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US 2017/0234059 A1Published application
Plug system
OwnerPhilippe CHANCERELinventor
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Abstract
System for plugging an opening, including: a plug element designed to cover said opening, a frame made up of at least four rails (1′) designed to be positioned inside the opening and including a first groove (22) formed on a front wall of each rail, and a seal (29), said first groove (22) being designed to accommodate a substantially peripheral part (27) of the plug element, said seal (29) being designed to be accommodated with a tight fit in retaining means (34) inserted in said groove (22) and retaining said plug element on the frame.
Claims25
A system for plugging an opening, of the door or window opening type delimited by a door frame or window frame or of a type delimited by adjacent walls, including:
- a plug element, for example a tarpaulin (27) designed to cover said opening,
- a frame, which is designed to be positioned inside said opening, of the door or window opening type, made up of at least four structural sections each forming a rail (1′) of said frame, each structural section comprising a front wall (30), a dorsal wall (31) and two connecting walls (31, 33) and having an opening part forming a cavity of a substantially U-shaped groove, and having first fixing means (28), and
- second fixing means (29),
- said first and second fixing means (28, 29) being designed to co-operate with one another to retain said plug element (27) on said frame and to be separable so as to allow the withdrawal of said plug element on the frame, said first fixing means being an opening (35) defined by a longitudinal orifice present on said front wall (30) of each structural section, said opening (35) being defined by two adjacent parts formed by two internal lips (21, 21′) each extending from one of the connecting walls, said groove (22) of said structural section being designed to accommodate a substantially peripheral part of the plug element (27) passing through said opening (35), said second fixing means being formed of at least one peripheral seal (29) designed to be held with a tight fit by each internal lip (21, 21′ and 9, 9′) of said opening (35) of said groove (22) in which said substantially peripheral part of said plug means (27) is accommodated and fixed, characterized in that it includes means (34) for retaining the tarpaulin (27) having a first predetermined profile complementary to a second predetermined profile formed by said opening part forming a cavity of a groove and by said adjacent lips of said opening of said groove, said retaining means (34) being designed to be at least partly accommodated in said groove of said structural section forming said rail (22), between said substantially peripheral part of the plug element (27) and said seal (29), superposed on top of said substantially peripheral part of said plug element (27) so as to retain it on said frame and so as to receive said at least one peripheral seal (29) having a third predetermined profile designed to co-operate with said first predetermined profile of said retaining means (34).
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A method of plugging an opening, of the door opening or window opening type delimited by a door frame or window frame or of a type delimited by adjacent walls, including the following steps:
- 1) joining at least four structural sections two by two by means of a joining piece (45) to form a frame, each structural section forming a rail, said joining piece (45) having a first end (46) designed to be connected to a first rail (1′) and a second end (47) designed to be connected to a second rail (1″) adjacent said first rail,
- 2) placing the frame inside the opening so that it bears against each side of said opening,
- 3) inserting at least one substantially peripheral part of a plug element (27) in a groove present in each structural section or in a groove formed by the sliding of a second groove (7) of a second, internal structural section (1) in a first groove (20) of a first, external structural section (12) of a telescopic rail if said first and second structural sections are designed to co-operate by sliding, and
- 4) positioning at least one seal (29) in said groove (22) present on each structural section with a tight fit so as to fix thereto said at least one substantially peripheral part (27) of the plug element so as to form a system for plugging said opening,
- characterized in that it includes a step before that of positioning said at least one seal (29) in which retaining means (34) having a first predetermined profile complementary to a second profile formed by said groove and internal lips defining its opening (35) are placed in said groove (22) between said substantially peripheral part (27) of a plug element and said seal (29), superposed on top of said at least one substantially peripheral part (27) of a plug element so as to retain it on said frame and so as to receive said seal (29) having a third predetermined profile designed to co-operate with said first predetermined profile of said retaining means (34).
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