TWI606171B - Curtain wall system and method of installing the system - Google Patents

Description

Curtain wall system and its construction method

The invention relates to a curtain wall system, in particular to an improvement of a curtain wall system and a method for constructing the same.

The method of constructing a curtain wall as mentioned in U.S. Patent No. 7,134,247 is a bottom-up procedure comprising the following steps:

(1) A curtain wall unit is placed and then snapped into two adjacent, normally vertical straight materials, and then slid down to the covered curtain wall unit below;

(2) Lock the horizontal block on the unit with two screws;

(3) Put a watertight strip and a water strip at the upper level.

One of the advantages of the improved curtain wall system is that there is no horizontal material between the two straight materials, which simplifies the method of building and reduces the cost.

Newly built or renovated in the city, due to the crowded urban area, the engineering traffic is difficult, so it is usually most desirable to cover the curtain wall of the first floor, which is the best way to construct from the top to the bottom; in the renovation project In this method, the upper and lower cover can also prevent rain or debris from falling from the floor in the renovation to the renovated lower floor.

The curtain wall system of the present invention can be constructed from bottom to top or from top to bottom or up and down. For the purpose of achieving the above various construction methods, the curtain wall system of the present invention includes a plurality of face material units and vertical support of the face material unit. Each of the facestock units comprises a sheet of face material and a separate frame, and the facestock unit may comprise one or more of the following units: a construction unit from top to bottom, a construction unit from bottom to top, and a construction unit on the upper and lower boundary. Each unit frame is composed of an upper horizontal material, a lower horizontal material and at least one side frame material, and the side frame material is used for connecting the upper and lower horizontal materials and is interlocked with the structure in which the straight material can be laterally glided. Each of the upper and lower construction units includes a downwardly protruding male connector that can be directly attached to the straight material; each of the lower-facing construction units has an upper protruding male street that can be directly fixed to the straight material. Upper; each upper and lower phase boundary construction unit has an upper male joint and a lower male joint, and the upper or lower joint can be locked at random or all. The protruding joint is designed to be connected to the male and female transverse members of the upper unit in a laterally slidable manner; the downwardly protruding joint is designed to be laterally slidable with the maternal upper material of the lower unit. The way the male and female are connected; another good straight material design is to open the head and the tubular part and fix it into a composite straight material during the construction process. This composite material can be used to absorb the factory or the construction site. The tolerance performance is improved a lot, that is, the ease of construction is improved.

The invention describes a plurality of different curtain wall construction methods, including left-right, top-down, bottom-up and up-and-down construction methods, one of which is to improve the first sub-projection unit in the upper part of the building. Down, at least one screw is used to fix the straight joint on the straight material, and finally the second upper and lower construction unit is fastened to the fixed upper unit to fix the second unit to the straight material. on.

The purpose, technical contents, features and effects achieved by the present invention will be more readily understood by the detailed description of the embodiments and the accompanying drawings.

In order to facilitate the description of the preferred embodiment of the invention and the best mode of the invention, some nouns are defined as follows:

Composite straight material: a straight material supporting the curtain wall, which is composed of at least one tubular material and at least one straight material head.

Panel: Any of the units in a majority of a building's unit, including a facestock and a frame that surrounds and closes the edge of the facestock. The frame is assembled at the factory by a plurality of segments of the frame and closes the edge of the facestock.

Male panel member: A piece of frame material has a protruding male leg that is used to connect with the mating frame material of an adjacent unit during construction.

Female panel member: A piece of frame material has a concave mother groove, which is used to connect with the adjacent frame of the common frame material during construction.

Water seal member: A component is mounted on the frame material of the unit during construction to provide watertight performance.

Rain screen member: A component is mounted on the frame material of the unit during construction to provide the system's water function.

