WO1994004783A2 - Ventilated building and ventilating arrangement therefor - Google Patents
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- WO1994004783A2 WO1994004783A2 PCT/GB1993/001795 GB9301795W WO9404783A2 WO 1994004783 A2 WO1994004783 A2 WO 1994004783A2 GB 9301795 W GB9301795 W GB 9301795W WO 9404783 A2 WO9404783 A2 WO 9404783A2
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
- E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
- E06B1/00—Border constructions of openings in walls, floors, or ceilings; Frames to be rigidly mounted in such openings
- E06B1/003—Cavity wall closers; Fastening door or window frames in cavity walls
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
- E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
- E06B7/00—Special arrangements or measures in connection with doors or windows
- E06B7/02—Special arrangements or measures in connection with doors or windows for providing ventilation, e.g. through double windows; Arrangement of ventilation roses
- E06B7/10—Special arrangements or measures in connection with doors or windows for providing ventilation, e.g. through double windows; Arrangement of ventilation roses by special construction of the frame members
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- This invention relates to a ventilated building and to a ventilating arrange ⁇ ent therefor.
- thermoelectric unit nowadays usually manufactured off-site by specialist glazing manufacturers, to the size and performance specified by the builder or architect.
- One indication of the problem has been the growth of moulds and the like inside buildings, with discomfort and possible health hazards to occupants and users.
- window manufacturers have heretofore sought to provide ventilation openings through the window frames, particularly for multi-glazed units, but if of wood or metal the frame has to be drilled through, whilst if of hollow profile plastics extrusion the internal metal strengthening bar has to be drilled through. It has been suggested, but not seriously, that the depth of the window frame be significantly increased so that the frame can be drilled through without fouling the metal strengthening bar; but this approach is considered unlikely to be acceptable to building purchasers and intending users, since the glazing area is significantly reduced.
- a building having a wall opening defined by an outer frame, and a wall panel extending across the opening, characterised by a ventilation passageway between the outer frame and the wall panel.
- the wall panel is a sealed pre-formed glazing unit
- the outer frame is a former around which the opening is formed during construction.
- the ventilation passageway Usefully only part of the gap between the outer frame (former) and wall panel is used as the ventilation passageway, the remainder of the gap around the - D - unit periphery being sealed, after fitting of the unit, with a flexible (preferably resilient) sealing compound.
- a building having a wall opening defined by an outer frame, and a wall panel extending across the opening, the outer frame and panel defining a gap extending to the outside of the building characterised by an apertured grill across a part of the gap to the outside of the building, and securement means for the grill within the gap.
- the remainder of the gap around the unit periphery will be sealed, after fitting of the unit, as with a flexible (preferably resilient) sealing compound.
- the gap provides a ventilation passageway fed through the apertured grill with replacement air, or other ventilating gaseous flow, travelling along and around the securement means.
- the securement means is a pin with resilient fingers to either side, at least one finger to each side being in engagement with a retention part of the former and frame.
- the former is made according to my WO 91/14066.
- the outer frame preferably a former, has an abutment to limit the permitted inward location of the wall panel, as disclosed in WO 91/14066, but that this abutment be punctured or otherwise be discontinuous to provide a continuation to the ventilation passageway.
- a building having a wall opening defined by an outer frame, an upstanding abutment having opposed side faces on the frame, and a pre-assembled wall panel fittable within the opening and engagable with one side face characterised in that the abutment is discontinuous whereby to provide a ventilation connection between the opposed side faces of the abutment.
- the abutment is locally discontinuous only, as be being puncture therethrough at one or more selected location.
- the frame is a former.
- abutment and deflector combination preferably a preformed abutment and deflector combination unit, with the deflector facing that side of the abutment away from the former-to-wall panel passageway.
- the deflector is integrally formed with the frame, and that the frame is a former.
