to the intermediate bar 23, a longitudinal groove oriented upwards called “third groove” 220 and a lateral groove oriented towards the intermediate bar 23.
• the third groove 220 is defined by a bottom wall 221 interconnecting two side walls, one of which forming the free edge of the distal profile 22 is called in the remainder of the text "outer wall” 222, and the other of which is called “internal wall” 223.
• This third groove 220 is intended to collect water flowing over the joinery, for example, rainwater, cleaning water, etc.
• the intermediate bar 23 is fixedly engaged in the lateral grooves of the proximal and distal profiles.
• the rigid bracket 11 comprises a sole 110 by which it is intended to rest against the ground, said sole 110 comprising a tongue 111 intended to be inserted into the first groove 210 of the threshold profile 20, from one of the longitudinal ends of said threshold profile 20, in order to join together said rigid bracket 11 and said threshold profile 20.
• the sole 110 extends, in a direction parallel to the direction in which the tongue 111 extends, an intermediate groove 112 oriented upwards and intended to extend the second groove 211 of the threshold profile 20 when the tongue 111 is engaged in the first groove 210 of said threshold profile 20.
• the intermediate groove 112 of the sole 110 has a cross section of shape and dimensions identical to that of the second groove 211 of the threshold profile 20.
• This feature advantageously allows, after fixing the threshold device to the threshold profile, to observe a continuity of the second groove 211.
• the sole 110 of the rigid bracket 11 comprises interlocking elements 114 adapted to cooperate with interlocking elements 121 which is provided with the sealing bracket 12 in order to bind together said rigid bracket 11 with sealing bracket 12.
• the rigid square 11 comprises a branch 113 extending from the sole 110, in a direction perpendicular to the latter, said branch 113 being intended to engage in a cavity 31 of the upright amount 30.
• the frame upright 30 has a longitudinal groove 33 extending along said upright, at the rear of the cavity 31, so that when the branch 113 is engaged in the cavity 31 and the tongue 111 is engaged in the first groove 210, the groove 33 is located in the extension of the second groove 211 of the threshold profile 20.
• This longitudinal groove 33 ensuring the continuity of the second groove 211, it is possible to integrate in the second groove 211 of the threshold profile 20 a locking mechanism for closing the opening and / or a mechanism for hinge of the sash.
• the branch 113 and the cavity 31 both have a square cross section.
• the sealing bracket 12 is advantageously made of a polymer material, such as a polyamide, in order to ensure continuity of thermal and sound insulation as described in more detail below.
• the sealing bracket 12 also has a sole 120 on which the interlocking elements 121 are arranged.
• the interlocking elements 114 or 121 are formed by a stud and by an orifice adapted to cooperate with one another .
• the stud extends from the sole 120 of the sealing bracket 12 and has the shape of a stud, and the orifice is made in the sole 110 of the rigid bracket 11.
• interlocking elements 114 or 121 can also, as shown in Figure 1, be formed by two shoulders whose shape is complementary intended to overlap.
• the sealing bracket 12 comprises, under its sole 120, a recess forming a shoulder, from which the recess extends the stud downward.
• the recess is intended to cooperate with a portion of the sole 110 of the rigid bracket 11, by shape cooperation, said portion comprising another recess forming the shoulder, of complementary shape to that of the sole 120 of the sealing bracket 12.
• the sealing square 12 has a cooperation profile by which it is intended to match the shape of the central seal 32 over part of its length and over part of its periphery.
• the cooperation profile is designed so as to have a shape complementary to that of the central seal 32.
• the sealing bracket 12 on its sole 120, has an extra thickness of a shape corresponding to that of the cross section of said central seal 32, intended to receive in support the end of the latter, to promote compression thereof against said sole 120 and thus maximize the seal. This characteristic makes it possible to ensure continuity in the watertight and airtightness, as will appear below in more detail.
• the sealing square 12 also comprises a median wall 123 extending upwards from the sole 120, designed so as to be arranged in the extension of the internal wall 223 of the distal profile 22 when the square d 'sealing 12 is linked to the rigid bracket 11 and that said brackets are linked to the threshold profile 20.
• the median wall 123 extends from an edge of the sole 120 of the sealing bracket 12 to a branch 122 also extending upwards from an opposite edge of said sole 120, so as to dividing said sole 120 into two parts, a first part of which is intended to cooperate with the rigid bracket 11 and of which a second part is intended to cooperate with the sealing plug 13.
