CA2308270A1 - Protective device for openings in buildings - Google Patents

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CA2308270A1
CA2308270A1 CA002308270A CA2308270A CA2308270A1 CA 2308270 A1 CA2308270 A1 CA 2308270A1 CA 002308270 A CA002308270 A CA 002308270A CA 2308270 A CA2308270 A CA 2308270A CA 2308270 A1 CA2308270 A1 CA 2308270A1
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Marina Loewe
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STAHN ROBERTO
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    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E06DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
    • E06BFIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
    • E06B9/00Screening or protective devices for wall or similar openings, with or without operating or securing mechanisms; Closures of similar construction
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E06DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
    • E06BFIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
    • E06B9/00Screening or protective devices for wall or similar openings, with or without operating or securing mechanisms; Closures of similar construction
    • E06B2009/007Flood panels

Abstract

A protective device for openings in buildings such as windows, doors or gates, consisting of a plate and a window frame or a door frame with a door threshold or a gatepost with a threshold. The plate (3) can be placed on the opening (1) of the building from the outside and secured by means of fixing elements that are fastened to its rear side and engage behind the edge of said opening (1).
The bearing surface of the plate (3) consists of sealed material (4).

Description

Protective Device for Openings in Buildings The invention concerns a protective device for openings in buildings such as windows, doors or gates, consisting of a plate and a window firame ar a door frame with a door threshold or a gatepost with a threshold. The plate can. be placed on the opening of building from the outside and the bearing surface of the plate consists of seated material Floodzng caused by high water occurs in coastal regions as the concomi~nt of I
storm tides_ Along the courses of rivers, it is a result of the thawing of snow, but also heavy rainfall is a possble cause by virtue of the widespread sealing ofthe ground nowadays. In all events, people who live in these areas have advance warning of up to several days, which they can use to protect the openings of ~.eir residential buildings, such as windows, doors and gates, against water ingress so that damage to the building substance and the fiunishzngs is avoided.
Normally, iu~o. case of high water, a protective wall is constructed in front of windows and doors, which comprises sandbags stacked next to and on tap of one another, to keep the water back However, the success is only incomplete becar~se water can leak through the spaces between the sandbags, as well as through the sandbags themselves, and generally windows and doors do not close so as to be watertight. Furthermore, with a high water level, the windows frequently cannot resist the pressure exerted upon them above the sandbags so that with this technique water ingress cannot be reliably prevented.
Therefore the printed publication Dhr-CM 91 04106 specifies a protective device for openings in buildings against flooding according to the generic concept mentioned above, which consists of plate that is adapted to the respective buuZding opening into which it is placed with play and clamped and sealed by means of an inflatable tube, which runs around all sides of the front of the plate. As additional sealing on the exterior side of the tube a double-sided adhesive tape can. be fitted. The sealing of the corners of the openings in.
the building, however, is problematic using this technique because the inflatable tube does not reliably completely fill up the angles there. Moreover, the tube in these regions can crease. These creases mean it is possinle for water to penetrate. Furthermore, the clamp connection with the inflatable tube can only .
resist a linnited water pressure so that a faz~ure of this pmtective device cannot be ruled out when higher water levels are reached A further disadvantage is to be seen therein that for the installation the use of an aid in the form of the air pump is required to blow up the fate.
rrom Gas 2 i9i 80$ apr~otective design against hoods is lmown which comprises a panel which is detachably secured to a frame and subsequently installed in the opening of the building. Thereby the height of the panel from the -,-bottom edge upwards is specified as 60 cm, which means that water can still reach the interior of the building when the water level rises. The panel, which '' laterally and at the bottom edge can be provided with sealing means, e.g. a rubber seal, is secured in the opening of the building using rotary handles which a engage the inside of the frame. DE-U-94 08180 discloses a device for sealing 'I
the openings in buildings. Thereby a plate engages the masonry surrounding the opening from outside and is provided. around the edges with a circumferential sealing means comprising an elastic material.. Securing is et~ected using so-called tightensrs which are directed essentially from the inside of the plate vertically into the interior of the building and are secured on supports which traverse the entire opening. The supports, for their part, engage the inside of the . i.
masonry loosely. The tighteners can, for example, comprise threaded bolts j which are secured to the supports usipg nuts. Zt is to be seen as disadvantageous thereby that during installation of the plate the additional loose supports must be handled by a finther person until the tighteners are tensioned. Furthermore this type of affixation comprises a plurality of single parts which can be lost or impede a rapid installation of the protec4ve device.
By way of contrast, this invention has me obj ect or designing a protective device for openings in'ouildings such as wdauows, doors or gate3 so t'nat'ine device -ai'o sees reliably when water levels are high and the associated water pressure is V, high and so that no ziu~ther aids are required for its assembly.
According to the invention; this task is solved therein that f xing elements are fastened to the rear side of the plate which engage behind the edge of the opening of the building and are secured on the inside, and the axing elements are eccentric '~h in ~ lmobs_ The basic idea of the invention is to seal the openings in the building, such as windows, doors or gates, through plates placed on the outside of such openings.
The plates are axed as the inside by means of corresponding elements that engage behind the edge of the opening is the building so that they are also axed without external pressure. To attach the fixing elements, windows or doors must be opened, if they open outwards, they must also be taken offtheir hinges- The bearing surface of the plate, which, for example, is formed by the window framae, the door flame with door threshold, the doorposts including associated threshold or altemaizvely by the masonry surrounding the opening in the budding, is to compzise a watertight, sealing material, which prevents reliably water ingress into the budding- The advantage of the inventive protective device consists especially therein fat installation can. be elected without the use of further aids auud that high water levels, and an associated high water pressure, can only urge the plate more strongly against the edge of the protected opening in the budding, which reinforces the sealing action of the sealing material of the bearing surface.
For the foxing elemern of the inventive protective device, the invention proposes especially the use of eccentric finning knobs, which are fastened to the rear side of the plate, and can be turned into a position in which respectively part of them engage behind the edge of the opening in the budding, and are secured on the inside of the masonry, thus wing the plate on the opening in the bwlding.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention rubbex is used as a sealing material fOr the bearing surF3ce of the rht~ R»bber is av~,ilafle at re3eonablc prices mood ensrxtes a reliable, watertight seal betweea'the plate and edge of the opening in the. building.
As a sealing material, especially an angle piece is proposed, one leg of which describes the bearing surface of the plate and whose other leg lies on the front of the opening in the bm7ding. In thus way, not only is a sealing of the exterior front side of the building achieved, but also through the one leg of the angle piece on the face of the opening in the building. A,n improvement of the seal can be achieved in this way.
As an altemahve or as an additional measure, which serves the same purpose, on the surface directed toward the building, that is, the inside, a sealing lip is inserted in the sealed material.