- the control of the building ventilation be from within the building, preferably by a slider ventilator since this known ventilator type can usually be easily operated, and can blend with the decor (even if not concealed from general gaze, if so required by curtaining or the like) .
- the wall panel abutment can be used in conjunction with a support to provide a slide ventilator support and guideway.
- a building having an outer frame defining a wall opening, the frame having an abutment with first and second faces, the first face being engagable by a wall unit fitting internally of the former characterised by a support facing the said second abutment face, and by a slide ventilator mounted by the support and second face.
- the support is integral with the frame, the support and second face of the abutment are strengthened by buttresses located therebetween, the frame is a former and the abutment is integral with the frame and support.
- the invention also includes a frame and former modified as above described, and suitable for defining a wall opening, preferably an opening in a "new build" structure permitting for example the wall brickwork and blockwork to be laid around the former, accurately spaced, as well as a frame and former sub-assembly when these are made by the same supplier fitted together or to be fitted together.
- Property owners and users often wish the opportunity to select the window panel to be fitted.
- one purchaser of a newly built house may desire triple-glazed window units whereas the purchaser of an adjacent property may be satisfied with double-glazed window units.
- an abutment which is adjustably fittable to a planar retention member; in use four planar lengths of retention member will be interconnected at their respective ends to form a square or rectangular outer frame for a window unit.
- the releasable retaining means is a tongue and groove arrangement, with the retention member having a tongue (directed "inwardly” towards the window opening in use) and the abutment having a groove.
- the retention member and abutment will be of plastics material, extruded, and cut to length on-site or at the factory prior to delivery; though in an alternative embodiment spaced groove recesses can be cut at selected positions along the length of the abutment corresponding to spaced teeth on the retention member.
- the retention member will have at least two tongues, spaced in the inwardly fitting direction, to permit different thickness of window unit alternatively to be readily accommodated.
- the abutment is replaced by an abutment and deflector combination unit, for mounting a building slide ventilator, by relative sliding of the groove along the tongue.
- the retention member has a cavity column connected thereto, the column being removable, preferably to another relative position to permit the column to building cavity gap to be varied.
- the releasable retaining means is again a tongue and groove combination, with more grooves than tongues to permit variation in the cavity gap to retention member relative position
- the column has three grooves on each of its four sides (in section) , the grooves on opposite sides being offset whereby the column can be connected to the retention member in a plurality of relative positions.
- the grooves also form brick tie gripper receiving slots.
- Figure 1 is a front view of a retention component located in a partly built "new-build" structure
- Figure 2 is a section of Figure 1;
- Figure 3 is of a fixed ventilator member
- Figure 4 is of a movable ventilator member
- Figure 5 is of an outside grill
- Figure 6 is of a grill securing pin
- Figure 7 is a view as Figure 2, with in section a fitted outside grill, with the grill located by a grill securing pion;
- Figure 8 is a section of an alternative embodiment of retention member and abutment.
- Figure 9 is a section of an alternative embodiment of retention member, re-positionable combination abutment and air deflector, and re-positionable cavity wall column.
- a bricklayer will typically lay a line of bricks 60 and blocks 70 to a selected height; he will then lay a further layer of either the bricks or blocks, position the column 200 ( Figure 2 ) of a pre-formed rectangular retention component 230 (the outer frame) against the extra layer, and then clamp the column 200 in position by laying further bricks or blocks i.e. so as to sandwich the column in the cavity gap 100.
- each frame part of the component 230 has its own column outwardly extending therefrom, further bricks and blocks laid around the former act more firmly to locate the retention component 230; when the mortar between the bricks and blocks has set, this retention component (providing the outer fixed window frame) can only be removed by partial dismantling of the wall.
- the retention component 230 and column 200 are integral.
- the retention component will be from an extruded plastics strip, cut to length, mitred at the corners and connected to identical (or similar) cut lengths to form a square (or rectangular) former, around which the bricks 60 and blocks 70 can continue to be laid to form a wall opening 120 of selected size to receive a window unit, preferably a pre-assembled window unit.