1 is a cross-sectional view along section line 3-3 of FIG. 1 as shown in FIG. 2(a), and the curtain wall system 10 includes a plurality of units (units 11, 11a or / And 11b) support at least one generally vertical straight material 14, the straight material 14 is fixed on the edge of the slab or other building (not shown), the curtain wall shown in the figure is only straight material 14 without horizontal material, the curtain wall The horizontal seam 12 and the vertical seam 13 are created between adjacent units (units 11, 11a, 11b). Figure 2(a) shows a modified straight material each consisting of a tubular material 61 and a straight head 62; the straight head 62 is preferably secured to the tubular material 61 using at least one fastener, such as a screw 63. In other words, the tubular material 61 and the straight head 62 are fixed together by spaced screws 63 to form an improved composite straight material 14, but other single straight materials or other combinations of straight materials can be applied.

Preferably, the units 11, 11a, 11b comprise insulating glass 15 or other face material, as shown in Figure 2(a), the curtain wall 10 may also include other face materials such as aluminum plates, slate, composite panels, sandwich panels, etc. Wait. As shown in Fig. 1, the modified unit 11, 11a, 11b includes framed frames 18, 18a, 18b, and each frame can be separated from the face material 15. Such frame-like frames 18, 18a, 18b are typically assembled from the periphery of the facestock 15 with a frame material of aluminum extrusion. However, other building materials can also be used as frame materials, and the relative position of the frame material and the edge of the surface material can also be changed. For example, the frame material is hidden behind the opaque surface material, and the frame material cannot be seen from the outside (hidden frame type). Any unit can also be made into a frame-in-frame and a hidden frame. Although the units 11, 11a, and 11b shown in Fig. 1 are all flat units, the shapes of other units are applicable. Regardless of the shape of the unit, the unit is supported on at least one straight material and is fastened to the adjacent unit and the straight material to form a part of the curtain wall 10; as long as there is a compatible male and female connection between the units The design is suitable for many different units.

The generally horizontal and vertical curtain wall seams 12, 13 are formed between two adjacent units, and a horizontal seam 12 is formed between two adjacent units 11 and 11a or 11a and 11b. The seam 12 is usually between two adjacent straight materials 14; one vertical seam 13 is formed between two adjacent left and right edges and the adjacent edges are simultaneously placed in the same straight material. on. However, a variety of other façade seams are available, such as non-linear seams, straight seams in diagonal or other directions, or three-dimensional seams designed to meet the needs of the styling.

The improved curtain wall system 10 includes a plurality of upper and lower phase boundary construction units 11a, a plurality of lower-up construction units 11 partially connected at the upper end of the unit 11a as shown in FIG. 3, and a plurality of upward-facing directions. The lower construction unit 11b is connected at the lower end of the unit 11a. As shown in Fig. 4, each of the upper and lower phase boundary construction units 11a has an upwardly protruding male frame material or a male joint 17 as shown in Fig. 3. A downwardly protruding male frame material or male joint 21 is shown in Fig. 4, and at least one edge material 19 (see Fig. 2(a)) is connected to the upper and lower joints 17, 21 to form an upper and lower phase boundary unit. Frame 18a. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the unit frames are all rectangular, and the bottom-up construction unit 11 and the upper-down construction unit 11b adjacent to the phase-bound unit each have a female joint 16 (see Fig. 3). Or 22 (see Fig. 4) is connected to the upper joint 17 or the lower joint 21, respectively. Therefore, all the curtain wall joints higher than the phase boundary unit 11a are similar to those shown in Fig. 3, and all the curtain wall joints lower than the phase boundary unit 11a are similar to those shown in Fig. 4. That is to say, the phase boundary unit is used as the reference point, and the upward direction is applied from the bottom to the top, and the downward direction is from the top to the bottom.

