ES2681119T3 - A flat roof skylight window and a weather protector for it - Google Patents

Abstract

A flat roof skylight window (1) to be placed substantially horizontal on a flat roof, the skylight window comprising a window part (1a) with an optional window sash, a window frame and an insulating window glass mounted on the window sash or window frame, and a weather protector (3), which is mounted on the window part to cover and protect against the weather the part of the window that is mounted on the skylight window, where the protector The weather cover comprises a weather protection glass (6) which is externally curved in relation to the window part, characterized in that the weather protection glass comprises two substantially straight opposite peripheral edges (6a, 6b) and two opposite curved peripheral edges (6c, 6d ), the climatological protective glass also comprising a curved lower surface facing the window part and having four lower corners is positioned in an imaginary background plane P1, a vertex line or peak line X extends between said two curved edges where the lower surface of the weather protection glass has a larger distance to the lower plane P1, a connection line L1 connects two of said lower corners, the connection line L1 extends substantially parallel to the vertex line X, the vertex line X and the connection line L1 are positioned an imaginary inclination plane P2, in which an angle α between the lower plane P1 and the inclination plane P2 is between 1 and 10 degrees.

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DESCRIPTION

A flat roof skylight window and a weather protector for the same Field of the invention

The present invention relates in a first aspect to a flat roof skylight window to be placed substantially horizontally on a flat roof, the skylight window comprising a window part and a weather shield that is mounted on the window part to cover and protect from Weather the part of the window that is mounted on the skylight window.

The invention relates in a second aspect to a weather protector for use in the skylight window according to the first aspect of the invention.

Background of the invention

There is often a desire to place one or more skylight windows on a flat roof of a building, that is, where the roof has no substantial inclination or only a very small inclination. This can lead to a variety of challenges.

If a skylight window of one type, which is used on sloping ceilings and with a flat and insulating window glass, is placed on a flat roof, gravity will pull the glass down so that the glass will curve slightly downwards towards a center of it with a lower point normally than the center of the glass. If there is no weather protection, rainwater will normally be collected at and near the lowest point to create, for example, a puddle of water. Normally, dirt will also accumulate on the window pane, especially in or near the center of the window. This can limit the view through the glass from inside the building since water and dirt alter visibility through the window pane. In addition, the glass can become a structural weak point, especially also with regard to snow loads.

One way to improve drainage and prevent snow accumulation on the window pane is to tilt the skylight window and the window pane to provide a slope similar to a window located on an angled roof. This can be done by lifting a side member of a window frame and / or guillotine so that the window glass is inclined with respect to the horizontal. However, when tilting the window pane, a side member of the frame and / or guillotine will be taller than the opposite side, and the two side members on the sides will also tilt. In this way, the raised guillotine and / or frame member, in addition to the inclined side members connected thereto, can alter the view through the window pane compared to if the window was placed horizontally. In addition, lifting one of the side members requires more guillotine and / or frame material, it is cumbersome to build and mount on the roof, and it can create an unwanted aesthetic appearance of the building since the windows will be more visible from the outside and look different when they are projected upwards in an inclined form from the flat roof.

Document PL 401880 describes a flat roof skylight window with the window pane and without weather protection.

In some alternative solutions of the prior art, a horizontally placed flat roof skylight window comprises a transparent weather shield, usually of a molded plastic material such as acrylic or polycarbonate and placed on top of a window part comprising the frame and / or guillotine in addition to the window pane. The weather protector normally covers the entire upper surface and has a curved top dome-shaped surface for collecting rainwater, snow and other water on the upper surface is reduced, since it can run along the sloping sides of the protector Weather and on the roof. The weather shield normally covers the entire window part and can generally protect the window part and the interior of the building from a variety of loads or climatic influences, including wind and precipitation, such as rain, snow, hail, etc. The weather shield can also provide additional insulation of the skylight window, that is, the window part and the weather shield. The weather protector is normally fixed to a frame and / or guillotine of the window part.

The use of a weather protector as described can have several drawbacks. Normally, the shape of the weather protector, due to its curvature or shape, distorts the light and, therefore, the view through the window and / or allows significantly less light to pass through the window. Some prior art weather protectors comprise a skirt, which extends on all sides of the weather shield to cover the guillotine and / or frame of the window part, this skirt often hinders the opening of the window by hitting parts of the window or the roof

The shape and size of the prior art weather protectors also give rise to large wind loads on the weather shield and, therefore, the window part and / or the roof, which makes it necessary to dimension the strength and stiffness of the weather protector, the window part and the roof.

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An example of a flat roof skylight window according to the preamble of the claim with a weather shield is described in the applicant's document WO 2009/080026 A referring to a flat roof skylight window with a dome-shaped weather shield covering and insulate a window part, its specification is incorporated here in its entirety.

US 8,375,657 describes an insulated glazing unit in which one of the glazing layers of a crystal thereof is curved.

WO 08085072 A describes a skylight window for sloping ceilings and with a curved window pane.

Document GB 1 203 154 describes a weather protector according to the preamble of claim 6. Summary of the invention

In this background, an object of the first aspect of the present invention is to provide a flat roof skylight window according to the introduction in which it is possible to reduce the union of water and dirt on an upper or outer surface of the weather protector. Another object is to reduce the distortion of the view through the skylight window. Another object is to provide a skylight window, which can be made to open. Another object is to balance a precipitation dispersion effect with the wind load characteristics of a skylight window.

In the first aspect of the invention, these and other objects meet a flat roof skylight window to be placed substantially horizontally on a flat roof, the skylight window comprising

a window part with an optional sash window, a window frame and an insulating window pane mounted on the window sash or window frame, and

a weather protector, which is mounted on the window part to cover and protect the part of the window that is mounted on the skylight window climatologically,

where the weather protector comprises a weather protective glass, which is externally curved in relation to the window portion,

the weather protection glass comprises two substantially straight opposite peripheral edges and two opposite curved peripheral edges,

the climatological protective glass further comprising a curved lower surface facing the window part and having four lower corners positioned in an imaginary background plane P1,

a vertex line or peak line X that extends between said two curved edges where the lower surface of the weather protection glass has a larger distance to the lower plane P1,

a connection line L1 connects two of said lower corners, the connection line L1 extends substantially parallel to the line of vertex X,

the line of vertex X and the connection line L1 being placed in an imaginary inclination plane P2,

where an angle a between the lower plane P1 and the inclination plane P2 is between 1 and 10 degrees.

In the present specification, the term "curved" can be understood to have a non-linear form, potentially without rapid or sequential steps.

The weather protector can be provided separately from the window part.

The weather protector can be substantially symmetrical with respect to the X line of the vertex.

By providing a flat roof skylight window with a weather protector of the type mentioned above, water masses larger than droplets will normally escape the weather protective glass so that water puddles will not be collected on the top surface of the protective glass climatological. The external curvature of the weather protection glass can increase the moment of inertia of the weather protection glass, so the force of gravity on the weather protection glass will not make the center of the weather protection glass lower than the edges of the weather protection glass by what the rainwater that falls on the weather protection glass will not create a puddle in the center of the weather protection glass. Therefore, puddles of water and, to a large extent, the union of dirt on the upper surface of the weather protection glass can be avoided. For some type of glass surfaces, the individual droplets do not escape unless the angle of an inclined upper surface thereof is greater than approximately 20 degrees.

However, the joining of puddles of water and dirt in an area of an upper surface of the weather protection glass is largely avoided or avoided with the skylight window according to the invention. At the same time, the

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Tilt of the weather protection glass is small enough to affect or distort the view through the weather protection glass and therefore through the skylight window to a small degree, usually small enough not to be noticeable to people inside of a building on the roof that is mounted skylight window. The inventor of the present invention has discovered that, surprisingly, acceptable water dispersion, minimized distortion of sight through the skylight window and minimized use of the weather shield and the material of the window part can be achieved with the Skylight window according to the invention.

