PT1700993E - Window, french window or similar of the breather type with a fluid connection between an air layer and the exterior through an outer pane and a cleat holding this pane - Google Patents

Abstract

The window has a frame (101) acting as an opening and including external and internal grooves for the respective external and internal glazing. A fluidic passage (120) has an end opened on a surface of the frame and another end opened on an air film. The passage is formed in an intercalated section (124) associated with the frame, where the section is fixed in the external groove by a glazing bead and includes a dustproof filter (133).

Description

DESCRIPTION

The present invention relates to a balcony window or door, or the like, of breathing structure, comprising: - a first frame capable of securing an opening function, including an outer notch for a a second frame suitable for securing a sash function in which the first frame is intended to be positioned in a closed position of the window, said second frame being adapted to provide a sash function in which the first frame is intended to be positioned in a closed position of the window, - a means for establishing a fluid connection between the inner tube and the outer one, at least in said closing position. The prior art teaches about such windows, or glazed balcony doors or the like. Generally, this type of window or balcony glass door of said breathing structure relates to stop-gap or swing-stop windows, and offers multiple possibilities in terms of thermal, phonic, or light insulation. For example, in the air chamber between the said external pane and the said inner pane, we can place a light concealment means, namely a roller shutter. By the term "window", "window" means "window" means all window or balcony glazed doors in which the aperture is movable, or where the aperture has been permanently fixed in the closed position, and / or in which the exterior glazing and / or interior has been replaced by a concealing panel. The structure is said to be breathable in order to allow the air chamber to have a fluid relationship with the exterior, i.e. by definition with the environment situated on the side of the pane or said outer panel, thereby preventing air circulation across the surface of the window. chamber between the two inner and outer panes. In use, current such windows or glazed balconies separating the interior and exterior of a building, and the fluid relationship of the inner chamber with the outside essentially allows a balance of the air chamber pressures, and prevent or attenuate the rich inside it. The inner pane may be a double pane for good thermal insulation, and the outer pane may be a single thick pane for good sound insulation of the window or glazed balcony door. 1

More particularly, FR 2784709, DE-A1064231 or FR 2784710 which describe such breathable windows are known. These windows comprise, according to FR 2784709, on the one hand, in the frame of the aperture, at least one passageway or an orifice disposed in the range of the exterior and interior glazing to allow the pressure balance between the glazing and the exterior zone and, on the other hand side, in the frame, at least one passage or orifice which places said inter-glazing zone sufficiently in communication with the exterior of the window to establish this pressure or air circulation equilibrium. According to the document FR 2784710, said at least one passage or hole disposed in the opening frame opens into the inter-glazing zone and in a peripheral chamber that is delimited by the opening frame and the frame, this peripheral chamber communicating by means appropriate to the environment outside the window. DE-A-1064231 discloses a window having all the features of the preamble of claim 1.

Such windows or bay window doors have the drawback of requiring specific fabrications and impermeability in the notch between the aperture and the frame. Further, such a breathing structure device has the drawback of interacting with the hardware and the drainage of the breathing frame. It should be noted that the routing of the orifices or breathing passages is long and complex, thus causing loss of charge and being compensated for by sections of greater fluid passage. The present invention aims to mitigate these drawbacks and bring other advantages. More precisely, it consists of a window, a bay window, or the like, said breathing structure, as defined in claim 1.

Establishing a direct breath through the opening allows you to avoid having to work or fabricate the frame, and simplifies the breathing device by rendering it more direct. The window according to the invention has, among others, the advantage of having no need of matching, i.e. adjusting for the breathing device, between the aperture and the frame. The window according to the invention provides a more outward breathing possible by the fact of a passage through the aperture between the chamber and the outside. The window according to the invention makes it possible to avoid all the manufacture of the frame relative to the breathing device, from where a simplification of manufacture and thus in particular a gain in manufacturing time and a decrease in the risks of imperfection. The window according to the invention has the advantage that it does not require any impermeability between the aperture and the frame, nor any manufacture nor any impermeability in the notch between the aperture and the frame. The invention allows to minimize the breath passage (s) from the fact of a very short path through the thickness of the glass pane. On the other hand, such a configuration of breathing passages allows to have no incidence on the opening frame. The pane being generally fabricated by measure, will in this case be delivered with the fluid passages. The fabrication of the structure is simplified since the breathing passages are carried out in the pane and the sill or sills.

According to an advantageous feature, said at least one fluid passageway comprises anti-dust filter means.