Figure 3 is a partial cross-sectional view showing the design of the general curtain wall joint 12 of the present invention, and the cross section of Figure 3 is taken from the section line 2-2 in Figure 1. The bottom-up construction unit 11 includes a glass face material 15 that can be externally removed or internally removed, and the outer-replaceable design is more suitable for the beam-striped glass, and the inner-replaceable design is more suitable for the viewing zone glass. As shown, the construction unit 11a of the upper and lower phase boundaries is a viewable area in which the glass can be removed from the interior of the curtain wall system 10. At the upper end of the upper adjacent unit 11, there is an upwardly protruding male joint (not shown), and a concave female joint 16 is at the lower end of the unit 11. The curtain wall joint shown in Fig. 3 is formed by the groove 51 of the female joint 16 at the lower end of the upper unit 11 and the male foot 52 of the male joint 17 at the upper end of the phase boundary unit 11a; the male joint 17 is A portion of the upper cross-section of the phase-bounding unit 11a, the joint 17 of the phase-bounding unit 11a is secured to the adjacent two straight stocks 14 by two screws 34 or other fasteners. A watertight strip 26 and a water retaining strip 27 can be used to mount the male joint 17 of the phase boundary unit 11a.

Figure 4 shows the design of the seam 12 of the general curtain wall of the present invention seated on the units 11a and 11b. The cross section in the figure is taken from the section line 2a-2a in Fig. 1. The construction unit 11a of the upper and lower phase boundaries is a unit suitable for the glass to be replaced by the inside of the viewing zone. The lower adjacent unit 11b is a case where the unit for replacing the glass can be applied to the beam zone or the viewing zone without being easily replaced by the inside. The lower unit 11b has a lower end male connector (not shown) and a The female connector 22 at the upper end, that is, the upper frame of the unit. The upper and lower phase boundary construction unit 11a has an upper end male joint 17 (see Fig. 3) and a lower end male joint 21, that is, a lower frame material of the unit; the curtain wall joint 12 is formed by the lower end of the phase boundary unit 11a. The male leg of the sexual joint 21 is connected to the mother groove of the female joint 22 at the upper end of the adjacent lower unit 11b. The lower end male connector 21 of the phase boundary unit 11a can be directly fixed to the straight material 14 by screws 34 or other fixing means for supporting the load of the unit. Other ways of directly fixing to the straight material may include welding, clamping, or part. The portion of the male connector 21 is clamped to the straight material 14. The manner in which the unit frame material is connected to the straight material avoids the need for the horizontal material required for the bracket. As shown, the watertight strip 26 is combined with the female joint 22 at the upper end; the water retaining strip 27 is mounted on the upper end of the adjacent unit 11b. On the female connector 22.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the phase boundary unit 11a has an upwardly protruding male connector 17 and a downwardly protruding male connector 21, and the upper or lower adjacent unit 11 or 11b has a female connector 22 and The protruding male connector 17 and the protruding male connector 21 are connected, and the other units 11 can be easily fixed by the bottom-up construction method, and the other units 11b can be easily fixed by the upper-down construction method. . That is to say, by the phase boundary unit 11a or the phase boundary unit (not shown) positioned at the top of the wall, all of the following units 11b can be fixed by the upper and lower construction methods.

Another embodiment of the invention is that the phase boundary unit has a concave female connector and a female female connector (similar to the connectors 16, 22), and the adjacent units 11 and/or 11b are just in Fig. 1. The upper and lower opposite positions, that is, the lower adjacent unit 11 has an upwardly protruding male joint 17, and the upper adjacent unit 11b has a downwardly protruding male joint 21; such a design, all lower adjacent units 11 can The simple construction is fixed by the bottom-up construction method, and all the adjacent units 11b can be easily fixed by the upper and lower construction methods.

According to still another embodiment of the present invention (not shown), only one phase boundary material is used to replace the function of the phase boundary unit, that is, the common joint and the phase boundary of the upper and lower protrusions of one material simultaneously The upper and lower ends of the unit 11a are similar; or a piece of material has a concave and concave female joint at the same time, and the phase boundary material can also be directly fixed to the structure on the roof or the floor by a fastener. There is also a possible third change in the design of a joint with only one direction of the male or female joints, such as a phase boundary material with a male joint that only protrudes at the top of the wall. The starting point for the construction unit from top to bottom.