The size and weight of a skylight weather protector according to the invention can be made relatively small compared to the prior art weather protectors, making it easier to open and save material. In addition, due to the minimum extent that the weather protective glass projects upward in the mounted position of the skylight window, the wind loads on the weather shield will be smaller and, therefore, the requirements of strength and stiffness in relation to all parts of the skylight window as well as the roof on which it is potentially mounted will be reduced.

The inventor has discovered that due to its curvature as defined above, the climatological protective glass will have a structural load capacity capable of supporting larger loads, both wind and snow. In addition, the weather protection glass can be manufactured relatively cheaply, even from harder and stiffer materials, such as toughened glass or glass, which can further increase the structural integrity of the skylight window and improve the view through the window as long as they are reached. The above advantages.

Preferably, the curvature of the weather protection glass may be such that in a complete area of an upper surface of the weather protection glass, the upper surface is inclined upwards, specifically in two upper surface areas on both sides of the vertex line, so that no depressions, and preferably neither horizontal areas, exist in or on the upper surface. But keep in mind that the vertex line itself can extend substantially horizontally in the mounted position of the skylight window. The vertex line can generally extend linearly.

The skylight window weather protector according to the invention can further comprise a weather protective skirt that supports the weather protective glass and that extends on one or more side edges of the weather protective glass to further seal the surrounding window part and / or avoid or decrease the entry of water and / or dirt in the window part. One or more sealing elements may be located between the skirt and the weather protection glass. The weather protective skirt may comprise four lateral members of the skirt, specifically two pairs of opposite lateral members of the skirt, and these four lateral members of the skirt may be positioned to substantially form a rectangle. The side skirt elements may each be substantially flat and / or extend substantially linearly and / or may take the form of profiled skirt members, which may potentially comprise or consist of aluminum. The skirt of the weather protector can be fixed to the window part, specifically to the window frame or to the window part of the guillotine to place the weather protection glass in position on the window part.

The plane P1 can be substantially parallel to a plane of the window part of the window pane. The skirt members may extend substantially at respective right angles to the plane P1. One or more of the side members of the skirt can support a respective peripheral edge, that is, a side edge, of the weather protection glass. The weather protection glass can thus comprise four corresponding side edges.

The weather protection glass may be embedded or mounted on and / or fixed to the skirt of the weather protection. A damping member and / or an adhesive, such as glue, or an adhesive member, such as an adhesive tape, can be provided between the edges of the weather protection glass and the support surfaces of the weather protector skirt. Additionally or alternatively, the weather protection glass can be fixed to the skirt of the weather protection by means of fastening or other mechanical means. The side members of the weather protector skirt can each be an aluminum profile. The weather protection glass may be positioned with its two straight peripheral edges substantially parallel with two opposite side members of the skirt and with its two curved peripheral edges extending along or adjacent to two other elements on the opposite side of the skirt.

The weather protection glass preferably has a substantially constant thickness along an entire glass area, a distance between an upper surface and the lower surface of the weather protection glass that can be substantially constant over a complete area of the weather protection glass. This also prevents distortion of the view through the skylight window. This thickness can be from 3 mm to 7 mm, preferably from 4 mm to 6 mm. An entire upper or lower surface of the weather protection glass may be 0.5 m2 to 10 m2, preferably 0.7 to 6 m2, more preferred 0.8 to 4 m2.

The shape of the climatological protective glass in a transverse plane can be concave, parabolic, cylindrical or elliptical cylindrical. The curved edges of the weather protection glass can substantially follow an arc, for example, an elliptical or circular arc, and the glass can follow an arc, for example, an elliptical or circular arc, in a cross section taken along a plane of cross section that extends substantially in a

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right angle with respect to a plane through which the line of vertex X extends and at a right angle with respect to the plane P1.

The weather protection glass can comprise only a single glazing layer. The insulating window pane of the window portion may comprise at least two layers, for example two or three layers, of glazing mounted window guillotine or in the window frame, potentially with an inert gas between them. The window frame and / or the window sash can have four side members that can be placed substantially rectangular. A glazing of the part of the window that includes the window pane can take the form of the so-called IGU (Insulating Glazing Unit).

The skylight window according to the invention can be opened. This can be achieved with a window part that itself can be opened, so that the window can be opened in relation to the window frame. The weather shield can be fixed to the window sash of the window part so that the window sash and the weather shield move and / or rotate together to open in relation to the window frame. This can be achieved by rotating the window sash along one of the side members of the window frame during the opening of the skylight window, a side member of the sash that rotatably joins the window frame along said member side window frame. The weather shield can be mounted on the window part in such a way that the weather shield follows the window guillotine in an opening movement by the window guillotine in relation to the window frame. A chain drive system can be provided to achieve opening and closing movements. The weather protector according to the second aspect of the present invention makes it possible to design the skylight window so that it can be opened more easily in the manner described, see below.

The weather protection glass is preferably a window pane and / or is preferably transparent and / or translucent, that is, it allows light to pass through it. Preferably, at least 50, 60, 70, 80 or 90 percent of the visible light is allowed to pass through the weather protection glass.

The angle a between the lower plane P1 and the inclination plane P2 is preferably between 1 and 8 degrees, more preferred 1 and 6 degrees, more preferred 2 and 6 degrees, more preferably 2 and 5 degrees, more preferred 2 and 4 degrees, more preferred between 2.5 and 3.5 degrees, more preferred around 3 degrees.

The vertex line may have a distance to the plane P1 of 5 to 100 mm, preferably 10 to 80 mm, more preferred 15 to 40 mm. Additionally or alternatively, the vertex line may follow a central line, which may be linear, of the meteorological protective glass. Additionally, or alternatively, the vertex line may extend in parallel with one or both straight edges of the weather protection glass. Additionally, or alternatively, the vertex line may extend to a length substantially identical to the length of one or both straight edges of the weather protection glass.

The weather protection glass, the window sash and / or the window frame can have a general rectangular or quadratic shape.

The skylight window according to the invention can be mounted on a flat roof so that the plane P1 is substantially horizontal and the window pane of the window part is substantially horizontal. The angle of the plane P1 and / or the window pane of the window part to the horizontal in which it is mounted can be 0 to 5 degrees, 0 to 4 degrees, 0 to 3 degrees, 0 to 2 degrees or from 0 to 1 grade.

The window part according to the first aspect of the present invention may be that of the skylight window (that is, the part of the structure placed below the weather protector) shown and explained in relation to Figures 1 and 2 of the aforementioned document WO 2009/080026 A, the skylight window weather protector according to the present invention that replaces the weather shield of Figures 1 and 2 of WO 2009/080026 A. The fixing of the weather protective skirt to the guillotine of the weather shield can be carried out in Similarly.

In one embodiment of the skylight window according to the invention, the weather protective glass is substantially forged as a cylinder housing segment that is externally curved in relation to the window part.

The segment of the cylinder housing can be a circular segment of the cylinder housing, so that the curved peripheral edges of the weather protection glass substantially follow a circular arc. A radius of the circular segment of the cylinder housing can be from 2.5 to 15 m, from 5 to 12 m, from 7 to 10 m or from 7.5 or 8.5 m.

The cylinder housing segment does not necessarily need to be a circular cylinder, but it can be of other cylinder shapes. It is preferred that the segment of the cylinder housing bends externally along an entire curve of the segment of the cylinder housing, so that precipitation is not collected in the bags of the surface of the weather protection glass, see also above .

By providing a weather protective glass of this design, the structural benefits of the cylindrical shell-shaped structures are used in the weather protective glass, for example the moment of inertia of the

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Weather protection glass increases, which improves the strength and stiffness of the flat roof skylight window.

Alternatively, the curvature of the weather protection glass is substantially parabolic. In any case, it is preferred that the curvature of the climatological protective glass does not comprise any sequential step, that is, immediate or sudden changes of curvature that may disturb the view through it.

In an alternative to this embodiment, a substantially parabolic weather protective glass is provided. In this way, the manufacture of the weather protection glass can be simplified as a flat glass that can simply be fixed on two opposite straight side edges and a force applied at the center, whereby the glass will be externally curved. This is especially a structural possibility due to the relatively low angle a. Therefore, manufacturing costs can be reduced.