The dust filter means allows the filter to be replaced with a view to the support in order to always ensure the breathing function of the air chamber, advantageously without dismantling the replacements (glass panes or the like), so as to avoid calling into question the impermeability of the breathing structure. By means of an anti-dust filter, the filter of the known type is understood here, also ensuring in particular the function of preventing the insects from penetrating into the air chamber, and more broadly not being reactive to moisture and advantageously being able to ensure a function of attenuation.

The filters may advantageously be a key element of the product by integrating a particular aesthetic, for example by conveying the technicality of the product and a trademark.

According to an advantageous feature, at least one said fluid passageway comprises a protective nozzle fixed in an opening of the exterior pane.

According to an advantageous feature: said at least one end of said fluid passage opening on a surface of the first frame in contact with the outside is constituted by the outlet opening in said protective nozzle, and said at least one end a fluid passage opening into the air chamber is constituted by the inlet opening in said protective mouthpiece on the side in contact with the air chamber.

According to an advantageous feature, at least a portion of the end of said fluid passage opening in the air chamber is aligned with the bottom of the air chamber.

According to an advantageous feature, at least said fluid passageway preferably comprises an aperture on the inner face of the outer pane, flowing into the vertical face of the air chamber, and an aperture on a surface of the first frame in contact with the outside directed towards to avoid any penetration of water into the air chamber. 3

According to an advantageous feature, at least one fluid passageway comprises a downward slope, given by an inclination of said protective nozzle.

According to an advantageous feature, a protective nozzle adopts a tubular shape, of cylindrical shape with circular, or slightly conical section.

According to an advantageous feature, a protective nozzle comprises a translatory stop on the side of the inner tube.

According to an advantageous feature, a protective edge comprises securing means on the sill.

Further features and advantages will appear from the following reading of an example embodiment of a window, balcony glass door or similar structure of breathing according to the invention, accompanied by the attached figures, for example by way of non-limiting illustration. Figure 1 is a vertical cross-sectional view of the bottom of a breathing structure window of the prior invention. Figure 2 shows a vertical cross-sectional view of the bottom of an exemplary embodiment of a breathing structure window according to the invention. The window of the prior invention shown in figure 1, said breathing structure comprises: a first frame 1 suitable for securing an opening function, comprising an outer notch 26 for an outside pane 2 and an inner notch for an inside pane 3 an air chamber 4 between the latter, a second frame 5 suitable for securing a frame function in which the first frame is intended to be positioned in a closing position of the window, position shown in figure 1, means 6 for establishing a frame fluid connection between the inner tube 4 and the outer 7 in the closed position.

As explained above, the means 6 for establishing a fluid connection between the inner tube 4 and the outer tube 7 comprises the passages 8 passing through the first frame 1 of the aperture 16 and the second frame 5 or frame, these passages 8 comprising at least one channel 10 fixed to the frame, opening at one end over an opening 12 of the lower profile of the frame, and intended for the other end to be in correspondence of an aperture 11 embodied in a profile 15 of the aperture 1, which supports the outer notch 26 in which the outer pane is housed, the aperture 11 being in fluid communication with the air chamber 4, as shown in Figure 1, by a passage 14 in the aperture passing through a sealing gasket 13 of the air chamber 4 and the profile 15 of the aperture rupture of thermal bridge entering into the constitution of the frame 1 of the aperture and in contact with the frame, as shown in figure 1 in closing position of the window. The window partially shown in Figure 2 retrieves prior art elements similar to those in Figure 1 in order to make the invention of the prior invention better known. These elements of figure 2 functionally similar to those of figure 1 bear the same numerical reference plus the number 300. The window the breathing structure shown in figure 2 comprises: a first frame 301 apt to ensure an opening function, comprising an outer notch 326 for an exterior pane 302 and an interior notch for an inner pane 303 by confining an air chamber 304 between the latter, a second frame 305 suitable for securing a frame function in which the first frame is intended to be positioned in a position closing means for securing a fluid connection between the inner air chamber and the outer air plenum 307, at least in said closing position, at least one fluid passageway 320 in which one end 321 opens into a surface of the first frame in contact with the exterior 307, and wherein the other end 322 opens into the air chamber 304, eg at least one fluid passageway 320 being formed in the outer pane 302, and intercepting an edge 341b of the latter, an outer pane 302 being secured by means of a sill 342 having at least one fluid passageway therethrough.

As shown in figure 1, the frame 301 of the frame 316 comprises in a known manner an inner profile 328 and a thermal bridge breaking outer profile 315 fixed to the inner profile 328, as shown in figure 2.