The invention also discloses a construction method of a curtain wall system, which can be used freely from bottom to top or from top to bottom. According to the third figure, the construction method from the bottom to the top by all the units above the phase boundary unit 11a includes the following four main steps:

(1) positioning a phase boundary unit 11a at a lower portion of the wall 10 and snapping onto the adjacent two straight materials 14;

(2) The unit fixing screw 34 is inserted into the upper end of the phase boundary unit 11a and is fixed to the adjacent two straight materials 14;

(3) mounting a water barrier strip 26 and a watertight strip 27 on the male joint 17 at the upper end of the phase boundary unit 11a;

(4) The unit 11 above the phase boundary unit 11a has an upper male joint similar to 17 and a female joint 16 whose lower end is compatible with 17. During construction, the unit is snapped between the adjacent two straight materials 14, and then the lower joint causes the male joint of the phase boundary unit to be connected with the female joint 16 of the unit 11.

With similar steps, the curtain wall system 10 below the phase boundary unit 11a can be easily installed using a top-down construction method. As shown in Fig. 4, the construction method includes the following four main steps:

(1) positioning a phase boundary unit 11a at a higher portion of the wall 10 and snapping onto two adjacent straight materials 14;

(2) The unit fixing screw 34 is inserted into the lower end male joint 21 of the phase boundary unit 11a and fixed to the adjacent two straight materials 14;

(3) The unit 11b below the phase boundary unit 11a has an upper end female joint 16 and a lower end male joint similar to 21; during construction, the unit 11b is first buckled into two adjacent straight materials 14 and slipped up to cause phase The lower end male connector 21 of the boundary unit 11a is connected to the upper female connector 16 of the unit 11b;

(4) The lower end male joint 21 of the unit 11b is fixed to the adjacent two straight materials 14.

In addition, in addition to the above two construction methods, the curtain wall system 10 of the present invention can also be used without the phase boundary unit 11a. For example, the entire curtain wall usable unit 11b can be used from the bottom up or the wall top phase boundary material. Units 11 are all mounted from top to bottom. The construction method from bottom to top and from top to bottom can be applied on the curtain wall at will. The upper and lower construction method also has the advantage that the unit is fixed on the adjacent two straight materials with the screw at the lower end. It is no longer necessary to install separate water retaining strips and watertight strips.

Fig. 2(a) shows another design of the wall gap 13 of the cross-sectional view of the present invention according to the section line 3-3 of Fig. 1. The straight material 14 of this design is a composite straight material, which is composed of a tubular material 61 and a straight material head 62. It is fixed by a combination of screws 63. The straight head 62 is designed to be interlocked with the unit between the two adjacent straight materials.

The adjacent two units shown in the figure are all the phase boundary unit 11a, and the second (b) diagram shows the construction steps suitable for the composite material from left to right, such as the following steps:

1. The straight material head 62 is buckled into the sealed phase boundary unit 11a on the right side;

2. At least one screw 63 is used to fix the straight head 62 on the tubular material 61 to form a composite straight material 14;

3. Slide the unbound phase boundary unit 11a laterally into a position that is interlocked with the straight head 62;

4. Position the left phase boundary unit 11a according to Fig. 3 or Fig. 4 and fix it with screws 34.

The above lateral construction steps also apply to the fixation of adjacent units 11 or 11b. Although Figure 2(b) shows the construction method from left to right, in a similar manner, it can be easily changed to a right-to-left construction method.

In addition, the installation of the unit does not require the side adjacent unit to be installed first, so as in the US patent US 7,134,247, it can be emptied at will. For example, if there is a damaged unit, it may be leaked first and intermittently install the adjacent unit, which will not hinder the construction progress.

The construction of the invention is very flexible and is very suitable for new cover or renovation works, because various lateral construction methods, such as from left to right or from right to left, and longitudinal construction methods, such as from bottom to top or from top to bottom Any mixing method can be arranged in advance according to the needs of the project. The flexibility of this lateral construction method can solve many problems of many construction management, such as a certain unit is too slow to transport to the construction site, etc. without affecting the construction progress, so with the curtain wall system of the invention, the contractor can save time and time. save money.