In another embodiment, the weather protection glass is made of or comprises glass, preferably hardened glass. A glass weather protection glass can be molded or cast to adopt its final curved shape or it can be molded first, for example in a substantially flat shape, and then deformed to assume its curved shape.

By using glass compared to plastic, which is traditionally used in weather protectors in flat roof skylights, the weather protector becomes more resistant to wear, since the glass is less prone to scratches, dents and the like, and because the Glass has normally better structural characteristics, such as strength, hardness and stiffness. Scratches and dents will increase the roughness of the surface of the weather protection glass, so that water on the surface of the weather protector is more likely to be retained if the weather protection glass is made of plastic. In a comparable way, especially the dome-shaped plastic weather protectors of the prior art would be expensive to manufacture in glass.

In another embodiment, the weather protection glass is coated on a top surface with a coating that improves the drainage properties of the upper surface by decreasing the surface tension properties, decreasing surface roughness or affecting other physical properties of the upper surface. The coating may be a self-cleaning coating and / or a hydrophobic coating and / or may contain titanium dioxide.

In another embodiment, the length and width of an imaginary rectangle defined by the four lower corners of the weather protection glass are greater than a corresponding length and width, respectively, of the window frame.

By extending the weather protection glass beyond the window frame of the flat roof skylight window part, water from the top surface of the weather protection glass can be conducted to external peripheral edges of the window part while, for example, using lateral members of the skirt that extend at substantially right angles to the Pl plane. Therefore, the risk of water entering the window part or the building through the window part is reduced.

The second aspect of the invention provides a weather shield to be mounted on a window portion to form a flat roof skylight window according to any of the above embodiments, the weather shield comprising a weather protective glass comprising two substantially straight opposite peripheral edges and two opposite curved peripheral edges, and a weather protective skirt supporting the weather protective glass and comprising two first opposite side members of the skirt, each of the first side members of the skirt supports one of said curved edges, in which each of the first side members of the skirt comprises a base part, said base parts extend substantially parallel to each other, each said base part extends substantially along a full length of each respective said two curved edges, further comprising the minus one of said first side members of the skirt a first support leg, the first support leg extends in an internal direction from and at an angle to an internal surface of the respective base part of said one of the first side members of the skirt, said internal surface faces the other of said first side members of the skirt, one of said curved edges of the weather protection glass resting on a support surface of said first support leg, where said support surface extends along said one of the curved edges in a curve that substantially corresponds to a curve along which said curved edge extends.

With the second aspect of the invention, it is possible to provide an upper support of a curved edge of a weather protection glass by means of the first support leg, the support surface of the first support leg following the curve of the weather protection glass in its respective curved edge. Therefore, surprisingly, a well supported weather protective glass with a curved edge can be provided in a simple manner. The advantages of a curved weather protective glass with two curved side edges are described above in relation to the explanation of the first aspect of the invention.

The first support leg comprises a support surface, which may be a higher or higher surface, that is, a higher support area of the sizes forged according to a curved peripheral lower surface of the glass

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weather protection and in direct or indirect contact (indirect contact, for example, which includes the presence of intermediate elements of adhesion and / or sealing) with the weather protection glass in order to extend the gravity load of the glass over a larger area and in this way reduce the forces on the glass itself as well as on the first support leg.

In addition, sealing between the curved weather protective glass and the first side member of the skirt can be easily achieved. Some options will be explained below. Therefore, a tight weather protector with good drainage properties can be easily reached.

The curved edge resting on the support surface is intended to include that a lower peripheral area or part of a lower surface of the weather protection glass rests on the support surface. The curved peripheral edges of the weather protective glass may alternatively be referred to as "curved peripheral parts or areas" of the weather protective glass. These curved peripheral parts may each comprise a lower surface area in contact with the first support leg (s).

Similar to the first aspect of the invention, the weather protective glass of the weather shield according to the second aspect of the invention may further comprise a curved bottom surface intended to face a window part and have four bottom corners positioned in an imaginary bottom plane P1, an upper line or vertex line or peak line X that extends between said two curved edges where the lower surface of the weather protection glass has the greatest distance to the lower plane P1, a connection line L1 connecting two of said lower corners, extending the connection line L1 substantially parallel to the vertex line X, the vertex line X and the connection line L1 are positioned in an imaginary inclination plane P2, where an angle a between the lower plane P1 and the inclination plane P2 is between 1 and 10 degrees. The angle a may be within the preferred angle ranges mentioned above. In this way, advantages similar to the above can be achieved in relation to the first aspect of the invention.

In the context of the second aspect of the invention, the internal direction, in which the first support leg extends, can be a direction from the respective base portion towards a spacing enclosed by the weather protection glass and the skirt and / or one direction towards the other of said parts of the base. Similarly, the internal surface of the base part can be defined as the surface facing said interior space and / or the other base part.

One or both base parts of the first side members of the skirt can extend substantially in one plane. These two planes can be substantially parallel to each other. The base part (s) and / or the entire skirt can be tilted slightly externally in a downward direction, that is, in a direction towards the intended position of the window part. Therefore, the water leaving the glass towards the base or skirt part can be conducted along an outer surface of the base or skirt parts, away from a window part placed under the weather shield and potentially on a surface of the roof.

Generally, the first side member of the opposite skirt can be provided as a reflex version of the first side member of the skirt. The first side member of the opposite skirt may similarly comprise a similar first support leg that also extends internally. This first opposite support leg may be in the form of a reflex version of the first support leg, which similarly supports the other curved edge of the weather protection glass.

As indicated above, the curved edge of the weather protector resting on the support surface of the first support leg does not necessarily exclude that a member such as a sealing or adhesive member is positioned between the curved edge (specifically a surface area in the curved edge) and the support surface, that is, the support surface is not necessarily in direct contact with the weather protection glass.

The weather protective skirt may further comprise two second opposite side members of the skirt. The first and second side members of the skirt can be placed in a rectangular shape to form a rectangular or quadratic weather protective skirt. The first side members of the skirt can be placed at substantially right angles with respect to the second side members of the skirt.

One or both of the second side members of the skirt may comprise a base part and / or a first support leg similar to the base part and first support leg, respectively, of the first side members of the skirt and which support a respective of the straight or lateral peripheral edges of the weather protection glass. These support legs can extend substantially in a plane to fit the straight edges. These support legs can similarly extend in an internal direction from and at an angle to an internal surface of a respective base part of the respective side members of the skirt, one of said straight edges of the weather protection glass resting on a support surface of each of said support legs. This support surface can be substantially flat and / or can follow a curve of a peripheral part of the lower surface of the weather protection glass near its straight edges. The first support leg (s) of the first (s) and / or second skirt member (s) can extend from and at a substantially right angle to the base portion.

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The first support leg of the first side member of the skirt can be fixed to the respective base part; It can be fixed at the top of the respective base part or at a distance from the top of the base. It can also be integral with the base part, that is, provided as part of a first side member of the unit skirt. This can also be applied to the second side members of the skirt.

The weather protection glass may be embedded and / or fixed to the skirt of the weather protection. For this purpose, an adhesive or an adhesive member, such as glue or an adhesive tape, can be provided between one or more of the peripheral edges of the weather protection glass and the respective support surface (s) of the side members of the skirt so that to fix the weather protection glass on or to the skirt of the weather protector using adhesion. Alternatively, the weather protection glass can be fixed to the weather protection skirt using a clamping device or other mechanical means.

The side members of the weather protector skirt can provide or comprise aluminum profiles, which can be ejected, and can have the form of unit or integral profiles from which the respective first support leg (and / or the second support leg, see below) can be folded and / or produced during possible exclusion of profiles. This can be maintained for lightweight and weather-resistant side skirts that can be produced at low costs.

In an embodiment of the weather protector according to the second aspect of the invention, the support surface of the first support leg extends over at least half of a full length of said curved edge. The support surface of the first support leg may extend over at least 70% or 90% of a total length of said curved edge.

