Modular panel system and a wall installation method
AssigneeQclass S.A.
InventorsPablo Jaramillo Peralta, Guillermo Guevara Guzmán, Dusan Gardilcic Benito
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the construction industry, and in particular to laboratories, hospitals, food production areas and other places where asepsis is required. Specifically, it relates to a modular construction system based on self-supporting panels, which have post-formed exterior surfaces and are complemented with corner components of similar construction to build hermetic, waterproof and insulating walls that have smooth surfaces. For this, there is a modular system of panels for forming aseptic spaces within an enclosure and a method of installing a clean room wall by means of a modular system of panels to form aseptic spaces inside an enclosure.
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A modular system of panels for forming aseptic spaces within an enclosure, comprising
- a rectangular parallelepiped type panel with two side covers, wherein each panel includes a flat wall surface that extends into a curved-concave surface at an upper edge of the panel and then continues in a counter-curve that joins an upper surface, where each side cover is half of a post-formed cover of plastic material and comprises a perimeter profile that has a perimeter groove centered and continuous along an outer edge, wherein the halves of the post-formed cover are joined by an inner surface to the perimeter profile, exposing the perimeter groove on an edge of the panel, wherein the perimeter groove has an upper groove on the upper surface of the panel, a bottom groove on a lower edge of the panel, and a side groove on a side of the panel, wherein the upper groove slides the panel with respect to an upper guide profile fixed in a ceiling of the enclosure;
- wherein the system further comprises:
- at least one intermediate support profile assembled on a support profile fixed to a floor of the enclosure by means of fasteners to slide the panel on the bottom groove on a projection on an upper edge of the intermediate support profile, while sliding with respect to the upper guide profile;
- at least one connection profile with a central projection that assembles with the side groove for interleaved mounting of panels;
- a concave curvature profile assembled on a curve support profile fixed to each side of the support profile to configure a concave and tangential curvature to the floor of the enclosure;
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- a corner encounter part, which includes a concave corner post-formed cover, a convex corner post-formed cover, a set of edge profiles with a cross-section equal to the perimeter profile that join the corner post-formed covers by a side, upper, and bottom edge with the panels through connection profiles.
A method of installing a clean room wall by means of a modular system of panels to form aseptic spaces inside an enclosure, comprising the steps of:
- a) fixing an upper guide profile to a ceiling of the enclosure with fasteners;
- b) fixing a support profile without a cover to a floor of the enclosure and assembling an intermediate support profile;
- c) positioning a panel by sliding the panel between an upper groove and the upper guide profile and between a bottom groove and a projection on an upper edge of the intermediate support profile;
- d) intercalating a connection profile with a central projection with a side groove on a side of each panel;
- e) fixing a curve support profile on each side of the support profile and assembling a concave curvature profile;
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- f) extending a floor cover and adhering the floor cover to the concave curvature profile and on a portion of the intermediate support profile that remains visible, so that an edge of the floor cover establishes a continuous surface with a flat wall surface of each panel.
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