US 4,229,918 AGranted

Complementary elements assembleable into a partition for preexisting wall-partitions

OwnerAndre Delcroixinventor

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Abstract

Means for jointing a panel partition to an adjoining surface comprises a sole piece in combination with a joint cover member. The sole piece comprises a plastics strip applied to the edge of the partition and has two feet of dovetail form on its outer face which seat against the adjoining surface. On its opposite face the sole piece has seating surfaces and upstanding flanges for engaging the edges and faces of panels and other internal components of the partition. The cover member is an L-shaped metal section which fits externally with the ends of its limbs abutting an exterior panel face and the adjoining surface respectively and it is held in place by an internal rib engaging in a side slot of the sole piece. A supplementary flange locates it against the panel. The arrangement can provide an efficient sealed joint with the adjoining surface even if there are variations in the fitting clearances. Other additional internal elements can also be incorporated.

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Dependent claims

A device consisting of complementary elements for the purpose of fitting a sandwich filled or central cored type partition, having either a carrier framework or being a self supporting type and being formed by opaque, translucent or transparent flat elements, to existing interior surfaces, that is, floor, ceiling, and side walls, adjoining certain outer edges of the partition, said device comprising, as a first essential element, a sole piece section made of plastics material of which the cross-sectional configuration throughout the whole of its length presents, on its face at the side which is applied against the existing interior surfaces and which forms the start of the partition, two feet of dovetail form, and presents, on the other face, firstly, flat parts on which the panels of the partition rest edgewise, and secondly, perpendicular flanges against which said panels can rest, and having in its two side edges a longitudinal slot;

and further comprising, as a second essential element complementary to the first, a profiled joint cover member of which the cross-section over the whole of its length has the configuration of an upright L of which the outermost end of a shorter side bears against the panel of the partition and the outermost end of a longer side bears against the existing interior surface, the longer side of the L being provided inwardly near its outermost end with a rib which is designed to fit into said slot of said sole piece section and which has a length considerably greater than that of the shorter side of said L, and being provided, above but adjacent to said rib, with a supplementary flange of which the extremity bears against the panel of the partition thereby limiting the extent to which said rib can enter into said slot in the sole piece section.

Means for jointing the edges of a panel partition to adjoining enclosing surfaces such as existing floor, ceiling and side wall surfaces, said means comprising a sole piece section in the form of a plastics strip which is applied to each respective edge of the partition in combination with at least one joint cover member in the form of an L-shaped metal section which fits externally over the joint between said edge of the partition and the adjoining enclosing surface, wherein the sole piece section has opposite outer and inner faces which are respectively presented outwardly towards the adjoining enclosing surface and inwardly towards the edge of the partition, said outer face being provided with a pair of longitudinal ribs forming projecting feet which have a forked dovetail configuration in cross-section and said inner face being provided with flat seating portions on which exterior panels and, in some cases, a central core component of the partition can rest and with longitudinal upstanding flanges against or between which the edges of said panels and other components of the partition can fit, said sole piece section also being formed at opposite sides with a longitudinal slot which extends laterally into the section and opens outwardly along the respective side edge of the section, and wherein said joint cover member is designed to fit over the joint with the outermost end of its shorter limb abutting against the side face of a said exterior panel of the partition and with the outermost end of its longer limb abutting against the adjoining enclosing surface, said joint cover member also being provided on its longer limb with an internal rib which extends inwardly away from said longer limb adjacent the outermost end thereof and which fits into a respective said side slot of the sole piece section to fix the cover member in place, the length of said rib in transverse cross-section being greater than that of the shorter limb of the cover member, and, disposed above but adjacent to said rib, with a supplementary flange of which the outermost end also abuts against the side face of said exterior panel of the partition and thereby limits the extent to which said rib enters into said side slot of the sole piece section.

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