• the middle wall 123 partly constitutes the cooperation profile described above, in the sense that, by a portion of its surface, here a concave portion, it is intended to bear against the central seal 32.
• the branch 122 of the sealing bracket 12 is intended to be housed in a groove of the frame upright 30 adjacent to the longitudinal groove 33, and has a square cross section and extends to a free end.
• the branch 122 partly constitutes the cooperation profile described above, in the sense that, by a portion of its faces, it is intended to bear against the central seal 32.
• a portion of the periphery of the extra thickness of the sole of the sealing bracket 12 is therefore delimited, in the preferred embodiment visible in particular in FIG. 1, by the middle wall 123 and by the branch 122 of sealing bracket 12.
• the sealing plug 13 has a groove 130 oriented upwards and intended to extend the third groove 220 of the threshold profile 20 when the sealing plug 13 covers the sealing square 12, that the latter is linked to the rigid bracket 11 and that said brackets are linked to the threshold profile 20. More precisely, the groove 130 of the sealing plug 13 also comprises two side walls connected to each other by a bottom wall, and is designed to so as to cover by said walls, a portion of the bottom wall 221 and of the internal 223 and external 222 walls of the third groove 220 of the threshold profile 20.
• the bottom wall of the groove 130 of the sealing plug 13 is intended to rest against the second part of the sole 120 of the sealing bracket 12.
• the groove 130 of the sealing plug 13 comprises an end wall 131 extending upwardly, perpendicular to the side walls and bottom walls.
• the end wall 131 is designed to be arranged to bear against the branch 122 of the sealing bracket 12.
• This end wall 131 is extended by an end portion in the form of a so-called “first lip”. 132, intended to cover the free end of the branch 122 of the sealing bracket 12.
• the sealing plug 13 can also include another lip, for example extending from one of the side walls so as to be able to cover the middle wall 123 of the sealing bracket 12.
• the sealing plug 13 is applied against the third groove 220 of the threshold profile 20 and against the sealing bracket 12 by matching their respective shapes, so that it allows ensure a seal preventing any water infiltration into the interior of the building.
• each of the sealing bracket 12 and rigid bracket 11 comprises reversible fixing means to the threshold profile 20 and to the frame upright 30.
• These reversible fixing means can be formed by screwing means.
• the tongue 111 may have an internal thread so as to receive a screw engaged by a through hole made on the first threshold profile 20 so as to fix removably said threshold profile 20 with the rigid bracket 11.
• the sole 120 of the sealing bracket 12 may comprise, from one of its edges to the other, a housing intended to receive a screw provided to cooperate by screwing with an internal thread formed in the threshold profile 20, so as to removably fix the sealing bracket 12 to the threshold profile 20.
• branches 113 and 122 of the sealing bracket 12 and rigid bracket 11 can be configured to be fixed by screwing to the frame upright 30, as suggested by Figure 1.
• the present invention can be integrated into any frame of already existing frame.
• the lower cross member 40 of the opening comprises a cross member 41 connected to a glazing bead 42 by means of an attached door profile 43 so as to enclose a glazing panel 44, as shown in figure 3.
• a covering profile 45 is fixed to the glazing bead 42, said covering profile 45 carrying a seal, for example a seal having a lip intended to come to bear against the outer wall 222 of the distal profile 22 of the threshold profile 20.
• the seal door profile 43 comprises a groove oriented opposite the internal wall 223 of the distal profile 22 of the threshold profile 20, when the opening is closed against the frame, adapted to receive a seal, for example a tubular seal hollow, so that this seal is compressed against said internal wall 223.
• the implementation of the threshold device 10 according to the invention is carried out by the succession of steps described below.
• the sealing square 12 and the rigid square 11 are nested with each other by cooperation of their respective interlocking elements 114 and 121.
• the rigid bracket 11 is linked to the threshold profile 20. More particularly, the tongue 111 is engaged in the first groove 210 of the threshold profile 20.
• the sealing bracket 12 bears against the threshold profile 20, the wall of said sealing bracket 12 being arranged in the extension of the internal wall 223 of the third groove 220.
• the rigid bracket 11 and the sealing bracket 12 are rigidly fixed by screwing means to the threshold profile 20 and to the amount of the frame.
• sealing plug 13 is arranged so as to cover at least part of the sealing square 12, in particular by its first lip 132, and the third groove 220 over part of its length.
• the threshold profile 20 is removably attached to the upright amount 30. More generally, it should be noted that the embodiments and embodiments of the invention considered above have been described by way of non-limiting examples and that other variants are therefore possible. .

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