The support surface can comprise two or more smaller support surface parts that can be separated over a length of the support surface by interruptions, such as gaps or the like, in which case the support surface itself can be considered a cumulative surface of said smaller surface parts.

The more the curvature of the leg corresponds to the curved edge of the weather protection glass, the better the weather protection glass can be supported, and less sealant and / or adhesive has to be used between the weather protection glass and the first support leg, and the lower the risk of water entering inside the weather protector. It is preferred that substantially an entire length of the respective curved edge be supported on the support surface. However, the support surface may extend from 30% to 100% of a respective curved edge length, this range being more preferred from 50% to 100%, more preferred from 70% to 100%, more preferred from 80% to 100%, more preferred 90% to 100%, more preferred 95% to 100%, more preferably substantially 100%.

In another embodiment, the first support leg comprises a lower part and an adapter element, the adapter element comprising the support surface, wherein said adapter element is disposed between said lower part and said curved edge of the weather protection glass. In this way, the adapter element can adapt a first lower part of easily fabricated support leg, which can be flat, to correspond to the curved shape of the curved edge. The lower part can be a tongue fixed or integrated with the base part.

The adapter element may be a separate element from the remaining parts of the first side member of the skirt. The adapter element can be substantially crescent-shaped, potentially with a substantially straight bottom surface, which can rest on an upper surface of the lower part, and a curved upper surface that constitutes the support surface of the first support leg. It can be fixed to the base part and / or the bottom part using joining elements, for example clips, screws or bolts. The adapter element, the base part and / or the lower part can therefore comprise fixing holes for the insertion and fixing of the fixing members. The fixing members may be part or fixed to the adapter element and may comprise an automatic closing system to automatically block the fixing of the members in the fixing holes. The adapter element may be made of a material, which may be elastic, flexible and / or comprise a plastic material, potentially to improve the absorption of forces in the adapter element. Consequently, the bottom or the tongue can provide a spring effect to further enhance the absorption of force. This can be achieved especially in the case of a flat bottom part in the form of a substantially flat plate, which on a longitudinally extending edge is fixed or integrated with the base part.

In another embodiment, the first support leg comprises a folded part, which is folded inwardly from the material of the base part of the side member of the skirt. In this embodiment, the aforementioned bent part may be or comprise the lower part or tongue of the support leg, whose bent part is internally bent from the base part material of the side skirt member. Alternatively, the first full support leg can be the entire bent part.

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By providing a folded part that forms or comprises the first support leg, so that the curved peripheral edge is supported by this, the water on the surface of the weather protection glass can be drained from the weather protection glass on an outer surface of the side member of the skirt .

The bent part of the current embodiment may be the lower part of the previous embodiment, an adapter element of the first support leg is also provided as described above. However, it is not necessary to provide an adapter element as described above in the current embodiment. Instead, it may be advantageous to discard the adapter element and, instead, allow the folded portion of the first support leg to include the support surface on which the curved edge of the weather protection glass rests. Therefore, the bent part of the support leg can be plate-shaped and can be forged so that, at least a part of its length corresponding to the extension of the support surface, a curvature of the curved edge of the protective glass follows climatological. (The latter may also be the case even if the adapter element of the previous embodiment is included). This can be especially advantageous with the weather protector according to the first aspect of the present invention due to the relatively small curvature of the weather protective glass since with larger curvatures, the deformations in the first side member of the skirt during the bending of the first side member of the The skirt can be so large that it would be too difficult to maintain the shape of the base part and / or the folded part during bending. With such a bent curved part it can be especially advantageous, as described above, to provide one or more interruptions, such as gaps, along the length of the bent part and / or at the bottom of the first support leg, given This can decrease deformations during bending.

Generally, the first side member of the skirt can be provided as a general plate-shaped element, which has been deformed to provide the first support leg or the folded portion with a curvature in a longitudinal direction, that is, a direction extending along a curved edge length of the weather protection glass.

In another embodiment, a hollow channel is provided in the first support leg, such as to act as a channel for water to potentially enter through a space between the weather protective glass and the first side member of the skirt.

By providing a hollow channel in the first support leg, the weather shield can protect an interior separation from the weather shield, that is, a window part underneath, in case of wear of a sealing element or an adhesive element or the members themselves side of the skirt, resulting in water that penetrates the connection between the weather protection glass and the side member of the skirt. In this case, water can be collected in the hollow channel and, therefore, will not penetrate between the weather protective glass and the side member of the skirt and, potentially, on or inside the window part.

In the current embodiment, the first support leg may comprise an ascending step at a distance from the base portion, so that the hollow channel extends between the ascending step and the base part, this ascending step extends substantially in parallel to the base part. Alternatively, the first support leg may comprise, at a first distance from the base part, a descending step and immediately after or at a second longer distance from the base part comprises an ascending step, so that the hollow channel is formed between the two steps. Again, these steps can potentially extend substantially parallel to the base part.

The hollow channel may in all cases comprise a lower surface, which may be a part of a surface of the first support leg or of the lower part / tongue mentioned above or the bent part mentioned above. In the last mentioned design with two steps, the lower surface of the channel can be provided between the two steps. One or both steps may bend at substantially right angles, and other steps may be present.

At one end of the first support leg that moves away from the base part, the first support leg may comprise a resting part on which the weather protection glass and / or on which the aforementioned adapter element rests. This resting part can be provided so that the hollow channel is between the base part and the resting part. The resting part may have a substantially linear or curved profile, and the support surface may be provided as an upper surface or part of an upper surface of the resting part. The first support leg as such and / or the resting part can follow the curvature of the respective curved edge of the weather protection glass, at least on a part of the length of the curved edge, and / or the upper part of the mentioned adapter element is It can provide between the resting part and the curved edge of the weather protection glass.

In another embodiment, the side member of the skirt comprises a second support leg, the second support leg extends internally from an internal surface of said base part, a sealing element that is placed to seal a space between the weather protective glass and the base part of the first side member of the skirt, the second support leg that supports the sealing element. The sealing member is preferably elastic and may be of a plastic or silicone elastic material.

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With the second support leg, an effective seal can be achieved between the weather protection glass and the side member of the skirt. The elastic properties of the sealing element can ensure a tight connection between the weather protection glass and the base part, thereby further reducing the risk of water entering between the weather protection glass and the first side member of the skirt. In addition, the provision of a flexible sealing member may provide a damping between the weather protective glass and the first side member of the skirt. The sealing member can be rectangle and / or can be extended to cover a gap or space between the weather protection glass and the base part. This gap can extend substantially along a full length of the respective curved edge of the weather protection glass. A similar recess can extend along the other edges of the weather protection glass, and a similar sealing element can also extend into those recesses.

The second support leg may be placed on top of the first support leg, that is, closer to an upper end of the base portion of the first side member of the skirt. The second support leg can be placed at a distance from the first support leg. The second support leg may be fixed to or integrated with the base part, and may be fixed at the upper end of the base part or at a distance from the upper end of the base part. It is preferred that the second support leg be located between said upper end of the base part and the first support leg.

Similar to the first support leg, an adapter element can be provided as described above for the first support leg for the second support leg. This second adapter element can similarly comprise a curved top surface, which can be a support surface to support the sealing element, and can be substantially identical or a reflex version of the first adapter element. The second support leg can be without an adapter element and forged in a longitudinal direction to follow a curve of the curved edge of the weather protection glass.

Similar to the first support leg as described above, the first side member of the opposite skirt may comprise a second similar support leg that also extends internally. This second opposite support leg may be in the form of a reflex version of the second support leg that has a similar function on the opposite curved edge of the weather protection glass.

If the skirt of the weather shield further comprises two opposite second side members of the skirt positioned at the straight edges of the weather shield glass, these second side members of the skirt may also potentially comprise a similar second support leg similar to the second described support leg of the first lateral member (s) of the skirt and potentially extending substantially linearly. These second support legs of the second side members of the skirt can extend substantially in respective planes to correspond to the straight edges of the weather protection glass and can be similarly extended in an interior direction from and potentially at an angle with an internal surface of a respective base part of each of the second side members of the skirt.