- the retention component is thus assembled from sections, joined at the corners.
- the column 200 is of a width conforming closely to the industry standard cavity, and so can be tightly sandwiched between the bricks and blocks, or else an extra extension part is used as a cavity spacer (located in a wall tie aperture 20) during building of the cavity wall around the spacer.
- the retention component 230 has an integral upstanding abutment 336, in this embodiment supported by buttress 337.
- abutment 336 To the left hand side of abutment 336 as viewed in Figure 2 the component has a generally flat surface 231, used to receive plaster or the like, perhaps with an overlying window shelf for the lower horizontal retention component section, as a building finishing operation.
- the retention component To the right hand side of abutment 336 the retention component carries on planar surface 232 a plurality of angled teeth 233, in this embodiment shaped as shark's teeth, with for each tooth the upstanding retention flank to the left and the rearwardly inclined lead-in flank to the right.
- the wall panel, in this embodiment window 205 is of slightly smaller outer dimension than the inner dimension of the retention component teeth 233.
- there is an air passageway between the teeth 233 of the retention unit and the window frame 205 which is arranged to allow various fastening devices (not shown) such as tha t disclosed in our application PCT/GB88/00200, to fit between the window frame 205 and the base 232, and to secure one to the other, being located between projections 210 on the window frame and contacting angled teeth 233.
- fastening devices are placed at discrete locations around the window frame.
- Window frame 205 is fed from the right as viewed in Figure 2, towards abutment 336, until meeting a seal (not shown) to be located in recess 342.
- the abutment 336 is locally discontinuous, as by having apertures 334 therethrough, and through supporting buttress 337.
- air from outside the building can reach to the left of abutment 5 336 (and buttress 337) .
- I provide a ventilator control in the abutment 336, or in buttress 337 if fitted. But in a preferred embodiment I seek to direct incoming air to flow parallel to the glazing i.e.
- frame 436 mounts an upstanding support frame 436, with in this embodiment (outwardly facing) buttress 433, to face 231.
- frame 436 and buttress 433 are extruded integrally with the remainder of retention component 230, and in particular integrally with face 231.
- Vent member 30 is non-movably mounted, as by adhesive though more simply be being of a length to fit from one mitred corner of a section of the outer frame 230 (see Figure 1) to the other. Vent member 40 is shorter, under the control of finger knob 42.
- the openings 34, 44 are aligned, to permit air egress from and entrance into the building, whilst in the other end position of vent member 40 the openings are out of alignment to close off the passageway 130 from communication with the building interior i.e. to the left of abutment 336 as 5viewed.
- abutment 336 for retention unit 230.
- the outer face of abutment 336 has a shaped recess 342, and which lOin Figure 12, 13 of my earlier disclosure of PCT/GB91/00342 I utilised to carry a resilient sealing gasket 341.
- the air flows from outside the building into air gap 130, over teeth 233, through apertures 334 and through the ventilator 30, 40 into the building.
- the ventilator is 0fitted to the lower horizontal frame member, though in a more usual and preferred embodiment it is fitted to the upper horizontal frame member i.e. with downward outflow of air; in other embodiments, the ventilator is fitted to a vertical frame member. 5
- a grill 70 ( Figure 5) of standard type, with permanently open slot apertures 72, of a size to prevent insects and the like from passing therethrough. Grill 70 is maintained in position by pins 80, passing through aperture 74, and retained in the air gap. 5
- the ventilator pion 80 has on one side resilient fingers 82 adapted to engage with teeth 233 of retention unit 230, and on the opposite side projections 84, to engage window frame 205.
- the ventilator pin is pressed through lOaperture 74 in grill 70; the resilient fingers 82 (only two of which are shown in this Figure for clarity) deform to allow the grill to be pressed fully against the outer edge of the window frame, the fingers 82 springing back to locate behind teeth 233 and secure the ventilator pin 80, and so the grill 70, in 5position.