The plate of the inventive protective device must be watertight and sufficiently stable to also resist higher water pressures durably. Therefore, the invention proposes the use of metal plates, which meet these requirements, and recommends especially the use of aluminium, which is cost-effective and noncorroding, and which, because of its comparatively low density, permits the formation of sufficiently light plates which are easy to handle during installation and disassembly and which do not place excessive requirements on the fixing elements.
As an alternative, the invention proposes the use of wood plates, which, because of their stability and their reasonable price and easy workability, are also highly suitable for the inventive protective device.
To ensure that the wood plates can resist the water even during longer use, without damage caused by the water, the plate can be provided with a coat of plastic or aluminium.
The plate of the inventive protective device must dimension-wise correspond to the respective window or door, which is why it is rather unwieldy in many cases and is moreover of not inconsiderable weight. To make handling easier, in an advantageous improvement of the invention, it is proposed to equip the plate on its front side and/or its rear side with one or more handles which facilitate its _' handling during installation, removal and transport.
For the storage of the plates, it is favourable to provide the handles as fold out handles. In the case of handles, which are affixed to the front side of the plate facing outwards, this embodiment has the additional advantage of avoiding that objects floating around in the high water, such as branches, get caught in the handles and expose the fixing elements of the protective device to considerable additional strains.
The plate of the inventive protective device must seal the respective opening in the building below the high water line circumferentially, which is why it requires a threshold in case of doors and gates as support and sealing surface. In an advantageous embodiment of the invention, it is proposed to effect this threshold by means of a deepening extending immediately in front of the door opening so that the threshold as a whole is lower and in the region of its top surface is flush with the level of the surrounding ground. A reduction in the risk of tripping over the threshold is an advantageous consequence. Through insertion of a dimensionally adapted beam in the deepening, which can be removed for installation of the protective device, the risk of tripping over the threshold can be eliminated entirely.
In a further development of the invention, the bearing surfaces of the opening _g_ in the building and plate are each bevelled, which allows the spatial position of the plate to be better located and the strength requirements on the fixing elements to be reduced.
For an advantageous further development of the invention, the plate is bevelled towards the edges. This is especially of advantage in the case of plates fitting on the exterior wall of building where otherwise the danger exists that objects floating around in the high water can get caught on the edges and place an additional strain on the fixing elements, which could possibly cause the protective device to become damaged and leaky.
Further details, features and advantages of the invention can be taken from the following description part in which with the aid of drawings typical embodiments of the invention are explained in greater detail. It shows Figure 1 an vertical section through an inventive protective device for a window in a diagrammatic representation Figure 2 a vertical section through an inventive protective device, which seals a door opening.
In Figure 1 shows a vertical section through a window opening ( 1 ) whose edges are delimited by masonry as well as a window frame (2). Onto this opening, as protection against flood water, is placed a plate (3) of aluminium whose bearing surfaces on window frames (2) are covered with rubber as sealing material (4), which close the joint between plate (3) and window frame (2) watertightly. Serving to affix plate (3) are fixing elements (5) which comprise eccentric turning knobs, which are turned into a position so that they engage behind window frame (2). To facilitate the handling of the plate, especially its installation and removal, a handle (6) is affixed to its inside.
Figure 2 shows a vertical section through a door opening ( 1 ) whose edges are delimited by masonry and a door frame (7) as well as by a lowered door threshold (8) on the bottom side, which is sealed using an inventive protective device against high water. To that end, building opening (I) is covered by a plate (3), which in the example comprises wood and is provided with a coat (9) of plastic, which at the top and on the sides fits against door frame (7), by way of contrast at the bottom on door threshold (8), where the bearing surfaces of rubber comprise the sealing material (4). Serving as fixing elements (5) in this case are tension springs whose ends respectively are provided with a hook which engages behind door opening ( 1 ). Thereby the tension spring presses plate (3), together with sealing material (4), against the edge of building opening ( I
), which consists of door frame (7) and door threshold (8), thereby closing said opening watertightly. To facilitate the handling of plate (3), it is equipped on its rear side with a handle (6). Plate (3) on its front side is bevelled toward edges (10) to reduce the danger that during flooding floating objects, for example, branches, get caught on the edges and place additional strain on fixing elements (5).
As a result, one obtains a flood water protective device for openings in buildings, such as windows, doors or gates, which is easy to install, without aids, and which seals the opening in the building, even in case of a high water pressure, reliably against flood water ingress and thereby protects the interior against flood damage.

