EP3585967A1

EP3585967A1 - Floor guide

Info

Publication number: EP3585967A1
Application number: EP18706982.8A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Beat Guhl
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2017-02-27
Filing date: 2018-02-14
Publication date: 2020-01-01
Anticipated expiration: 2038-02-14
Also published as: US20200318419A1; PL3585967T3; CH713489A1; EP3585967B1; WO2018153752A1; US11448004B2; AU2018223076A1; EP3585967C0; AU2018223076B2

Abstract

The invention relates to a floor guide for sliding doors (19), comprising a guide channel (1). A center piece (39) is arranged in the guide channel (1) and is detachably fastened to the floor of the guide channel (1) so that the profiled flange (21) at the lower edge of the sliding door (19) can be introduced and removed.

Description

floor guide

The invention relates to a floor guide for single or multi-rail sliding door systems according to the preamble of patent claim 1.

Sliding doors require rails in the floor to accommodate the load, which can be up to several 100 kilos with large sliding doors. The desire for many perspectives and a lot of light in the room mean that sliding doors with a very narrow frame are often used today, so that the clear cross-section remains as large as possible. In such sliding doors and sliding doors in general, the rails are sunk embedded in the ground. This is the transition from the inside of the room to

Space outside just and thus stumbling free.

Large sliding doors require according to their mass large-sized load-bearing elements, that is rollers, on which the sliding doors are supported and easy to move. Runners or guide rails for such drives, which are arranged sunk under the sliding doors in the ground, have a relatively large width in order to distribute the high load on the rail can, whereby the gap in the ground correspondingly wide fails and thus to a Trip-trap can be. In addition, the thickness of

Sliding doors with triple glazing very large.

Floor guides are now known from the prior art, with which the gap width is kept as low as possible over the rails. On the one hand, the

Sliding door is not guided down into the floor over its entire thickness and supported, but only via a central foot, which extends below like an upside down "Τ ^λΧ and slides on rollers underneath. The gap width is very narrow in such known devices and consequently not visually disturbing, because the gap width depends on the small thickness of the vertically extending section of the "T." However, the problem now arises, for example in

Double guides, ie with one, two or more side-by-side guides for one, two or more parallel sliding doors provide access to the doors

Roller bearings, drives or rails, depending on the design by firmly installed floor coverings, such as plates made of stone or wood, prevent the lifting of roles, drives or rails during maintenance.

In known floor guides, although the central strip-shaped portion of the floor covering, which

is arranged between two guide incisions,

lifted out and so the rails of the floor guide

partially uncovered. However, at Such an embodiment, the side of the floor guides arranged floor coverings the interior of the floor guide and the lifting of the drives or roller bearings is prevented. So there is nothing left to do but remove it from the side of the gap

built-in floor coverings if one of the roller bearings fails. This leads to high costs and in many cases visually no longer acceptable change in the overall appearance of the flooring in the sliding doors.

From the KR 2012 0119 728 a sliding door system has become known in which the frame of the two parallel

extending sliding doors are partially recessed in a guide channel on roller drives are arranged, the roles of the sides of the surfaces of the sliding doors

run. In order to install such sliding doors on the one hand during installation and on the other hand to be able to remove for inspection or maintenance work from the guide channels, is the area of the floor, which is usually covered with floor coverings made of wood or stone,

removable trained. This means that in the area of two sliding doors, three strip-shaped floor elements have to be removed during a revision. Such a construction is not aesthetically desirable because of the three strip-shaped parallel to the

Sliding doors running over their entire length

Floor areas the overall impression of the floor discriminate. Although in this device is the

Revision of wide roller bearings possible to the detriment of the aesthetics.

From DE 11 2013 002 333 T5 a sliding door arrangement is known which supports the sliding doors on a very narrow web and narrow rollers. However, when using triple glazing in the ground

necessary slot wider than desired. Nevertheless, the sliding doors can be dismantled for inspection work

Design, this document proposes to make the bottom areas of the sliding doors removable. This in turn leads to aesthetically unsatisfactory

strip-shaped floor elements, which the overall impression of the floor with the sliding door open and also at

deteriorate closed sliding door.

Also in the further known KR 2012 0045 759 is a sliding door arrangement with two parallel running

Sliding doors known. To be able to revise these, the central floor area between the sliding doors can be lifted out. Since in this sliding door arrangement, the carrying rollers are above the ground surface, their maintenance is not a problem.

Also in the latter three sliding door assemblies are unaesthetic strip-shaped floor elements

necessary to arranged below the floor surface

To service or repair roller bearings. An object of the present invention is to provide a floor guide that allows it at any time, without removing the side of the rails arranged

Floor coverings to provide access to the drives and, if necessary, to be able to temporarily remove the at least one sliding door. This object is achieved by a floor guide according to the features of claim 1. Advantageous

Embodiments of the floor guide are described in the dependent claims. A removable central web between adjacent sliding doors with single and mehrgleisiger execution of the guide channel of the floor guide makes it possible to provide free access to the drives after lifting the strip-shaped bottom portion between the rails and at the same time the possibility of obstacle-free extension of the double-T or T-shaped support of the sliding door through the exposed opening.