If the adapter element (s) are provided for the first and / or second leg as described above, and the weather shield skirt comprises two opposite second side members of the skirt, the four side members of the skirt they can be manufactured from a side member of the skirt or white side member. Therefore, the adapter elements can be used to adapt the first and / or the second support leg to the curvature of the curved edges of the weather protection glass.

The second support leg can extend from and at a substantially right angle to the base part. Alternatively, the support leg may extend at an angle to the base part from 45 to 90 degrees, preferably from 70 to 90 degrees.

In another embodiment, an upper end of the base part of the first side skirt member is forged with a curvature so that at least along a part of the upper end a curvature of that curved edge of the weather protective glass follows which is supported by the first side member of the skirt.

In this way, the sealing properties are improved and it can be made possible to provide a sealing member, such as the above-mentioned sealing member, between an area at the upper end of the base portion and the respective curved edge of the protective glass weather, especially if the second support leg mentioned above also follows a curve of the curved edge of the weather protection glass.

A curvature of the upper end of the base part can follow the curvature of the curved edge of the weather protection glass along substantially the entire length of the curved edge.

The weather protective glass may comprise a curved bottom surface with four bottom corners located in an imaginary bottom plane P1, and the curved top end of the first side member of the skirt can be provided substantially at the same level from this bottom plane as the respective curved edge of the glass Weather protector, specifically at the level of the upper end of this curved edge. In this way, a sealing member can be positioned between the upper end of the base part and the curved edge of the weather protection glass.

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In the current embodiment, if the skirt of the weather shield further comprises two opposite second side members of the skirt, the four side members of the skirt can be manufactured and / or drilled from a starting member of the side member of the side or white skirt, as mentioned previously. Therefore, the adapter elements can be used to adapt the first and / or the second support leg to the curvature of the curved edges of the weather protection glass, and the upper ends of the first side members of the skirt can be cut or perforated to follow the curvature of the respective curved edges of the weather protection glass, and the corresponding upper ends of the second side members of the skirt can be cut or perforated to follow the respective substantially straight edges of the weather protection glass.

In another embodiment, the weather shield is mounted on a window portion to form a flat roof skylight window and so that the weather shield is mounted on the skylight window q that covers and protects the window portion from time.

In an embodiment of the first aspect of the invention, a flat roof skylight window according to the first aspect of the invention is provided, in which the weather protection is according to the second aspect of the invention a weather protection. Thus, combined advantages of the first and second aspects of the invention can be obtained.

In both the first aspect and the second aspect of the invention, the skirt of the weather protector can be cast or molded, for example injection molded, injection molded specifically reaction (MIR). The entire skirt can be fused integrally or each of the four side members of the skirt can be fused individually. The skirt can be cast or molded integrally around the weather protection glass, whereby the weather protection skirt will adapt to the shape of the edges of the weather protection glass and can also provide a self-sealing structure.

In general, it is noted that the reference signs in the claims and in the above description of the embodiments of the invention are not intended to limit the scope of the claims, for example to any of the detailed embodiments described below.

The drawings

In the accompanying drawings, which show non-binding examples of embodiments of the first and second aspects of the present invention,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of a flat roof skylight window according to the first aspect of the invention mounted on a flat roof and comprising an embodiment of a weather protector according to the second aspect of the invention,

Figure 2 is a detailed perspective view of the weather protector of Figure 1,

Figure 3 is a side view of a weather protection glass of the weather protector of Figure 1,

Figure 4 is an exploded perspective view of the weather protector of Figure 1,

Figures 5a and 5b are an inside view and a view in the outer plane, respectively, of a first side member of the skirt of the weather shield of Figure 1,

Figure 6 is a side view of the first side member of the skirt of Figures 5a and 5b seen from the left in Figure 5a,

Figure 6a is a cross-sectional side view of the first side member of the skirt of Figures 5a and 5b viewed from the same angle as in Figure 6,

Figure 7 is a side view corresponding to that of Figure 6 with a weather protective glass supported on a first support leg of the side member of the skirt of Figures 5a and 5b,

Figure 8 is a side view corresponding to that of Figure 7 of a second side member of the skirt of the weather protector of Figure 1 seen from the left in Figure 4 with a weather protective glass supported on a first support leg of the second side member of the skirt,

Figure 9 is a perspective view of an alternative embodiment of the first side member of the skirt of Figures 5a and 5b with a weather protective glass supported on a first support leg of the first side member of the skirt,

Figure 9a is a cross-sectional side view corresponding to that of Figure 6a of the first side member of the skirt of Figure 9,

Figures 10a and 10b are schematic side views seen from the left in Figure 4 of alternative embodiments of the second side member of the skirt of Figure 8 with a weather protective glass supported on a first support leg of the second side member of the skirt,

Figure 11 is a perspective view of an alternative embodiment of the weather protector of Figure 1 which has a fully molded skirt,

Figure 12 is a view corresponding to the view of Figure 11 of an alternative embodiment of the weather shield of Figure 11 with a molded skirt and in a pre-assembled state, and

Figure 13 shows a cross-sectional perspective view taken along the line Xlll-Xlll of Figure 12 of the weather protector of Figure 12 in a pre-assembled state.

10 Detailed description of the embodiments of the invention

Figure 1 shows an embodiment of a flat roof skylight window 1 according to the first aspect of the invention mounted on a flat roof 2 and comprising a weather protector 3 according to the second aspect of the invention.

The skylight window 1 comprises a window part 1a that is visible in Figure 1 behind the weather protective glass 15, specifically two side members of the sash of the four side members of the sash of a sash window 4a of the window part 1a are visible through the glass 6. The window part 1a also comprises a frame 4b with four side members of the frame, of which two are visible in Figure 1, each side frame member being positioned along and in the exterior of the respective of the four lateral members of the guillotine. The window part 1a also comprises an insulating window glass 20 1b mounted on the window sash 4a below the weather protection glass 6. A person skilled in the art will be able to devise how to mount the window part 1a, specifically the window frame 4b of the window part 1a, on the roof 2. The window part 1a may have the shape of the skylight window (ie, the part of the structure placed under the weather shield) shown and explained in relation to Figures 1 and 2 of WO 2009/080026 A, the weather protector 3 of the skylight window 1 according to the 25 embodiments shown in the drawings replacing the weather protector of Figures 1 and 2 of WO 2009/080026 A. En an alternative not shown, the window part 1a does not comprise a sash window, only a window frame, and the window pane is mounted on the window frame.

The weather protector 3 is provided as a unitary structure, which is separated from the window part 1a. The weather protector 3 is mounted on the window part 1a to cover and protect from weathering the window part 1a which is mounted on the skylight window 1. The weather protection glass 6 is externally curved, that is, upwards in the Figure 1, in relation to the window part 1a, see below. The weather protection glass 6 is a transparent toughened glass window pane.

The weather protector 3 and its details are shown in more detail in Figures 2 to 8.

The weather protection glass 6 comprises two substantially straight opposite peripheral edges 6a, 6b and two opposite curved peripheral edges 6c and 6d. The weather protection glass 6 further comprises a curved lower surface 7 facing the window part 1a and having four lower corners 7a, 7b, 7c and an additional lower corner not visible in the views of the figures, these four corners are positioned in an imaginary flat bottom P1, see figure 3. These lower corners are the lower corners of the corners where the respective edges 6a to 6d meet. The weather protection glass 6 further comprises a curved upper surface 40, opposite 8, the two surfaces 7 and 8 having essentially the same shape and curvature.