The above description of the system and the construction method of the present invention are merely for explaining the technical idea and the features of the present invention, and the purpose of the present invention is to enable those skilled in the art to understand the contents of the present invention and implement it according to the present invention. </ RTI> <RTIgt; </ RTI> <RTIgt; </ RTI> <RTIgt; </ RTI> <RTIgt; </ RTI> <RTIgt; </ RTI> <RTIgt;

10. . . Curtain wall

11, 11a, 11b. . . unit

12. . . Horizontal seam

13. . . Vertical seam

14. . . Direct material

15. . . Insulating glass (face material)

16. . . Maternity connector

17. . . Male connector

18, 18a, 18b. . . frame

19. . . Edge material

twenty one. . . Male connector

twenty two. . . Maternity connector

26. . . Watertight strip

27. . . Water stop

34. . . Screw

51. . . Groove

52. . . Male foot

61. . . Tubular material

62. . . Straight head

63. . . Screw

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of a curtain wall system of the present invention.

Figure 2(a) is a partial cross-sectional view of the present invention.

Figure 2(b) is a developed cross-sectional view of the present invention.

Figure 3 is a partial cross-sectional view of a unit seam in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 4 is a partial cross-sectional view showing a unit seam of another embodiment of the present invention.

10. . . Curtain wall

11, 11a, 11b. . . unit

12. . . Horizontal seam

13. . . Vertical seam

14. . . Direct material

Claims (20)

