Device for joining partitions and doors to posts

The invention relates to a device for joining partitions and doors to posts. The device comprises sleeves each having an octagonal profile which are mounted and fixed on posts to present faces each having two tapped holes. Against these faces brackets can be fixed for holding partitions or hinges can be fixed by way of a fastening lug. Each hinge also has means for fastening to a door. The invention is particularly useful for the rapid erection of boxes from completely prefabricated elements.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
The invention relates to a device for joining partitions and doors, which 
bound enclosed spaces, to posts. The invention relates more particularly, 
but not exclusively, to boxes or stalls used inside a larger building to 
define sites reserved collectively or individually for animals, and 
particularly for saddle-horses. 
DISCUSSION OF THE PRIOR ART 
There are already known on the market numerous types of internal boxes 
which are composed essentially of partitions and doors fixed to posts. It 
has been attempted to rationalise their construction by standardising 
various elements, such as posts, partition panels, and doors. However, in 
order to make the best possible use of the space available in buildings, 
which are sometimes old, for the purpose of installing boxes therein, it 
is often necessary to give these boxes a perimeter which follows variable 
contours. The partitions and door frames then form together variable 
dihedra of which the posts are the apices. This has the consequence that 
the door hinges and fastening lugs of the partitions are fixed to the 
posts at variable points on the circumference of the latter. This makes it 
impossible for the posts to be completely prefabricated in advance 
together with the hinges and fastening lugs. 
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
The invention seeks to eliminate this disadvantage and to make it possible 
for all the component elements of the boxes, including the posts, to be 
completely manufactured in advance without losing the ability to construct 
boxes in accordance with any desired perimeter on the ground, since 
installation in position requires only the use of screws. 
According to the present invention there is provided a device for joining 
partitions and doors to posts, comprising a plurality of sleeves, each 
said sleeve having an inner profile corresponding to the outer profile of 
the posts, each said sleeve having an outer profile of polygonal shape 
presenting a plurality of faces each facing in a different direction, each 
face having at least two tapped holes spaced apart longitudinally; a 
plurality of brackets, each said bracket having two arms, at least one of 
said arms being identical with at least one of said faces of each sleeve 
and having two spaced holes, the other arm of each said bracket being 
arranged to be fixed to a partition; and a plurality of hinges, each said 
hinge being composed of a male part and a female part, said male part 
comprising a plate and a pivot pin carried by said plate, said female part 
comprising a plate having an opening therein for receiving said pivot pin, 
wherein one of the male part of female part is provided with a fastening 
lug, said lug being identical with at least one of said faces of each said 
sleeve and having two spaced holes, and wherein the other of said male 
part or female part carries means arranged to be fastened to a door. 
The doors are preferably made from a frame having tubular uprights of 
square section, and the aforesaid means for fastening a part of each hinge 
to a door is a member of square section which can be inserted into the 
tubular sections of the door frames. 
In one embodiment of the invention the sleeves have an octagonal outer 
profile; this makes it possible to dispose the partitions and the doors in 
eight different directions. Three sleeves are preferably provided for 
mounting on the same post, at three suitable respective levels.

DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT 
A joining device of the invention comprises a sleeve 1, brackets as 2, and 
hinges 3 each having a male part and a female part. Each sleeve 1 has an 
inner profile which corresponds to the outer profile of posts 4 (FIGS. 3 
and 4) along which the sleeves are intended to be mounted and fixed. For 
example, where the posts 4 are tubes having a circular outer profile, the 
sleeves 1 have a circular inner cross-secton, with a diameter such that 
they can easily slide along the posts 4. The sleeves 1 are fastened on the 
posts 4 at the desired height by any suitable means, for example by weld 
beads 5 on their outer faces. Each sleeve 1 has an outer profile which in 
cross-section is polygonal in shape; in the present example this profile 
is octagonal, so that each sleeve has eight narrow, elongated outside 
faces 6. Each face 6 has pierced in it two tapped holes 7 spaced apart in 
the longitudinal direction. The brackets 2 are preferably right angled 
with two identical arms 8, which each have the same dimensions as each of 
the rectangular faces 6. In each arm 8 two holes 9 are provided, the holes 
9 being spaced apart in the longitudinal direction, in the same manner as 
tapped holes 7 provided in the sleeve 1. Each hinge 3 comprises a male 
part having a plate 10 provided with a pivot pin 11, and a female part 
having a plate 12 which is preferably identical to the plate 10. The plate 
12 has an aperture 13 designed to receive the pivot pin 11 of the plate 
10. One of the male and female parts, in this example the male part, 
although it could be the female part, is provided on one side of the plate 
10 with an attachment lug 14 identical to an arm 8 of a bracket 2 and 
likewise provided with two spaced holes 15. The lug 14 can be fixed 
against any of the faces 6 of a sleeve 1, the pivot pin 11 of the hinge 
then being substantially vertical. The female part of each hinge is 
provided on one face of the plate 12 with a suitable means 16 for 
fastening to a door 18. 
In the embodiment illustrated the doors 18 each have a frame comprising 
uprights 17 formed of tubes of a square cross-section, and so the means 16 
of each female part of the hinges is a member having a square profile and 
dimensions enabling it to be easily introduced into a socket at the end 
portion of an upright 17. Thus, the same member 16 may be inserted into a 
socket at either the top end or the bottom end of any left-hand or 
right-hand upright 17. Any opening direction can thus be selected for a 
door 18, without any local adaptation work, as indicated in FIG. 2. 
The device of the invention makes it possible for the doors 18, partitions 
19, or assembled partition elements, and the posts 4, on each of which 
three sleeves 1 have for example been fixed at the desired levels, to be 
completely prefabricated in advance. For given animals, for example 
horses, the height of the doors 18 and the partitions 19 is in fact 
determined in advance, as well as the height of a bottom, solid portion 
and an upper barred portion of these partitions. After the posts 4 have 
been anchored in the ground with the desired spacing, each sleeve 1 has 
eight available faces 6 for receiving either an arm 8 of a bracket 2, 
whose other arm is fixed on an end face of a partition 19, or for 
receiving a fastening lug 14 of a male part of a hinge. If three sleeves 1 
are fixed on each post 4 the partitions 19 can be solidly fastened at 
three spaced points and each door 18 can be held between two pivots. One 
face 6 of an intermediate sleeve 1 can also serve for fastening a staple 
20 suitable for receiving a bolt 21 mounted on the door 18. 
The device of the invention permits a great variety of door and partition 
arrangements to be made with the aid of completely prefabricated elements, 
as illustrated in FIG. 4. One sleeve 1 on one post 4 can obviously be used 
for the fastening of a plurality of partitions 19 and a plurality of doors 
18 if so desired.