Curtain wall system accommodating wiring
AssigneeArconic Technologies LLC
InventorsIon-Horatiu Barbulescu, Gregory B. McKenna
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Abstract
A system includes a structural member providing front and back faces, and first and second webs extending between the front and back faces and laterally offset from each other to define a hollow space therebetween. A wire transfer channel is defined at an end of the first web adjacent the front face and extends into the hollow space. A shear block provides a base, a connector portion extending from the base in a first direction, and first and second legs extending from the base in a second direction opposite the first direction, wherein the first and second legs are attachable to the first web to couple the shear block to the structural member.
Claims19
A curtain wall system, comprising:
- a structural member providing front and back faces, and first and second webs extending between the front and back faces and laterally offset from each other to define a hollow space therebetween;
- a wire transfer channel defined at an end of the first web adjacent the front face and extending into the hollow space;
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- a shear block providing a base, a connector portion extending from the base in a first direction, and first and second legs extending from the base in a second direction opposite the first direction,
- wherein the first and second legs are attachable to the first web to couple the shear block to the structural member,
- wherein, when the shear block is attached to the structural member, a wire is traversable past the shear block through the wire transfer channel,
- wherein the first web includes a first surface extending in a first web direction and a second surface extending from the first surface away from the second web in a second web direction different than the first web direction, and
- wherein the first surface, the second surface, and the first face define the wire transfer channel.
A curtain wall system, comprising:
- a structural member providing front and back faces, and first and second webs extending between the front and back faces, the front and back faces being laterally offset from each other and thereby defining a hollow space therebetween;
- a wire transfer channel defined at an end of the first web adjacent the front face and extending into the hollow space;
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- a shear block providing a base, a connector portion extending from the base in a first direction, and first and second legs extending from the base in a second direction opposite the first direction, wherein the first and second legs are attachable to the first web to couple the shear block to the structural member, and wherein each leg includes:
- a flange extending from the base in the second direction;
- a support surface extending from the flange, wherein a location channel is defined in the support surface;
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- a return member extending from the support surface in the first direction.
A curtain wall system, comprising:
- a first structural member providing front and back faces, and first and second webs extending between the front and back faces, the first and second webs defining a first hollow space therebetween, wherein a wire transfer channel is defined at an end of the first web adjacent the front face and extending into the first hollow space;
- a shear block attached to the first web and providing a base, a connector portion extending from the base in a first direction, and first and second legs extending from the base in a second direction opposite the first direction;
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- a second structural member defining a second hollow space that matingly receives the connector portion,
- wherein, when the shear block is attached to the first web and the second structural member matingly receives the connector portion, a wire is traversable past the shear block through the wire transfer channel,
- wherein the first web includes a first surface extending in a first web direction and a second surface extending from the first surface away from the second web in a second web direction different than the first web direction, and
- wherein the first surface, the second surface, and the first face define the wire transfer channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.