Patent NZ-592106-A (NZ)
Title: A frame, assembly and components thereof
Inventor: HAYNES PAUL ANTHONY
IPC: E06B1/70
Filed: 2011-04-06
Abstract: 592106 A frame assembly for a cavity, the cavity defined by a perimeter of framing member(s), comprises a lower profile 5, an upper profile, and an upstand profile or profiles to extend between the lower profile 5 and the upper profile. The lower profile 5 is to be locatable on or along a trim opening of a framed cavity and the upper profile is to be locatable on or along a head of the framed cavity, and the or each of the upstand profiles are locatable on or at each end of the lower profile 5, each of the profiles defining a cavity frame side and a unit receiver side. The lower profile 5 comprises at least an outer unit support, an intermediate unit support and an inner unit support, each of the supports extending substantially longitudinally along the lower profile, each of the unit supports including unit facing regions providing for unit support surfaces that are planar with respect to each of the other unit support surfaces. Each of the unit supports comprise an upstanding member extending from a floor of the lower profile and terminated by the unit support surface. The lower profile further comprises a channel defined between at least the outer unit support, and the inner unit support. The channel provides for a fluid flow pathway of any accumulated liquid from within the channel to egress. The floor of the channel is sloped to assist liquid drainage from the channel to at least one exterior facing or weather-side facing aperture in a wall of the lower profile such that each of the upper profile and upstand profile(s) further comprises one or more first seal portions to extend from the unit receiver side, one or more second seal portions extending within the unit receiver side. The first seal portions 11 are sealingly engageable with at least a region of a perimeter surface of a unit to be received by the frame assembly, with the one or more first seal portions 11 being at least a plurality of deformable substantially parallel first fin portions extending substantially the longitudinal length of each of the upstand profiles and upper profile, and one or more third seal portions 13 extending from the cavity frame side. The second seal portion(s) 12 extend from the at least one first seal portion 11 to be sealingly engageable between at least one of the first seal portions 11, or at least a part thereof, and at least a region of the upstand profile or upper profile, or both the upstand profile and the upper profile, from which the one or more first seal portion(s) 11 extend. The third seal portions are sealingly engageable with a surface of the framed cavity frame. The one or more third seal portions is/are a projection from the cavity frame side of the upper profile and/or the upstand profiles. The projection extends substantially along the longitudinal length of each of the respective the upper profile and/or the upstand profiles. The third seal portion(s) is/are profiled to be received within a recess or otherwise shaped portion of the cavity frame side of the upper profile and/or upstand profiles.