Patent ID: 6807779
Filing Date: 2004-10-26
Classification: E04B,E04D

Abstract:
A metal framework for a facade or roof window with frame areas adapted to receive insulating glass panes, the framework comprisinga plurality of vertical member profiles having vertical receiving channels for leakage water and vertical sealing grooves; vertical sealing strips received in the vertical sealing grooves; plurality of transverse member profiles oriented perpendicular to the vertical member profiles and having transverse sealing grooves for receiving transverse sealing strips and transverse receiving channels for leakage water, wherein the transverse sealing grooves and receiving channels each include a bottom section positioned on the vertical sealing grooves, and transverse sealing strips received in the transverse sealing grooves, wherein the vertical and transverse sealing strips are adapted to support the insulating glass panes, wherein the vertical sealing strips are formed in one or more sections and have a greater overall height than the transverse sealing strips, so that the transverse sealing strips and the vertical sealing strips terminate in a common plane, wherein one or more vertical or transverse sealing strips have at least one drainage channel which is formed as one-piece on the corresponding sealing strip, and wherein a drainage channel of the transverse sealing strip extends directly or indirectly to the glass support area of the vertical member profiles and is adapted to drain into a drainage channels of the vertical member profiles.