System and method for fastening facade panels
AssigneeEJOT GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsKostja Heinrich, Michael Pitz
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Abstract
System for mounting facade panels, comprising a centring sleeve with a collar and a base and a fastening element with a head, a shaft and a drill bit, wherein the base of the centring sleeve is connected to the rest of the centring sleeve by means of at least one predetermined breaking point and wherein the base comprises an opening in which the shaft of the fastening element is arranged during mounting and wherein the shaft of the fastening element comprises a projection which causes a release of the base at the predetermined breaking point when the fastening element is in a predetermined position relative to the base of the centring sleeve as well as a corresponding mounting method.
Claims7
A system for mounting facade panels, comprising:
- a centring sleeve with a collar and a base and
- a fastening element with a head, a shaft and a drill bit,
- wherein the base of the centring sleeve is connected to the rest of the centring sleeve by means of at least one predetermined breaking point and wherein the base comprises an opening in which the shaft of the fastening element is arranged during mounting and
- wherein the shaft of the fastening element comprises a projection which causes a release of the base at the predetermined breaking point when the fastening element is in a predetermined position relative to the base of the centring sleeve.
A method for mounting facade panels, comprising:
- arranging a centring sleeve and a fastening element in a bore of a facade panel, wherein the centring sleeve comprises a collar and a base with an opening and the fastening element comprises a head, a shaft and a drill bit,
- placing the fastening element in a substrate by means of the drill bit, wherein the shaft of the fastening element is arranged in the opening in the base of the centring sleeve,
- releasing a predetermined breaking point between the base of the centring sleeve and the rest of the centring sleeve by means of a projection of the shaft of the fastening element when the fastening element is in a predetermined position relative to the base of the centring sleeve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.