The curvature of the lower surface 7 follows the following geometric definitions according to the first aspect of the invention:

As shown in Figure 3, a vertex line or peak line X extends horizontally, that is, in a direction of depth of Figure 3, between two curved edges 6c and 6d where the bottom surface 7 has the greatest distance to the lower plane P1. A connection line L1, see Figure 3, connects the bottom corner 7a with the bottom corner not visible in the figures, the connection line L1 extends substantially parallel to the vertex line X, that is, in a direction of depth in figure 3. The vertex line X and the connection line L1 are located in an imaginary inclination plane P2, also shown in figure 3. The planes P1 and P2 intersect in line L1. An angle a shown in Figure 3 is defined between the lower plane P1 and the plane of inclination P2. This angle a is 3 degrees in the embodiment shown. The plane P1 is substantially parallel to a plane of the window part 1a of the window glass 1b. The weather protection glass 6 is substantially forged as a cylinder housing segment that is externally curved in relation to the window part 1a. Specifically, each of the two surfaces 7, 8 has the shape of a cylinder housing segment. The cylinder housing segment is a circular cylinder housing segment so that the curved peripheral edges 6c, 6d of the weather protection glass 6 substantially follow a circular arc, see especially Figure 3. A radius of the cylinder housing segment Circular is approximately 8.5 m. Note that this implies that the curved edges 6c, 6d also substantially follow a circular arc, and the

Crystal 6 also follows a circular arc in a cross section taken along a cross section plane that extends substantially at right angles to a plane through which the vertex line X extends and forms a right angle to the plane P1 .

The curvature of the weather protection glass 6 is such that the upper surface 8 of the glass 6 tilts up 5 in a full area of this upper surface 6 on the upper surface 8 areas on both sides of the vertex line X so that there are no depressions there are no horizontal areas on or on the upper surface 6. However, the vertex line X extends substantially horizontally in that it is mounted from the skylight window 1.

The weather protection glass 6 is substantially symmetrical with respect to the vertex line X.

The weather shield 3 further comprises the weather shield 5 that supports the weather shield 10 and extends along the four side edges 6a to 6d of the weather shield 6 to seal the window part 1a of the surroundings and / or avoid or reduce the entry of water and / or dirt in the window part 1a. The weather protective skirt 5 comprises four side members of the skirt 5a, 5b, 5c and 5d that are positioned to substantially form a square when viewed from above. The skirt elements 5a, 5b, 5c and 5d are assembled to form the skirt 5 in an essentially known manner by using the 15 corner keys 5e, see Figure 4.

The weather protection skirt 5 is fixed to the window part 1a in a manner not shown, specifically to the window frame 4a and / or to the sash window 4b, to place the weather protection glass 6 in position on top of the window part 1a. A person skilled in the art will be able to devise how to achieve this.

The side members of the skirt 5a to 5d, specifically base parts thereof, extend substantially at right angles to the plane P1, each of the respective peripheral side edges 6a to 6d of the glass 6 supporting such that the weather protection glass 6 is embedded and mounted on the climatologically protective skirt 5. Therefore, the climatological protective glass 6 is positioned with its two straight peripheral side edges 6a, 6b substantially in parallel with the two side members of the skirt 5c, 5d, respectively, and with the two curved peripheral side edges 6c, 6d extending along or adjacent to the other two side members of the skirt 5a, 5b, respectively.

The climatological protective glass 6 has a substantially constant thickness along a complete panel area, that is, a distance between the upper surface 8 and the lower surface 7 is substantially constant over a complete area of the climatologically protective glass 6, see Figure 3. This thickness is approximately 5 mm. A complete surface area of the upper and lower surfaces 7, 8, respectively, is 30 of approximately 2 m2, the length and width of the glass 6 being approximately 1.4 m, respectively.

The glass of the insulating window 1b of the window part 1a comprises three layers of glass mounted on the window frame 4b and with an inert gas between them. The window frame 4b and the side members of the window sash 4a are substantially positioned in a square. The glazing of the window part is called UAA (Insulating Glazing Unit).

35 The skylight window 1 can be made so that it can be opened, which can be achieved as follows: the window part 1a can open by itself, whereby the window sash 4a can be opened in relation to the window frame 4b. The weather protector 3 is fixed to the sash of the window 4a of the window part 1a so that the sash of the window 4a and the weather protector 3 move together and open in relation to the window frame 4b. This is achieved by means of the window sash 4a rotating along one of the side members of the window frame during the opening of the skylight window 1, the window sash 4a being rotatably fixed to the window frame 4b along said side window frame member. Therefore, the weather shield 3 is mounted on the window part 1a such that the weather shield 3 follows the sash of the window 4a in an opening movement by the sash of the window 4a in relation to the frame of the window 4b. A chain transmission system can be provided to drive or achieve opening and closing movements.

The line of vertex X has a distance to the plane P1 of approximately 10 to 80 mm, preferably 15 to 40 mm, follows a transverse central line of the weather protection glass 6 and extends in parallel with the straight edges 6a, 6b of the protective glass meteorological 6. The line of vertex X extends to a length substantially identical to the length of each of the straight edges 6a, 6b of the weather protection glass 6.

50 The height from the plane P1 to the top of the surface 8 of the weather protection glass 6 is between 1-4% of the total width of the glass 6 when this height is measured at the line of vertex X. The skylight window 1 it is mounted on the flat roof 2 so that the plane P1 and the window pane 1b are placed substantially horizontally.

The weather protection glass 6 has been molded or cast to adopt its final curved shape. The weather protection glass 55 is coated on the upper surface 8 thereof with a coating that improves the drainage properties of the upper surface by decreasing the surface tension properties. The coating is a self-cleaning and hydrophobic coating that contains titanium dioxide.

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The length and width of an imaginary rectangle defined by the four lower corners, which include the lower corners 7a, 7b and 7c, of the weather protection glass 6 are greater than a corresponding exterior length and width, respectively, of the window frame 4b of window part 1a, see figure 1.

The side members of the skirt 5c to 5d are best seen in Figure 4. The side members of the skirt 5a and 5b are versions reflected together, and the side members of the skirt 5c and 5d are versions reflected to each other. The side member of the skirt 5a comprises a base part 10 which extends in parallel with an opposite reflected base part 11 of the side member of the opposite skirt 5b. The base portions 5a, 5b extend substantially along a full length of the two curved edges 6c and 6d, respectively.

The side member of the skirt 5a is shown in more detail in Figures 5a to 7, to which reference is made below.

The side member of the skirt 5a comprises a first support leg 12, the corresponding reflected support leg 13 of the side member of the opposite skirt 5b being visible in Figure 4. The first support leg 12 extends in an internal direction from and in an angle with respect to an inner surface 14 of the base part 10, whose inner surface 14 faces the lateral member of the side skirt 5d. The curved edge 6c of the weather protection glass 6 rests on a support surface 15 of the first support leg 12, see Figures 6a and 7. The support surface 15 extends along the curved edge 6c in a corresponding curve substantially to the curve along which the curved edge 6c extends. The support surface 15 of the first support leg 12 is an upper surface or upper support area of some size forged according to a peripheral area of the curved lower surface 7 of the weather protective glass 6 at the edge 6c thereof. The support surface 15 is in indirect contact with the weather protection glass 6 as shown in Figure 6a to disperse part of the gravity load of the glass 6 over the surface area 15 and thereby reduce the forces on the same glass as well. as on the first support leg 12. A flexible adhesive damping and sealing element 50 is provided between the support surface 15 and the lower surface 7 of the glass 6, see Figure 6a, this element 50 extending substantially throughout the edge length 6c. See below the description of Figures 10a and 10b with respect to the details of the element 50, which may comprise one or more of the elements 46, 47 and 49 of Figures 10a and 10b.

The interior direction in which the first support leg 12 extends is a direction from the base part 10 towards an interior separation 16 enclosed by the weather protection glass 6, the skirt 5 and the window part 1a. It is also a direction towards the opposite base part 11.

The base parts 10, 11 each extend substantially in one plane. However, in a lower part of the base parts 10, 11, protrusions are included to provide the seal between the skirt 5 and the window frame 4b and / or the window sash 4a. These projections are of types known to a person skilled in the art and will not be described in detail. The two planes in which the base portions 10, 11 generally extend are substantially parallel to each other and are substantially vertical.

The first support leg 12 is fixed to the base part 10 at an inner end and at a distance from an upper end 17 thereof.

The support surface 15 of the support leg 12 extends substantially over a full length of the curved edge 6c so that substantially an entire length of the curved edge 6c is supported on the support surface 15.

