STRUCTURALLY COOPERATING SECTION MEMBER ASSEMBLY FOR MAKING SLIDING SHUTTER WINDOWS AND FASTENINGS IN GENERAL

Abstract: There is disclosed an assembly of cooperating metal section members, made of light alloys, which have been specifically designed for making sliding shutter windows. The section member assembly comprises a section member for making window frames, a section member (1) for making movable panel cross-members, a section member (3) for making fixed frame uprights, a section member for making movable panel uprights, a protection section member, a snap fitted section member, cooperating with sliding guides, a snap fit­ ted half-hollow section member (7), cooperating with fixed frame uprights, a hollow T-shaped section member, a further hollow section member having outer lugs for engaging gaskets and two further section members for making movable panel cross-members which have been suitably modified with respect to the previously mentioned section member.

Description: The present invention relates to an assembly of structurally cooperating section members, for making sliding shutter windows and fastenings in gegeral. As is known, there are presently commercially available a plurality of fastenings, such as windows, windows-doors and the like, which are made by suitably assembling metal section members, of suitably different size cross-sections. The task of the present invention is to provide an assembly of structurally cooperating section members which affords the possibility of making, by substantially simple assembling operations, fastenings and the like. Within that task, a main object of the present invention is to provide an assembly of structurally cooperating section members adapted for facilitating the making procedure of sliding panel or shutter windows. Another object of the present invention is to provide an assembly of structurally cooperating section members, able of providing a suitable tightness of the mentioned sliding panels or shutters. The document FR-A-2 554 498 discloses an assembly of structurally cooperating section members substantially corresponding to the pre-characterizing part of the claim. According to one aspect of the present invention, the above mentioned task and objects, as well as yet other objects, which will become more apparent thereinafter, are achieved by an assembly of structurally cooperating section members, having the features of the characterizing part of the claim. Further characteristics and advantages of the assembly of cooperating section members, according to the present invention, will become more apparent thereinafter from the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment of said section members, being illustrated, by way of an indicative but not limitative example, jointly with two possible window types which may be made by assembling said section members, in the Figures of the accompanying drawings, where: Figures 1 to 11 are cross-sectional views illustrating the section members included in the assembly according to the present invention; Figure 12 illustrates a window provided with a pair of mutually sliding shutters which are limited, at the top and at the bottom, by horizontally extending fixed panels; Figure 13 is a partial horizontal cross-sectional view illustrating said sliding shutters and one of the uprights of the related fixed frame; Figure 14 illustrates a window provided with a fixed panel and a sliding panel; Figure 15 illustrates a partial cross-sectional view of the sliding panel and cross-members forming its fixed frame; Figure 16 is a partial horizontal cross-sectional view of the fixed panel and a portion of the movable panel coupled thereto; Figure 17 shows a vertical cross-sectional view of the top cross-member of the movable panel and the corresponding fixed frame; and Figure 18 illustrates a vertical cross-sectional view of the bottom cross-member of a tiltable panel and related fixed frame. With reference to the Figures of the accompanying drawings, the assembly of structurally cooperating section members, for making sliding shutter windows, according to the present invention, comprises a section member 1 for making window frames; a section member 2 for making cross-members of movable panels; a section member 3 for making uprights of fixed frames; a tightness section member 4 for tightly coupling movable panel uprights; a protection section member 5; a snap-fitted section member 6 cooperating with sliding guides; a half-hollow section member 7, adapted for snap-fitting engagement, cooperating with uprights of fixed frames; a hollow T-shaped section member 8; a further hollow section member 9 having outer lugs for engaging gaskets; and two further section members 10 and 11 for making movable panel cross-members, which latter section members have been suitably modified with respect to the previously mentioned section member. The above disclosed section members afford the possibility of making, in cooperation with further linearly extending structures, having suitably sized and designed cross-sections, fastenings in general, and in particular windows of the type which is shown in Figures 12 and 14. In this connection it should be pointed out that the section members 1 for making frames may advantageously be also used as glass-restraining elements, possibly with the interposition of suitable gaskets 12, said frame making section members 1 being provided with shaped seats at one end thereof. The mentioned shaped seats may house, depending on requirements, both tightness gaskets 13 and the projecting lugs of the section member 4 which, after locking to said section member 1, by means of screws 14, provides tightness between the opposite sliding panels or shutters. From the above disclosure and the Figures of the accompanying drawings, the great use facility and functionality characterizing the section member assembly according to the invention will be self evident.

Claims: An assembly of structurally cooperating section members comprising a section member for making window frames,at least section member for making movable panel cross-members,a section member for making fixed frame uprights,a sealing section member for movable panel uprights, and a protection section member,said assembly being characterized in that it further comprises a snap-fitted section member (6),cooperating with sliding guides, a half-hollow,snap-fitted,section-member (7) cooperating with fixed frame uprights,a T-shaped hollow section member (8),and a further hollow section member (9) provided with outer lugs for engaging sealing gaskets,said snap fitted section member (6) including a substantially reversed U-shape cross-section body having two outward turned legs at the bottom free end portions of said U-shape,from each said leg downward extending parallel tapering lugs,said half-hollow snap fitted section member having a substantially U-shaped longitudinal cavity adjoining a longitudinal recess defined by a leg delimiting said longitudinal cavity and a further leg projecting substantially orthogonally from an end portion of said further leg,said T-shaped hollow section member (8) including two adjoining longitudinal closed-loop cavities with two opposite open loop recesses respectively arranged at opposite sides of one of said two closed loop cavities, and said further hollow section member including a substantially rectangular profile longitudinal cavity therefrom inward and outward extend lugs cooperating for defining respective set screw and sealing gasket receiving recesses.

Inventors: GIACOMELLI, MARIO METALLURGICA METRA TRAFILATI
Applicants: METALLURGICA METRA TRAFILATI ALLUMINIO S.P.A.
Application year: 1987
Main classification: E06B3
IPC codes: E06B1, E06B3