Anti-fall safety system for wings, doors, main doors, up-and-over doors, windows, vasistas windows

• US 10,458,170 B2
• Filed: 05/27/2015
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Serrametal Srl
• Original Assignee: Serrametal Srl
• Inventors: Vesca, Giuseppe
• Primary Examiner(s): Kelly, Catherine A
• Application Number:
  US15/323,848
• Publication Number:
  US 20170159342A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,616 Days
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 15/526 Safety devices E05D15/5217 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 7/06 Devices for taking the weight of the wing, arranged away from the hinge axis
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/654 Cables
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2800/252 the elements functioning only in case of emergency
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/132 Doors
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/148 Windows

Abstract

Anti-fall safety system intended to prevent the detachment of a first component with respect to a second component of an opening and closing system, wherein the first component and the second component are constrained to each other by a reciprocal retainer, in such a way that the first component is mobile with respect to the second component, the safety system having an at least partially flexible elongated means which is provided with at least one engagement element placed in correspondence of one end of the elongated means, the engagement element being intended to engage in correspondence of an engagement point, following the engagement the elongated means preventing the detachment of the first component with respect to the second component.

Claims

1. An anti-fall safety system comprising:

a first component of an opening and closing system;

a second component of the opening and closing system, the anti-fall safety system adapted to prevent detachment of said first component with respect to said second component, said first component being joined to said second component by a reciprocal retainer such that said first component is movable with respect to said second component, said first component being movable between a first position in which said first component closes an access or space and a second position in which said first component at least partially opens the access or space;

at least one partially flexible elongated member having at least one engagement element positioned at one end of said at least one partially flexible elongated member, said at least one engagement element engageable at at least one engagement point with one of said first component or said second component, wherein the engagement of said at least one engagement element of said at least one partially flexible elongated member prevents a displacement or detachment beyond a predetermined maximum limit of said first component with respect to said second component in an event of a failure, a breaking or a detachment of said reciprocal retainer, said at least one engagement element having an elastic member that is adapted to dampen energy resulting from a detachment between said first component and said second component;

a first fixing element engaging said at least one engagement element, said first fixing element adapted to be applied to the at least one engagement point, said elastic member being housed within a housing of said first fixing element, said at least one partially flexible elongated member being a cable that extends into said housing through a first hole, said cable crossing said housing and passing through said elastic member and exits said housing through a second hole, said second hole formed on a closing element of said housing, said at least one engagement element engaging said closing element so as to prevent extraction of said cable with respect to said housing, said at least one engagement element adapted to engage said closing element of said housing, said closing element being slidable within said housing, said closing element being slidable in a first direction so as to cause a compression of said elastic member and in a second direction opposite to the first direction so as to release compression of said elastic element.

2. The anti-fall safety system of claim 1, said at least one engagement element comprising a pair of engagement elements that are placed at opposite ends of said at least one partially flexible elongated member, the at least one engagement point comprising a first engagement point and a second engagement point, one of the pair of engagement elements engaging said first component at the first engagement point, another of the pair of engagement elements engaging at the second engagement point, said at least one partially flexible elongated member adapted to prevent the detachment or displacement beyond the predetermined maximum limit of said first component with respect to said second component.

3. The anti-fall safety system of claim 1, said cable being a multi-strand cable.

4. The anti-fall safety system of claim 1, said elastic member being a spring.

5. The anti-fall safety system of claim 1, said elastic member being formed of a rubber or an elastomeric material.

6. The anti-fall safety system of claim 2, wherein a length of said at least one partially flexible elongated member is no less than a maximum distance between said first and second engagement points when said first component is in the second position.

7. The anti-fall safety system of claim 1, wherein said at least one partially flexible elongated member is slidable in correspondence to or in proximity of said at least one engagement element.

8. The anti-fall safety system of claim 1, wherein at least a portion of said at least one partially flexible elongated member is slidable in an interspace within profile elements of one of said first component and said second component.

9. The anti-fall safety system of claim 7, the at least one engagement point comprising a first engagement point and a second engagement point, wherein said at least one partially flexible elongated member is slidable along a sliding length no less than a maximum distance between said first and second engagement points when said first component is in the second position.

10. The anti-fall safety system of claim 2, wherein said first engagement element engages said first fixing element and said second engagement element engages a second fixing element, said second fixing element having a plate shape with a passage having a size that allows said at least one partially flexible elongated member to pass therethrough but prevents a passing of said engagement element therethrough.

11. The anti-fall safety system of claim 1, wherein the compression of said elastic member is along a direction corresponding to a direction of displacement between said first component and said second component when said first component is detached from said second component.

12. The anti-fall safety system of claim 1, wherein the compression of said elastic member is along a direction orthogonal to a direction of displacement between said first component and said second component when said first component is detached from said second component.

13. The anti-fall safety system of claim 1, further comprising:

a guide cooperative with said at least one partially flexible elongated member and adapted to guide and facilitate sliding of said elongated member.

14. The anti-fall safety system of claim 13, wherein said guide is a rotating collar having a sliding and containment groove that receives said at least one partially flexible elongated member.

15. The anti-fall safety system of claim 13, wherein said guide is an arched sliding guide joining a pair of essentially rectilinear portions, one of the pair of rectilinear portions being oriented along a direction corresponding to a direction of compression of said elastic member, another of the pair of rectilinear portions being oriented in a direction of displacement between said first component and said second component when first component is detached from said second component.

16. The anti-fall safety system of claim 1, wherein said at least one engagement element is a sphere having a diameter greater than a cross-sectional diameter of said at least one partially flexible elongated member.

17. The anti-fall safety system of claim 13, wherein said at least one engagement element comprises a stop-dowel applied on said at least one partially flexible elongated member, said stop-dowel having a cross-sectional dimension that is greater than a cross-sectional dimension of said at least one partially flexible elongated member.

18. An opening or closing system having the anti-fall safety system of claim 1.

19. The opening or closing system of claim 18, wherein the opening or closing system is selected from the group consisting of window casings, door casings, wings, doors, windows, and gates.

20. The opening or closing system of claim 18, the first component being a door and the second component being a casing, the opening and closing system further comprising:

a frame having the door and the casing connected to each other by hardware elements such that the door is mobile with respect to the casing, the door being movable between a closing position in which the door closes the access or the space and an open position that at least partially opens the access or space, the anti-fall safety system preventing detachment or displacement beyond a predetermined limit of the door with respect to the casing in an event of a failure, a break, or a detachment of at least one of the hardware elements.