The first support leg 12 comprises a flat tongue or lower part 12a and an adapter element 12b, the adapter element 12b comprising the support surface 15 and being disposed between the lower part 12a and the (lower surface area 7 in it) curved edge 6c. The adapter element 12b adapts the lower part of the plane 12a to correspond to the curved shape of the (lower surface area 7 on the) curved edge 6c. The lower part 12a extends upward at a slightly different angle from a right angle with respect to the base part 10, specifically the inner surface 14 thereof. This angle can usually be 1 to 20 degrees or 2 to 7 degrees. The lower part 12a is fixed to the base part 10 and is integrated therewith, so that the lower portion 12a and the base portion 10 form a unitary member manufactured as an integral extruded aluminum profile. The base parts and the lower parts or the first support legs of the other skirt members 5b, 5c and 5d are similar unit profiles. The unit profiles are in the present embodiment and may also, in other embodiments generally, be extruded aluminum profiles that can be subsequently perforated in shape, especially along the upper ends, including the upper end 17, of the base parts .

The adapter element 12b is and can also generally be a separate element from the base part 10. The adapter element 12b is substantially crescent-shaped, see Figure 5a, with a substantially straight bottom surface, which rests on an upper surface of the lower part 12a, and a curved upper surface constituting the support surface 15. The adapter element 12b can be fixed to the base part 10 and / or to the lower part 12a using fasteners (not shown), for example clips, screws or bolts. The adapter element 12b, the base part 10 and / or the lower part 12a can accordingly comprise fixing holes

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(not shown) for insertion and fixation of the fixation members. The fixing members may be part or fixed to the adapter element and may comprise an automatic closing system to automatically lock the fixing members in the fixing holes. The adapter element 12b is made of a flexible elastic plastic material, specifically cut / perforated plastic or plastic (ASA). Together with the lower part 12a, a spring effect is thus provided, which improves the absorption of the forces of the crystal 6 in the support leg 12.

The side member of the skirt 5c is shown in more detail in Figure 8, the reference numbers of similar or similar elements in Figure 8 are the reference numbers of Figures 5a to 7 multiplied by 10. The side member of the skirt 5d It is a reflected version of the side member of the skirt 5c and works in the same way.

With reference to Figure 8, the side member of the skirt 5c comprises, similar to the side member of the side skirt 5a, a base part 100 and a first support leg 120 similar to the base part 10 and the first support leg 12 of the side member of the skirt 5a, the side member of the skirt 5c similarly supports the (lower surface area on the) straight edge 6b of the weather protection glass 6. The support leg 120 extends, similar to the support leg 12 , substantially in a plane and with a slight angle in the internal direction and from an internal surface 140 of the base part 100 to fit on the lower surface slightly inclined on the straight edge 6b of the glass 6 (this lower surface is substantially straight in this small peripheral area of the lower surface 7 of the crystal 6). The (lower surface on the) straight edge 6b of the weather protection glass 6 rests on an upper support surface 150 of the first support leg 120. Here, no adapter element is needed as the adapter element 12b since the glass 6 is not curve along its straight edges 6a, 6b.

Figures 9 and 10 show an alternative embodiment of the side member of the skirt 5a of Figures 5a and 5b, denoted as 105a. In Fig. 9, 100 has been added to the reference numbers for the side member of the skirt 5a for identical elements or elements of the same function compared to the side member of the skirt 5a. Only differences of the side member of the skirt 5a will be described below.

A first support leg 112 is constituted by an internally bent part of the material of a part of the base 110 of the side member of the skirt 105a and therefore extends from an upper end 117 of the base part 110. Again, the curved edge 6c is supported on an upper support surface 115 of support leg 112 that follows the curvature of the glass 6 on the curved edge 6c. Therefore, the adapter element 12b as described above need not be present in this embodiment. On the edge 6c of the glass 6, an adhesive tape 150 and a silicone sealing element that dampens 151 between the surface 115 and the lower surface 7 of the glass 6 are arranged.

The support leg 112 is in the form of a plate and is forged to follow the curvature of the edge 6c along the entire length of the edge 6c of the glass 6. This embodiment is especially advantageous with the relatively small curvature of the glass 6, since with Major curvatures The deformations in the side member of the skirt 105a during bending may be so large that it would be too difficult to maintain the shape of the base part 110 or the support leg 112 during bending.

Note that, similar to the side member of the skirt 5a, the side member of the skirt 105a comprises a base portion 112a (not of the support leg in this embodiment) that can be used as the support leg 12 for the side member of the skirt 5c so that all the side members of the skirt 5a to 5d can be manufactured from the same blank as explained above.

Also note that, generally, the edges 6a to 6d of the glass 6 can be rounded as the edge 6a shown in Figures 9 and 9a or straight as the edge 6a shown in Figures 7 and 8.

The surface 8 of the weather protection glass 6 defines the upper surface of the skylight window, and substantially no part, such as the skirt members, obstructs or covers the surface 8.

Figure 10a shows an alternative embodiment 105c of the second side member of the skirt 5c of Figure 8. In Figure 10a, 100 has been added to the reference numbers used for the side member of the skirt 5c for identical elements or elements thereof. function compared to the side member of the skirt 5c. Next, only the differences of the lateral member of the lateral skirt 5c will be described.

The weather protection glass 6 is supported and in indirect contact with a first support leg 220 of the side skirt member 105c. A hollow channel 40 is provided in the support leg 220 to act as a water collecting channel that potentially enters between the weather protection glass 6 and a base part 200. The support leg 220 comprises an upward passage 41 at a distance of the base part 200 so that the hollow channel 40 extends between the ascending step 41 and an internal surface 240 of the base part 200, this ascending step 41 which extends substantially parallel to the part of the base 200. The hollow channel 40 comprises a lower surface, which is part of an upper surface of the support leg 220. The ascending step 41 forms two substantially right angles of the support leg 220.

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At a right end of the support leg 220 that faces in the opposite direction to the base part 200, the support leg 220 comprises a resting part 48 on which the weather protective glass 6 indirectly rests. This resting part 48 is provided so that the hollow channel 40 is located between the base part 200 and the rest part 48. The rest part 48 has a substantially linear and flat profile, and a support surface 250 is provided as the upper surface of the resting part 48.

The skirt member 105c also comprises a second support leg 42, which extends integrally with, inwardly from and at a substantially right angle to an internal surface 240 of the base portion 200. An elastic sealing element in the form of a silicone gasket or seam 44 is positioned to seal a space between the glass 6 and the inner surface 240 of the base part 200, the support leg 42 that supports the sealing element 44 through a support element 45 The support element 45 is made of an elastic plastic material. The support leg 42 supports the sealing element 44 to keep it in place between the glass 6 and the base part 200. The members 44 and 45 are oblong and extend to cover an oblong hole or space between the glass 6 and the base part 200. This gap and the elements 44 and 45 extend substantially along a full length of the curved edge 6b of the glass 6. If similar side members of the skirt are used along the other edges of the glass 6 , a similar recess may extend along said edges, and a similar sealing element may also extend into those recesses.

The support leg 42 is located above the support leg 220 between the upper end 170 of the base part 200 and the support leg 220. The support leg 42 is located at a distance from the upper end 170 and the leg of support 220.

An adhesive tape 46 is provided between the glass 6 and the support surface 250 to adhere the glass 6 to the side member of the skirt 105c. After the adhesive tape, a silicone member 47 is placed to provide cushioning and sealing between the glass 6 and the support surface 250.

Figure 10b shows an embodiment similar to that shown in Figure 10a, but which has been slightly modified because elements 46 and 47 have been replaced by a thinner cushion and adhesive tape 49, which may be of the 3M® VHP type, and the resting part 48 moves slightly upward so that it is in the same plane as the support leg 42.

