Floor including at least one connecting device incorporating at least one gutter and enabling compensation of relative movement in at least a longitudinal direction
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorsValentina Spinoglio, Benjamin Boisnier
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Abstract
A floor including at least one connecting device connecting first and second panels spaced in a longitudinal direction and including at least one gutter and at least one threshold bar connected to one another by at least one connecting system and respectively at least partly below and above the first and second panels, at least one of the first and second panels, the gutter and the threshold bar being configured to allow movement in the longitudinal direction of the first panel relative to the second panel. An aircraft including at least one such floor is also disclosed.
Claims16
A floor comprising first and second panels spaced from one another in at least a longitudinal direction and at least one connecting device connecting the first and second panels and including at least one threshold bar at least partly above the first and second panels, at least the first panel being mobile relative to the second panel at least in the longitudinal direction, the connecting device including at least one gutter configured to collect at least one liquid and at least partly below the first and second panels and at least one connecting system connecting the threshold bar and the gutter, the first panel being between the gutter and the threshold bar, the second panel being between the gutter and the threshold bar without clearance, and the floor including at least one clearance and/or at least one sliding element between the first panel and at least a part of the connecting device, which is the gutter and/or the threshold bar.
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