In a first embodiment, the center bar can be easily lifted by loosening screws from the top of the guide channel. In a particularly advantageous

Design of the central web can be removed without tools from the guide channel and so the latter be opened to provide access to the drives and also to allow the sliding doors to extend. Particularly advantageous is the embodiment of the

Middle bar of two middle bar sections, which after the

Hook into the guide channel hooked together and by placing the central strip-shaped

Floor area are held together insoluble. The inventive central webs extend to the bottom of the guide channel, so that the drives can be moved laterally and then removed from the channel without having to disassemble strip-shaped bottom sections.

Based on two embodiments, the invention is explained in more detail with reference to a single and a two-track floor guide. Show it:

Figure 1 shows a cross section through a two-pronged

Floor guide with a guide channel and a sliding door mounted therein with a

Crossbar,

Figure 2 shows a cross section through a two-pronged

Floor guide with a guide channel and a sliding door mounted therein with a two-part central web,

3 shows a cross section through a double-railed

Floor guide with a guide channel and a sliding door mounted therein with a two-piece central web, split before removal,

Figure 4 shows a cross section through a single-rail

Floor guide and

Figure 5a-5e cross sections through floor guides to

different assembly times.

In Figure 1, reference numeral 1, a guide channel is shown. The guide channel 1, usually as

Produced aluminum extruded and constructed in one or two parts, comprises a left channel half 3 and a rectilinear constructed right channel half 5. The two channel halves 3.5 are connected in two-piece construction by usually pluggable Dämmstege 7 together. The Dämmstege 7 can serve as thermal insulators. The guide channel 1 is inserted in a recess 9 in a bottom 11 made of concrete and fastened there. For better clarity, the attachment of the

Guide channel 1 not shown. In each of the

Channel halves 3.5, a running rail or a track 13 is arranged, on which rollers 15 of a carriage 17 are guided. As an alternative to rails 13, on which rollers roll 15 of drives 17, 1 rolls may be arranged on or in the bottom of the guide channel, on the vertices of which are arranged below the sliding doors 19 arranged profile flanges 21 (alternative arrangement not shown) . Each profile flange 21 of each sliding door 19 is vertical over one or more

extending double T-shaped support profiles 23 connected to the sliding door 19. The width of the vertical

Profile part of the carrier profile 23 substantially determines the width of a slot 25 through which the

Carrier profile 23 from above between floor coverings 27 and a bottom support 29 can be passed.

As floor coverings 27 plates of stone, wood, metal or the like can be used, as they are today in

Housing are common. The two sides of the

Sliding doors 19 arranged floor coverings 27 may consist of identical material or of different materials such as wood and stone. These laterally arranged floor coverings 27 protrude into the horizontally extending upper opening cross-section of the guide channel 1, that is to say they form along the profile tabs 31 of FIG

Guide channel 1 is a partial cover 33 of the guide channel 1. Preferably, the edge portion of the floor coverings 27, which projects beyond the upper cross section of the guide channel 1 of a Z-shaped Z-bottom support 35th

carried .

Between the two Z-floor supports 35 is the

strip-shaped bottom support 29 is used, which the upper cross-section of the guide channel 1 partially

covered. Between the side edges of the floor support 29 and the free edges of the adjacent floor coverings 27 are the two slots 25 for the carrier profiles 23. The floor support 29 in turn comprises an aluminum profile in the shape of a large T's, that is the

horizontal area of the Ί's contributes a strip-shaped floor covering 27, for example of stone, wood or other material whose surface is that of

corresponds, as with the arranged on both sides

Flooring 27 is present. This launched

Floor covering 27 ^Λ can be held on three sides by a section U-shaped section of the floor support 29. At the bottom of the floor support 29 are spaced two parallel downwardly projecting legs 37 formed. Between these two legs 37 is a central web 39 made of aluminum, plastic, steel or

To lie stainless steel, which is detachably connected to the bottom portion of the guide channel 1. The central web 39 is surrounded by the legs 37 on both sides substantially free of play. This rich backlash-free connection between the central web 39 and the legs 37 causes the floor support 29, when it is entered by persons who leave the room, which is separated by the sliding doors 19, can not wobble or move.

In the first embodiment of the invention is in the

Cross section substantially rectangular central web 39 with a number of screws 41 to the bottom of the Guide channel 1 connected (Fig. 1) or with locking elements on the ground engage (no Fig.).