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THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1 _ Protective device for openings in buildings such as windows, doors oar gates, consisting of a plate and a window frame or a door frame with a door threshold or a gatepost with a threshold, and the plate can be placed on the opening of building from the outside and the bearing surface of the plate consists of sealed material, wherein - fixing elements (5) are secured to the rear side of the plate (3), - which engage behind the edge of said opening (1) and are secured on the inside, - the fixing elements (5) are eccentric fuming knobs.
2. Protective device according to claim 1, wherein the sealing material (4) comprises rubber.
3. Protective device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the sealing material (4) comprises an angle piece, one leg of which forms the bearing surface of plate (3) and whose other leg lies on the face of the opening (1) in the building.
4. Protective device according to one of the preceding claims, wherein a sealing lip is attached inside on the sealing material (4).
5. Protective device according to one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the plate (3) is of metal, especially aluminium.
6. Protective device according to one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the plate (3) is of wood.
7. Protective device according to claim 6, wherein a coat (9) of plate (3) comprises plastic or aluminium.
8. Protective device according to one of claims 1 to 7, wherein plate (3) has at least one handle (6) on its front and/or rear side.
9. Protective device according to claim 8, wherein there is a fold out handle (6).
10. Protective device according to one of claims 1 to 9, wherein there is a lowered threshold (8).
11. Protective device according to one of claims 1 to 10, wherein there are bevelled bearing surfaces.
12. Protective device according to one of claims 1 to 11, wherein the front side of the plate is bevelled toward the edges (10).
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DE19747486A DE19747486A1 (en) 1997-10-28 1997-10-28 Shield for openings such as windows, doors or gates in buildings
PCT/DE1998/002670 WO1999022109A1 (en) 1997-10-28 1998-09-05 Protective device for openings in buildings

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