As shown in Figure 2, the notch 326 of the peripheral profile 315 of the first frame 301, and the outer pane 302 are advantageously aligned in one plane forming the outer surface of the aperture. Such a configuration allows to maintain an aesthetic according to the needs, unusual of plane of the facades. We note in figure 2 that when the frame 305 carries an outer stopper on which the aperture 316 comes into abutment when it is closed, more particularly the sill 342 and if so the peripheral profiling 315, the fluid passages 320 such that described through the sill 342 and the pane 302 allow to ensure a near continuity of the plane of the outer surface of the window between the frame stop and the outer pane.

The constituent profiles of the inner and outer frame 305 are generally of metal alloy or of plastic materials, separated by thermal bridge rupture beams, and the profiles forming the aperture 316, inner 328 and exterior 315 may be respectively of metal and of material plastic, in order to obtain profiles the thermal bridge rupture for the frame and the opening. The sill 342 may be made of metal material or plastic material.

It will be appreciated that with such a device, the breathing function became independent of the aperture bearing frame comprising the thermal bridge rupture profile 315 and the for example metallic inner profile 328 and the frame 305 of the peripheral impervious profiling 313. Breathing of the plenum 304 is ensured that the aperture 316 is in the closed position on the frame 305.

As shown in Figure 2, a fluid passage 320 advantageously comprises anti-dust filter means 333 which are disposed through the fluid passageway 320, preferably against the aperture 322, as shown in Figure 2. The filter 333 may advantageously be a movable filter , in particular of the known stainless steel filter type, which allows not only dust to be removed but also insects in such a way that all these objects do not penetrate the inner chamber 304. The filter thus placed can be replaced if necessary without disassembling the substitutions. The main impermeability of the aperture frame is not thereby undermined during this holding operation. It should be noted that the window according to figure 2 may or may not contain impermeability (not shown) between the external window glazing fixture 342 302 and the frame 305, the latter 305 may, if necessary, water evacuation holes 335 as shown in Figure 2. In Figure 2, no impermeability between the exterior window pane fixation sill 342 and the frame 305 is shown. The impermeability seal 313 allows inter alia to ensure impermeability between the inner tube 304 and the inner surface of the outer pane 302 relative to the air chamber 304.

The fluid passages 320 may advantageously be secured directly by through-openings made in the thickness of the outer pane 302, which may take the form of notches in which the dimensions are determined as required as a function of the volume of the air chamber 304. The outer pane 302 is temperate. The fluid passageways 320 are preferably disposed on the underside of the glass pane opening into the bottom of the air chamber 304 as shown in Figure 2. The fluid passages 320 preferably have an opening 322 on the inner face of the exterior pane 302, and a downwardly directed aperture 321 in order to avoid any penetration of water into the air chamber: to this end, the apertures traversed in the pane 302 may advantageously be provided with protective nozzles 340 fixed to the openings of the pane, and advantageously allowing the opening 321 to be directed downwards and, inter alia, to secure the anti-dust and anti-insect filter 333 thereto, for example as described above, as shown in figure 2, as shown in figure 2. The fixing of the nozzles 340 may for example be secured by attachment. The fluid passages 320 in the outer pane 302 may respectively take the form of oblong lights in a quantity determined as necessary to allow the air chamber to breathe.

The nozzles 340 will for example be identical by a single aperture, numbered one per fluid passage 320. A nozzle 340 will preferably be tubular, cylindrically shaped with a circular or slightly conical section, and may comprise a stone mass 350 in translation from the side of the inner chamber 304 in order to be locked on the inner surface of the outer pane 302 as shown in figure 2, and may, inter alia, include securing means 351 on the sill 342 also as shown in figure 2. A nozzle 340 will advantageously be maintained in position on the sill 342 in which it is inserted into a bore in this embodiment corresponding to the section of the nozzle 340 in order to obtain a suitable aesthetic and a determined position of the outlet of the nozzle 40 in the exterior facade. On the side of the plenum 304, the nozzle 340 will advantageously be maintained by the stone mass 350 allowing a support security of the nozzle 340 in the fluid passage 320. The proper inclination of the nozzle 340 in the vertical plane, defined as a function of the outlet position 321 the nozzle and the inlet position 322 of the nozzle in the air chamber 304 will be rendered possible by the oblong light realized in the pane 302 allowing multiple positions of inclination of the nozzle 340 in the vertical plane. The length of a nozzle 340 depends on the thickness of the outer pane 302, and will preferably be determined so as to be greater than the thickness of the pane 302, added with the thickness of the glazing 342 therefor. The nozzles 340 may advantageously be put into place in each of the fluid passages 320 formed in the pane 302 and the sill 342, after mounting of the pane 302 in its notch 326 and the placement of the sill 342. The nozzles 340 may be made in plastics material, preferably deformable, so that the stone mass 350 may have a certain elastic deformation in order to allow its transposition beyond the passing lamp of the outer pane 302 and its return in a stopping position after transposition. The fastening means 351 may also operate advantageously by using the elasticity of the material constituting the nozzle 340

As shown in Figure 2 and described above, the fluid passages 320 formed in the outer pane 302 of the aperture 316, intersecting an edge 341 of the outer pane 302, the lower edge of the pane in Figure 5, preferably.