A curtain wall system comprising: a curtain wall supporting a straight material; and a plurality of units for supporting the straight material support by the curtain wall, the unit comprising: a plurality of construction units having a construction frame structure, each of the construction units comprising: an upper protrusion a common frame material; a protruding frame material; and at least one side material, connecting the upper protruding frame material and the lower protruding frame material to form a frame of each of the construction units; and the plural has a different An upper adjacent unit or/and a lower adjacent unit of the frame structure of the construction frame structure, each of the adjacent units including a mating frame material that is engaged with the upper protruding frame material or the lower protruding frame material . The curtain wall system of claim 1, wherein the curtain wall supporting the straight material further comprises: at least a material head; and at least one tubular material connected to the straight material head, wherein the straight material head is located on opposite sides of the horizontal direction The adjacent unit is always joined by the material. The curtain wall system of claim 2, wherein the straight head is attached to the tubular material with at least one fastener. The curtain wall system of claim 2, wherein the lower protruding frame material is mounted on the straight material head by using load fasteners in the absence of a general cross material. The curtain wall system of claim 4, further comprising a water barrier and a watertight strip mounted on the male frame material. A method for constructing a curtain wall system, comprising the steps of: placing at least one construction unit having a construction frame structure on a curtain wall supporting straight material, wherein the construction unit comprises an upper protruding frame material and a protruding convex frame material Separately located on the upper side and the lower side of the construction unit; the lower protruding male frame material is locked on the curtain wall supporting straight material by using a fastener to form a consolidation construction unit; Forming at least one lower adjacent unit having a frame structure different from the construction frame structure in a vertical direction with the consolidation construction unit, wherein the lower adjacent unit includes an upper end mother frame material for engaging the consolidation construction unit The undercut frame material. The method for constructing a curtain wall system according to claim 6, wherein after the step of locking the male frame material on the curtain wall supporting the straight material, the method further comprises: installing a watertight strip and/or a water retaining strip On the upper end of the mother frame material. The method for constructing a curtain wall system according to claim 7, wherein when the upper end of the mother frame material is the upper frame material of the unit, the lower protruding frame material is the lower frame material of the unit. The method for constructing a curtain wall system according to claim 6, wherein the consolidation construction unit is fixed on the curtain wall supporting the straight material, and the at least one fastener is locked on the upper protruding frame material or the lower protruding frame. And wherein the curtain wall supports the straight material including at least the material head, and the at least one tubular material is connected to the straight material head by using at least one fastener. A method for constructing a two-face material unit of a curtain wall system, wherein the curtain wall system is supported by at least one of two vertically separated straight materials located on a plurality of floors of a building, the first surface material unit including a first The first frame includes a first lower frame material, a first upper frame material and one or more first side frame materials connected to the first upper frame material and the first lower frame material; and a first frame The second face material unit comprises a second face material, and the second frame comprises a second upper frame material, a second lower frame material and one or more second side frame materials connecting the second upper frame material and the second a lower frame material; wherein the first and second side frame materials are slidably engaged with at least one of the straight materials, and the second upper frame material is slidably engaged with the first lower frame material, and fixed in the first frame After the at least one of the straight materials is applied, the second frame is fixed to the at least one of the two straight materials when the first and second side frame materials are slid into the straight material; the cover construction method comprises: setting The first side frame material is configured to slide into the at least one of the two straight materials; fixing the first frame to the at least one A linear material; the second frame disposed beneath said first frame, slide to engage at least one of the two linear material; and Fixing the second frame to at least one of the two straight materials; wherein at least one of the first frame or the second frame has a construction frame structure, and the other of the first frame or the second frame has a different The frame structure of the construction frame structure. The method of claim 10, wherein the first lower frame material is a first common frame material, the second upper frame material is a second mother frame material, and the second mother frame material is set. The first male frame material is closedly joined. The method of claim 11 as claimed in claim 11, wherein the first facestock unit directly utilizes the straight material support in the absence of a general crosspiece. The method of claim 12, wherein the second frame is fixed to be positioned adjacent to the first frame without a water barrier and/or a watertight strip therebetween. A curtain wall system comprising a separate facestock unit and supported on at least one vertically separated straight material of one or more upper floors of a building, the curtain wall system comprising: a first facestock and a first frame Forming a first face material unit, the first frame comprises a first lower frame material, a first upper frame material, and one or more first side frame materials are connected to the first upper and lower frame materials; The second facestock and a second frame form a second facestock unit, the second frame comprises a second upper frame material, a second lower frame material, and one or more second side frame materials are connected to the second frame material Upper and lower frame materials; and wherein the first and second side frame materials are slidably engaged with at least one of the straight materials, and the second upper frame material is slidably engaged with the first lower frame material, and at the first After the frame is directly fixed to the straight material, after the first and second side frame materials are slid into the straight material, and when the first lower frame material is slid into the second upper frame material, the second The frame system can be directly fixed to the straight material; at least one of the first frame or the second frame has a construction frame Configuration, and the other of the first frame or the second frame having a frame structure different from the frame structure of the construction. A first face material unit of a curtain wall system, comprising: a first face material; a first surrounding frame that separately contacts the first face material, and includes a first surrounding frame material, that is, a first upper horizontal material, a first Two horizontal materials and at least one side frame material; At least one curtain wall supports the straight material, wherein the side frame material is sealably engaged with a first side adjacent straight material; an adjacent second surrounding frame, wherein the first upper horizontal line system sealingly engages the second adjacent upper portion a lower cross-web of the surrounding frame; a third adjacent frame adjacent to the first, wherein the first lower cross-feeding system is sealingly engageable with an adjacent upper cross-web of the lower adjacent third surrounding frame; wherein at least one of the first frames or The second frame has a construction frame structure, and the other first frame or the second frame has a frame structure different from the construction frame structure; wherein at least one of the surrounding frame materials includes a first protrusion a joint; and means for securing the first male joint to the first side of the straight material prior to securing the third surrounding frame. The first face material unit of the curtain wall system of claim 15, comprising a plurality of the curtain wall supporting straight materials, which are directly disposed vertically in the absence of a general transverse material. The first facestock unit of the curtain wall system of claim 15, wherein the facestock comprises at least one glass panel. The first facestock unit of the curtain wall system of claim 15, wherein the first side adjacent straight material further comprises a continuous material head, and a tubular material system is coupled to the straight material head. The first face material unit of the curtain wall system of claim 15, wherein the first surrounding frame further comprises an upwardly protruding second male connector, which is perpendicular to the first male connector and can be fixed to the first One side is adjacent to the material. The first facestock unit of the curtain wall system of claim 19, wherein the second adjacent perimeter frame comprises a second surrounding frame material having a protruding male connector and in the absence of a general crosspiece Directly fixed on the first side adjacent straight material.