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US 6,269,600 B1Granted
Curtain walls with suspended glassed panels
OwnerStefanos Tambakakisinventor
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Abstract
A curtain wall of a predetermined height includes prefabricated glassed panels, and a frame. The frame has only horizontal beams into which the glassed panels are placed for supporting the glassed panels without continuous vertical beams existing along the height of the curtain wall on a building with multiple floors.
Claims8
In a building having multiple floors, a curtain wall of a predetermined height, comprising:
- prefabricated glassed panels;
- and
- a frame having only horizontal beams supporting the glassed panels without continuous vertical beams existing along the height of the curtain wall said frame comprises first and second horizontal beams for each said floor of the building wall, said first and second horizontal beams being parallel to each other and being continuous along an entire length of a structural facade of each said floor, each said first horizontal beam corresponding to a window base for the respective floor, each said second horizontal beam corresponding to a window top for the vertically adjacent floor;
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- cantilevers are anchored to a floor slab of each said floor, said cantilevers having first upwardly directed ends supporting said first horizontal beams and second downwardly directed ends for supporting said second horizontal beams.
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A building structure, comprising
- a plurality of floors defined between a plurality of horizontal, vertically spaced floor slabs, said floor slabs having outside edges extending between upper and lower surfaces;
- vertically extending cantilevers having upper and lower ends spaced by intermediate portions, said intermediate portions being coupled to said outside edges of said floor slabs with said upper end of each said cantilever being spaced above said upper surface of the respective floor slab and said lower end of said cantilever spaced below said lower surface of the respective floor slab;
- first and second horizontal beams coupled to said upper and lower ends, respectively of said cantilevers;
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- glassed panels supported on said horizontal beams only without vertical beams extending vertically between laterally adjacent glassed panels.
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