In the embodiment of the invention according to FIG. 2, the central web 39 comprises two middle webs on the left 43 and 45 on the right. The two right and left middle webs 43, 43 are attached to e.g. two places by connecting elements 47 and 49 releasably connected together. The connecting elements 47, 49 may take the form of partial

have interlocking elements or the like. The lower ends of the left and right center webs 43 and 45 may taper conically or the lower edge forms a step or a foot. The widening areas 51 engage behind an oppositely formed portion 53 at the bottom of the guide channel 1. If you now the two center bars left and right 43,45 together so by being slightly outwardly inclined placed on the bottom of the guide channel 1 and then tilts it against each other in a vertical position, as shown in Figure 2, the connecting elements 47 and 49 engage with each other. After attaching the ground support 29 on the two left and right middle webs 43,45 the latter are held together and wear the full

Floor support 29 free of play. Additional fasteners are therefore not necessary. In the construction of buildings with sliding doors 19 are the latter, since these are usually made of glass and

are sensitive to damage during construction, only at the end of the construction period and usually also after laying the floor coverings 27 mounted. However, this is not possible in the conventional floor guide arrangements, since then the insertion of the carrier profiles 23 at the lower edges of the sliding doors 19 can no longer be passed between the central web 39 and the Z-floor supports 35. Consequently, in the prior art, the sliding doors 19 already before laying the floor coverings 27 and the

Attaching the Z-soil supports 35 are placed on the rails. The sliding doors 19 are therefore constantly exposed to dust and mechanical damage.

With the inventive floor guide this is different. The floor coverings 27 can be laid completely and the floor layer is not obstructed by the sliding doors 19 during its work. It can also be the soil support 29 inserted and grouted clean in its receiving profile.

So now after the laying of the floor coverings 27, 27 ^Λ the sliding doors 19 can be mounted, the

Floor support 29 lifted off and set aside. Thereafter, according to the first embodiment of the invention, the screws 41 are released and the central web 39 is lifted off the bottom of the guide channel 1. The bottom of the guide channel 1 is now free of elements that the horizontal Inserting the carriage 17 and the T-shaped

Carrier profile 23 would hinder.

In the second embodiment of the invention, after lifting the floor support 29, the two left and right center webs 43 and 45 are no longer held together and can be easily pivoted outwardly from the bottom of the

Guide channel 1 are removed (Fig. 3).

Now, each sliding door 19 through the central upper

Retracted opening in the guide channel 1 and then moved in the example in the figures, the right sliding door 19 to the right and parked on the rail 13. The lower right arm of the profile flange 21 then comes to lie below the partial cover 33 through the floor covering 27. Subsequently, the retraction of the left sliding door (Fig. 5a to 5c) by the still wide enough formed opening cross section is slightly inclined from above. By a small shift to the left, the left half of the profile flange 21 engages under the left-lying floor covering 27 and the sliding door 19 can be placed on the left running rail 13.

Subsequently (FIG. 5d), the center bar 39 is reinserted in the previously described manner, and the bottom support 29 (FIG. 5e) is pushed onto the center bar 39. In reverse procedure, one or both sliding doors 19, if necessary, be it for

Revision work or repairs, without any Destruction of the flooring 27 led out of the guide channel 1 and then used again.

In Figure 4, a single-track floor guide is shown, in this embodiment, the central web 39 is disposed on the left side of the running rail 13. The central web 39 is in turn on the Dämmsteg 7 and can be screwed either with the latter or be made in two parts, as shown in Figure 4.

In order to install or remove the sliding door 19, the floor support 29 is lifted off the central web 39 and the sliding door moved to the left. Then it can be lifted out of the bottom guide channel 1.

Claims

claims

1. floor guide for single or multi-rail sliding doors (19), comprising a guide channel (1) for

Running rails (13), a central web (39) for laying a strip-shaped floor covering (27 '),

characterized in that

the center bar (39) releasably connected to the bottom of the

Guide channel (1) connectable and for mounting a bottom support (29) for receiving a strip-shaped floor covering (27) is formed.

2. Floor guide according to claim 1, characterized in that the central web (39) at the bottom of the guide channel

(1) screwed and the screws (41) are detachable from above or that the central web (39) at the bottom of the guide channel (1) can be latched.

3. Floor guide according to claim 1, characterized in that the central web (39) is formed in two parts.

4. Floor guide according to claim 3, characterized in that a left (43) and a right (45) element of the central web at the bottom of the guide channel (1) each individually on lateral guide means (53) can be latched

are formed. Floor guide according to one of claims 3 or 4, characterized in that the two left and right elements of the central web (43,45) about its longitudinal axis are pivotable and the guide channel (1) are designed liftable.

6. Floor guide according to one of claims 3 to 5, characterized in that the two left and right elements of the central web (43,45) during the sliding of the

Floor support (29) by two legs (37) on

Bottom support (29) are held together undetachably at the bottom of the guide channel (1) are held.

7. Floor guide according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the central web (39)

Aluminum, plastic, steel or stainless steel.

Floor guide according to one of claims 1 to 7, dadur in that the guide channel (1) after removing the two left and right elements of the central web (43,45), the free extension of the two sliding doors (19) and the carriage (17) the

Guiding channel (1) allows.

Floor guide according to claim 8, characterized in that the floor coverings (27) laterally of the guide channel (1) rest on Z-bottom supports (35) extending over the lateral areas of the floor.