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Snap fit building structure
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Inventors: Brown, Ronald L.;
Assignee: Finch Conservatories Limited (Southampton, GB)
Primary Examiner: Scherbel; David A.
Assistant Examiner: Smith; Creighton
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Cumpston & Shaw
A conservatory is formed of extruded frame members which are interconnected with snap-fit connecting pieces. These may be location plates 43 or 43aor frame dividers 33a -33d. The connecting pieces may also be glued in place, or held with screws. The conservatory can be assembled using unskilled labour and can be made to satisfy building regulations as to strength and stability. All the frame members are provided with spaced deformable flanges for locating the connecting pieces. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION I claim: 1.
A conservatory having a frame formed from a plurality of extruded frame members and wherein selected ones of said frame members are connected to an adjacent frame member comprising: a first pair of engagement means on each of two frame members to be connected; a connecting piece; and second and third pairs of spaced apart engaqement means on said connecting piece for forming a respective dual snap fit with each of the first pairs of engagement means on the two frame members the connecting piece is connecting.
2.
A conservatory according to claim 1 wherein the frame includes a plurality of upright glazed window frames of the same height, the upper ends of which are united by eaves beams, and the lower ends of which are united by sill plates.
3.
A conservatory according to claim 2 wherein each upright window frame is comprised of two upright window frame members interconnected by upper and lower horizontal window frame members and the upright frame member of one window frame is connected to the upright frame member of the adjacent window frame by a connecting piece in the form of an extruded uPVC clip-in vertical frame provided.
4.
A conservatory according to claim 2 wherein, in order to form an angular shaped end wall, the eaves beams and sill plates are cut to length and their ends are mitred at the desired angle, and a set of suitable shaped (angled) location plates is provided to connect said mitred and cut-to-length sill plates and eaves beams together.
5.
A conservatory according to claim 4 wherein said inclined window frames are also connected to their adjacent frames by suitably shaped and angled clip-in vertical frame dividers with rounded outer faces.
6.
A conservatory having a frame including a plurality of upright glazed window frames of the same height, the upper ends of which are united by eaves beams, and the lower ends of which are united by sill plates, wherein each upright window frames comprises two upright window frame members of extruded hollow bar section with a galvanized metal reinforcement therein, and glazing means running along one face, and along its opposite face, front and rear flanges, between which are short L-shaped resiliently deformable flanges; upper and lower horizontal window frame members; and an extruded uPVC clip-in vertical frame divider having mating L-shaped deformable flanges for connecting the upright frame member of one window frame to the upright frame member of the adjacent window frame
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