An alternative embodiment not shown of the side member of the skirt 5a shown in Figures 5a to 7 is modified to a structure similar to the structure of the side member of the skirt 105c as shown in Figure 10a or Figure 10b. Accordingly, a similar blank or blank, ie an aluminum profile, similar to the side member of the skirt 205c forms a base part and a support leg of the side member of the modified skirt 5a. However, while the part of the base 200 of the side member of the skirt 105c at its upper end 170 is perforated to substantially follow the straight edge 6b of the glass 6, similar to the embodiment of Figures 5a to 7, the part of the base of the modified skirt side member 5a at its upper end is perforated to be curved to substantially follow the curved edge 6c of the glass 6. The modified design of the skirt side member 5a also comprises a hollow channel, a step and a resting part similar to hollow channel 40, step 41 and resting part 48, respectively, as shown in Figure 10a or Figure 10b. In the modified design of the side member of the skirt 5a, an adapter element similar to the adapter element 12b is provided on an upper surface of the resting part to similarly provide a curved support surface similar to the support surface 15. In the Modified design of the side member of the skirt 5a, members 46, 47 and 49 of Figures 10a and 10b, can potentially be removed, or one or more of these members can be placed between the support surface and the bottom surface of the glass 6. In addition, a somewhat thinner forged adapter element can be placed on an upper surface of a second support leg of the modified design of the side member of the skirt 5a, corresponding to the support leg 42, to similarly provide a curved upper support surface of the second support leg that follows the curved side edge 6c. In an alternative of this modified design of the side member of the skirt 5a, one or both of its support legs are modified so that one or both of them by themselves, that is, without the use of an adapter element, are curved to follow the curved side edge 6c of glass 6.

Figure 11 shows an alternative embodiment of the weather shield 3 of Figures 1 to 8. 200 has been added to the reference signs of the weather shield embodiment shown in Figure 11, which is thus designated 203 and comprises a skirt weather protector 205. The skirt 205 in this embodiment is a unitary structure of side members of the skirt 205a to 205d, which are molded by integral injection injection (MIR) of a plastic material, specifically PUR (polyurethane), around the glass 6 for fit very precisely with the edges of the glass 6. The weather protection glass 6 of this embodiment is identical to the previous embodiments.

Figures 12 and 13 show a slightly modified embodiment of the weather protector 205 of Figure 11. Another 100 have been added to the reference signs of this embodiment of the weather protector, which is thus designated 303 and comprises a weather protective skirt 305 Only the differences compared to the embodiment of Figure 11 will be described below. The skirt 305 is pre-molded, that is, molded before the insertion or assembly of the glass 6 along the arrows of Figure 12. As seen in Figure 13, the side member of the side skirt 305b comprises a leg of support 312, which is similar to support leg 12 in the

Figures 5a to 7, but placed at a distance from the upper edge 317 of a part of the base 310. When molding the skirt 305, it is a simple matter to allow the support leg 312 to bend along the curved bottom surface 7 and the curved edge 6c of the glass 6. Therefore, it is not necessary here to bend the side skirt element 305b and no adapter element. The side member of the opposite skirt 305a has a reflected structure of the side member of the side skirt 305b. Similar to the previous embodiments, the side members of the skirt 305c and 305d comprise straight support legs, each corresponding to the curved support leg 312.

The embodiment of Figure 11 may comprise support legs similar to the support legs of the embodiment of Figures 12 and 13. The side members of the skirt of Figures 11 to 13 may generally comprise elements similar to any of the above embodiments, which include a second support leg and a hollow channel that can have identical functions.

A height, that is, in a top-down direction of Figure 1 or 3, of any of the side members of the skirt described above may generally be 50 to 200 mm, preferably 60 to 150 mm, more preferred than 80 to 100 mm

A person skilled in the art will appreciate that the detailed embodiments described above may be combined to form other embodiments that fall within the scope of the present invention as defined in the appended claims.

Claims (15)

5 10 fifteen twenty 25 30 35 40 Four. Five 1. A flat roof skylight window (1) to be placed substantially horizontal on a flat roof, the skylight window comprising a window part (1a) with an optional window sash, a window frame and an insulating window pane mounted on the window sash or the window frame, and a weather protector (3), which is mounted on the window part to cover and protect against the weather the part of the window that is mounted on the skylight window, wherein the weather protector comprises a weather protective glass (6) which is externally curved in relation to the window part, characterized because the weather protection glass comprises two substantially straight opposite peripheral edges (6a, 6b) and two opposite curved peripheral edges (6c, 6d), the climatological protective glass also comprising a curved lower surface facing the window part and having four lower corners positioned in an imaginary background plane P1, a vertex line or peak line X extends between said two curved edges where the lower surface of the weather protection glass has a larger distance to the lower plane P1, a connection line L1 connects two of said lower corners, the connection line L1 extends substantially parallel to the vertex line X, the vertex line X and the connection line L1 are positioned an imaginary inclination plane P2, in which an angle a between the lower plane P1 and the inclination plane P2 is between 1 and 10 degrees. 2. A flat roof skylight window according to claim 1, wherein the weather protective glass is substantially forged as a segment of the curved cylinder shell. 3. A skylight window according to any of the preceding claims, wherein said climatological protective glass is made of glass, preferably hardened glass. 4. A skylight window according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the climatological protective glass is coated on an upper surface with a coating that improves the drainage properties of the upper surface by decreasing surface tension properties, reducing surface roughness or affect similar properties of the upper surface. 5. A skylight window according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the length and width of an imaginary rectangle defined by the four lower corners of the weather protection glass are greater than a corresponding length and width, respectively, of the window frame. 6. A weather protector (3) to be mounted on a window part to form a flat roof skylight window according to any of the preceding claims, the weather protector comprising a weather protective glass (6) comprising two substantially straight opposite peripheral edges (6a, 6b) and two curved opposite peripheral edges (6c, 6d) and a weather protective skirt (5) supporting the weather protective glass and comprising two first opposite side members of the skirt (5a. 5b), each of the first side members of the skirt supporting one of said curved edges, in which each of the first side members of the skirt comprises a part of the base (10), said base parts extend substantially parallel to each other, each of said parts extending substantially along a respective length of said two curved edges, at least one of said first lateral members of the skirt also comprises a first support leg (12), characterized in that the first support leg extends in an internal direction from and at an angle with respect to an internal surface of the respective base part of said one of the first side members of the skirt, said internal surface (14) facing the other of said first side members of the skirt, one of said curved edges of the weather protection glass resting on a support surface (15) of said first support leg, 5 10 fifteen twenty 25 30 wherein said support surface extends along said curved edge in a curve that substantially corresponds to a curve along which said curved edge extends. 7. A weather protector according to claim 6, wherein the support surface of the first support leg extends over at least half of a full length of said curved edge. 8. A weather protector according to claim 6 or 7, wherein said first support leg comprises a lower part and an adapter element, the adapter element comprising the support surface, wherein said adapter element is disposed between said lower part and said curved edge of the weather protection glass. 9. A weather protector according to any one of claims 6-8, wherein the first support leg comprises a folded part, which is folded internally from the material of the base part of the side member of the skirt. 10. A weather protector according to claim 9, wherein a hollow channel is provided in the first support leg to act as a channel for water to potentially enter through a space between the weather protective glass and the first side member of the skirt. 11. A weather protector according to any of claims 6-9, wherein the side member of the skirt comprises a second support leg, the second support leg extending internally from an internal surface of said part of the base, a sealing element to seal a space between the weather protection glass and the base part of the first side member of the skirt, the second support leg that supports the elastic sealing element. 12. A weather protector according to claim 6, 7, 8, 10 or 11, wherein said weather protective skirt is cast or molded. 13. A weather protector according to any of claims 6-12, wherein an upper end of the base portion of the first side member of the skirt is forged with a curvature so that at least along a portion of the end upper follows a curvature of that curved edge of the weather protection glass that is supported by the first side member of the skirt. 14. A weather shield according to any one of claims 6-13, wherein the weather shield is mounted on a window portion to form a flat roof skylight window and which is mounted on the skylight window weather shield cover and the window part of the weather protector. 15. A flat roof skylight window according to any one of claims 1-5, wherein the weather shield is according to any of claims 6-14.