Suspension Unit for a Curtain Device

• US 20170231413A1
• Filed: 08/19/2014
• Published: 08/17/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Silent Gliss International AG
• Original Assignee: Silent Gliss International AG
• Inventors: Schpfer, Simon, Frauchiger, Michel
• Application Number:
  US15/504,479
• Publication Number:
  US 20170231413A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A47H 13/02 by rings, e.g. with additional runners
• CPC Class Codes: A47H 15/00 Runners or gliders for supporting curtains on rails or rods
• CPC Class Codes: A47H 15/04 Gliders

Abstract

Suspension unit for a curtain device with at least one curtain guide and at least one curtain, that is suspended on a plurality of the suspension units, with a guide element for guiding the suspension unit in the curtain guide. The suspension unit has a body to which a curtain suspension for attaching a curtain to the suspension unit, and the guide element, are connected. At least the body consists of at least two different material sections which differ in terms of their hardness.

Claims

1. A suspension unit for a curtain device, comprising a body to which is connected a curtain suspension for attaching a curtain to the suspension unit, and a guide element for guiding the suspension unit in a curtain guide of the curtain device, wherein the body has a hard material section and a soft material section, which differ in their hardness, the hard material section having an interior space which is lined, or at least partially filled, with the soft material section.

2. The suspension unit according to claim 1, wherein the body has a frame with lateral supports, which belong to the hard material section, and wherein interim spaces between the supports are covered or filled with the soft material section at least on opposite sides of the body.

3. The suspension unit according to claim 2, wherein an interior space of the frame between the supports is covered or at least partially filled with the soft material section.

4. The suspension unit according to claim 1, wherein the soft material section protrudes beyond the hard material section at least in direction of movement of the suspension unit in the curtain guide.

5. The suspension unit according to claim 1, wherein the body receives the guide element in a floating way.

6. The suspension unit according to claim 1, wherein the guide element has a connection or a shaft through a region of the body filled with a soft material.

7. The suspension unit according to claim 6, wherein a shaft bearing or a shaft bearing sleeve made of a hard material is provided in the region of the body filled with the soft material.

8. The suspension unit according to claim 1, wherein provided as guide element is a sliding element with gliders, which is borne in a sliding way on the curtain guide, or a roller device with rollers, which is borne in a rollable way on the curtain guide, and the guide element is composed of a hard material on its outer side which abuts the curtain guide.

9. The suspension unit according to claim 8, wherein the sliding element or the roller device has an inner volume with a soft material.

10. The suspension unit according to claim 1, wherein provided as guide element at a first end of the body is a sliding element, which is borne in a movable way in the body.

11. The suspension unit according to claim 8, wherein the gliders are rigidly disposed on a connection, which extends through a region of the body filled with a soft material.

12. The suspension unit according to claim 1, wherein the body has at a second end a bearing made of the soft material section for movable bearing of the curtain suspension.

13. The suspension unit according to claim 1, wherein a substance of the hard material section consists of polyoxymethylene (POM), polypropylene (PP), or polyamide (PA) and a substance of the soft material section consists of caoutchouc.

14. A body for a suspension unit for a curtain device according to claim 1, which consists of at least two different material sections that differ in their hardness.

15. A curtain device with at least one curtain guide and at least one curtain which is suspended on a plurality of suspension units with a guide element (3) for guiding of the suspension units in the curtain guide, the suspension units being designed according to claim 1.