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Assembly for fixing wall panels to a rearwardly positioned support structure and a method for fixing wall panels to such support structure by means of this assembly
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Inventors: Veldhoen, Jan H.;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Murtagh; John E.
Assistant Examiner: Safavi; Michael
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Kane, Dalsimer, Kane, Sullivan and Kurucz
An assembly for fixing wall panels to a rearwardly positioned support structure, including a plurality of support rails having their longitudinal extent directed perpendicularly to that of the wall panels, and a method for fixing wall panels to such support structure by means of this assembly. This assembly comprises a jointing strip having substantially the same length as the wall panels and including a front wall and two wall portions of substantially U-shaped cross-section, said wall portions being disposed behind the front wall, said wall portions being spaced from each other and oppositely directed with respect to each other, said wall portions being adapted for receiving projecting front edge portions of adjacent wall panels so as to form an intermediate joint between said wall panels; a plurality of short fixing clamps slidably disposed in the jointing strip and including a hole; a bolt for each fixing clamp, said bolt having a nut cooperating therewith, said bolt being adapted to be inserted through the hole in the fixing clamp, said bolt being dimensioned so as to traverse the joint between the adjacent wall panels; and a bracket for each of said bolts, said bracket having an eye for the passage of the bolt, said bracket being adapted to be connected to a support rail of the support structure. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The invention has the object of providing an assembly of the kind indicated above, which has been designed to efficiently remove the said disadvantages and to obtain a better fixation of the wall panels to the rearwardly positioned support structure.
For this purpose, the assembly according to the invention is characterized by a jointing strip having substantially the same length as the wall panels and including a front wall and two wall portions of substantially U-shaped cross-section, said wall portions being disposed behind the front wall, said wall portions being spaced from each other and oppositely directed with respect to each other, said wall portions being adapted for receiving projecting front edge portions of adjacent wall panels so as to form an intermediate joint between said wall panels; by a plurality of short fixing clamps slidably disposed in the jointing strip and including a hole; by a bolt for each fixing clamp, said bolt having a nut cooperating therewith, said bolt being adapted to be inserted through the hole in the fixing clamp, said bolt being dimensioned so as to traverse the joint between the adjacent wall panels; and by a bracket for each of said bolts, said bracket having an eye for the passage of the bolt, said bracket being adapted to be connected to a support rail of the support structure.
According to the invention the fixing assembly extending through the joint between adjacent wall panels does no longer contact the rear face of the wall panels, so that there is no longer any danger of damaging this rear face.
Since the fixing clamps together with the bolts and the brackets during mounting are slidable in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal extent of the support rails of the support structure, an engagement between the brackets and these support rails can always be established in a very quick and simple manner.
The connection between adjacent panels should be such as to prevent rearward ingression of humidity and water vapour
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