The essential differences between the example according to the invention represented in figure 2 and the example of the previous invention of figure 1 reside: in the absence of any breathing passage or conduit of the air chamber 304 passing through the frame 305, as well as the space 325 comprised between the frame 305 and the aperture 316 in the advantageous absence of the entire passage or breathing conduit of the air plenum 304 traversing the thermal bridge rupture profile 351 of the frame 301 of the aperture 316 in the advantageous presence of a plurality of fluid passages 320 formed in the outer pane 302 of the aperture 316 in an essential medium of the invention in the presence of a plurality of fluid passages 320 traversing the exterior fixation fixture 342 in the outer notch 326 of the profile 315 of the opening frame 301 in correspondence with the plurality of fluid passages 320 formed in the outer pane 302, as shown in Figure 2, according to a means of the invention.

As shown in Figure 2, the fluid passages 320 for breathing of the plenum 304 advantageously delimit precisely at the inner angle of the chamber, at the bottom of the chamber, so that a portion of the inlet 322 of the protective nozzle 340, defining the inlet of the passageway 320 is aligned with the bottom surface of chamber 304. Fluid passageways 320 advantageously feature a downward slope, given by an inclination of each nozzle 340, rendered accessible by the elongated vertical aperture light shape through aperture 302 and facing outwards, as shown in figure 2. Thus, viewed from the outside, the breathing holes are situated as low as possible being above the upright 305, ie above the frame stop 305, when the aperture is in position the frame. The invention applies to the entire window, glazed balcony door, or similarly called breathing structure.

Lisbon, January 21, 2010. 9

Claims (10)

A window, a windshield or analog glass door, said breathing structure, comprising: a first frame (301) capable of securing an opening function, comprising an outer notch (326) for an outside said window pane (302) and an inner notch for an inner pane (303) defining an air chamber (304) therebetween, a second frame (305) suitable for securing a fixed frame function in which the first frame is intended to be positioned in accordance with a closing position of the window, a balcony glass door or the like, means for establishing a fluid connection between the inner air chamber and the exterior (307), in said closing position, at least one fluid passageway (320) formed in the outer pane (302) and intercepting an edge (341) of the latter and at one end (321) opens on the outside, and wherein the other end (322) opens into the air chamber, characterized in that said at least one a fluid passageway 320 opens more particularly on a surface of the first frame in contact with the exterior, and the exterior pane 302 is fixed by means of a sill 342 forming part of the first frame 301, unless it is said to be a fluid passage through it. A window, a balcony glass door or the like, according to claim 1, characterized in that said at least one fluid passageway (320) comprises anti-dust filter means (333). A window, a balcony glazed door or the like, according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that said at least one fluid passageway (320) comprises a protective nozzle (340) fixed in an opening of the external glazing (302). A window, a balcony glazed door or the like, according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that: - said end of said at least one fluid passageway (320) opens onto a surface of the first frame (301) in (307) is formed by the outlet opening (321) in said protective nozzle (340), and - said end of said at least one fluid passageway (320), opening into the air chamber ( 304) is formed by the inlet aperture (322) in said protective mouthpiece (340) on the side in contact with the air chamber (304). A window, a balcony glass door or the like, according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that a portion of said at least one end (322) of said at least one fluid passageway (320) opens into the chamber of air (304), is aligned with the bottom of the air chamber. A window, a balcony glazed door or the like, according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that said at least one fluid passageway (320) preferably comprises an opening (322) on the inner face of the external glazing ( 302), opening into the vertical face of the air chamber (304), and an aperture (321) opening on a surface of the first frame (301) in contact with the exterior (307) directed downward in order to avoid all penetration of water in the inner tube. A window, a balcony glass door or the like, according to claims 3 and 6, characterized in that said at least one fluid passageway (320) has a downward slope, given by an inclination of said protective nozzle (340). A window, a balcony glass door or the like, according to any one of claims 3 to 7, characterized in that a protective nozzle (340) is of cylindrical shape, cylindrical in shape with a circular or slightly conical shape. A window, a balcony glass door or the like, according to any one of claims 3 to 8, characterized in that a protective nozzle (340) includes a stop (350) in translation from the side of the air chamber (304). A window, a balcony glazed door or the like, according to any one of claims 3 to 9, characterized in that a protective nozzle (340) includes securing means (351) on the sill (342). Lisbon, January 21, 2010. 2