- Projections 84 provide partial gripping contact with the window frame 205, and also act to space the ventilator pin 80 from the window frame 205, and so into greater engagement with the teeth 233, as well as helping to ensure an air flow path.
- the grill can be located in industry standard fashion by screws or the like plugged into the building mortar, to the side of the air passageway exit/entrance. 5
- the slots 72 in grill 70 are permanently open so that the air gap 130 is permanently ventilated.
- the grill has its outer surface angled inwardly to the building towards its lower edge, so that the likelihood of water ingress through the grill is reduced. 5
- the retention component 230 retains the vent, and not the window frame itself, nor the brickwork or blockwork of the cavity wall surrounding the window.
- the ventilator members 34,40 will typically span one of the four sides of the assembled retention component, whilst the grill provides sufficient ventilation in a 320mm length; thus the air gap between the window frame 205 and the base 232 where a grill
- 1570 is not fitted may be sealed as by known sealing compound.
- the abutment 536 has a groove 570 whilst retention member 530 has a pair of tongues 572a, 572b upon which the groove 570 can slidably locate, thus the 0abutment can alternatively be positioned about tongue 572a or tongue 572b, to adjust the relative position of the abutment on the retention member.
- the abutment can be slid along the retention member, with the groove 570 embracing the tongue 572a,b for assembly on-site from separate 5components.
- the retention member 530 fan be made thicker, sufficient to allow a groove to be formed therein, with the tongue on the abutment; or mor tongues can be formed, for additional adjustment positions.
- 5 Surface 576 is the plasterer's guide surface, permitting plaster sealing of the gap between the tongue and groove.
- both the abutment an column are lOreleasably retained by tongue and groove arrangements.
- the retention member 630 is generally a flat plate with tongues
- tongues 672, 673 projecting from its lower surface.
- tongues 672, 673 are similarly sized and shaped, though in 5alternative embodiment they are differently sized and/or shaped.
- Tongues 672 are adapted to releasably engage with the abutment, which in this embodiment is a combination abutment and air 0deflector assembly 636 i.e. air passageway 650 allows the air from air gap 130 to meet ventilator members 30, 40.
- combination abutment and air deflector assembly 636 is adjustably mounted on tongues 672 of retention member 630.
- Plaster 680 is applied up to the face 638 of the combination 5abutment and air deflector assembly 636, and so seals the gap between this assembly and the retention member 630.
- Column 600 has a single groove 670 in one side wall and two similarly shaped and sized grooves in its opposed side wall, the other side walls have in this embodiment two and three grooves respectively, also offset.
- the column 600 can thus be 5connected to one of the tongues 673 of the retention member at a plurality of separate relative positions (eight in this embodiment) ; for each tongue 673 (i.e. twenty four in total) in accordance with different traditional cavity gaps in different countries.
- the column 600 can be of extruded lOplastics material (extending into the paper as viewed) , and can be apertured to reduce the weight and material content.
- One or more of the grooves 670 can be used to receive a brick tie, to lock the column 600 and hence the assembled retention component to e.g. bricks and blocks to either side of the 5cavity.
- column 600 is trapped in the finished building in the building cavity.
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EP93919470A EP0685025A1 (en) | 1992-08-26 | 1993-08-23 | Ventilated building and ventilating arrangement therefor |
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GB9218123A GB2275767B (en) | 1992-08-26 | 1992-08-26 | Ventilated building and ventilation arrangement therefor |
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GB2213187A (en) * | 1987-12-24 | 1989-08-09 | Glidevale Building Prod | Cavity closer |
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GB2277768A (en) * | 1993-05-08 | 1994-11-09 | Anglian Windows Ltd | Fixing windows and doors into surrounds |
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GB2326184A (en) * | 1997-06-13 | 1998-12-16 | Aurelia Plastics Ltd | Improvements in and relating to cavity closers |
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